Warren Buffett Rocking It

I guess all the old monies are just bursting out into song. Hey I guess if you're as rich as Warren Buffett you can afford (financially and socially) to live out your Rock Star dreams.

University Musical Recruitment Video

HAHAHA! Ahhh ... Aren't you glad Drake doesn't do anything like this. Christ. I'm sure their Glee Club recruits will go through the roof, but they can basically say goodbye to ever putting together a winning sports team ever again.

Bamboo Bicycle

First off bamboo is just freakin' amazing. The stuff is stronger than hell and grows like freakin' crazy. Plus, it's all natural!

Now believe it or not bamboo is being used to make bicycles. It's the hot, green thingy-to-do. A company in Brooklyn, Bamboo Bike Studios, is offer a two day course where you there instruct you on the building of your very own bamboo bike. For $1000 you receive 2 days of instruct, arrive Saturday and bike off Sunday, and all the materials you need.

Apparently there is a big forest of bamboo in New Jersey that was getting out of control (I'm telling you the stuff grows like freakin' crazy), and these folks harvest it for building bicycles. All bikes are custom fit to you. And they actually pretty good bikes. I mean look at that thing. Check it out. Google it.

Bamboo Bike Studio

Walmart Helping Local Farmers

Normally Walmart is demonized for squashing local industries. The giant conglomerate comes to rural towns, sets up shop providing all the townies' needs at prices far below what the shops downtown can compete with, and thereby drives these small local business out of business. Now, while there are still a number of problems with Walmart's practices, one thing they do seem to be doing right is there recent involvement in the organic food market.

As a part of Walmart Heritage Agriculture Program, the company has been working to reinvigorate small local agriculture markets that have been lost to large-scale corporate farming operations.

Why?

Well for one thing it taste better. Corby Kummer did a review comparing his produce purchases from Walmart and Whole Foods, and when it came to fresh fruits and vegetables Walmart actually came out on top based on a blind taste test with some of his foodie friends.

But, of course, Walmart is keeping true to its penny pinching nature. Because the farmers are local, Walmart actually makesup for in transportation costs what it spends in quality costs.

The Great Grocery Smackdown - Corby Kummer

Google, Kansas

Okay so I really haven't been paying attention to the news and wathing CNN what with all the last minute writing due before the break, but this is something I really should have known. Kansas, my beautiful and wonderful state, went off without telling me and changed the name of the state capital to GOOGLE. What?

Okay, so, apparently this is all part of an attempt to vie for Google's attention in being selected as one of the cities involved in their Fiber for Communites program. Google is going to provide broadban for select cities that will make the internet than 100x faster than usual with data transfer rates faster than 1 gigabit per second.

I can understand the desire to have faster internet, but dude. I go away for a little bit and you just go up change something I've grown up with. You can't just do that. It's just too freakin' bizarre. Then it raise a bunch of ethical questions about the growing commercialization of our society. What's next? Starbucksville. WalMartia. Circuit City City.

BIRTHDAY!!!

Today's the big day!!! Perhaps yal were wonder why the sun finally decided to make an appearance today after all these months of gray skies. 20 years old! Not old enough to drink, but not young enough to keep carrying on like a jackass, I guess. I will say midterm papers kind of required they will move all the celebrate ahead to last Friday. I'm afraid I need spend some time putting a dent in a 20 page marketing analysis paper. Ah well. It's a good day.

Email Scam

The following is one of those email scams I got the other day. This from a supposed Mr. William Leigh.

Hi, Hope you got my message on time? I could barely think straight at this point.
I had a trip here in United Kingdom on a mission. I am presently in Sheffield
facing some difficulties, I misplaced my bag which contains money including
passport on my way. I am in a cyber cafe at the moment. After i spoke with the
Cafe attendant on night duty, she agreed to allow me stay in the cafe but i do
not know what to do tomorrow. I feel so ashamed because i am so stranded and
idle. I will like you to help me with a loan of 1500 Pounds to book for a room in
an hotel and also return back home. I will refund the money to you as soon as I
get back, I have spoken to the embassy here but they are not responding to the
matter effectively.

Thanks

Bill

My real problem is just how poorly done this is. There is no attempt to personalize the direct mailer, not even my name at the top. Then the premise is just too ambiguous and bizarre. He makes no explanation to how he got my contact information or why in his moment of desperation he reaches out to me and not a family member or friend. The claim that the embassy isn't helping - first off what embassy? where the hell am I supposed to assume this guy is from? Obviously not America. The American embassy would find some way to accomodate him. Assisting tourist in these situations is in large part the main function of our embassies. Then the language is just off and not in a way that could be chalked up to frantic typing error. In the 7th line "I will like you to help me" is just in the wrong tense. The mistake a foreigner would make.

The whole thing is just insulting; completely amatuer. How gullible do this guy think we all are. I have nothing against conmen, but this is just poor workmanship.

Killer Shamu

This happened about a week ago, but unfortunately my ignorant self is only just now finding out about it. SHAMU KILLED HIS TRAINER!!! Are you freakin' kidding me!?!? Jeez, he's supposed to be this family-friendly, lovable, performing creature; an Uncle Tom of wildlife. That's the other thing about: he killed the lady during a show. This all happened in front of hundreds of little kids. Can you imagine if you were having your 8th birthday at Sea World and all of a sudden the woman putting on the "Dine with Shamu" show just gets grabbed by the arm, drug underwater, and thrashed around until she dies. How do you even register something like that? That is just such a dramatic shift in mood.