Hijinks Inc.

Category: Aaron Nelsen

  • Yahoo’s Plan for Saving Money? Move to Nebraska!

    Yahoo is reportedly considering moving a small chunk (more like a crumb) of their failing operations to Omaha, bringing about 50 jobs to the area with an average salary of $68,700.

    Valleywag’s take?

    Yahoo is specifically looking at a piece of property in an Omaha suburb, says the AP, confusing us. Doesn’t there have to be an urban area for there to be a suburban area? We thought the city outskirts around Omaha had a simpler name: farmland.

    Apparently this is all speculation based on the fact that the company recently applied for some serious state tax breaks available in Nebraska. Nebraska Tax Commissioner Doug Ewald (we have a tax commissioner?) is quoted by the AP as saying that the application for tax breaks doesn’t guarantee Yahoo is coming to the state.

  • Aurora Feint Update

    Word on the street is that Aurora Feint will be rolling out an update within the next 24 hours, at this time little is known about what all the update will include, though it will likely improve stability as well as feature a fix for the almost unsolvable Molton Lava puzzle.

  • Passive Income – July 2008

    In July I bought my scooter, so there went most of my interest earning cash (but I’ve saved $150 dollars on gas for the month!), I also don’t have any CDs left to pay out interest. So pretty much a bust interest wise. My earnings from AdSense were rather meager as well, most likely my own fault since I barely posted at all during July.

    August will be the real trick, as I’ll be on vacation, which cuts out a good portion of those credit card rewards from work related purchases.

    • Interest: $28.17
    • Dividends: $56.83
    • Credit Card Rewards: $30.59
    • AdSense: $10.34
    • Text Ads: $25.00
    • Surveys: $6.00
    • Misc. website income: $30.00

    Netting a solid $186.93, nothing to sneeze at, but a little short of June’s total.

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  • Hello iPhone

    A few days after the iPhone 3G was announced I sold my first gen iPhone for much more than it was worth, the best part is I sold it with my contract… Now I have no plan to return to AT&T as their service is crap and they have no coverage in Nebraska, but I do miss having an iPhone or an iPod touch.

    I’ve been considering getting an iPod touch for the past few weeks, but have been holding off. Well today I found a first gen 8GB iPhone available for $100, dang sweet deal! I’m hopefully gonna take a look at it tomorrow and if it’s in good condition I’ll purchase it.

    Now I can spend all the money I saved on apps in the App Store.

  • Pixar: Up

    Pixar debuted the trailer for their new film Up yesterday, looks odd.

    The hero of the film is a 78-year-old man named Carl Fredricksen, who walks around hunched over with a tripod cane. When he was a kid he met a girl named Ellie, who grew up in small midwestern town. The two fell in love and eventually got married. Her dream was always to explore the world and visit paradise falls, but as usually happens, life got in the way. They were never able to make good on their promise, and Ellie eventually passed away. Now Carl is a widower living alone in his small home. Developers are threatening to move him into an old folks home.

    Thoughts?