Here's mine. I hacked a web app that lets me enter expenses from wherever. This is over 250 days. "food" is groceries, "dining" eating out. "Rent" here is just property taxes 'cause I've been putting all my spare $ into my house for 16 years and paid it off, "health" includes insurance (and this year a costly visit to the E.R. after an accident, so it's higher than normal). My budget has looked pretty much like this regardless of how much I've earned from year to year. It also looked pretty much like this when I was living in Maui, renting a cheap room. Gas cost is low because I telecommute. I have never carried debt in my life except a home mortgage for a while. This table accounts for every penny I spent during these 250 days (can you tell I'm an INTP?). Hopefully needless to say, I don't have to work even a fraction of full time to maintain this lifestyle, and I don't really feel I'm missing anything (just got back from a month in New Zealand...; want to spend a month in France traveling around by rented barge via the canals--looking for travel partners to share the cost... anyone?).
Category Spent/250d/yr Dining 1062.86 4.23 1545.62 Water 167.74 0.67 243.93 Food 1954.51 7.79 2842.29 Fun 758.77 3.02 1103.42 Staples 108.97 0.43 158.47 Gas 259.58 1.03 377.49 Health 1500.91 5.98 2182.65 Garden 251.91 1.00 366.33 Internet 404.85 1.61 588.74 Misc 391.43 1.56 569.22 Utils 1286.10 5.12 1870.27 Rent 1272.52 5.07 1850.52 Auto 419.44 1.67 609.96 Computer 568.46 2.26 826.67 Travel 1011.39 4.03 1470.78 House 86.09 0.34 125.19 Total 11505.53 45.84 16731.55
Agreed! Essentially all the players (real, quicktime, you name it) play MPEGs, so why do the sites publish in a smattering of proprietary formats when they could just stick one MPEG out there?
(So, in the meanwhile can anyone recommend a player for Linux that I can watch this damned thing on?)
Philodendrons
do great in a cubicle. I had one for years. Actually, I still have it, twelve years later, though now it's on a bookshelf at home. When it gets stragly looking, I give it a haircut, and it just leaps back stronger than ever. No fertalizer in all that time, and I only water it a couple times a month tops (but soak it when I do). Nice looking plants, too. (here's a recent pic that shows some of it.)
I converted an old modem into a
telephone line interface for my computer,
then wrote some simple scripts to handle voice
mail, real-time special effects for phone calls,
you know. Note that since it's a regular modem,
you have all the standard modem features like
caller-ID (which your script could use to implement
your whitelist).
Wouldn't be hard to add tone-detection
(actually, I already had it working a while back
but haven't integrated it into this project) to
route audio to other machines. If you have
a computer in each room, you can just skip the
phones (and hey, add voice-recognition for dialing
out). But if you want phones... you might check out the LinuxJACK
or related products.
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Here's mine. I hacked a web app that lets me enter expenses from wherever. This is over 250 days. "food" is groceries, "dining" eating out. "Rent" here is just property taxes 'cause I've been putting all my spare $ into my house for 16 years and paid it off, "health" includes insurance (and this year a costly visit to the E.R. after an accident, so it's higher than normal). My budget has looked pretty much like this regardless of how much I've earned from year to year. It also looked pretty much like this when I was living in Maui, renting a cheap room. Gas cost is low because I telecommute. I have never carried debt in my life except a home mortgage for a while. This table accounts for every penny I spent during these 250 days (can you tell I'm an INTP?). Hopefully needless to say, I don't have to work even a fraction of full time to maintain this lifestyle, and I don't really feel I'm missing anything (just got back from a month in New Zealand...; want to spend a month in France traveling around by rented barge via the canals--looking for travel partners to share the cost... anyone?).
/250d /yr
Category Spent
Dining 1062.86 4.23 1545.62
Water 167.74 0.67 243.93
Food 1954.51 7.79 2842.29
Fun 758.77 3.02 1103.42
Staples 108.97 0.43 158.47
Gas 259.58 1.03 377.49
Health 1500.91 5.98 2182.65
Garden 251.91 1.00 366.33
Internet 404.85 1.61 588.74
Misc 391.43 1.56 569.22
Utils 1286.10 5.12 1870.27
Rent 1272.52 5.07 1850.52
Auto 419.44 1.67 609.96
Computer 568.46 2.26 826.67
Travel 1011.39 4.03 1470.78
House 86.09 0.34 125.19
Total 11505.53 45.84 16731.55
(So, in the meanwhile can anyone recommend a player for Linux that I can watch this damned thing on?)
-Simon
-Simon