Sometimes the news media will make a big deal about inflation. They will say stuff to the effect that people that made 35 k a year in 1990 are the equivalent of making 100 K a year now. This is meant to make the people earning a tenth of A million dollars to be humble. basically if you make "only" 100 k you are worthless as a human being It makes me think that even earning a cool Buck, now, is the equivalent of only making 35k from 1990?
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Whatever....
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Opinions can be reversed
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
A brief summary of the past week
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Totally Stolen from EDSBS
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So what do you do when you have nothing original to say - you steal a You Tube Video from another blog and put it up on your own Blog. ... Thanks EDSBS...
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I did not see this game and had I been a betting man I would have picked Alabama to wear Utah OUT in this most recent Sugar Bowl. Watching this video I think it is an understatement to say the man had a bad day. Also I know the Oscar awards were just recently given out, but in the category for music soundtrack playing as background to a You Tube Video, whoever chose this song has some skill. I don't really care about Alabama Football or John Parker Wilson one way or the other, but after this I just feel sad for Wilson in particular and the Crimson Tide in General. I am sure I will get over it though.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Paul Blart is the same as Antonio Bryant
I have a few issues to talk about that are kind of unrelated and yet, in the end I will relate them, because that is what I do.
1) Antonio Bryant has just been named as the franchise player for the Bucs. This bothers me on a couple of levels. First of all, has not anyone followed his career ? He was great in College, and then he was drafted relatively high into the NFL. He had a bunch of years with a few teams in the League in which he was marginal as a wide receiver at best. "IN FACT" he was even out of the league in 2007. The Bucs picked him up with a minimum contract in 2008 and he happened to DOMINATE last year. Now the bucs offered him 9.8 million dollars for one year, and he turned it down. They are now franchising him. Is this not absurd? He did have a good year, but he has also provided about 6 shity years to review as well. Why do they just assume that next year will be like this past year and not the other mediocre years before that?
2) Paul Blart Mall Cop did not suck as a movie although Kevin James basically, and usually just makes crap movies. he is like ANTONIO BRYANT in the sense that his T/V show: "King of Queens" was awesome, just like BRYANTS college career. Then Bryant made it to the NFL and kind of sucked, just like KEVIN JAMES went into making shity movies.
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No, they are both probably going to go back to sucking only they are both going to get paid really well to suck in the future.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Being a wuss can cost money
This is a post about opportunities missed, and how that can give you angst. Basically, life is for the living, and the dead should not apply. Don't be a wuss. and always remember its the things we don't do in life, that we regret the most, rather then the things we do and fail at.
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I read a blog called "My Tampa Life" because it's interesting to me and the guy who writes it try's to help me learn about the new city I just moved to. (He does it for himself, but when I say he does it for me to learn about the city I moved to, I just really mean I like it and read it) His blog site is in my side bar under the heading: "Blogs I read and then don't feel ashamed walking home from afterwards."
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On February 9th, He posted about a restaurant called "Jalapeno de Ybor" and advised that on Saturday February the 14th there would be a Jalapeno eating contest held at this very same restaurant.
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So here is where my suckiness comes into play. I seriously thought about going over there and participating, fully realizing that although I like Jalapenos, Eating them straight up, one after the other would probably suck on a couple of different fronts. It would suck while I was doing it, and also the following day while I sat on the porcelain as well. BUT, for 300 dollars wouldn't that be some pain that I was willing to endure? Of Course it would! The contest was basically how many jalapenos can you eat in 12 minutes with the winner pocketing 3 bills. These aren't Jalapeno Slices, these are some pickle ass looking Jalapenos of the same size a 400 pound man might have for his birdie finger, type of Jalapenos, and if someone would tell me they would give me 3 bills to eat 16 of them in twelve minutes I am pretty sure I could do that.
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If I had gone and done that, on that day, at that restaurant, then it would have been likely I would have walked away with 3 bills. There is no guarantee. The winner ate 15 of them and the next closest competitor was at 11, so maybe if he would have had the pressure of a guy being that close, he could have put in 17. who knows. I know I don't, because I didn't even go because I am a big wuss. I believed I needed to know before hand what the winner type of contestant would put down, because how bad would it have sucked to have eaten 14 of those fat ass finger looking jalapenos and not won the money? Not that I knew what the number was because I was to big of a puss to try.... Damn me and my conservative self protection ways.
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Here is "My Tampa Life" 's post on the contest http://www.mytampalife.com/2009/02/jalapeno-eating-contest-at-jalapeno-de.html
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Let us ride the damn horse. Don't make the track all full of mud
It's about ten p.m. right now as I begin writing this post, and I just got home from work. Sort of. I left the office at about five-ish, stopped by the dry cleaners to pick up some shirts, dropped them off at the house and then walked down to the restaurant that I go to on most nights for my dinner. Except this particular night, I was meeting a vendor to talk about business.
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I have not read the article yet but it is still deflating. There is some truth to it though and that is what makes it all so depressing. O'bama is still my President, but he is the leader of our new existence. He is the leader of our socialistic society and I feel like I am dying a slow death.
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It's Like he is in control of my oxygen intake. Maybe a true capitalistic approach to our problems would be to just cut off the oxygen right now, maybe that would force us to grow gills. What O'bama is doing with these bailouts and spending bills, is slowly dialing down our oxygen intake, so that soon we will be so accustomed to breathing thirty percent air that we will think that is normal. We will never learn to grow gills. We will begin to beg for the 30 percent air and think that is all normal.
Monday, February 16, 2009
The Power of Now
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
A remembering post or two
Bring The Thunder
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Satisfying a woman
A weekend in Miami
Tomorrow after working all day I am going to Miami for the weekend for some family reasons. My first time back since I left. Probably wont post again till Monday as I dont think I am going to be on the internet much while down there, and I probably wont enjoy the drive as it is long and tedious and it will be too cold to put the top down as I cruise through the Everglades.
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Overall, I miss Miami a little bit, but can tell already after only about a month that Tampa is going to be MUCH better for me personally and professionally. I really like it here. Tampa is awesome for me on a multiple of different levels.
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Bill Gates lets loose some Goth looking Mosquitos
I was reading today about Bill Gates and his speech at the TED conference. He no longer runs Microsoft, as he is retired from that now. He basically runs a philanthropic non profit with about 36 billion dollars that he is giving away to make the world a better place. He and Tim Tebow both work to make the world all full of chocolaty gooey happiness draped in goodness, But Tim also leads the Gators to National Championships.
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One of Bill Gates projects is to try to cure Malaria in third world countries. That, and improving our educational system in America specifically, and the world in general. Today though, at the TED conference, his speech was about malaria. As he was giving it, he opened up a jar that had a bunch of Mosquitoes in it, and let them fly out into the audience. His point was that basically poor people in third world countries are the ones that get Malaria but if rich people got it, maybe we would do more about combating it. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,488348,00.html
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These Mosquitoes were not malaria carriers. These mosquitoes were evidently the good type. Sure they probably would still suck your blood and give you a little welt, but in the end they probably would not kill you.
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Okay, maybe no mosquito is "good" but lets just say these particular mosquitoes may have been misunderstood. These particular non malaria carrying Mosquitoes are like the Goth kid who is all quiet in the back of the classroom while he wears black trench coats, but secretly he is a straight A student who watches his little sister in the evenings, while his parents work in the salt mines to put food on the table. --- You may just see the Goth Kid and go what the fuck and hope he is not going to go all Columbine, but underneath all that makeup and black clothes and leather dog bands worn as wristbands, is just a good kid. Same with these Mosquitoes.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Hey lady at the restaurant tonight: how do you know I am not Michael Jordan?
The vendor she represented already does work for the company, and its not like she didnt know that, she just heard I was the new guy and wanted me to put a face with her so if I ever fired the firm she was with, It would be harder for me and more personal. It was very savvy on her part. So that was part of my day at work.
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Then, tonight for dinner I went up to the restaurant that I tend to have 4/7ths of my dinners at, I saw a woman that I had seen in there before and I tried the whole " hey I was in the bar and now I am standing right by you, and do you have some time so I could show you my jump shot? routine.
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She evidently didnt sell stuff for a living and I dont think she ever coached basketball. She probably would have cut Michael Jordan if she was a basketball coach.
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So there it is She is clearly one of the missed jumpshots that I took , however that is a good thing as you cant make them all, and the odds are ultimately in my favor. even Michael Jordan misses shots sometimes. That woman makes me associate myself with one of the greatest Basketball players of all time. Thank you random beautiful mig fighter pilot of a woman. Its Like Nietsche says. You make me stronger you long legged russian fighter pilot that doesn't appreciate Basketball.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
An Accidental Sellout
Monday, February 2, 2009
Some pictures from the tailgate yesterday
Some Pictures from the tailgate yesterday. They made Raymond James look all superbowly....
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Goodbye football season
superbowl party
I could write alot about the superbowl party that I went to today, but I am not gonna.
I have my reasons and although there would be some awesome shit to tell, the bottom line is that I often self censor --- usually I dont talk about when I self censor, so its just me not saying anything.
Tonight I am teasing a little. Not my normal way. Just a really good time. It was awesome. Honestly I wish that the Monday following a Superbowl was a National Holiday. Plus I wish even if it wasnt, to bad I dont have any days off yet because I just started this new job and cant take any Personal Time .