Christmas is coming. In fact the whole holiday season is bearing down upon us like a gluttony powered locomotive. For me, Thanksgiving is likely the biggest culprit for packing in the calories and packing on the pounds. Its perpetual parade of palate pleasing dishes is certain to cause issues.
Now I am not overweight. Far from it actually, but I am a grazer. I continually confuse boredom with hunger and would stuff my face from dawn ’til dusk given the opportunity, and it is beginning to show. The spare tire around my middle is growing.
It’s time for action.
I am going to start a new trend. It may not end up having a huge following, but I’m doing it for me. Starting today, I am reserving my eating to actual meal times. I am not going to go on any kind of “diet”, but rather limit my timeframes only. The rest of the time, if I am bored enough to try and raid the pantry, I am going to try out my new Twitter hashtag, #tweetsnoteats. Feel free to join me, or simply laugh at my potentially misguided attempt at self-control.
What is the solution to our current “Energy Crisis”? I move that there is no one single solution. The extreme reliance on a dwindling supply of fossil fuels is not going to be solved with a single eureka discovery. Cold fusion in micro isn’t going to happen any time soon people. The revolution you all are waiting for isn’t going to look like one at all. What is going to happen though is a series of infinitesimally small steps that when viewed as a whole process, will astound and amaze you at how far we have come. With constant advances in wind power and solar power combined with the social prestige of “going green”, homes and businesses across the country are going to continually start providing for their own power, at least in part. These tiny steps are going to keep adding together until we have in place, many years down the road, a distributed power grid with few, if any, centralized power plants.
Some locales are obviously not going to be as capable at producing enough power to become self sustaining, but those will be offset by the large wind ranches or solar farms in areas of the country where space is less of a premium.
Obviously, this isn’t going to happen overnight, but I am already seeing the early stages starting to manifest themselves around the country.
Well, I have just added mobile sites to all three of my main blogs. This one, The Quasi-Scientific Ponderings, and Layman’s Flashlight Reviews. Go ahead and let me know how they work for you!
Been thinking about moneymaking lately. It seems to me an interesting point that there is so much money to be made through microtransactions. The simple $0.99 purchases that for so many people are nothing more than an impulse buy. Something to drop your virtual wallet down for at the time and then immediately forget having done so. I’ve started looking at how I might be able to get a slice of that pie. So far I’ve only gotten as far as write a book (which I definitely want to do, bit will take a while before I am good enough to let anyone see it) or building an iPhone app (which is cost prohibitive since I don’t currently own a Mac). I definitely haven’t given up yet on this one. But. It is going to take a bit more thought apparently.
Things have come a long way since last I posted. Layman’s Flashlight Reviews has no passed the 50 review mark and is continuing to gather speed. First went up an Advertising page which is being used to help keep the site running smoothly. Shortly after that, as the ads started to flow in, it became obvious I needed to give the site its own dedicated domain. I now present to you http://www.laymanslights.com. No, the site hasn’t changed at all. As a matter of fact, it’s really just a redirect. It just makes it that much easier to remember when you are telling your friends about me. (You are telling your friends about me, right?)
Today though should mark a new day for the site. It is time for me to initiate a new marketing push by bringing things into the world of Web 2.0. Look for Layman’s Flashlight Reviews soon on both Twitter and Facebook to see a more intimate view of what is happening in my world of flashlights.
What comes after flashlights? Well I have some ideas that really could take off, but they need fleshed out a little more before I can tell you about it.
Stay tuned!
What is the best job in the world? The one that makes the best money? The one that gives you the most time off? Benefits, contacts, prestige? I don’t think so. I think the best job in the world can be on the bottom of the totem pole. The best job in the world has to do entirely with your viewpoint. The best job in the world is the job you believe in. The one where you wake up in the morning and say to yourself not, “I have to go to work so I can make enough money today”, but rather “I get to go to work and do ______.” Those jobs are few and far between. Most people would rather while away they hours being a socially approved form of productive so they can get home and finally do what they want to do. I still would like to believe that you can do the things you want to do and be considered productive at the same time. That turns “The best job in the world” into “The ideal job for you”. Guess I just have to figure out what that is now.
Well, I suppose it is about time for me to introduce my first site. This one has actually been up and running for a while but I just haven’t gotten around to showing it off. One of my current hobbies is writing flashlight reviews to better assist customers when choosing their ideal flashlight, and to assist Manufacturers as well to help determine what areas of their lights could use some improvement. I have been running this site for a while under other URLs but I have only recently moved it on to my own hosting.
Introducing: Layman’s Flashlight Reviews
Layman's Flashlight Review
Welcome to a new era. Before this time, any web presence I possessed has had the honor of all the dirty work being handled by behind the scenes support staff. No More! From this day forward we embark on a journey of self-hosted venue. Any complaints I have can only be directed to me. Any issue correction must begin and end with the same. Here is the log of my journey and it is here that I will introduce my new sites as they become available. Eventually my home page at venturous.org will become a launch pad into my hopefully many successful exertions, but for now, I must be contented with these humble beginnings.