almost got hit in the head with a home run last night. why don't they ever name teams after food? like the st. louis bagels. or the philly cheese steaks. or the new york pizzas. or the san francisco riceroni's. the los angeles donuts. the texas cornflakes. the miami salads.
Quote of the night: "I finished watching youtube. I just watch TV now." - Kevin Tam
Hanging out with youtube/sitcom/movie junkies is like watching your favorite videos with your friends while traveling. Reenacting scenes, retelling jokes, and such. I think that's all we talked about all night. Interesting video referencing moments:
a bird getting hit with a ball being pitched 90+ mph
a fan ruining the cubs world series game by catching a home run over the fence
native tribesmen doing jackass stunts like bungee as rites of passage except they actually hit the ground. leading to a whole bunch of jackass parody jokes.
conan o brien
arrested development
malcolm in the middle
joe schmoe
i haven't even seen half of the videos they mentioned but it was fun enough talking about it to make me want to watch it.
I started a google calendar to record all my fun outings. I've gone out and had a good time doing something out of the ordinary for a good couple weeks and keeping the streak alive! I don't wanna go back to davis.
AND i finally watched star trek and loved it. great movie. i felt fear, i got goosebumps, and felt my heart break just a little. it was an experience.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Why does congress get so much vacation?
Congress gets a recess to do whatever they want. They could go back to their congressional districts and take the pulse of the community, go abroad, or chill out.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
China's New Arabic TV Station
Having an Arabic TV Station is apparently the macrocosmic country equivalent to buying the latest Jordans
A great foreign policy article on the tactical U.S. relationship with China. Functionalists vs Strategists
A great foreign policy article on the tactical U.S. relationship with China. Functionalists vs Strategists
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Potential Iranian Supreme Leader Succession
Not the leader Iran wants but an extremely small step in the right direction.
"To most people, Shahroudi's years at the Judiciary are highly anomalous," a prominent legal scholar told The Nation. "On the one hand, hundreds of journalists and political activists have been arrested and abused under his watch without access to legal counsel, members of Parliament have been prosecuted, people have been forced to make false confessions and many other such deplorable instances. On the other hand, he has been the first head of the Judiciary to institute a moratorium on stoning and some other inhuman forms of punishment, he has decriminalized certain offenses and he has proposed amendments to the family law in favor of women."
Monday, July 20, 2009
Why Toxic Assets Are So Hard To Clean Up
Here's a great article explaining toxic assets and how incessant securitization caused a lot of the current economic problems we have.
Securitization is basically transfering risk / reward into a product.
For example, if someone borrowed $100,000 and has to pay 6% interest on it from a bank. A bank might want to turn that into a security and sell it to someone like you or me who would pay something like $110,000 to receive the 6% interest and the whole loan back.
Banks do this to raise capital and make other loans that they may securitize.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Pay to bid. Swoopo.com - the new eBay
How do you buy a $1,349 Macbook Pro for $35.86?
Swoopo asks you to pay 60 cents everytime you bid on an auction. With each bid the auction gets extended.
It took 3,585 bids to get up to $35.86. Swoopo made $2,151, more than enough to cover the cost of the MacBook Pro.
Read more here
Welcome
I'm bored at work so I'm starting a new blog.
Coincidentally, today is the 1-year anniversary of my last blog
I think its because I've gone through the same phase of being at home, away from school, for almost 4 weeks with not much to do.
The gotivation (corny name, I know) blog was made for 2 main reasons:
1. To motivate myself to learn about new and interesting things
2. To share what I've learned in a brief and entertaining way
Each post was limited to 150-words. This is before I ever heard of twitter. The reason for it was because I love reading, but I hate extra details or personal writing styles that don't have relevance to what I'm interested in.
I think learning should be done in layers. So for this blog, I have a new approach:
Layer 1: I'll be posting headlines on my new twitter.
Layer 2: Interested? You can read a short description and response here.
Layer 3: Really interested? I'll have a website source for you to read more.
But I'm not going to keep this blog as strict. I'll have more fun with it and make it more personal. With quotes, pictures, opinions, videos.
I'd love to have some input and hear your opinions. Holla.
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