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    Skateboarding Dogs Show Resiliency In The Face Of Difficult Job Markets

    If Wall Street Bonuses Are Any Indication the Economy Is Back, Yall!

    This 16-Year-Old Has 120,000 Twitter Followers, Brighter Future Than You

    This Next Bubble Is Going to Be So Awesome

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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/07/09

    In reply to Skateboarding Dogs Show Resiliency In The Face Of Difficult Job Markets
    An excellent display of the benefits of dogged determination. Glad you threw him a bone. That's certainly something to chew on.
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    11/07/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: That's so doggone cute! #skateboardingdog
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    01:56 AM

    @reggattagirl: Armstrong's use of an animal like this gives us paws, however. #skateboardingdog
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    11/05/09

    In reply to If Wall Street Bonuses Are Any Indication the Economy Is Back, Yall!
    I continue to believe the rats are looting the ship before taking off on their lifeboats. #moneymatters
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    11/05/09

    @Smitros: Ha! i like it. one last kick at the can before inflation kicks in, and what is now lower household debt service crossed with record high levels of household debt load suddenly turns into the second reckoning of bernake. #moneymatters
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    11/05/09

    @Artur Van Asinine: You may misoverestimate me. If you can unpack/exemplify that a little I'd be grateful. In any event, we're free of non-mortgage debt and can diversify into goats and guns, or goats and crossbows, anyway. #moneymatters
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    11/05/09

    @Smitros: yesh. i tend to do that to myself, myself. too?

    anyway, all these low rates around the world have allowed folks to rack up additonal debt that they might not have otherwise been able to afford... be it mortgage debt in some markets, lines of credit, other loans etc. this has provided the desired support in the housing market, as well as provided cash for clunke...i mean cash for spending. great depression averted.

    so, historically low interest rates have led to much higher debt loads, though the cost of carrying that higher debt load is cheap. so the cash flow situation in the household is quite all right.

    but, when inflation kicks in at some point in the next 18 to 24 months, and rates begin to rise...all that super high debt load that was very affordable isn't affordable anymore (hey wait, i think we've heard this record before)... kaboom. large scale economic problems could once again abound.

    policymakers are hoping the recovery in the economy 18 to 24 months from now will be strong enough to absorb this second shock to the system...

    at that stage, your wise diversification into goats and projectile weaponry will be awfully handy! #moneymatters
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    11/06/09

    @Artur Van Asinine: Got it, I think. Thank you.

    So it's another bubble-popping/passed buck, with greater hell to pay later, analogous to what happened with adjustable-rate mortgages in the larger subprime Cluster F. #moneymatters
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    11/05/09

    In reply to This 16-Year-Old Has 120,000 Twitter Followers, Brighter Future Than You
    That photo of him looks like Peep Show: The Wonder Years.

    He's Mark, obviously.

    Anyone out there I didn't lose? #danielbrusilovsky
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    11/04/09

    In reply to This 16-Year-Old Has 120,000 Twitter Followers, Brighter Future Than You
    "Brighter future" = prematurely ejaculating in his cargo pants while Meghan Asha dry-humps him. #danielbrusilovsky
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    11/04/09

    In reply to This 16-Year-Old Has 120,000 Twitter Followers, Brighter Future Than You
    "Brighter future" = picking out many a wedgie. #danielbrusilovsky
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    11/04/09

    In reply to This 16-Year-Old Has 120,000 Twitter Followers, Brighter Future Than You
    When I was about this kid's age, I attended a Mac User Group meeting in my local area. The local MUG leadership was a lot of guys who looked and acted like Dave Winer, Mike Arrington, Robert Scoble, etc. -- self-important shitbrains who weren't even legitimate nerds.

    The only thing worse than knowing about their pathetic corner of the Universe back then is having it covered by mainstream outlets today. #danielbrusilovsky
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    11/04/09

    In reply to This 16-Year-Old Has 120,000 Twitter Followers, Brighter Future Than You
    If he was a ballroom dancer, I'd be impressed. All the best kids are now ballroom dancers. #danielbrusilovsky
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    11/04/09

    In reply to This 16-Year-Old Has 120,000 Twitter Followers, Brighter Future Than You
    I honestly wish him luck and success but at the same time I hope someone punches him in the face. #danielbrusilovsky
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    11/04/09

    In reply to This 16-Year-Old Has 120,000 Twitter Followers, Brighter Future Than You
    One of his recent tweets: "Hope all this attention doesn't get me a lot of pussy; I wouldn't know what to do with it #secretwishes." #danielbrusilovsky
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    11/04/09

    In reply to This 16-Year-Old Has 120,000 Twitter Followers, Brighter Future Than You
    People like this always seem so fucking insufferable, don't they? Every day is a resume contest, every day an opportunity to network. I mean, he calls himself an "evangelist" and he's got the shit-eating grin of a shit-eater twice his age.

    God, I think there are only people like this in the tech world, where you can literally float anywhere, with no real talent, on a cloud of snake oil. #danielbrusilovsky
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    Image of RonMwangaguhunga RonMwangaguhunga
    11/04/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: With all due respect to the kid, Twitter really wants to support this soulless zombie evangelizer? This is what gets your endorsement, twitter? huh?We creatives really need to bum-rush this fuck. You know things are really getting retarded when this is rewarded and the talented and the edgy are tossed aside lightly. Sorry, kid; I know it's not you, per se, it's the whole fucking evangelical, snakeoil era of hustle. #danielbrusilovsky
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    11/04/09

    @RonMwangaguhunga: Whatevs. He's perfect for twitter. It's like Pamela and Tommy Lee. #danielbrusilovsky
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    11/04/09

    @Pope John Peeps II:

    Dude, the kid is 16! For those who are 32 and still "evangelizing", yes rip on them. They should have picked up other skills by that age. This kid hasn't even finished high school.

    Hope you at least feel better about yourself. #danielbrusilovsky
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    11/04/09

    @mew: What the fuck should his age have anything to do with it? If anything, that makes it worse! Who is teaching him this garbage? Who's listening to him? It's the ultimate condemnation of a cycle of idiocy when a 16 year old CHILD is its lynchpin. You should spend your teen years DOING things and learning things. He's basically learning how to do and be nothing at all, and produce an imaginary value, and everyone is just encouraging him. #danielbrusilovsky
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    11/04/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: The kid seems smart and savvy and completely useless. #danielbrusilovsky
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    Image of DevilsAvocadoRedux DevilsAvocadoRedux
    11/04/09

    @Pope John Peeps II:

    He's the tech bubble personified. #danielbrusilovsky
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    11/04/09

    @mew: There's always one of you with the "too young" or "too soon" or "too harsh" or "too late" or whatever fucking admonishment you have today for precluding a perfectly valid reproach.

    You do realize your opinion about such things means fuck all, right? #danielbrusilovsky
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    11/04/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: I love the way you put this. Here's hoping the "child Internet sensation" arc follows the "child television star" arc. #danielbrusilovsky
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    11/04/09

    @DevilsAvocadoRedux: 1991: "hey, you know what would be great. I'm going to create a software tool to allow people to meet people! Let's get programming!"

    18 years later.

    2009: "hey, you know what would be great? I'm going to purchase this other person's software and create a website to link people of one tiny niche with each other, and then i'm going to "advise" other companies on how to get people to meet other people! It's a complex skill!"

    18 years along projected course.

    2027: "Me person. You person. We meet. Duuurrrrrr." #danielbrusilovsky
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    11/04/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: This is brilliant. It's like I can actually see this person drooling on his computer in 2027. Hearted like hell. #danielbrusilovsky
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    11/04/09

    @Pope John Peeps II:

    2059: [Old man sits alone in a small, dark room, his face lit by the iridescent glow of a computer screen]

    "It's just you and me, my precioussssss." #danielbrusilovsky
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    11/04/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: While I'm at it, Peeps, I'm attempting to recruit my old gaggle of friends to my new identity (lost the old one in the upgrade). I you feel so inclined, I'd be delighted if you could re-heart me for old time's sake, and help lead me out of no-starred obscurity. DA. #danielbrusilovsky
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    11/04/09

    In reply to This 16-Year-Old Has 120,000 Twitter Followers, Brighter Future Than You
    In all seriousness, how is he 16? He looks 11, 12 (but more like 8) tops. #danielbrusilovsky
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    Image of unclevanya unclevanya
    11/04/09

    @yourfriendandneighbor: Lack of the sun's (and a girl's) nourishment stunts the growth. #danielbrusilovsky
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    Image of IpsoFacto IpsoFacto
    11/04/09

    @yourfriendandneighbor: and I'm guessing he has a wicked virgin-voice as well #danielbrusilovsky
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    11/04/09

    In reply to This 16-Year-Old Has 120,000 Twitter Followers, Brighter Future Than You
    Look, he's a Mac!

    Bill Gates is dead. #danielbrusilovsky
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    11/04/09

    @unclevanya: He's also a bagel and an orange juice. #danielbrusilovsky
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    11/04/09

    @goetz: Then Nookranny Thomas and Oswald Oceanspray are dead too. #danielbrusilovsky
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    11/04/09

    @unclevanya: I'd sell all my milk stock, but I'm pretty sure that monopoly is safe. #danielbrusilovsky
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    11/04/09

    @goetz: Unless he's lactose-intolerant. That bagel looks mighty plain from here. #danielbrusilovsky
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/04/09

    In reply to This Next Bubble Is Going to Be So Awesome
    Where you guys been, doods? Green, environmental, carbon credit stuff is the big bauble currently and going forward. #trendwatch
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    Image of krismry krismry
    11/04/09

    In reply to This Next Bubble Is Going to Be So Awesome
    i read that net t-bill, note and bond issues might go as high as $444 billion for the fourth quarter, which is nasty for anybody into long term treasuries and even more fraught when you consider how unlucky of a number 444 is in china. oops. game reset! #trendwatch
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    11/04/09

    In reply to This Next Bubble Is Going to Be So Awesome
    So that's why Lloyd Blankfein showed up to our "How to Create and Profit from Bubbles" class in a karate uniform. #trendwatch
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