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Move Over Tupperware, Gold Parties are Here!

August 19, 2008 By Godfadr 1 Comment

So what is the hottest home-based hosted product party since Tupperware? 

Cookie Exchange? Candle-Making? Home-based Wine-Making? Nope… 

Gold Parties! 

The non-cryptic name is just that.  It is your opportunity to bring your spare gold to the hosts’ house and exchange for cash. 

If you are like me, you have probably been wandering around your house practically on a daily basis saying, “what am I going to do with all this gold?” or “I just wish the kids would not leave their gold laying around.” 

Well no more. Pack up the car full of your annoying extra gold and bring it to your next neighborhood gold party where someone will be there to take it off your hands  - for a price of course. 

With gold at an all-time high, the act of melting down anything from old Franklin Mint collectibles to gold filings may be here for a while. 

I can’t say I have been to one and I don’t know if they are fun or if the people attending would feel uncomfortable handing over some family heirloom in front of friends. 

Maybe it would be more fun if you actually got to melt down the gold right then and there. I can see people taking in their ex’s gold wedding band* and dancing around the fire. 

*WARNING: Ex should be removed from the ring first. 

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Filed Under Culture, Economy, Humor Tagged With Exchange Your Gold Jewelry, Gold Parties, Home businesses, No More Tupperware Parties

Phelps Greatest Feat? 12,000 Calories a Day!

August 18, 2008 By Godfadr 4 Comments

Sure eight Gold Medals in the same Olympics has never been done before. 

Sure Phelps shattered Mark Spitz’s seven gold medals

Sure he is the poster child for swimmers around the world. 

I still think his greatest “performance” is the ability to eat 12,000 calories a day and look like he does. Ready to start the new “Phelps” eating plan? Although I am not certain what he actually eats, give this a shot for your daily 12,000 calories…

Breakfast (McDonalds) – 10 Egg McMuffins

Lunch (Dominos) – 2 Deep Dish Feast Pizzas

Dinner (McDonalds) – 12 Big Macs

Oh yea, be sure to get in about 5 million laps in the pool at some point during all that! 

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Filed Under Culture, Inspirational Tagged With 12000 calories per day, Gold Medal Performance, Michael Phelps, Phelps Gold Medal

Is it Me or is it Getting Crowded Around Here?

August 18, 2008 By Godfadr 7 Comments

I have to wonder if at some point we will really have to implement population control. 

Whether you believe in global warming or global cooling you have to admit at some point we will over tax the planet. The planet has finite resources to give life to a limited number of animals (many of which have disappeared or will within the next 100 years). 

We are the only animal that has the ability to not only kill off the other animals but also make a conscious effort not to. 

We are the only animals that can see, globally, our impact and yet not really care to do anything about it. 

At some point we will simply have too many people on the planet than the planet can support. Air, Fresh Water, Food. 

Sure, technology plays a big part but I highly doubt it will stay ahead of the population explosion before the planet just gives up. 

The planet will survive, in one shape or form. A large number of people will suffer some sort of “planet cleansing” at some point – most likely in the form of some disease similar to when the plague hit. 

So, the question on my mind…will mankind ever evoke population control or will we keep expanding until something gives? I suspect it is the latter but certainly open to hearing other views. 

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Filed Under Culture, Rants Tagged With Overcrowding, Population Control, World Population

Friday Fluff…Shadow Puppets to a New Level

August 15, 2008 By Godfadr Leave a Comment

Submitted by several Slow Bleed readers for the Friday Fluff….(the group is called Pilobolus).


Pilobolus – Conan O’Brien from GREENERUNIVERSE on Vimeo.

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Filed Under Humor, Inspirational Tagged With Conan O'Brien shows Pilobolus, Pilobolus, Shadow People, Shadow Puppets

This USB will Self-Destruct…

August 15, 2008 By Godfadr Leave a Comment

Ok, Mr. Phelps, let’s put this one in the “bazaar-advancements-in-technology” category. 

Hoshino, a company based in Hong Kong, released what is considered the first “green-friendly” biodegradable USB disk. The USB keys are corn-based and break down over time. 

I can’t say I noticed a ton of USB disks littering the sidewalks or landfills but who knows. Perhaps it is a step in the right direction in the creation of technological products that are biodegradable given the disposable nature of our society today. 

 

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Filed Under Culture, Humor Tagged With Bio-degradable usb disk, corn usb disk, green friendly usb disk, Hoshino

iPhone Application Proves “You are Rich”…

August 14, 2008 By Godfadr Leave a Comment

I don’t know whether to feel sorry for some people or laugh my A$$ off. 

The recent release of 2.0 software for the Apple iPhone enabled users to buy various “applications” from the iTunes store and I can say first hand that a lot of the applications are both fun and useful. Some of course are not. 

A developer (going by the name Armin Heinrich) created an application called “I am Rich” and put it for sale on the iTunes Store for $999.99. The funny (or not so funny) part is that some people actually bought it. 

The application was nothing more than a glowing ruby icon on the iPhone screen (nor did the creator say it did anything else). 

For a while the application could still be found on iTunes but with the caveat, “not available in the US.” – Given the state of the US dollar that makes sense.

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Filed Under Culture, Humor Tagged With $999.99 Iphone Application, Armin Heinrich, I am Rich application, iphone

Hollywood May Have to Scale Back

August 14, 2008 By Godfadr Leave a Comment

Even Hollywood is not recession proof and soon we won’t have as many movie choices. 

Last year there were 747 movies released in the US – an average of about two per day. But now the money to make these films is getting tight. 

Deutsche Bank had been working on a $450 million dollar deal with Paramount Pictures but the bank closed its film financing division. 

Considering most of the movies out there are not ones I would go to see I am not sure this is really going to hit me that hard.

I remember when cable first came out and I was going to be exposed to “hundreds of channels.” We all thought we would have more program options – what we got were more of the same.

 

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Filed Under Culture, Economy Tagged With Hollywood cuts back movies, too many movies
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