Archive for January, 2009
January 31, 2009 at 8:21 pm
As a Seahawks fan, I’m finding this Super Bowl kinda tough to get excited about. I don’t like either team even remotely. You have the Cardinals, our division rival, and it’s real tough to root for them. OTOH, the Steelers are the team that paid the refs beat the Seahawks three years ago, and I still hate them for it. Hmmmm. What the Steelers did outweighs division dislike, so I’m kinda rooting for the Cardinals tomorrow. But I think the Steelers will win. I’ll say 27-17, Pittsburgh, and hope I’m wrong.
On to this week’s blogging recap!
Richland Real Estate Blog
Kennewick Real Estate Blog
Pasco Real Estate Blog
West Richland Real Estate Blog
Hyperlocal Blogger
Small Business Search Marketing
@U2 Blog
That’s a good week right there. And I’m not even counting the 17 posts announcing the SEMMY Finalists.
January 30, 2009 at 7:40 pm
This is a clip from Dog•E, a new movie with a black lab that gets mixed up with a bunch of robots. You can imagine there are some communication issues, and in this scene, trust also seems to be a problem.
January 30, 2009 at 1:23 am
I’ve never seen him as tired as he is tonight. He was out in the yard all day, playing in the great weather, and I don’t think he slept at all while he was out there. I uploaded another pic to Flickr, too.
January 29, 2009 at 8:44 pm
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January 26, 2009 at 9:49 am
I was gonna post about this last week, but the text of that post would’ve been a lot of %$@!#%$#@ and %$#$@$% like that. Now that I’ve settled down a bit about the Oscar nominations, I can say it much more eloquently:
Wall-E was effing robbed!
Seriously, it was a huge commercial success (something like $500 million overall at the box office) and a critical success — it was the best reviewed movie of the year. So, both critics and the movie-going public say it was one of the best pictures of the year. But, of course, it doesn’t get a Best Picture of the Year nomination from the Elitist A-holes … err, the Academy.
Meanwhile, what was the critical reaction to the five nominees? Here’s what Rotten Tomatoes says:
The Reader — 60 percent
Milk — 92 percent
Slumdog Millionaire — 95 percent
Frost/Nixon — 91 percent
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — 72 percent
Nice. Not even Dark Knight, which I saw on PPC last weekend and also deserves to be on this list, made the cut.
Prediction: Ratings for this year’s Oscars will be the lowest ever. The Academy is completely out of touch with reality, and the Average Matts of the world just won’t bother watching what’s clearly an art/indie flick awards show.
January 25, 2009 at 5:46 pm
The Consumerist has been all over the Circuit City closing/liquidation story lately, and last week’s series of articles included my photos three times in one week. Sweet!
That’s a screenshot from this post last Thursday. Less than an hour earlier, they used one of my photos on this post. And it all began last Tuesday with this post.
How crazy is that?!? And cool, too. But mostly crazy.
January 24, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Not even sure I should post this, because I don’t think I did much blogging at all. Everybody at SEL was on vacation during the week, so about all of my time/blogging was done there. I’ll be surprised if the list I’m gonna make has 8 items on it. Let’s see….
West Richland Real Estate Blog
Pasco Real Estate Blog
Richland Real Estate Blog
@U2 Blog
Hyperlocal Blogger
Small Business Search Marketing
Ha! That’s seven. I was right. Just barely. Doubt things will be much better this coming week, but we’ll see.
January 24, 2009 at 4:41 pm
The more I read, the more I like this guy. Here’s Peter Schiff in US News talking about how dumb it is for the government to be trying to create the illusion of value in the real estate market:
“They are trying to maintain high home prices by keeping interest rates low. That’s how they want to create more affordable housing. What’s a much more efficient way [to create more affordable housing] is to let home prices fall so that houses become more affordable because they are cheaper. And so people don’t have to borrow as much money to buy a house. These low interest rates are only temporary. They can’t stay down here.”
And this:
“It’s interesting: Initially, Fannie and Freddie’s mission was to help houses be affordable. Now, their mission is to keep housing prices expensive. They are trying to prop up prices and not let them come down. That’s the kind of stuff that the government did in the Great Depression. The government tried to stop food prices from coming down; they were destroying cattle and plowing under fields because they didn’t want food prices to go down. In bad economic times, they were trying to maintain high food prices so that people who are unemployed have to spend more money to eat. So, now they are trying to maintain high home prices. It’s stupid. Why not let home prices fall so that people can buy houses cheaper?”
And finally:
“…the government is trying to artificially prop up houses because as housing prices fall it exposes the extent of the damage in all these lending institutions that hold all these mortgages. And they are trying to maintain the illusion of home equity to the American public so they will spend more and save less, which ultimately undermines our economy.“
(emphasis is mine)
I just don’t get how anyone with a working brain can think it’s a good idea for the government to pump money into banks to prop up a system that clearly doesn’t work. Let it break, then fix it. All they’re doing is putting hundreds of billions of dollars of band-aids on it.
January 19, 2009 at 8:25 pm
One of the crosses you carry as a U2 fan is the fact that, at any moment in time, Bono might do something really, really, really embarrassing. Like this, from today’s Oprah show:
I really wish someone would tell him “no” once in a while. Or maybe just say, “Hey. Y’know, this thing bleeds syrup and is just a really bad song. If you do this, it’ll sit right next to that ‘New Day’ thing you did in ‘99 with Wyclef as the low point of your career.”
And jeez, did we elect a man, or did we elect a messiah? Goodness. Just watch — 3 years from now when we still have a gazillion-dollar national debt, the disciples will start in about how the expectations were unrealistic, and too much. And I’ll just point out this video and say, Who’s fault was that?
January 19, 2009 at 12:36 am
Still can’t decide if I like the song, but it’s not for lack of listening….
That’s my Last.fm music profile….
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