Friday, May 18, 2012
For about $90, this is a very nice tablet. It compares quite favorably with my Wacom, which retails for about $450 (you can get them for less if you don’t do Friday afternoon impulse buys at the Apple store like I did). The pen requires a battery, so it’s heavy (not really a problem) and doesn’t have an eraser (which is a minor inconvenience). Also, the tablet is ugly. But it has a big “Monoprice” logo on it, so when you look at this ugly thing, you can think to yourself “I got an incredible deal on this thing.” Recommended.
Posted by
David Rhoden on 05/18 at 12:33 PM
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
I imagine a bunch of old men are in there setting up eBay sales for typewriter ribbons and carbon paper. Maybe my dream job is in there.
Posted by
David Rhoden on 05/16 at 09:24 AM
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Student Loans Weighing Down a Generation With Heavy Debt, from The New York Times.
I have it, student loan debt, from law school, enough that I could have bought a house instead. It’s like having a chronic illness. I will probably not live long enough to pay it off, and the damage I did to my credit means I can never buy a car (unless I pay cash for it), let alone a house. I would discourage anybody with intelligence and a desire to do something with his or her life to stop going to school and just do it. At this point school is just for dopes like me who don’t know what they want. It’s babysitting you pay for yourself.
The main reason for college, except for the really top-tier people who can do something with it, is to keep a bunch of dumb 18-22-year olds out of the work force. And these kids in this article, who are insinuating that they were misled are just those dumb people I’m talking about; saying you were misled is silly, you just hung an “I’M DUMB” sign around your neck. But at least they have the excuse of being young. My sign should be way bigger: I was nearly forty, I already had one undergrad degree I wasn’t using. It looked like free money. My wife told me not to do it, then pleaded with me not to do it, to just stay poor and do something I liked (drawing) instead of law, but I was too dumb to listen, and now I don’t have a wife anymore.
It just feels bad to know you are as dumb as you are, and there’s a number somewhere that measures how dumb you are, and it has a dollar sign in front of it. I can’t ever fix it, even paying it off won’t fix it, but I can tell you, if you read this, and you have to choose between taking on debt and going to school, the choice should be obvious. If you want to learn something, go learn it (surgeons excepted here I suppose). It’s easier to do when you’re not wearing a sign.
Posted by
David Rhoden on 05/13 at 03:16 PM
