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1. If you ever heard a rapper talk about a car in a rap song I have seen it, and possible almost been hit by it, in the last three days.

2. There used to be a pool where this church stands.

3. In old Russian video games Americans are the bad guys.

4. Moscow has the best Sherbert I have ever ate.

5. They have rooms full of beanbags.

1. There is a McDonalds no more than 100 feet from the Kremlin. Why cant we be this efficient in America? 

2. Rollerblading is still a thing here, a very big thing.

3. They are just as excited about Madagascar 3 as I am.

4. Throwing a coin over your shoulder at Kilmetere Zero is good luck…

for these ladies who stand around and pick up all the coins people throw on the ground…

5. The Tsar likes big bells and can not lie.

1.  Just because you don’t speak Russian and your driver doesn’t speak English doesn’t mean you both cant belt out “Walking in Memphis” when it comes on the radio in the middle of a traffic jam. I think we bonded.

2.  Cheeseburgers in Moscow come with an egg on top (Why was I eating a cheeseburger? Because they were out of salads and it was the next thing on the menu I pointed at).

3.  If it fits, its a parking space.

4. If your $70K SUV doesnt stand out enough you cant always have it covered in snake skin.

5. Moscow has 13th Floors and -1 Floors.

We parody and poke holes in what they do.

Last day of session 2012.

Be so good they can’t ignore you.

When being interviewed on TV, make sure passwords are not written on wall behind you.

There has been some talk in my office about a fraudulent SMS charge scam on peoples AT&T bills over the last couple of months. There were 3 people in my office who got hit with this scam. I finally got around to examining our bill closer and found out that my wife’s phone had been hit by the same scam (For two months! Yes, shame on me for not looking closer at my bill and noticing this.).

The text message that came to my wife’s phone said this:

IQ Power: Welcome to Trivia Alerts! 3xmsgs/wk Monthly charge billed @ 9.99/mo. Reply HELP or call 8888906150 for help, STOP to cancel Msg&Data Rates May Apply

She Ignored it. Who wouldn’t? I have told a million people to ignore scam messages like this. Apparently with SMS text messaging though if you send unsolicited text messages to people saying that you are going to charge them $10 a month and they don’t respond you are allowed to do it?

This is what the charges on my bill looked like:

I had to contact AT&T (super fun) who said they would refunded the funds to my account and applied a purchase blocker to my account to prevent this in the future. Which is a start but it shouldn’t be allowed in the first place.

Yes I will be looking at my bills closer in the future.

People always ask me “What is twitter good for?”

Here is a good example.  Bank of America has a foreclosure on my block that they weren’t taking care of by mowing the grass and doing basic maintenance. After spending a couple of hours mowing my grass in the 90 degree weather I was tired of looking down the block to see this:

So I got mad and tweeted @BofAhelp this last night:

Hey @bofa_help this foreclosed house on my block has foot tall grass. Help? http://yfrog.com/oc4n7dujhttp://yfrog.com/gym6kbwlj

They replied to me this morning and sent me a DM asking for the address of the house and a contact number. They then called me a few hours later telling me they were working on the problem and would keep me updated if they found out anything. 

When I came home the house looked like this:

So that is what Twitter is good for!  🙂

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not being afraid of being wrong.