Electric motorcycle hobbiest tries to do a burnout

“I’ve got about 30,000 – $40,000 into this bike”

“There you have it, he’s gunna be doing the burnout and we wish him luck.”

Guess what happens?

sheboygan, the tourist destination?

So, now that the City of Sheboygan has gained two, count them, TWO Wal-Mart Supercenters the area known as the Taylor Heights district is quickly deteriorating. After Wal-Mart’s departure, most of the small retail stores in the strip mall, including a Blockbuster Video closed up shop.
At the heart of the Taylor Heights district is the Memorial Mall, with (i’m guessing) about 60% store-front occupancy, and the old empty Wal-Mart store. Now that the two new Supercenters are up and running on opposite extreme ends of the city, this central Taylor Heights area is slowly becoming vacant.
The city council has hired a development company to do some research and come up with a “master plan” for this dying part of town. Only two meetings have been held so far (open to the public) but I am anxiously waiting to see what may become of this area. I thought for a while on my own, but couldn’t come up with any real good ideas that would benefit the city and/or county. The empty Wal-Mart store is HUGE. Very few businesses or retail stores could make use of that large of a building (especially in an area where the average household income is around $60k). I suppose it could be divided up, but then that’s just more store fronts to fill.
I’ve heard people say it all should be leveled and returned to green space or a nature walk of some sort, but that would be huge tax income for the city to lose.
Who has got the right answer to this one? Right now our draw is on the lakefront with Blue Harbor Resort and the Marina on the riverfront. The shopping goes to the far south side at Deer Trace (which part of that is in the Village of Kohler, and part is in the city of Sheboygan).

Comment back with your thoughts…

blu-ray sales down?

According to this article sales of Blu-Ray standalone players dropped 40% from January to February.
Another article states it may be a seasonal thing, or that the standards war itself has turned users off to next gen movie tech.
I think it may have more to do with the fact that now that there is only one true standard, people know that the price can only go down from here as more manufacturers start building players with cheaper components and higher production volumes. I’m sure most customers remember how DVD players went from $500 to $49.99 Wal-Mart specials in a matter of 24 months (didn’t look up that data, so don’t flame me if it’s wrong).

fed interest rate cut

Today, the federal reserve cut interest rates by 3/4 of a percent.

The Fed cut its federal funds rate, an overnight bank lending rate, to 2.25%. It is the sixth cut in the past six months and comes at a time when the Fed is trying to keep the economy from slipping into recession – although many think it’s already entered one.

Here’s a short analysis of today’s rate cut and what it might mean for all of us.

*UPDATE* # of posts by users

Dpixel8 – 23

Turboflat4 – 4

Geoff – 3

Stupidmop – 1

Hindsight is always 20/20

Just ran across this old article and got a good chuckle out of it.

Quotey quote:

“Kmart has decided not to carry Blu-ray players due to their high prices, instead focusing solely on HD DVD this holiday. While it may no longer be the bastion of discount stores it once was, Kmart’s move highlights the problems facing Sony’s format as HD DVD continues to get cheaper.”

Must be a bunch of shirtless dudes….

hypocrisy at its best

I don’t think any other word is needed. This is what the rapper Nas wore to the grammys.

We can do that source thing too!

Microsoft, despite what you may think, is totally hip and cool. Wait…. no.

“Mike: fucking SQL Girl?

did anyone make any injection jokes?”