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Speeding Ahead!

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Speeding

Still busy.

Plus, I’ve discovered I like playing with Adobe Photoshop’s radial blur tool. Make things move fast! Or look like it anyway.

Pretty simple. Just a matter of choosing the percentage of blur and moving the center around. Too bad it doesn’t let you move the center around over the actual image or at least a thumbnail of it. That would make things much easier! As it is, you have to approximate and guess. If you’re wrong, undo and try again!

There are ways around it, of course. Ways to cheat a bit and make it easier, but still it would be nice if Photoshop incorporated a preview into the radial blur filter as they do with other filters.

Full Speed Ahead!

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Full Speed Ahead!

Full speed ahead!

No time to stop!

By the way, if you have a chihuahua or are considering getting one, please check out my review of The Ultimate Chihuahua Care Handbook.

It’s too bad about Billy Mays too. After watching The Pitchmen, he looked like he was a really cool guy. Here’s a video of him ordering from the McDonald’s drive-thru. I like how he starts his order, “Hi! Billy Mays here…”

Busy, Busy Day

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Been working on a client’s web site as well as my eBook today.

I’ve written about 5,000 words for my eBook today. If you count the wee hours of the morning before I went to bed, I’ve written more than that.

The Twitter section alone, which I finally finished today, could probably be its own eBook! And, who knows, I may still add to it! (Probably not, unless I remember something I meant to include!)

Technically, I’m down to two sections and some miscellaneous parts. But, there are some sections I have finished that I’m going to be expanding. So, much more work to do!

Putting the index together for this thing will be a real time-consuming challenge too!

Be Berry Berry Quiet

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Be berry, berry quiet… I’m hunting successful Internet marketers…

During this past week of unofficially filling in for Speedcat’s craziness, and perhaps taking things to the next level, I’ve been getting back on track to working on my eBook.

I had a bit left to do on it, but wanted to wait for feedback from people before finishing it off. Well, here’s how that went…

Before I had the eBook ready for proofing, I had three people lined up to take a look at it. Once the eBook was reading for proofing, I only heard back from two of them. The one, I sent a copy in early to mid April; the other was sent a copy in early May. Didn’t hear back from either of them.

Found another volunteer proofreader in early May and sent a copy. In mid-May, I contacted one of the first two volunteers, who asked me to send it again, which I did. To date, I’ve not heard anything back and have also not heard back on any of my messages to this person. In mid-June, I found out that the third volunteer had unexpectedly passed away. (She had a heart attack at age 37!)

Actually, after learning about her unexpected passing, I started to get back to work on the eBook again. That’s something that really makes you realize that life is short and time’s a-wasting…

So, I’ve been back to work on my eBook. And, you’d think that because I was pretty close to 99% finished before that I’d have it wrapped up in short order, but you’d think wrong. And that is because I’ve been adding more and more content to it. I don’t want people to end up paying sixty bucks for a 25 page report that says, “Hey, go make a website.” I want something that will be useful and that they can put to use right away. So, I’m adding… and adding. I want them to feel like they’re receiving at least twice as much value as they paid for.

And, when I’m done, I’ll proof and test read it myself!

In the meantime, I’m also on the hunt for any successful Internet marketers that don’t mind sharing a success secret or two…

Resistance is Futile Friday

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Spider Cyborg

Designation: 2 of 2

Resistance is futile! Even the spiders will be assimilated!

See Sunday’s blog post on the Daring Jumping Spider to read more about this spider.

Psychedelic Blog Post

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Would you tango for two to hang out at the zoo? Would you sit down and play the wazoo?

Could you have and hold a great silver mold and use it to make something bold?

Would you leech at the beach and get sand in your feech and make foodle wagoogle ga goo?

Oh, I get by with a lil’ help from Google trends. I get by with a lil’ help from steel with the bends.

Would you bloogle a woogle to sooth a noodle if it meant soggy soup for the stew?

Would you be happy for one month or two? Would you take it to the corner wagoo?

Oh, it’s sad to be mad when you’re glad for a lad who had a supper for new.

Would you wear a wooden shoe to make tulips for you if you had a flower factory? Would it be satisfactory to the olfactory or would you close to make a moo?

Hoodles of doodles and goodles of moodles say you cannoo cachoo cachoo. Want to, do you, do you?

Would you get trippy with a hippy to drink from a sippy and act all pippy when you start to feel tippy and start to feel nippy and more than a little mippy when you can’t get a grippy when your friend gets lippy and falls off the shippy and you feel zippy so you run with a wippy and make up a quippy as you unload a frippy bippy doo?

Would you, would you, for two?

Life is like an ol’ box of chocolates, with nothing but wrappers and half-chewed rejected candies and goo. Would you like two? One for me and one for you? But you can have mine. That would be fine, as I don’t need a line in the sand for a moggle of pine.

Could you decipher a cypher concealed in the hide of a heifer or would you need an inspection of a lifer who escaped from the jailer and never paid bail–or would you take the cow’s word as a moo?

Who would go crazy for a bag of lazy if it were maize-y and blue? Would that be a clue to get potluck stew and serve it when you’re feeling hazy and quite like a daisy who fell from a sill to the flue? Please send a SASE if you’d like a raise-y or send the dollar of two, down at the zoo, where penguins are too, woo woo wooey woo.

Do you want to maintain focus or be like a crocus and gone when the summer comes due? If it’s focus you want, begin by putting that focus on something you like, like a lion and a moon bat at the zoo. Or maybe a car or that girl at the bar. Or maybe just the brightest star.

You put that focus, no hocus pocus, on that thing that you like, oh, so-so. Once you can keep that image in mind, hold it for as long as you can. Keep holding, keep holding and keep on trucking, and see how long you can keep that image in mind. But don’t go off the road or you’ll get fined!

Sparklies! Sparklies! Who likes the sparklies?

And once you have the focus and once you’ve lost the focus, keep track of the time. Resolve to do better next time. You just have to keep practicing, as much as you can. Over time, you’ll see that your focus will improve. You’ll be able to keep those images in mind longer and longer. Yes, you can!

And then the health care system will get all screwed over and you’ll wait in line just for an appointment and you’ll never be treated on time. But, it’s okay. You’ll be fine, until they deny the service you need because you’re not worth it. You’re just a number. When you’re gone, there’ll be another in line.

But keep your focus and keep practicing to hold it. Once you’ve achieved satisfactory results, move on to concentrating on things that are less liked by you. Pick things you find boring and uninspiring. Like Mr. Teleprompter. Try to focus on those things and keep practicing.

Through the course of your life, you’ll have many occasions where you’ll need to focus on tasks that are unpleasant or just nauseatingly boring. But, it will be important to focus, so focus you must! So, to be ready when the time is at hand, it’s best to be in practice. So, practice away! Always practice! Keep it up! When ever you have a spare moment, practice! Like, when you’re waiting in line to get some cough medicine and Dr. Gov tells you it’ll be a two week wait.

Oooh, sparklies!

Have You Ever Seen Anything So Strange?

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Groundhog

Hello, Mr. Groundhog.

I bet you’ve seen some strange things so far in your short life.

I bet you’ve seen one of your friends take home an odd wife,
And that she was a squirrel made for a terr’ble strife.

I bet you have seen some friends chased away by a broom
That was made with a stick and some old Fruit of the Loom.

I bet you have some friends who just hang out at the zoo.
I bet for fun they speak to snakes, saying “coo” or “moo.”

But surely you’ve never seen a banana gone blue?

Blue Banana

What Would You Do, Redux

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Shredded Money

What would you do if money was all gone?
Would you stand up and sing a silly song?

What if all the world was going downhill,
Would you swallow a bitter little pill?

Would you stay up until the morning dawn
Working for peanuts and a dried brown lawn?

Would you move into a small dirty car
And park it outside of the local bar?

Would you still keep writing a daily blog
While sharing a pen with a muddy hog?

Or, would you just sit out on your dead lawn
While you finished your milk and last bonbon?

What Wood You Do?

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Woodgrain

What wood you do if I sanded along
And dropped a few notes of my silly song?

Wood you freak out and drop a silver tong,
Or head to town for a game of ping pong?

Wood you let ice cream melt down your blue thong,
Or let it drip down your bust of King Kong?

What wood you do if I righted a wrong
Before you walked up and banged on the gong?

Daring Jumping Spider

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

One of these days, I need to get a close-up lens…

A Daring Jumping Spider, also known as a Bold Jumping Spider. It is a common spider in the continental United States, except for the west coast.

I always liked these as a kid because they looked like little tarantulas. These are one of the rare spiders my mother didn’t kill, for the same reason. They are not related to tarantulas. That’s probably a good thing because these guys can jump as much as 50 times their body length. I don’t think you’d want to see a tarantula do that!

The daring jumping spider averages anywhere from a half inch to a little more than three-quarters of an inch in length. That means they could potential jump as far as 3 feet and 3 inches!

The jumping spider is an active hunter. They don’t build webs and wait for dinner to come to them. Like the assassin bug, the jumping spider hunts down their next meal!

The jumping spider does not rely on mental manifestation or daydreaming of his next meal, hoping it will arrive at his doorstep. No, the jumping spider actively seeks it out!

The jumping spider works hard during the day and sleeps at night, as most people do. They are curious and not easily intimated, which makes them successful and are, not coincidentally, two of the keys of success for humans as well!

So, if you should see one of these spiders, think of the lessons you can learn. And, wave to him. He might just wave back at you!