December 9, 2004
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Thumb Training 101
After a T-day discussion with my youngest brother…we came to realize that all the time spent on video games hasn’t really developted any skills that can be used otherwise. I mean, even building a bookcase sharpens my ability to both cuss over the loud buzzing of a power saw as well as bandage myself one-handed. So as an experiment in both learning and financial education, I’m reading a book that we’ve all heard about I’m sure called Rich Dad, Poor Dad….AND I’m using the total of my tax refund from last year and this year to start investing in stocks instead of all this other crap I’ve been putting money into.
To that end I’m giving my modded xbox to my godson. But not before I put a ‘nekkid girl’ skin on it; hey, a godfather’s gotta hook up his godson somehow. Plus his mother knows martial arts so I may as well take the heat instead of him, right? And I’m also getting rid of the GameCube and PS2 as well. Too much time develeoping thumb-numbing skills that I’ve decided are worthless. For a place to buy these skins, see my affiliates…they’re are VERY well done…so much so I’m personally recommending them.
Comments (2)
Tej recommended it to me, and I’ll recommend it to you: ‘A Random Walk Down Wall Street.’ I remember seeing some stuff on the motley fool message boards about how Kiyosaki was full of it, but I can’t remember the specifics.
Did you see the thing about the FBI busting a retailer who would sell you a modded XBox with a bunch of games on the hard drive? Over on boingboing.
Well, Kiyosaki may be full of it, but much like anything else, I reserve the right to extract the good stuff out of what I read and leave the rest for that place my high school locker combination went. As it should be really. Beleiving everything I read is something I try to avoid…even if I have to read something twice in order to define the parts I disagree with. Much like some of the folks that draw circles for Amway, I distrust EVERYONE who has an answer for everything. That’s how cults, wars, and religions are started. I’ll check out The Fool for the details, thanks!
As for the Xbox thing, that was just plain stoopid! I own all my games, it’s just really cool to be able to use it as an FTP server on my network and copy all the files onto the hard drive and leave the media at home when travelling. And you can do stuff like this:
Xbox Linux Cluster