Good grief! Can Bank of America (BAC) get ANY lower?!? This is rediculous. The dividend yield is way over 10% at this point. That’s pretty much the only reason to own this pile of garbage :(. I’m hanging in there as best as I can and buying more on the way down, but I’m almost out of cash!
Man this is hurting. But hopefully we are nearing the end. The financials will come back. You’ll see. I hope. 
Season two of ‘The Two Coreys’ debuted tonight (10PM on A&E). I have to admit, either it’s a sign of aging, or too many brain cells killed with alcohol, I’m enjoying this show, both for the nostalgia trip and the cautionary tale.
For those of you not in the area 
, ‘The Two Coreys’ is a ‘reality show’ following the lives of two former best friend child actors, Corey Haim and Corey Feldman. Both Coreys were very successful at a young age. Both had thousands of young female fans. They made several movies together, and were the best of friends.
However, all things must come to an end. The Coreys got older, the fans left them, the work offers dried up. Both actors had problems with drug addictions.
Now here is the funny part. Corey Feldman - usually portrayed as the ‘bad boy’ of the two, both on and off screen, appears to have gotten his act together. He has overcome his addictions, married an attractive fashion model, and is producing television and films.
Ironically, Corey Haim - perceived as the sweet, innocent one back in the day, is a walking train wreck. He is still out of work, frequently loses his temper, and still has many addiction-related problems; like blaming everyone but himself for his misfortunes.
I’m waiting for Feldman to snap and pop Haim in the mouth. Serves him right.
Hey, don’t get me wrong, I hope Haim scores nothing less than a full fleged comeback, but at this point, he’s looking like a younger version of Leif Garrett
Last night and most of today I have been trying to content with blue screens of death that have been bothering me for well over a year. Lessee…what have I tried so far?
Update all my drivers
Did a repair install of windows
Did a complete reinstall of windows
Disabled all my PCI cards
Ran a memory test
Replace by PCI IDE controller
Removed, cleaned and replaced my heat sink, heat sink fan and power supply fan
Put a new coat of thermal paste between the CPU and the heat sink
and I’m STILL getting the BSOD that says “IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL”. How very helpful of you Mr. Gates. Thanks a lot.
This is why I like linux. It has all the problems of Microsoft, but at least it’s free!
OK. That does it. I have now officially created a ‘Dead Celebrities’ category. This was a shocker! I knew Carlin was old, but I didn’t know he was in his 70’s. George Carlin died Sunday of heart failure. He had performed as recently as last weekend. Now that I think about it. It’s not that shocking. It looked like he lost quite a bit of weight, and was looking pretty gaunt. Sad to see him go.
While it can’t be said that this guy elevated the public discourse, he certainly made me laugh when I was 10 when he said all of those dirty words on HBO.
A few decades later, I picked up one of his books “Brain Droppings” and gained a better insight into the man. The intervening decades seemed to have brought a mellowness that was missing in Carlin’s younger days. Sure, the anger was still there at the hypocrisy of religious and political leaders (his usual, if not easy, targets). The self congratulations were still there for being a champion of free speech and the subject of a Supreme Court review.
There was something more, however, a certain wisdom and restraint that only the passage of time can bring. In “Brain Droppings”, Carlin didn’t seem as interested in shocking for its own sake. Now, he was interested in using humor to point out how, for all our technological progress and prosperity, America has taken several giant steps backward when it comes to the real quality of life.
Carlin keenly observed that, despite the internet, cell phones, Instant Messaging and Email, Americans are some of the most isolated, lonely people in the world. Technology has grown by leaps and bounds in the last half century, making Americans more productive than anyone could dream. Yet somehow, we are busier than ever, with no time to enjoy family and friends.
Don’t get me wrong, Carlin was still funny in his later years, and every bit as clever. It just seemed that he was more keenly aware that life isn’t all about pushing the envelope and pointing fingers at those who would point fingers. At some point, you let the younger crowd fight for “the cause” and you enjoy the success you’ve earned, while building (or rebuilding) relationships with friends and family. Yep, Carlin was one of the few outlaws who managed to 1) grow old and 2) do it gracefully.
Of course, I could be wrong. It’s been, like, six years since I thumbed through that book at the local Borders, then put it back on the shelf. But it’s a heck of a thought, no?
Here’s to you, George.
Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter (R.I.N.O.-PA) learned last Friday that gas prices are unusually high in America. It was also brought to the senator’s attention that the U.S. is involved in a war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sources have spoken to the BoormanBlog on the condition of anonymity that Senator Specter was also made aware last Friday of both the current housing crisis and rising food prices.
The senator has promised to be completely engaged in being “a part of the solution” to these key national issues, just as soon as he checks the value of his shares of Bear Sterns and checks in with Dennis Kucinich’s presidential campaign headquarters.
Seriously, though: Congratulations to Senator Arlen Specter for finally realizing the country has much more important things to worry about than whether the New England Patriots taped walkthroughs at previous practices or games. Honestly, I’ve seen sore losers before. Heck, I see one every morning in the mirror! But all the congressional investigations in the world
aren’t going to change the fact that the New England Patriots beat your crappy Philadelphia Eagles. The fact that you are wasting the taxpayer’s time and money calling for congressional
investigations reaches a new low; not just for this congress, but for politicians in general. I understand that the league has anti-trust protection, but that does not give Congress the right to go poking its nose into what is clearly an internal non-issue. There was no competitive
advantage to Belichik taping ONE quarter of ONE game against the crappy JETS!!.
Man, there are haters everywhere! Even in Congress. Seriously, Arlen, we beat you. Fair and square. We have before, and we will again. Deal with it.
GO PATS!!! 19-0 this year!!
I’m watching Flavor Flav’s new “sitcom”. This may be the single worst show ever made. It is a train wreck. Worse than ‘After M*A*S*H*’. Worse than ‘Small Wonder’. Worse than ‘Homeboys In Outer Space’.
Seriously. Aren’t there laws against this?
As you can tell from the blog, I hadn’t done any running since June 1, when I completed a 1/2 marathon. I ran 5 miles yesterday morning no problem. This morning I tried to run 5 miles again. At about 3.4 miles, I felt a shooting pain in my left leg. The pain ran from my hip to my heel along the outside of my leg; though most of the pain was in my hip. I had the same injury (same leg I think) last fall when I was doing my last long run a week before my first marathon. I was in pain for weeks (still completed the marathon though! )
OK all you runners out there, I’m sure someone here has had a similar injury. Basically what I’m looking to find out is
1) What is this?
2) What can I do/ingest to heal it faster?
3) How do I prevent in the future.
I’m running my 2nd marathon this fall, and I would rather not have to walk the 2nd half due to an injury.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Not too shabby! Finally got back into the swing of things this morning before work. Woo hoo! I may just enter that marathon yet!!
My time was so good today, because I was lucky enough to catch a green light at both intersections.
Some loser paparazzi, who make a living by invading people’s privacy, were on a Malibu beach trying to get a picture of overrated actor Matthew McConaughey. A group of locals confronted them and forced them off the beach. A link to the story is below.
http://cbs2.com/entertainment/Surfers.Paparazzi.Matthew.2.754116.html
Now I’m not generally in favor of mob rule, but once in awhile, a little frontier justice can be a good thing.
Maybe this incident will inspire these morons to seek a more honorable profession.
More accurately, I hate ‘I Love the New Millennium’; the new…um…’nostalgia’ series premiering soon on VH1. I loved ‘I Love the 80’s’, I even tolerated ‘I Love the 80’s II’. ‘I Love the 90’s’ did nothing for me. Recession, grunge, the rise of the Clinton cartel. No thanks. But I digress. Are we getting a little ahead of ourselves here? Well, chronologically speaking I guess not. But we are getting a little too caught up with ourselves (if not caught up IN ourselves ).
The ‘New Millennium’ is still barely a newborn. I thought a millennium was 1000 years? I’m assuming their referring to the ‘New Millennium’ as the first decade of the current millennium (The ‘oughties’ as the Brits call it). But heck, even THAT’s not over yet? Isn’t this like starting the post game show in the 3rd quarter? I guess they’ll film the 2008 - 2010 episodes last?!?
The whole thing is that VH1, long following that trail to hell blazed by MTV has resigned to showing nothing but reality shows, commercials and commercials for more reality shows.
The execs at Viacom aren’t stupid, though. They know that there is a great deal of affection for the MTV/VH1 brand by those who are old enough to remember when these channels still played music videos. To borrow a page from ‘Field of Dreams’, “If we build….something….they will come.” So VH1 markets nostalgia to its older viewer like me. We can stroll down memory lane remembering the things that made us smile like Transformers, Voltron, Star Trek, Hair Metal, The stock market crash. Okay that last one didn’t make us smile so much. But you get the idea. The whole point of VH1’s ‘I love…’ series was to market nostalgia. But to be nostalgic, you have to be at least A LITTLE removed from the
actual subject matter, no?
Well maybe not. These younger kids, being raised on the Internet, Xboxes, Cell Phones, Microwaves, and Instant Messaging probably have the attention span of a carrot. Perhaps 2007 really IS nostalgic for these younguns!
*Sigh* I’m depressed now. I’m going to curl up with a good scotch and a Def Leppard cassette. Wake me up when the live action Voltron movie gets made.