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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.

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 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.

I have added a script page because a lot of people are comign here looking for the Word Count script I made. I also added the original script I made, which was just for tiny_MCE and not WordPress, so they are both up there, with more to come as I edit them for public use and such. I’m always taking suggestions for scripts, so let me know if you have any ideas for scripts you’d like to see.

There’s a commercial for Head On that all you do is apply it directly to the forehead. You buy this product and put it on your forehead, but what does that do?

Does it make head aches go away? Does it help with brain freeze? It doesn’t say. Maybe it gives psychic powers, afterall you do put it on your head.

The website doesn’t even say what it does, why would anyone buy a product that you don’t know what it does? Well apparently this product gives relief to headaches, but the Better Business Bureau asked them now to say that, because they simply don’t know if it works. So whose buying this product that has no real benefits according to anyone? Obviously someone if they can afford a commercial.

If you told me last year that I would be working on a website that and getting paid for it, I would have thought you were nuts. The fact is that when I took this job, I didn’t know anything about PHP and I definitely didn’t think that I’d ever get the first part done, let alone be well into the second part of the project.

I guess it is true what they say, how can you know what you can handle, if you only keep handling the things you know you can?

So I announced that I would play Halo 3 for 24 hours straight. Well I have been hammering out the details, but I still don’t know whether or not I can get the game at midnight or at 9AM during normal store hours. If it is at 9AM, then I will wake up at 8:30 and go there and wait. I will probably be blogging, giving the run down every few hours or so, giving my first opinions, whatever. KIf anyone wants to come and say hello, then by all means go ahead. I wikll be cleaning out my Xbox Live friends list and only saving people that I play with regularly. So if yuou want to be send me a friend invite, my name is leprakhauns.

As for the normal everyday things (eating, bathroom, etc) I will probably eat something quick, maybe order a pizza and eat while I am not killing people, or getting killed. I will be using the bathroom regularly, afterall this isn’t hold your wee for a Wii. I’ll let you guys know more when I know more.

I bought Krissy Tetris Evolution, I played it for about an hour and didn’t even earn one achievement. Now I don’t expect all games to just give you achievements right away, but come on. An hour of making blocks disappear and nothing to show for it. Hopefully Halo 3 will be easier.

I’ve been thinking about picking up Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. I love the X-Men Legends and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance games, so I figured it might be fun, but there’s a lack of online multiplayer so I am apprehensive. Anyone play it? Also I might pick up Marvel Ultimate Alliance. I played it in the Sony store on the PS3 when I was in Atlantic City, but I don’t know if I want to pick that up either, most of the levels look the same as X-Men Legends. I might pick it up for some online multiplayer, that is if anyone still plays it.