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So Brian Breslin was awesome enough to post a picture of me as a young fool during my high school graduation, along with himself and another grad. I laughed, and so can you, repeatedly. Seriously, point at the screen too. It’s way to funny.

I’m on the left, and Brian is on the right. This was 7 years ago, and i was 5 inches shorter and weighed 50 pounds less. It’s pretty funny when you look back and see yourself and realize what a little turd you were. Brian and I both graduated with honors, even though it looks like i didn’t graduate. A lot of people would say “Why would you post a picture of you that guarantees people making fun of you?”. I don’t know, i figured my mug may as well make people laugh.

Yes, thats right, Miami hates me, not the other way around. The reason Miami hates me is because the drivers here are out to either kill me, or make me go insane.

I have to specify that this is directed towards Miami Florida, and only Miami. This does not apply to Broward County or the Keys or any other South Florida area, this is only Miami. Everyday it’s the same thing and I need to vent my frustration in a way that slightly less politically correct than the newspapers tend to depict it.
I have to go straight to the point that has been well documented over time, Miami has the rudest drivers in America. Read that phrase again. Miami has the rudest drivers in AMERICA. Here’s the best part, for the second consecutive year. Do you comprehend what it is to live in a city where public transportation doesn’t work and your best bet is to drive, in an ocean of rude morons.

So this comes from a study that i could’ve done myself on the way to work daily. Let me give you an idea of how my day to work starts.

First off, I live on a one way street, and the house lies one block from two Wrong Way signs. You would think that people would notice two huge WRONG WAY signs, but no, that wouldn’t be Miami. You see here, i have to actually wait for people coming the wrong direction, in order for me to proceed in the right direction. In fact, they speed through the wrong direction, even waving sometimes, as if i pardon their stupidity and ignorance. Makes perfect sense right.

So then you get to the four way stop sign. This is simple, because not one human person in Miami has a freaking clue what to do here. It’s as if the second a Miami driver approaches the stop sign, they have a cocktail of brain farts and have no clue what to do. You get the one guy that was there before you, and no matter how many waves, or flashes you give him, he has no idea what to do. Like he’s waiting for the stop sign to turn green or something. This leads to me getting very upset, and yelling obscenities at a man, 30 feet away with my windows up while waving. If you sit back for a second and picture me doing this, you would think i were crazy.
Then you have that one person who decides Stop signs aren’t for them, and just rolls right through it, making a right turn after you had waited your turn and you drive off. This, leads to a near hit, but its ok, because you get to see the person who just cut you off and ran the stop sign, flick you off. This is always great.

Then you get, my personal favorite, the suicidal driver. This driver sees two people about to go, and decides to screw all else, floors the pedal, honks and flicks everyone off in the intersection, for absolutely no reason.

Stop signs don’t do it for you? No worries, we have traffic lights here, but they don’t matter either. See, red here means you can still go for, oh…. I don’t know, another 4 or 5 seconds. It’s cool, really it’s Miami. IT’S STUPID!! I own a Motorcycle, and nothing angers me more than seeing some moron decide red lights aren’t for him and flies right by after my light turned green, and puts me inches from near death. Again, chase him down, and he’ll grace you with his beautiful birdie. It’s an honor really.

So apparently Miami drivers don’t have road rage. They are confused….. seriously, look here. Yeah right, everyday, heck every hour i can see someone in miami, driving, with the phone to the ear, with a pen and paper trying to take a sip of their non-fat latte moco choco something no foam dairy fat drink, while applying makeup and shaving, all at the same time. Yes this would make for one terrifying looking being, but still, it happens alllll the damn time.

There is really no reason for me to have to post this, but i must, just to let people that it really is THAT bad. I’ve driven in dozens of other cities, from New York to San Fran to Wichita to Orlando…. and none of these combined, can begin to explain that stupidity that fills the drivers heads in Miami. Even though New York ranks number two, theres no way i agree with that. At least people that have the decency to tell you to go to hell instead of just smiling and flicking you off.

I honestly think that Miami needs some sort of new Drivers license test, or maybe if you get more than 5 tickets or 2 accidents, you need to drive around with a sticker on your car that says “I’m part of the problem, because I’m a total tool”.

Blech…..

Yes, I’ve officially given in to the Apple bug. This weekend i got a new MacBook 2.16 white thingamajig. I gotta say, it’s sweet. I’ve worked with Macs before, and never considered getting one. When my current PC laptop finally started showing its signs of aging and having been reformated about 12 times, i had to decide to get another. Why a Mac? Well I Beta tested Windows Vista since day 1 and since day 1 it’s been a memory hog, and has no signs of changing. Yes it is better then when it was beta, but still, i can’t see myself having Vista on a laptop, it’s just not my thing.

Here’s the kicker though…… the MacBook has a dead pixel!! THAT SUCKS!!! I just finished transferring all my crap onto the laptop, i get to the office this morning, and BAM. A dead pixel. I’m bummed. Hopefully I’ll get it fixed easily, cause I don’t want to be without a laptop. Oh well, thanks Mr. Jobs, I bet yours doesn’t have a dead pixel.

Ok so i need to get into the WSOP next year. All i need is for 10,000 people to give me a dollar. Or 5,000 give me 2, 3333.33333333333…. give me 3 and so on and so forth. I know its a far stretch, but tell your friends, your friends friends and parents and rich uncles and aunts, and tell them it’ll make me happy and that i love them. The little widget in my sidebar is where you can donate. I may only get like 15 bucks, cause i only know 15 people, maybe less, i think i actually know 3 people, and they wont give me a dollar. So i don’t know why I’m doing this, who knows, maybe someone will toss me 10grand. If a company wants me to do it, ill advertise their name when and where i can.

Noah Kagan has done it yet again. On a wondfull day in Sunnyvale California, over 250 people got together to discuss Viral Marketing at the latest Community Next conference. I’m not going to go into details, but basically Viral marketing is using social networks as a primary marketing tool.

Anyways, all i want to say, is that it was awesome. Speakers came from all over and from companies such as Pownce (I have invites left at the time of this writing), Renkoo, MyChurch, Myspace, Friendster ….. the list goes on. It was great, everyone brought very usefull information to the table, and it was fun!

So right now, go to Communitynext and I’m sure they’ll have a link to the presentations since they were running them live and be sure to visit Noah’s Blog as it is always filled with great random bits of business advice with great guest writers.
Cheers!

Dear Apple fans,

I admire your love and continued support to a great company. I personally only own two iPods and wish i had a Macbook Pro (but it seems a bit steep). I have to tell you all one thing though, enough about the iPhone.
I understand you are all excited it’s coming out. I understand its grander than all other phones that have ever existed. It can do things that only dreams have duplicated. It is magical. I get it, but I’m seriously tired of reading debates on these forums about it being the best ever. It will be what it will be. It won’t come out sooner by praising it.
I don’t want to see such a smart community like the apple community seem like a bunch of ten year olds that cry the second someone says “I’m not impressed at this phone”. One simple example here on engadget, see the comments. It’s an all out war, and not a single one of the people on the post have ever even physically seen the thing.
Just stop it guys. Go to the store when it comes out, buy one, get your plan, and enjoy it. I don’t want to hear anything about it again. Anyone remember the PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 craze? Yeah, pretty sad wasn’t it? Then don’t be part of it.

Cheers!

Ok, so since everyone is giving thier five cents on the finale of The Sopranos, I’ll give mine. Here it goes. It was perfect. It was even more better than perfect, it was perfecter than perfect! Seriously, the show ends, but the lives continue. It’s not a book. It’s not a two hour movie. It’s a family you’ve adopted for the past few years and they are still there in Sopranos world.

Life keeps going, and David Chase showed this flawlessly. Now i keep hearing people say they wanted Tony to get shot, or get busted, or be a rat. CMON! What the hell. So he’s the head of an organized crime group, but we all love him for it. You don’t love Chris, or Pauly, or Sil… you love Tony. Because somewhere we all want to have that kind of authority in life. So I didn’t want to see him die. I didn’t want to see him turn, and I didn’t want to see him get busted.

In the first few episodes, i remember it being quite clear that they make it a point that in their lives, they either die, or get busted. Not many people in their “career” (if you can call it that) retire. It just doesn’t happen. So what Chase did by cutting it off at a point in time, was just that. Cutting it off, not ending it. AJ will find a job or get thrown in jail for his high school chick thing, Meadow will get married and prosecute people like her father, Tony will either die or end up in Jail or move to Boca, and Carmella will be the housewife who does real estate and retire happily. Or who knows, maybe they all go home and their car gets hit by a drunk driver and bam, shit life happens. Get my drift?

All in all, I’ve heard all these “oh it means this” and “oh it means that” about the diner scene. Here’s all i got out of the diner scene. Tony’s awareness. Every time someone walks in, he looks up, he here’s that bell, he looks up. It’s alarming. He’s worried, he knows it, and all that last bell means is that he’s always going to be looking over his shoulder. He’s a crime boss. That’s all I got out of it. Bleh.. anyways, I’m sure the onion rings were delicious, especially since a few minutes prior he tells AJ he has to start getting in shape as well. What a joker this Tony. Oh wait, maybe he has a heart attack… ok this can go on forever… Thanks David Chase for the wonderful show. I look forward to watching any and all of your future projects.

Alright, so I did it, and you should too. Two filmmakers, Susan and Arin, made the first full length feature on youtube, and according to the intro, they are seriously in debt. If all the credit cards they show are really theirs, they should get sponsored by a debt consolidation company. Anyways, in order to help them put a dent in the debt, Spout.com has agreed to donate 1$ for every new user who signs up. Go to Spouts Four Eyed Monsters site and sign up. Seriously, just do it. I did it, and you should to. As far as the movie goes, i haven’t even watched it yet, I’m letting it load. Its 70 minutes or so, so I’ll go make some popcorn, grab a six pack, and enjoy. Cheers. By the way, they were at $3975 when i joined

Well, i don’t eat fast food. Actually, I RARELY eat fast food. Maybe in those times where you’re helping someone move and you need a quick lunch or something like that, but usually, i completely refrain from touching the stuff. Floating around on the the internet today, I stumbled upon this http://www.thewvsr.com/adsvsreality.htm. It’s just plain crazy and some of it really looks bad. Look at the beef and cheddar….. oh yeah baby. I think I’ll eat some steamed broccoli and nice a steak on the bbq tonight.