I am a little PUNCHY tonight.

  • Lo, for I am Sir Now Appearing in the 89th Festival of Frugality, with my article The Economics and Philosophy of a Spending Trigger. This week’s festival had a strong focus on thriftiness vs. moral decrepitude. On that note, my favorite article was Golbguru’s Is This Frugal… Or Just Not Quite Right? The worst example I’ve seen of thriftiness at the expense of generosity is a Dollar Stretcher tip I once saw that recommended stuffing hair from barbers’ floors into used pantyhose to make gifts for your gardening friends (apparently human hair keeps deer away). Nothing says love like a flesh-colored bag of human hair!
  • Coming up next on XORsted: Dirty Facts About My Finances, Part Deux: Electric Boogaloo Housing.
  • Next week classes start up again. I’m taking Systems Programming, in which I Will Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Pointers; and Database Design, which might actually teach me something immediately saleable. This means I will either be somewhat sluggish to post or I will take the opportunity to procrastinate and write madly. Whatever I do write, it will be well-commented and there will be no null pointer exceptions.

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