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@SQT (_blows kiss_)

Glen,

Excellent!

Might I add ex-hippy drug legalization opponents?

Peter P,

Have you tried any local farmer's markets? If you don't see it, ask around people who grow other green leafy vegetables.

If I ever get that Pleasanton community garden plot, I'll plant a row for you.

what about prius drivers? you can smell their sanctimonious stench from a mile away.

"for the children"

i'm not against the prius, but what it has come to represenet.

fwiw i take bart to work.

If I ever get that Pleasanton community garden plot, I’ll plant a row for you.

Thanks! ;)

Have you tried any local farmer’s markets? If you don’t see it, ask around people who grow other green leafy vegetables.

By the time I wake up on weekends, the farmer's market in Mountain View is usually gone. :(

@Peter P,
You must wake up pretty late on weekends. Outside of the farmers' markets, try Sigona's around here: Stanford Mall (not that pricey, believe it or not), or on Middlefield and Woodside in RWC, across from Costco.

try Sigona’s around here: Stanford Mall

Now I remember... thanks! I love Stanford Mall.

It’s kind of like the celebrities who drive the Prius all the while engaged in conspicuous consumption with enormous homes and private jets.

Read Michael Crichton's State of Fear. It talked about environmentalist celebs who fly private jets and ride in stretched SUV limos. Well, it is fiction though.

The celebrities who drive Priuses but take private jets are such numbskulls.

Peter P, I wouldn't take Crichton's fictional efforts too seriously. Global warming is real, though we're only starting to understand what global warming will mean for people.

You, know, I completely forgot to thank/congratulate eburbed for creating his very first thread (the previous one).

Thanks & keep 'em coming!

Oh, and great hate-lists all around (though Glen's is my favorite so far).

To many people I am just a bigoted meat-eater (animal-rights violator?) who cares nothing about the environment.

astrid, i was just watching a dvd of connections 1 (james burke) which i checked out of my local library (still useful!). somewhat ironically, the pivotal event which drove the rise of civilization 12,000 odd years ago was in fact a global warming event; people were forced to settle in a few river valleys where they got clever with the plow, leading to surplus crops, pyramids, chariots, ipod.

too bad the spinmeisters who refute global warming can't use this to show its potential upside (since a lot of them also refute that the earth is more than 6000 years old).

chuckleby,

I love connections!

I'm not all gloom and doom about global warming, but any massive climate change, even ones that result in a positive long term outlook, will be extremely traumatic to people experiencing them.

too bad the spinmeisters who refute global warming can’t use this to show its potential upside (since a lot of them also refute that the earth is more than 6000 years old).

Why not? I am a "spinmeister" too. Thanks for the idea. ;)

I am just not afraid of changes. Even if global warming is real, so what? We will adapt, or not. Nature does not care.

For those of you who can't stand to give Serin any advertising dollars, an update from your's truly.

As HARM already mentioned, Casey lost a $35/hr short term contract job due to outsourcing. In his comment section, I suggested that he get a job, ANY JOB, to demonstrate his goodwill to his creditors. In reply, Serin wrote:

"

Getting a $8/hour job is stupid. My minimim payments for the credit lines ($140k worth) are about $3700 per month. I will waste 8 hours a day working a job.

Instead I could be helping other investors find real estate deals (aka bird dogging, or wholesaling) and get referrals fees of $5k - $10k. That is much better use of my time. I think I need to focus on doing that.

The problem is that its not guaranteed. Not sure how many hours and offers I have to go through before I get a descent deal. But I might as well try.

I should have started with bird dogging / wholesaling to begin with. That would have taught me the skills to find quality deals without investing into them myself."

I guess he still thinks the housing bubble fairy will bail him out with nary a scratch.

chuckleby,

Though...on the other hand, maybe massive global climate change will usher in a new phase in human development.

Maybe we'll all become X-Men.

Though…on the other hand, maybe massive global climate change will usher in a new phase in human development.

Possible. Only changes are permanent.

Here's a list of things I hate about Casey:
10. naivete
9. hubris
8. ignorance
7. unmitigated gall
6. entitlement
5. that stupid photo
4. fraud
3. irresponsibility
2. shamelessness
1. greed

Glen,

"5. that stupid photo"

I'm glad you brought that up. I thought so too! The original picture actually looks a little better but the one on his website makes him look like a douchbag.

(Maybe Casey could share a cell with ex-Congressman Foley...)

I’m glad you brought that up. I thought so too! The original picture actually looks a little better but the one on his website makes him look like a douchbag.

Ahem....Their piece of shit 70’s haircut wearing fuckwad ADD drug taking children placating themselves with iPods.

HITB, yea I'll admit, I like Wolverine (in a platonic way)..

oh Wolverine! your healing factor can heal everything but a broken heart!

I'm thinking I'll do one at a time; Here's my favorite-

1) bashing Gen-X as lazy when in fact we were graduating college into a recession. Now their kids or second & third batch of kids are graduating college and moving back in with them with no job and I do not hear a mention of Gen-Y as lazy. The last I checked we are not in a recession either.

bashing Gen-X as lazy when in fact we were graduating college into a recession.

Again, this is a confusion between skill and luck.

I have to say that I'd prefer Cyclops or Ice Man, both in the comics and in the movies. Wolverine is very cool, but he's kinda irresponsible and he doesn't have any real cool super powers.

Magneto's powers are the best.

2) They're all so supposedly into health; we all know they did or still do drugs.

3) Now that they've sqwandered all their resources they
ll expect us to pay for their retirement.

I’m glad you brought that up. I thought so too! The original picture actually looks a little better but the one on his website makes him look like a douchbag.

It had to be said. Now someone needs to update the definition of "douchebag" in the urban dictionary, as follows:
Douchebag n.
1. A vaginal cleansing device
2. See Casey Serin

4) When something doesn't go their way they blame everyone but themselves

SQT,

Yup, Wolverine is short and hairy in the comics. That was why casting Jackman was such a genius decision. Nobody else even thought about casting Jackman but Bryan Singer thought Jackman was perfect for Wolverine. And he is!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0413168/bio

According to imdb, yes, his real name is Hugh Jackman but he is merely 6 feet and 2.5 inches tall.

SP,

Serin never got the job. It's also a temporary contracts job that would only last a few months, I assume a permanent position with similar duties would be more like $20/hr.

I suspect that after that employer reads today's Chronicle, he will be very relieved that he never hired Serin.

5) Expecting that someone staying at the boomer's bed and breakfast really cares for even a second about the boomer's life story.

6) Hearing how they had this grand plan to success when we all know the money bascially fell from the sky into their lap. No skill or planning required!

7) Complete disregard / contempt for heritage and tradition.

8) Complaining about noise, trash, crime, etc.. in the city like it was supposed to stop when they moved into the 2M house. YOU'RE IN THE CITY - Do you really think it will change just because a Boomer came to town. Of course you do!

My latest advice for Mr. Serin (posted on his job thread):

Casey,

http://wwp.canada-ca.net/alberta/photos.htm

Due to sugar rush (mm...chocolate chip cookies....), my brain isn't working properly, but here's two that came off the top of my head:

1) Little dogs in handbags, inside stores. If your dog is too small to defend itself tied to a leash at the front of the store, buy a better dog. And, the US excepted, its illegal in almost every other Western World country.

2) Standing around like a lemon, while the guy at checkout not only rings your items, but packs them for you too.
Hands not working proplerly, poor love?
Every time I pack my own, the checkout person looks surprised and thanks me.
WTF? I'm standing around waiting for them to ring up my stuff, might as well do something useful...or...I could stand around and wait while you ring up my stuff, then hang around some more and watch you put it in a bag, thereby doubling the time it takes to get out of the store and making the people behind me wait even longer.
Oh, and lets not forget paying by check too. Just make sure to ask what the date is three times, and never ever write everything but the amount while waiting for ringing up/bagging. I mean, this is an excersise in time wasting n'est pas?

9) Not doing anything to improve the situation of noise, trash and crime and being completely confussed as to why things haven't improved just because they moved into the 2M house.