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Would You Hire Or Invest In You?

Read the headline again and give it more than three seconds of thought. If the answer is yes, great. Would you be willing to put yourself on YouTube Live for the next week to show the world why you are so good? If the answer has changed to a maybe or a no, great. Write […]

Eminent Domain Or How Government Takes Land

The city of Beaverton and the Biggi family have been arguing/negotiating over some land in Beaverton that the city would like to use to build a stadium for the Portland(will they change the name to Beaverton) Beavers.  Negotiations broke down and the Mayor started talking about eminent domain.  Once he agreed to back off that […]

Oregon’s Hands-Free Cell Phone Law Is Stupid

UPDATE: A new study shows that hands-free cell phone laws had no effect on accidents. “The Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI), an affiliate of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), examined insurance claims for crash damage in New York, Connecticut, California and Washington, D.C., before and after handheld bans took effect and found no […]

Celebs Don’t Always Have It Easy

Eddie Murphy has had his home on the market for five years! That’s even before everything went to down the drain. He started at $30 million and now has it listed for $15 million.  Taxes are $200,000 a year.  You can buy an average house every year with that.  Just fascinating. It has all of […]

One Trillion Dollars Visualized

Since last fall when the first bailout talk started, billions and trillions of dollars have been talked about until it has lost it’s impact.  This video puts it back into perspective.

Home Tip: Extension Cord Storage

No matter how careful I am I never get my extension cords in a perfect ring that unravels without a knot. Here is the solution. It’s 1:30AM so I haven’t verified how easy this is but it looks great.

Video – Not Safe For Lunchtime

Ron Ares had a cool sewer video recently with a couple of celebrities. I just see roots and dirty pipes on my sewer inspections. In North Carolina they found alien-like life forms in a sewer line. Don’t watch this during lunch. Mashable.com has the story on what is in the sewer while this video has […]

Friday Fun

I always found this commercial to be funny.  “It’s a sellers market.  It’s a buyer’s market.”

Rant About Drivers: Bethany Intersection

I am here to rant, indulge me a bit if you hate stupid drivers. See the friendly little triangle of green at the top?  See the arrows showing the flow of traffic?  Can you see the two cars facing Bethany just below the yellow line? Also notice that Bethany has two lanes running south.  Okay. […]

Moral Code: Everyone’s Doing It

Video Link I enjoy psychology and learning counterintuitive ideas that affect us. For the poker players out there, the invention of the poker chip has been lauded as a turning point in the participation and growth of the game – it took away the immediate true value of the money. In one of the studies […]

Debt Collection Rules

  Since I  have begun working more and more on short sale listings I have heard some shady practices by debt collectors.  Here are some rules that debt collectors have to live by: They may not call before 8 a.m. or after 9 p.m. They may not repeatedly use the phone to annoy you.  (This […]

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