Chatzky: 8 great rules to grow your money

In a USA Weekend issue from a month or two back, Jean Chatzky had written an article called "8 great rules to grow your money."

Here are the major take home points.  For more details, click the link below to be taken to the article on usaweekend.com.

• Bank your windfalls.
• Manage what you can.
• Credit cards don't have to equal debt.
• Don't let your money run out before you do.
• Put your 80-year-old self first.
• Buy experiences, not things.
• Tax evasion is illegal. Tax avoidance is smart.
• Face your finances.

These are all basic and important tenets to live by.

For more details, click here: http://www.usaweekend.com/article/20120330/MONEY/303300006/8-great-rules-grow-your-money

Forbes Magazine: MailStop

Here is something interesting that I read in a recent Forbes Magazine.

It is about an app called MailStop that allows users to take a picture of the junk mail that you receive and the app will automatically request the sender to remove you from their list.

It was funded as a non-profit and the funding stops at the end of this year so MailStop will need to find other streams of revenue or additional funding to continue operating.

To view the article on Forbes.com click here: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2012/0507/technology-postal-service-software-war-on-junkmail.html

To learn more, visit the official website here: https://www.catalogchoice.org/mailstop

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Forbes: MakerBot Thing-o-Matic

I was browsing a recent Forbes Magazine article on 3-D printing.  In this article they discussed how Golan Levin, a Carnegie-Mellon professor solved a problem of connecting a variety of different toys together.


He measured the pieces of various toys to within three microns and with those measurements you can build connecting pieces with a 3-D printer such as the MakerBot's Thing-o-Matic.


Very cool...


Official announcement: http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2010/09/25/announcing-makerbots-new-3d-printer-the-thing-o-matic/

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Visit? Southern California Places to Explore Space

These recommendations are also from a recent Westways Magazine for Auto Club members.

Here are some places to consider visiting if you are interested in learning more about different aspects of space.

• Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  Started in the 1930s, it offers free weekly tours on Mondays and Wednesdays. jpl.nasa.gov
• Astronaut Ellison S. Onizuka Memorial. This monument honors Ellison S. Onizuka, the first Asian American in space and one of seven astronauts that perished in the Challenger explosion. onizukamemorial.org
• Columbia Memorial Space Center.  This is next door to the Downey Studios building where all the Apollo astronauts were trained and where the Apollo space capsules were built.  Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10 AM to 5 PM.  columbiaspacescience.org
• California Science Center. The space shuttle Endeavor will eventually call this place its home. Open daily from 10 AM to 5 PM.  californiasciencecenter.org
• Griffith Observatory.  A grand art deco building overlooking Hollywood that features the Samuel Oschin Planetarium. Wednesday to Friday Noon to 10 PM and Saturday and Sunday from 10 AM to 10 PM.  griffithobs.org

I hope all of you find these places interesting.