Posted by Jeremy G. on 24th, 2009
Well put your money where your mouth is.
Head on over to Bookmaker.com where people are flocking to put their real cash on the line after seeing the beaten photos of Rihanna recenly leaked from the LAPD. Bookmaker.com says that before the photos became public, the odds were a considerably different.
“In fact, betters are reportedly getting $1.12 back for every $1 bet if Brown gets jail time, while those who wagered $1 on Brown not getting any jail time will get back $2.35.
Or -850 for the singer serving time, against +130 that that he will escape incarceration.
The site says that odds were a lot different before the unauthorized post-incident LAPD photo, with the odds increasing after its leak.”
http://www.ballerstatus.com
I know where I’m putting my money.
Posted by Jeremy G. on 21st, 2009
MTV, I’m calling you out
My computer setup is infinitely worse than any crappy car you’ve had on Pimp My Ride. For how much time I spend at my computer, I have a truly TERRIBLE setup, and it needs to be Pimped MTV. There are so many problems with my entire computer area I don’t even know where to begin. Here is The List.
1.) Computer chair - It is the smallest, crappiest chair you’ve ever seen. The back wobbles like crazy, and I constantly have to push it back in to make sure it doesn’t fall off because it’s so loose. Tightening the screw does nothing. Also, the whole house is tilted slightly, so I am constantly sliding to the left because of the well lubed wheels on my computer chair. Every couple of minutes I have to scoot, scoot, back into place, and then push the back of the chair back into it’s slot so I don’t fall over backwards when it falls off.
2.) Headphones - The padding has long since worn off, so hard plastic presses against my ears. The protective housing for the cable has long since stripped off, exposing raw wires, which if it didn’t interfear with the sound quality I could care less about. But of coarse the sound in the left earpiece only works about half the time because of this, and you have to play around with the bare wires to get it to work again. Sometimes it stays fixed for an hour or more, and sometimes it breaks again five minutes later. So now I get to mess with the headphone wires every time I scoot my chair back into place. Fun.
3.) Monitor - 21″ Samsung flat panel screen. Great right? Wrong. When it’s working it looks great, but I managed to get one that turns itself on and off intermittently. Normally it’s not a big deal, it just flashes totally dark for 2 seconds every half hour or so, but lately it’s gotten MUCH worse, doing it three or four times in a row which is SUPER annoying. I already sent it back once when it had 3 dead pixels on arrival, and I’m pretty sure the warranty is up, so I’m just stuck with a $350 defective monitor.
4.) Internet connection - It cuts out pretty regularly, and all the repairman can say is “You have old cables in this house, the only thing you can do is replace all the wire in the house.” Wow, thanks. Put one more checkmark in the column of “Reasons Why Living Here Sucks.”
5.) No PCI-E or AGP video card slots, just PCI - This computer was my first ever PC purchase because I’m a Mac guy, and it was just one of those things that I didn’t know mattered. Bottom line? The newest video card I can get in my computer is from about 2002, and games that are five years old still lag like a bitch.
6.) Needs a System Reinstall - My computer overall just lags like hell, 5 seconds or more to open Firefox or a word processor. Tried uninstalling all useless things, didn’t work. Scanned for a virus. Did nothing. Oh, oh, a spyware scan will help! Wrong. So I get it in my head to reinstall the system software. Can’t find the disk. Call Dell to get new one. I’m told that 3 years ago I forgot to get the ownership transfered to my name from the guy I bought it from. I miraculously find the phone number of the company I purchased it from and give them a call, assuming it is a customer service line. Wrong. Turns out it was some guys cell phone number and I wake him up at 4am east coast time. Not happy. Whoops.
MTV, Are You Up For a Challenge?
Email me the time and date when you can Pimp My Computer, and I will try to be available to film the show. Thanks, and look forward to working with you guys. Mabye make my setup something like this, but with more monitors, but if you wanted to do something crazy, don’t let me hold ya back.
Posted by Jeremy G. on 23rd, 2008
What have I been up to in my life? First it was that I moved down to Waikiki, then it was that I was uninspired, then it was that I just didn’t care, and most recently, it’s because I’ve picked up surfing. I’m going to focus on the surfing 
Here is my very first board, a real beat up guy bought for a good price, but still very ridable.
I am very happy and proud of it, as it’s my first surfboard ever, even though I’ve lived all my life in California. Yes that’s right, we don’t all surf, hardly any of us do actually.
Anyways, I’ll share one beginner surfing tip with you guys. I know it might sound boring, but when you are all ready to jump in the water and start surfing, just stop for a few minutes and watch the waves. Plan your attack. This will save you TONS of effort and frustration, trust me. See where the waves are breaking, where they tail off, and make a conscious plan to surf in a specific area and stick to it. There is nothing more frustrating that trying over and over to catch a wave in an area where they just aren’t breaking, such as the middle area of the Canoes break in Waikiki. At Canoes, for some reason the waves break outside (way out) and inside (close to shore) but there is a dead zone in the middle which is impossible to catch anything in. After a few times of becoming extremely frustrated and tired AND catching no waves, I learned to avoid the dead zone. Every time I go out I still see people floundering away there though, wasting their energy and thinking there are no ridable waves today. I like to smile and wave as I ride by them
