"There are tens of thousands of people all across America, just like me who are losing their jobs or lost their jobs"-Rod Blagojevich, the ex-governor of Illinois...Blagojevich SNL skit
It was another exciting week of recession / depression 2009. A bunch more layoffs, the Dow taking a trip back to the year 2002, and Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning...awesome, more winter. Some silver lining is that tommorow morning (if I don't sleep in) I am driving over to Denny's for a free Grand Slam Breakfast. In other news, my Twitter experiment has pretty much ended with limited success. Anyways, read on:
Some things that don't suck:
Is investing in the stock market just a gamble? then skip the crap and just bet! This website is sweet and probably the next big addiction for many of us. Instead of researching stocks, rebalancing your 401k, and wishing you would have put your money where you mouth was on some of those moves...now you can (with limited risk).
Some things that don't suck:
Is investing in the stock market just a gamble? then skip the crap and just bet! This website is sweet and probably the next big addiction for many of us. Instead of researching stocks, rebalancing your 401k, and wishing you would have put your money where you mouth was on some of those moves...now you can (with limited risk).
Flight of the Conchords coming to Chicago! If you have not heard of them, they are a comedy folk band from New Zealand...check out their website, What the Folk.
Woot, this website sells exactly one product per day at a great price. The sale starts at exactly midnight and typically sells out early in the day.
Unlympics, a month-long series of quirky sporting events aimed at encouraging debate about Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympics. Events included: the lighting of stuff on fire, the game where you win, run around the block and we'll time you, spelling Bee, and the solitary confinement game.
Sign of the Times, in 2004, Gov. Blagojevich put up 32 signs on the tollway reading "Open Road Tolling--Rod R. Blagojevich Governor" for $15,000 a piece ($480,000 total)...today it only cost $15,000 to take them all down, haha.
Google Earth---Not Google Dirt, In the latest version of google's most popular download, the developers took the advice of marine scientist Sylvia Earle who pointed out that in the previous four releases they had left out "two-thirds of the planet", so you can now zoom and scroll your way through the valleys and canyons of Earth's Oceans.
Some things that do:
Blowfish Poisoning sent 7 to hospital, This sucks because people are still dumb enough to order a dish where if prepared incorrectly it can cause death within an hour...and these seven were lucky enough to draw a chef not lisenced to prepare the delicacy.
If you thought Scarface was gangster..., This movie actually looks pretty sweet. It was written by a guy (now in hiding) involved in the real mafia in Naples, Italy...scary stuff, its called Gomorrah.
Full frontal male nudity during the superbowl, To all of the super bowl viewers near Tucson, AZ...I am sorry, and so is Comcast. Somehow this 30-second clip from Shorteez, a hard-core pay-per-view adult channel owned by Playboy cut into the game with less than 3 minutes to go. Luckily the error was corrected and Comcast is paying up a $10 dollar credit to regional customers.
Until Next time,
-Chance Kelch
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