Archive for the 'Deep Thoughts' category
About Damn Time, Scorsese wins an Oscar.
Monday, February 26, 2007 11:44 pm
Wrong film though. I’m glad he finally won the thing, but if he was gonna win something, it should have been for “Goodfellas”. Instead, he lost that to Kevin Costner and some shit movie he created. Or Taxi Driver. That movie wasn’t even nominated.
Now, let me also say this. Uh, I didn’t watch the Oscars. I really couldn’t care less about the Oscars. But I can say one thing.
Reese Witherspoon is fucking hot. That is all you need to know about the Oscars.
Congrats Again to Mr. Scorsese!
Financial Timeline
Sunday, January 14, 2007 2:57 pm
You’re finally at the coveted place known as “in the black,” which means you actually earn more than you spend. It’s taken hard work and discipline, but you’re well on your way to financial freedom. Because you bring in more than you pay out, you finally have the chance to do something positive with your money, like paying off your debts and building a successful future. But to do so, you’ll need to follow a financial timeline. Here are the areas you should focus on in order of importance.
1. Pay off high-interest debt
The longer you carry debt, the more money you’ll end up paying. Therefore, the first step in a successful financial timeline is paying off the money you owe. But not all debt is created equal, so it pays to pick and choose. The first thing that has to go is high-interest credit card debt. If you’ve been carrying a balance for a while, you could be paying 20% or more. Since you’ll probably never find an investment that provides you with more than that amount in interest, there’s no sense saving money until you’ve completely paid off this debt.
2. Pay off additional debts
Additional debts that should be paid off, but on a different timeline, include student loans and mortgages on first homes. Typically, these loans have two things in common. First, the interest on them is tax-deductible, so it can pay to have that deduction in April. Second, the interest, especially on student loans, tends to be lower than on credit cards. That means you have a choice to make. If you’re able to safely make more interest on a given investment than the amount of interest you’re being charged for your student loan, it could be wise to invest rather than pay off the debt. This way, the interest you generate will pay off the interest on the loan and eat away at the principal. And once you’ve paid off the entire loan, you’ll still have the principal from the investment to work with.
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7 Essential Body Language Tips
1:50 am
The secrets of our body language have been around forever yet people constantly fail to recognize the importance of using body language to their advantage. Did you know that people only pay attention to 7% of what we say? Where does the rest of their attention go? You guessed it right: our body language. Now let me give my 7 BLT’s so that you can use your body language much more efficiently when interacting with people.
1- Always look at someone directly in their eyes when they are speaking to you. This may seem difficult at first but it’s definitely the #1 body language ingredient to make you successful when interacting with others. Note: Do not ever stare at someone.
2- Always stand up straight. You never want to slouch. Not only does this make you appear shorter but it projects an image of someone who has low self-esteem.
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Few Clues to High IQs
Thursday, January 11, 2007 8:52 pm
Kids with high IQs have a distinct pattern of brain development, according to a 20-year study of more than 300 young minds published in the March 30 issue of the journal Nature.
And for the next big brain study, scientists will get these smart kids to figure out what this Nature study really means.
Like all brain and intelligence studies, this one is loaded with implications. If smart brains are biologically different from dumb brains, does that mean that genetics and therefore race determine intelligence?
Yes and no. That is, yes to the former to some degree (if you can define intelligence), and no to the latter. Regardless, dim-witted eugenicists will use the study to advance their cause of breeding super-intelligent humans.
The study, led by Dr. Philip Shaw of the National Institutes of Mental Health, found surprisingly that the brains of smarter kids developed more slowly than the brains of children with average to lower intelligence, based on standard IQ tests.
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Job fairs. Speed dating for job seekers and employers! Or like a cattle market.
Most Colleges and Universities organise job fairs round about graduation time to allow students to meet new employers - it’s a fairly common method of recruiting recent graduates.
Job seekers can use job fairs to find out a bit more information about employers, working life and general industry information. This is what most people use job fairs for.
However, the opportunity exists for job seekers to use the brief few minutes they have with employers to create a lasting impression (er, a “good” lasting impression!) and sell themselves, for job fairs are also an opportunity for the cream of the crop to rise to the top!
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Rules You Don’t Learn in School
Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:34 pm
Rule No. 1: Life is not fair. Get used to it. The average teen-ager uses the phrase “It’s not fair” 8.6 times a day. You got it from your parents, who said it so often you decided they must be the most idealistic generation ever. When they started hearing it from their own kids, they realized Rule No. 1.
Rule No. 2: The real world won’t care as much about your self-esteem as much as your school does. It’ll expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself. This may come as a shock. Usually, when inflated self-esteem meets reality, kids complain that it’s not fair. (See Rule No. 1)
Rule No. 3: Sorry, you won’t make $40,000 a year right out of high school. And you won’t be a vice president or have a car phone either. You may even have to wear a uniform that doesn’t have a Gap label.
Rule No. 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait ’til you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure, so he tends to be a bit edgier. When you screw up, he’s not going to ask you how you feel about it.
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What is Philosophy?
12:23 pm
by Monique Barb
The failure of all thinkers of defining philosophy by a unique and complete sentence leads us to many suppositions. First of all, one may think that they do not know what philosophy is,although it exists for more than 2500 years, or that this concept is too complex to be enounced in a single definition. Another hypothese would be that of the existence of too many philosophical species and that each philosophy has its own definition. But a reasonable conclusion is that of having more different subjects gathered under the same name, a series of “philosophies” which cannot be either united or expressed by a single concept.
Aristotle said that there were 3 theoretical philosophies : mathematics, physics and theology. If his conception was right,it would be difficult to find a unique definition for all, a definition which could comprise the essence of all these subjects.
So we are compelled to conclude that we cannot find a distinct and general definition for the concept of philosophy, although we have so many philosophical works of art.
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You always hear about people who made their fortunes investing in the stock market, and you also hear about other investors who lost their shirts playing the same game. But you hardly ever hear about real-estate investors who go bankrupt, and that’s because it doesn’t happen often.
That’s right, those individuals who invested wisely in real estate many years ago are living a very comfortable lifestyle. Investing in real estate wisely can garner lots of money, so if you’re just getting started, or have considered investing in real estate, the information that follows is invaluable.
take the risk
No one hears about how much money one can make investing in real estate. That’s probably because it is a little well-kept secret. If everyone knew about it, everyone would be doing it, right?
Wrong. Much like starting your own business, investing in real estate requires entrepreneurial skills and a vision. Which is why not everyone is jumping on the real estate bandwagon.
Not everyone is willing to take the additional risk that real-estate investing entails. And these are the same people or renters that will make you rich. The little secret is that there are hundreds of individuals who choose to procrastinate for every one individual who has a vision and chooses to take the risk with investing in real-estate.
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