May Eleventh.
It’s not the seventh.
And that’s pretty much all that rhymes with eleventh.
Unless I again mention it’s not the seventh.
It is, today, the eleventh.
Again, not the seventh.
Just the eleventh.
Not the seventh!
Yes: the eleventh.
No: the seventh.
Here’s the headline (and link): “National Emergency Alert System Set To Launch In NYC”
On the face of it, it seems like a good idea.
Here are some key points:
So, sounds like a good idea.
Except, of course, if you have to pay for those text messages.
And, how do they work? Will notice of a natural disaster in, say, California, go out to everyone nationwide? Or just people in California? What if you’re from New York, but visiting California? Will you get the notice? Or, if you’re in New York but from California?
Wouldn’t it be easier to just check Twitter? 
Oh, and get this: “Verizon and AT&T, the nation’s largest cell phone carriers, are already on board. Consumers would be able to opt out of all but those presidential messages.”
Yeah, you know, I might want to be notified of local emergencies or terrorist attacks, but I’m pretty sure presidential messages are pretty low on my list of things I’d like to receive. That’s the bit most people would be likely to opt-out of.
Which is probably why they are making sure you cannot.
Whatever happened to choice? If it’s my cell phone, shouldn’t I be able to decide what messages I will receive on it?
Actually, it’s a stereograph and not true 3D (which would be a hologram).
But, at any rate, here is a simulated 3D image of some mushrooms.
I don’t know what kind of mushrooms they are. They just appear in the yard when there’s been a lot of rain—and there has been a lot of rain lately!—and are usually gone the next day.
They are sneaky that way.
So, I have to remember to take a photo right away because if I wait until the next day, the mushroom will surely be gone.
And, by the way, if procrastination is a problem for you, you should check out my book.
Anyway, here is the stereograph:
To see it properly, you need to be the right distance from the screen and cross your eyes, so that your right eye is looking at the left side of the image and your left eye is looking at the right side of the image. If you’re not used to doing this, it will take a bit of practice before it becomes clear. When your eyes aren’t aligned right, you’ll see double. Keep crossing your eyes until you reach the point where the double image merges into one.
And, yes, WordPress is letting me upload photos now, but only once per month.
You know, I think I kind of like writing in long, run-on sentences, even though it’s entirely wrong to do so and even though I am careful not to do so in any professional writing I do, but it’s nice to see long blocks of text just going on endlessly and the way that WordPress (or my theme) makes them all nice and square, which makes it a sight to behold, which I imagine is why a teacher in school always liked long essays and didn’t much care what you wrote in them, even if you wrote utter nonsense or perhaps threw in a list of menu items which had nothing to do with the content and were only used to pad the essay to make it appear longer and which was a trick some students used with success for quite some time before the teacher even noticed, which is somewhat amazing since we would walk up to him with our homework and he would read and grade them on the spot, and comment on how insightful the essays were and give them good grades, while the students likely fought back fits of laughter, knowing that their essays largely made no sense at all, and they got good grades regardless, which makes you wonder how well the teacher himself had paid attention in the classes he had taken to teach us what he was teaching us, but, of course, it was not our place to question that and I’m pretty sure he had tenure anyway, so it’s not like the school could have done anything if they knew, and maybe they did know, because this wasn’t the only teacher to basically and seemingly coast through the day and, before you ask, no, this was not one of my English teachers, though I did have an English teacher once that, in retrospect, I am reasonably sure was a bit sexist, as I started out in that class, which was an advanced English class, with high A’s and did not do as well for the remainder of the year, and the teacher was reluctant to recommend me for the advanced English course the following year, and she always seemed to “hang out” with several of the girls in the class, so you have to wonder what was going on there, but, in any event, I did get her reluctant signature to sign off on me getting into the advanced English class the following year and, from then on out, I got excellent grades in every subsequent English course I took, even doubling up on English courses one year, and even doing well in a class taught by a former college professor who was considered one of the difficult teachers, yet none were as “difficult” as the presumed sexist teacher of my freshman year, though I suspect all of them would be appalled by this blog were they to see it, so I’ll hope that none of them ever do, and, at any rate, I do this knowing it is terribly bad grammar and am only doing it for effect, so that sort of makes it okay, even though an English teacher would surely cringe at this blog post and perhaps retroactively try to lower my grades, but they cannot, so there, ha ha, I win.
If, by completely the same, you mean something completely different, which would be completely the same as the norm around here, as being different is the primo theme around here, so being different is the same, thus the same is different, which makes being the same being completely different, thus if I try to do something different, that would be the same as what I always do, and if I do something the same, that too remains different, and so we arrive at a point of mutual cancellation where both are true but neither can be true for one to be true means the other is true when really one being true should make the other false, but that’s not the way it works around here, and so you should ponder upon how something can be different yet the same yet different yet the same, all simultaneously, and all explained in this sentence, which must count among the longest run-on sentences ever written, unless someone has written a novel as one big run-on sentence, which is entirely possible as that seems like something someone would do, just for fun and just for the sake of saying they’ve done it and being the person who did it, or the next person who did it longer than the first person who did it, or the person who created an entire trilogy of novels that are three different books but one big long run-on sentence that had to be divided across three printed books because, otherwise, they would be to think to bind using standard binding equipment and, even if something were designed specifically for that book, it would still be unwieldy for the reader to hold in his or her hand, thus it must be a trilogy rather than just one really thick book, but I have digressed from my original point of this post being different, yet the same, yet different while remaining the same.
As previously mentioned, my new book is out.
It’s designed for people who want to write their own books to sell, but are chronic procrastinators.
If that’s you, check it out!
Already, I’ve had to change the sales page. I thought the original (which is here, until I change it…) had the potential to go viral.
Remember, back in the day, when I use to do the viral linking to other blogs? Well, those were always popular, so I thought I’d try doing that with a sales page.
I was quite happy with the results. In fact, I had finished the sales page long before the book was finished, and couldn’t wait until the book was done so I could get the sales page out there.
Well, it didn’t prove as popular as I had hoped. Didn’t generate much interest or sales. People liked it, but the general buyer wasn’t really responding.
So, today, with the help of some friends, I did a new sales page. You can see it here: “[FINALLY!] Stop Procrastination–You’ve Never Seen a Guide Like This for Product Creation!”
The book is sort of comic book format, and now the sales page is too. I was told that the previous sales letter probably made people think the whole book was going to be in rhyme, and that may have been turning off buyers.
So, we’ll see how the new page goes. I did keep in some of the rhymes though. No sense wasting good material.
Okay, just released is my new book.
You can check it out here: “The Chronic Procrastinator’s Guide to Product Creation.”
If nothing else, at least read my sales pitch. You may like it.
Of course, if you want to save a little money, I have a very special offer on the Warrior Forum, so you can check that out and save a bit of dough:
“[FINALLY!] Stop Procrastination–You’ve Never Seen a Guide Like This for Product Creation!”
Buy one. Buy the other. They’re both the same. Just one is cheaper.
You won’t regret your purchase.
And, by way of disclaimers, if you buy the book, I make some money. Thanks!
Okay, I have finished another book.
Yes, I know I said I finished the book last week, which I did, but now it’s finished finished.
That is, all the editing is done, all the tweaks have been made and all the links have been checked.
Was going to go up on sale today, but now it’s looking like it will be sometime tomorrow.
It’s completely different (mostly) from the past couple books I’ve done.
It’ll be fun.
And, it’ll be for sale for only $17.
Watch this space for details.
Well, not this space, because this post won’t change. But, watch this blog, because I’ll let you know when you can, you know, go and buy the thing.
Yes, that’s right. The long dark nightmare is over.
That is, the Royal Wedding is all done.
No more ads promoting the coverage and all that jazz.
You know, there was so much coverage on it last week, while polls showed that few Americans actually cared. (Heck, a good number of Britons didn’t care either.)
That’s the problem with a lot of these television networks. They cover what the network executives are interested in and think others should be too, rather than the stuff that people actually are interested in.
Thus, the declining television ratings as people turn to the Internet to find things that interest them rather than being passive viewers in front of a TV. Networks no longer have the captive audiences they used to.
Yet, instead of waking up to that, they continue to live in the past.
One day, the networks may be a thing of the past, and we’ll be able to watch and support our favorite shows directly, without worrying about whether a network will push it off to bad time zones, whine no one watches (because no one knows when it’s on or it’s been put in a bad time slot!) and then cancel it.
Maybe that’s why the networks were so interested in the Royal Wedding. Television networks and royalty are both archaic institutions.
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