2007

It is strange, but do you know that you are most likely unaware of the world outside your comfort zone? I grew up in a white straight neighborhood. When a Korean family moved in it seemed like a big uproar, and when a black family moved in, that was the end of the neighborhood as we knew it according to people back then. It isn’t that people in the neighborhood were racist persay, but they lived in a white neighborhood, and when people who looked different moved in, they were moving into an already established comfort zone of people. People don’t just do it with race though.

A few years ago, unless a guy acted feminine, or or a woman was very butch looking, I would assume that they were straight. My cousin is a butch kind of lesbian, so maybe that is where I different and think that way, but now I live in a primarily gay town so it is harder to tell than just the black and white perceptions of people.

We do this, not with people, but with fictional characters as well. Being white, I was brought up to believe that Santa Clause was also Caucasian. But if you are black, maybe you had an African American Santa Clause. Even the differences between the sexes is apparent. How many times do women refer to god as she, while men refer to god as him?

Take a step outside your comfort zone, look around at the world, take a drive through harlem, see how the other half live. You might be surprised with yourself.

I’ve talked before about how my grandmother loved Hawaii, and always told me that I would love it there. She went two or three times before she died, but I have never been there and neither has Krissy. Krissy and I have been discussing future trips and we decided to take the woman’s advice and take a few trips to Hawaii, once we have everything settled and are doing all right financially. I’d love to see the volcanic eruptions, while Krissy wants to see sunrise and sunset over the ocean in one day. I think that would be pretty cool too. When we are actually ready to make plans, before going to a travel agent, we’ll probably look up Hawaii vacation reviews to make sure we are going to the right islands during the right time of year. It would suck to go and find out nothing was on one island, when a big party was going on on another island.

We’re going to Burger King tonight for dinner. I have some work I could be doing, but my stomach is rumbling so I don’t really want to start anything yet. Krissy is working on something for a major client right now, so I really don’t want to disturb her, she’s a hard worker that girl.

In non-food news, anyone else get emails from thefanlistings saying to put an update on your site even if you haven’t had any new members? That won’t be a problem for me, once I really get into updating those things, but for right now, I don’t have time to be thinking about them. Trust me though, my fanlistings will have more stuff there, eventually.

For what seems like years now, I’ve been trying to come up with an official mascot for Lep’s Lair, and so many times I have gotten close, but I’ve turned away for one reason or another. I had one that I thought was cool, but everyone else thought it was creepy (It was supposed to be a vector of me with some addons like a beard), but what I’d love to be able to do is to take whatever mascot I decide on and put it on Custom Folders and business card, and a whole bunch of other merchandise., to get the word out about my site offline, as well as online. I was thinking that the Printed Folders would be used to keep track of all my website data, stats, finances, all stuff. Maybe I will design an official logo first, and then work around with a mascot, I don’t know yet though.

So here it is the beginning of August and I have calculated how much I have made from Lep’s Lair. Last month’s income from the site was $121.50. Let’s see how I did this month:

Loud Launch: $15.00
PayPerPost: $373.02
Blogsvertist: $30.00
Text Link Ads: $5.25
Adbrite: 11.96
Private Advertisers: 4.16

The total for July 2007 was $439.39. That’s up $317.89 that it was last month. Now let’s see if I can keep on the upward spiral and make some more money next month.

Has anyone else seen the previews for Superbad? Superbad is the new movie from the guys who brought you Knocked Up and The 40 Year Old Virgin. The movie looks absolutely hilarious, you can check out clips on the YouTube website. The movie stars Jonah Hill (Accepted, The 40 Year Old Virgin) and Michael Cera (Arrested deveopment), two high school students who are going through separation anxiety after their party goes awry.

If you saw Knocked Up, or The 40 Year Old Virgin, then you know how funny they are, and this movie will most likely not disappoint. Just from the clips alone, I was laughing my head off. If you don’t believe that a movie can be as funny as I am describing it, then check out the clips at SuperbadClips.

There seems to be a lot of comedies coming out of the woodwork, some of them just looks stupid. I mean with one ping pong movie, and another where someone is jumping over cars, this movie is guarenteed to come out on top, and it will probably an instant classic, being compared to other great movies. This is one movie that I will definitely be checking out, and I might even do it when it comes out in theaters, instead of waiting for it to come to DVD.

The Wii is on its way. It should be here by next week, apparently they decided to upgrade the shipping and instead of taking a few weeks, it should be here within ten days of the shipping date, which is Thursday. It might take a little while longer, but it might be here in less time than that. Either way, I am very excited to finally own a Wii. Now if they can get Metroid Prime 3 out for it, I will be as happy as a kid in a candy store.

As you have probably guessed from some of my pictures, I absolutely love digital photography. I just don’t really like my camera because it doesn’t give me the options to customize my settings that much, like one of the camera modeled after a manual film camera. I’ve been really wanting a Nikon camera for some time now. For those who don’t know, Nikon digital cameras are one of the absolute best brands of camera period. Whether it is digital or film, you can’t go wrong with a Nikon.

After all the other stuff we need it purchased, I will most likely be purchasing a Nikon, then I will really be getting into the digital photography thing. I will be able to take pictures no matter what the light is and with many difference lenses. I don’t know when I will have the money, though, so don’t be looking for it anytime soon.

Bungie announced today that Halo 3 will have online co-op, not two, like everyone’s been hoping for, but 4 player online co-op. Now normally I like to finish a game by myself, but having someone playing with you adds to the game. I’ve played Gears of War with people online and it made the game that much more enjoyable, you didn’t have to worry about any bad AI, and not I imagine that it will be 4 times as fun with the 4 people playing. Is it September yet?

I’ve worked in a furniture store and while I was there I fell in love with home theater seating. It is quite possibly some of the most comfortable seats I ever sat in. Well it turns out that the seating was actually Berkline home theater seating. I would love to just sit down in that and pop in a movie or put in Halo and play away. It would even be good for reading or taking a little nap in. What better way to waste a day away then sitting in comfortable seating and doing the things you love? Plus it’s leather, so you know it is high quality.

I have finally figured out how to make thumbnails of animated gifs using ImageMagick so that they stay animated. Let me twell you, once I figured it out, it really wasn’t that hard at all. This is going to help me out a great deal with work and for some upcoming projects.

In other computer related news, I have a lot of computers all over the office, I need to figure out what to do with some of these because they are in the way and are preventing a table from going where we want a table to go. I need to come up with projects for these things, but I don’t know what yet, though.

As consumers we want to be able to find out about businesses and how they perform with others in their ranks. We’d like to get opinions on them, information on some of the most recently sold items from them, that kind of thing. I checked out ePERKS and they seem to have all that free of charge. Now I don’t have to worry about anything, I can go there check it out and see if this is a place that I would like to buy from, without worrying if I am going to get ripped off or not. That’s always in the back of my mind when I am buying from someplace new, is this place going to rip me off? Will I give them my money and not get anything in return? Now I won’t have to be so nervous handing over my hard earned cash.