Monthly Archives: September 2008

Pennies on the Dollar

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I don’t know what to say except I finally realized that pennies on the dollars means nothing.  Now this revelation came after having some drinks and watching a little television at 3 a.m. in the morning, eating cereal before bed. I happened to arrive at this astounding conclusion about the aforementioned phrase.

Basically pennies on the dollar could mean $.99 on the $1.  After all, 99 pennies still fits the phrase and that’s 1% savings, which to anyone is shit. Put it this way, going to go to a department store because they have your favorite brand on sale for 1% would absolutely annoy anyone. Unless we are talking about a very large purchase (car, boat, house) 1% does not seem like a very good deal. Yet when watching infomercials early in the morning, the salesperson is trying to convince me that “pennies on the dollar” would mean huge savings.

Of course it would be, but that wouldn’t leave them a very good profit, so we can assume we are not getting the greatest deal of our lives like the advertisement suggestions. Anyhow, just wanted to share with you all my random thought process after a night of consuming adult beverages, chowing down on some cereal before bed.

Palin = Teddy Roosevelt? Not quite!

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So today I was informed of a little email Palin supports use to justify her VP choice.  Here’s a little breakdown:

From the Wall Street Journal:

Who Am I?

I am under 45 years old,
I love the outdoors,
I hunt,
I am a Republican reformer,
I have taken on the Republican party establishment,
I have many children,
I have a spot on the national ticket as vice president with less than two years in the governor’s office.

Did you guess?

I am Teddy Roosevelt in 1900.

So I searched on the net and found some information from Snopes.com regarding this email.

This is where the similarities stop.

First Argument: Academics

Roosevelt graduated from Harvard cum laude with a degree in government and history. Then went to Columbia Law School. He was also an author of many papers regarding politics and history.

Palin has a bachelor of science in communications-journalism from the University of Idaho.

Point: Definitely goes to Roosevelt. Palin studied how to act like she knows something and can do a decent job of speaking. Roosevelt KNEW what he was talking about. It’s also sad when I have more degrees then the possible VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!

Second argument: Military/Law Enforcement Experience

Roosevelt: Deputy Sherrif, capitain of the NY National Guard, colonel in the 1st US Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, and veteran of the Spanish-American War.

Palin: Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Oh but wait, McCain was a P.O.W. so I guess she doesn’t need to have any experience there.

Point: Uh not Palin.

Third Argument: Politics

Roosevelt: Member of the NY state assembly, U.S. civil service commissioner, NYC police commissioner, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, governor of NEW YORK.

Palin: City council member and mayor of Wasilla Alaska, governor of Alaska.

Point: Well seeing as how Wasilla has a population of around 9,780, and Alaska has a population of around 683,478 (47th in the U.S.) compared to the population of New York City being around 2,050,600 in 1898. I am going to award the point again to Roosevelt.

The point of me ranting about this article is this: Do not try and argue a point as minute as “loves to hunt, is younger than 45, is a Republican, etc.” if the rest of the data does not correlate. What people need to understand is that this is a Job and a very important one at that. We cannot “glance” over someone’s resume and see that they graduated from a college, was a governor, and a mayor and consider that golden. We need to examine what college they attended (if you didn’t know, not all colleges are created equal), what city they were mayor, and what state they were governor. Without looking at the specifics, we don’t get the full picture.

So the next time someone tries to inform you something like this, please review the facts and surrounding information before you make a rash decision that someone is qualified to be VP because they too had similarities with a good politician like Teddy Roosevelt.

What the hell Sarah Palin?

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Palin Interview on YouTube.

I had to write an article about this.  It’s basically like she doesn’t know what he’s talking about so she just makes up whatever she wants.  She could use this answer I once gave on an exam for which I knew nothing about the answer.

“Due to the fact that I haven’t been informed to the highest degree of accuracy, I hesitate to articulate in fear of deviating from the true course of rectitude.”

Instead she doesn’t want to seem like she may not know about something or say, “You know, I would have to think about that” or anything of the sort.  Instead she just rambles on and ignores her ignorance and spews out whatever.

I am scared that she could be VP because she doesn’t have any experience.  And even more scared because she has a legitimate chance of being Pres b/c of McCain’s age.  I am not saying I hate McCain or love Obama, I am saying that she has no clue what is going on and in no way should have been chosen as a running mate.  Whatever vote I was going to choose, I can’t ignore that she would be a huge liability if McCain was elected due to this lack of experience.

Chappelle Show – List of Characters

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I was just watching an old episode of Chappelle Show when I was looking on the net for some pictures of the characters. That’s when I decided to create a list and find out what everyone’s favorite character is. Rick James? R Kelley? Prince? Or was it someone he made up, like Clayton Bigsby, the black KKK member? Or the crack head Tyrone Biggums? You decide.

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Get an article Dugg to the Front Page

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Let me clarify.  I am not explaining how to get an article YOU may have written on the front page of Digg, unless you write for huffingtonpost.com.  I have read a lot of articles lately and it would seem to me that a large majority of the articles are from this site. 

Now I am not stating that it is a bad thing, but it seems as though if you are wanting to get your rankings and whatever up at the top, the best thing to do is wait for the Huffington Post to write a new article, and be the first to submit it to digg. 

After searching digg for the url “huffingtonpost.com” it came back with more than 50 pages of Front Page articles (I assume since it stopped at 50 it actually truncated the results). I would be curious to know how many of the “Top Diggers” posted articles from HuffingtonPost.com.

I find this an easy way to get your stats up and start charging that $1200-$1300 per article. I am sure there are other sites that fit this bill, but this one jumped out to me.

Top 9 Olympic “Oh No” Comments

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I recently just got notified of some very funny comments that commentators from NBC said during the Olympics. What is your favorite?

1. Weightlifting commentator: ‘This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria. I saw her snatch this morning during her warm up and it was amazing.’

2. Dressage commentator: ‘This is really a lovely horse and I speak from personal experience since I once mounted her mother.’

3. Paul Hamm, Gymnast: ‘I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.’

4. Boxing Analyst: ‘Sure there have been injuries, and even some deaths in boxing, but none of them really that serious.’

5. Softball announcer: ‘If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.’

6. Basketball analyst: ‘He dribbles a lot and the opposition doesn’t like it. In fact you can see it all over their faces.’

7. At the rowing medal ceremony: ‘Ah, isn’t that nice, the wife of the IOC president is hugging the cox of the British crew.’

8. Soccer commentator: ‘Julian Dicks is everywhere. It’s like they’ve got eleven Dicks on the field.’

9. Tennis commentator: ‘One of the reasons Andy is playing so well is that, before the final round, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them… Oh my God, what have I just said?’

Suggestion for Facebook

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After checking my facebook, I went to add some contact information and found out that under the IM Screen Name, there was not a twitter option.  It has most of the major instant messaging programs, but doesn’t have Twitter.  Now I know it’s not technically an “Instant Messaging” program per se, but I do feel it should be added to the list.  You are simply telling people your screen names so they can contact you, so why not have twitter?  So I decided to send an email to facebook using their contact form and suggest they add at least twitter.  Here is my email:

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