Five Habits of Millionaires

One interesting study found a majority of male millionaire entrepreneurs had been in trouble with school authorities or the police during their adolescence.

what if you just never got caught by the police (not saying that i didn’t get caught, i have, but i’ve also gotten away with my fair share)? and the question in the post title? what if i had some issues with school authorities, but they liked me so i never really got into any kind of trouble? regardless, nothing on the list is anything groundbreaking or something that’s not been heard before….

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ESPN.com – NFL – Louisiana unmoved by Saints talks with San Antonio

i don’t care about the saints. they are terrible. it’s a given they will collapse toward the end of the season. it’s a given that just when you think he’s great, aaron brooks will do something to kill the team. the only thing in this article worth mentioning, is NOT that the saints might move to san antonio (yeah right, NFL’s next franchise will almost certainly be LA, you know tags and the other owners have been trying to get a team back to LA since the raiders and rams left), but rather that the owner of the saints said he’s received offers for the team of over $1 billion. it’s the SAINTS!

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Amazon.com: Books: Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter

so this has been part of the world o’blog, but i had some server issues, as my 4 readers know. but if this were true, i’d be in heaven. well not heaven, but a happier place or something. if only watching tv made me smarter, rather than, you know, making people have the attention span of a gnat. or making it now almost physically impossible for me to only have one thing to focus on (yes, i’m media king, it’s not at all uncommon for me to have the tv on, a movie on another screen, while music is playing as i read things on my computer. or a movie, the ps2, music, and movie on the computer. once i had a setup where i had a tv on, ps2 on another screen, music via portable music player, and a dvd – audio only playing through the stereo).

btw, i will me migrating to a server and my “own” website relatively soon. i should send out actual snail mail invites with the new addy to my readers, as it would cost me less than $5 total for all of that! haha.

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Fashion Refigured – New York Times

the not so examined unintended consequences of breast augmentation… the lack of couture (sp?).. hahaha.

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What’s Up, Pussycat? Whoa! – New York Times

rarely do i really want things that are not consumer electronics or something. and the price of these cats are ridiculous. but i want this cat. it’s a hybrid breed (African serval, a wildcat, and the domestic housecat).

i mean check out this pic!

this thing is HUGE. it’s on a leash. apparently it’s a dog like cat in a lot of ways. it just looks cool!

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so next gen consoles are it right now, with xbox 360′s unveiling. i read this in an nytimes piece about it:

In addition to playing DVD’s, as the current Xbox does, it can rip songs from CD’s onto a 20-gigabyte hard drive – a hard drive that can be removed, upgraded and interchanged with other 360 consoles.

i wonder what crazy drm is on those, what i would assume to be, wma files ripped off cds onto the x360′s harddrive. i mean esp if they can be interchanged with other x360s.

also, a little upset that game prices are going up $10-15. i mean seriously, people will buy them still, but come on. $50 is plenty high for a game. $60-65 is borderline ridiculous.

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What Is a Number Worth? Some Athletes Pay the Price – New York Times

i don’t know what’s funnier. that there is an actual lawsuit over this stuff or some of the things people have asked for/received for their numbers.

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first time in 165 playoff games. but what i care about is:

is that a NORMAL size bottle of water? and it just looks tiny in his monster hand? or is it like a stubby bottle of water in general? haha

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The New York Times > Technology > Technology Special > Form & Function: As Cellphones Bulk Up, How Much Is Too Much?

this is exactly on point. well at least the first 3 paragraphs i read prior to deciding to post. we overconsume everything. software grows out of control. we eat too much. we buy too much crap. our cell phones have 4563 features we don’t use. i’m not the biggest fan of the razr (though i’m on the verge of picking one up bc it has what i am looking for in a phone, beyond the style aspect of it), but i can appreciate not needing to add the kitchen sink to it.

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