I love video games, but it’s more accurate to say I love baseball games. I bought a PS3 just for a baseball game, and the first pictures from the new version have been released.
I used to play other games like Starcraft, Counter-strike, Warcraft, and various platformers, but the only thing that holds my interest now are baseball games. It’s all I need.
A guaranteed way to draw interest to your blog post is to include photos! Even if you have no idea what is going on here, you will ooooh and aaaaahhh at the pretty colors and shiny materials. Haha!
I made a previous post about how to setup a Home Theatre PC (HTPC) using Windows Media Center in Vista. Today I will show you pictures of my installation into a computer case that looks like it belongs under a TV.
Here is the finished project. The black box on the bottom is a computer! It makes a much better front page image than everything else will, so I will make you click after the jump to see the rest of the post. Enjoy!
Driving down the 605 freeway the other day by golf ‘n stuff, a billboard on the side of the highway advertised a new Infiniti brand car. The text of the add was entirely in Spanish.
This post is not to knock the Spanish language, or people that speak that language. This is not to attack illegal immigrants, or anyone that comes to this country and speaks another language. My question is purely one of marketing interest. I don’t have the capability of doing the research, but here is my question.
How many people with the economic buying power required for an Infiniti only speak Spanish?
As widespread as Spanish has become in Southern California, the number of people that ONLY speak Spanish can’t be very high. I constantly hear people ordering their “queso blanco” which drives me nuts, but the percentage of people that speak ZERO English has got to be in the single digit percentile. And of that group of people, how many can afford an expensive luxury car?
Any decent job in this country that pays wages high enough for someone to afford a luxury car will be conducted in English, not Spanish. Speaking Spanish will help you get a job at McDonald’s, but it won’t help you get a job at a law firm. The only exception I can think of is a wealthy person that moves from a Spanish speaking country to the United States, or a Spanish speaking person that builds a successful business here in the states while only using their native language.
Why would a business spend money to target 1% of the population? Even for the significant portion of the population that speaks both English and Spanish, are they only reachable in a Spanish language ad?
I’ve heard several people now say that they’re leaning towards Ron Paul, so I thought I’d make a special post about him.
Ron Paul is a Libertarian at heart, so it helps to understand the beliefs of the Libertarian party. Much of what he says about smaller government sounds great, but there are a few looney things that over the years have kept the Libertarian party a meaningless third party. Below are a few of those things that Ron Paul ascribes to.
1) He’s anti-death penalty, but most Republicans are the opposite. Surprisingly he’s pro-life which isn’t a given for Libertarians, but from what I can tell Paul is coming from a Christian background. He’s mixed some of his Libertarian values and his Christian values, and that has led to his own special version of being a Republican.
2) He’s anti-drug laws. He’s made some crazy statements that the war on drugs is keeping down the black man in the inner-city.
3) He doesn’t understand the danger of Militant Islam. A woman in the Sudan was being threatened with death for a Teddy Bear named Mohammad. What does that have to do with us “meddling” in foreign affairs as Ron Paul likes to say? What about when Iraq attacked Kuwait in the first Gulf War? According to Ron Paul since we weren’t threatened, then it’s not our fight. You know what, just forget that whole peace through strength thing. It’s better to just sit on our thumbs and get attacked first, and then we can worry about protecting ourselves.
If you’re a pacifist then this whole discussion is probably lost on you, but go read some of Paul’s comments. He says some looney things.
Overall I love what he has to say about limited government, and that’s the best thing the Libertarian party has going for it. Unfortunately for me, the other crackpot beliefs far outweigh my desire for a more limited government. Not to mention there isn’t a chance in heck he could win the national election. I also don’t understand how people like BOTH Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee. Paul is a limited government person, and Huckabee sounds like a big government Republican like Bush.
I think Thompson has the right stance on a lot of issues, and he might be the most conservative at his core, but he’s too late to the party, and he’s not dynamic enough to win the nomination or a general election. Giuliani is top notch on everything except social issues, which I might be able to live with if it means no Hillary or Obama. For now Romney is my favorite.
The first time I heard this song was a live performance on Leno, which I actually think is better than the album version, but I couldn’t find it on youtube. It’s over a year old, but everytime I hear this song I get goosebumps. The crescendo at the end of the song is amazing. If you have ADD and can’t listen for more than 30 seconds you’ll probably be disappointed. This is a song that must be heard in its entirety. And yes, the girl in it is number 13 from House.
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