Happy Thanksgiving from everyone at Aridni.

We’re thankful for the great time and great lessons gained through this website and your ideas.

Best Wishes,

Katie and Todd

For the random winner of the poetry contest, congratulations to shakir hasnain for your poem Jeweller.

Jeweller

he is a master of procurement
an author of delivery
he promises to the display window
a stone from the sunken city
set in the reflection
of the galaxy
he sold light years away
to some eccentric patch of the sky

Thanks to all of you who submitted a to our poetry contest. Stay tuned in the future for more different contests and events in the future.

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What fun we have had with this poetry contest! We loved seeing the different poetry styles, technique, and go-for-it ideas you all shared with us. Thanks all!

We told you that we would announce the winners yesterday, though we got a little distracted by a milestone birthday of our mother who came to town. When asked for a piece of agely wisdom, she told everyone at the table, “Be accepting of others.” We hope you can follow her tip and be accepting of our day-late response, too. ;)

This morning, we announce the champion poem, written by efipo. Stay tuned for the random winner to be announced shortly. In the meantime, YEAH, efipo! I think that we can all relate to the words that efipo shares:

I’ve seen many men throw away their money.
I would even point and laugh and think it was funny.
People will buy gold and expensive liquor.
Little do they know, their debt is getting thicker.
I try to explain and tell them you’re way out of sight.
But all they do is shout and want to pitch a fight.
“Stop judging me! I can spend all my cash.”
Little do they know, it’s gone in a flash.

After mounds of debt, they come knocking for advice.
Know they realize debt is like a bad case of lice.
Stop buying crap and pay down your debt.
Did you really need to buy a diamond necklace for your pet?
You’ll find your retirement money in your shoes to be sold.
Now sell all your stuff like your baseball hat and your mouth full of gold.
Your life is not over. You didn’t soil it.
But stop throwing money down the toilet.

We are having our first ever poetry contest here at Aridni, but with a little bit of a twist. We want to see poems that relate to entrepreneurs, business, and finance. We want to find out how many Bukowski-Buffets, how many Walt Disney-Whitman’s and how many Ralph Walton Emersons are there out there and reading our little site.

We want to see how funny/creative/poetic you can be about money. Any form of poetry is accepted, so if you call it a poem, so do we! We’re looking for creative expressions on money, business, stocks, and just about everything! If we would talk about it on Aridni, then it is fair game.

The contest will go until the end of March, so if you need time to craft a masterpiece, you have a little. However, there is no limit to the number of entries that you can submit. So let your little poetic heart go wild!

PRIZES!
We’re giving away a couple of Amazon gift certificates to the winners.

The winner of the best poem will be given a twenty dollar certificate.
One random entry or trackback will be awarded a ten dollar certificate. Every poem–If you have a website / blog and would like talk about the contest, you’re eligible for the randomly selected price. Make sure to send a trackback to this article.

Rules

• 1. Poems must relate to Aridni topics
• 2. One entry per comment… submit as many times as you wish.
• 3. Contest ends Saturday March 31, 2007.
• 4. Tell others about the contest!

Well, perhaps number 4 isn’t exactly a rule, but depending on the response we’ll be able to host future contests, prizes, and events. We will announce the winners on April 4.

Get out your feathered ink pen and a stack of paper and start crafting some rhymes about making those dimes. Oh wow, I’m off to a good start!

Post your submission in the comments section below. Remember to use a valid e-mail address so we can pass over your prize.

Aridni will introduce you to a different staff writer every Monday. The full staff lineup can be found here.

Michelle, age 20

You may be surprised to see my unfamiliar face on the “Meet the Cast” series on Aridni. I’ll admit I am rather stunned myself. However, when asked to join the team I readily accepted the offer to be a weekly writer.

Currently I am a sophomore at the University of Montana. My life goals seem to change periodically as I am unsure of my major. However at this point I am interested in double majoring in Accounting and Business Education. I would like follow my Mom’s footsteps as a high school business teacher and educate students on the importance of the business world. But if for some reason I am unable to find a job or I simply do not enjoy the career of education, I will pursue a career in accounting.

All of my life I have been inspired to own a business. But no doubt like you, I have a dilemma: I have no idea what I would like this business to be and I haven’t the slightest idea where to start.

To educate both myself and Aridni readers, my first series of articles will be posted on Thursdays with an emphasis on developing a business.

I truly hope that you continue to read Aridni and that my unfamiliar face on Aridni will become in fact recognizable.

Hello there readers of Aridni. Today is the six month mark that Aridni has been running. It’s also time that we freshened things up a little bit. So with that we’re rolling out a new look.

Later today Todd and Katie will be on with a post about what they have learned in the past six months working on Aridni.

Next Saturday we will continue with the guest articles. If you would like to participate and have your article featured or otherwise would like to know more. Check out the Aridni Contact Page.

There are a couple small little tweaks and changes that we will have to fiddle with in regards to the new look, but nothing major should change with it.

A quick reminder that the carnival of business is being held here at Aridni on the 3rd. If you have an article that you would like to recommend an article it would be appreciated.