Hey check out the new guest book and map

I just added a guest book please take a second to sign it. Tell me how you got to the site, was it by hitting "next blog"? That's how I found yours (most of the time) have you been here before and do you come by often? Oh yeah, put a pin in the guest map to show me where in the world you are. If your not from this world please send me an email with star coordinates. Thanks

Woo Hoo!

I am stoked; I sent out a message to everyone in my Hotmail address list and already have 1 referral for my free iPod! Now I only need 4 more. . I know of a Conga line blog site, and will post a link when it is updated. Click on the link below and to help me, and yourself to a free iPod.

Free iPods Here

Don't want to post

I was dragging my feet about posting anything new today because I didn’t want to move my Free iPod post from yesterday. But I feel somewhat obligated to post something, though this may be all of it. Tonight is “Family Night” so leave the TV off and the PC too and go play with your kids!

Help me get a Free iPod

Okay I have decided that I want an iPod! I very much need your help to get one for free. This is a site where you can sign up to get a FREE iPod, not some cheap knockoff but the real thing. It’s a simple program you sign up, then take one of the offers for a product and some of them are free. All I need it five other people to take advantage of the same deal and I will get a free iPod. here are pictures of people who have already gotten them for free.

This is not a scam, you can read here were people have gotten theirs for free.
So here is the Link to go and check out this program it’s not complicated it’s just a new style of marketing. I will keep you posted on my progress. Email me if you have questions.

Yes, you can really get a free Apple iPod. A marketing company called Gratis Internet has been giving them away at free iPods to anyone who is willing to try an advertiser's offer, and get five friends to do the same.

The site has been getting lots of press, too. Wired.com has written about it, as have many other sites, like NYU's daily student newspaper, NYUNEWS.COM.
If you are interested in getting your free iPod but don't know if you have five friends who will also participate, you are welcome to join our conga line. We'll help each other get our own free iPods!Please read all of the instructions before starting...

Step 1 - Signing up
*Create an e-mail account to use for this offer (Yahoo is good for this, Hotmail doesn't seem to work for this offer). Please be aware that you will receive some junk mail in this mailbox, though I have not recieved much to date.
*Click the link at the bottom of this posting or the banner at the top of the page, and enter the e-mail address you created and a password that you will remember. NOTE - I've recently heard that people are having trouble with their accounts if they sign up from the same computer. To be on the safe side, make sure that you are signing up from a computer that no one else has already used to sign up. They also won't allow two people to have their iPods shipped to the same address.
*Do NOT click yes to any surveys, they are optional(and there are a few of them. Create your account.
Once you're in, close your browser, and go to the e-mail account that you used to register (the one that you created in the first step). You should receive an e-mail asking you to activate your account. Follow the link to activate. You should now be in the "Complete Offer" link. If not, there is a link to it at the top of the page. Now complete one of the offers.

Step 2 - Completing an offerYou must now complete one of the available offers. The available offers have been changing lately, so review each one and pick your favorite!
Once you've done one of the offers, you should receive an e-mail stating you completed your offer, and your 'Check Status' page should change to say 'Congratulations! You have completed your requirements'. [PLEASE NOTE: As this promotion has gotten more popular, it has begun to take longer before you receive credit & confirmation for the offer that you complete. Currently, it is taking 2 to 3 business days to receive credit & confirmation for the offer that you complete.]

Don't try to beat the system!Remember, for the guys who run Gratis Internet (the company that runs the free ipod site) this is their source of income. They want your business, BUT have also gone to great lengths to make sure it's nearly impossible to beat the system they have devised. DO NOT MAKE UP 6 E-MAIL IDENTITIES FOR YOURSELF AND TRY TO GET A FREE GIFT- IT WILL NOT WORK! We found it's much easier to just play by the rules.

Step 3 - Getting your 5 referralsNow you need to get 5 people to sign up, using your referral link, and complete an offer. To help you out with this, We've started the conga line. Once you have complete an offer send me an email with the account name you have used to sign up and I will send you a link to get your information added to the conga line. Once your information is confirmed, you'll be added as the next member of the conga list. Once the person in the #1 spot is finished, they will be removed and everyone will move up. Direct everyone you know to this site, and we should all get our own iPods in no time!
Good luck!!!

FreeiPods

Road Kill

I will meet my demise at the hands of a well groomed thirty-something white female behind the wheel of a large luxury sport utility vehicle. Okay probably not, only the good die young so I will likely live to be a kooky old fart. But lately I have been in fear for my life especially when I first arrive at work. I have mentioned this before but I work in a large building on a large business complex, subsequently we have more than a dozen multi-level parking structures. Because of the thousands of employees who work here all of these facilities become completely full shortly after 9:00 am. With this in mind you can imagine what the competition for prime spots (anything below the third floor in each structure) can be like in the fifteen minutes before 8:00 am. I liken it to the day after thanksgiving in your favorite retail establishment in the pre-Christmas shopping rush. No less than three times in the last two weeks I have found my self jumping back into the “Safe Zone” between parked vehicles to avoid being crushed by the afore mentioned parking zealot. These divers all share some characteristics; a female who has stood on her breaks and offered an “O face” by way of an apology because she was traveling too fast and too focused on scanning for the vacant space where she can cram her seven passenger M-1 Abrams four wheel drive grocery wagon. So if you are one of these drivers please slow down and watch for slow moving pedestrians like me who are too fat to be jumping in between cars or sprinting across the traffic lanes, I know you are running late and I will forgive you for near misses. But I feel certain that I will be much less forgiving once actual contact has been made.

Mondays Killer Animation

Okay I think I have discovered the formula for success for so many other blogs, they are based on one theme. Some are focused on sports or politics and mine has up till now been based on completely random junk.

Well today is the first day of the Keeping Up programming. I was inspired by blogs like,Presrunk , Are you Conservative and a bunch of other sites that I have come across. I am not going to focus totally on one subject. I don’t think I have the energy or web surfing time one would need to devote to that kind of endeavor. But I am going to start programming Mondays with Killer animation. And Yeah I am the only person who gets to determine if the linked file or site is really “killer” so if you don’t like it you may have to start your own blog with links to goofy web animation. Any way Here is the first installment for Mondays Killer Animation.

Is Wal-Mart good for America?

This article talks to what I have been saying for years now.And though it is very long it is very good at the same time. I believe Wal-Mart is bad for America and bad for American towns and workers. There is only one thing to do about it. Don’t buy from Wal-Mart! I know their stuff is cheap, it is often junk too. A young man I worked with a few years back had a motto “one dollar, one vote.” Basically what he was saying is that you condone the things that are linked to how you spend your money. If you buy from companies that exploit children as cheap labor then you are saying “That’s okay as long as I get a good deal.” Well the same thing applies to buying things from Wal-Mart, yeah you can buy things cheaper there and they are the largest employer in the US other than the Federal government but the way they do pay their staff keeps them in an economic state where they can only afford to shop at Wal-Mart. Anyway, that is enough venom spouting for one day. If I don’t post again have a good weekend.

Cleaning house

Okay I have made a couple of little layout changes to my blog incase you didn’t notice. Including adding some links on the sidebar. I have the Chatago tool on the side but I can’t connect when I am at work so you are better off sending me an email or even better use Yahoo IM to send me a message. I think you can send me a message even if you don’t have the software loaded on your end. I am kinda jazzed because I have been working on learning some software so I can build my own site. We have the lame one that I build from a template provided by our internet service provider, but I want to learn how to build a cool one. Maybe this will provide me with the creative outlet I have been looking for.

This one is not for the kiddies

Just incase you are feeling a little down about your life this
should make you feel better knowing that your not alone.

What I need is more toys!

Okay I have pretty much made up may mind that I want an Ipod or some other Mp3 player with a large storage capacity. Well I know it’s a frivolous toy, you don’t have to tell me that! Well no, I don’t have three hundred bucks to blow on something like that (I don’t even have three hundred bucks). You could always get me one. come on you always have that kind of money laying around.
I have seen several websites where you can sign up for this or that unrelated product and refer some people to do the same and they will send you one for free. But I frankly doubt that I know five other people who would be willing to sign up with Columbia house (again) to get a free Ipod, let alone do so to get me one. I am contemplating it I will keep you posted if is decide to sign up. The one thing I know is that I will not be buying one outright, the last frivolous toy I bought (or coursed my wife into getting me for Christmas) was an Xbox and although I like it a lot and enjoy some of the games, I have made little use of it since maybe July. So I know that dog won’t hunt around here. If you know what I mean.

I love the web

Cartoons are one thing that transcends the barriers of language. Here is a site that proves this theory with some good chuckles.

Snow today

We got a nice snow shower starting early this morning more so at the house than at work. I think there was little more than an inch or two in Overland Park. But seven or eight inches at the house. I wish I could have stayed home and played with the boys, but someone has to bring home the bacon! Maybe we should think about becoming vegetarians, then I guess I would be stuck brining home the lettuce.

Finally, somebody in a chicken costume who will do whatever you want

I love to find stuff like this. This is what the web is best used for, Stupidity. Check it out, you know you want to.

More chances for pictures

Ethan and Mr Whiskers

Okay after nearly two years in our house we have finally move the PC from the basement were it was rarely used to the upstairs. I have to say it’s not in the optimum spot being in our bedroom but at least it will be more convenient to use once in a while. Not that we have a dark dank basement it’s just no fun being separated from the rest of the family just to use the PC. I am glad I will have more time to post pictures like the one above for you to see.

This must be what space travel feels like.

I think I know what it must feel like to travel great distances through space on a long term mission in extremely large spacecraft. I will get to why I feel this way in a minute but first here is a little back story.
I currently work in a large office building within a still larger office complex with literally tens of thousands of other employees all working for the same company. And at some point in the not to distant past the planners of such work environments decided the best way to make this physically and financially feasible is to put each individual employee into a standard workspace with standard configurations including standard technologies with standard software loads and standard furniture to facilitate each employees daily functions with as little deviation from the standard as possible. This is known to some as Cubelife, or working in a Cube Farm. Because the wide open space of the buildings floor(which can be tens of thousand of square feet on any one floor of a multi floor building) is completely occupied by dozens, no hundreds if not thousands of ten by ten temporary office spaces. All made from modular sectional walls in hued consistently with bland earth tones comprised completely of synthetic materials. Don’t let me give off the wrong impression the space provided is not so confining as say a veil pen used to house domestic cattle in an effort to assist in the production of tender portions of high priced beef products. For one person with their daily activities limited to typing on a keyboard and talking on a phone there is ample space provided. And I don’t intend to imply that these surrounding are completely devoid of all creature comforts, in fact most needs have been thought of and addressed. Restrooms are located throughout each floor at short walking distances, even smaller rooms with a door and a phone are provided to enable private conversations. In addition to these needs there are “Pop sites” or small galleys with refrigerators, vending machines and microwave ovens in various strategic points conveniently located in the same place from one floor to the next much like you might have on a large passenger vessel. My point is that this kind of work environment can not be compared to working in a coal mine without a focused stretch of the imagination. However back to my analogy of the space ship, I rarely leave the building once I arrive shortly after the sun has risen until the end of my day shortly before the sun has set. Due in part to the fact that most all daily needs required to support a human life form can be performed within the confines of the mother ship, I mean building. And many others that could be considered luxuries such as physical fitness activities, dry cleaning for your space suit or shirts, even a minor doctor’s visit can be addressed within a two-hundred yard walk to one of the other buildings. The thing that ends up creeping you out is the fact that you have little if any exposure to vistas of the out of doors let alone direct sunlight. And the constant sound of rushing air through the massive heating and air conditioning system that is ever present regardless of your location within the building is reminiscent of the background thruster sound heard in most well produced science fiction space epic films. Plus there is a team of at least two dozen people assigned to each building for the sole purpose of keeping it free of any evidence of use, the cleaning crew as it were are both very thorough and busy keeping each corner and crack in of the building clean to the point of suggesting sterility much like the same space craft pictured in your favorite yonder reaching adventure. My personal vantage point is further influenced by the double digit number of monitors required to perform my job function, so there is the added impersonal aspect of watching monitors like one of the operators in the Matrix. Who has no immediate value to the mission by which all of mankind will be save except answering the phone when the oh so aesthetically pleasing hero of the universe calls, then pushing the proper button allowing them to return from the harrowing trial.
Okay maybe I have spent too much time thinking about all this but how much time can you spend surfing the web each day?

Discipline, Dude you need discipline!

Well I am such a slacker I find it hard to make my self carve out time to post to my blog regularly. Oh yes I have had some excuses the last couple of weeks because of additional activities at work. But I must confess event though I have allowed myself to go without spending the couple of minutes to try and think of something clever to post I have rarely missed reading my daily web comics! I am addicted to slacking!

Where have you been!

Well I feel remiss because I have not been posting much lately. I have been pretty busy at work the last couple of weeks and that’s were I normally post from (but only when I am on a break or lunch, yeah sure). Last week was training and this week has been little projects and working on my LINK. LINK is the format we get reviewed on. Basically it’s a formal document that we use to connect our achievements throughout the year to the companies overall objectives. In other words it a long painful campaign to toot our own horn whereby justifying our existence on the payroll. Anyway that is now complete except for maybe a brief scan on Monday for revisions and opportunities to squeeze in extraordinarily flattering lies about myself. My point is I should be posting more next week, like you care!

How was your week?

Well I feel as if I have been stealing from the company all week. I have been in a software training everyday this week with the exception of Monday, where I was performing my normal mundane duties. The training is designed for a completely different audience even though I do use the application, so I found some of the information interesting but most of it I will not be using in my day to day activities. So a lot of my time and probably a lot of the company’s money were spent on naught. I would say that the best thing that I got out of this week was the opportunity to speak with some of my peers in none work related conversations. It’s always interesting the little things that people are willing to reveal about themselves when given the opportunity to freely express themselves. I will not go into details but suffice it to say that I like talking to people a lot more when I am able to speak to them about things that are not related to what they do to make money. Such a waste to spend all of your time, energy and emotions on something so fleeting as acquiring money and possessions then to waste the time you have to interact with others on finding out nothing more about them outside how they do the same.

Don't you wish you could do this!

Well I have been in a training class all day for work today. So I didn't have time to come up with anything super clever to put up today but as a consolation I did find this . Oh and this I will post as a public service Zefrank.

Complete lack of inspiration

Well it’s not that I can’t come up with anything I want to put up today, it’s just that I don’t have the drive to make it worth your while or mine for that matter. It must be a Monday, check out the weather.