The Facebook ghost: Logs on to Facebook once, probably just to stalk an ex-girlfriend, forgets his password and then never checks in again. All that remains of the 12 minutes he spent on the social networking site is the blue silhouette that Facebook assigns to people who have no profile photo (and 123 unanswered friend requests).
Annoyance factor: 35
Extreme Makeover, Facebook edition: She was the ugly duckling from high school who is now working as a personal trainer. He's the guy who got shoved in the locker in elementary school, and recently shaved his unibrow and went to a few Tony Robbins seminars. Now they're going through the yearbook, friending everyone from A to Z, just to show how much you blew it.
Annoyance factor: 15
The Facebook snob: Treats Facebook like the cool kids' table in junior high. Only allows close confidants and/or good-looking people in the circle and refuses to friend everyone else. If this person wanted to be honest, he or she would have a picture of Lindsay Lohan from "Mean Girls" as a profile photo.
Annoyance factor: 92
The TMI: Most people on Facebook update their profile every few days or weeks. This Facebooker feels the need to tell the world every tiny detail of his seemingly pointless life: John Doe is tired of working ... John Doe is going to the grocery store to get some kiwis ... John Doe just cleaned the bathroom. On to the kitchen!
Annoyance factor: 100
The Friend addict: This is the Facebook equivalent of one of those crazy ladies who gets declared a public nuisance because she has too many cats in her home. Even though this Facebooker only knows 47 people, he/she managed to accumulate 786 friends - mostly by going through other people's profiles and friending perfect strangers.
Annoyance factor: 28
The "Hey, remember me?": If it takes more than two sentences to explain who you are in your friend request, you probably shouldn't bother. But this person wants to reconnect anyway, even though the sum total of your experiences together was 48 seconds you spent chatting at a party in 1993.
Annoyance factor: 63
The Facebook superfan: The ultimate follower, this friend clogs your newsfeed with multiple daily updates about his bandwagon jumping: John Doe became a fan of Lil' Wayne! ... John Doe became a fan of Watchmen! ... John Doe became a fan of Captain C.B. "Sully" Sullenberger!
Annoyance factor: 82
The glory days: Facebook isn't a social networking site for this person. It's another chance to erect a shrine in honor of a former sorority, high school football team or a high score set on a Space Invaders machine in 1984. (Time slips away and leaves you with nothing mister, but boring stories of ...)
Annoyance factor: 45
The exhibitionist: If you believe this person's photo albums, her life consists of nothing except lying out at the beach, roller skating in a bikini and doing Jell-O shots at a bar with her boobs hanging out of her dress. The male equivalent will mostly include pictures of himself rock climbing.
Annoyance factor: 0
2/23/09
The perfect bailout!
Lets say by now there is 400mil Americans. Of those, maybe 100mil drivers?
Instead of the government giving the car companies (lets just say) $10bil to operate, why don’t they take $5bil and BUY cars for every single driving American?!
The American car companies will flourish because they just did $5bil in sales, and the American people will flourish because they just got a car handed to them. They can either save the money they would have spent on the car, and/or sell the car used for whatever they can get for it .. and make a profit on it!
The entire economy would bounce around but te immediate threats of the auto industry collapsing, and the American people going broke, will be delayed at least until the market takes its natural path and corrects itself.
And as an added bonus, the government saves money because they didn’t have to dish out many more billions just to float these idiot companies!
Instead of the government giving the car companies (lets just say) $10bil to operate, why don’t they take $5bil and BUY cars for every single driving American?!
The American car companies will flourish because they just did $5bil in sales, and the American people will flourish because they just got a car handed to them. They can either save the money they would have spent on the car, and/or sell the car used for whatever they can get for it .. and make a profit on it!
The entire economy would bounce around but te immediate threats of the auto industry collapsing, and the American people going broke, will be delayed at least until the market takes its natural path and corrects itself.
And as an added bonus, the government saves money because they didn’t have to dish out many more billions just to float these idiot companies!
Addition to The Constitution
ahaha found this quoted on another website, someone made this post and i cracked up ...
"We the people, in order to support a more 'prosperous' union, do hereby "guarantee" all bad debts in the land as collectible through the future taxation of the people's income, agreeing that no single individual or business is hereby EVER to be held responsible for their actions, but that the full weight of the Federal government shall, form this point forward, guarantee ALL debts payable through the people".
Is this part of the US constitution?
"We the people, in order to support a more 'prosperous' union, do hereby "guarantee" all bad debts in the land as collectible through the future taxation of the people's income, agreeing that no single individual or business is hereby EVER to be held responsible for their actions, but that the full weight of the Federal government shall, form this point forward, guarantee ALL debts payable through the people".
Is this part of the US constitution?
2/21/09
2/20/09
When I take a photo ... yes I am nuts
Ok so i often show my photos off to people, and they are like "whoah you are you of your effing mind .." or "jesus dude how do you do all this" or some other similar reaction. A lot of people ask how i keep it all in order.
So to share my secrets, and reveal my severe case of OCD ... here it is! My entire process!!
Firstly, for every photo you see that i took, i probably took about 20 or more! For Valentines day i posted 39 amazing photos i have ... those were cherry picked from a total of 130 pics i took! The rest got trashed for whatever reason.
Ok so lets use those pics as an example. So i have these 39 pics ...
1st thing i do is upload into a new Picasa album. If you dont know what Google Picasa is, go google it because its amazing. The reason i use Picasa for photo storage/sharing is because it does not reduce the size of your images! It allows you to retain the original high resolution. This makes it not only a source for sharing photos, but it becomes an excellent online backup of your entire collection!
2nd, i usually share the photo. This is when a lot of you will either see an email from me, or a post on myspace or facebook, or one of my blogs. You might get just one photo i really think is great, or a link to the entire Picasa album.
Now comes the OCD ...
My entire photo collection is stored on my laptop. I keep a folder called "Photos" and within this folder is a zillion sub-folders titled after the occasion. For the above pics, i named the folder "Isabellas first valentines day 2.14.09".
This "Photos" folder containing all of my photos, is backed up to an 500gb external hard drive on my home server.
Then the entire folder is uploaded to my web server as a data backup.
Then i have one 8gb flash drive i use to store all of my daughters photos, and 1 flash drive i use for all other photos. I keep them separated because my daughters pics take up too much room to share with the rest of my photos.
THEN once every 3 months i burn ALL photos to CD so i can store a backup. I burn multiple copies, and give them to a few different people. In the end, i have a copy of the CD's, my mother has a copy of the CD's, and my brother in law has a copy of the CD's. I do this because if god forbid anything happens to me, i know my daughter will always have her fathers amazing photo collection and enjoy them forever.
So there you have it! In the end i have 5 redundant backups of all data, and 3 different people have a copy of all of my data.
It sounds like a lot of work, and i guess it is a bit nutty .. but honestly it takes about 1 hour per week once a system is down. I do all of this because I feel so attached to my photos and it scares me to death that i will lose my data, or that my family wont have them to enjoy 50 years from now.
There you have it. If you have a method or system, let me know! I would definitely not mind adding another layer to the safety of my collection LOL
So to share my secrets, and reveal my severe case of OCD ... here it is! My entire process!!
Firstly, for every photo you see that i took, i probably took about 20 or more! For Valentines day i posted 39 amazing photos i have ... those were cherry picked from a total of 130 pics i took! The rest got trashed for whatever reason.
Ok so lets use those pics as an example. So i have these 39 pics ...
1st thing i do is upload into a new Picasa album. If you dont know what Google Picasa is, go google it because its amazing. The reason i use Picasa for photo storage/sharing is because it does not reduce the size of your images! It allows you to retain the original high resolution. This makes it not only a source for sharing photos, but it becomes an excellent online backup of your entire collection!
2nd, i usually share the photo. This is when a lot of you will either see an email from me, or a post on myspace or facebook, or one of my blogs. You might get just one photo i really think is great, or a link to the entire Picasa album.
Now comes the OCD ...
My entire photo collection is stored on my laptop. I keep a folder called "Photos" and within this folder is a zillion sub-folders titled after the occasion. For the above pics, i named the folder "Isabellas first valentines day 2.14.09".
This "Photos" folder containing all of my photos, is backed up to an 500gb external hard drive on my home server.
Then the entire folder is uploaded to my web server as a data backup.
Then i have one 8gb flash drive i use to store all of my daughters photos, and 1 flash drive i use for all other photos. I keep them separated because my daughters pics take up too much room to share with the rest of my photos.
THEN once every 3 months i burn ALL photos to CD so i can store a backup. I burn multiple copies, and give them to a few different people. In the end, i have a copy of the CD's, my mother has a copy of the CD's, and my brother in law has a copy of the CD's. I do this because if god forbid anything happens to me, i know my daughter will always have her fathers amazing photo collection and enjoy them forever.
So there you have it! In the end i have 5 redundant backups of all data, and 3 different people have a copy of all of my data.
It sounds like a lot of work, and i guess it is a bit nutty .. but honestly it takes about 1 hour per week once a system is down. I do all of this because I feel so attached to my photos and it scares me to death that i will lose my data, or that my family wont have them to enjoy 50 years from now.
There you have it. If you have a method or system, let me know! I would definitely not mind adding another layer to the safety of my collection LOL
2/17/09
Buhbye anonymous callers!!!
A new service set for launch Tuesday allows cellphone users to unmask the Caller ID on blocked incoming calls, obtaining the phone number, and in some cases the name and address, of the no-longer-anonymous caller.
The service, called TrapCall, is offered by New Jersey's TelTech systems, the company behind the controversial SpoofCard Caller ID spoofing service. The new service is likely to be even more controversial — and popular.
"What’s really interesting is that they’ve totally taken the privacy out of Caller ID," says former hacker Kevin Mitnick, who alpha-tested the service.
TrapCall's basic unmasking service is free, and includes the option of blacklisting unwanted callers by phone number. It also allows you to listen to your voicemail over the web. It's currently available to AT&T and T-Mobile subscribers, with support for the other major carriers due within weeks, says TelTech president Meir Cohen.
Logobeta "It’s not meant for spies, it’s not meant for geeks, it’s not meant for any specific target audience,” Cohen says. "Everybody hates getting blocked calls, and in this day and age they want to know who’s calling, and they want the option of taking the call or not."
found on wired.com
The service, called TrapCall, is offered by New Jersey's TelTech systems, the company behind the controversial SpoofCard Caller ID spoofing service. The new service is likely to be even more controversial — and popular.
"What’s really interesting is that they’ve totally taken the privacy out of Caller ID," says former hacker Kevin Mitnick, who alpha-tested the service.
TrapCall's basic unmasking service is free, and includes the option of blacklisting unwanted callers by phone number. It also allows you to listen to your voicemail over the web. It's currently available to AT&T and T-Mobile subscribers, with support for the other major carriers due within weeks, says TelTech president Meir Cohen.
Logobeta "It’s not meant for spies, it’s not meant for geeks, it’s not meant for any specific target audience,” Cohen says. "Everybody hates getting blocked calls, and in this day and age they want to know who’s calling, and they want the option of taking the call or not."
found on wired.com
2/16/09
Are we really in a recession?
Or is this entire thing just a hoax?? I made this post on my blog, thought id share …
Go to ANY club on a Friday or Saturday night .. they are PACKED with people waiting to get in! Same goes for most popular bars like the turtle, element, etc.
Go to any mall! I went to palisades mall over the weekend, it took my 30 minutes just to find parking! 2 stores that we went into had lines so bad that we dropped our stuff and walked out.
So you have the youth spending money like water, and the adults spending money like water. Who is left that is NOT spending money?!
Yes we have an unemployment issue, which is horrible, but it doesn’t seem to be effecting much!
And these analysts have the stones to compare this situation to that of the great depression?! Are they on drugs?? Time warp yourself back to that time, were the nightclubs booming? Were the malls over packed beyond capacity? NO! There wasn’t a dime being spent anywhere, because nobody had the money!
So what are we in, you might ask. Well I don’t have that answer, but I’m starting to think we aren’t currently in a recession, but instead we are witnessing and experiencing an economic correction. This country has spent the last 20 or 30 years inflating itself, and we are seeing the correction now. Why doesn’t he government realize this and let it just correct itself?
As for these big companies? Screw um! They built themselves up so big in order to deal with the inflated economy, and now that the demand isn’t so great, they want our help?
Imagine this; a pizzeria on the corner of main street has room for 3 tables in its store. Doesn’t need much more because there is only one house in this neighborhood! But one day a rush of developers come in and build up 1000 new small homes around this pizza shop! People move in, and the pizza shop expands to handle the new business! They add a wing on the side of the building, they add an upstairs dining area, and a huge parking lot! They even hired 200 people to work there! The taxes for this building nearly quadrupled, but its okay because of all the new business! NOW one day for whatever reason, those 1000 homes go away. The people are gone and the pizza shop is left with this HUGE building and paying 4 times the bills he used to! Following today’s standards of economic savior, this pizza shop would get money from the government to stay open. But why should he?? It was HIS idea to become so large and make money off this rush of business. It was HIS pocket that got fat when business was booming! But now that his plan backfired, WE have to pay the bill for this guy to keep his doors open?? Okay so its terrible the 200 people who worked there have to lose their jobs. But these jobs didn’t exist before, so is there anything really lost?? If anything those 200 people should just be happy they had work for that time, now they should go back to whatever it is they were doing.
Go to ANY club on a Friday or Saturday night .. they are PACKED with people waiting to get in! Same goes for most popular bars like the turtle, element, etc.
Go to any mall! I went to palisades mall over the weekend, it took my 30 minutes just to find parking! 2 stores that we went into had lines so bad that we dropped our stuff and walked out.
So you have the youth spending money like water, and the adults spending money like water. Who is left that is NOT spending money?!
Yes we have an unemployment issue, which is horrible, but it doesn’t seem to be effecting much!
And these analysts have the stones to compare this situation to that of the great depression?! Are they on drugs?? Time warp yourself back to that time, were the nightclubs booming? Were the malls over packed beyond capacity? NO! There wasn’t a dime being spent anywhere, because nobody had the money!
So what are we in, you might ask. Well I don’t have that answer, but I’m starting to think we aren’t currently in a recession, but instead we are witnessing and experiencing an economic correction. This country has spent the last 20 or 30 years inflating itself, and we are seeing the correction now. Why doesn’t he government realize this and let it just correct itself?
As for these big companies? Screw um! They built themselves up so big in order to deal with the inflated economy, and now that the demand isn’t so great, they want our help?
Imagine this; a pizzeria on the corner of main street has room for 3 tables in its store. Doesn’t need much more because there is only one house in this neighborhood! But one day a rush of developers come in and build up 1000 new small homes around this pizza shop! People move in, and the pizza shop expands to handle the new business! They add a wing on the side of the building, they add an upstairs dining area, and a huge parking lot! They even hired 200 people to work there! The taxes for this building nearly quadrupled, but its okay because of all the new business! NOW one day for whatever reason, those 1000 homes go away. The people are gone and the pizza shop is left with this HUGE building and paying 4 times the bills he used to! Following today’s standards of economic savior, this pizza shop would get money from the government to stay open. But why should he?? It was HIS idea to become so large and make money off this rush of business. It was HIS pocket that got fat when business was booming! But now that his plan backfired, WE have to pay the bill for this guy to keep his doors open?? Okay so its terrible the 200 people who worked there have to lose their jobs. But these jobs didn’t exist before, so is there anything really lost?? If anything those 200 people should just be happy they had work for that time, now they should go back to whatever it is they were doing.
2/14/09
Kanye knows those strong words!
Im in love with you but it aint the same. girl i sip the goose and that aint gon' change. i love the party. I love the club. i want your body, but not your love.
CNBC Special: House Of Cards
Anyone who works in the mortgage industry, or has in the past, would really really enjoy this show! It was a 2 hour special on CNBC, but it repeats i think, and its also available on DVD.
Its on actully TONIGHT at 10pm on channel 24 (cnbc) ... but its VDAY, so i hope you have other plans haha, just look for a repeat or DVR the hell out of it.
Its a 2 hour special which interviews many officials at a lot of major companies, and they explained a lot of stuf which we all dealt with every single day!
Where did the option arm come from? who benefited from this? did the SEC haev any issues? who was buying this stuff? Why didnt they foresee the mass default flood? why didnt officials put a stop to it? etc, lots of interesting topics covered!
There were a lot of interviews with Greenspan on many of the mortgage issues. And they kinda explain what the lifespan is of a defaulted loan. It was interesting to hear the opinions from americas top economist on those questions.
Very interesting, and for 2 hours it had me locked to the TV, and it really hit home!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29163182/
channel 24 tonight at 10pm, go DVR it :)
Its on actully TONIGHT at 10pm on channel 24 (cnbc) ... but its VDAY, so i hope you have other plans haha, just look for a repeat or DVR the hell out of it.
Its a 2 hour special which interviews many officials at a lot of major companies, and they explained a lot of stuf which we all dealt with every single day!
Where did the option arm come from? who benefited from this? did the SEC haev any issues? who was buying this stuff? Why didnt they foresee the mass default flood? why didnt officials put a stop to it? etc, lots of interesting topics covered!
There were a lot of interviews with Greenspan on many of the mortgage issues. And they kinda explain what the lifespan is of a defaulted loan. It was interesting to hear the opinions from americas top economist on those questions.
Very interesting, and for 2 hours it had me locked to the TV, and it really hit home!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29163182/
channel 24 tonight at 10pm, go DVR it :)
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