Topic: decade

I've given up, as I'm sure most of you have, on pretty much every airline out there. The past decade has seen air travel go from a generally unremarkable and convenient mode of transportation to some cantankerous form of voluntary and expensive imprisonment. Wait, strike that, they still feed you in jail. Today, in what is the latest in a never-ending string of new fees and surcharges,...

Writer-director Andrew Stanton got in on the ground floor at animation studio Pixar and apparently never looked back. He's been involved in virtually all things Pixar for the past decade and a half; he co-directed A Bug's Life (with John Lasseter) and Finding Nemo (with Lee Unkrich), collaborated on the scripts for the Toy Story movies, A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo, and provided...

Last fall, I discovered my Quicken data file from the mid-1990s. It contains all my transactions from 01 January 1995 until 06 April 1998. There are many fascinating insights to be gleaned from my crazy spending a decade ago, but as I was looking through my checkbook register, one thing in particular stood out. Before nearly every paycheck, my bank balance would dwindle to $12.33 or $7.14 or...