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I <3 Rudy

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ABCNews: Video on demand.

Caught this short interview with Rudy Giuliani on this morning’s news, as part of “Five Years Ago Today” montage that’s going through the nation today… he’s just a class act. Polished politician? Doesn’t sound slick or greasy, yet doesn’t sound raw either. He certainly said a couple of things that most people don’t say when being interviewed, i.e. he thought that we would have been attacked again before now. When asked “if you were president these last five years, what would you have done differently” rather than do the typical and popular tearing down of [insert a republican or democrat here] he talks about all of the stuff that has gone well and then follows it up with “we still have more to do”. Even down to the latest hot topic of “health care”… he answered how I would have: “fix the problem, not the blame”.

Should he run for President in 2008, I will actively support his campaign no matter which party he runs for.
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Yesteryear: Wow

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I just realized it this morning… twenty years ago to the day, I was wearing a knitted tie and an ungodly light blue blazer, while actively being psychologically abused, during first full week of high school.

I don’t know if remembering the memory sucks as bad as realizing that it was twenty years ago… either way tho… jeesh.

Think you’re immune to thoughts like this? Current freshmen classes of high school and college car the Class of 10. Yes, as in 2010.

Ugh.

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Bestest. Quote. Evar!

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CNN: “Everything I do is blown out of proportion and it really hurts my feelings,” said [Paris] Hilton, who called the [arrested for DUI] incident “nothing.”

I typed about twelve different things under this quote, but have deleted each one – everything I say can only take attention about from this remarkably clueless pearl of whorish wisdom.

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Talk about Guitar Hero has been swirling around me lately. It’s what happens when you work with gamers. Someone had a copy – I call it DDR for your fingers. I tried it out. I suck at it. And got my ass handed to me – payback after all those Halo 2 games, I reckon! After all, I don’t play guitar; I play bass. What worse, some of the songs in GH I’ve played on the bass. Like, for real. When I hear those songs, I’m listening for the bass line – it’s what I’m used to. Makes trying to play along with the lead guitar harder than it should.

Anyway, the latest rumor I’ve been told about GH is related to Guitar Hero II: the next release is supposed to let people play along with the bass line, rather than just the lead guitar. I was happy to hear that – might make me more competative. Either way, once you bring bass into the mix my first though goes to Rush, but I knew there was no way GH would be smart enough to get the rights for a Rush song… a million reasons why.

Enter Joystiq’s article on the music list for GH II… YYZ is listed.

Guess I sold my PS2 too early… although, I can always buy another one.

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Oliver’s Twisted

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Washington Post: Catching Up with Robbie Rist

That’s Robbie Rist who played cousin Oliver on The Brady Bunch. Worth the jump just to see what Robbie looks like today… Speaking of, know they kid that was in The Toy and Kidco? According to IMDB he did a stint as an “adult star” in the 90’s.

Sometimes too much information is a bad thing.

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Oopsie!

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How about the readers here being smarter than most of the press (and the blogger) about JonBennet, eh? Silly tosser has had his charges dropped! Meh.

And if I hear one more fuckin’ thing about Katrina and New Orleans, I’m going to blow my top. It’s been one year. One year. A city doesn’t get rebuilt in one year. Hundreds of years to build, 24 hours to destroy, a decade to restore – it’s that simple. Especially since you first have to rebuild a levee system around the outside of the town as the town continues to sink into the Gulf of Mexico. Not when it was filled up like a cereal bowl on a Saturday morning by a hurricane. New York still has a gaping 3 acre sized hole in downtown Manhattan, five years after 9/11. They only have to rebuild 10 city blocks or so and it’s still a pooch screw. And frankly, they have a lot more money to work with than New Orleans does.

Take my advice: leave the existing city as part of the delta deposit, head north and start over on higher ground – in fact, take over Metarie and call it good.

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Marketing 101

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Marketing is one of those skills that is rather… intangible. Subjective at any rate. Or at least elusive.

In years past, I had the annoying habit of finishing projects on time. I was even accused of padding my estimates for work tasks. That one always amused me… I would give a figure, say, two weeks. My boss would then pad the estimate to 3-4 weeks, because he never liked or trusted my figures, so the 3-4 weeks estimate would be passed on to the higher ups. In some cases, all of the code just popped into place and I’d be done a day or two early; worst case scenario would have me done exactly on time, within two weeks. I’d then get yelled at for working too fast, since it was way under the 3-4 weeks. Ah, the joys of confused management.

Anyone ever have problems with marketing yourself? Is there a fix for it?
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