Fans of my Monopoly Pub Crawl experience will know how much I value doing things in the correct order. So what is the best order to watch the Star Wars films in? The obvious debate creates a battle between the ‘Release Order’ (Episodes IV – VI, then Episodes I – III) versus the ‘Lucas Order‘ (Episodes...
I’m a foreigner, with a deep love for the greatest show on earth – the US Presidential Election. I was 6 when George H. W. Bush was elected to the White House … that didn’t stop me from sharing the news (and explaining the Electoral College) to my primary school classmates the next day. In...
With respect to the greatest fencing-master of the late 1300s, Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco, and his manual Fior di Battaglia (Flower of Battle). [1] Jacob Aldridge: “As a young man I desired to learn authentic business, including the art of fighting for profit with sales, products, channels, brand and necessary infrastructure, on my own...
by Jacob Aldridge, who owns ~$1.2 million in property and loves every cent of his mortgages I like money and I like property. I mean, they’re not the reason I’m alive but all other things being equal I would rather have them than not. Which is why I get angry when my first-home-owner-wannabe friends outline...
Today, January 19 2015, is my paternal Grandma’s 80th birthday. Or at least, it would have been if she were still alive. Grandma died in May 2013. I was overseas on holiday at the time – her health hadn’t been great, but it had been a slow decline over many years so her hospitalisation and...
Ten years ago today, on October 28 2004, I surprised even myself by ticking off what I thought would be a much longer term aspiration: creating an urban legend of sufficient worth that the esteemed Snopes.com team would debunk it. You can see the original entry on Snopes here. And the legend is thus: I’m not one...
