Use your brain; lose your religion
Those who know me well will not be surprised to see me share a few articles on this topic. I've said for years that the most dangerous thing about leading a "faith based" life is that it dulls critical thinking. In order to live that way, you need to actively …
read moreWork requirement
If you have a job, you need to read this.
read more"Although some meetings are inevitable, even necessary, the principle he's advocating here is an important one. Meetings should be viewed skeptically from the outset, as risks to productivity. We have meetings because we think we need them, but all too …
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I am an independent Medicare insurance broker, and owner of Howard Insurance Agency.
read morePancakes
UPDATE: There's an updated version of the recipe that is even tasier and slightly healthier too, check out the updated recipe here!
When I was growing up, almost every weekend my mom would cook these awesome pancakes for breakfast. They were a little different (and way better) than the standard …
read moreWatching TV
So as much as I wish I didn't want to watch TV, sometimes I just can't help it (it generally feels like I'm shutting my brain down when I watch TV and sometimes I just need that). We cancelled satellite a few years ago, though we still downloaded a few …
read moretivo is for suckers
OK, that title is unfair. TiVo is pretty great, I bought a series 1 in 2000, and within the first year added a giant hard drive (120gb WAS pretty big in 2001!) and a network card. A year later I got DirecTV and the Philips TiVo that worked with DirecTV …
read moreMore people finally catching up!
I just wanted to gloat a little bit. In 2007 we told DirecTV to suck it. We cut back on our TV watching anyway (because watching less is good for you, seriously!) What we did want to watch, we were able to get from the Internet.
LA Times pointed out …
read moreExcuses, excuses...
Barefoot running on the radio
On national radio, the editor-in-chief of Runner's World (David Willey)
shills for the shoe companies while spreading misinformation. This piece
on NPR from last week started promisingly, but the guy doing the story
didn't bother to question this statement:
"If you are a very efficient and biomechanically gifted runner, running …
About Christopher Aedo
I am an independent Medicare insurance broker, and owner of Howard Insurance Agency.
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