1. 'Financial Advisor' by definition is an ironic title - if you are so smart at advising it is assumed you know how to make more money from some money. Would you rather not invest your own money where your proverbial mouth is and make more money for yourself? Reason is they are not smart (at least in the way advertised) and therefore want to parlay risk, while charging fees to play with other people's money. What better way to make money than by risking someone else's?
2. iPad - a true symbol of keeping up with the Joneses - when you consider some of the selling propositons for the ipad you realize that everything it touted to not have (weight/price tag) is what people spend money on buying making it one of the all time best packaging scams to hit the planet. Consider the following catch lines -
a. Its lightweight - not if you add the protective case and covers to prevent that errant coffee spill wipe out your investment or drop it like the clumsy I am.
b. It has a haptic interface allowing for your fingers to do the work - again not if you tend to use your fingers for cleaning various orifices on the body and eat with them while wandering to distant destinations on your pad. Therefore the addition of a light weight (another weighty proposition) keyboard to aid in doing that typing.
c. It has efficient storage - buy additional cloud space so that you can store all those HD movies and pictures - its in the cloud compared to your own desktop (hmm..in case of latter I do not have to look for that ethernet connection to see my daughter's smile from five years ago when I can pull it up on a trusy PC anytime)
Add it all up and its an expensive piece of glass - sexy but also in my hands not very ergonomically designed I found.
3. Child Rearing makes no sense - right from birth the child is always front and center. Breast fed from the front all the way to fronting all the fees for all the wonderful things that child learns as it grows to being the front for the next generation of the family there is nothing happening in the rear? Additionally the patriotic ones are known to go to the (you guessed it) 'front' and not to the rear (except cowards like me).
4. Lines and Queues - If there was ever a line an Asian is likely to be in the front; irrespective of the line. Somewhat akin to 'Dirty Harry' paradigm of shoot first and ask later. Also in small part because this species (as previously expounded in another incoherent blog) tends to occupy more of available space on earth by mass than any other form of human variant.
This autumn the weather gods cooperated as we took a family trip in the northeast to see six states that qualify or makeup what is known colloquially in America as New England. Mass, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island (tiniest state in the union). The outing helped tally up the states we either lived in, visited or have worked in to 47. Guess which three have eluded this intrepid traveling family. Any rate the drive was all in about 1,800 miles and included some memorable geographic wonders or points of interest. Easternmost part of state of Massachusetts being one. Furthest drivable road east in Mass being another. Visit to all Ivy League schools (term harkens to a collegiate athletics conference and generally regarded as elite academic institutes of some repute worldwide) is another random bucket list item of which this trip afforded the chance to knock two more of the list. Dartmouth in Hanover, NH and Brown (and its sister institute the RISD - school f
ha, ha, the child rearing bit is funny read front to the rear or the other way!
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