Oh sure, I’m willing to make this bet. I think the “Pro” people are a bit too confident on the price and success. Maybe there might be some short term money to be made. I just don’t think about buying it, yet, as a longer term investment, and as I’m not a day trader, I’m staying clear of it.
I mean. Hell I’d love to have been working for Facebook and have some options, or whatever. But that’s obviously something that never happened.
But I’m not buying Facebook today, and I’ll tell you why.
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Tagged aol, facebook, investing, ipo, netscape, social media
My boys lately have been seriously fighting about the Rocka 4.0 Hero Factory. My oldest (5) who originally got it will basically carry it around the house with him, and keep it at his side as he plays with other Hero Factories. It’s a pretty cool one, he’s got a green shield, the handcuffs that all the 4.0′s have from the “Breakout” storyline. I get it.
But ALL the 4.0′s are pretty cool. We also picked up Furno 4.0, Surge 4.0, and Jawblade. They’re all neat, and Lego has done a great job on them. But no. The boys fight over Rocka 4.0 Continue reading
This Sunday, those in a fairly convenient part of the western US get the treat of a fairly rare annual solar eclipse.
The eclipse will begin over the Pacific Ocean (so often these things are over water… It reminds me how we should call our planet “ocean” rather than “earth” (I think Arthur C Clarke said that). Anyway, then south of the Aleutians… But then before sunset it goves over the California coast, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and even slightly into Texas before sunset. Continue reading
Um. Ok what can we tease out of this. Was looking at Google Trends (which shows the trends of people doing searches…I find it interesting to find out what’s going on with the world, almost more than a news site. It shows the big things people are searching on organically) and came across “Lost in Space” at number 17. Continue reading
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Tagged google trends, heather graham, lost in space, organic search
Looks great, though I have to admit this clip seems edited. They get through that atmosphere awfully fast. I’m wondering if it’s edited down to shorten the landing sequence for this clip or something. I dunno. They’re in space, then they’re down. Boom. Just feels edited, or is it me?
Not that it would keep me from going to see it…
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Tagged film clip, movie, movie trailer, prometheus, science fiction, trailer
Check it out. This is a fantastic mashup of the audio from the new Avengers movie trailer, but using footage from the old Marvel Superheroes cartoons from the 60′s!
He allows the only cheat is Nick Fury from the 90′s Iron Man cartoon, but otherwise it’s all from the old Marvel cartoons. Really a fantastic job. Though what’s with the sperm monster at the end standing in for whatever it is in the Avengers movie?
Seriously which original cartoon was that from, and what kind of monster was it? Pretty weird.
Also I liked that they had Hawkeye in it looking like Hawkeye, and they managed to find Black Widow. I didn’t even know they did a version of black widow in the old cartoons. Shows what I know.
Very cool stuff.
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Tagged avengers, marvel comics, mashup, trailer
The news today that Junior Seau killed himself has rocked his fans. He was a really great football player. But some are taking it as an opportunity to talk about the overall damage that football does to people. Now, there isn’t any evidence this was the case with Junior Seau. He could have just been a depressed person, or had other issues. We don’t know now, yet, or may never.
But it does sort of bring that aspect of sports back into my mind, and makes me think about my kids. You can’t prevent all injuries in sports, and at least with me I got pretty wrecked early on, but I don’t regret it, much. I wish I could still ski, but other than that I can live with it.
But that’s because I don’t have brain damage. Continue reading
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Tagged brain injuries, children, concussions, football, hockey, junior seau, parenting
So I had fun with my previous Marvel Comics Infographic, so I decided to do a new one. This time a London Underground Map inspired infographic showing official Avengers membership over the years, for the silver and bronze ages. Avengers issues 1 through 256 (nice round binary number). Continue reading
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Tagged avengers, comic books, infographic, marvel comics, roster
No this is not just an excuse to post a raunchy video. It’s just kind of ridiculous. So Kate Upton had a video pulled from YouTube. Well SHE didn’t, it was someone else, but she was in the video, wearing a swimsuit, and doing an example of a dance. Is it a sexy dance? Ok sure. Is she half naked? Yeah I guess so. But why is that enough to pull it from YouTube? Seriously?
I have another site that is mostly forum based, and really anything goes there, but it’s within reason. It’s not like a porn site, and we actually do a pretty good job of making sure that while it’s aimed at adults, not children, and sometimes risque stuff goes on there, it’s not full on rated X. It’s rated R…but I can’t make money from Google Adsense on that site. Continue reading
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