Luke ‘n’ Bill

In case you were worried about the fate of the famed Zubaz, I would like to put your mind at ease. They are still alive and well, they just migrated north (I’m sure it’s due to global warming).

I was back home this last weekend and while at my old high school’s football game I was lucky enough to spot an actual pair of Zubaz alive and running free. It’s a beautiful thing seeing this majestic creature roam the lands.

See for yourself…

Now as you can see this the official pair not the generic Zubaz that I was proud to rock out from the 4th grade, all the way through the 6th grade (yeah, I was that cool).

To top it all off, this specific breed was Minnesota Vikings themed. Would you believe that just a mere 2 days after this siting the Vikings were able to be victorious for the first time this year? Coincidence? I think not!

P.S. If you’re suspicious about the true migration of Zubaz north, just check out the “Shop” at zubaz.com and you’ll see where the only retail location to purchase your original, official Zubaz apparel is.

First I heard about this story from my dad and then later on in the day I got an e-mail from Ross about it.

A few days back (September 8th) a news article in the archive a Florida newspaper started getting an unexpectedly large amount of hits for some reason. This would usually not be a big deal, however it was an article about United Airlines filing for bankruptcy from a couple months back. So now it’s a big deal.

The large amount of hits caused it to go the the “Popular News” section of the web site. Because of that, it was picked up by the Google News crawler. The news crawler puts the article on the Google News site with the current date on it and the article itself doesn’t have a date with it.

This eventually got itself onto the financial news service of a stock research firm that publishes reports on the Bloomberg L.P. Now we’ve really got a problem.

Here is an excerpt from an informative writeup by Steven J Klein @ mac.com:

8. On Monday, September 8, at approximately 10:45AM, a headline from the report flashed across Bloomberg screens.

9. In the next 15 minutes, UAL shares in UAL dropped from almost $12.50/share to just $3, before trading was halted. At least one block of 100 shares traded at 1 cent per share, though that trade was later voided.

He also brings up a good point that this could very easily be a form of market manipulation. All spammers would have to do is send out millions of e-mails with the link to a story like this in the body, if just a small fraction clicks on the story, bam…it’s on the front page and everyone freaks.

My friend Holly sent me this link on youtube and I was seriously in pain I was laughing so hard. As she did, I waited the entire time for a “HAHAHA, we got you!” but it never came.

After seeing that, I’m pretty sure they better make sure that first safety is on, because I don’t there is much there in that “second safety”. I think my favorite part of this are some of the comments on it, especially this one:

sheracj:

Oh no, this is terrible.

She added WAY too much mayonnaise.

Ok, so my fiance just looked at me like I told her “Guess what, 2+2=4!!!!” but I swear this just blew my mind.

I’ve been reading Herbert Schildt’s complete reference to C# and I am currently in inheritance where you learn about method virtualization/abstraction and they were quickly explaining how boxing/unboxing allows C#’s type system to be fully unified and to do so they gave this quick example as part of it:

using System;

class MethOnValue
{
public static void Main()
{
Console.WriteLine(10.ToString());
}
}

Maybe have never thought about the use of objects in C# deep enough, or maybe I’m thinking about the complexity of it way too much now, but that really just made me step back and say, “what the…?”  I could be making it more complex than what it is, but it just seems crazy that you can take a value and make it an object out of the blue.

By the way - The comment here refers to the fact I had “fiance” mispelled as “finance” originally.