Predict That!

This time of year we see so many prediction of how we're going to end 2011. Financial, sports, economy, world war 3, etc. If you like that sort of thing, and even better, if you like sharing your predictions there's a new website you might enjoy where you can make a prediction and then link it to Twitter or Facebook. It's called PredictThat.com and it's fairly simple to use. You can register with either your FB or TW account and then type what you're predicting and by what time it should happen.

Here, take a look at one I created: http://predictsthat.com/#?p=39096765

I predict that this will become a huge hit with sports fans. With the BCS starting up and NFL in full force you see a lot of prediction on those topics. But I think you degenerates still reading this post will start a whole new trend of low brow predictions on each other. So if you make any predictions let me know?

Moving to Austin

The Author of this post is Velma Baird

Who knew that moving to a new state would change up things so much? I guess I should have since California and Texas couldn’t really be more different but my entire pace of life has changed from what I eat all the way down to what I wear. I’ve made a lot of really great friends since I’ve been out here and I love my little bungalow. Austin is a cool town although it’s really big and sprawling which makes it easy to get lost for someone like me! I got satellitestarinternet.com satellite internet immediately when I got here so I could keep emailing back home with my family and friends and that’s made it much easier. It’s also good that I really like my new job and the people I work with…I can really see myself staying here for a while! I love new adventures and this certainly is one – I haven’t done anything too crazy in a while so I figured it was high time I packed up my life and moved to Texas!

Did you see the supermoon the other day?

One of the things we got for Xmas was an awesome Telescope. I've always been interested in telescopes and remember wanting one for a really long time. In fact, the first telescope I ever used was a homemade one. I didn't build it myself, but a friend in school did. He got all sorts of cylinders and mirrors and lenses and voila, there's the moon.

But if you want to see a little further than the moon you need to invest a little and get a real refractor telescope. One that can actually show you the rings of Saturn or the spot on Jupiter. The one we ended up getting has a computer on it and once you set it up it will tilt itself automatically and show you pretty much every visible star out there.

My first night out I had the hardest time. I wasn't sure how to align it properly, it was freezing (Xmas) and by the time I was done my nose was running and all I could see was the moon. Which was still pretty awesome because at a large magnification you can really see all the craters and terrain.

The next time, it was slightly warmer and a real clear night. I watched the instructional DVD that came with the thing and figured out what needed to be done. Then all of a sudden, there was Saturn and it's rings. It's pretty freakin' incredible to be able to see that. And very clearly. Then Jupiter and three of its moons. How awesome is that.

I just read an article about the potential for inhabitable planets in the Universe and there's just no way we are the only living form out there. The number of planets being found now is staggering. And this is just from a tiny part of the Universe. Basically they aimed their devices at an empty part of space and came back with billions of stars and planets.

The problem is obviously that we need to figure out a way to move faster than the speed of light in order to get anywhere. And what always blows me away is that the stars we see at night may no longer be there. Since it's taken some of them millions of light years to get their lights here, they may not exist anymore.

Hopefully we run into some aliens that can travel faster than light and don't need to farm us for organs. That would totally suck.

Good night!

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Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges! (AKA why Foursquare is Stupid)

Since I follow all the wonderful time-suck new-tech crap pumped up by Mashable and TechCrunch I decided to finally give Foursquare a try. I've signed up and cancelled my account about 4 times so far because I just didn't see the point. But the last time, I decided to really try. And I still don't get it. And I cancelled it again - this time I don't think I'm going back.

Can someone tell me why this thing is supposed to be interesting? This whole check-in thing is just a mystery to me. Let's break it down in this week's.... Crap App Breakdown:

1. It's a game - Yes, these things can be addictive as all get out and I've fallen for Farmville and Mafia Wars too (both have been cancelled, just so you know), but at least there I got the satisfaction of clicking my mouse button a bazillion times until my fingernail threatened to leave my finger. But what's the appeal of the Foursquare game? You can check-in anywhere you want or even create new venues. I've seen so many 'Yo Momma's House' out there as well as a couple of 'So and So's anal cavity' and people check in there too. So yeah, it might be funny to check-in to someone's mother's place of residence, but that probably wears off quickly.

2. You get to be a mayor! Well, la-dee-freakin'-da for you mayor of the Starbucks right next to the QT. I became mayor of my office, my bank, my UPS store as well as a bunch of others. So what? Who cares? Wait a minute you say - if you're the mayor of F2O they will give you 50% off your next order. I guess it's worth it then. Because I just saved $3. I need to quickly get in front of a financial advisor who will help me invest this windfall that just fell into my lap.

3. You get badges. I think most of us stopped caring about badges when we graduated from the cub scouts. Seriously? Who give a crap about virtual badges. And you can lump all the other so-called "location based" companies like Gowalla, Scvngr and Badge.ly into this one. Who cares about a dumb badge on a dumb website?

4. You can get a lot of tips from other people who have been to the places you're at. This has to be the silver bullet. Has to be! Because I really needed to know that the pumpkin spice latte is the best ever. It really is. I swear. Umm... this is just another way to push ads on our feeble minds.

5. You can see which one of your hipster friends is at the same place you are! Hold the phone. You mean, my friends are at the bar I am in and they didn't tell me they were going? Who are these friends anyway? Who needs them! I'll go find new friends (go to bullet 6 please).

6. You can find out who's the complete stranger that is or was somewhere you just happen to be. I love technology. So useful.

So now seriously. Can someone explain why this is useful? I can sort of kind of (maybe not so much) understand the value of Facebook Places (hint: because everyone is on Facebook), but let's all hold our breath because Oh. My. God. Foursquare has 4.5 Million users. I am bound to meet someone I know on there, right? Wait, I can add my Facebook friends? But they don't care about Foursquare and don't use it. Wait, what? I can add all my twitter followers too? Well then that settles that!

I would love to figure out who the investors are who green-lighted this crap. I have some other great ideas that need funding. I even know the valuation.

I pity the fool...

Been a while. I got a lot to say and no time to say it. So I will posterous from now on. Feed ma blogger, ma tumblr and my twitter too. Fo shizzle.

So why do I have no time? Because I have a full time job a wife and two kids. I also have a lot of stuff on my plate. Like lots of mortgages for rental properties with awful, horrible tenants (some are good, but most should just be kicked to the curb except the houses are in such bad shape by now from these sub-humans living in them that it would cost more to repair them and find new, awful tenants than to keep these pests living there and not paying rent).

I am also a super-blogger. What is that you may ask? Well I just made that up. I'm like that you see. I make stuff up. Because it's true. Why am I a super-blogger? Let me count the ways:

1. Poker Blog (which is now linked to a posterous, a tumblr and a twitter yo)
2. Real Estate Blog (so I can find better tenants for those fakakte'h properties - does anyone have a Yiddish dictionary?)
3. Two Family History Blogs (one for my research and one for newbs)
4. Two Family Blogs (one about being a dad and another I share with my wife)
5. Book Blog (it's for the kids yo)
6. and, and, and... oh yeah! My company's corporate blog.

Super. Blogger. I write 8 blogs. Well, not really. Because I don't have time you see?

So I am going to start publishing post-hummus-ly thru posterous. My post will suck and have bad spelling and worse grammar and you will love it and tell all your friends. And I will post about all the stuff I can't post on any of my other super-blogs because everything gets tracked to you and someone somewhere might get upset that I said the company he works for is just pathetic. Some people may know my secret super-blogger identity and that's probably fine. Some shouldn't and don't.

Topics will range from this to that and the other too.

Stick around. Enjoy.

 

 

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Downloadable Games

I know you like to play games. That's because you are here reading a semi-functioning poker blog. But sometimes you get tired of the donkfoolery and go in search of downloadable games, right? Like a good RPG or MMOG or one of the other nerdy acronyms they keep coming up with. We all know a certain Wawfool who love his WoW. Side note, I remember when WoW meant "Wip'em Out Wednesdays" and chicks were flashing truck drivers from overpasses.

Where were we? Oh yes - downloadable games. So which ones are you favorite? Have you grown tired of plowing and planting Farmville crops yet? Well why don't you try building a Roman Empire instead? Or solve a mystery in San Francisco?

Gaming is HUGE business these days with companies who have never made a single red cent in profit getting bought by Japanese mega-companies for hundreds of millions of dollars? Why would they spend that money? Because downloadable games have made it so easy to try a free game before you buy it. Try the lite version. Try a few levels. Get hooked and pay for the full version. Then sit in front of a screen and waste the rest your day trying to finish that level.

So which downloadable games do you like?

Go fly a kite (or an RC helicopter)

And while you're at it, why don't you film it? Or let someone do it for you?

What the hell am I talking about? Aerial photography! That's what.

Ever wanted to take picture of your office building? How about a video of a flying over the Las Vegas strip? How about a video of what it would feel like to fall off the Stratosphere? Well, now you can do just that! The guys at SkyCamUSA are taking aerial videography to the next level. Go check out their coll videos (if you dare).

Check out this NYC aerial video:

New York Aerial Video - HD from SkyCamUsa on Vimeo.

Or one of my other favorites, check out this golf course aerial video tour:

Eighteen Hole Golf Course Aerial Fly Over Tour - The Ace Club - HD from SkyCamUsa on Vimeo.

I can think of so many awesome-to-creepy ideas for this kind of production. Your favorite ball parks (awesome). Houses you used to live in (cool). Houses your ex-girlfriends used to live in (creepy). I am sure there are certain restrictions. Like flying through tunnels and scaring the crap out of commuters.

Cool idea though...