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Appreciation: Why it Should Be Impossible to Be Unhappy
Joe is turning sixteen. All he wants in life is to have a car. He’d give anything for it. Sarah, who has a car, has never had a boyfriend. She’s dying to have a boyfriend. Tracy has a boyfriend, and is about to have his baby. The kid was a mistake and she would do…
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Self Education
Someone named Nick sent me an e-mail the other day that I think poses a good enough question to answer it publicly: Tynan, I am a 21 year old university student and have realized in the past 2 years that self-education is the foundation personal growth. As such, I’ve started devouring books; 2 or 3…
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My Insane Phone System
(For those RSS readers who didn’t check out the comments on yesterday’s post,yes, it was an April Fools day hoax.) As you probably know, when I get into anything I take it to an extreme and often unreasonable level. Now my phone is no exception. I already had a pretty cool phone setup. I ported…
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Quitting Life Nomadic
As you may have guessed from the title, I am no longer going to be doing Life Nomadic. I’m in the Dominican Republic now, and will leave as soon as I can find a decent ticket back to Austin. I might go to Haiti first, since I’m already over here, but I’m not sure yet.…
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Florida Auto Brokers is Dishonest
EDIT 9/7/2011: The owner of Florida Auto Brokers has paid the amount owed in full. In return, I am removing his name and his salesman’s last name. Hey guys. I don’t think this post will interest too many frequent readers, but I’m sharing it because I’m ranked very highly in search engines and I’d like…
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Hardcore Personal Finance
One thing leads to another. I screwed up my 2007 tax return and got audited (not a big scary one, just a “fix this or pay us” notice), which motivated me to go overboard and learn everything there is about taxes, as they relate to my finances. I then started a rudimentary expenses sheet in…
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Better Procrastinating
I have a big project I’m working on (secret for now, haven’t decided if I should write about it yet or not), and I’ve been seriously procrastinating. It’s not that I don’t want to do it. It’s something I arrived at myself, is very inline with my Life Nomadic goals, and will be very exciting…
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The Two People I’ve Gotten Fired (Part One)
I don’t think I’m some sort of bigshot who gets people fired because they look at me wrong. Really, I tend to make friends with most people. But there have been two incidents. Incident #1 I was on a cruise ship for two weeks, heading around the Caribbean with three friends. The worst part about…
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The State of Life Nomadic
Here’s what’s going on with Life Nomadic. The site still isn’t ready, but it’s getting close. I also said that it was close a month ago, so take that with a grain of salt. The primary delay is that the site is being coded by hand from scratch. It’s not built on wordpress, drupal, or…
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RIP My Hat, 2005-2009
That thing served me well, and I hate to see it go. Todd, Vince, and I have been on the Pan Panamerican Road Trip for the past two weeks or so. We’ve been spending a lot of time in the Panamanian Highlands, where it’s unbelievably windy. After chasing the hat down the road a couple…
