Tag: talking trash

The Groovy Money Map
When two of my favorite bloggers, Chris from Apathy Ends and Mr. BOAS from Budget on a Stick, decide to map their personal finances for the world, and artfully issue a clarion call for other bloggers to do likewise, I don’t ask questions. I simply obey my esteemed brothers-in-arms with all deliberate speed. Here, then,…

I Got Nothing
Hey, groovy freedomists. Sorry about this. I usually write two posts a week. But this week life got in the way, and I couldn’t complete my Friday post. Damn! No one ever said blogging and retirement were going to be easy. I did, however, summon the energy to shoot another edition of Talking Trash this…

Do You Know Your Financial Shit?
Oh my gosh. We’re practically half way through August. FinCon 2017 is just around the corner. Sadly, Mrs. Groovy and I aren’t attending this year’s conference in Dallas. Too much on our plate. (I know. Lame excuse.) But if we were attending, I’d be nervous as hell. After all, to the blogging community, I’m a…

It’s the Culture, Stupid
The other day I came across a video about Jean Yang, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon who is developing a programming language with built-in security and privacy features. If you want to watch the entire video, which runs for slightly more than two minutes, you can do so here. The short snippet below captures…

How Much Crap Is Hiding Behind Your Walls?
I’m not a minimalist, but I do appreciate the sentiment that your life should be as clutter-free as possible. So for sh%ts and giggles, I decided to perform a clutter audit on our house. For the purposes of my audit, I defined “clutter” as something that 1) Mrs. Groovy and I haven’t used in six…