Reading with an IPAQ / Golden Steps to Respectability

GOLDEN STEPS TO RESPECTABILITY, USEFULNESS, AND HAPPINESS ‘
Being a Series of Lectures to Youth of Both Sexes, on Character,Principles, Associates, Amusements, Religion, and Marriage by JOHN MATHER AUSTIN, 1851
It all starts with the IPAQ 111.  One of the reasons I bought it was to use as an electronic reader.  Sort of like carrying a paperback [...]

Bad advice for 20 year olds

Penelope Trunk gave out some very bad advice.  The more I think about it, the more I object to it.  The article is so egregious that it is difficult to limit myself to a single quote, but here is a sample:
The majority of twentysomethings today move back home with their parents , job hop every [...]

Being ignored

“The best thing you can do is to stop feeling sorry for yourself. Get out of your head and keep your antennae out for opportunities to bring a little humanity into other people’s lives. You’ll feel better, I promise. It’s corny but true that it feels better to give than to receive.”  Career Coach Marty [...]

Fortitude

Fortitude:  “That strength or firmness of mind which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity without murmuring, depression, or despondency; passive courage; resolute endurance; firmness in confronting or bearing up against danger or enduring trouble.”  SelfKnowledge.Com
“The virtue of fortitude, or courage, is firmness of spirit, [...]

Benjamin Franklin, by Walter Isaacson – started, again

I want to read more biographies.  I want to know – and be inspired by – how other people work through the difficulties in their lives to achieve their goals.  I thought Lincoln’s Melancholy was great – I’m looking for something like that.  Benjamin Franklin is a Christmas present from last year.  I started it, [...]

I want an IPAQ, so I had to buy a new purse

I ordered my HP IPAQ 111 PDA.  I’m really excited about it!  I have been tracking this device waiting for it to go from announcement to an actual release for a few months now.  It finally hit the online stores last week.  I debated going with a bargain retailer, but I ended up ordering through [...]