This piece by CNN is absolutely hillarious. Here are some excerpts…

According to the article:

Nevada brothels that cater to long-haul truckers are offering gas cards and other promotions after seeing business decline as much as 25 percent from a year ago, industry officials said.

Industry officials? I thought that this is illegal all states (of course, except NV where this news article is focused on). I never thought of this as an industry and much less that they would have officials. Can you imagine your local pimp giving these statements to the media?

Here is another jewel:

Geoffrey Arnold, president of the Nevada Brothel Owners’ Association, said truckers account for up to 75 percent of business at the state’s rural brothels along Interstate 80 and U.S. Highway 95.

There is a Brothel Owners Association? Aren’t us IT guys just dumb? We don’t even have a union…

The entrepreneurial ingenuity knows no bounds… see below.

In response to a 5 percent drop in business, the Shady Lady Ranch along U.S. 95 about 150 miles north of Las Vegas plans to offer $50 gas cards to clients who spend $300 and $100 gas cards to those who spend $500.

So, if I get my math right, if I spend $300 in the Shady Lady Ranch, I will get a $50 gas card. I have a regular sized car so $50 is a tank full. I don’t think that those $50 or even $100 gas cards will entice too many truckers that spend hundreds of dollars to fill up a tank. Just a humble opinion.

This guy should be a Chief Marketing Officer for a Fortune 100 company. Again, entrepreneurial ingenuity knows no bounds…

Under a promotion under way at the Moonlite BunnyRanch near Carson City, the first 100 customers who arrive with government stimulus checks receive twice the services for the same regular price.

“We’re calling it double your stimulus,” said BunnyRanch owner Dennis Hof. “The brothel industry is having to get more creative just like all consumer products in America. Everybody has got to deal, and we’re doing the same thing.”

“Double your stimulus”? I don’t think that this type of expenditure is precisely what the government had in mind when they designed the plan. But, then again, I have seen weirder things.

Hardest hit are independent truckers, who must pay for their own fuel, said George Flint, a lobbyist for the brothel owners’ association.

There is a lobbyist for the brothel owners association? Lobbying should be illegal. The comment above is one of the millions of reasons why.

As an MBA graduate would say “this is a good business plan”. See below…

“The customers won’t be spending as much, but the brothels will still be there,” he said. “After food, the most important activity, at least for men, is sex. Sex is not going away.”

Last week in South Beach (Miami Beach, FL) an undercover police officer uncovered a mobile brothel set up on SUV Limo.

WOW…

Consegui este post que esta demasiado ingenioso. Pareciera hasta infantil, sin embargo es extremadamente ingenioso. Este muchacho ha logrado conectar un drive portatil USB (Flash drive) a un conector de telefono de pared. Luego modifico un cable de telefono para poder conectarlo a su puerto USB en su laptop. Aqui esta el link. No se hagan ilusiones, que aqui no se muestra nada ilegal.

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I just found this post that is very ingenious. It could also be considered infantile, bit extremely ingenious nonetheless. This kid has been able to modify a USB flash drive to be connected to his phone jack (wall). Then, he modified the USB cable to connect to the phone jack on one end and USB on his laptop. Here is the link. Don’t get your hopes up, I am not publicizing anything illegal.

Quien pensaria que propagandas o comerciales que uno veia varias veces al dia, son cosas que hoy nos traen recuerdos de nuestra infancia o juventud? Todos los videos que ustedes veran a continuacion, son videos de comerciales de las decadas de los 70’s, 80’s y 90’s principalmente que he conseguido en YouTube. Estos son todos esos comerciales que uno los ve y lo primero que piensa es “que propaganda tan chimba o ridicula”. Y es verdad (claro, dependiendo de los gustos y colores de cada quien). Muchas de estas propagandas no son material para un Oscar, pero es inevitable que a uno no le traigan recuerdos.

Habia conseguido una buena parte hace unos meses, pero hoy consegui mas todavia. Disfrutenlos…

Comercial de Jabón Super ACE - Comercial en Blanco y Negro, asumo que es de la decada de los 70’s.

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Confieso que habia dejado esto en pausa por un tiempo. He logrado recopilar un viaje de videos de Venezuela, tanto asi que tengo que dividirlos anio por anio (se dieron cuenta que mi teclado no tiene enie?). Aqui les dejo las joyas que consegui en el baul de los recuerdos que nos transportara a 1990. Espero que lo disfruten. En los proximos dias agregare otros posts con videos de otros anios.

Para los novelero(a)s, aqui esta la presentacion de la novela “La Pasionaria” con Fernando Carrillo y Catherine Fulop.

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Estas son las noticias que hacen vivir en el sur de la Florida, tan interesante. Yo estudie en un colegio de padres dominicos de puros varones, que solo recientemente lo convirtieron en colegio mixto. Ustedes se imaginan que mezcla de furor, e insubordinacion se hubiera creado si esta profesora hubiera trabajado en un colegio de puros varones?

Aqui esta la traduccion del articulo que salio publicado hoy en el Palm Beach Post:

Por Sonja Isger

Palm Beach Post Escritora del Staff
Miercoles, Mayo 07, 2008

De acuerdo a la informacion obtenida por nuestros companeros en CBS 12, la profesora de Biologia de Port St. Lucie High School no tendra trabajo en esa escuela. Sin embargo, toda la publicidad obtenida por la profesora de Biologia por ostentar su bikini, le ha logrado obtener una oferta para posar para Playboy.

La ex-profesora de Biologia Tiffany Shepherd dice que perdio su trabajo el mes pasado porque sus jefes descubrieron que ella estaba trabajando en un bote de pesca de alquiler (charter) que ofrece viajes con mujeres topless y con bikinis.

Aqui viene la parte mas interesante! Estos son los resultados de la encuesta que se hizo online, preguntando a los cyber lectores: Es apropiado para una profesora tener un segundo trabajo en un bote charter con modelos en bikinis?

Miren las respuestas!

Is it appropriate for a teacher to be moonlighting on a bikini charter boat?
Si 53.24% 6484
No 16.94% 2063
No me importa 29.82% 3631

Hay otros reportes por el departamento de educacion que la razon del despido de esta maestra fue por su ausencia de (nada mas y nada menos) de 30 dias de trabajo.

Como dicen en Bienvenidos, “Incomprensible”.

Este video comentario de Orlando Urdaneta esta buenisimo. Lo peor de todo es que tiene TODA la razon! Yo soy un usuario de Facebook y he logrado conseguir amistades que tenia mas de 14 anios sin saber de ellos. Es una sensacion excelente volverse a poner en contacto con viejos amigos. Ahora, de alli a estarse mandando bebidas “alcoholicas” ciberneticas, eso es otra vaina.

Aqui esta el video… curiosamente lo consegui en Facebook.

Dave Barry has always managed to write with such a sense of humor that it could not surprise you that things could actually be the way that he hilariously describes them. His latest article made the front page on the web edition of the Miami Herald. Click here to read it. Here is the other permalink, just in case the Herald archives it. Enjoy!

I found this very interesting article about non-compete agreements that many if not all IT employees has had to sign at one point or another. Below is the e-Week article. To see the original article and its comments, please click here.

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Why Can’t I Compete? Clearing the Noncompete Haze
DATE: 16-NOV-2007
By Deborah Perelman

Noncompete agreements are rampant in the tech industry and most workers have no choice but to sign them, but are they worth getting worked up over? The experts say no.

A technology professional working at a large company was recently asked to sign a noncompete contract and confidentiality agreement that gave the company a royalty-free license to any “invention” he created while working there and up to six months after leaving the company. The employee, who declined to offer his name or the company in question, was worried about signing his creative freedom and future competitiveness away and called out to the Slashdot community for advice.

Responses ranged from a sarcastic “good luck fighting it” to “don’t worry, it’s not enforceable” and, from the employee himself, “obviously, it’s time for a new job,” each underscoring the hazy area noncompete clauses occupy in modern workplaces.

Employees hate them, employers consider them necessary, and although they are almost never brought to court—and even when they are, are rarely enforceable—they strike enough fear in the heart of workers that many would rather stay put than risk being sued for violation of the contract’s term, say employment lawyers. …..Click here to read more

Definitivamente hay que ser bruto y lo demas es cuento. Venezuela sera el unico pais del mundo donde ADELANTARA sus relojes por media hora, y no atrasarlos una hora completa, ya que eso tendria sentido. La razon? Para darles a la juventud media hora mas para dormir. Si ese es el objetivo porque no cambiar los horarios escolares para empezar clases a las 8 en vez de las 7? O porque no ATRASAR el reloj una hora? Como decian en Bienvenidos, INCOMPRENSIBLE!!

Aqui les dejo estos comentarios de TV Espanola.

Esto es excelente!!