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I'm just sayin

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.
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  1. RajendraApril 22, 2012 at 4:33 AM

    ha, ha, the child rearing bit is funny read front to the rear or the other way!

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