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Oh, I’m going to try and write something in this blog everyday.  I know that my readership is … small… well not small, I’m sure they are normal sized, but there aren’t very many of them.  Nevertheless, as a way of venting my spleen.  Maybe it will keep me saner. Or something.

I had to go to the dentist today, again.  This is not my favorite thing to do.

I can’t help but feel like the whole thing is an exercise in futility.  I mean, things decay, and fall apart.  This whole thing I just did was cosmetic anyway.  At my age, I don’t need cosmetic dentistry, I need my metabolism to speed back up to where it was three or four years ago.  It is like everything came to a screeching halt.

In other news, your teeth do stick around for a while after you shuffle off this mortal coil.  I guess archaeologists will say, “This guy had insurance.”

Yesterday, as all the world was watching CNN to see if San Francisco was going to be washed out to sea, a number of really really stupid people were frolicking in the surf. They were wearing frumpy clothes and beads, and I’m sure smelled of patchouli.

I am very sad that so many people in Japan died, but people who go to the beach to play in front of cameras during a natural disaster deserve to get smashed by the ocean.

I was hoping to watch Darwinism in action, but unfortunately the cops took them away — now they will have the chance to breed another day.

Get read for this to be the google phrase of the year.

“Delete Facebook Account”

I’ve already done it, have you?

It isn’t an easy process.

1. Go to this link: http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account
2. Follow the copious instructions
3. For the next 14 days resist the urge to log back in to your account.  I know it will be hard, they have a team of pshychologists and spin-doctors working to make you think it is impossible.  For example, “Your social life will fall apart.”,  ”You will have no friends,” etc, etc.  This is only true if you consider that creepy dude in geology 101 to be a “friend”.
4. Create another account and look for your old account, just to make sure they aren’t trying to flimflam you.

Here is my new account.

You can be my “friend” at your own peril.  Zuckerberg is probably about to pound on my door.

By the way, here is a great article by Malcom Gladwell entitled: “Small Change - Why the revolution will not be tweeted.”

Oh, and then the Guardian responds.  This sad and formerly august publication has a “Comment is Free” section, although they are missing the subsequent tagline, “and worth every penny.”  In this section, the invite the unwashed masses to post their thoughts.  The Guardian aslo has this misfortune of actually quoting Twitter as a reliable news source.

Sorry, Malcolm Gladwell, the revolution may well be tweeted

Yawn.

Last night was a pain.

I was trying to install Verizon DSL and they make you install some crapplication in order to configure the dsl modem.

After an hour of struggling, I knew that the application was hanging on the mac.  I called and spent anther hour on hold and answering retarded questions in order to get to Raul.  A real person.  He was very understanding and helpful.

Here is the secret if you are trying to install Verizon DSL on an Apple OS X machine and the installation software keeeps haging at 50 % — (I looked all over the place and couldn’t find this, so I am posting it for anyone who needs it)

Open your browser of choice (Firefox)
Go to http://192.168.1.1/verizon/redirect.htm
Click “Bypass” or whatever is the button at the bottom of the page
Username: admin
Password: password

That’s it.

Then go create your verizon user id.

Simple.

Way back in the dark ages, during the heady days of the Internet bubble, I had an phone interview, with The Motley Fool.  The guy interviewing me asked me the hexidecimal value for red to test whether I know HTML, WTFF0000?!?  I answered, correctly and I was on a terrible cell phone and the call was dropped.  He called me back and said in a weird jokey voice, something like “I knew you hadn’t hung up on me on purpose, that would have been a huge mistake. Haha”.  That was the tip-off that all this bullshit about being a “fool” and how it was supposed to be ironic, was actually true.  These people were retards.  Just to confirm my suspicions the interviewer continued on a path where he seemed compelled to tell me about how this was the best company in the world, and that it was a lifestyle and in Old Town and blah blah blah. But I kept thinking, I don’t like this guy, and don’t want him to be my boss. I wound up saying exactly that.

And here we are 12 years later and the company …. still sucks.

Haha!

Here is the proof.  I am shorting BIDU today, and there was a headline next to the stock that read: The One Stock You Must Buy. Now I knew this was bullshit, but I like to click on bullshit links.

Here is  quote from the article, I’ll put the text in red, to prove that I can:

Here, however, is a litmus test to gauge every stock tip you come across. Simply ask: Does this company bear any resemblance at all to Apple, Amazon, eBay, or Baidu before they were big names?

Uh, that’s stupid.

The article continues to put this list, not once, but twice in the article:

1. Small.
2. Led by a dedicated founder(s).
3. Fiscally conservative.
4. Profiting from a wide market opportunity.

So where is “The One Stock You Must Buy”?

If you’d like to take a look at the companies we’ve found that meet the four criteria mentioned, click here to join Hidden Gems free for 30 days.

Right…..

That is not only stupid, that is fucking stupid.
It is exactly the same type of bait-and-switch bullshit that I look for in my financial advice.
Give us your credit card number and I’ll tell you the secret to getting rich.

I stand by my decision to tell the hiring guy from The Fool to “Fuck off”. I think time has proven who made the right choice. From an ethical standpoint, I am happy to not work for a company that cons people into subscription services for crappy returns.

The wikipedia article on them is pretty interesting, the Motley Fool has become a electronic boiler room touting overpriced stocks for subpar returns.