It is so not fair, but money matters and imitation is the biggest form of flattery, especially during the interlude on a dark and stormy night.

Yeah, that’s all I’ve got. Sorry. Even brain power techniques cannot help too much when your brain is simply tired.

So, I’ll follow–no scratch that–I am making up my own mind to do this–I follow no one! Even though Joanne suggested it, it’s by my own free will that I open the floor to some Q&A. Joanne doesn’t control me! No, ma’am!

Leave a comment with a question, and I’ll provide an answer. May not necessarily be the answer you’re looking for, but it will be an answer! Might want to read this first, to make sure your question hasn’t already been answered.

And, send some pity to the Pirate King’s Daughter. (Bet she forgot about that nickname!) She was recently a victim of highway robbery.

I have noticed that sometimes when bloggers are too pressed for time or completely out of ideas, they create a post where they invite their commentators to step up and talk about whatever they like. Within reason of course. And, I intentionally left that as a sentence fragment to add emphasis. Plus, the italics.

Today is one of those days. Though I remain unoptomistic about the result, seeing the stunning scarcity of comments my last couple posts have generated. Yes, I need to get back to the brain power and motivational stuff, but the eCommerce site and other projects and issues have really taxed me lately.

Before I get to that, I see that I just hit a Technorati Authority rank of 103. Appears as though I totally skipped 102 and went from 101 to 103. Just need to go a little bit further to break 50k.

Anyway, back to the subject at hand, which you’ll notice is in the “Off the Wall” category. With that in mind, what would you like to see? Notice I said “see” and not “read.” So, what is it then? Keep it clean, please!

What would you like to see? I have some nifty software tools, and a lack of ideas. Well, I have ideas, but they’re complex ideas, and I need something simpler to start.

Oh, yes, it would make things easier if I told you all about those nifty software tools, and what they do, and you’d have an easier time coming up with a suggestion, no? Where’s the fun in that? Just tell me what you’d like to see. If suggestions are too crazy, maybe I’ll give a bit more information…

At any rate, tell me what you would like to see. I’ll pick an idea (maybe!) and make it happen. Perhaps you could mention this in your blog too, so I can get a larger selection of commentators than usual. Incentive? Well, none other than you might get to see some wacky idea of yours.

No, I’m not going to give any sample suggestions either. Just give me what you got!

What would you like to see?

Where would you choose? Would you stay where you are? Or, would you move elsewhere?

I suppose I am somewhat undecided. I admit that this does have some appeal. Pretty much protected from most disasters, except perhaps flooding and earthquakes. Then, I suppose there is the possibility that some foreign government with old maps might try to blow you up in the event of war. But, for most things, you’d probably be pretty safe. Plus, for a while I’ve thought having an underground watering hole called “The Shelter” or something would be pretty cool too.

Just think of all the space you’d have! I could set up a couple businesses, a museum or two, living space and still have plenty of room to spare!

Or, check this one out. You have a nice house, underground facilities, plus easy access to the airport, which means you can ship or receive stuff from UPS, DHL, and FedEx and it’s be no doubt quicker than if you lived farther away.

Or check out the Titan I site in Denver, Colorado. 210 acres and 45,000 sq.ft. of floor space. A bit of a fixer-upper, but you’ve got mountain views in what appears to be a nice rural area, but close to the city and a major airport, giving you those shipping and receiving advantages, which will be great if you run any kind of business–say, for example, one on the Internet–where you’ll ship stuff out.

Of course, I’d need more than $300,000 to buy and renovate any of these sites. Maybe I should bring back the “Buy Me a Soda” plugin.

Where would you want to live?

(Yes, this is off-topic, but at least I’m not blogging about mattresses.)

Doug wants a recipe. Well, he’s not going to get one. But, mmmm, regardless, because today’s post is brought to you by the letter M, which is the first letter of macaroni, for which you shouldn’t need a recipe–just add boiling water, wait, then drain. Add cheese if you so desire. Maybe top it off with some ketchup. Then, masticate heartily! But, that will be the extent of magirics today.

Methinks some dating advice may be in order. If you are a man and are a milquetoast, you can still get a date with an attractive midinette–you just have to assert yourself and ask her out. Be clear and direct; don’t mussitate. But it would be moria to be minacious, as you may scare her off and perhaps even instill a bit of misandry within her. At best, it may put her in a mulligrubs. And your only hope for offspring may be monogony.

I wonder if morphallaxis was coined especially for Doctor Who?

Before I mabble this post, I’d like to say “Hey!” to all the macrobian macrocephalous mammothrepts out there in the macrocosm, especially those that are manganiferous or suffer from melomania. If you’re mephitic, perhaps you ought to become vegetarian or carnivorous rather than merdivorous. It will especially improve your breath. Even being microphagous or myrmecophagous would be an improvement.

Until next time, be mabsoot and don’t make mountains out of monticles! Believe. Act. Achieve!

Have you ever bought anything online?

Do you work in an office position?

Have you ever purchased office supplies online?

Do you do crafts?

Have you ever purchased crafting supplies online?

Do you visit crafting websites?

If I let you preview my super secret website, will you keep it secret until its public debut?

If your answer is “yes” to all (or most) of these questions, and “yes” on the last question, and you would like to give me feedback on the look of my new eCommerce site, please reply in the comments.

Thanks!

Knowledge will ever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
–James Madison

Tell me how it is that in this room there are three candles and but one light, and I will explain to you the mode of Divine existence.
–John Wesley

Pay what you owe, and your worth you’ll know.
–Proverb

Criticisms never hurt anybody. If false they can’t hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true they show a man his weak points and forewarn him against failure.
–W. E. Gladstone

They who never think, always talk.
–Proverb

The world is yet in the twilight, doubtless, but it is the twilight of the breaking dawn, not the falling night. Despair of the world’s future is disloyalty to God.
–G. B. Wilcox

Fame is what you have taken;
   Character’s what you give.
When to this truth you waken,
   Then you begin to live.
–Anonymous

       Great deeds cannot die;
They with the sun and moon renew their light
Forever, blessing those that look on them.
–Alfred Tennyson

Happy are those who have a lyre in the heart, and music in the mind which their actions perform.
–Joseph Joubert

Time is short enough for those who know how to use it; time is very, very long for those who do not know how to use it that their main difficulty is to devise means to get rid of it.
–Robert Collyer

Industry pays debts, but despair increases them.
–Proverb

The wealth of a man is the number of things he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by.
–Thomas Carlyle

Wit is the lightning of the mind.
–Proverb

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.
–John Ruskin

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
–Proverb

A good book and a good woman are excellent things for those who know how justly to appreciate their value. There are men, however, who judge of both from the beauty of the covering.
–Anonymous

Greatness stands on a precipice.
–Proverb

Many a young man is utterly ruined by wealth and want of occupation. It does not cost much to live a happy, honorable life, but it costs a mint of money to live and do nothing.
–T. W. Handford

In all the affairs of human life, social as well as political, I have remarked that courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.
–Henry Clay

Write injury on water and kindness on marble.
–Proverb

To him who has been sated and disappointed by the actual and intelligible, there is a profound charm in the unattainable and inscrutable.
–Anonymous

Believe. Act. Achieve!

As do many of her posts, Joanne’s latest got me thinking, which turns on tangents upon tangents, and I wind up remembering a speech by G’Kar:

The Universe speaks in many languages, but only one voice.
The language is not Narn or Human or Centauri or Gaim or Minbari.

It speaks in the language of hope. It speaks in the language of trust.
It speaks in the language of strength, and the language of compassion.
It is the language of the heart and the language of the soul.
But always it is the same voice.

It is the voice of our ancestors speaking through us.
And the voice of our inheritors waiting to be born.
It is the small, still voice that says we are One.

No matter the blood, no matter the skin,
No matter the world, no matter the star,
We are One.
No matter the pain, no matter the darkness,
No matter the loss, no matter the fear.
We are One.

Here, gathered together in common cause
We agree to recognize this singular truth and this singular rule:
That we must be kind to one another.

Because each voice enriches us and ennobles us,
And each voice lost diminishes us.
We are the voice of the universe, the soul of creation,
The fire that will light the way to a better future.

We are One.

–G’Kar, Babylon 5, “The Paragon of Animals“

Babylon 5 was chock full of great dialogue like that, and was one of those rare gems of a science fiction show that didn’t dumb things down for the audience. Something like that would probably never fly on TV today. They’d have to simplify it and throw in some Bush-bashing to get it on the air.

Before I started this blog, I started StampReport.com, which featured “Breaking News for Stampoholics!” You’ll notice that posting dropped off there when I started this blog!

For a while, I was trying to keep all my blogs updated, but found this one to be the easiest to manage. So, as water follows the path of least resistance, so did I!

At any rate, now that I’ve gotten into a “groove” with this blog, not to mention nearly mastering the elusive* art of post scheduling, I think (hope!) that I am ready to start keeping two blogs regularly updated!

So, while it has been linked in my sidebar, I thought I would draw attention to it just so maybe you’ll actually visit it.

While this blog has now achieved a Technorati authority rank of 100, the StampReport.com is still at the embarrassingly low rank of 2. Hopefully, I can get that moving onward and upward!

In the meantime, I wanted to thank some of my early commentators with some link love from the higher authority blog.

QuinnCreative
Southern Beale
Scraps of Mind

*Yes, I’ve used “elusive” in two different posts today. Thanks for noticing!

After what seemed to be a painful eternity, crawling ever so slowly from 90 and on up, going slower and slower the higher the numbers went, and hovering at 98 then finally 99 for what seemed to be an extraordinarily looooooong time, I have finally obtained the ever so elusive Technorati authority rank of 100! Woohoo!

For a while, I thought that Joanne, being the secret weapon she is, would surely overtake me and beat me to it. I thought even Doug, who had been stuck at 90 for ages and only recently began moving up, might beat me to it as well. I thought that ChrisBlogging, who was at one time way ahead of me, would reach it before me. Or Chris Bloczynski too. Or, Lewis Empire too!

Or, how about A Blog that Lies? Or, One Year Goal–surely he was going to reach 100 before me! Or the Net Business Journal? Or Debo Hobo? What of I Do Things or Phil who basically got me started with WordPress? Or Net Hustlin?

Rubbing it in? Nah! Just trying to spread some Misdo Link Love to my fellow bloggers whom I’ve crushed along the way. (j/k!)