October 2010

Are You in the Middle Class?

October 18, 2010

The other day I took the opportunity to enter a comment, at a business blog, that alluded in passing to my favorite conspiracy theory; to wit: over the past two or three decades, we have been watching the deliberate erosion of the American middle class. Don’t believe it? Well, skepticism is healthy. But consider… • [...]

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How to Choose the Perfect Office Chair

October 17, 2010

This is a guest post by my friend Kenneth F. Muhich, D.C., of the Stetson Chiropractic Clinic Is any one office chair perfect for everyone? Experts in ergonomics will tell you “no.”  The perfect office chair for you depends on many factors, such as your height, weight, posture, areas of pain, and what your chair [...]

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Cool new blog metrics tool

October 16, 2010

Have you seen what Andrew at Money Crashers has gotten up to? He’s created an elaborate tool for ranking personal finance blogs. He runs nine metrics through an algorithm to calculate what he believes to be an accurate rank for each of 368 sites. How does it compare with Wisebread’s Top 100 personal finance blogs? [...]

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Moments of Fame

October 15, 2010

This week Funny was proud to appear in these fine events: The Carnival of Money Stories at Free Money Finance, with Getting through a Social Security-Free Month. The Festival of Frugality at Fiscal Fizzle, with Maybe I’m Too Extreme about This. The Carnival of the Vanities at Dodgeblogium, with Stormy Weather. Andrew Ian Dodge must [...]

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A brief lull, and an odd discovery

October 15, 2010

Finally done with all the English 101 stuff, the grades finally entered in the District’s system. Let’s hope nothing there comes back to bite. That’s a forlorn hope, of course: as anyone who teaches anything knows, someone has to make an exception of himself. Every. single. time. So let’s rephrase that: let’s hope that whatever [...]

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The Divide by 4 Percent Rule?

October 14, 2010

Frugal Scholar has been ruminating about an idea inspired by something Jacob of Early Retirement Extreme wrote to the effect that you can get a rough preview of how much you need to retire by dividing the annual cost of an item (or, by extension, a set of items) by 4 percent. Jacob’s theory is [...]

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