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How adorable and annoying is this??

Ford recently made a big announcement regardings its self-parking technologies (AP story here, WSJ story here).

Now, I can’t complain about the government bailing out Ford, because Ford hasn’t received any bailout money yet.  But this is what is wrong with the US Auto Industry.  Lexus (Toyota) unveiled the self-parking tachnology a couple years ago on the LS 460 which retailed for $64k.  The self-parking feature on a 2009 LS adds $6k to the price tag.  I have no problem with Lexus doing the R&D and developing this technology, they produce a luxury car and this is a luxury feature.  But there is no reason why Ford should be wasting money on it.  What percentage of people even parallel park on a regular basis?  I have never once heard someone in the last 5 years complain about not being able to buy a car with self-parking technology.  I’ve heard people complain about other things (gas mileage, constant repairs, lack of arm rests, price).  Self-parking technology is not going to help Ford sell any more vehicles.  Secondly, they are introducing the technology with Lincoln cars.  Lincoln.  Who drives a Lincoln automobile?  Lincoln shouldn’t even be produced anymore.

According to Mark Fields, Ford’s president of the Americas, “I don’t know about you, but when I was taking my driving test, parallel parking was the most stressful part.”  I didn’t parallel park on my driving test and I don’t know anybody who did, and that is a prime example of what is wrong with Ford and the auto industry.

(disclaimer: I am shareholder of Ford)

I haven’t seen either of these 3 commercials before.  The first is good, second is ok, but the third one is damn funny.  If only I enjoyed drinking Coors Light…

My new pet peeve involves stop and go traffic on the highway.  If I have to sit in traffic for an extra 20-30 minutes, I want to see why.  I want to see the accident.  Is that too much to ask for?  Yesterday I got to see a nice black jeep laying on its side in the ditch.  We had to merge to one lane.  I could understand why we were backed-up.  Today, I saw nothing.  There was no merge.  Just stop and go on the highway with nothing to show for it.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I’m loving this song off the Shwayze Rich Girls Mixtape.

“She loves me like a petal on a rose
I love her not last petal on the floor” 

So I’m really diggin’ the Shwayze album, love the smooth chill hip hop sound.  Anyway, just realized that they released a mixtape back in September, Rich Girls.  The first bunch of tracks are great, but it’s an album that can be listened to start to end.  It can be downloaded here.

I was hoping that there would be some good remixes, like the Bert and Ernie Ante Up video or the Lil Jon Nickelodeon vid, but I could find none

No, not the real life Big Pun (he passed away).  Our buddy Big Pun is leaving the shithole called Baltimore and needs someone to sublet his room.  Interested? Know someone interested?  Contact RickRickert.com

St. Nick came and went without me noticing.  So my question is, do people still celebrate St. Nick?  Did people ever celebrate St. Nick or was it just a Wisconsin or Green Bay thing?

Kevin McHale Good Player, Bad GM

“Of the two first round picks, the Wolves took Ndubi Ebi. Ebi was probably the biggest bust of the first round picks. The Wolves also took Rick Rickert from the University of Minnesota in the second round. Many Thought it was a sympathy pick on Mchale’s part. Rickert never made the team and got in a fight with All-Star Kevin Garnett. Rickert was released and is no longer in the NBA.”

Ready to get back into the Spirit

“Centre Rick Rickert said the two-week break had come at a good time for the Breakers, who had been suffering from fatigue after a torrid schedule over the previous month. The club notched an impressive 6-1 away record in little over a month but the toll that had taken was clear when they fell flat on their faces against the revved-up Crocs.

“We’ve had a chance to really regroup and reflect on the first half of the season,” Rickert said. “Now we are excited to start playing again and I think we are in a good place.”

More often than not the Breakers have managed to come from behind, but their continued slow starts and inability to produce a strong first quarter are becoming concerns.

“Our starters have to come out with a better game mentality, get the stops early, run the offence and get easy baskets,” Rickert said. “It is attitude really. That is something we have addressed over the last two weeks and we are looking to make good on that.”

Hey-yo, 2009 is only 15 days away, and that means that our 2008 Death Pool is nearly done.  Since we had a limited number of entrants actually make the entry fee payment, and executive decision was made to roll-over the 2008 entry fees in the 2009 Death Pool.  Hopefully this year we can get some more people to make the entry fee before the last month.  Go here for the rules.

** The rules will be update slightly in the near future.  I will be adding some additional ways to get bonus points.

The RickRickert.com domain has been purchased for another year.  So that means Rick has another 365 days to become an NBA star and buy this stupid domain, or you guys will have to deal with more pointless crap.  Either way, no one really wins…except this guy below.

This is pretty funny at times.

Tyga (pronounce Tigga or Tie-ga, I don’t know, I don’t care) could be the worst rapper of all time, worse than Soulja Boy and even worse than Seif-Z / Jay-Fert.   Here’s the proof.

Anyway, the Plain White T’s, I hate ‘em, you probably love ‘em.  When it comes to you throwing a get together at your place, you probably have a hard time limiting the number of Plain White T’s songs to play.  I know.  Well, what happens when you give the wrist-cutting ballad Delilah a drum beat and bass rhythm.  You get a slightly less annoying song…or a really cut up wrist.

You’re Welcome

From The Onion

OLD BRIDGE, NJ—In what many are calling a complete bullshit move, Riverside High School algebra teacher Mrs. Trella, 34, assigned her sixth-period class an assload of math homework due Monday.

The homework, which included a number of impossible to solve word problems, several stupid equations, and a bunch of other pointless crap, was assigned at the end of class on Friday. According to sources, Trella handed out the homework at approximately 2:43 p.m., even though it was a completely unfair thing to do and would totally screw over everyone’s weekend.

“She assigned it right before the bell rang,” said ninth-grader Kenny Riley, who claimed that the last thing he needed was to spend all day Sunday looking at some retarded math book. “I was packing up my stuff to go when Mrs. Trella comes out of nowhere and gives us, like, four huge pages of work to take home.”

Added Riley, “Fuuuuuuccck.”

In addition to its poor timing, students expressed outrage Friday over the length of the math assignment, which some estimated would take fucking forever to complete, and was even more tedious than that lame history project from Mr. Shepard’s global studies class.

Students also cited the need to show one’s work, circle final answers to get full credit, and use the quadratic formula—whatever that is—as leading indicators of how hard the homework sucked.

“We did so much work in class already,” said Michelle Siringano, who still plans to go to the mall with several friends on Saturday. “Mrs. Trella just wants us to be as miserable as she is.”

According to a recent survey, Trella pulls this kind of stupid bullshit all the time. In November, the 34-year-old announced a surprise math test that wasn’t even about stuff that made any sense, while earlier this year, Trella reportedly lost her mind and assigned homework on the very first day of school.

Sources still have not confirmed what the fuck that was about.

Some students have warned that if classmates did not complete last week’s assignment on polynomials there was no way in hell they were going to understand Friday’s work. Making matters worse, students said, was their math textbook, which reportedly doesn’t even have any of the freaking answers in the back.

So far, various attempts have been made to get out of doing the required work. Many students, such as Daniel Gill, have considered leaving their heavy-ass bags in their lockers and coming in early on Monday to copy the answers from that douche Brian Raffel.

Still others planned to come up with some kind of genius excuse before Monday, such as forgetting their assignment on the bus, getting food poisoning, or maybe having their grandmother pass away over the week- end and being way too sad to think about doing math.

Despite being a total nut-job who hates her life and probably never gets laid, Trella claimed that assigning the weekend work wasn’t something she wanted to do.

“We were falling a little behind,” the conniving bitch said. “I just wanted them to catch up so they wouldn’t have any extra work to do over the break.”

I’m liking this song.