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Tweeting from Space

NASA astronaut Mike Massimino, may have not been the first person in space or on the moon. He was the first person to use the social networking site Twitter from space. One short message for man, one tweet for mankind. His tweet from outer spaces reads as follows.

From orbit: Launch was awesome!! [...]

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Common Sense Parenting Advice

Sometimes I see some thoughtlessness on behalf parents, it seems that sometimes the parents have just given up on parenting. I often see kids running up and down and into people at department stores. But the worst parenting behavior is that one when the parent does not realize the potential hazard of the [...]

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Who Does Mark Zuckerberg Follow on Google Buzz

It took me about a day an half to get on Google Buzz after it was announced. The first thing I noticed was that I was already following a half dozen accounts and worst off that some people where following who I had only emailed but a few times. Google Buzz’s first failure [...]

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Retweet June 2009

Here I am reblogging some retweets for the past month that broken down by subject matter. Some of these tweets also cover events that occurred in June 2009. If you like to follow along, befriend xwoop and lolprez and I’ll be sure to follow back.
Xwoop

If in the future everybody will have 15 minutes [...]

Billion Dollar Losers

March’s edition of Forbe’s has a special on the world’s billionaires. I rember reading back in 2007 how the riches men and woman made billions that year. Now it is a different story. It is estimated the Carlos Slim Helu and Warren Buffett both lost $25 billion invidivually, and Bill Gates has [...]

Tweet Voice

There has been a lot of talk and excitement around Twitter recently, it all reach a new high when Oprah Winfrey dedicated a portion on her television program to Twitter. Some stats that followed the airing of the show indicated that as much as 1 million new users signed up to Twitter. Stats [...]

Thoughts on Baseball, Noise, Guilt

Thoughts on baseball…

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It’s staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
– Casey Stengel

I’ve come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen.
– Bob Lemon

Hanging out with Derek Jetter [...]

Retweet Obama Inauguration

Here I am reblogging some retweets covering the inauguration of President Barack Obama. If you like to follow along, befriend me and I’ll be sure to follow back.
Inauguration

A dream deferred will soon be a dream redeemed.
Anybody getting tomorrow off because of the inauguration? For some people, this is turning out to be a [...]

Billions Lost

It seems that the global economic downturn has even made paupers out of billionaires. Here is a top list, compiled by Forbes, of billionaire who lost billions of dollars from their net worth over the last year.

Anil Ambani (was worth: $42 billion/current worth: $12 billion)
Oleg Deripaska ($28 billion/$10 billion)
Bjorgflur Gudmundsson ($1.1 billion/$0)
Luis Portillo ($1.2 [...]

Obama Is Here

Christopher Bridges, better known by his stooge name Ludacris, has recorded and released a song in support of Obama. The song is entitled ‘Politics: Obama Is Here.’ In song Ludacris states that the world is ready for change because Obamam is here, but the first thing he asks of Obama is special pardon [...]