Posted on: June 26th, 2009 by Famous Phil

I got a comment about if I was going to touch on this at all, so I might as well. 

Thriller, and a few other of his songs that I can’t name were really good songs.  I guess I do like the pop genre the best out of all the genres out there.  Other than what I’ve heard from his court trial a few years ago, I didn’t really pay much attention to him.

Last night I learned of his death while watching the Fox news Glenn Beck program. 

Shortly after hearing about his confirmed death, my father suggested we list some of our dolls on ebay of Michael Jackson.  About 5 minutes after listing a set of the Superstar of the 80′s series dolls (4 of them) in the original unopened boxes, someone hit the buy it now for $650.  Its quite amazing to me how people will pay this, but now we are that much richer   I think my father said he paid 10 bucks for the set in the 80s is a really great turnaround compared to the bank.  Anyways, since I have listed several other memorabilia, and it was going hot for the first 3 hours and now the excitement is gone and the market is flooded, so I guess I won’t be getting outrageous profits anymore from his stuff, but I’m still quite happy.  Looking back on this, I have learned that most buyers buy collectables on adrenline caused by death of the doll’s character.

Anyways, thats all I have to say on this topic   I’m trying to decide on what my next blog topic will be.  I’m guessing it is going to be something on ubuntu xen administration since that is my next major project

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Posted on: May 7th, 2009 by Famous Phil

I just finished up my last final for this semester of college and it feels good to be done.  That is why I haven’t really been blogging much for the past few days, and it might be a few days more until I get my next blog out.  Now its basically wait for a few weeks for my professors to be not-so-lazy and post my grades and grade the finals.  I am confident that my courses will come back as high marks (none below B).  In past semesters, I haven’t been able to say the same, so that’s a good sign.

Anyways, I have a short rant about the bookstore on campus.  As you probably know, most bookstores for colleges are a huge ripoff operation focused at making maximum profit because they know they can do that and get away with it.  Anyways, I thought I’d just talk a little bit about my experience every semester and what I started doing this semester to fix the problems that I’ve noticed.

The first semester I came here, I wasn’t sure about what books I needed until the final week, so I figured that I would get them from the bookstore.  That semester, I know I spent close to 500 dollars.  That is just outrageous for a mere 4 books.  Pretty sad, isn’t it?

After that semester, I began planning ahead and finding my book titles / isbn numbers out ahead of time.  The bookstore isn’t very helpful with this either.  The bookstore hates to post the book picture on their online store, so I end up always going to the bookstore about a week before class with a pen and paper to write down everything I need.  This works fine unless the professor hasn’t yet decided on the book they wish to use.  I’ve found that the bookstore also hates ordering books early, so they rarely have all of the books until the first day of class  (even when the professor ordered them ahead of time).

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