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BB Reads the Business Rags (So You Don’t Have To)

Readers: I am attempting an ongoing feature where I summarize and comment on articles in the business magazines I read regularly. Let’s just say the gym cross-trainers are not exactly amusement park rides. Also, ever since I worked at my first startup, the world of business has fascinated me – to a point. For example, [...]

A Bit on Budgets

All this recent talk about budgets, balancing them, corruption, money loss, bankruptcy and debt induced suicide got me to thinking about budgets in general. Recently, as in today, I was chatting via Google Chat with my niece regarding her seemingly endless debt when I brought up the notion of making a budget. Turns out she [...]

California in Peril – Continued

As Thraxxus mentioned just previously, yes my wonderful Golden State is having issues. Big-time cash flow issues, mostly caused by the current real-estate crisis, and its effect on tax revenue. The perilous drop in housing prices means less property taxes. Also, the drought didn’t help either. Vallejo was kicking around the bankruptcy escape clause, probably [...]

A Bit on Corruption

I have never hidden the fact that I am originally from California, in fact I will even share with you that I am from a small town of 300 thousand people called Escondido. My father still lives in the house in which I was raised and constantly feeds me information regarding my home state. I refer [...]

Another Classic Daily Show Clip

We all know the funniest show on TV is the Daily Show – it is not even close. Nevertheless, I dare submit possibly the funniest segment ever. Yes, even funnier than anything Lewis Black has yelled.

Randy Pausch – RIP

Randy, in my opinion, was the definition of inspirational stories. If you do not know his story read about it here. The Lecture he did, titled at one point “The Last Lecture” is below. Do yourself a favor and watch it. Get something to drink, settle back, and watch it.

Politics + Batman = Great Quote

I have yet to see the new Batman movie, because my policy is always wait at least a week after opening. Also, I usually go to the earliest showing possible. Anywhoo, there is all this talk about how it parallels modern times with political themes, but I can’t comment on that – yet. However, I [...]

The Hollywood Legion of Doom – Part 2 of 2

Sorry folks for the delay. Click here for Part 1 of this glorious series. 7. Michael BayCrimes against humanity:Attempted to give millions diabetes with the animal cracker scene in Armageddon WMDs:Every movie he has ever directed, with possible exception of TransformersHumanitarian efforts:He allowed Steven Spielberg to produce Transformers (as opposed to Bruckheimer), resulting in a decent [...]

GlazedNConfused and Thraxxus discuss LockSport

GlazedNConfused: LockSport? hmmmm Thraxxus: locksport… Thraxxus: seriously.. THAT IS NOT A SPORT Thraxxus: I am gonna go to the bathroom and do some jerksport GlazedNConfused: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA GlazedNConfused: handsport Thraxxus: knucklesport Thraxxus: squirtsport Thraxxus: “This week on SquirtSport! Thraxxus, 5 time SquirtSport Champion, will be defending his crown from Glazed”7 Squirts of Danger” Confused.” Thraxxus: “We have Glazed here. Glazed how do you prepare yourself for [...]

More on Mae and Mac

I wrote a piece a few days back on Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac that spoke a bit to the idea of how business and state are mixing. Well to up that this happened. I suggest you read it. According to National Public Radio news this morning this basically means that Fannie Mae and Freddie [...]

Bush and JFK – More Fun with Facts.

I love this one: George Bush and JFK. Good stuff.

Star Wars Tomfoolery

Enigma sent me this because, well he is an evil douchebag. Enjoy.

Diablo 3: Need I say more?

Seriously, if you play games, and don’t know about the Diablo series, you aren’t really a gamer, period. Diablo 3 was recently announced, and this is the site. Watch the in game video, it’s worth the 15 minutes. I drooled.

Alberto Rivera on Jesuits

More on those wacky Jesuits! I wonder if there is a drop of truth to any of this stuff. Either way, it iritates GlazednConfused so I post it!

The Hollywood Legion of Doom – Part 1 of 2

Glazed’s note: I was all set to write a different post, but it would have been a downer. I usually like to buffer a cynical, “gloom and doom” post from Thraxxus and MoMagic (aka Colonel Sugar and Spice) with something a little lighter. Call it retaining the natural balance of this blog, or just call [...]

The Dots, oddly, connect.

Basically if this is true, we all need to move.

Industrial Metal at its Finest

Hey Man, Nice Shot! This is one of those songs that makes you want to grab someone’s head with both hands and rip it clean off. I love industrial metal. Enjoy.  

The Elephant in the Room

Ever heard of Fannie Mae? Freddie Mac? I had heard of them, but until two days ago I didn’t really realize why they were important. (The links I have provided point to write-ups done on these two corporations dating back several years, prior to the housing bubble bursting.) Prior to learning about them I had just [...]

Global Warming: Does it Matter?

If you have lived in Tucson Arizona since the 1960s, you have been witnessing that record low temperatures happen much less than they were from 1910 to 1960. The City of Tucson’s population is also growing and with an increasing number of people comes a proliferation of concrete and steal. As more buildings and roads [...]

Hancock Rebuttal – Spoiler Alert!

After reading Thraxxus review of Hankock, a movie that caused him to basically write off all critics as hacks, I was curious enough to check it out. Like him, I was amazed at critics’ commentaries. Not the concensus that the movie sucked, which was not 100%, but the consensus that Hancock goes off the rails [...]

Don LaFontaine – A Legend

This is a guy that you know, but don’t know that you know. His bit on being in school is awesome.   This guy, Pablo Francisco, parodies him quite well.

PURE PORN POTENTIAL

Working in the web industry you tend to find some really strange things on the web. We all thought that second life was cool until it took you 20+ hours just to learn how to get to some stupid island to watch a tutorial and some wierdo wanted to to preform some act for [...]

Hancock – A Critic’s Critic.

This last weekend I went along with Enigma to catch the latest Will Smith flick, Hancock. Prior to seeing the film I had become rather put off to the idea of actually sitting through it as a result of all the critics out there giving the film a brutal verbal shellacking. It appears that practically [...]

Best Breaker I’ve Ever Seen

GlazednConfused was nice enough to post the popper from So You Think You Can Dance? As he often does, this has inspired me to share a break dancer video that always blew me away. So without further ado, AWESOMENESS.  

Popper Video From “So You Think You Can Dance”

Latest performance from the guy from the earlier audition – especially awesome when he bends over backwards.

In the Words of Mr. Big, I’m Addicted to that Rush

I fully intended on writing an article on how I got kicked out of a Oakland Athletics game last week as a participant in a friend’s bachelor party. Let’s just say the stereotype of the fuck-up future brother-in-law (relentlessly propagated by sitcoms over the years) is 100% accurate. Furthermore, alcohol was involved – but I [...]

If you are in IT, then you can relate

The Creation of Corporate Policy

This story illustrates how Corporate Policy is created and followed blindly. “Five monkeys were in a room that contained a table in one corner, and a banana hanging from a string in the middle of the room. The monkeys figured out that if they dragged the table to the middle of the room, they could climb [...]

Amazing Statistics That Blow Me Away – The Sequel!

Hello all – I will try to make this an ongoing series of posts regarding statistics I come across that fry my little mind. Feel free to visit the first here. I was reading BusinessWeek recently, and I came across an article about how Wal-Mart puts pressure on their suppliers to be more efficient, environmentally conscious, [...]