I usually prefer to do this sort of thing during the fall when you can do other activities like roast marshmallows or cook up some yummy hot dogs. With winter time I think your options are a little bit more limited. The thing has to be portable and able to hold a decent amount of wood. There are some models that use propane, but they are a little big to bring out to the sledding hill. Some of the smaller pits just don’t seem to get the job done for the winter time cold. A nice sized deep bowl like my neighbor brought seems to do the trick.

Now, if I could just keep my kids from throwing snowballs at it.

If this sounds like some stuffy academic experience that you need a tweed jacket for you would be sorely mistaken.  It features interesting insights into phrases such as

• Puck Bunny
• Bent as a Pink Moose

I would give you the definition here, but it would deprive you of the experience of reading the site first hand.

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I’ve been able to collect quite a few gems from the Internet and I think the blog reflects some of the finer game points. I think there are lots of people providing info about hacks, but all the stuff on this blog contains quality content that you can use to speed up the process of playing Farmville. Drop me a line and tell me what you think.

I’ve now got years of experience in financial services and had considered working at a company like Bourse Data who makes great financial applications.  As a society we will continue to create more wealth that needs to managed and properly invested.  People that can write software to help manage the trillions of assets that people own will do well.

This is especially true in regards to regulations.  After the recent scandals regulators too will be turning to financial software to help them uncover odd trends and other irregularities.

Despite all the outsourcing to India there is still plenty of room for creative programmers to invent new and exciting software.

They have listings for upcoming auctions, ending soon and completed transactions.

I like this breakdown because sometimes you just need to get a new site quickly and you don’t want to wait around.  By going to ending soon you can get something without waiting a month.

Completed auctions are extremely helpful especially for newer web investors.  They can give you a glimpse of what you could expect to pay for a given website.  Typically people pay between 12 to 36 times current earnings.  The stronger the business model the higher the multiple.

If managed well websites can be an extremely effective investment.  Many sites sell for less than $5,000 and you can keep adding new ones or growing your existing web assets.  If you compare this to starting a franchise there is much less risk and you don’t have to quit your job to get started.  Also you take a lot of the guesswork out of the picture.  Someone has already done all the testing to prove that the method works.  Many times starting a new site you have no idea if anything will work out.

If you decide you don’t like managing the site it is also easy to sell.  I recently bought a site for 3k.  I sold 2.5k in advertising and then turned around and sold it again for $750.  Probably not worth the effort, but once I got into it I decided I didn’t like managing the site.  Easy in and easy out.  A site like flippa.com will make this even easier.

One of the current polls running on the site is regarding which company is most poised for an anti-trust suit to be slung their way.  Currently it is a tie between Google and Microsoft.  Microsoft has taken a lot of heat in recent years, but I think the era of the PC is winding down.  In the next 20 years it will be all about the cloud.  You can already start to see this trend with NetBook sales.  People simply don’t need massive computers that can do everything.

We have our game systems to play games and our computers are largely for using websites.

At the bottom they have all the sites that are part of the TechWeb.  It is an awesome listing if you are into technology and all the changes happenning on the web.

The skin was made of kangaroo leather.  I had no idea what that meant, but it sounded awesome and I thought it would make me play soccer better so I had to have it.

I also convinced my parents that I needed screw in cletes for when it was ranining heavily.  I had two different pairs of cletes can you believe that.

Then Adidas came out with the Predator.  I never had a pair, but it seemed like an awesome idea.  Somewhere along the line I did switch to start wearing Lanzera.  Why?  Because no one else had them.  It was a unique shoe and being cool meant having something different.  Seriously, have you ever even heard of Lanzera.  Of course you haven’t.

Interestingly soccer.com purchased Lanzera.com and redirects you to soccer.com if you try to type in Lanzera.com.  Small world.

Facebook is much better. It is interactive and has all kinds of tools and games to help you connect.  It seems like myspace is all about your page you you you.  Whereas Facebook is more about connecting with others.

I think you will start seeing more sites like this.  Every day on my commute I see strange and bizare once in a lifetime things.

Now that I have something like a mino flip I can quickly and easily capture it.  Yet I still haven’t done it.

I have seen some unbelieveable accidents.  If I only had my camera I could have captured it.

Anyway, this site is amusing and I would give it a good 45 seconds.