Archive for November 29th, 2007

Really, I’m not paranoid

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

You ever get that Matrix feeling like the world is changing and you don’t notice it but you should.

Yeah, anyway. I’ve been seeing lots of license plates recently with triple numbers or letters. Not like personalized plates, but random regular plates with three of the same letter or number in a row. Maybe I’m just thinking about it too hard and noticing patterns in the chaotic world.

Or not.

PayPerPost member, finally

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

A couple of months ago my brother-in-law was telling me how he had started making a few hundred dollars a month with a couple of the blogs that he was running. I’d already heard about GoogleAds, but didn’t think you could make much with just a small site. Once he made a thousand in one month, I asked for more info, and he told me about PayPerPost.

Every morning and after work he finds some advertisers on PayPerPost that want him to write a couple hundred words about their product, site, or service. The money builds and he’s pulling in the cash. After getting more details, I registered a domain name, started a blog, and signed up for PayPerPost.

Signing up was a little more difficult than I thought. They have some fairly strict registration guidelines to ensure that only serious bloggers can use the service. Now that I’m a member, I’m excited to get my first deposit right into my PayPal account.

So far the site has been great. It’s a lot easier to use than some of the other ‘pay to blog’ sites. Some other sites make you wait while the advertiser accepts a bid. Others just make you wait until the advertiser is interested in you. PayPerPost makes things move a lot more quickly. What are you waiting for. Sign up.

SVU

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

I’ve been a fairly regular viewer of Law & Order: SVU for a number of years now. Now, I know that the writer’s strike has hit all of Hollywood hard these days, but I was under the assumption that most of the episodes that we’re seeing right now were written before the strike.

I can’t figure out if the writer’s just gave the show terrible scripts right before the strike, or if the actor’s just decided to wing it without a screenplay, but there have been some truly terrible story lines this season.

Watch! as Stabler goes blind, but then can see again.

Thrill! as Mrs. Stabler is in a car accident, goes into labor, and dies… but is okay and so is the baby.

Writers, please come back.

Paintball guns for Christmas

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Can you have more fun than going to the outskirts of town, donning a plastic face guard, and shooting your friends with painful spheres of paint? I submit that you cannot.

There’s a place just north of Tucson that has an excellent variety of terrains from wide open to lots of cover.

This site has plenty of paintball gun packages for people looking to get started in paintballing to experts looking for the latest models from Tippmann, Empire, Draxxus, Spyder, Smart Parts, and Dye. The free shipping can’t be beat.

I’m hoping to head back out to paintball early next year, and hopefully I’ll get one of the new paint ball guns for Christmas!

Bang!

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

A few years ago I took a gamble at the game store and picked up a funny little card game called Bang! The basic premise is that you and your opponents are all Old West gunslingers stuck in a spaghetti western (all the cards are printed in Italian).

Everyone randomly draws different characters with different advantages. Then everyone draws a job which determines your goal for the game. The wide variety of cards lets you shoot at your neighbors around the table, heal yourself by drinking a beer, or sending the Indians after everyone, among other interesting choices.

I highly recommend the game as a fun part of holiday family get-togethers. But watch out.

Bang!