The Flaming Lips - Elephant (Tame Impala Cover)
http://www.youtube.com/v/nCBuHnBPh94?version=3&autohide=1&feature=share&autoplay=1&autohide=1&attribution_tag=w_T8cTIoFm50EE1tE6eg3Q&showinfo=1
Aphorism
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience deceptive, judgment difficult
Hippocrates
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience deceptive, judgment difficult
Hippocrates
Watched Bourne legacy
The movie was ok. All the right parts of a Bourne movie except it didn't feel as hard as the others.
Holiday Achivements
I'm going to record all of my achievements tasks completed throughout the holidays.
The Ghost Writer
The movie starts slowly, but builds into a movie that you will recommend to other people. Its one of those movies that doesn't tell you everything, you have to work it out yourself. At least that the impression I got. Its a political thriller with a cool ending, the type with the warning.
Its Roman Polanski, he sounds like he should be making good movies, so go watch it.
Its Roman Polanski, he sounds like he should be making good movies, so go watch it.
Resolutions
I haven't made any resolutions as yet, but the usual suspects have reappeared. I am not going to worry about my previous failures which should help, but also making some kind of plan and some way to track and be accountable. If I fail, then I need to know when and by how much, maybe I didn't give my self enough time etc...
Time, is an interesting concept which baffles me to this day. But I still wear a watch and carry on...
What I mean by giving my self enough time, not just a date when I would like said resolution to be achieved, but the actual progressed time. For example, I want to build a new shed, I would like it completed by August, this is an ok resolution, but I would like to add a few layers of complexity. Firstly progressed time, this is a made up concept and the name may change in the future... But, if a resolution required 7 days of work, and your target is to complete by the end of the week, you need to allocate and do work on all the days. But you can't do that as you have other shit to do, you can't devote yourself full time to a project its not practical. You could do one day of work every weekend. Which means its going to take 7 weeks. But life isnt perfect and you may need to add an extra weekend for the off week which is inevitably going to happen.
I am going to need to spend some time working out how much real time I am going to have to invest and the time frame in which said activities should be completed in. Also having some milestones to aim for during the project, especially if its long term would be nice.
Time, is an interesting concept which baffles me to this day. But I still wear a watch and carry on...
What I mean by giving my self enough time, not just a date when I would like said resolution to be achieved, but the actual progressed time. For example, I want to build a new shed, I would like it completed by August, this is an ok resolution, but I would like to add a few layers of complexity. Firstly progressed time, this is a made up concept and the name may change in the future... But, if a resolution required 7 days of work, and your target is to complete by the end of the week, you need to allocate and do work on all the days. But you can't do that as you have other shit to do, you can't devote yourself full time to a project its not practical. You could do one day of work every weekend. Which means its going to take 7 weeks. But life isnt perfect and you may need to add an extra weekend for the off week which is inevitably going to happen.
I am going to need to spend some time working out how much real time I am going to have to invest and the time frame in which said activities should be completed in. Also having some milestones to aim for during the project, especially if its long term would be nice.
What to Track
For a while now I have been tracking my net worth as a simple way to track what I'm doing with my money, rather then the much more involved method of accounting for every transaction. As an accountant this is the last thing I want to be doing when I get home. So I have focused on tracking net worth on a monthly basis.
Some simple maths can reveal how much I have saved in the past month, but the number I find more interesting is the increase (or decrease...) from a rolling year, what have I done since this time last year. My savings habits are quite good, however I don't always try to maximise the yield as I'm lazy and trusting of non high street banks.
I've worked out I've 'lost' a few dollars by not paying attention to the interest rates, more specifically, thinking the honeymoon rate was what I was getting. My laziness meant I couldn't be bothered to delve deeper and find out the difference, I mean how much different could it be?
Bank in 2000 I opened an ING Direct Account with the few dollars I had, and all was good and has been for many years. It was one the other first high interest online only bank accounts. The new kid on the block is ubank (which seems to be some kind of marketing exercise by nab) and they have good rates. Currently ING advertised rate is 5.85% and the rate your customer of 10 years gets is 4.5% thats a difference of 1.35% or put into dollar terms $135 per year on $10,000 invested or say 3 months of free mobile. In the grand scheme of things $135 isn't much and its my fault for not keeping tabs on this.
I will now be adding this statistic to my net worth spreadsheet. But not tracking monthly, just what the prevailing rate is currently, which means I can easily look at my accounts, see the interest rates they are getting and easily make a decision as to where to put the money.
I am also thinking of tracking how much money I earn from each source. Which would be interesting, but for now the total is working quite well, and requires very little effort.
Some simple maths can reveal how much I have saved in the past month, but the number I find more interesting is the increase (or decrease...) from a rolling year, what have I done since this time last year. My savings habits are quite good, however I don't always try to maximise the yield as I'm lazy and trusting of non high street banks.
I've worked out I've 'lost' a few dollars by not paying attention to the interest rates, more specifically, thinking the honeymoon rate was what I was getting. My laziness meant I couldn't be bothered to delve deeper and find out the difference, I mean how much different could it be?
Bank in 2000 I opened an ING Direct Account with the few dollars I had, and all was good and has been for many years. It was one the other first high interest online only bank accounts. The new kid on the block is ubank (which seems to be some kind of marketing exercise by nab) and they have good rates. Currently ING advertised rate is 5.85% and the rate your customer of 10 years gets is 4.5% thats a difference of 1.35% or put into dollar terms $135 per year on $10,000 invested or say 3 months of free mobile. In the grand scheme of things $135 isn't much and its my fault for not keeping tabs on this.
I will now be adding this statistic to my net worth spreadsheet. But not tracking monthly, just what the prevailing rate is currently, which means I can easily look at my accounts, see the interest rates they are getting and easily make a decision as to where to put the money.
I am also thinking of tracking how much money I earn from each source. Which would be interesting, but for now the total is working quite well, and requires very little effort.
2011: The Year In Review
So How Was it?
Don't remember, don't care.
What was your most memorable moment?
The fine folks at the Australian Passport Office, second place goes to
the continuous stream of shit piled on me the whole year.
What have you learned this year?
Self interest. Money only exists until you spend it. You don't have to drink all the time, but it helps.
What was your favourite colour?
Black
Did you stick to your resolutions/goals?
I don't even remember what they where.
What most impressed you?
My liver
Do you have any goals/resolutions for 2012?
To be continued...
Don't remember, don't care.
What was your most memorable moment?
The fine folks at the Australian Passport Office, second place goes to
the continuous stream of shit piled on me the whole year.
What have you learned this year?
Self interest. Money only exists until you spend it. You don't have to drink all the time, but it helps.
What was your favourite colour?
Black
Did you stick to your resolutions/goals?
I don't even remember what they where.
What most impressed you?
My liver
Do you have any goals/resolutions for 2012?
To be continued...
Christmas 2011
So begins the 2 weeks of 'holiday' which will most likely include hard labour, working in the office, taking my mum to some tourist attraction, self loathing and copious amounts of drinking.
Pick a Platform
I have realised I need to focus one platform and not try and duplicate my efforts across different outlets. Its both tiring and confusing for me. Sure if there is a way to automate then great, but I need to work out what works best for me and optimise for that. I would like to move to wordpress, but whats the point... tumblr is nice for catching up with what the hipsters are looking at, but nothing for me to really post there, its just not that type of crowd.
Wallet
For about 7 years I used a orange wallet made of elephant leather. That probably sounds mean and wrong, but its also awesome. And you know it. It was awesome until it started to fall apart. Probably had another 2 years as it fell apart, most-likely make it to 10 years, but my paranoia and OCD to protect and horde my belongings caused me to retire that wallet and pick up a wallet from the box of wallets I have collected over the years. These being those I have purchased or gained from birthday/christmas/diwali presents. The elephant leather wallet was a thin single fold wallet it was an extension of my left thigh. It just fit nicely into any trousers I was wearing. I changed to a double fold (triple flap) wallet. More slots for my cards, divider for big and small notes, dual ID holders, everything you could ever want from a wallet. But its just too fat.
If we delve deeper I also had a coin purse. It was good as during that time I never had enough money to actually hold notes, it had a flap for notes.... but mainly I only had coins during my senior high school years. Prior to that (yr 8 to 10) I had various Velcro wallets or just nothing at all.
Whilst at work I noticed how thin my ipod nano 2g was next to the bulk of my wallet and realised I needed something thinner. My wallet always annoyed me in terms of its girth, but its a wallet, holds money and cards, what do I care?
The problem with paper wallets is its hydrophobia and durability is limited to the quality/thickness of paper. Do I care. Fuck no! The fact that its unique and awesome like the elephant wallet. But made of a different type of finite resource. I am surrounded by boxes of paper that we just throw away, what if I use this resource for the first step in the recycle triangle and reuse in a productive way?
If we delve deeper I also had a coin purse. It was good as during that time I never had enough money to actually hold notes, it had a flap for notes.... but mainly I only had coins during my senior high school years. Prior to that (yr 8 to 10) I had various Velcro wallets or just nothing at all.
Whilst at work I noticed how thin my ipod nano 2g was next to the bulk of my wallet and realised I needed something thinner. My wallet always annoyed me in terms of its girth, but its a wallet, holds money and cards, what do I care?
- Comfort
- Bulge
- Weight
- Durability
- Looks
The problem with paper wallets is its hydrophobia and durability is limited to the quality/thickness of paper. Do I care. Fuck no! The fact that its unique and awesome like the elephant wallet. But made of a different type of finite resource. I am surrounded by boxes of paper that we just throw away, what if I use this resource for the first step in the recycle triangle and reuse in a productive way?
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