“I’m sure someone wrote a science fiction book on this exact topic, but I didn’t read it.”
Permalink | September 5, 2007 by John in Humor, Religion, ScottAdams
This doesn’t answer the question of who created the aliens in the first place, so it allows the possibility of God. It just pushes him back one level. I like the Atlantis hypothesis because it makes everyone uncomfortable, explains everything here on Earth, and you can’t disprove it. That’s as good as it gets.
I find this theory just as plausible as the bible. Which is to say, not at all. But it’s fun to read. I love it when Adams comes up with wacky stuff like this. And how often do I get to tag a post as humor and religion?
Not a Resolution, but Hopefully Resolute
Permalink | January 22, 2007 by John in Health-Medical, KevinSmith, ScottAdams
Long ago I gave up New Year’s Resolutions. In fact I’ve kept my last resolution, made a few years ago: Make no more New Years Resolutions. They are inherently self-defeating and doomed to failure. So no grandiose announcements about a major life change or even a minor one. It’s simple.
I have to lose weight. Obviously this has been on my mind lately judging from my post below about lapband surgery.
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Election Day
Permalink | November 7, 2006 by John in Humor, Jillette, Politics, ScottAdams
Ever have one of those nightmares that you show up in class for the final exam and suddenly realize that you didn’t attend class all semester and you have no idea what the material is about? Or alternatively you show up in any given class having forgotten to do your homework (and usually you’re wearing only your underwear)?
I’m feeling like that today. I did manage to dress myself, but I didn’t do my homework. Should I go to the polling place and vote for those few issues/candidates that I do know about? Should I vote at all? To paraphrase Penn Jillette, should I vote even if there are no candidates worth voting for? Should I refuse to settle for the lesser of two evils?
Update: Jeff Croft has more to say on the subject. I used to say, “if you don’t vote you can’t complain,” but I’m not so sure anymore. I mean none of the candidates represent my point of view. Even if the candidates did what they said they’d do in office, they don’t reflect my POV.
I forgot to include a mention of Scott Adams who often says he doesn’t vote because he doesn’t know enough about the issues so he’s not qualified (of course he goes on to say that almost nobody knows enough to vote).
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The Incompetent Method
Permalink | November 6, 2006 by John in Humor, ScottAdams
I swear we have a guy like this in my office, with the exception of a different seventh step:”
Step 7: Make life hell for the competent people causing them to quit so there are no witnesses.
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‘Dilbert’s’ 9-Point Financial Plan
Permalink | October 10, 2006 by John in Humor, Money, ScottAdams
‘Dilbert’s’ 9-point financial plan worthy of economics Nobel : “Notice its simple brilliance in the exact reproduction of his formula:
- Make a will
- Pay off your credit cards
- Get term life insurance if you have a family to support
- Fund your 401k to the maximum
- Fund your IRA to the maximum
- Buy a house if you want to live in a house and can afford it
- Put six months worth of expenses in a money-market account
- Take whatever money is left over and invest 70% in a stock index fund and 30% in a bond fund through any discount broker and never touch it until retirement
- If any of this confuses you, or you have something special going on (retirement, college planning, tax issues), hire a fee-based financial planner, not one who charges a percentage of your portfolio
“Adams boldly states that this is ‘everything you need to know about personal investing.’ In just 129 words, nine simple points, one page you have the unabridged ‘Unified Theory of Everything Financial.’ That’s it. Everything!
“Thanks to Adams’ formula, the average irrational investor can ignore Wall Street: ‘Everything else you may want to do with your money is a bad idea compared to what’s on my one-page summary.”
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