Author: Joel Gross

Apparently, some banks have started to have serious financial trouble. A few banks are rumored to currently have depositors making a run on them. Very dangerous situation… it’s like having a massive boulder teetering on the edge of a cliff. If a couple small breezes hit it, the boulder will start smashing it’s way downhill. Everyone, including the President of the United States, continues to try to downplay the situation, but I think it is dire.… read more “Run on the Banks?”

The infamous Black Rooster sent me a link to some really funny newspaper articles and I thought that I would republish them here. The first funny newspaper article is about a courageous hero of a guinea pig named “Sooty”. Read about Sooty’s wild adventure below.

I can’t believe that a freaking guinea pig has way more stamina than I will ever have.… read more “Funniest Newspaper Articles”

We are dropping money into Iraq at the rate of $8,333 every SECOND.. that’s $720,000,000 per day. What a waste of money and lives. Iraq is an ideological hotbed that has had many wars over the last millenia and we are just stirring up the hornets nest even more by trying to let them run themselves.… read more “Why the Iraq War Stinks…”

Trent and Frodo were in town last week on vacation and we had quite the 4th of July celebration. We started out by buying several pounds of raw oysters from Uwajimaya’s in the International District of Seattle, taking them home and feasting on them till we were all nice and full. We had a bunch of snack foods and beer as well.

Below, Andy opens one of the oysters.

Eating oysters on my rooftop deck while we wait for the fireworks show to begin. Below is the whole crew that went along. From the left: Trent (high school & college friend/ Finance manager for law consulting firm), Andy (Ernst & Young consultant, chess partner), Frodo (Venture capitalist), me (drop dead gorgeous Business Analyst), Plato (UW 3L law student).

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My new website, Digital Auto Gauges, is now live! I am selling a variety of aftermarket digital gauges (such as speedometers, voltmeters, oil temp gauges and more) through our business partner. Digital Auto Gauges is my first ecommerce website that I directly control (as opposed to consulting on other ecommerce websites). I am really excited about it and hope that it is able to take off.… read more “Digital Auto Gauges Now Live!”

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Interested in learning how to type upside down?

A very simple tool for flipping the text you type upside down is available here. Google recently has been spammed by someone using upside down text on their Google Trends application which shows hot upcoming keywords.

You can use the type upside down trick to put text into most interfaces, including Microsoft Outlook, Gmail, Microsoft Word etc.… read more “How to Type Upside Down”

Anheuser-Busch, the giant American beer brewer, has agreed to sell itself to InBev, the even larger European brewer, for $70/share.

The major American breweries have all been sold off to foreign companies. Miller was sold to SAB (South African Breweries) in 1999 and Coors was sold to Molson of Canada in 2005, which in turn was merged with SAB-Miller.… read more “All American Budweiser Beer Now Belgian”

Living in the city of Seattle, I many times come into tight areas where I have to park my car and occasionally even brush bumpers with people around me. However, I think I should take lessons in how to park your car from this dude in the funny video below. He just slams it in there, looks at his bumper and walks away.… read more “How to Park Your Car”

Wow. Watch this.

… read more “Sensual Stretching for 8th Graders”