Archive for September, 2007

Here’s my two cents…

Here’s my two cents…you can take it or leave it.
Microsoft’s Windows Vista is the shittiest operating system I have had the displeasure of using.
That is all.


New Urban Cowboy Trailer

After visiting Chicago for a week, I’ve learned to appreciate the urban lifestyle. Having the ability to walk, grab a cab or take a train to anything you desire allows you to experience everything about a city instead of zipping through it in a car. I’ve quickly learned to hate the suburbs, where I currently [...]


Robert Kiyosaki and the housing market

“Do you think the Federal Reserve should intervene to save the economy by dropping interest rates?” My reply then as well as now: “No. This is a capitalist system, not a communist one. Anyone who expects the government to bail them out every time their greed and stupidity causes them to lose money is being [...]


…and the home of the brave!

Music Scholar Barred From U.S., but No One Will Tell Her Why [NY Times]
Held incommunicado in a room in the airport, she was groped during a body search, she said, and was warned that if she moved, she would be considered to be attacking her armed female searcher.
We’re winning hearts and minds folks, hearts and [...]


RottenNeighbor.com

RottenNeighbor.com - I don’t know, there’s something about this that screams bad idea.


So it begins…

The tear down and rebuilding of my blog site. It’s been sitting stagnant for so long, and I finally got sick of the excuses and tore it all down. I was going to initially just upgrade Wordpress, but I had nothing but trouble during the upgrade. My guess is that the original install was so [...]


More Mortgage bad news

Nation’s mortgage troubles worsen
Homeowners with adjustable-rate mortgages, struggling to deal with sharp increases in their loan payments, pushed the nationwide foreclosure rate to a record 0.65 percent this spring as the crisis in subprime lending intensified.
The problem was largely limited to the industrial Midwest and to four housing-boom states — California, Florida, Nevada and Arizona. [...]


10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job

10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job
You only get paid a fraction of the real value you generate. Your real salary may be more than triple what you’re paid, but most of that money you’ll never see. It goes straight into other people’s pockets.
(Link courtesy of Amy)


Sonoma stage left

Link to the video on Youtube.
I filmed this with my Sony Ericsson K610i so the quality is so-so. Originally I had filmed it landscape mode, I thought I could convert it in iMovie but the only options I could find were plug-ins for iMovie you had to pay for (booo). I came across this [...]