Nursery rhymes

There was a little flippen

Who lost his mittens

And he began to cry

Oh mother dear

I sadly fear

My mittens I have lost.

What! lost your mittens!

You naughty flippen!

You shall feel

The extent of the law!

The sad little flippen

he couldn't find his mittens

Although available they were

Sunday night.

I got news for you flippen - Lost Mittens will be available for you, in court, on Thursday.

I have a proposition for the haterz

Can one of you email me? Maybe the Dude or Benoit? or CHJTS?

schnapps013 at gmail dot com

Update:

Jake says tonight's fraudcast will be available here (right click and "save as" or whatever you do on other browsers. Or macs which only have one mouse button). Give him some time to upload - its pretty big.

Update to the update:

The Dude has the fraudcast here

Because I feel this need to do something mindless

And really, to fully understand what Casey Serin means, you'd have to be mindless.

(Except over at What Casey Means to Say which is quite clever and generally bang-on)

It seems Casey Serin was interviewed again by the Sac Bee.

The article says:

Due out this fall is "The Foreclosure Code," a self-published book that tells
how the 24-year-old racked up $2 million in debt last year after acquiring eight
homes in a space of seven months - just as the real estate market was turning
south.

I thought it was due out in July? Is July fall in Australia?

Casey says (in the article, via email):

I want to show people what to do and more importantly what NOT to do

O RLY? How about starting up icanhasforcloshurz?

I call bullshit. You want to try to make money off what you've already put up for free on the web. Which in turn begs the question, why would anyone pay to read your story? In that case, you should take the blog down.

Oh wait. You can't. Or won't.

The article says:

He says his book will have some similarities to author Dan Brown's best-seller,
"The Da Vinci Code," including a look-alike cover

Oh this should be good! Seriously! Can you imagine how he's going to combine Templar Mysticism with his story?

Either that, or he just can't come up with an original idea. Neither can his publisher.

Oh WAIT. They're one and the same. The article says:

Due out this fall is "The Foreclosure Code," a self-published book

I have a self-published book too. Its called a thesis, and I assure you, it has far more substance than anything Casey Serin will ever write.

Bullshit again on selling the blog. You won't because you like the attention. And if your "publisher" wouldn't let you take it down, why would he let you sell it?

If Casey won't or can't shut down his blog, and can't sell it, then I call bullshit on the book too.

There is something wrong with this...

But I am not quite sure what. Perhaps someone can explain.

Casey says:

I promised to start calling my lenders, now that I have income. I need to get a
new Skype headset for that. Anybody have one to spare?

1. Isn't he in Australia? Is he making money there or is he referring to the "income" from his blog?
2. If he is referring to the "income" from his blog, then is this considered working while he's on a tourist visa in a foreign country?
3. If he has "income" or at least money, why can't he buy his own headset?
4. Why does he need a "new headset" - won't the old one do?
5. Since when does Casey know the difference between "income" and "cash" and "credit"?

Go on. Discuss.

Link love

Go read this.

And go play this week's 6 degrees of Casey Serin even though its a bit of an oxymoron this week. Either that, or you will have an aneurysm only because few people can hold two absolutely opposed ideas in their brain without going mad.

I'm absolutely fried at the moment after working 8 straight weekends, my back hurts and my legs hurt, and there is pizza calling my name. More on the asshattery over at EN and IAFF later.

Much later.

Oh, and I think Aspeth and I still intend to do the joint post. I have been busy, she has been busy convalescing.

More pearls of wizdumb

Mocha says:

Use a good chunk to pay of the credit card debt of “you know who.” That will at
least clear your conscience a bit I think.

That would require having a conscience.

I call bullshit

Aside: The other week, I was teaching a leadership course and one of the candidates was really snarky. She mouthed off at me and I called her on it, then turned around and walked away. The next day, she comes to me and says she's had that feedback before, but no one's ever explained it to her.

Ok. Now we can talk.

She's 16.


Casey says:

As always I will continue being very open and transparent with my finances.

Yes, I call bullshit on many levels.

First, he has never been transparent with anyone including his family. Naked blogging? bullshit. Update your financial spreadsheet on a weekly basis complete with compound interest, then we'll talk.

Murst, he's trolling to get posts like this. That's all. He's purposely bating his critics who, in the past have given him some excellent advice.

Thurst, he's never faced up to anything, so why this sudden recommitment to "financial transparency"?

Fursth, if he were really committed to financial transparency and supporting his family, he would, in short order, go home, find a lawyer, contact his creditors, arrange payments, and get legal documents saying his wife had no involvement and is in no way responsible for his debt. And he'd do the necessary follow up with public notice, etc. etc.

Then, he would get a job that brings in steady, regular income.

I call bullshit. He's attempting to show that he has morals by trolling and re-spouting the advice that he's been given in the past.