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R.I.P. MJ

I just heard the news about Michael Jackson. Wow .. Rest in peace. You deserve it !

Wanda Sykes hits hard at D.C. Correspondents Dinner

Wow, you could see some of the folks cringing at she was going around the room!

Chicken riots?

How far will you go for the bird. It looks like KFC didn't know what they were getting into allowing Oprah to put a coupon for a free 2piece of KFCs new grilled chicken.

Several KFC restaurants are now turning people away at the door when they show up with the KFC coupon for the free bird. After one person in my office found out about the free chicken, the word quickly spread around the office. Before long, everyone was downloading the free chicken coupon. After speaking to one of my co-workers, she reported that she stood in a line about 10 deep and everyone had a coupon trying to get the chicken. Some even reported back that KFC started turning people away at the door which caused people to become irate.

Surprisingly (or not) by Friday people started to report that KFC was no longer taking the coupon at the restaurant. They were giving people vouchers that they had to mail in and redeem at a later date.

So KFC, the next time you decide to offer free chicken, you might want to think about the logistics of it a little better. Expecially if you want to post it on Oprahs web site.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=7527626&page=1

Power Slider for iPhone 3G: Incase

OK, I got to get one of these for my iphone. I'll post more information about it once I finally make the plunge.

Happy Earth Day!!

Happy Earth Day everyone. Everything cause has an effect so what are you going to change in your life today that might effect others? Remember, we are all connected in this small world called earth.

Zeitgeist Movement...

Watch and learn....

Dueling Trinity River Projects of Dallas and Fort Worth

After 10 years of me waiting the Trinity River project for Dallas is still not even close to being done and is still being hotly contested every step of the way. Its refreshing to hear that Fort Worth at least seems to have their shit together. Their vision for the Trinity River seems much more managable and is much less controversial than what Dallas is planning. Fort Worth has done a lot of things right lately and this is one of them. 

Check out this video...

Gym Life

I’ve belonged to various D/FW gyms for probably 15 years. Everything from Fitness Factory, Gold’s, the YMCA, 24 Hour Fitness and others. I currently I work out at LA Fitness on Preston Road but I’ve been trying out new gyms to see if I want to change or at least keep two for a while. After checking out various gyms around the city, I’ve decided to come up with a list of “recommendations” that might help those of us who don’t know any better.

1) Don’t ever wear perfume to a gym. No one wants to run on a treadmill and inhale the smell of sweat and J-Lo Perfume. If you are self conscious about your B.O. take a shower.

2) Don’t talk on a phone - and never Bluetooth - anywhere in the gym. You are a major tool if you talk on your phone while walking. Unless you have M.D. after your name and you are on-call, then no phone for you. Run dammit. Because if you can talk while on a treadmill, you are just wasting electricity because you aren’t working hard enough.

3) Don’t wear your giant engagement ring your Sugar Daddy just bought you with your perfectly quaffed hair, full makeup, matching  sweat suit, spotless shoes, Mercedes key fob, and iPhone you don’t know how to use. We know you are in the gym to keep in shape to justify that giant ring, and to maintain your Trophy Wife status. You don’t need the giant ring to tell us that.

4) Unload the damn weights off the bars when you are done. If you are strong enough to lift the bar with the weights, you are clearly strong enough to remove each individual plate. Second, you aren’t impressing the next person who comes along and sees a bunch of 45s on the calf machine. Big whoop. Your calves still look anemic. Get implants.

5) Don’t leave puddles of sweat all over the bikes and treadmills. I know some people think gyms have employees whose primary responsibility is to clean up after you like your mother, but really, that’s not the case. If it were, I’ll happily pee in the pool (they have chemicals to clean that up), leave my towels all over the gym floor (they have people for that), and never un-rack my weights (they have trainers for that).

6) Don’t use the gym as your Meat Market. Go to a bar but first, pop your collar before you go or wear a boys medium printed t-shirt.

7) Don’t move in. You’ve all seen the guy who brings a giant gym back, phone, iPod, workout log, a magazine, a Red Bull, giant Jug O’ Water. Dude, you are here for what, an hour? You don’t live here. Move your crap into a locker.

Don’t sit on a machine between sets. Seriously, do you not see that the gym is packed and there are people milling around? I know the machine has a seat, but between sets, get up and let people  it between your sets. It is called, “working in.”

9) Don’t keep looking in the mirror and flexing as you walk by. Wait until you get home. Also, stop trying to take pictures of yourself with your cell phone camera in the mirror. You are not fooling anyone.

10) Just because you work at a gym, doesn’t make you cool.  You work at a “gym” so drop the attitude!

Thank You!!

Cool video mix..

This is pretty interesting. This guy mixed these various videos and created an entirely new song, similar to how a DJ would mix music. I think its pretty cool!

Subprime simplified...

This is one of those viral emails that I think is funny enough to post...

Subprime simplified...

Linda is the proprietor of a bar in Ireland. In order to increase sales, she decides to allow her loyal customers - most of whom are unemployed alcoholics - to drink now but pay later.

She keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger (thereby granting the customers loans). Word gets around and as a result increasing numbers of customers flood into Linda's bar. Taking advantage of her customers' freedom from immediate payment constraints, Linda increases her prices for wine and beer, the most-consumed beverages. Her sales volume increases massively.

 

A young and dynamic customer service consultant at the local bank recognizes these customer debts as valuable future assets and increases Linda's borrowing limit. He sees no reason for undue concern since he has the debts of the alcoholics as collateral. At the bank's corporate headquarters, expert bankers transform these customer assets into DRINKBONDS, ALKBONDS and PUKEBONDS. These securities are then traded on markets worldwide.

 

No one really understands what these abbreviations mean and how the securities are guaranteed. Nevertheless, as their prices continuously climb, the securities become top-selling items. One day, although the prices are still climbing, a risk manager (subsequently of course fired due to his negativity) of the bank decides that slowly the time has come to demand payment of the debts incurred by the drinkers at Linda's bar.

 

However they cannot pay back the debts. Linda cannot fulfill her loan obligations and claims bankruptcy. DRINKBOND and ALKBOND drop in price by 95 %. PUKEBOND performs better, stabilizing in price after dropping by 80 %. The suppliers of Linda's bar, having granted her generous payment due dates and having invested in the securities are faced with a new situation. Her wine supplier claims bankruptcy, her beer supplier is taken over by a competitor.

 

The bank is saved by the Government following dramatic round-the-clock consultations by leaders from the governing political parties (and vested interests). The funds required for this purpose are obtained by a tax levied on the non-drinkers.

Finally an explanation one can understand...