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| Monday, April 28th, 2008 | | 1:17 am |
| | Sunday, April 6th, 2008 | | 2:32 pm |
Simon Day
It's rare for me to have an entire weekend day to myself. I normally take off for Richmond on Friday and don't come back to my apartment until Sunday afternoon at the earliest, and usually I'm lucky if I make it home by 7 p.m. So many of the chores that people reserve for weekends must either get squeezed in during the week or just don't get done at all.
I don't write in this livejournal very often because I feel that any spare blogging time should be invested in Bloggasm. Because I often have as many as two night meetings a week (when I don't get home until 9, 10, or sometimes later), and also because my weekends are usually devoted to Richmond, I have to devote blogging time and exercise time (plus any other chores) to the few nights I get to leave work by 5.
Because I agreed to cover a Saturday evening event for my job, I now have the entire Sunday to myself. I slept in and then created a decent-sized to-do list -- clean my apartment, clean my car, write some articles, do some work for bloggasm, work out.
I've been thinking a lot lately how nice it would be if I had a job that allowed me to get home by 5:30 every day and lived in a place (Richmond) where I didn't have to travel every weekend. Or better yet, if I lived in Richmond and could work from home. I would always be able to fit an hour for exercise and I could really explore my hobbies --- especially blogging.
But these are just pipe dreams for now. I'm just going to have to continue posting on this livejournal account once a week if I'm lucky. I'm going to have to keep offering sub-standard content on bloggasm while only being able to publish one original article a month. I'm going to have to only be able to exercise two nights a week when I can fit it in.
I just don't know if I can keep this up for the remainder of the two years. | | Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 | | 10:46 pm |
One of the greatest Youtube videos I've ever seen
You have to watch this Youtube video. The first like minute of it is stupid but then it gets really good. Believe me, you won't regret it.
| | Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 | | 10:27 pm |
God damnit
Remember when I said that my Bloggasm site got wiped out because my account with my server company got suspended? Well, later that day I upgraded my account and the site went back up. But I noticed a huge drop in my traffic coming in from google afterwards, and tonight I decided to do some google searches for some of my more popular articles/blog posts and I see they've been harshly downgraded in Google's index. Those few hours with a non-existent site must have damaged their page rank in the google index.
Sometimes I wonder why I even bother with that site. Honestly, I've poured so many hours of my life into it for the last two years, writing articles after conducting extensive research, and then all it takes is one stupid incident like this one to wipe the slate clean. fuck fuck fuck. | | Friday, March 21st, 2008 | | 1:15 pm |
website down?
My website, bloggasm.com, is down. It gives me a 404 message saying that "the requested URL was not found on this server." Any idea for why this would be? Is this just a server having a temporary problem?
UPDATE: I just checked my email registered with my server. Apparently they just randomly suspended my account, saying that my site was going "over the usage limitations that you plan provides." I guess this means that bloggasm was getting too much traffic and that it just decided to dump me. Kind of a shitty situation. I'm at work now and don't really have the tech skills or my password info with me to deal with this right now, which means that the url will probably be a dead page the entire weekend at least.
shitty. | | Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 | | 11:01 pm |
Wow
I just watched this entire 37 minute video of Obama's speech about race today. Never have I seen a politician speak so eloquently and realistically about anything. The anecdote he tells near the end about one of his campaign supporters had me near tears.
| | 9:30 pm |
Diagnosis
After my colonoscopy I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. It's basically a not-too-pleasant inflammatory bowel disease that involves the loss of blood and other unpleasant symptoms. There's no real cure but it can often be driven into remission. I was prescribed anti-inflammatory medication -- I have to take 3 pills 3 times a day (9 pills, for those who are counting), and even with insurance the co-pay can add up. I'm hoping that this gets driven into remission pretty quickly.
I've been told to stay away from caffeine for now, and so I've gone from 6+ cups of coffee a day to none. I've never been a nap person but now I almost have to take naps when I get home. It's making my ability to be productive after work very difficult.
It feels like I've been suffering from this forever but when I really think about it the blood didn't start showing up until late January/ early February, so it hasn't even been a complete two months. Either way I've been miserable and unhappy, and so I'm hoping now that I've finally been diagnosed and prescribed medication I can be on a real road to recovery. I need it for my sanity. | | Sunday, March 16th, 2008 | | 4:19 pm |
The next two days
I might have colitis or some other inflammatory bowel disease -- whatever it is it's been causing great misery since early February. I have a colonoscopy scheduled for tomorrow morning which means that right now I'm waiting for the laxatives to fully kick in. I'd live blog the entire evening, but somehow I don't think that would be appreciated. | | Monday, March 3rd, 2008 | | 6:50 pm |
Dear world,
Please don't ever make the peace sign when you pose for pictures.
Thanks,
Simon
(I just spent the last few minutes browsing through friend facebook pictures) | | Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 | | 11:39 pm |
Boinged
Man, bloggasm has made it onto the front page of Boingboing two weeks in a row. Seems random that it never linked to me before and then wham, links falling from the skies. | | Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 | | 1:59 pm |
Hillary Clinton - Making Our Dreams Come True
The media has been fixated on all the creative youtube videos that fans have made about Obama. But what about the youtube fan videos made for Clinton?
Watch the video below to see the creative genius of her fanbase:
| | Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 | | 11:04 pm |
Popularity contest This is kind of cool. I've long had a goal to get Bloggasm within the top 10,000 most popular blogs on the internet (out of over 100 million), and though I came sort of close back in 2006, I never quite made it. Well, tonight I finally fell below the marker:  Now if I can only get it within the top 1000. | | Monday, February 11th, 2008 | | 12:29 am |
A new bloggasm article I don't often do a lot of cross posting between here and Bloggasm, but I recently conducted research for an article about the rise of the speculative fiction ezines and whether they'll ever be very profitable. I know a few of my readers here might be interested in such an article, so here's a link. | | Saturday, February 9th, 2008 | | 9:58 am |
Residents call the shooter of those Missouri officials a "hero" Has anyone else read this article in the New York Times this morning? The reporter managed to find two people -- the shooter's brother and another resident -- to *justify* the shooting. In one instance the shooter was called a "hero": To Mr. Thornton’s family, however, he was a persecuted man who felt he had been deeply disrespected by a city he loved.
“He tried to peacefully resolve issues,” said Mr. Thornton’s brother, Gerald Thornton, 54.
After the shootings, Mr. Thornton said he had found a note on his brother’s bed that read, “The truth will win in the end.” Just one line, unsigned.
Only after growing frustrated did his brother become violent, Gerald Thornton said, adding “He chose to do a first strike against the enemy that would be overwhelming.” and then later: Mr. Thornton was black, and several residents of Kirkwood’s poor and mostly black Meachum Park neighborhood said Friday that the attack at City Hall was a sharp reminder of the racial division they say has plagued the city for decades. They were not willing to condemn Mr. Thornton, a Meachum Park resident, for what he had done.
“We are grieved, we are sorry, but they share in the responsibility,” Ben Gordon, a black man from nearby Webster Groves, said of city officials. “Cookie Thornton is to me a hero. I don’t condone murder. But as long as there is this separation, you’ll see more of this.” Wow Ben Gordon -- I certainly wouldn't mind if the media does a smear job on you and drags your name all through the mud. Sorry for the burst of anger, but I guess it's just that a reporter was badly injured in that shooting, and in my own day job I regularly cover government meetings. Given that this happened in a relatively small locality, the similarities are disturbing. A chill definitely ran through me when I heard about it. | | Thursday, February 7th, 2008 | | 11:04 pm |
| | Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 | | 8:21 pm |
TV appearance
I meant to log on and write about this beforehand, but I appeared live tonight on G4's Attack of the Show. They also had on a writer from Wired and we talked about developer platforms in social networks and whether they were any good.
I'll post a link to the video when it appears online. I've already had two people I know randomly contact me saying something along the lines "Holy shit!! I just saw you on TV!!" | | Monday, February 4th, 2008 | | 8:50 pm |
I'm a weirdo
Sometimes my weirdness scares me. Let me give you an example. I have a mailbox close to my apartment, I park within 20 feet of it every night. I haven't taken the time to get my key out and check my mail in more than two weeks.
Why? Why do I do shit like that? It's so silly that I take an unnecessary risk that something important has been mailed to me. I have no good reason for why I haven't checked it for such a long period of time.
Stuff like this drives people close to me batshit crazy. And I don't blame them.
What's weird is that with certain aspects of my life I do take initiative -- I make sure I get to work on time, that I make my own lunch pretty regularly, that my apartment is usually semi-clean. I make to-do lists daily and I'm pretty damn good at knocking things off the list in quick order. And yet there are a number of things that are always flying in my blindspot, stupid tasks that I should do but don't.
Why the hell am I so weird? When is my life going to stop being suspended by a shoestring? | | Thursday, January 31st, 2008 | | 8:44 pm |
| | Monday, January 28th, 2008 | | 5:28 pm |
Upcoming interviews So I have three scheduled interviews coming up. Tonight at 9 p.m. EST I'll be calling in live to Sirius Satellite Radio's show " DeVore and Diana" on Maxim Radio (Sirius 108). The producer pitched the show to me as "Regis and Kelly on crack." Um, ok. Tomorrow at 8 a.m. EST I'm calling in live to " The Dick Dale Show" in Kansas City. Unfortunately the producer for that one didn't have any catchy pitch to describe what I'm walking into. On Wednesday at like 10:30 a.m. I'll be calling into a tv show called " Art Fennell Reports" -- the producer said it was a news show. They were originally going to try to get me behind a video camera at a local station, but we couldn't figure out a place close, so I'm just calling into it and they'll flash a picture of me up. I'm not sure what to expect -- if any of these hosts are going to come at me with a splintered baseball bat or if they'll mainly be supportive. "DeVore and Diana" says in its description that "John loves calling bull@#! on stuck up bastards, and Diana’s a multi-talented hottie with an angel’s voice and a dirty twinkle in her eye." I guess we'll find out if I fit into the "stuck-up bastards" category. | | Sunday, January 27th, 2008 | | 10:13 pm |
This is one of those instances where I wish it were 5 p.m. instead of 10 p.m. I have a to-do list and yet hardly two hours to tackle it. On top of this, the closer midnight approaches the more difficult it is to actually get myself to do anything.
I'm especially sad because I won't have time to work out tonight. I always feel like a bloated pig at the end of weekends because it's when I eat out the most, so whenever I don't get to work out on sunday night I feel like crap.
I am still trying to recover from all the expenses I had accumulated at the end of last year when stupid Simon made some financially poor decisions. I'm hoping I can charge up my bank account within the next few weeks.
Ugh, Ok, now to tackle the to-do list -- I should at least try to get an article for work done. I might reward myself with some wine to get motivated. |
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