Dellanave » Nonsense http://www.dellanave.com/blog Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:45:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Where Have All the IRC Gone? http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2009/05/09/where-have-all-the-irc-gone/ http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2009/05/09/where-have-all-the-irc-gone/#comments Sat, 09 May 2009 22:09:55 +0000 david http://www.dellanave.com/blog/?p=233 On a hunch I went looking for some IRC stats:

Sure enough, IRC usage is on a downard trend. So where have people gone? Facebook? Twitter? Other networks? I don’t see any of the “new” things replacing IRC for instant mass-communication..but yet it does seem that people have gone away.

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My $100 hamburger is already any day I take the boat out and get a burger at Maynards. Oh well. You gotta pay to play.

]]> http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2008/06/19/the-new-100-hamburger/feed/ 2 Ticketmaster the Ultimate Scalpers (Part 2) http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2008/04/10/ticketmaster-the-ultimate-scalpers-part-2/ http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2008/04/10/ticketmaster-the-ultimate-scalpers-part-2/#comments Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:40:48 +0000 david http://www.dellanave.com/blog/?p=141 I’ve complained about Ticketmaster before. This blew my mind.

I’m trying to wrap up a bunch of Fighters features before going to Cancun, and I decided that it might be a good idea to pass up my season tickets for tomorrow night’s NHL playoff game 2 of the Wild vs Colorado. I went on the Wild/Ticketmaster exchange and listed the tickets for sale. Seems that the tickets are in high demand, so I bumped the asking price up to $170/each from the $97/ea face value. Now when you sell tickets on the “Ticketmaster Exchange” you only get credit for 90% of the price you posted them at. I always accepted this 10% haircut because I figured what the hell they are doing all the dirty work.

Out of curiosity I started looking through the exchange to see what tickets at my level were selling at. The first amazing thing is that tickets as low as mine (row 5, lower level) are selling for ~$250. The second, and most amazing thing is that Ticketmaster is selling my tickets at $195.50 + fees! Holy shit.

Not only are these pricks taking a 10% cut from MY asking price, but they’re jacking it up an additional 15% without telling you the seller, or the buyer. If my college dropout math is correct, thats a 21% commission for brokering a ticket sale. Wow.

It’s nice to be Ticketmaster I guess.

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But this is kinda funny:

Nice suburbia sprawl, with 6 of the 9 bank-owned properties.

Zoom in a little:

Oh look at all the cookie cutter homes.

Zoom in a little more:

Yes, those cookie cutter suburbia homes essentially used to be a corn field. Couldn’t have been too long ago either as those tiles are higher resolution than the other ones, but clearly a few years older.

Amusing to me anyway.

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New Years is always a big build-up and never lives up to expectations. This year that was NOT the case. As of Monday morning we didn’t have a definitive plan and I was stuck with a dead iPhone which meant I was missing calls back about options. A local club VIP host left us boned without a table, and I didn’t think we’d have anywhere to go. Some industry friends came through clutch by mid-afternoon and we were all set at another (better) club. Had a few friends over for dinner and then loaded up the limo to head downtown. I don’t know if I’ve ever had as much fun in my life. Tommy Lee spun for a couple hours and was a lot better than I would have expected. Needless to say a lot of Veuve and Ketel was consumed.

No more than 8 hours after toasting to 2008, my friend Jon and I were on a plane to Vegas. A few weeks ago when a group of Downtown service-industry friends asked me to join them for Make Believe its New Years in Vegas Jan 1-3, it seemed like a good idea. A few hours after falling asleep on NYE it didn’t seem so hot. Needless to say we made it. Tuesday night at Pure was ridiculous, followed up by an equally if-not-more ridiculous night at LAX on Wednesday. DJ Vice was spinning both nights, and probably made our nights. Sumbitch can spin. Lil Jon was in the house at LAX and joined Vice in the DJ booth for a while, he even gave a shout out to the Minneapolis crew having recognized us from Pure the night before. Vegas 1 earlier in December and Vegas Deuce are tied for the best Vegas trips ever. We had a huge (~20) crew this time and they were honestly ALL great people. I feel like I made some great friends, and got to spend some time with some friends I don’t get to spend enough time with. I still can’t get over how ridiculously awesome the trip was. No bullshit, this is Paris blowing kisses to our table at LAX.

Highlight of all that? Bowling a frickin’ 168 last night. I probably bowl once every 6 months. Hell yes, I see a new career coming on.

P.S. If you start your day by waking up and having a White Russian, you WILL have a good day.

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]]> http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2007/12/27/webmaster-radio-still-fails-at-technology/feed/ 7 Joe Francis should pull a Calvin Ayre http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2007/12/19/joe-francis-should-pull-a-calvin-ayre/ http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2007/12/19/joe-francis-should-pull-a-calvin-ayre/#comments Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:38:07 +0000 david http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2007/12/19/joe-francis-should-pull-a-calvin-ayre/ I had no idea that Joe Francis was still in jail. I remember when the Florida thing was going down, and how he refused to go to jail, but I somehow missed the part where they locked him up in Reno on tax evasion. You might not agree with Joe’s morals or method of making money, but you have to respect him as an entrepreneur and marketer. He found a niche and slaughtered it. Sometimes I try to look at people for what they’ve been able to do. I don’t like Kanye much anymore, but he’s been able to market the hell out of himself and keep himself in the news by being so cocky. I actually like Paris Hilton, I don’t see how she’s ever done anything “wrong” other than be famous and use it to her advantage at every turn. The girl actually makes money by literally being herself, respect. Anyway I think its time for Joe Francis to cut and run. Calvin seems to think Antigua is pretty nice. Get bail, gas up the jet, and bounce dude. Maybe they’ll invite me down and I can show Calvin how to drive that Quattroporte.

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Hat tip to my insurance agent for beating the system to get me a decent rate.

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