Pluto you old bastard

Back in 2006 a bunch of astronomers go together and made a choice, that chose gives me the opportunity to say to my 12 year old cousin, when I was your age Pluto was a planet. we've all heard about this how Pluto is no longer a plant well there in the opinion of Ken Croswell it should be named once more a planet, I tend to agree with him on this one since Pluto is by no means small it even has moons, I mean that's not saying much. but the largest asteroid we've found is only have the size of pluto so yeah give old man Pluto back his Planethood, I mean he deserves it. I mean it is the 10Th largest thing to float around the sun after all (Eris is three times its size but is also farther away) so I agree I say Pluto in books you'll always be a Planet
A guy who spends time sword fighting with a Mr. Josh B in his room
Chris M

the IPad jump starts the PC tablet industry

alright so apple drops the IPad a few weeks ago and tho it was a major disappointment even to apple haters like myself, its got the whole PC industry scrambling to put out a Tablet that can compete with the IPad (this shouldn't be hard since the damn thing doesn't have flash). HP is finalizing pricing a Tablet that is almost the same size as the IPad but runs Win 7, it also has cellular connectivity, in my option it will probably a lot better than the IPad only because its a legit touch screen computers. Acer, Sony, Dell, and even Microsoft are all watching Apple to see how the IPad turns out and also working on there own projects to compete with the IPad. as much as I hate the say it, the IPad was a majority good thing for consumers if only because it reintroduced PC makers into trying to tap into the market again and making awesome touch screen products, which in the past have tended to not really ever take off. right now Tablet based computers make up only 1% of world wide computer sales. so lets all us Tablet lovers cross our hands and hope this IPad dose something good.

is our economy up again ?

BAM Front page on WSJ: Factories Gear Up Hiring. my first thoughts are AWESOMENESS. this is not because I plan to get a factory job, but because the more people who work the more money flows through the economy and everything is just dandy. so far industrial production rose 0.9% in January, and factory output rose a solid 1%. even with all the problems the motor vehicle industry has been having lately its output rose a solid 4.9%. tho they are doing it slowly factories are starting to hire back layed off workers. factories are doing it with grate caution with only 50 here and 50 there because they are scared of a second slump, but new jobs are opening up and that is nothing but a good thing.
a guy who like to bowl till the wee hours of the night
Chris M

I like to own not rent my books please

While looking through the opinion page on the WSJ I came across this debate about E-books and agree with Randell Stock and Carolyn Mathews when they say E-books aren't ready for the main stream yet. alright we all know about the E-books. on the surface they are awesome. they are electronic so no more killing trees to read that new harry potter or twilight book, they are more portable since the device's they come on tend to be thin and for the most part compact, (as compact as you can be with an E-book reader). I'm sure we all know someone with a kindle or someone who is planing to buy an IPad (yes we all have dumb Friend) but the point is they seam awesome. that is until you read the small print see here's the thing, you don't actually own the books you buy. you are simply renting them, in that licensing agreement you agree to when you buy the book, (or rent it really) your only allowed to keep it for a set amount of time, unlike a real book E-books can't be loaned, they can't be sold, and you can't just leave them on the shelf for as many years as you want. lets not forget the smell and feel of a new book when you sit down to stick your nose in one. also they are really expense I'm a vary avid reader during the summer and i can read at lest one book a day sometimes but when a E-book is 10 bucks a pop that adds up to quite a lot. soo I think E-books, while a good idea need some real perfecting before they are main stream.
A guy who is vary scared of heights tho wants to go into outer space,
Chris M

google is taking up the trouch

ok so its no big secret I'm a big Google fan, I have the G1 phone,all my docs are backed up on Google docs, I use GMail as my main email, and honestly I use AIM on GMail. I think the only thing I use a lot that's not Google is Skye. so when I read that Google was going to start supplying certain city's with affordable high speed Internet I was like hell yeah. the idea behind it is to help shape the high speed Internet business policy's. since Google knows it can't compete with comcast or att but it wants to show them how to spread the speed fast and with as little cost the the users as possible. all I have to say is good job Google and I hope they are successful with there endeavors.
A guy who loves pretzel and a mug of coffee
Chris M

apple your a dick

ok, ok, first off I'm going to fess up. I hate apple, I think they are a prick of a company and there products are locked up and the IPhone is a piece of shit. having said this I'm also going to say I plan to buy a mac later this year when I'm no longer a broke ass college student....
but down to what this blog post is about, apple Vs Adobe, hmm ok so for those who don't know whats going on earlier this year apple dropped the Ipad, which is basically a Itouch with a REALLY big screen, and get this NO FLASH, ok so let me put this in perspective, flash owns the Internet, you can't do shit with out it. you can't watch hulu, YouTube, addictinggames.com, hell you can't ever watch porn if that's your thing. like flash owns the Internet, and good thing cus it works, its free, and its just generally a cool product. being someone who has made flash games and movies I can say its really fun and easy to make stuff with. but here's the real deal apple is trying to replace flash with HTML5, its own flash like product. personally I think its just a dick move on apples part mainly since most people won't switch over, this blogger included. and if they want the Ipad to be the Internet surfing hit that Jobs is calling it they shouldn't wall off 90% of interactive web products.

The guy who some how can't seam to get any work done until he has pants on
Chris M

P.S. this isn't the first time apple and adobe have done this. apple wouldn't let flash on the IPhone, and we see how long that worked for. and that was on a device that wasn't just about surfing the web

credit systems are madd complicated dude

ok so I read this letter from Bob Dewberry to the WSJ and in it he called for the return of credit as it was for WW2 vets. he points out how a man who could prove he had no need for it could get a line of credit. he also says how this was before the invention of credit cards and points out that it worked just fine plus it was simple, no bundled mortgages and confusing rating services. while I agree that this probably was a simpler and maybe even easier way to handle credit, it just isn't practical in today's world where you can fly across the globe in a few hours. the world got really small really fast and today's consumer needs a credit card system that can keep up with him/her and maybe that comes along with a lot of complications but as long as you don't act crazy with your card and pay your bills on time you should be ok.
Chris M.

A&F is evil but cool

so Abercrombie and Fitch equals cool. Any American teenage growing up in 2000's knew this, I mean yeah some kids wore American eagle but if you where cool or preppy you wore Abercrombie. that was just how it was. the brand became a symbol for portraying cool. it showed a certain status, it showed your parents or you could spend 50 bucks on a crappy T-shirt. it showed that if you where a girl that you where skinny since they tended not to make there cloths in bigger size's. although this is true for guys to as of this writing I am an XL when it comes to T-shirts (normally I'm a M). but the fact remands Abercrombie and Fitch and its sister clothing line hollister are synonymous with cool. or they were see the problem is that we all grew up (teenagers of 2000's) we are entering our 20s and starting college, we are also broke, since teen unemployment is on the rise. And since little kids have started to wear the brands more and more they have become less cool. this is showing up in Abercrombie's and Hollister's sales which where down 19% and 25% respectively from last year. in perspective Aeropostle and American Eagle are up 10% and 7%. Abercrombie got lazy there styles haven't really changed much in the last 12 years and because of that what was once cool is no longer where as tho American Eagle did once have a legal run in with Abercrombie over copying its style it and Aeropostle have embraced charge and lowered prices to deal with Teen unemployment and tho Abercrombie has also lowered price's the same shirt with the letters A&F vs AE will cost you an extra 19 bucks on average, 10 if they are on sale.personally I prefer Abercrombie & Fitch to American Eagle and will continue to buy cloths from them. but it looks like for once in the last 10 years they don't dominate the prep teen market anymore.
pz till later
the guy who thinks up his best stuff when he's shaving (yeah I know right)
Chris M

The fall of Toyota as we know it

OK so like everyone knows the deal with Toyota, how they completely dropped the ball on this one. but just in case you don't know what I'm talking about. here's what happened: in January 2010 Toyota recalled around 6.5 Million cars from the US and 1.8 mill from Europe because of what is thought to be a problem with the acceleration pedal sticking to the floor which caused it to suddenly accelerate. That problem was blamed for several crashes, including an accident involving a Lexus that accelerated to more than 120 mph before crashing in San Diego, killing four people. this is probably the worst PR thing to happen to Toyota in it 73 year history and there is almost no chance of them coming back from it. They have stopped production and sales on all automobiles while they try to fix this. it is a devastating blow to the company who was already hurting from the global recession (in May of 2009, Toyota reported a record annual net loss of $4.4 billion) I highly doubt they will be able to recover, well not as Toyota. Most likely the company will show up later under a different name, repackaged as something else to be once more sold to the unknowing consumer.

YOU GOT TO WRITE A BLOG

ok so my proff for business comm was like ok people you have to write a blog on what you read in the Wall Street Journal (from now on to be called WSJ in my writings.) and I was like hmmmm sure why not doing homework seams to get me good grades. So here we are Ive started to write something that most likey will be read by one person but I will write it for the whole internet to read...... yeah thats it for now
the guy who likes to start a moring reading his WSJ and drinking a Starbucks frappachino,
Chris M
PS you its weird since my other blog is all about avoiding doing my homework...