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Monthly Archives: November 2008

Are Low-Tech Folks Cheapskates?

I wrote a post earlier this week outlining ways to save money by canceling hi-tech services, such as cable tv, cellphone plans, etc.  Kris de Decker’s Low-tech Magazine provides a link to an interesting article about a woman who doesn’t use centralized heat, watch tv, or drive a car: Low-tech living The woman with a [...]

Charlie Engel and Marshall Ulrich’s Ultrarunning Attempts

A couple of months ago, Charlie Engel and Marshall Ulrich set out to break the speed record for running across the United States.  While neither bested the current overall record, Marshall Ulrich did capture a new Master’s record.   The Rundangerously blog has more info and photos. Charlie Engel suffered an ankle injury in Utah [...]

Save Up To $400 per Month by Going Low Tech

Marketing author Seth Godin touched on some truths in a recent blog post: Think you could live without the $1800 a year you spend on cell phone service and $1200 a year you spend on cable TV? Of course you can. You did ten years ago… …What’s interesting to watch are the things that we [...]

Stephanie Groth

Steph was a very kind and caring friend.  We went to her funeral today where I was honored to serve as a pallbearer. Tweet (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1″; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, “script”, “facebook-jssdk”));

Over the Air Free TV: Digital TV Converter Box Coupons

As regular readers of this site know, I am a big fan over free over-the-air television. Why pay for an expensive subscription service when so much is broadcast free of charge? Just tonight, President-elect Barack Obama’s first post-election interview was on 60 minutes, the Washington Redskins vs Dallas Cowboys football game was on, and the [...]