randburg

Doing great here. Thanks for asking. Bummer about the rain. Maybe you'll get a wet winter! We haven't had much moisture here either, but that's pretty normal around here. We rely on the springtime snows to fill our reservoirs.

So, other than the drough, how's things going??

Hi Randburg - I've made a significant change to the settlement of a market you've got money on: http://www.hubdub.com/m18176/Will_US_bookstores__sell_out_of_The_Tales_of_Beedle_the_Bard_within_the_first_week_of_sale____ Let me know if you'd like your bet voided.

Hi. Interesting (but a bit boring in its self-serving-circling) "conversation" on the issues of politics and Palin. My 2 cents- the comment lines at Hubdub are often Viagra for small minded men who can type. Not you, of course, as your ideas seem to be trying to generate discussion.. but not sure why you bother?

thank you. I always considered myself observant. However i wasnt observant enough to notice that you had only done it once!

When it rains it pours. Im now down to about 900-and soon ill be down to about 400. I see your making up for lost time! BTW why do you post everything you say twice, once on mine and once here?

You are right that I "wasted a week" but basically balanced about even. You're right that the 30K up and down could be said to be commensurate with my size, except that you need at least twice as much up to balance for the down. Most bets have 25% to 35% reward, not 100%. When you go down, you go down 100% every time.

I am also looking forward to the debate on Thursday and expecting very little...Biden is going to fumble around a bit, and I am not at all sure about Palin. Hopefully, they both surprise us favorably. We don't need another LBJ for Vice President, especially when both presidential candidates "could be" short-term.

Despite the fact that any hardship you would have would be amplified because of your size you still only lost 300. Im looking forward to watching this debate this thursday. I hope Palin suprises me as much as she did when she did her speech for the RNC.

It wasnt exactly 1 problem that i lost on. I had gained about 5000 at one point in one question so i blew all that into about 15 different questions. And of those 15 not a single one of them won. The only one that i made money off of was one that had risen 20% and i had cashed out on. And i put that money into a different question and that one failed. I won some money today though after several questions i predicted on came off successfuly. Looks like i put off bankruptcy for the time being.

thank you for your sentiments. anything i do is always altered all i have ever asked for is a level playing field i get pick on i suppose its because i am basically very honest and straight to the point, honesty on here gets you no where, thanks again

Well I lost all my money except 947h$. Looks like ill be starting from scratch again. Nothing but the sweat on my brow, experience, and the same amount i started with.

Huh. I did the same thing after reading that and heres what i found: Somethings that suprises me and that i could never have anticipated is.... How Obama even has the slightest chance at winning, How soda now cost 50 cents more than it did in 2007, How im playing on a website called hubdub (that one really took me by suprise), How Bear and stearns, freddie mac and fannie mae, Wa Mu and Aig went under, How the new ipod looks worse and weirder than the old ones, How anyone is still buying an ipod after zunes do the same thing for 25 bucks cheaper, not to mention you can buy unlimited songs for a months for 15 bucks with the zunetunes, And i think thats pretty much it! Dont worry. As far as capital goes, within the next 5 days ill either be richer than i was before, or have about 0 H$. After that ill have to log on every day to get those 20 h$ and start anew.

Oh btw nice job getting to a million. How long has that happened?

"The secret is to win more than you lose." Genius. :) Kind of like when some eavesdropper listened in on a conversation of mine at the grocery store about my stock portfolio. He walked over and said "Well i dont mean to interrupt but i heard that you were having trouble in the stock market! The secret is to buy low and sell high!"

I cashed out on that one luckily enough. I made 20%. Had i stuck with that one i would have lost it all.

I have heard rumors McCain is taking Palin off the ticket...seems conservatives are now having second thoughts about her and think Romney would have been a much better choice..McCain, I think, would love the headlines to shake things up...

Randburg,

Thanks for your note, I'm back online today, for the first time in about 2 weeks, also I've been feverishly looking to get a real job again, alas, nothing yet, however Mrs. Johnson got on with the Fed's working with the SBA helping Hurricane victims file claims. I'll likely be working nights at a grocery store until I can procure a better gig.

V&H

Well i guess i cant judge a book by its cover. BTW, whats with the forums? I guess it will make it easier to keep up on whos commenting on what but wont they detract from the comments going into the actual questions? For me thats the best part of hubdub and if i didnt have that i probably wouldnt use hubdub.

I haven't really spoken with him. other than through comments on questions (and to defend him once). He is not the only senior on hubdub: I know two more: one is 82 and another is 89. This is a good place to keep your brains sharp! I can tell you that the 89 year old is a real whiz kid on the computer..

I can see that your friends with curious. He claims to be 80-85 years old. Is that right?

Major Flooding, but my house was OK....poor south Texas....I spent a lot of time there, especially along the coast....might be a while before i go back....

Not a huge fan of Hockney's.I really only know the pool pictures really which leave me cold. Love Mark Tansey though. He became well-known in the 80s. Very interesting work....

That leaves more for me to beat!

And...Rothko who I just recently got into after years of thinking little of his work. Although his paintings are minimal, they do something to you....some strange melancholy calming effect.

Your new plan sounds good but I want to know more about the "guaranteed to be winners" part...LOL...We are all looking for those questions, and once in a while: WOW! One of them stares you in the face that you just know is an absolute winner. UNFORTUNATELY, it can be a while between these questions.

Be sure to practice "safe Hubdub"...You don't want to get screwed!

My new plan for upgrading my hubdub portfolio, anything that is making money (20% increase minimum) cash in and pour all that into two big questions that are garenteed to be winners.

Wow. So your behind people who have been gone for awhile. When all there predicitons expire will they be removed?

Thanks for the advice. Although how anyone can be "long since departed" from a website that is less than a year old is beyond me. I cashed in my president questions with a 150 gain and put them into a question that is supposed to be settled oct 1st. Hopefully i will be back on my way to the leaderboards by the end of the month!

Hi Randburg,
Thank you! My avatar is an early painting by Picasso. I found it on some art site and just love it! The colors are gorgeous!

One of the guys who did very well (and has long since departed, he did TOO well and got bored), ran his profile on make 20%, cash in, reinvest,...make 20% on the 120%, cash in, reinvest...make 20% on the 144%, cash in, reinvest, etc, etc...If you can make a modest profit, take the profit and move on to questions that end by Oct 1st. Then reinvest, etc...Try to keep your money turning over. Avoid long-term questions until you have enough capital saved up to play nicely. MUCH LATER, there is a way to play long-term questions...Have another look at your investments and see HOW LONG you are going to have to wait for some results...It often pays to cash in predictions BEFORE they terminate. Don't wait for the last few H$s, keep turning your money over...

I generally go weeks without making a question then with a sudden stroke of inspiration make 3 or 4 questions in 10 minutes. Still even with my random pace i think i have made a few good ones.

Also, i have a lot of money posted on "Who will win the presidential election". now if i win i could get some money however those questions arnt going to be settled for about 17 weeks. Should i cash out and take a small money gain or should i stick with it? Seems to long to have money sitting in one place

I dont think that there will be a problem settling that question. Wikipedia isnt reliable enough to be considered a method of settling questions. Otherwhise i would make an account and change the number dead to 10000000 and win huge! So hubdub has to choose between the news or the official death toll. I think that either one will be accepted without to many complainers however waiting for the official death toll may be the better option. The good news is, since i didnt bet on it, it doesnt affect me in the slightest. Considering i usually send my questions to three or four different admins after i make it the bad ones which cant be settled usually get weeded out right away.

Hi John,

Thanks for your kind message and observations! I will pay more attention next time! Didn't notice the" shout back" link at the top.

Have a great weekend,
VioletPlanet

I guess thats really then only option. I cashed it out and put it in a position that is much more likley to win. Ill be lucky if i make back 75% of what i put in though. Still ill make it back eventually. Until then ill just have to accept my 2000 in losses. You were right. I wish i had cashed out earlier when i was debating where the question would go. I would have made much more. Ah well. No use wondering about what could have been.

Ill be sure to stay away from sports questions then because i dont really follow that much. I have to make a decision on a question about the barack obama youtube video. I think that it will stay below 9800K but im not sure. If i try and cash out ill lose a ton of money and i wont be able to make it back very fast. If i lose i lose a lot more money. I guess ill just wait and see where my gamble takes me.

Well your going back up, and thats good news. How long has there been a glitch in the leaderboards? I havent noticed. Then again i hardly ever check that considering im pretty low and sinking lower everyday. I lost my money on some sarah palin questions to. Like on that monday poll thing, i was hoping that she would rise him up to the "Winning by 3,4 or 5". After hearing all the buzz i was sure he was going to be up so i bet about 1500 more. Turns out i was off by about 2 points.

i see your getting ready to break the 1 millon mark..CONGRADS. do you know whats up with newswrangler? he don't comment anymore and rarely does any "superuser" stuff. is he mad about something? i always found him to be fair and consistent. he still makes wagers daily, so i'm pretty sure he's active. have a nice day.

Thats exactly what i did. I restructured my investments. Similar to what lehman did except......... well you know.... good! If my plan works is hould be getting ~25k. May not seem like much to you mr 80,000 percent but to me thats a ton! in fact, its 12.5 tons!

Im doing really bad lately! In the past week i have lost 2000 h$ which to me is 25% of my total winnings. I blame the poor economy! Does that work on hubdub or only if were talking real money.

your back on the leaderboards :O)

The painting of me was done by an Irish American female artist, and the one of my David was done by a local artist, the father of one of my students. But they are similiar in style, I hadn't realized..
I was not able to sort challenges, feeling the sender really valued my opinion. Perhaps I was silly in that. I found myself spending time fielding other's challenges as opp to focusing on my own ideas.
I loved the Olympics, and did well by my votes. I also have fun in the political circus. My (now adult)son helps me with sports. I am definitely not in any high clouds, as I also lose a lot in all these opinions. But I still dabble in Hubdub dollars- it is a fantastic way to voice my ideas and see how right I am! The stock market has never made sense to me, so i steer clear. And I do well with the science wages, for one can study and make fair predictions.. I think the young people who made up all the nuances of this site are just too wonderful!

I have a new oil for you- from a photo again, and again, not painted by me.. but of me..
You meet many others' challenges- that is one of the pulls that actually pushed me away.How do you balance that dichotomy

I wish I was that good an artist, but the original photogragh was mine and I just knew it captured all that you saw in the painting's rendition... I am so sorry for your mourning. Sometimes it seems to me that life's joys are millions of tiny threads we must weave into our own guiderope, and life's traumas are a huge pair of shears... You have strength of experience to know there will be more weaving ahead, but that doesn't soften the cuts.
I appreciate your observations.

Hey randburg, I'm more than a little confused. You said you sent me the "Key" yet i haven't gotten anything. You asked for my email address so i gave it to you and i haven't heard from yah. I understand you probably didnt see it however im starting to get curious as to what this "key" is. Thompson@mailinator.com

Oh, hi randburg.
Thanks for pointing me on that. To "pimp" was a word controversially used in some discussions among supers and cat-eds recently. So it's quit an insider joke :)
But I'll use an other phrase from now on, when you say so.

Thanks again,
and, nice to hear from you

Ah.. That is an oil painting of my son and best, former boyfriend at Bodiam castle's moat. I love the calm affection as they sit together feeding the ducks and fish- it is a fond memory from 20 years ago and a treasured portrait. Are you an artist or an Anglophile?... I appreciate your comments about my past involvement- thank you. I'd like to think I can be objective and with a somewhat intelligent observer's spin, but sometimes Hubdubbing requires a lot of energy I don't feel I have, yet wish to give. Perhaps that is the definition of "friends and shouts"?

You're right that it would have been more tactful of me to comment privately instead of how I did on this page: http://www.hubdub.com/m15966/WILL_THE_BUTT_BANDIT_IN_NEBRASKA_BE_CAUGHT. I realized in retrospect that I should have taken the approach you speak of in your responding comment.

Your comment leaves me wanting to ask you a couple of questions. Why do you no longer create markets?

Also, why would you use only capital letters? Are you aware that it is considered a form of yelling? It is not a major concern however I am certainly glad that it is not a format used by many question creators. The overall appearance and tone of the site would suffer if it were the case.

Unfortunately my comment can be interpreted as being critical but my intention is to try and help the administrators avoid having to spend time doing something which can easily be avoided, namely, reformatting questions into grammatically correct format when the question creators are proven capable of doing it in the first place.

Hi. I appreciate your asking me to be a "friend", but I want to decline (after this explanation). I am one of the early members, and was very active in challenges, chatting, and commenting... and it got too much. I was super addicted to everyone's opinions,ideas, and all nuances in between. So I pulled back, play occasionally, and stay away from all the comment quagmires! But thank you anyway. (Nice pottery! Yours? Good talent there)

I gave you my email. are you going to send me the "Key"?

Ah i see. Thompsondog@hotmail.com . Please excuse the way it sounds. The dog stands for my dog. I didnt really realize the way it sounded tell it was my primary email address and i didnt want to change it.

The Key to the 80000? Im not sure what you mean.

I think you can put your boots on for Ike! Is the drought officially over yet?

You wernt kidding when you said that fights on hubdub tend to get pretty serious! This guy certainly wasnt to happy about something! I cant even figure out what went wrong because there is no one named lucidstates i can find! http://getsatisfaction.com/hubdub/topics/i_am_on_strike

I hope so! Id hate to think all these comments of mine are going to waste. I dont think we have to worry about blood in this case. Distance provides a pretty hard barrier for them to get past. If he does get to the US then he will probably get a standing ovation from the audience. Generally the kind of people who watch him are the kind of people who arent very... well lets just say Patriotic

If you like that head, then it is worth more than a months salary. I once got into collecting guns however i stopped when i found myself seriously considering paying 10000 dollars for a collection finishing gun that was used by a top general in world war 2. It wasn't worth it to me. Ill take my incomplete collection and save that money. That would explain why one of the admins got pretty mad with me when i got into a..... well "discussion" with one of my fellow hubdubers. If it was made in January then i didn't hop on the boat to late then. Ive been in since June. Thats amazing that you and several other people managed to get 800,000 in that short time! Ive only been on for a couple months less and i am only looking at a 800% increase as opposed to a 80,000% percent increase. Does that mean that they will start charging for the newbies? Because despite the enjoyment i get out of this, i am probably not going to be paying for this. Although i might.

Btw i like your picture. Is there a story behind it or did you just think it was a cool picture?

really, one of the original! I heard about this on ABC news and i immediately went to sign up. When was hubdub created?

Thanks for adding me randburg. But one thing that kind of seems strange to me, you've made a ton of h$ and you haven't made a single question!

Hey randburg! Not sure if you're still interested in this question - http://www.hubdub.com/m14114/Is_the_Superintendent_of_Georgias_school_system_smarter_than_a_5th_grader

but I think it's due to air tomorrow night. I thought it would be a fun one to follow.
Are you up for a SU position? I think you'd be a great addition!

Hey there. No offense taken if you decline some. I have been trying to make sure that I list details so even those with limited knowledge will be able to wager. Thanks for the help on the site.

I'm up here in beautiful Denver, CO. It's getting quiet again now that the dems and the press are gone! But that pic was taken while I was in Cancun. I love Mexico and most years get down there at least once or twice.
I did use to live in Victoria - that's a little ways south of you there in big D. Didn't have any hurricanes while I was there, but we sure payed attention when they entered the gulf!
I didn't have any $$$ on McCains VP - I had but I cashed in as soon as it went up!
Good luck on your rain and I sure hope that Gustav doesn't wreak too much havok down there!
Kenny

first let me aplogise if your mad, i shoulda ask you before doing it. doing what you ask? i recomended you for a superuser. you don't make many questions, but you seem to know a good or bad one when you see it. when you comment its also respectful and with correct grammar. if they offer the SU to you i'm sure you don't have to take it. have a nice day.

Thanks John. I hope you get your rain. I've been through a couple of droughts and it is no fun. Just hope you're not too close to the coast!
And yes, I did well during the olympics. It's pretty much all just dumb luck though! But I'll take it! I wish I was as lucky when I gambled with real money!
Have a great day and good luck on the rain!
Kenny

Thank you, twice.

Thanks - it was a lucky bit of effort with betting on typhoons hitting the Olympics. Only one struck, with one more striking one day too late - thankfully :)

Thanks John,
Click on this link:
http://www.motorcyclemaniac.net/PhotoDump/Riding_Goldwing.jpg
to see a larger version of this image. I may use this image on my homepage,
as I want to change the home page a little.

I have always used the philosophy that my website was about the things that I have seen, rather than being about me, as I am really a boring person, when viewed live and up close.

For the first time, since I created the website in 2002, I am losing traffic this year. While I have had over 1/2 million page views so far this year, it is not as high as I had hoped for. Last year, I did a major rework of my website because I was finding my photos being used without any permissions or credits. I think perhaps my stopping the right click - copy attribute has turned away some fans of the website.

Anyhow, thanks so much for your kind remarks!!!!!

Great idea about posting a photo of me riding one of my bikes.

Actually it is the only bike I own at the moment. If I was in better financial shape, I would like to own a stable of bikes, but right now, I will settle for the one.

First vehicle I ever bought new and it is a 2003 Honda Goldwing with nearly 46K miles on it.

Hey Randburg, thanks for the shout, perhaps you are thinking of my previous market that compared the combined age of the Rep vs. Dem ticket, I'm checking now to see, assuming Obama/Biden/McCain all hold up till election day... the magical birthdate needed for the Rep ticket to be less in accumulated years than the Dem one, perhaps the LA governor would qualify, still checking...

Hubdub lexicons
"Spitzer"- literally "screwed"
"fistinction"- it's gonna be my way or it's "to the moon Alice, to the moon"
"pics4ded"- "i'm gonna take my toys and go home"

and now

"cognositis" - to intentionally lose all of one's net worth so that one can try a different tact

is this a new addition to the hubdub dictionary?
"cognositis" - to intentionally lose all of one's net worth so that one can try a different tact

I do a lot of business with Australia and like the symbol.

thanks for the invite.....

Thanks for the shout. I noticed that nobody had requested any friendship requests since I posted my mug shot. Hmmmmm..... lol

So... my Phelps vs. the world question was odd to you? I'm simply trying to compare the athlete who will likely get the most US medals with the rest of the field, many countries will earn some medals, but less that he does as an individual. Was it unclear?

No problem. I wish I had time to create more. Sorry I was voided today.

Hey Randburg! Thanks for the shout and well wishes. Yep, there's now a mrsprfct (notice neither one of us can spell!). I figure that if I can get her on here, then she can't give me as hard of a time for playing on the computer! lol

Happy hubdubbing!

i wondered if anyone would notice the progression. no it's already finished

just an interlude between finishing a piece and wiating for my next load of rawk (soapstone) to come in next week. i keep kidding the soapstone distributor that he is my dealer and i'm jones'n for my next fix

Hey randburg! Thanks for the comment and validation about that question. Guess I have my opinions and need to keep in mind that hubdub is still in beta version. I'm still here though (and losing lots of H$ lately!). Looks like you're doing pretty well though! Keep it up!

Hey thanks randburg. I remember when I use to look at the leaderboard alot when I had next to nothing as far as $HD, but now that I have a good amount I hardly if ever look at it. The only time I really do is if someone comments on it. Thanks for noticing me amongst all your massive amount of friends.
I see you have almost all your $HD in predictions. Thats crazy! I've seen a few like that and dont know how you do it. There are very few questions out there I'm willing to put a few thousand on, but not many. I like to keep mine spread out in lower incriments but making predictions on more questions.
Talk to you later, GL predicting.

Nice indeed! When I tell my boys that a treat for me growing up was when the babsitter brought over a little B&W 6" TV for me and my sistems to watch they look at me I've lost my mind. If something like you've proposed ever happened I'd be in.

Nice indeed! When I tell my boys that a treat for me growing up was when the babsitter brought over a little B&W 6" TV for me and my sistems to watch they look at me I've lost my mind. If something like you've proposed ever happened I'd be in.

I see the merit in your comments and have to agree.

Thank you so much, I'm grateful and appreciative.

Thanks. More of an obsession than an achievement though.

My pleasure, I like to mix up the predictions a bit, I appreciate your comments.

YES! That's precisely what I was going for. Life's too short to have bland avatars.

Will do!

Randburg, Thanks very much for your note. And I appreciate your assesment of my creativity. On further review I think your point is well taken, even if I'm trying to be 'cute' which is what I was doing with the Sandra Day O'Connor market, I should leave more room than just 5%. One of the things that I'm trying to stimulate on the site is some more creativity and originality as I think this will encourage new members. Sometimes when I'm surfing I find such silly stuff that I have to create a market. You have to admit, 80ish Sandra Day O'Connor is not what one thinks in word association if you say.."Video Game Designer".. I've also had this idea in the back of my mind that Nintendo will try to work on the couch-potatoeness of our socienty by offering more and more wii active games. What could be less active than a court proceedinig, maybe I was just up too late but the thought of a couple of sweat-banded teen agers competing on a Court based wii game just seemed too funny.

But anyway, I will endeavor to not be ridiculous in my odds making, thanks again very much for the feedback, please keep it coming, and thanks for so frequently wagering on my musings.

Thanks again Randburg, if they have to void it I'll just start from scratch, thanks for catching the error.

yeah i lucked out
i came within 30 seconds in teh hockey game (they tied it with 30 seconds left and then went on to win)
if they had not scored i would be at about 20 dollars
ill be careful

YESSS
10000 won last night....barely
soo now im going to be better off

haha im down to 2 predictions
one is the hillary one which i refuse to give up on

and the other one is regarding the nhl playoffs tonight
if the penguins win than i get a boatload (boosting me up to about 10000)
the odds were just too good

i cleaned house and went all in

I have some great friends.
My Hubdub Friends are outstanding.
On the Qtrly-Gain Ldrbd (friends only) I'm in the bottom 50% of users.
On the Qtrly-Gain Ldrbd (all users) I'm in the top 10% of users.
I've some ketchin' up to do!

haha
hillary is an idiot

oh mannnn i could lose out big time
i just put about 700 on the penguins to beat the detroit red wings in the stanley cup
its a best of seven so first to 4 games
and the red wings are up 3-1 soo thats a huge wager but has a gigantic payroll if the penguins win the next 3 games
soo im either further down in teh dumps or way up
but iguess thats how you make a lot of money soo ill wait and see

also
can i ask you as to why your predictions are kept private?
i would love to see the things that you are predicting on and try and compete with YOU!!!

i also made that dumb move that you did
and i completely regretted it
though im sure there could have been gaming involved soo im talking with an admin about that

it wouldnt have been too hard to create a bunch of questions to push it over the limit
it wasnt suspended until like 11 this morning soo someone could have easily swayed the results

which was the good one?
and i think ive stopped losing money and i am starting to make my come back

i took your advice and i have cleaned house!!!
yay
except i left my prediction that 'no one drops out' in the democratic race until the convention
i just cant bring myself to drop that one

but yeah thats my only long term prediction left!!
which is exciting
i thought id share the good news

Randburg,

Since I finally have a weekend when I do not have to work, I thought I'd touch base with my recently ignored HD friends. Let me know how your HD life is going .. it seems that your H$ wealth is much enhanced!

thing is that if hillary stays in (shes quite stubborn and an idiot)
then i make over 10000 compared to cashing in at what is now 91 hubdub dollars

haha well the thing is that when i was new i made a bunch of long term predictions
and i still have them bc they decreased so much in value that it wasnt worth cashing them in to get the money
so im holding them out until things look up
but when i make predicctions now they are usually short and one at a time wagering the money i have right now since it is so minimal

also,
i thought it was a no brainer to put a bunch of cash in on a 'who will drop out of the race first question", i put about 5000 on no one drops out, but now it looks like hillary clinton will drop out
soo my 5000 is at about 200 soo its not worth cashing in sooo i sticking to it, hoping she will stay in to the convention

i get hit everyday bigtime
im terrible at predicting

My parents wanted to name me after my grandfather, but his name was Claude and they didn't like that (thank god) and so they asked him what his favorite movie was and fortunately it was Destry Rides Again. So that is how the name was chosen.
I do have the play on record and cd. I also have the movies Destry and Destry Rides again on DVD. I am still trying to find an original movie poster, I have a replica but the originals are hard to find.

One of the things about having my name is that I know all the stories. Plus I have all the memorabilia from the plays, movie, and tv shows. I even have the book. And what is worse is the my sisters name is Tenille, so you can imagine all the Captain and Tenille jokes I have lived through.

My pleasure Randburg! Your comments mean a lot to me, like I was telling one of the admins the other day, I work from home and take care of a one year old baby while my wife works a crazy schedule, so this is a nice diversion for me.

Ooops, sorry John. I meant to deselect you! Will try harder in future. ;-)

hey randburg...
I`m glad you`re interested in the questions..
When I said `spiking` I was referring to the graph that Nigel provided comparing hubdub to other sites. After holding my monitor up to my nose I`m beginning to think that hubdub may indeed become the leader before the end of May.

I would love to see your artwork. If it took 3 months to complete, it must be quite a piece. I really enjoy artwork and think that YOU have one of the most interesting avatars on Hubdub. I recently changed my avatar from an owl, to the bikes. I lost about 30K in the week I was using the Owl avatar and decided it must be the unlucky owl - and not any bad decisions on my part. He he he

As for posting photos onto a website, you can google "free photo hosting" and find over 5 millions results. I think the top 3 are probably PhotoBucket, Webshots and Flickr, although I have never used any of them. I have often thought of opening an account on those sites and posting some of my best photos with links back to my website - to increase exposure and traffic to my site.

I ride a Honda Goldwing now and love it, although it is much better as a highway bike than for riding around in the city. Goldwing has a dry weight of 796 lbs (which is a lot to hold up while waiting for the red light to change). I have ridden to 43 states so far. I think Honda makes the best motorcycles, but that is frequently and sometimes vociferously up to debate. I don't have the personna to really fit onto a Harley, as I do not look, act or sound like a biker.

Not a dumb question at all - it looks so oversized that it is hard to imagine those flags attached to a motorcycle.
I took those pictures on 5-17-2008.

Actually, the flags are mounted on the 2 bikes. (I was almost as surprised as you were. LOL)
These pictures are of the "Central Route" riders. The bikes with the huge flags were the first 2 bikes to follow a police escort as they led about 200 motorcycles through town. They "collect" additional bikes as they ride eastward and the procession continues to grow until they reach their final destination at "The Wall" which is the Viet Nam War memorial. At that point 3 different routes and groups of riders converge and then they will have a quick photo opp with the President while making a statement about our armed forces.

These bikes travel from Los Angeles, CA to Washington DC each year to raise awareness of our POW & MIA armed forces.
http://www.rftw.org/index.asp?lg=1&w=pages

Thanks. The avatar comes from a picture I took of Rolling Thunder - Ride to the Wall, as they passed through Limon, Colorado.
You can see a slightly larger picture of it here, and a few others I took that day (at my website)
http://www.motorcyclemaniac.net/Pictures/RollingThunder2008/slides/IMG_8461.html

Hey Randburg - I sent you an email Wednesday and haven't heard back...did you get it? All ok?

Lx

personally i like the celtics winning the nba championships
but who knows?

some day im going to hit a streak of luck and have a bunch of cash
but for now im stuck with like a couple small bets at a time (loan?haha)
AND HOW BOUT THOSE CELTICS

yeah i was just doing sports bc it had the quickest turn around on the money
it was either won or lost in about a day
but right now im waiting for some money to clear up bc i bet it all

well im not doing well at all right now
i went from about a 10000 net worth to about 3000 in about a week
but right now im doing extremely quick payout bets
mostly sports
like a put 1000 on the team with the least likely odds bc upsets happen all the time
still not going all too well
good luck

thanks, i enjoyed it too
i got it yesterday

Thanks for pointing me at my voided question and arguing for me. I've been off-line a few days so I could not get into it myself.

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Rohan

thanks for that

haha im having a lot of trouble finding any sure bets anymore
at one point i got up to a net worth of about 10000
now im down to around 5000
but im actually from maine
and i have no idea about that film

it is nice to be missed in a good way. for this i thank you

hello my friend, i have been busy with mistakes of the past, planning the futre, raising children, farmers market season has started and we sell my art works there, you know just life in general. i still check in daily to see how the site is progressing. interesting how one can start a train of thought (i.e. the earthquake questions are almost a daily feature) and how hubdubbers can get tunnel vision and stop following the news (i.e. if i had posted on the cyclone that hit myanmar before the event there would have been a train of thought on as to the foresight required to accurately predict the news). this site has been an interesting insight as to the thought processes involved in intellectual competion. i hope to find some time to actively play the game again soon. until then take care
bob

No worries. I'm a lot less prickly than lucid (which is safe to say of almost everyone here!) but thanks for the note anyway.

I left most of my boys at home and took my son to his Great Grandma's 90th birthday party in Dallas. It was great fun but 6 hours on a plane with a one year old is exhausting! Its also pathetic how desperate I was to get home to my internet connection and hubdub...

haha
well ive got about 5000 thousand on no one drops out
and it has kept dropping and is now worth about 500
sooo im praying she is stubborn or else i will be way down in net worth
good luck man

I log in every day to get my daily $H20, and somehow (DJIA) I lose it by the end of the day.
The DOW just isn't listenin'

ya google told me the solution. I have to admit it gave me the creeps at first though.

Check this out... http://www.exstatica.net/flash/psychic.swf

btw: thanks for mentioning me as question creator to "have a special style" (is that positive or negative?). And you saw junky_1 saved us from the deathpool thing (http://www.hubdub.com/m6842#comments)? puh, that was close!

I hope no epileptic saw it.

it is a little much isn't it.

Randburg,

Do not EVER say I played a dirty trick on you again! I did NO such thing, and you do me a severe disservice by alleging that I am somehow a crooked question creator!

You do not create many questions and maybe that is why you are soooo quick to the trigger, whatever the reason, you have totally misjudged me, made me look like a jerk, called me a trickster!
You said "Do we need to read your film questions for hidden tricks in the future? We don't want to have to add a "lucid question" to the hubdub lexicon."
First I will answer, YESSSS YOU NEED TO READ MY FILM QUESTIONS!!!!!!!! That is WHYYYYYY I have a description, however, you need NEVER look for tricks in them, a simple looking at THE DATES I GAVE would suffice! As May 9th is the 2nd weekend of Iron Man....... You have really done a disservice to me Randburg, I try reallllly hard in my questions and if all you are going to do is dig at me for legalistic wording, then I suggest you refrain from betting on my questions at all!

I am sorry if you lost money, noooo wait, that's right, you got it Voided, so you got your money back, that's right, almost forgot that part!

lucidstates

http://getsatisfaction.com/hubdub/topics/problem_settlement_new_dehli_torch_rally_was_it_peaceful

Hey Randburg. Long time no hear. Hope you're ok.... Wanna pitch in your opinion here?