In addition to buying your significant other a Diamond-Tini, you can buy yourself a Gundam Fixed Platinum. A 13 cm, 1,400 gram miniature of Japan’s famous animated robot “Gundam”, this little fellow is made of pure platinum and at today’s prices would go for over $41,000.
Actually, with today’s steadily increasing mineral and metal prices, this may not be a bad investment …
MC Hammer, probably better known for his golden sparkle shirt and parachute pants (and squandering through his thirty million dollar fortune) than his pop-rap, got a new job earlier this month: Web 2.0 Expert! TechCrunch20, the conference which alleges to put a sense of merit back into startup conferences, has declared MC Hammer a Web 2.0 Expert and put him on the panel of judges.
While good news for Hammer, it could be bad news for Web 2.0. After all, Hammer-Time came with an expiry date.
More Kudos to The Cynical Sourcerer for another assist!
CombineNet is on a quest to conquer the Optimization World! Hopefully I’ll be able to post more details soon, but for now, let’s just say that it sounds like their new slogan is “We Can Optimize Anything“. To that end, I hereby proffer* the following for their new theme song (assuming, of course, that they can get the musical rights from the Tragically Hip for Blow at High Dough).
They had a problem once … in my home town
Everybody affected … from miles around
Energy crisis … not enough silver bling
Well we ain’t no day traders, but we can optimize anything
Get it out .. get it all out
We’ll stretch that bling
Make it last, we make it last
To well beyond the market bell rings
Well the stock-car driver likes his rhythm,
never likes the stops
Throes of passion, Throes of passion
When something just throws him off
Sometimes .. the faster it gets
The less you need to know
But you gotta remember
The smarter it gets, the further it’s going to go
When you optimize so
When you optimize so
Whoa baby you’ll feel fine
You can trust that it’s genuine
Dollars and Cents, Saves Dollars and Cents
Yeah, Every time you optimize
Nobody solves it as good as we do
It is one kick-ass tool
‘Cause we solve so fast, solve so fast
Makes everybody drool
Sometimes .. the faster it gets
The less you need to know
But you gotta remember
The smarter it gets, the further it’s going to go
When you optimize so
When you optimize so
Out in the market, same Elvis thing
But they can’t catch us, ’cause we can optimize anything
‘Cause we can optimize anything
Sometimes .. the faster it gets
The less you need to know
But you gotta remember
The smarter it gets, the further it’s going to go
When you optimize so
When you optimize so
Out in the market, same Elvis thing
* Copyright 2007. All rights reserved.
Hershey is closing its last Canadian Factory, laying off 580 workers before year’s end, as well as plants in Reading, PA, Naugatuck, CT, and Oakdale, CA. At least in the latter case, maybe a few of the more energetic can go back to school and learn to sling code.
Times must be tough for The Hershey Co., especially since they are launching a suit against Kenneth Affolter for selling marijuana-laced chocolate candy, with names like Stoney Rancher, Rasta Reese’s, and Keef Kat whose packaging was similar to their own, for a mere $100,000 in damages. I find this laughable. I don’t think any one is going to confuse marijuana munchies with plain old candy bars – unless Hershey is planning on launching their own brand of Jamaican Jollies.
More kudos to The Cynical Sourcerer for his enduring efforts to make sure these sugary stories don’t get overlooked!
Your idea of a relaxing drink with your significant other at the end of a long day is a $15,000 Diamond-Tini at the Ritz-Carlton.
The Diamond-Tini, a cocktail with a hint of lime and chilled Belvedere vodka over a 1.06 carat stone, is Japan’s answer to Manchester’s slightly more expensive Diamond Cocktail which uses a 1/2k pink tourmaline and diamond ring set in 18k white gold, which averages around $30,000 a pop.
My only question is what’s next? A solid-gold sundae dish that doubles as a crown?