Cheapskating on thin ice
Published 10:38 pm Monday, June 7, 2010
What looks good for lunch? The author of a new book, “The Cheapskate Next Door” offers several money-saving tips. For example, taking brown-bagging a step further, Jeff Yaeger stocks his office fridge with lunch food for a full week.
Of course, you can save even more money if you adopt the practice of someone in The Buzz’s office who keeps helping himself to the food others put in the fridge.
There’s not an app for that: Apple’s Steve Jobs introduced the new iPhone 4 on Monday, even though a tech blogger stole his thunder in April when he wrote about the new smartphone after he obtained a prototype that had been lost.
The new iPhone 4 has a higher-resolution screen, longer battery life and a swiveling camera for teleconferencing. But you’ll have to wait for the iPhone 5 for the app that envelopes unauthorized users, tech bloggers especially, in an immobilizing foam.
Also, it’s easier to schedule a tee time: The swallows have returned but not to the Mission San Juan Capistrano that they made famous. The migrating birds this year chose to build their mud nests at a nearby country club.
A spokesbird said the swallows had nothing against nesting at the church but wanted to live amongst a better class of bird.
