Monthly Archives: January 2010

Favorite iPhone game of the year – Ramp Champ

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Ramp Champ lootI’ve only been playing it for a few weeks but I am absolutely in love with Ramp Champ. For fans of Skeeball, Ramp Champ puts a fun twist on the classic boardwalk game. Ramp Champ comes with 4 built in levels, and has in-app purchases that allows you to download “packs” that include more levels and more prizes. 

Prizes? Yes thats right. There is loot in Ramp Champ. As you can see in the picture here, I’ve collected some sick prizes by spending the tickets of my winnings. The expansion packs that you can purchase from the app store also include new prizes to spend your tickets on.

In addition to collecting tickets for each game you play on these levels, there are three specific goals of each level to strive for. For example, one simple goal is always to reach a certain point level, usually 10,000 points, but sometimes higher.

As far as gameplay goes, its a very straight-forward flick of the screen to fire the balls at the targets. It’s a very short learning curve, but it takes a while to master.
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Will that be credit or debit?

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Most of us are used to hearing this question whenever we pull out the plastic from our wallets. Over the past few years, I have flip flopped on my answer to this question depending on my current situation. And now, that I have worked myself out of debt, I think the situation may be even more complex. Let’s go over the history of things to see how we got into this situation.
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Cute picture of Sophia

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Stacy got Sophia this fleece hoodie a few weeks ago, and I snagged this action photo of her with it on.
Sophia with her Dog Gone Gorgeous Skull & Crossbones Fleece Hoodie

I tried to find places to get them online, but it looks like Pet Smart is the only place. They didn’t have anything on Amazon or.

Saturday links – 01/09/2010

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Here are some links to recent posts from friends or blogs that I read often that I thought I would share with my readers.

I think I will try and do a links post each weekend, in addition to my shared google reader items, to help spread the word of the work that others are doing on their blogs.

What’s up with Lending Club? A review.

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Here is the first post since joining Project 52.

I recently signed up at the web site Lending Club after considering doing so for a while.  A friend of mine had signed up for it and it looked intriguing.  It’s nothing new for sure, a quick search into their crunchbase profile tells us they got started in May 2007 as a Facebook application to promote peer-to-peer lending.  In a nutshell, it means if you need $100 and I have $100 to loan out, they put us together.  You don’t need to go to a bank for a loan, and I can get more interest on my money than a savings account would give me.

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Joining Project 52, focusing more on quality writing

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When I restarted this blog for yet another time LAST year (yes 2009, you are last year) I really wanted to focus on quality feature type writing. I always preferred “magazine” style writing as we called it in journalism school to the news reporting of newspapers and agencies like the AP and Reuters. I wrote a few pieces like this over the past year. The Mint review, my retirement finance piece, and last but not least, my piece on quitting the game of Warcraft.

These are the types of pieces that I’d like to continue to write, but I don’t think these can be produced once a week with my current schedule. Work, school, life, you know all that, I’ve mentioned it before in previous posts as well. But I am joining Project 52, a personal challenge to myself, that others have asked of themselves as well. I want to write more. I enjoy writing.

So that’s it for now. Let’s see what 2010 brings for Perfect Mike Dot Com. Until then, You can keep up with my Google Reader links which is probably what I update most often these days, followed by my Twitter.