Brookes’ Bytes

Nothing stops us here, and I am like the John McClane of IT.

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Nayt and I are going to be moving into a new place soon. I’m excited for the changes this will give our small little family unit. There are so many pros that listing them all will seem silly, but never-the-less, here are some: we will have an extra bedroom for crafts and guests to stay [...]

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I have an idea for the ultimate video game for girls. I call it What Goes With What. I haven’t worked out the details of the game yet, but you could imagine lots of varieties around the core concept I will describe.
Imagine at the beginning of the game your screen is filled with images of shoes, [...]

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If you’re wondering where the next economic boom will come from, I think it will involve a central computer for your home that handles all of your entertainment, home controller, and computing needs.
Before you rush to tell me “That already exists,” and then provide links to things that only do a few functions, let me [...]

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A stock index fund buys stock in every company that is a member of some defined index, such as the S&P 500. The idea is that if you own, for example, a little bit of 500 different companies, you’ll be well diversified and generally do better than the professional stock pickers, thanks in part to [...]

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I was reading a debate on healthcare in the recent Newsweek. The prominent Democrat supported some sort of national healthcare while the prominent Republican supported more of a free market approach. Most people will probably take sides based on their assumptions about government efficiency versus market efficiency.

An old joke that works as its own punch [...]

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I wonder if the right to freedom of speech is becoming functionally obsolete. If you break it into its parts and examine it, there isn’t much to it anymore.
For example, as I have blogged before, if you criticize your government in any public way, it’s bad for your business because all of the people who [...]

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Good morning! Today I start my new job working for a dermatologist/dermopathologist in Montgomery. I’m excited to be a receptionist. I’m excited to be in a medical environment. And I’m excited to leave the Starbucks world.
As much as I like free hot beverages on cold rainy days, I just was feeling like the Starbucks thing [...]

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I feel something stirring in my bones.
You know how at the end of a good war movie, you feel a sense of accomplishment? Even if the sacrifice of the good army has been HUGE, it always feels right that they still win. The Last Samurai is like that. At the end, even the warrior Lord [...]

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Single people are free to take more economic risks than married people. It makes me wonder if there is a correlation between the average age of marriage in a particular area and its economy.
My hypothesis is that places where marriage happens early, by custom or religion, will also be the places with the slowest rate [...]

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