Thinking the Lions Blog

I was strolling through the internet on day, and ran across the Thinking the Lions blog. (Is strolling possible in cyberspace? Perhaps this is indicative of a slow internet connection. Anyhoo, moving on.)

Thinking the lions is an interesting blog. The writer is an awesome god among mortals. I'm getting a divorce. Are you paying attention?

All right, I cannot vouch for the whole blog, as I haven't actually read the whole thing. But if you get a moment, at least check this article out.
http://www.thinkingthelions.com/2008/12/rebellious-youth-without-girlfriends.html

And if you do have a lot of time on your hands, read the whole blog.

Lesbian Zombie Blogging

First response after writing the title of the blog post, "Huh?" It sounds really silly.

Run by http://lesbianzombies.blogspot.com/ sometime. It's part random blogging, part original take on the zombie invasion. And I can never do with too little info on the zombie invasion. A bunch of girl crazy chicks go brain crazy. What's not to like?

Shady Library Looms

I really ought to dump another load into the Shady Library. Waiting until the end of the month is a bad habit.

Here's what I'll do. I'll load up December, and then first thing in January, BAM! You won't know what hit you.

Santa's Lap, a video feed

Well, here's a fun experience I had. got a wish

I was recently invited (very recently, meaning about five minutes ago) to look at a digital photo frame.

I've known about these frames for a while, I even know a few people that have them on their desks at work. The digital frame "that I just have to see from their website, right now, becuase it's frakin awesome, that's why" was from CEIVA.

The frame CEIVA offers isn't that different from any of the others I've seen. It has a memory to store digital photos, and will cyle through the list until it reaches the end, and then show the same photos some more. Not bad, if you're into accidentally showing of your "interesting" photos and getting fired on account of your boss not being that open minded.

However, their website experience is VERY unique. Going to their site gets you a video from "Santa's Workshop". An elf and Santa talk about the upcoming holidays, and give you an oportunity to upload a photo of your own to see what it would look like on the CEIVA Digital Photo Frame.

I was impressed with the technology behind the video. They incorporate your name, what you want for Christmas, and even show your photo several times in the video. I would buy the CEIVA Frame, if only because I was that impressed with their website.

Also, just a cherry on the top, running through the video can get you entered in a $500 drawing. Just think how many CEIVA Digital Frames that would get you.

Try it out yourself. Seriously, it was fun. http://www.sitonsantaslap.com/?utm_source=b

New Find on the Internet

Here's an interesting site. "Find.com"

Find.com Search Engine



Simple enough, I guess. Find.com is half Google ads and half search results. It's beauty lies in its URL simplicity.

Check this out, I searched for "Bad Boys" on a handful of search engines, and find.com was by far the most straight-forward.

Here's some URL samples that will change your perspective.
http://find.com/bad_boys
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bad+boys&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=
http://www.ask.com/web?q=bad+boys&search=search&qsrc=0&o=0&l=dir

I'm not ready to say that this is a complete search revolution, merely based on URL size. There may also be some speed optimization on their very near schedule.

However, this is almost the Tinyurl of all search engines. Don't be surprised if this site gets big.

The beauty of TinyURL was the ability to give a very small number of digits to a friend, and have them be able to go to an impossible-to-memorize internet location. With find.com, you can easily type in your search directly from the address bar. Want to look up ducks? Just type in find.com/ducks. Using a search engine as user friendly as Google would introduce unecessary steps. That is, "Type URL" -> "Type search". Find.com is as simple as just, "Type URL".

That's okay by me. Anything I can use that will speed up my internet life, I'll take.

Find People
Find Jobs
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Carly at Confoozled

http://www.confoozled.com

The author there is chill and prolific. She fully embraces her blissful insanity, like a Buddhist Ted Bundy, she is charming and disarming all in the same breath.

She's all over the place, and you either heard it here first (in which case you are fully excited to hear the new hype), or you've already been there, and you can confirm the news yourself.

Either way, just check her out. She's a caustic family-centered human being. What's not to like?

Yeah, http://www.confoozled.com you know you're going there next.

My very own hell

Rednecks
Circle I Limbo

Oakland Raider Fans
Circle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind

PETA Members
Circle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & Snow

Republicans
Circle IV Rolling Weights

General asshats
Circle V Stuck in Mud, Mangled

River Styx

Scientologists
Circle VI Buried for Eternity

River Phlegyas

George Bush
Circle VII Burning Sands

Saddam Hussein
Circle IIX Immersed in Excrement

Creationists
Circle IX Frozen in Ice

Design your own hell

Writing your heart out

How do you write your heart out when you have no privacy. How do you expose your heart to the world when the world will eat it still beating?

I'll try not to be too emo and just say that I will simply have to suffer the fate of the Aztecs and offer up my heart to the world, in the hopes that they will treat it kindly.

Hitchens vs Wolpe

A new verbal combat has been provided on YouTube featuring the vocabulary superstar Christopher Hitchens! Seriously, even if I didn't agree with a single word he says, his use of the English language is both entertaining and intellectually stimulating.

Also, he's got an awesome accent.

Uploading to Shady Library: after

Wow, I'm pretty sure nobody appreciates the work that I just put into the Shady Library just now. I put up 66 entries, and there were 19 clicks of my mouse for each one. That's assuming that I didn't go all zombie and click somewhere I shouldn't have on accident.

That's, hold on... 1254 CLICKS!!!! Just for a lousy library that doesn't even earn any money at all.

I'm just kidding, I know it's all worth it.

Peace.

Uploading to Shady Library, before

I have a very big stash problem. I swear I'm worse than a pack rat. I have files everywhere.

I have DVD-Rs full of movies, books, music, pictures. DVD-Rs, people. I cannot possibly keep track of all this media. Ugh, moving up a crud to the Shady Library right now.

Uploading to Shady Library

I am pretty exhausted. I uploaded 58 new entries to the Shady Library today. These entires were mostly R.A.Salvatore and Alan Dean Foster, with a few random books thrown in here and there. I also put in a few encyclopedias I had lying around on my hard drive.

After a few dozen entries in the Shady Library, I just started getting cranky. And then, at the 50 entry mark, Blogger started making me enter a "Prove Me Human" validation code.

Ugh, I hope somebody out there appreciates what I go through for their free fiction.

High on PurpleSlinky.com

The Muse has struck.

Wow, I am really pleased with the turnout on my article for PurpleSlinky. I have more than thirty thousand views on an article I wrote about five weeks ago. http://www.purpleslinky.com/Offbeat/Seven-Things-I-Never-Knew-About-French-Kissing.192305

Yeah, I'm punched out. I'm super high on this one. We wow.

I also put up a mind map for the projects I'm working on. You can view it yourself at clsfdkidd.googlehacksx.com.

Sweet mother of Zeus, I love my life.

Legend of the Seeker

Holy crap, I now have a bladder and bowel control problem. For any of you that are still out of the loop, go check out http://www.legendoftheseeker.com

NOW!

New Goals for September

I need to restart my life. Most depressed people may either try to "restart" through an overdose and rebirth, or medicate themselves so that they no longer feel the urge. I think I'll do it completely sober, and attempt to be as non-suicidal as possible.

First, I need to identify to aspects of my life that I am not pleased with.

1. I waste a lot of time watching movies.
2. I waste a lot of time playing video games.
3. I don't write enough. I think my creative juices have gone stagnant, and that is a miserable feeling, my friend.
4. I don't create the web projects that I have lined up. I just let them sit there, all lined up and waiting to be worked on.
5. I don't have enough users signed up for the Google Hacks X Toolbar
6. I don't have LabRat completed. (An enormous project!)
7. I don't know how to play the piano.

Now, I need to set some goals that will eliminate these "problem places", and set me on the path that I really want to be.

Goals for September, 2008

1. Absolutely no video games. This may make me either go insane, or get my creative juices flowing again. Hopefully, I know what I'm doing.
2. Either write 1000 words, work on a web project, or work on LabRat.
3. Upload new entries to the Shady Library.
4. Do not watch any movies until BOTH 2 and 3 have been completed for the day.

That should take care of a lot of it, maybe sometime I'll squeeze in learning the piano.

A day in the life of Criss Angel

I was making my daily rounds of a bunch illegal downloading sites, when I came across this jewel. Apparently, Criss Angel has a TV show (duh), and does some crazy magic stuff every episode (double duh). That aside, try to read this episode synopsis like you were reading this out of a newspaper.

Criss attempts to catch a razor sharp arrow in his bare hands after it is shot from a nail gun at 1400 feet per second. Then, while on a tour of a warehouse, Criss cuts through a fans arm with a jigsaw blade. At a park, Criss’ crew is late for a football game and so he makes 2 players appear from thin air and then makes a football levitate during a perfect pass.
http://www.fastpasstv.com/criss-angel-mindfreak-4x04/

That is just insane. Pretend that this is not an optical illusions performer, but rather an ordinary citizen. So this freaked out dude gets shot at by an arrow, and catches it in his hand. "Yeah, I'm awesome." Then he's walkin' in some squatter's warehouse, and hacks off a buddy's hand with an electrical reciprocating saw. "Uh, oops. Sorry bro." Oh no! He's late for a football game with his homies, they're 3rd and 10 and down by 7! With a pikachu-like swish of his hand, he makes some extra teammates materialize and floats the football serenely to the wide-receiver with his yoda-jedi mind powers. "WTF! I'm h4xing the server! N00b$!! HAHAHHAAHA!"

Man, it all sounds like Criss is the ultimate shorthand-for-Richard. If you don't know the shorthand for Richard, I guess you aren't going to the H-E-double-hockey sticks.

French Kissing, CENSORED

I went in and hacked my article on french kissing. I took out all the really "good" bits, and now it is but a shadow of its former glory. I still think it's smashing great, but I am a little miffed that I couldn't say the S-word, even though it was absolutely necessary for the perfect story.

I now know why comedians like using foul language. It has a sort a shock value that can be expressed in a very few number of words. Hopefully, I will be able to express myself powerfully without needing to rely on those naughty words. Apparently, I won't get published, otherwise.

Here's the letter from Triond, accepting my revised work (YAY!), and check out the article at http://www.purpleslinky.com/Offbeat/Seven-Things-I-Never-Knew-About-French-Kissing.192305

Shady Library Videos

A few days ago I posted five tutorial videos to both Youtube and Revver. These are the first videos that cover the Shady Library, and how the passwords are stored on the Google Hacks X Toolbar. I guess that the Shady Library project is officially open!

Just today, The first day of August, I put up two books by Tom Clancy. The Hunt for Red October, and Patriot Games have been added to the Shady Library. Hip, hip, hooray!

Now, on to Arthur C. Clarke. I have a couple dozen of his books, and should put them up over the course of the weekend.

Happy Friday, everyone.

Pornographic, Vulgar, or Obscene

This is something new. I've never been accused of being vulgar before. I pride myself on my lack of name-calling, so when someone says that my work is too pornographic, vulgar, or obscene for their tastes, I certainly pay attention.

I tried to submit an article titled, "Seven Things I Never Knew About French Kissing", to the publishing website Triond. They sent back this charming letter...
Surely, I'm not that interesting!

Republican's outrageous spending