The demo for Bioshock hit XBox Live this passed weekend, but I haven’t gotten around to downloading it. I have been checking out Bioshock for a while, and I had thought that it was a PS3 exclusive, but I am glad I am wrong. I’ve been busy with stuff the passed few days so that’s why I haven’t been able to get around to downloading it. Maybe I will set it to download and then walk away because I am hearing it is taking some people a few hours to download.
Apparently bloggers are trying to get a union together so that they can request things such as medical insurancem, collective bargaining, and even professional standards. Am I the only one to say that this is the craziest thing I’d ever heard?
First of all, if you aren’t getting paid to blog, then how does this even apply? Second, ifyou are blogging for free, then the union representatives will be hassling you for giving away your valuable information for free. I am assuming that this will not be affecting people who just blog about their everyday lives, but then if a union gets involved, then those will most likely have lawsuits against them for not joining.
How do bloggers go on strike anyway? Not write anything at all? Sit there all day typing “No No We Won’t Go”? Yes this is the dumbest thing I’ve heard recently.
I love poker. I play it every time we go to a casino. When we went the other day, it was the only machine I won at (one of those big electronic poker tables). I play poker on my computer, but then again I play a lot of games on my computer. A lot of people do. What makes me different is that if they had the same games for other operating systems, then I wouldn’t be using Windows. I’m not even talking about Linux, I’d even switch to a Mac if I could play some of my games on it. A lot of companies overlook the Mac though because they see it just as an media work machine, which is funny because when it came out they called it an expensive toy.
One company is listening to the woes of the Mac gamer, Mac PokerStars, will be out soon. Pokerstars already has a Windows version out, and the Mac users will soon be able to run their own native version of the program, without using other software to make it run. This is great news for Mac users, and those of us who wish to get away from Windows all together. Hopefully other companies will listen and begin to follow through with Mac versions of their games.
My grandmother was never officially diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, but she was showing the signs of it, so much so that when she was in the hospital they gave her Alzheimer’s medication and she became much more lucid. Krissy has been telling me about how she donates to the Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk, every year. I don’t think it is a bad idea, and I am thinking of donating some money to it this year as well. The Alzheimer’s Association has been running the Memory Walk since 1989 and has raised over $225 million. I think everyone should donate to this cause.
If you can’t or don’t want to donate your money, then why not your time? The Memory Walk is looking for Team Captain, but you had better sign up early, the spots tend to fill up rather quickly.
Why should you donate your time and/or money? Simple. Do you want to be a 50 year old woman and not remember who you are, where you are, or how you got there? Do you want your family to take care of you in your prime of life, because it can happen to anybody. Do you remember the Golden Girls? Sophia from that show, Estelle Getty, suffers from severe dementia. Just goes to show you that nobody is immune to it.
Emz was shocked when I had posted my totals for July. Not so much with the totals per say, but with the Pay Per Post total. Now you may be saying yes you do a lot of paid posting and will post anything for money. The truth is that I will only take an opportunity if it suits my site and it is something I would normally talk about. I am dying to see Superbad and Halloween, I need a new car and we are looking into moving. All things that I’ve been paid for, but also all things that I am interested in.
I didn’t make a website to make money. I didn’t even make one for a blog, I’ve had a site way before blogs, I’ve had a site since 1998, when we first got this thing known as the internet. I have a site as a project, something to keep myself busy, beats porn right? Well this site has changed over the years, and will continue to change. Yes I have banner ads and text link ads, plus I have inline ads in some places, but does that really take away from the content of the site? I get people coming here everyday looking for stuff on the Spiderman and Matrix sections. I need to add more to them, and they will be ever changing. Does it really matter if I get some compensation for the time I put into my website?
There may be a time when I can cut down on the advertising, but right now the ads pay for the hosting each month, while the sponsored posts really just add up so I can pay off my credit cards quicker than just with my job (which has been slow lately). So yes I make money off my website, but I don’t think it takes away from the content, do you?
My car is getting old. I love the old girl, but I think it might be time to upgrade. I’m a big guy, and my car is small, so I’ve been thinking of a truck. I’ve been thinking about an Isuzu SUV. I’ve always liked driving SUV’s, so owning one wouldn’t be that far of a stretch. The Isuzu Ascender is looking really nice. It would be nice to have four wheel drive, this way I could drive on the beach in the summertime, and not have to worry about snow in the winter. It seems to get good gas mileage too, so when I go on those long trips that I seem to go on at random times, it won’t be too much of a stretch financially. Plus the extra leg room on those trips would be greatly welcomed, considering now my legs cramp up because they are crammed in the car.
I’d like to use my laptop more, but with these very bright days, you can barely see anything on an LCD screen. Also if I’m outside my battery dies within a couple of hours, so that is a pain. I’ve been thinking about buying a new Hewlett Packard Laptop Battery so I can be more mobile and not always on my desktop. I mean I don’t know if it would be good now, but definitely after I build the server, I’ll be able to access my files from anywhere and not have to worry about if I have everything I need on the laptop. Maybe I’ll buy two, this way I have a backup in case I am away from an outlet for a long time.
I’ve been to blogs that complain about people blogging and getting paid for it. Now I post sponsored blogs, and I have to say that as long as you write something that relates to your site, then why complain?
I have written about my credit card debt long before I was getting paid to write about credit cards, so why is it any different now that I am getting money for it? Every post on here is because I want to post it, I won’t take post stuff that I don’t like or I don’t think is cool. Everything I write here is me, so if you are here to get to know me, then here I am, otherwise why are you here?
I’m a programmer. I don’t know how it happened, I’ve always wanted it to happened, but somehow when I wasn’t paying attention, I became a programmer. You wouldn’t believe how many people told me that I wouldn’t be a programmer though. A lot of times programming has to do with math, and I suck at higher level math. I’ve been to math tutor after math tutor, trying to figure out things from 1+1 to harder stuff like Trigonometry.
Both high school and college was difficult because I wasn’t that good in math. I was excellent in computer programming, however. I got A’s in every computer programming course I took in high school and college. Math was a different story. I failed a lot of tests, and some classes. I was able to work around it though, I mean here I am today programming my heart out for work, and I love it. Granted things get slow at times, but I think it all balances out. I know that I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for the tutors I got back then though.
I guess it just goes to show you that if you want something enough, and you are willing to work for it, then maybe, just maybe, you will get what you want. Never give up hope.
Taken from HostDrJack:
When everybody on earth was dead and waiting to enter Paradise, God
appeared and said, “I want the men to make two lines. One line was for
men who were true heads of their household, and the other line for the
men who were dominated by their women. I want all the women to report
to St. Peter.” Soon, the women were gone, and there were two lines of men.
The line of the men who were dominated by their wives was 100 miles
long, and in the line of men who truly were heads of their household,
there was only one man.
God said, “You men should be ashamed of yourselves, I created you to be
the head of your household! You have been disobedient and have not
fulfilled your purpose! Of all of you, only one obeyed. Learn from him.”
God turned to the one man, “How did you manage to be the only one in
this line?”
The man replied, “My wife told me to stand here.”
I’ve updated the Sasha Grey Fanlisting so that it now includes an Extra page and a pictures section. I’ve only added four pictures, but I plan on adding more soon.
I got an email yesterday that my site is set to expire in less than 90 days. It’s hard to believe that my site is almost three years old, I remember when I first started this, it was mainly so I would have something to learn PHP on, and now here I am three years later, not where I want to be exactly, but closer than when I started. Maybe one day soon I will be able to get back to work on some of the stuff I’ve been meaning to get on here.
Living in a resort town can be a downer in the winter. A lot of the houses down here are rentals so you only have people coming down here who are from out of state an d rented their house or apartment from Rentals. It sucks when the highways are packed with people from out of state, but it can also be amusing. There was this one man riding on his motorcycle who didn’t want to deal with the traffic, so he was riding in the shoulder. You could tell he was heading to the beach because he had his beach chair between his legs, which looked to be very uncomfortable. Needless to say that he got a ticket.
Everything changes down here once tourist season starts. More cops take to the streets, and the beach. They hire more than double the amount of police presence they normally have in the off season, which is around 10, and the state troopers will most likely be seen pulling over plates with out of state license plates. They don’t like to admit that they do that, but i have been speeding and have never once been pulled over, except once and they never got out of the car to question me, they just drove off.
Everything changes down here in the summer time, does it change in your town, or is it pretty much how it always is?