February 2006

February 28, 2006

The $1000 Phone Call - 5

It was business as usual on Monday morning, but I got interrupted at about 10:15 am by an unfamiliar number on my cell phone. Harboring the typical amount of skepticism that comes with answering a call from an unknown number, I greeted the mystery caller on the other line.

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February 26, 2006

Forging a Better Blog - 5

Whenever I write something on here, I always go back and re-read it within the context of the site design. Although I spend plenty of energy fixing errors and rearranging sentences, I really get a good idea of where I’m at in terms of my intellectual offerings to the now-cliche blogosphere. If you take a [...]

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February 24, 2006

Sprint TV - Defeat Boredom for at Least 0.5s - 1

I’ve had my Sprint phone for nearly three weeks now, and I’ve had a chance to sample quite a few of the features that are accessible via the Sprint Power Vision Network. Basically, this means that in the past three weeks, I’ve found myself in a few situations where I was bored to tears, and I remembered that I could use my phone to browse the web, watch TV, or get any kind of info update you can think of.

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February 23, 2006

Bubble 2.0 Vaccine - Power to the People - 0

People rarely speak negatively about Web 2.0, because as a whole, it represents innovation, communication, freedom, and progress; and of course, who doesn’t love that? The one real counter-statement to all the Web 2.0 hype is Bubble 2.0, something that people can’t resist talking about in the wake of the massive 1.0 collapse. In some ways, however, a lot of the talk surrounding Bubble 2.0 is simply missing the point.

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February 21, 2006

Catching Thieves - 11

Today, my girlfriend, Courtney, called me from her store and told me about how some semi-retarded, toothless goonball came in and scammed her out of a Sprint phone (she owns a cell phone store). Armed with a mentally deficient wife and a sweatshirt bearing the slogan, “Jesus beat the devil with a [sic] ugly stick,” said goonball walked out of the store with $313.76 worth of phones and accessories after leaving behind a check so cold it belonged in the morgue.

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February 18, 2006

How You Can Become an Entrepreneur - 29

There’s no scripted way to become an entrepreneur, but there are certainly things you can do to make your journey easier. All the time, you hear people talking about their past, saying, “Boooyyy…if I only knew then what I know now……” Of course, when you’re sitting in their rotted out double-wide while they’re waxing nostalgic, [...]

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February 15, 2006

Drop the Badge - 12

Networks, associations, friendships, alliances - they sure do have some interesting dynamics, don’t they? In a way, they’re largely reflective of intrinsic human values and desires. People want to connect; they want to communicate. Me? I’m all for it, but time and again, I see groups adopting and defending values and beliefs with a fervor that seems to defy both reason and logic (sometimes tangible evidence, too). If you’ve been reading my site for any length of time, then by now you’re probably wondering why the hell I’m waxing philosophic all of the sudden. Well…

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February 14, 2006

Ugly Would Even Say This is Ugly - 69

Last night, Larry King had a woman on his show who is addicted to plastic surgery. I had seen this woman before, but I had forgotten how incredibly abhorrent her features were. Talk about your science experiment gone wrong - I don’t know what to think when I look at this woman. I mean, her skin doesn’t even really look like skin anymore. And her lips? Like a baboon’s ass on a face.

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February 13, 2006

College the Smart Way - 12

While I’m here, I figure I may as well take the time to comment on everything that interests me. Today, Daniel-san, I want to share with you my thoughts on college and how that drunken mess experience fits into the puzzle that is your life.

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February 8, 2006

Only a Moron Would Call This News - 16

Thanks to all the political crap, insane homicide stories, and doomsday BS that gets thrown around during news telecasts, I’ve developed a very short fuse for informational media in general. My beliefs were further solidifed today when Fox News (which I watch at Qdoba) used up an early segment of the Studio B newscast to bring us coverage of … a forest fire.

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