Your thanksgiving will never be the same thanks to DB Fletcher
Monthly Archive for April, 2011
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Yes, it is now officially time to FREAK OUT.
We have a signed contract to sell our house.
FREAK.
OUT.
Ya know how sometimes you just get a wild hair and do something and don’t think it will have consequences?
- Putting a bean up your nose.
- Walking like an Egyptian.
- Smearing crunchy peanut butter on your ear to let dog lick it off.
- Asking Helen Keller to dance.
- Farting in the library.
- Forgetting to smile during your portrait.
- Answering the phone with a fake girly voice.
- Letting Jesus determine the last supper.
- Buying Flip.
Yeah, like that. I got a wild hair that we should put our house on the market with a “make me move” price. And sell it furnished. With 90 day possession.
We did. In February.
July 5th we will be homeless.
Time to freak.
I have two Flip cams and one Panasonic HD Video Cam. Two of the cams are now highly desirable as collectibles and the other one creates good quality video.
Not sold to another company. Kaput. Fini. El Done-o.
UPDATE:
Cisco paid $520 million for Flip. It was a mistake. Cisco got away from their core business and the Flip wasn’t going to take them anywhere they couldn’t get by selling switches and routers and networks to access the high quality video such as show above taken by yours truly of Robin Meade of Morning Express with Robin Meade tweeting while waiting to perform at the Listening Room in Nashville.
This kinda illustrates why you and me are paying more individual taxes. The corporate biggies buy a company for multiple-millions (great name for a new lottery!) and then when it doesn’t meet expectations, they just close it down and take a loss. That loss is used to offset profits lowering their tax bill.
I’m pretty sure I’m right on this.
Otherwise, why would Cisco just shut down The Flip? It was a cool little cam and they had an awesome idea in the pipeline – The Flip would have had capability to live-stream an event.
That other guy says that Cisco just wanted The Flip company for it’s technology.
I like my reason better.
I’m gonna go buy a Multiple Millions Lottery Ticket.
I should have seen this coming. With all the focus on looking good and working out, it makes sense that Sauna Pants are here.
Sauna pants! Unisex! UL listed. Up to 54 inch waist.
Whuck? Fifty-four inch waist? Where is that model? Why are Sauna Pants shown on a slim babe?
- Lose excess water weight fast! The vibrating, 95-160° temperature controlled sauna pants help you quickly lose excess water weight in targeted areas – abdomen, waist, back and hips – through sweat release without leaving home.
- Simply turn dial to desired temperature, sit back, relax and enjoy slimming benefits.
- Unisex. Waist adjusts 28-54″.
- UL listed.
- Polyester, nylon, 18 x 1/2 x 56″.
Sauna pants: the Hot Pants for the self-absorbed, water bloated, unisexes of today.
The real hot pants as shown on Catherine Bach, the babe of the 70s.
UPDATE:
Here are the deets on the stunt, Fearless at the 500…
Fans tuning in for a thirty minute special will get to see Team Hot Wheels™ Yellow Driver take on the 10-story high (100 feet tall) V-Drop® jump inspired by the iconic Hot Wheels® track set in an attempt to make history within the infield of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
On Sunday at 3:30 pm ET, fans can tune in to ABC for a 30-minute televised action-packed special that features an inside look at how Hot Wheels® tests their vehicles in the real-world and the “IZOD Presents Hot Wheels Fearless at the 500™” stunt jump.
The Indianapolis 500, which used to be the “greatest spectacle in racing” and now can’t even fill the stands for the race on Memorial Day Weekend, has resorted to a carnival/tractor pull/county fair gimmick.
Fearless at the 500 is an attempt to jump a truck 302 feet at the track in Speedway, Indiana.
I am truly embarrassed for the Indianapolis community and open-wheeled racing in particular.
A dedicated crew of dozens has secretly spent the past few weeks in Southern California building, testing and tweaking a custom-built truck as well as a life-sized version of the Hot Wheels toy track set so many of us enjoyed of us as kids. And if all goes according to spec, the Pro2-style truck (driven by a masked stunt driver) will jump across a gap more than 302 feet in length, breaking the world record for largest leap by a four-wheeled vehicle.
The once proud tradition of the Indianapolis 500 is reduced to this horrible gimmick. The track will be turned into a replica of a kid’s bedroom.
Louie Meyer, Wilbur Shaw, Parnelli Jones, Jim Clark, A.J. Foyt, Al Unser, et al must be spinning in their graves – even the ones that aren’t dead yet.
The 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 could have a tremendous crash before the green flag drops. There might even be a death.
Nice way to start the 100th Anniversary of the Indianapolis 500.
UPDATE:
Nobody died. The stunt set an insignificant record that nobody real cares about. But Hot Wheels spent a bunch of money on a lame-ass stunt backed up by a lame-ass tee vee program.
Daredevil Tanner Foust thrilled the crowd at the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday by producing a spectacular world record distance jump of 332 feet.
Notice the stands in the background? 1/2 full — as were many of the stands during the Centennial running of the Indianapolis 500.
The side-by-side restarts proved to be the disaster the drivers thought it would be with major wrecks occurring because of the new rule for restarts.
A rookie mistake cost a popular driver a win.
Again, the race turned into a fuel efficiency run to the checker.
And fans were disappointed again.
Will the Indianapolis 500 ever regain it’s luster? Not if they keep doing stupid stunts like the Hot Wheels Fearless at the 500, and insist on race cars that are fuel efficient and keep ignoring drivers.
UPDATE: Here’s the video of Fearless at the 500. Aka Stupid Stunt of the Century.
