Why I like it: I personally know a few people with serious gambling problems, which pisses me off. This site provides a way for people to get their gambling fix without loosing money. The potential to earn money exists but the potential to loose money does not. I doubt anyone is quiting their day job to play Cent Sports but some people are making a couple of hundred bucks.

check it out here and be my “crony.”

I don’t really like sports anymore… kinda got burnt out in high school, but I think the way this site is configured is genius. All the incentives are in their right place and even the way incentives are provided are phrased to look appealing. Bonus’ based on a percentage instead of a hard number is brilliant. I think a similar concept for a website could be implemented about different subject matter. Maybe a cross of Cent Sports and Trade Sports would be cool. I don’t know of many other online gambling sites but perhaps there are others who would make a decent partner. It’s a bit confusing though… is online gambling legal? Wasn’t there like a crack down on Poker sites a while back? I never understand that. I don’t understand how some sites can operate providing gambling services and others are forced to shut down.

If anybody can clarify please feel free to comment on this post.

Below is the logo for the site via freetimewasters.com.

Anyway, these two guys with super telescoping lenses and cameras were set up with tripods one behind the other aiming right at the top of this building through the trees. My friend and I passed them and figured out that they were paparazzi. Well my friend was chicken so I went up and asked them, “Are you guys paparazzi?” which in hindsight was probably not the best phrasing. Well, after being shot looks of disdain, I was eventually told that asking someone if he was a paparazzi was “like asking a pretty girl if she were a prostitute.”

I falsely apologized (although my acting was pretty good… I doubt they found my apology insincere) and one of the guys said angrily and with an undertone of “get the f*** out of here,” “We are nature photographers. We are shooting pictures of birds.” He then turned his back to me as I walked away scheming of the awesome things I could have said if I had a remote control or a quicker wit.

Since they were obviously paparazzi, I found their analogy a bit off. I thought it would have been more fitting if they had said, “Asking us if we are paparazzi is like asking a prostitute if she is a prostitute… accept the difference is we don’t seem happy to have found a potential customer.”

So to get back at their rudeness (something they are known for for legitimate reasons apparently) I had my friends go up and ask throughout the next hour who they were taking pictures of. They replied with similarly douchy reactions each time, always sticking to some form of the “We’re bird watchers” story but never convincingly and never with the loving tone of an actual nature lover. Oh, I forgot to mention they were “inconspicuously” wearing press passes around their neck.

Eventually they moved from their spot in the park… must have thought people were getting too nosy.

Maybe we managed to save some poor celebrity some humiliation.

But the experience gave me the idea to start a web site where people follow around the paparazzi and take pictures of them. Haha. I wish I had a camera on me.

It’s proving to be fairly useful for finding blogs to approach for publicity.

There is very little dialog but it doesn’t matter… it tells the story. Oh and the short before the actual movie is AMAZING.  It’s a bout a playful relationship between a magician and a rabbit. Totally sweet.

Go see it.

a.) Prison.

b.) In a court room.

If you want to find a good economist where do you look?

a.) Harvard College.

b.) In a poor village.

If you want to find some money where do you look?

a.) Bank.

b.) Couch.

If you want to find a girlfriend where do you look?

a.) Bar.

b.) Couch.