Dog fights back
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Bad news for the Occupy protesters
I realize the Occupy protesters feel they are doing something important, something unique, something brilliant. Many are very passionate about whatever it is they are passionate about. But, as this transcript from a 1969 television show reveals, we’ve already been there and done that before you were even born.
From 1969, Episode 1, Season 8 of the Beverly Hillbillies
Scene:
Jethro enters the Clampett house with three male friends, all wearing nearly identical yet outlandish outfits, hairstyles and sunglasses. He had offered to introduce them to his single cousin, Elly, as a favor to the family.- – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – -
Uncle Jed: These is, uh, college students?
Jethro: Yes, sir, fetched ‘em right off the campus. Oh, this here’s my uncle jed.
Uncle Jed: Howdy.
Mitch: Hey, man. how are you?
Uncle Jed: Oh.
Jethro: This here is Mitch. He’s been to 12 colleges.
Uncle Jed: what all’d you study?
Jethro: Study? They don’t study. they protest.
Uncle Jed: Well, what do they protest?
Jethro: Everything. You name it, they protest it. They march up and down in front of the college holding signs.
Uncle Jed: Well, how about you? ain’t you learning nothing?
Jethro: Oh, yeah, I’m carrying three subjects.
Uncle Jed: Oh, good, good. what are they?
Jethro: Down with the dean, down with the faculty, and down with the regent.
Uncle Jed: You walk around carrying signs too, huh?
Jethro: Heck, yeah. That’s what college is all about.
Uncle Jed: Well, don’t you go inside at all?
Jethro: Starting tomorrow I do. They’s gonna let me bust down the dean’s door and tie him up.
Uncle Jed: And why you gonna do that?
Jethro: ’Cause I’m part of the academic revolution. I’m fightin’ for intellectual freedom. I’m throwing off the shackles of the economic power structure and putting down you corporate entities and conglomerates. I have done solved my identity problem. I know where I’m going and who I am. I’m free to make up my own mind and do my own thing.
Uncle Jed: And what is that?
Jethro: They ain’t told me yet.
Who knew a red cup could signify so much
Apparently, red, blue and yellow Solo brand cups have become synonymous worldwide with American parties. Really? How can it be that no other disposable cup provider shares this position?
There’s been some interesting articles pouncing on this revelation. This Slate article makes a very detailed look at this and there’s even a UK outlet taking advantage of this, like used US jeans in Japan.
I’m going to try and keep this short and to the point (famous last words). I recently needed to provide a phone number for people to call that wanted to reach my Bellingham marketing business (shameless plug). I started out using Google Voice but pretty soon the phone started ringing and people wanted to chat for a long, long time. I was burning through my cell phone voice minutes. So I had a choice; 1) buy unlimited minutes, 2) pay the per minute overage rate or 3) find another option. I opted for #3.
As a young boy I was told that my ancestors’ surname wasn’t Beaulaurier and as a young boy I could have cared less. But one day during my late teens, my grandfather brought it up again and alluded that a horse thief in our branch of the family tree was the reason for the name change. I bought it because grandpa doesn’t lie. What I didn’t realize was he was a very dry comedian.
I came to learn many years later that the movie Blazing Saddles had more to do with my current surname than did any horse thief.
I’ve never heard of Dave Manuel before but he’s posting collections of interesting historical data about US gov deficits & surpluses (what’s that?) along with US debt balance and unemployment trends. This visually reveals how we’re entering historically uncharted water with very lengthy and steep upward trends. The problem (overspending) can be seen to start back in the 1970′s. It’s a bipartisan problem that voters can be blamed for allowing to happen through all administrations and spend-happy politicians since. Click the graphics or headlines below to see more all the data Manuel has published.
History of US Deficits and Surpluses
ps. Terms I see people misusing a lot:
- Deficit and surpluses are the result of the government spending more or less than it makes through taxes, fees/fines and investments.
- Debt is a negative book balance coming from more deficit years than surplus years. Ideally, we should have a cash balance, not a debt balance.
The most popular pages in the “how to” directory, WikiHow, are about love, losing weight, and looking better. But just below these at #14 is “Permanently Delete a Facebook Account” with over 4 million views.
I’d love to see a page view trend line for that page. Has FB reached a tipping point? According to google’s search trends, 2008 was a very popular time to bail from FB permanently and so was 2010. 2011 is on track to match 2010. Hmmm…
How can your cellphone get hacked?
Can my cell phone get hacked? Yes, sort of. The recent uproar over unauthorized access to cell phones has begged this question. The reporters were able to use a device that would enable convincing the voicemail service of a cell user that a call was from that cell user’s phone. In most cases, no credentials (ID/PIN/password) are needed to gain entry if you’re retrieving voicemail from the account’s phone. So they could then listen to and manage that user’s voicemail account (eg delete msgs) at will and without leaving any tracks. Verizon is the only service I know that requires credentials regardless of how you’re accessing your voicemail (they require a PIN number).
So if you’re a drug dealer, international spy or anyone else that doesn’t want their voicemail listened to by others, set up a voicemail password that’s always required.
I’m not last! I’m not last!
Some how, some way, I found myself standing in the rain with my oldest daughter at the start line of a Warrior Dash at 9:30am. In hindsight, that wasn’t as weird a moment as maybe it should have been. But staying true to my 50-54 age group, I was very happy to hear I had time to warm up by running over to the row of honeybuckets to empty my bladder.
For just a little more than two weeks prior, I had been doing my best to prepare to participate in (I just can’t justify saying that I “ran” it) the Warrior Dash in North Bend, Washington last weekend. I had undertaken to walk/jog upwards of 4 miles at a time around town in the hope of quickly building some essence of endurance that would allow me to at least finish the course unassisted in an upright position. During those two weeks, I think I was able to drag my lazy ass out to run all of four or five times, justifying the days in between as healing/recovery periods that would help make me stronger.
Google recently unleashed its answer to Facebook’s magnetic effect on the masses. In a sort of “me too” way, Google Plus (aka “G+”) has been greeted with open arms by the geekiest of early adopters and a flurry of attention by the uncaring media that only know that Google stuff is “kewl.”
So now we know that if Facebook suddenly botches it, screws the pooch or otherwise tanks so bad that people start leaving in droves (ala MySpace), we can set up camp with Google +, right? Well, sure but did you know that Microsoft and Yahoo!, not the media darlings that Google gets to be, have long been prepared to roll out the welcome mat to their similarly adorned social media hotels?
A quick scan of this feature matrix will leave no question about just how ready. read more…
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