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How cool is this? This might make me get cable again if it really happens!

From Variety:

“Dirty Jobs” exec producer Craig Piligian has nabbed the rights to turn the dangerous work of airplane repo man Nick Popovich into a TV series.

Popovich is the co-partner of Sage-Popovich, a repossession firm that specializes in taking back big-ticket items — mostly airplanes. According to a recent profile of Popovich by Salon.com, the company’s clients include Citibank, Transamerica and Credit Suisse, and the firm nets $600,000-$900,000 per job.

Popovich’s business is booming in this weak economy, as he travels the globe to grab Gulfstreams, Learjets and even 747s from cash-strapped owners who have defaulted on their payments.

“Every case is different,” Piligian said. “Maybe it’s a small airline in Scandinavia that bought a 747. He has to figure out how to get past airline security and grab the plane. He plans it like a military operation. Sometimes he’s in disguise. Often it gets a little hairy.”

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I got up this morning at 4am to get a deal at our neighborhood gym. (so yes, I participated on a very limited basis) But.. What I saw at the Best Buy store, Walmart and a few other big box stores completely blew me away.

After I got my 1 year membership at the gym, I decided I would go drive by best buy and see just what was going on. There was a line that was at lest a half a mile long from the front doors. There were people in tents, there were people selling coffee and hot coco. (those were the smart ones)

At 4am in our little city, the traffic was like rush hour on the streets. As I drove by WalMart, and the parking lot was as full as it would be on a normal Saturday afternoon. I suppose people are just looking for an excuse to spend some money. But, really? Tents in November in Michigan? No thanks, I will stay in my nice warm bed (or in this case car) .

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OK this is the second try at posting from my Droid using an app. If this works I will do it more.

-Mike

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Welcome to November 2009! Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit (as Chick McGee from the Bob & Tom Show says at the start of the month)

This November 1st is a strange 25 hour day. This makes up for the 23 hour day we had in spring so now the space-time continuum is in tact.

Daylight wasting time is over. I wish we would just do away with this antique concept. In fact, we should do away with time zones all together. We need to adopt UTC as the time all over the world and go to a 24 hour clock. Who cares if you go to work at 0700 or 1700 or whatever? The sun comes up at 1400 and you go to work at 1800. Whatever works. Time is just a number.

Oh well. Have a happy 25 Hour day and Look out for new podcasts coming this week!

-Mike

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After screwing around a bit with it, I got my feed to validate!

Yeah!

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Traditionally, members of the nation’s veterans service organizations have rendered the hand-salute during the national anthem and at events involving the national flag only while wearing their organization’s official head-gear.The National Defense Authorization Act of 2008 contained an amendment to allow un-uniformed servicemembers, military retirees, and veterans to render a hand salute during the hoisting, lowering, or passing of the U.S. flag. A later amendment further authorized hand-salutes during the national anthem by veterans and out-of-uniform military personnel. This was included in the Defense Authorization Act of 2009, which President Bush signed on Oct. 14, 2008.

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Kathy and I made it home from Las Vegas last night. Both of us are jet lagged but all in all, we are doing good. The weather here is nowhere as nice as the weather in Vegas. We can live with that. It’s nice to get back to our slow moving town and a more normal pace. I have to work tonight. Kathy is working today.

I will be working on a podcast wrap-up on our trip to blogworld and our fun in Las Vegas.

I think I’m going to take a nap before my radio show tonight.

More later.

It’s good to be home!

-Mike

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Heading out to the Rawvoice / Blubrry party at the Peppermill in Vegas.

Met and re-connected with lots of friends in the podcasting and blogging world. This party will be just more of the same I’m sure.

I will get some video of this party (hopefully without anyone wearing a Lampshade!).

#bwe09 #bloglouder

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