Crazy but useful tool.

"˙uʍop ǝpısdn ʇxǝʇ ɹıǝɥʇ ʎɐldsıp puɐ ǝʇıɹʍ oʇ ɹǝsn ǝɥʇ sʍollɐ ɥɔıɥʍ ˙ǝlʇıʇ dılɟ ǝʞıl suoıʇɐʌouuı looɔ ʇnq ǝldɯıs ɟo snoıʌuǝ ɯɐ ı 'ʎǝuoɯ ɟo sʇol ǝʞɐɯ puɐ ʎƃolouɥɔǝʇ ɥʇıʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos ǝʇɐǝɹɔ oʇ ʎɐʍ ɐ puıɟ oʇ ʇsǝnb ʎɯ uı ˙ʇsoɯ ǝɥʇ ɹǝʇʇɐɯ ʇɐɥʇ sƃuıɥʇ ǝlʇʇıl ǝɥʇ sı ʇı sǝɯıʇǝɯos"

Wonder what I said? Well here it is....Sometimes it is the little things that matter the most. In my quest to find a way to create something with technology and make lots of money, I am envious of simple but cool innovations like flip title. Which allows the user to write and display their text upside down.

The world is smaller than we realize

Fuzzy math

Over the last few weeks we have heard over and over about overpaid UAW members who are employed in the auto industry at the Big 3. Here's confirmation that the information is totally flawed that most of Congress and others in the media are using.

McNuggett Love

This commercial is hilarious. Why are they so serious talking about McNuggets?

Never forget where you came from

Many Michiganders saw this man as the next President of the United States during the Republican primary election season. Others hoped he would have been the choice of John McCain for VP. Well as Congress debates the future of Michigan his message to them is:

"Let Detroit go bankrupt"

6 myths about the Detroit 3

The debate over aid to the Detroit-based automakers is awash with half-truths and misrepresentations that are endlessly repeated by everyone from members of Congress to journalists. Here are six myths about the companies and their vehicles, and the reality in each case.

So for all of those who use the quality excuse for not supporting American cars pay special attention to Myth #2. Now ask yourself why is buying foreign better if your country is collapsing as a result?

http://www.freep.com/article/20081117/COL14/811170379/?imw=Y

Tears of Equality, Tears of Joy

On November 4, 2008 shortly passed the 11:00 hour, the national networks made the extraordinary announcement that Barak Obama was elected as the 44th President of the United States of America. The television screens were filled with Americans, young and old, white and black, Latinos and Asians. They were celebrating, they were exuberant, and many were crying. Just like the people on the screen I cried too. As I sat in public place surrounded by a few friends and mostly strangers, tears welled in my eyes and I cried. As I called the people who I trust, who I lean on, and who admire the words escaped them as well and they cried. As I wiped my tears away, a young white man said to me, “I am not trying to be rude, I am excited and happy but why are you and some many others crying?” The question was legitimate and he was sincere.

I was unable to answer his question then, but now I wish he was here for my explanation. The tears erupted from my soul, because of the significance of how my life would be different because of this day. In the past I have often been a victim of racism. Although I am only in my thirties the painful reminders that I was not good enough in the eyes of others was there. It was hidden in the rejection at job interviews when my voice didn’t match my face. It was obvious when the local chapter of the Klan welcomed my family to our new neighborhood in Detroit. It was painfully honestly when I was subject to harassment, a hostile workplace, and eventually terminated for simply the color of my skin. Slavery and Jim Crow was many years ago, but like another famous Chicago native Kanye West put it, “racism still alive, they just be concealing it”.

No, I am not saying that my life is different and racism will end from this day forward. The perception on what racism can do to me has changed. The limitations that I placed upon myself had been removed on this day. The power of the mind is great, the potentials are unlimited. Mindset is said to play a role in our physical health, our spiritual well being, and definitely our overall happiness. I remember in elementary school when kids were asked, “What do you want to do when you grow up?” Without fail someone would say, “I want to be President.” Most of the time people laughed at them if it was a primarily black classroom. The realities of life would maim their dreams and the possibility faded away. No matter how many times I was told I could be anything I wanted to be as a child, it was tempered by the realization that certain things were off limits. No more will my dreams be limited by my skin color. Maybe it was always that way, but it was without substance until today, but now we have proof. The most powerful man in the world is a black man. When Joe Louis defeated Max Schmeling people had to feel like this. Blacks in America have always battled in this country to be considered equal. We don’t want to be considered anything other than equals. Although this was true in conception it is always better to have a living, breathing accomplishment of it. President Obama is symbolic of that. I shed tears when I was victim of racism in the past, but those were tears driven by anger, frustration, and rage. So part of the reason I cried was because of those experiences too. I cried thinking of how I had let others temper my hopes. I cried thinking of how many young African-Americans would no longer place limits on themselves. I was proud that this country showed again that ALL things are possible in America.

So the change is not singularly mine as a black man though. The tears were not just my tears. They belonged to any minority group who is left out of the power structure in America. They belonged to women, of all races and ethnicities, who are trying to break the glass ceiling that exists all across the country. They belong to people who were born in another country and wondered will their children ever live the American dream. “We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” So with this election hope was restored, well done President Obama, well done.