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February 29, 2008 at 11:22 pm · Filed under Finance, News Events

I’ve been listening to a lot of the new Mars Volta: The Bedlam in Goliath

As you know, I’m a pretty frugal individual. So, I was pleased to find this website dedicated to smart living. They post a lot of new articles per day, one of them is always a good read. Wisebread

The HD War between HD DVD and Blue-Ray is over. I’m so glad that I’m not an early adopter who jumped into this mix and could have got burned with an HD DVD player or discs.

Motivated by a Tax, Irish Spurn Plastic Bags Some places in Korea have a similar tax on bags in general. So, it’s good that I keep my backpack with me.

I like Google. But, as a whole, I’m liking free/open projects more. I think Wikia is an interesting project with some potential in the future. It also has ability to be a social website like facebook or myspace.

There are a pair of shoes online that I’d like to buy. But, I hate buying clothes online. No matter who makes the shoes or t-shirts, the conventional chart size varies from the next. A 10.5 from brand X always fits different than a 10.5 from brand Y.

Lastly, I’ve received a couple offers to return to Korea after my contract. I’m still weighing my options and opportunities. I, now, have 3 months left and a few reasons to return. But, who knows how it will go.

clear :) said,

March 1, 2008 @ 11:08 am

One of my projects with my sewing machine was going to be to make shopping bags for everyone for Christmas. Even though there’s no tax on them here (yet…it’s Oregon; It will happen eventually), it’s definitely in vogue to BYOBags.

During the last radio fund drive for OPB, one of the thank you gifts was an OPB bag. A lot of stores here sell their own reusable bag and the caveat of the OPB bag was that you don’t have to feel “embarassed” about using the bags from one store in a different store.

Good for the Irish! The last I heard about it, it was a random town somewhere in the UK, but all the same that’s part of what got me thinking about making bags.

~Mers said,

March 1, 2008 @ 4:46 pm

I would gladly sport a designer Clear bag.

Ceej said,

March 1, 2008 @ 8:42 pm

That’s a niffty idea with the shopping bag tax. Save the future right! I heard a thing on NPR that HD stuff was phasing out and the Sony with their Blue-ray technology won that war…..if it was one to begin with. The noted people were trying to off all their HD DVD players and discs. I still havn’t seen the liquidation prices in Best Buy. I wonder if the PS3 had anything to do with that.

We also got a consumer report magazine in the mail talking about the switch to HD TV and the different receiver/device you’ll need to view television….if you don’t have an HD TV that is. I think that may only be if your watching stuff on antenna though…….I’m not totally sure of that.

clear :) said,

March 2, 2008 @ 11:32 am

Our PBS station has been talking about the switch for the last year. We still have a set with the rabbit ears and everything. Apparently, there’s some converter box that we can get and the go’ment is giving out a limited number of coupons that can be used toward the purchase of a converter box.

Doug and I talked about this at the beginning of the year and I can’t remember what came of it.

I think we looked at the brands of converter boxes that the coupon was compatible with and we couldn’t find a place that sold that brand, quite frankly we couldn’t really find the boxes either even when we went to the manufacturers direct sites. It seems to that at least one site we went to basically said just to get a new TV. I don’t know yet what we’re gonna do.

Ceej said,

March 2, 2008 @ 8:49 pm

Are the offers you speak of just more teaching english or is it something else? I might be able to help with your shoe size question if you give me the company that makes them.

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