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Another weird one I just got…

{scratching head} Did you try calling a car dealer, or someone that knows anything about car engines? If your car runs on PHP or HTML I could probably help you, but otherwise…

My cousin turned me on to this site tonight… it’s really cool (especially if you are looking for real estate or are a realtor).

http://www.zillow.com/

Here’s a video of me from 3 or 4 years ago. What I want to know is why in the hell do I only get one skate? My cousin seems to have gotten two. Lame…

BTW, you need QuickTime 7 to see it.

The music certainly makes it more entertaining…

http://www.totallycrap.com/media/tunnelaccident/

Sometimes I forget about how god damn sexy I am.

This is what happens when I’m out trying to pick up cows and my pimp juice is flowing.

If I had an identical twin brother, I would seriously consider a life of homosexuality (and incest I suppose).

So seriously, I want to know what you think… On a scale of 1 to 10 with 6 being the highest, how sexy do you think I am?

P.S. – It’s amazing that Gisele Bundchen hasn’t called me since her and Leonard DiCaprio split up, don’t you think? Obviously she hasn’t seen *this* picture of me.

I wonder if Osama bin Laden is super stoked about one of his “blood” posing for racy pictures in GQ magazine…

Wafah Dufour (changed her last name from bin Laden) is in this month’s GQ:

http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_4071

Both Google and Apple stock are currently trading at their all-time highs. What’s even more impressive is they are both up 19% in the last 30 days. Not a bad gain for a month. Both stocks are well over 100% gain for the last year.

What do these two companies have in common? They both are innovators. Just when you think there is nothing else cool they could do, they do something amazing. Then all the competitors scramble to play catch up.

I own a decent amount of both companies, and I’m not going to be selling those shares anytime soon. In fact, I might buy more (even at their all time high). Although you could just not listen to me, and instead listen to the “experts” who were running to sell Apple 4 years ago…

If you would have invested $10,000 on the day he said that, it would be worth $86,675 today (roughly 4 years later), a 766% gain. I don’t know of many other stocks that have averaged an 85% compounded gain year after year for the last 4 years… do you?

It will be interesting to see if Google follows the same trend for 4 years after their IPO… After 15 months, they are averaging a 315% gain per year. If they could sustain that for a total of 4 years, their stock price would be $25,212 per share (of course there would be some splits in there) 4 years after their 2004 IPO and not only make them the first trillion dollar company, they would be a 7.4 trillion dollar company. If any company could pull that off, it would be Google (although don’t bet it will be that quick), they certainly are going to be the first trillion dollar company at some point.

Google’s stock closed at $372.14 today (up $13.97 for the day), which I thankfully I own some shares. I wonder how much higher it’s going to go before they announce a stock split. Even as it is now, it seems like a 10:1 stock split would be “reasonable”. It’s not the first day that their market cap was over $100B, but they are a pretty solid $100B company right now (with $4B to spare). Coincidentally, Google’s market cap is exactly twice what Yahoo is worth.

The only stock that has done better in the last year is Apple. Considering I own that too (for longer than a year), maybe I should stop being a programmer and be a stock broker. haha

Spam in my “normal” mailbox has gotten crazy lately. I get *maybe* one actual letter per day, and then 10-15 spam mails (free magazines, catalogs and all sorts of other crap). So today I decided to actually call these places and get removed from their mailing lists.

Guess what? You can’t be removed. Their suggestion is to put it in the trash (well that’s what I’ve been doing for years). But you *can* update your address with them, so I figured out what to do. Just change the mailing address to one of the other spammers. So now Holiday Express catalogs go to the BtoB magazine office, and vice versa. Man, I wish I thought of that earlier. I’m gonna see if I can actually eliminate my postal mail spam.

For ones just addressed to “Resident” (like the “Have you seen us?” mailings), does anyone know if I can refuse delivery on those and return to sender?

This is funny…

When the earth was created, it rotated pretty fast (a day was about 6 hours). The moon’s gravity has slowed that down to 24 hours now. But in about a billion years, the moon will have slowed the earth’s rotation do a day is 1,200 hours.

How’s that for a work day?

You would think that the President of the United States would have a better TV to watch the shuttle launch from, but I guess not. This is George Bush watching today’s shuttle launch.

I’m getting really sick of shaving… does anyone know if you can use that nair hair removal crap on your face and/or head?

It was dark (no lights), cold (no heater) and loud (from SDG&E making noise all night), but we made it through the night. Pheeeew! heh

Election day is finally here. I’m a registered voter in California, but I’m not going to vote because the electoral voting system is stupid. California is a lock for Kerry, so he gets all 55 electoral votes regardless of what percentage of California actually votes for him. If I lived in a state where the vote could go either way, I would get out and vote.

I’m also a Republican, but not so much that I would ever vote for someone simply because of their political party. I thought Ronald Reagan (R) was a great president, I thought the first Bush (R) was a mediocre president and then I thought Clinton (D) was a great president.

In my opinion, the 2nd Bush is a terrible president… not because of anything specifically he did (or did not do). While I don’t agree with some (most) of the things he does, I don’t think it makes him a bad president. If he gets reelected today, I hope things go much differently in his second term, although I kind of doubt it.

The reason I think George W. Bush is a terrible president is because he is the first president that actually made me feel embarrassed to be an American, and if the president makes people feel that way (however it happened), I think they are a terrible president.

Of course I’m sure there are some nice and normal car salespeople, but this was just too funny… I started to inquire about a Hummer SUT to a few dealerships, and this was one of my conversations:

Me: I want this color and these options [boring stuff cut out]. If you have that exact vehicle with no extra options and no options missing [remember this part] then let’s talk.

Them: Yep, I have one of that exact vehicle.

Me: Okay, How much is it?

Them: $87,000

Me: Hmmm, you really are asking $35,000 above MSRP for it?

Them: No, not at all. It’s totally tricked out with a chrome under-body, DVD entertainment system, turbo charger, 20″ wheels with low-profile tires, etc.

Aside from this guy just being deaf or retarded (maybe both), why in the hell would anyone put low-profile racing tires on a Hummer 2 is beyond me.