Mar 20, 2008 | Banking, Money, Real Estate, Taxes
I got this email a couple of days ago. Since these are common questions – in fact, we had most of them – I’m answering on the blog.”I have enjoyed reading your info on the net. We are thinking of buying a small condo and living in Costa Rica in...
Mar 17, 2008 | Banking, Money, PayPal, Security
All in the name of security, of course. We used to be big PayPal fans. Not anymore. Be careful using PayPal (PP) from Costa Rica. After our recent experiences, I’d be careful using PP anywhere. We have had business/personal PP accounts since 2000. We’d...
Mar 15, 2008 | Festivals & Holidays
Yesterday was Pi Day. As in the number you get when you divide the distance around a circle (its circumference) by the distance across (the diameter). Or 3.14159265358979323846 26433832795028841971. For starters. Apparently, in 2002, a Japanese computer scientist...
Mar 13, 2008 | CR: Working
Of course, what we (as in all of you and me) should really do is pool our resources and create a bank. Then you can create money out of thin air and keep some of it. For instance, HSBC posted a $17,000,000,000 (Billion) loss and still made a profit. Of course, banks...
Mar 4, 2008 | Medical Care, Plastic Surgery
My friend, Dara, just wrote asking about plastic surgery here… "for a friend," she said. Right. It’s ok, Dara. Trust me, I understand. Actually, since Dara is still in her 30’s and gravity has not yet begun it’s most serious work on...
