Personal finance blog with anecdotes, advice and commentary. A design student from Chicago recently launched a fairly ridiculous Kickstarter campaign: He wanted to buy a burrito and graph its “deliciousness.” With an original funding goal of $8, Noboru Bitoy has blown that target out of the water. As of this post, he’s raised a whopping $1,050, all based on this simple promise: “Just how delicious is a chicken burrito from my local Chipotle? I will find & display the answer in a creative presentation!” Bitoy is hardly the source of “derp” in this story; it’s most definitely the 258 donors who have backed his campaign.
Although, to be fair, those who donate $10 are given a sticker, and those who pledge $25 or more get a T-shirt, too. If anything, Bitoy might just be a Kickstarter genius. The minimum pledge amount on Bitoy’s campaign is $1, and for that amount, he promised to graph the deliciousness of his burrito, and then send “a completed version of the Deliciousness Graphic in a .PDF file.” “I might drop the burrito on the floor,” he wrote. StupidCents | Turning Wasted Cents into Common Sense. Financial Evolution for the Masses - Money, Investing and Retirement. Tip'd – A community for financial news, ideas, and tips / Published News. Investor Junkie - Investing Blog. DIY projects, how-tos, and inspiration from the workshops and minds of geeks, makers, and hackers @ Make: magazine.
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In the episode last night, a couple like variety and decide to heat up a large gummy bear (made of sugar, of course) and the woman begs the guy to pour it on her chest and eat it off. He does and it gives her third degree burns and his mouth is burned. They head to the ER where he is blamed for hurting his girlfriend and is given shaming looks. Another couple has consensual sex in a pool naked and the woman gets her toe ring caught in the drain. Another segment showed a man hauled into the ER on a gurney. The doctor passively stands back while his patient is beaten and talks about how he does not want to get involved. Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system. View From The Porch. The Smallest Minority. SayUncle.