Category: Miscellaneous

More videos of their recent club show HERE.

Check out these coordinates in Google Earth! Flying planes, capsized ships, sun bathers, crop circles, missiles, and more!

33°51’4.47″S 151°13’59.50″E
69°15’31.56″N 33°14’15.39″E
52°30’31.43″N 13°20’6.79″E
32°40’34.14″N117° 9’27.10″W
8°58’36.45″N 38°48’16″E
18°20’38.98″N 66°45’9.62″W
52° 4’43.32″N 4°19’58.06″E
53°32’13.90″N 1°30’13.51″W
51°40’58.87″N 5°46’32.49″E
50°12’49.56″N 8°52’8.56″E
61°17’58.21″N 149°37’24.95″W
48°21’10.38″N 11°43’56.05″E
38°13’34.97″N112°17’56.01″W
31°39’46.21″N106°35’15.65″W
51°50’54.42″N 0°33’17.27″W
27°22’48.94″N 33°37’56.61″E
45°42’11.97″N 21°18’7.81″E
19°56’57.06″S 69°38’1.55″W
50° 1’7.14″N110° 8’38.37″W
33°20’39.72″N126°31’24.04″E
12°22’14.82″N 23°19’17.27″E
37°33’49.94″N116°51’3.24″W
33°23’49.35″N 44°29’14.30″E
48°49’30.66″N 2°11’54.89″E
30°32’31.77″N 47°49’30.80″E
33°13’33.84″N111°35’49.11″W
6°42’50.68″N 42°11’57.84″E
53°31’54.29″N 1°21’23.58″W
44°40’52.53″N 10°19’1.83″E
29°31’54.78″S137°28’9.37″E
37°37’45.22″N116°50’54.11″W
50° 0’40.02″N110° 6’45.56″W
37°24’5.00″N116°52’4.00″W

Slate.com ran an article about how the world sees America’s corporate managers as a joke. It’s quite insightful, and even has quotes from Carl Icahn, who’s been very involved with a well known soon-not-to-be-Durham-based mobile content company. In fact, I find his opinions quite entertaining BECAUSE of his ties to Motricity. Make sure you check out the Lesley Stahl interview. Sound familiar?

“Carl Icahn, the 1980s corporate raider, has reinvented himself as a borscht-belt comedian/activist investor, who delights conferences and reporters with jokes at CEOs’ expense. On a recent 60 Minutes, Icahn complained to Lesley Stahl about the incompetence of American management. ‘I see our country going off a cliff, and I feel bad about it.’ ”

Read the full article HERE.

The possibility that many of my friends at Motricity might be laid off, and the possibility that they ALL may be laid off if Motricity moves to Washington has got me thinking about my ~3 year stint at “The Mo.”

I left Motricity in April of 2007 because I disagreed with how the IT department was being run. Everyone has to draw their line in the sand when it comes to a job, and when you reach that line you have to decide whether to move the line, or find a new job. I chose the latter. That being said, I have no regrets what-s0-ever in regard to my time at Motricity. The IT professionals I worked with at Motricity were top notch, and all-around great people. I learned a lot at Motricity and because of my time there my career has gone in a very positive direction. I wish everyone I worked with at Motricity all the luck in the world, and if there is any assistance I can offer them during this time of “flux” I will.

With More Investors in the Tent, Motricity Undergoes Painful Changes

From WRAL.com :

“Word leaked to WRAL Local Tech Wire and WRAL.com about massive layoffs across Motricity’s holdings. In a company of 600 people or so, layoffs in the three figures is huge. Plus there’s talk that Motricty’s still-new tent – er, headquarters – is in play with the possibility it might be relocated to Bellevue, Wash.”

Click title for full article.

As many of you guys know, my father was a magician in his spare time (see StevePressley.com) so I inherited his appreciation of good magic. I tend to enjoy slight of hand magic over gimmicky illusions, but this guy’s take on sawing someone in half is super impressive. Check it out HERE.

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Tom Cruise Discusses Scientology

Since the majority of us haven’t been taught Ron L Hubbard’s made up words for Scientology here’s a glossary of the terms that Cruise uses :

• KSW: Short for Keeping Scientology Working, a policy written by Hubbard in the 1960s that requires all Scientologists to follow his words and his rules exactly.

• Orgs: An abbreviation for “organizations”; describes all churches of Scientology throughout the world.

• David Miscavige: He is the current leader of Scientology. He’s the equivalent of the Pope to the Catholics.

• Out-ethics: Any behavior that violates any of Hubbard’s rules of conduct.

• Put ethics in someone else: Make others conform to Hubbard’s rules of behavior.

• Criminon: Scientology front group that tries to recruit through the prisons.

• SP: Suppressive Person. Anyone who doesn’t like Scientology and/or criticizes Scientology.

• PTS/SP: Another bogus Hubbard term to define behavior that goes against Scientology rules.

• LRH technology or “tech”: All of the Scientology policies, rules, mandates, and procedures.

An experiment to be shown on an upcoming episode of MythBusters is causing some internet geek controversy, and getting some of my CarolinaNissans.com brethrens’ panties in a bunch.

The experiment asks the question, if a plane were sitting on a runway that was a treadmill, and the treadmill was brought up to speed, would the plane be able to take off? (Well, actually that’s an over-simplification.)

Check out THIS link.