Thursday, April 30, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Missing Persons Update
Missing since early April 2009, Jeremy Shinerbock has recently been seen in Israel. There is a reward for further information regarding his whereabouts.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Monday, April 27, 2009
Jordan Zimmermann
Jordan Zimmermann
Jordan Zimmermann starts for the Washington Senators and holds the Mets to 1 run on 6 hits in 5 1/3 inning.
I am willing to bet that a sharp increase will occur in fantasy baseball managers picking this young arm up. Especially if they happen to have a dead arm like Jason Marquis starting...
Wait, is Jordan Zimmermann starting?
Robot Test
Why do they make the robot questions so hard?
I have considered that my difficulty with these robot tests suggests that I may actually be a robot.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Center Channel Speaker Arbitrage Engage
Lee Elia's Epic Tirade
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Microsoft Remarks On Yahoo Acquisition
These remarks were made by Microsoft's Chris Liddell concerning Microsoft's acquisition of Yahoo. This is from Microsoft's third quarter earnings call.
With or without a Yahoo combination Microsoft is focused on the online advertising market which is expected to double by 2010 to $80 billion. Although Yahoo would accelerate our efforts we have an existing strategy that is already centered on three key pillars; drive innovation and search, increase value to advertisers and publishers through innovation and scale and grow user engagement across our MSN and Windows Live properties. We have an extremely talented engineering team, a great portfolio of advertiser and publisher tools and key assets in information content, communications and social networking. Lastly we are committed to compete in online advertising through organic investments, partnerships and acquisitions such as aQuantive and Rapt.
With respect to Yahoo we have been as evidenced in the size of our offer premium that speed is of the essence for the deal to make sense and get folded into our online strategy. Unfortunately the transaction has been anything but speedy as is being characterized by what would appear to be unrealistic expectations of value. Our initial offer was an extremely generous more than 100% premium fee [inaudible] core business. And our view on value is shaped by the long-term value of the company and we intend to remain disciplined in our approach. The strongest argument that I’ve heard on why we should increase our bid, simply that we can afford to, is not one that I favor. We’ve yet to see tangible evidence that our bid substantially undervalues the company. In fact we see the opposite. Yahoo continues to lose search share and profitability continues to decline year-on-year. The results that they announced on Tuesday were in line with the guidance that they gave on their last earnings call on January 29, after which their stock price closes at $19.05 and Wall Street analysts’ consensus on value was significantly decreased. As outlined in our recent letter to the Yahoo Board, unless we make progress with Yahoo towards an agreement by this weekend, we will reconsider our alternatives. We will provide updates as appropriate next week. These alternatives clearly include taking the offer to Yahoo shareholders or to withdraw our proposal and focus on other opportunities both organic and inorganic. With that being said I’d like to remind you that we’re here today to discuss our earnings and we hope you understand that we can’t go beyond in the Q&A session what I’ve just said.
So clearly if Yahoo was to happen we’d have to overlay that impact. We would still think about spending I would think virtually all of that money in terms of organic growth anyway. If Yahoo wasn’t to happen, could we consider other investments, yes but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Heather Bellini – UBS
...about the buybacks, I believe I read in your Q you cut them to about a billion dollars this quarter, should we expect that level to stay until we know the outcome of the Yahoo transaction?
On the buyback, yes you are correct it was low this quarter in particular because of the Yahoo transaction. I want to maintain the most amount of flexibility for that transaction in terms of our cash buildup and how the final transaction might work if it does. Therefore I don’t intend to get into quarter by quarter and I don’t want to give specifics but also just from a legal perspective, its difficult for us to be too active in the buyback market so I would expect us to be relative modest from a buyback perspective until we get clarity on Yahoo one way or the other.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Am I sexual?
and if you want some fat sammich this weekend, i'll be down thurr
Monday, April 20, 2009
MLB Draft
I would prefer to forgo the draft altogether and just sign as an undrafted free agent.
These are the teams that I will consider signing with
- Chicago Cubs
- Kansas City Royal
- Texas Rangers
- Toronto Blue Jays
- Arizona Diamondbacks
I Want His Sex Life Coach
Beautiful
Sunday, April 19, 2009
DVD Player Advice
Now I know I said I wasn't giong to buy a dvd upconverter, but I have been shopping around for dvd players for the past two and a half minutes and this looks like the best deal. I realize that I could visit any number of old pawn shops, rummage through dumpsters, but I just need a quality dvd player and have decided to make it a brand new dvd player (okay, Jessica did).
Well, speak now or forever hold your peace, or speak now or speak later.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009
Is this us?
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I think he's serious sometimes
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Steinberg Likes Seeing Pitchers In Action
This is not a good look for the 31 year old Aaron Heilman.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Look at first two rounds of MLB Draft
Losing those free agents if you make an offer turns out to be very valuable.
Monday, April 13, 2009
DeRosa Cost $5 Million
First, the Cubs saved $5 million dollars of his salary and were dealt three rookie pitching prospects.
Then the Cubs have Fontenot who is 5 years younger than the 34 year old DeRosa, and Fontenot's defense ts second was better than DeRosa.
Don't be fooled, this is a hyperlink
I wish DeRosa the best, but I have to agree with this move.
upconverting
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6449_7-6859904-1.html
I would say that unless your getting a new tv, you should give up on this. You need to connect to a tv with hdmi for upconversion, and I'm pretty sure your tv is like 10 years old.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
Bartz and Ballmer
Upon her arrival Carol Bartz has just been on a mision.
...Other Stuff...
Now Carol Bartz and Steve Ballmer are reportedly collaborating on search between Microsoft and Yahoo, and mark my words, something will come of it.
Exam, what? me worry?
Thursday, April 9, 2009
This is why stupid people shouldn't be allowed to vote
I push my fingers into my EYES!!
I was like fuck yeah, this is pumping me up to run more and I tried to turn the volume up, and i restarted the song instead.
Whatev. Then I did turn the volume up and started running along and I realized I was too old to listen to music that loud, so I tried to turn it down. Doing this resulted in me turning it up even louder, and I freaked and tried to turn it down and changed the song.
So there I was, no pumpige upige, stuck listening to some probably shitty song that I don't like that much.
I should have bought a zune.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
What got jacked?
Seriously, I got car burgled.
It is uncool.
