Cruising economics

a big leap…

“Ninety percent of everything is crap”                                                                                                   -Theodore Sturgeon Back when I had the great good fortune to actually meet Theodore Sturgeon and get to talk with him on a semi-regular basis I considered Sturgeon’s Law to be somewhat cynical. Now, almost fifty years later I’ve come to the conclusion that Mr Sturgeon was actually …

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What’s affordable?

Budget is a funny thing. Then again, when you think about it money being an artificial construct is also somewhat strange. My issue has a lot to do with the words we use when discussing budgets and money. Words like affordable. We all understand what the word means, but we also know it has a …

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A few quick thoughts…

A YouTube channel I have a love/hate relationship with has a Bluetooth enabled toilet and I just can’t quite get my head around why one might actually need such a thing.  As it happens, I do have some Bluetooth headphones which I purchased because I wanted to be able to listen to music while working …

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The upside of DIY…

The other day a reader dropped me a line where the subject of DIY came up and he pointed out that, unlike me, he could afford to hire folks to do work for him and if you had to DIY you might want to consider something other than yachting as a lifestyle decision… Not the …

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