What Does This Tell Us?

Is this a statement on this particular bank or all banks in general?

 

 

Posted by TheArtistSwayze @ 11:30 am EDT | Permalink | 0 Comments

Busted Again

After my own experience and hearing from some friends and friends of friends, it seems that Xbox Live got busted up tonight.  When do I get my free arcade game? 

Posted by TheArtistSwayze @ 12:03 am EDT | Permalink | 4 Comments

A Formal Letter

Dear United States Government:

 

I understand that you are considering loaning out some $700 billion to help out Wall Street and various failing banks.  I understand that this is probably necessary to bring the markets back to some level of normalcy.  While I am unhappy that this course of action is necessary, I understand its necessity.  I am not writing this letter to criticize or place blame, I'll leave that to economic experts and History.  What I am requesting is that, in your generosity, you consider bailing me out.  I have some $50,000 in student loans that Sallie Mae is going to want back starting late next year.  In comparison to the money you're giving to Wall Street and others, $50K is a very insignificant number.  Why should you bail me out?  Well, for starters, this is all the debt that I have.  If I were unburdened with this debt, I would feel more comfortable with spending my money in the consumer market.  My increased spending would help the economy.  I know, I'm just one person and my spending would be but a rain drop in a monsoon.  However, if you're willing to spend $700 billion to help Wall Street, why not bail out all the people who owe student loans so all of us can have more money to spend on consumer goods or invest into businesses.  Our economy could use a lot of rain drops right now.  It's just a thought.  

 

Sincerely,

Richard Swayze

 

PS - Since you know now that I owe money, don't come looking to me for any donations to this bailout. 

Posted by TheArtistSwayze @ 12:36 pm EDT | Permalink | 0 Comments

Ambushed!!!

 For a week I've been playing phone tag with the contact at one of my job leads.  I finally got her on the phone today, thinking  we would be setting up an interview or something.  But no, it turns into a phone interview.  Completely unexpected, completely caught off guard.  I started running out of breath and getting drymouth.  Worst interview ever.  Just thought I'd share

Posted by TheArtistSwayze @ 5:14 pm EDT | Permalink | 1 Comments

Oh No You Di'int

Sorry. Sometimes I get that Mercenaries 2 commercial stuck in my head. We had some decent weather here yesterday so I went to the campus of Ole Miss, my alma mater, to take some pictures. Spent about an hour walking around, remembering my time there and snapping pics. The sun wouldn't cooperate (too many clouds) but I still got a few decent shots.

Got back to my car and found a familiar memory from my undergraduate days: a parking ticket on my car (Oh no you di'int! Sorry). The people who walk around writing tickets are so anal. I even checked the parking map online and found an "open" area to park in. Still got a ticket. Unlike my undergrad days, there is no parking decal on my car and they can't track me by my license plate so they can just take this ticket back and use it to wipe themselves because I ain't paying!

This is the Lyceum, where the Chancellor's office is and other various offices. It's the most iconic building on campus.

This is a close-up view of one of the columns with the sun peaking from behind. The shot is supposed to be vertical, but Photobucket is being screwy so it's appearing horizontal here for some reason. Just tilt your head

There's a cool fountain on campus. I took a high-speed shot to capture the droplets of water.

This really isn't an artistic shot, I just wanted to put a picture of the Grove up. This is where the party happens on football game days. Every piece of grass is covered with tents and tables. To call it tailgating on crack is an understatement. People bring their flatscreens and mini satellite dishes, chandeliers for their tents, etc. When you get near it there is an interesting aroma of grass, sweat, and alcohol. On any other day you can find hippies throwing frisbees or even playing Ultimate Frisbee.

 

Posted by TheArtistSwayze @ 11:47 am EDT | Permalink | 3 Comments