FIRE Is Not for You

The biggest reason I think Robert Kiyosaki is a conman is that his real estate sales portal doesn’t exclude anybody. As long as you have a pulse, you’re welcome to join his real estate “seminars.” It doesn’t matter what your income is, what your credit score is, or what blue-collar skills you bring to the …

The Beast Is Finally Done

It took me two years, but Billy Bob is finally done. Now I just have to get this clanking monstrosity attached to my front lawn. Here are some pictures showing the progression of my bison build.  

Reality-Phobes and the SAT

I took the SAT in 1979. Like most of my classmates, I didn’t do any prep work. Kaplan and other test-prep companies weren’t a big thing back then, and the College Board hadn’t been forced yet to publish copies of previous SATs (those very valuable prep tools finally became available in either 1980 or 1981). …

Is Diversity All That?

The municipality I worked for on Long Island for 21 years wasn’t diverse by woke standards. Ninety-five percent of my co-workers were white like me and every supervisor had male plumbing like me. The private company I worked for nine years prior to retiring was diverse by woke standards. Roughly 50 percent of my co-workers …