Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous Rambling I ran across a really cool program this weekend: Acorns [https://www.acorns.com/]. It's micro-investing. For just $1.00 a month, you can tie your credit card to the program and it will round up your spare change from credit card purchases and invest it.

> Do not speak -- unless it improves on silence. – Buddhist proverb | | □∧◯ > — Zen Proverbs (@ZenProverbs) May 18, 2018 [https://twitter.com/ZenProverbs/status/997581900544921600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

Saturday Rambling I walk the pre-death tightrope all the time: Just let myself go and become irrelevant or try to stay engaged. Play the Zen master or read the newspaper. Use the garden to go Siddhartha-at-the-river [https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/s/siddhartha/summary-and-analysis/part-2-by-the-river] or look at how my

BYCU This is the best booze story of the week: Austrian man jailed up for glorifying Nazism after cops found "joke" Hitler-branded wine in his home [https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/austrian-man-locked-up-glorifying-12551158] . The man apparently thought some pro-Hitler bottles of wine were amusing, so he bought

*My apologies for yesterday's glitch. I'm not sure what happened, and I'm not convinced it won't happen again, but my hosting service and I are working through the problems. *I'm not posting much today, for fear it won't

Hump Day Rambling I just read last night that Tom Wolfe died. I read a bit of the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. I liked it, but didn't finish it. I might have to read it this year during vacation. The urbane but humble Terry Teachout's tribute

A new poll has found that a majority of Americans say that driverless cars will have a big impact on the elderly. Specifically, if they don't cross the street fast enough.

Miscellaneous Rambling "140 White Castle locations began serving the vegan Impossible Burger, part of a new wave of plant-based proteins that taste, cook and, in some cases, bleed like the animal version. Unlike tofu dogs and Boca Burgers, these products are aimed squarely at carnivores." Link [https://www.

Miscellaneous Rambling Do you have the personality to earn lots of money? It depends on whether you have some or all of these six traits [https://flipboard.com/article/the-secrets-of-the-%E2%80%98high-potential%E2%80%99-personality/f-f17e6ba97b%2Fbbc.com] . I have three of them in spades, though one of them,