Here’s an example…

“Thank you so much @ParisIAdoreYou What a beautiful note – Love you http://img194.imageshack.us…“

So, the above tweet is Paris Hilton (@babygirlparis) responding to a fan William Borges (@parisiadoreyou).

What is Ms. Hilton responding to? Here’s what @parisiadoreyou wrote…

As I suggested on twitter and am now blogging, it all seemed a little creepy.  What is wrong with today’s…people?

I’m joking – I’m sure William Borges (@parisiadoreyou) from Brazil is a well-rounded individual.  As he said after all the haters piled on him…

Since January 2009 – Obama was sworn in on the 20th – the international stock indexes are on an up.

It will be interesting to see where the markets are over the next 4 months – 12 months into Obama’s presidency – won’t it? I’m just glad there seems to be somewhat of a global recovery before a World War was invoked.

Check out these numbers…

World: The Global Dow – YTD % change +14.5

DJ World Index – YTD % change +14.8

DJ World ex U.S. – YTD % change +18.7

MSCI EAFE – YTD % change +12.1

Americas: DJ Americas – YTD % change +13.8

Sao Paulo Bovespa (Brazil) – YTD % change +13.8

S&P/TSX Comp (Canada) – YTD % change +18.9

IPC All-Share (Mexico) – YTD % change +19.1

Caracas General (Venezula) – YTD % change +30.7

Europe: DJ Stoxx 600 – YTD % change +11.6

DJ Euro Stoxx (Euro zone) – YTD % change +7.0

Bel-20 (Belgium) – YTD % change +11.9

CAC 40 (France) – YTD % change +4.5

Tel Aviv (Israel) – YTD % change +39.8

FTSE MIB (Italy) – YTD % change +3.6

AED (Netherlands) – YTD % change +12.3

IBEX (Spain) – YTD % change +13.5

SX All Share (Sweden) – YTD % change +30.4

Swiss Market (Switzerland) – YTD % change +4.1

FTSE 100 (U.K.) – YTD % change +3.2

Asia Pacific: DJ Asia-Pacific – YTD % change +17.9

S&P/ASX 200 (Australia) – YTD % change +9.9

Shanghai Composite (China) – YTD % change +85.2

Hang Seng (Hong Kong) – YTD % change +38.9

Bombay Sensex (India) – YTD % change +59.4

Nikkei Stock Average (Japan) – YTD % change +12.2

Straights Times (Singapore) – YTD % change +43.8

Kospi (South Korea) – YTD % change +33.6

Weighted (Taiwan) – YTD % change +51.9

I noted on twitter yesterday that I can’t sit through an 8 minute long online video clip.

Well, then there was this clip.  Wow, something WAY cooler than the iPhone…

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.”

Uncle Richard, thank you.

UPDATE: Video of DeWayne Wise’s catch that saved Mark Buehrle’s perfect game is below.

In due time, there will be videos online of the best catch I’ve ever seen given the circumstances.

In the interim, here are 3 low resolution screenshots from my slingbox.

P.S.  If our building didn’t require that we have DSL at work, these would be a lot clearer.  I love the slingbox!

Video from a fan at the game!

This is all over the internet thanks to TMZ. But, below is a slightly newer/better version from Ebaum Nation. Check out the :35 and 1:03 second marks.

I wonder how much more TMZ paid for their shiat video – woops.

Sick…

Burchie, thank you.

Thank god there’s finally something to talk about again.

Unfortunately, there’s officially no other reason to attend Lollapalooza 2009.

http://www3.timeoutny.com/chicago/blog/out-and-about/2009/07/beastie-boys-cancel-lollapalooza-date-mca-announces-he-has-cancer/

Get well soon MCA…

Time Out, thank you.

P.S. Ok, I would pay money to see Of Montreal and Ben Folds. Worth noting: I’m a Snoop Dogg fan but I’ve seen him solo and it’s a nightmare. The Up in Smoke Tour – when he wasn’t solo – was unbelieveable. Regardless, compared to the 2008 lineup, this year’s show is DEPRESSING.

For no real reason, I rarely open emails from QuickPWN.  But, this one caught my attention.

The total cost – as of July 2009 – to own all 55,732 apps currently listed in the App Store is $144,326.06 with the average cost being $3.34 for a paid app if you exclude the 12,538 free apps.  I think I’ve spent half that much that I might as well just go for all of them.  Ugh.

Here’s more – including a pricing trend graph.  Enjoy…

http://bustedloop.com/blog/2009/7/7/how-much-does-it-cost-to-buy-every-iphone-app.html

So, the GOP is attacking Obama on the jobs number as seen here and here – which, nobody expected to improve in June.  But, it looks like the bleeding has stopped at 9.5%.   We’ll see – maybe it climbs slightly higher next month.

Regardless, some jobs from the recovery act have been created and many more to come over the next few months – as seen in the following BccList.com blog posting…

https://bcclist.com/2009/06/06/fox-news-fail/

Moreover, the $787 billion from the recovery act is just starting to “trickle-down”…

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31548130/ns/business-personal_finance/

So, as I mentioned back in February, the GOP needs to start rallying behind the President or be completely stuck out in the cold when the tide turns.  Should the tide not turn, we’ll be taking a hard look at the damage done 2000-2008.

All of this said, the GOP literally has one of two options – support the agenda and come up with some sort of new ideas on the future of America OR look like fools and destroy their party more.  They are falling right into the administration’s and democratic party’s trap.

Side Note: If you watched Meet the Press last week, you saw Romney and Graham (sort of) support the stimulus plan/recovery act.  Those two have (sort of) moved in the right direction.

When I think about Michael Kruse (see link below), I think of Bill Murray in the movie Stripes…

“Lee Harvey, you are a madman. When you stole that cow, and your friend tried to make it with the cow. I want to party with you, cowboy. If the two of us together, forget it.”

http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=108650

911 Call on June 21st:

Kruse’s speech was slurred and the dispatcher had difficulty understanding him.

Dispatch: “Are you sure you haven’t taken something sir? Because you’re not making a whole lot of sense.”

Caller: “I’ve been smoking marijuana.”

Dispatch: “You’ve been smoking marijuana?”

Caller: “Yes.”

Dispatch: “Do you want a deputy to come and take you to jail?”

Caller: “Why?”

Dispatch: “You just told me on a taped line you just got done smoking marijuana.”

Caller: “Awww. Are you serious?”

911 Call on June 22nd:

Dispatch: “You want a police escort to take you to Miami?”

Caller: “Or, you have a helicopter?”

Dispatch: “We don’t just send helicopters up for rappers.”

Caller: “Well, I’m driving there right now. I just wanted the fastest way to get there. I didn’t want to get pulled over on the highway.”

Burchie, thank you.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/07/01/palin-confident-she-can-outrun-obama-2/

This would normally be a tweet – but, I haven’t posted anything to the blog in awhile.  Why?  Because there is NOTHING interesting going on in the world today.  Anyways, without further ado – here’s my blog post…

Sarah, the Presidential Physical Fitness Award means nothing…

While this – offering incentives to entice big business to fill the gap of a sagging economy – should have happened like 6 years ago, maybe GE moving a R&D Center to Michigan is the beginning of something good for the motherland.

http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2009/06/22/daily60.html

GE, thank you.

This blog posting only took 2-3 days to put together – awesome.

If you follow me on Twitter, I’ve been weird about my love affair of Bing Shopping – specifically, Bing Cashback.

Bing.com as a search engine is ok. It could be perfect. As is, it’s general search is obnoxious but almost a Google “Killer.” There are 2 things that Bing.com is currently good for…

1) The mobile interface (image) on an iPhone is acceptable.

2) More importantly, Bing Shopping is amazing.

To use Bing Shopping, go to www.bing.com and click Shopping on the left hand panel – or, use the Bing Shopping link above. I know, I know – the layout of Bing Shopping is a little stupid.

Regardless, the following is 1 of my 4 success stories of shopping via Bing and receiving Bing Cashback…

I went to the North Face store on Michigan Ave to have my winter coat shipped off for repair. While in the store, I found a shirt I liked – The North Face Airborne. I bought one for $30 plus $3.08 taxes – total $33.08. I – of course – immediately went home and searched Bing Shopping for North Face Airborne and sorted by only those stores that use Bing Cashback – left hand side of the search results. Here are the results for the North Face Airborne shirt.

There are several places offering Bing Cashback for the North Face Airborne shirt as seen here. Even though not the cheapest after Bing Casback discount, I decided to buy from Backcountry.com because they offered the best selection of colors/sizes. Moreover, Backcountry.com offers free shipping on orders over $50 and no sales tax.

So, I ended up paying $26.27 per shirt after Bing Cashback – saving $6.81 if I purchased the shirts on Michigan Ave. The savings for these shirts isn’t a lot – $6.81 per shirt X 3 shirts = $20.43. But, any amount of money adds up – like the $25+~ish I saved buying a new pair of New Balance 993s (black) through OnlineShoes.com using Bing Shopping with Bing Cashback.

My point – Bing Mobile and Bing Shopping with Bing Cashback has a chance to “kill” Google. Now, Microsoft’s objective should make the Bing.com regular search not so obnoxious/cluttered/weird looking.

Click on the image below a few times to see the Bing Cashback email – easily my favorite non work related email received lately – for the aforementioned shirts…

P.S. Maybe there’s another website out there that offers 10+% off when you purchase shiat from other legit online stores. If I’m missing the boat, let me know.