Erin Burnett

Meet Erin Burnett. The stunningly smart and beautiful anchor of "Squawk on the Street" and "Street Signs" on CNBC.

It's no secret that CNBC hires fine girls to host their shows. That's business. Viewers are bound to stay tunned if they like what they're seeing. And what could be hotter than a gorgeous woman talking stocks? The perfect formula to attract the young up-and-comers and the balding middle aged.

Erin isn't alone. Trish Regan, Rebbecca Jarvis, Maria Bartiromo--they all are smart, sexy and somewhat likable anchors. However, Erin is different. The others seem like "that girl." You know who I'm talking about. That girl that always raised her hand to answer all the questions in Intro to Finance. That girl who appropriately color codes her excel sheets to match the current season. That girl--the bitch

Erin radiates a different feel- to be cliche, she's "the girl next door." Despite that she flies on corporate jets to meet CEOs in Dubai and takes lunch with billionaires, oil barons, and presidents, I sense (thought maybe dead wrong) a genuineness and humbleness about her. What's more, I love that she hails from a small town. She probably finds herself walking down Broadway feeling completely at home amidst the lurching sky scrappers and entrenching bright lights, yet still missing the simplicity of her small town. She then carries on, coyly thinking how badass she is. And how deservingly so.

Erin Burnett, will you marry me?

Free Rice

Free Rice is an online charity that allows users to donate rice by correctly answering vocabulary questions. The Free Rice campaign offers an online vocab game that prompts the user with a word then four possible meanings--one, of course, being the correct meaning. A computer program tracks the level each user is most comfortable at--from beginners just learning English to a level for the most scholarly professors. Free Rice donates 20 grains of rice for every word correctly matched. In return, the game is aimed at providing users with vocabulary practice that fortifies their understanding of the English language.

To fund this program, Free Rice offers advertising space on each elapsing screen of the game. The more you play, the more advertisers pay, and the more rice they are able to purchase. The rice is then sent to the United Nations World Food Program and is distributed to those in need. On Nov. 28th, 2007 there were 369,007,280 grains of rice donated. The amount of rice donated per day has risen exponentially since its inception on Oct. 7th, 2007.

Here we go again

Last time I got an urge to write I began a web site. It wasn't a bad idea until I became bored with it. So much so I can't remember the user name and password to log in even if I did have the inclination to update the damed site. Naturally, I can't promise the same won't amount here. I think my poison last time was not giving myself a broad enough beat. That site was for me to write about business, and my affinity toward that topic hasn't swayed, but I feel there are other topics that need mentioning, but have no home on that page.

So here we go again.