So I was relaxing earlier thinking about the things and places that I have slated for the next year when it hit me. I'm not going to be sitting in this chair a year from now, (if things go as planned) I'll be in a different state, I'll be doing all sorts of different things and I thought to myself: 365 days isn't that long, hell I'll be done with my MBA in about 180 days, and that is just a few months away, practically next week [as fast as this year has been going].
It's just scary to think about how fast life is passing us all by. I remember when I was 21, I still feel 21 but my ID card says 30......... not particularly pleasing to the eye of the beholder unless you have an obsession with wanting to be old.
I know that the next 10 years of my life are the most critical to my success, my financial future, happiness etc. It's a scary thought to realize that you only get one shot at life - one "at-bat" - and that when you get to the point where I am at, just like in baseball there are so many odds stacked against you which makes everything "that much more difficult", you have to start swinging. Just a thought.
A compilation of things that that I find: funny, outright-ridiculous, disturbing, unreal, or just plain stupid. I hope you enjoy, as I definately will enjoy posting.
Friday, June 25, 2010
Investing for the future
I read an article today that made me think about my current financial situation. I love articles like this because they put everything in simplest terms and bring the right focus and perspective on things.
In a future post [hopefully this weekend] I will do some of the math for myself, and then forward all of the information for you all so see, I'm sure that you'll find the information encouraging.
This article tells readers to save by "acting like your poor". Not a bad idea considering the times in which we currently live where it seems that all families are over-extending themselves on credit into a trapping and spiraling financial oblivion with no end in sight, no feasible plans for the future [and likely no contingency plan to their non-plans :) kinda not funny :/ ]
Everytime I read an article like this I'm reminded of the statistic [and I'm not quite sure if it's still true, but what the hell] 98% of person whom reach the age of 65 are not financially ready for retirement and rely on financial support from kids/ grandkids and other family until they die. Ironically, and completely unrelated, MENSA only accepts persons in the top 2% of intellect. There might be a method behind the madness to shooting towards being the best and being responsible. Just a thought.
I don't know about you, but I'm shooting for the top 2% Here's The Original Article
In a future post [hopefully this weekend] I will do some of the math for myself, and then forward all of the information for you all so see, I'm sure that you'll find the information encouraging.
This article tells readers to save by "acting like your poor". Not a bad idea considering the times in which we currently live where it seems that all families are over-extending themselves on credit into a trapping and spiraling financial oblivion with no end in sight, no feasible plans for the future [and likely no contingency plan to their non-plans :) kinda not funny :/ ]
Everytime I read an article like this I'm reminded of the statistic [and I'm not quite sure if it's still true, but what the hell] 98% of person whom reach the age of 65 are not financially ready for retirement and rely on financial support from kids/ grandkids and other family until they die. Ironically, and completely unrelated, MENSA only accepts persons in the top 2% of intellect. There might be a method behind the madness to shooting towards being the best and being responsible. Just a thought.
I don't know about you, but I'm shooting for the top 2% Here's The Original Article
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Billionaires; Agriculture; Investment; Organic Foods...
Ok I was just brainstorming and this idea popped into my head. I was thinking along the line of why are all the billionaires pledging to give up half their money? Where is it going? What programs or purposes will their moneies serve?
I know I need to do my research on this, but I'm just thinking...
Wouldn't it be nice if just 3 "Billionaires" decided to relinquish $1 billion dollars each (total $3 billion dollars for you non-math whizzes out there :) towards the purchase of land for organic farms across the United States?
Now I'm not a tree-hugger, nor am I an organic food freak, but I do know that the current farming practices are not healthy for any of us Americans whom consume those foods.
It would be nice if I could travel 5 miles down the road and get fresh eggs, and pick my vegetables, select non-roided chickens, and buy beef that is fresh, grass-fed and non-hormonized [I know those are not words] But do you agree with me that it would be nice to not be subjugated by large federally subsidized farming institutions and adversely start passing legislation that would encourage further organic farming practices and put the profits into local economies versus large poorly run organizations that don't care about the consumers or the quality of the products they are producing. [What an EPIC run-on sentence!] Just a thought.
I know I need to do my research on this, but I'm just thinking...
Wouldn't it be nice if just 3 "Billionaires" decided to relinquish $1 billion dollars each (total $3 billion dollars for you non-math whizzes out there :) towards the purchase of land for organic farms across the United States?
Now I'm not a tree-hugger, nor am I an organic food freak, but I do know that the current farming practices are not healthy for any of us Americans whom consume those foods.
It would be nice if I could travel 5 miles down the road and get fresh eggs, and pick my vegetables, select non-roided chickens, and buy beef that is fresh, grass-fed and non-hormonized [I know those are not words] But do you agree with me that it would be nice to not be subjugated by large federally subsidized farming institutions and adversely start passing legislation that would encourage further organic farming practices and put the profits into local economies versus large poorly run organizations that don't care about the consumers or the quality of the products they are producing. [What an EPIC run-on sentence!] Just a thought.
Why Do I Feel Like I Always Have To Be The Voice Of REASON?
Have you heard of the story in Provincetown, Mass.? (Here it is for your amazement!) Apparently some genius presented this "Great idea" of ridiculousness to a group of obvious morons whom subsequently voted "Aye!" and POOF!
Kindergartners (and pre-schoolers too) are allowed to walk into the school nurses office and ask for condoms?
Hold up!
What?!
And for anybody out there that supports this by quoting "STD rates","Teenage pregnancy" and other irrelevant nonsense [to the subject matter at hand], I propose that you move AWAY from the State in which you live where a Pre-schooler is a 14 year old or a Kindergartner is a 15 year old... [better yet PLEASE STAY THERE, THE IDIOCY MIGHT BE CONTAGIOUS] YOUR ARGUMENT DOES NOT APPLY HERE!
I don't know about you but where I'm from pre-schoolers and kindergartners are between the ages of 3 and 5 (generally :) and to my awareness sexual encounters between peers of this age group do not A) Willingly participate in sexual intercourse, and/or B) Have an ongoing STD epidemic in which warranting the right to issue contraceptives to a KINDERGARTNER is the right thing to do, LET ALONE the fact that parents have no say so in the matter?
What in the hell is happening to the logical reasoning in this country? This makes no sense at all, and literally, I can NOT believe I had to waste 15 min of my life thinking about and writing about it [after repeatedly pounding my head gently against the wall]........... WOW!
Click this "Orange" Sentence "Just in case you missed" the link at the top that would have taken you to the exact same place........... smh lol
Kindergartners (and pre-schoolers too) are allowed to walk into the school nurses office and ask for condoms?
Hold up!
What?!
And for anybody out there that supports this by quoting "STD rates","Teenage pregnancy" and other irrelevant nonsense [to the subject matter at hand], I propose that you move AWAY from the State in which you live where a Pre-schooler is a 14 year old or a Kindergartner is a 15 year old... [better yet PLEASE STAY THERE, THE IDIOCY MIGHT BE CONTAGIOUS] YOUR ARGUMENT DOES NOT APPLY HERE!
I don't know about you but where I'm from pre-schoolers and kindergartners are between the ages of 3 and 5 (generally :) and to my awareness sexual encounters between peers of this age group do not A) Willingly participate in sexual intercourse, and/or B) Have an ongoing STD epidemic in which warranting the right to issue contraceptives to a KINDERGARTNER is the right thing to do, LET ALONE the fact that parents have no say so in the matter?
What in the hell is happening to the logical reasoning in this country? This makes no sense at all, and literally, I can NOT believe I had to waste 15 min of my life thinking about and writing about it [after repeatedly pounding my head gently against the wall]........... WOW!
Click this "Orange" Sentence "Just in case you missed" the link at the top that would have taken you to the exact same place........... smh lol
I have relocated
I have seen the light! And it is Bright! You gotta FIGHT for your right to paaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrtay!
Okay basically I recently QUIT facebook, I couldn't stand how my life was being archived, how much time I was spending on that damned platform. Even though I really enjoyed sharing my life and times with complete strangers, the madness had to end.
I'm a fulltime grad-student and I recently received my lowest grade on any paper I've ever written in college, an 88.5%............ I wasn't even mad, that is how cancerous facebook can be, so I opted to delete my facebook presence; however not permanently, just until the convulsions go away and I feel I can manage a successful return with limitations; say checking it once a day like an email........... I'm skeptical if that is even possible.
Okay basically I recently QUIT facebook, I couldn't stand how my life was being archived, how much time I was spending on that damned platform. Even though I really enjoyed sharing my life and times with complete strangers, the madness had to end.
I'm a fulltime grad-student and I recently received my lowest grade on any paper I've ever written in college, an 88.5%............ I wasn't even mad, that is how cancerous facebook can be, so I opted to delete my facebook presence; however not permanently, just until the convulsions go away and I feel I can manage a successful return with limitations; say checking it once a day like an email........... I'm skeptical if that is even possible.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Judge Tosses Inmates' Suit Over Prison Chicken
Judge Refuses To Call Foul Or Fowl, Dismisses Lawsuit Over Prison Chicken Dinner
BURLINGTON, Vt., Jan. 13, 2009
(AP) A federal judge in Vermont has dismissed a lawsuit claiming a prison chicken dinner was too foul to eat. The suit against ConAgra Foods Inc. was filed by Christopher Butts and two other men who had been inmates in Vermont but were sent to a Kentucky prison because of Vermont overcrowding.
Butts _ who served four years for a fatal drunken-driving crash _ claimed that while he was in the Kentucky prison three years ago he bit into a piece of microwaved chicken bought at a prison store that contained pus and the animal's digestive tract.
Butts says he got sick and can no longer eat chicken.
U.S. District Judge William Sessions III in Burlington, Vt., ruled Monday that they failed to prove that the product was defective.
I say good. If this idiot wouldn't have been drinking and driving he wouldn't have been in prison in the first place. Also, I think 4 years for killing someone in a vehicular collision is a slap on the wrist. If I was the judge, I would tell that idiot that if the chicken had pus, then it would have had and odor due to the putrefaction; and the fact that he stuck it in his mouth with intent on suing for punitive damages displayed an attempt to defraud a food service company and a deliberate misuse of state and local government court room time and money.
I would have put him in prison again for perjuring himself. No pun intended...lol
BURLINGTON, Vt., Jan. 13, 2009
(AP) A federal judge in Vermont has dismissed a lawsuit claiming a prison chicken dinner was too foul to eat. The suit against ConAgra Foods Inc. was filed by Christopher Butts and two other men who had been inmates in Vermont but were sent to a Kentucky prison because of Vermont overcrowding.
Butts _ who served four years for a fatal drunken-driving crash _ claimed that while he was in the Kentucky prison three years ago he bit into a piece of microwaved chicken bought at a prison store that contained pus and the animal's digestive tract.
Butts says he got sick and can no longer eat chicken.
U.S. District Judge William Sessions III in Burlington, Vt., ruled Monday that they failed to prove that the product was defective.
I say good. If this idiot wouldn't have been drinking and driving he wouldn't have been in prison in the first place. Also, I think 4 years for killing someone in a vehicular collision is a slap on the wrist. If I was the judge, I would tell that idiot that if the chicken had pus, then it would have had and odor due to the putrefaction; and the fact that he stuck it in his mouth with intent on suing for punitive damages displayed an attempt to defraud a food service company and a deliberate misuse of state and local government court room time and money.
I would have put him in prison again for perjuring himself. No pun intended...lol
Monday, January 12, 2009
Police have 3-hour standoff with empty shed
Associated PressSaturday, January 10, 2009
SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake City police were in a three-hour standoff outside a shed behind a Salt Lake City home before finding out there was nobody inside. The standoff started Thursday after police got a report from a woman living inside the house that she thought she saw her roommate's estranged boyfriend enter the shed with a gun.
Officers secured the area, but after clearing the house and sending K-9 dogs to the shed, they found it was locked and there was no one there.
Some neighbors had been evacuated and police shut down a portion of a city street near the house.
My question is: What occurs in a three hours time span between arrival at the scene, and either knocking on the shed door, or in this case, sending a K-9 to sniff things out?....pun intended.
This is an embarassment to SLCPD. Imagine the press conference. That must have been a doosy, but because I am always at the top of my journalism I am the first to provide to the public an interview with the Lieutenent in-charge of: Operation "Empty-Shed".
CLICK HERE FOR INTERVIEW
Associated PressSaturday, January 10, 2009
SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake City police were in a three-hour standoff outside a shed behind a Salt Lake City home before finding out there was nobody inside. The standoff started Thursday after police got a report from a woman living inside the house that she thought she saw her roommate's estranged boyfriend enter the shed with a gun.
Officers secured the area, but after clearing the house and sending K-9 dogs to the shed, they found it was locked and there was no one there.
Some neighbors had been evacuated and police shut down a portion of a city street near the house.
My question is: What occurs in a three hours time span between arrival at the scene, and either knocking on the shed door, or in this case, sending a K-9 to sniff things out?....pun intended.
This is an embarassment to SLCPD. Imagine the press conference. That must have been a doosy, but because I am always at the top of my journalism I am the first to provide to the public an interview with the Lieutenent in-charge of: Operation "Empty-Shed".
CLICK HERE FOR INTERVIEW
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