Stuff to remember on thanksgiving

No this is not about being thankful etc. (which by the way I am); this is about what I don't need to buy this thanksgiving. Things to remember amidst all the hoopla and needless hype & excitement. I have already spent a good 3-4 days researching stuff that I absolutely don't need this year; and most of them I already have.

I dont need no - 

#1. Blueray\DVD player - no matter how smart or how internet ready they are; you dont have any bluerays and I dont think you will ever go rent one or buy one. Just connect the TV to one of your 3 laptops and watch whatever content that you can stream; you already donate monthly to Netflix.

#2. Roku\Smart devices - refer #1.

#3. Tablet - ipad 2\3\mini - whatever; think about the 2 kindles that you never use, dust them up atleast.

#4. TV - well I haven't made my peace with this one yet; but I do have 2 32'' Sony Bravia's and I paid good money about 3 years back; not only you will loose money on a perfectly good piece of TV that you like; you will spend another 1000$ chasing the 55''.

#5. Laptop - again I am not sure about this one. I have an old macbook (which crawls now a days); toshiba (work) and vaio (technically wifes). Technically looks like I may have to invest on a personal laptop for some personal projects. But I hate shelling out big bucks for a macbook pro; maybe look at an ultrabook ?

Comeback and read this all throughout this holiday season. Let see if you win this battle.

Men who built America

Anybody watching this on History Channel ?? Whoa !!!

Andrew Carnegie - The steel magnate

Cornelius Vanderbilt - Shipping & Rail road

John D Rockefeller - Standard Oil - 600 Billion USD in adjusted value !

JP Morgan - The Banker, General Electric

Building empires from scratch; and get about a dozen streets and building named after you in every damn city ! (for a second lets not pay attention to their means ) Pure capitalists but the drama is gripping !! Thomas Edison + JP Morgan v\s Rockefeller and then Nicola Tesla. But JP Morgan bailing out the country tops it. and ofcourse Morgan
, Rockefeller & Carnegie buying the republican nominee is nothing out of the normal.  functional innovation for the masses; economy with scale. Ruthless or Smart.

Note to self: need to get some more reading done on the political thinking of the founders and the thinking of these building blocks of the economy.

Weekly call - Nov 3rd week

NFL
 - Rex Ryan is done with the Jets. Lets bring in some new guy. Ditto for the QB.
 - Broncos\Manning - Now there is something I'd like to hear more about
 - Eli Manning - give him a break. Cant decide if he is overrated but what the heck he has 2 rings.
 - Superbowl - XXIV - Romans are not around anymore and it takes me a while to interpret this. I agree  with SportsNation - enough already. I want to know the year of the superbowl and yes ofcourse get rid of the pro bowl and I want the telecast on thursday nights and all New England & Broncos games.

NBA
 - Lakers and D'Anoni - Lets get started already. 11 championship rings for the Zen master - that was before this Miami Heat ! let us rumble and see if we can shake up the western conference. Dont see how Nash, Kobe and the two trees can play together.
 - Celtics - Bro's time to get it together; otherwise KG might be in for an early retirement

Politics
 - Romney\Ryan - Yo enough already. May be I should say this to myself and stop reading all the articles from the Election category on google news. Take CNN out of favorites.
 - General Petraeus, General Allen - what crap? when did some innocuous email drafts turn in to a sex scandal !! Erin Burnett, Wolf Blitzer & all the Fox Pundits - please take a breather and let the man in Afghanistan take care of business and get the people on ground on to doing something worthwhile.
 - Fox News - ROFL - Is this just math that you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better or is this real?   

Work
 - Time to find some side project. To hell with putting in a days worth hard work everyday. Time to move on from a blue collar mentality to a white collar mentality.

Personal
 - whatever; lets move on to next year already and wish I could drop about 10 lbs without any hardwork.