Month: February 2007

I love Vincent.

Best animal character ever.

Good stuff from Lifehacker…

Ubuntu/Linux Roundup – Lifehacker

Wonderful.

Thank you internets…

Hunter S. Thompson: 1978 BBC Documentary ‘Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision’ – Google Video

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Got paid by Gardner-Webb today.

I think I’m making about $2.23 an hour to teach!  Yay capitalism.

Fraser does a great podcast show out of the UK and interviewed me on my online marketing thoughts earlier this week…

In this interview I had a great chat with Sam Harrelson from Cost Per News about many aspects of affiliate marketing and more. I’ll let the related links part give you an idea of what we talked about.

Interview with Sam Harrelson – Cost Per News – Fraser’s Affiliate Marketing Blog

I listen to a lot of podcats. I’ve done a lot of podcasts as well. I’m always getting asked which marketing podcasts I listen to. My answer is none. They all suck (well, except for Fraser’s and Shawn’s). I need to give WebMasterRadio a try again, I guess.

But, I do love Mysterious Universe. I’ve been listening since last summer and the show only gets better each week. Great stuff and very well produced. If you haven’t listened, give it a go. It’s sort of a Coast-to-Coast meets the BBC…

It’s well worth the wait though as we cover USOs, forests on Mars, and of-course, an alleged interview transcript with a Reptilian humanoid.

Mysterious Universe

This is just an amazing picture and story.

Taman Safari animal hospital in Java, Indonesia have four babies in their care who normally wouldn’t get along. A pair of baby orangutans and a pair of Sumatran tiger cubs both endangered species were rejected by their mothers, and are being raised in the hospital’s nursery, where they became inseparable friends. In the wild, tigers eat orangutans.

Neatorama » Blog Archive » Unlikely Friends.

I’ve converted my wife, my mother in law, potentially a Lutheran priest and now Wayne Porter.  Ubuntu will never be the same again after Wayne gets through with it.  What have I done?

I need to send him a hat 🙂

My old IBM Thinkpad X40 (story below) now sports this O/S and it screams like a bat out of hell (you might try Ubuntu 6.06 if your PC is rather dated)….so far so good…. I feel like I have been unplugged from the matrix and spat out into a giant toilet bowel of jelly slime…now I wonder if it can push Second Life? Doubt it. I do feel some machinima widgets coming on though.

Opinions From My Space

NPR : Creating Our Own Happiness

I believe we have the power to create our own happiness. I believe the real magic in the world is done by humans. I believe normal life is extraordinary – Wayne Coyne

I love the Flaming Lips and Wayne Coyne.

I want “Do You Realize?!?” played at my funeral, btw.

Wayne and Jon … install Ubuntu so that we can start a Guild.  Forget Second Life, this is where the action is (literally!)…

The Digital Ninja » How to install World Of Warcraft on Linux

Just did a podcast interview with Fraser Edwards of affiliatemarketingblog.co.uk on widgets, web2.0, affiliate networks and all things online marketing.

Fun stuff and should be a good listen…

Podcasts – Fraser’s Affiliate Marketing Blog

Mom just sent this over on email…

“It thundered in the winter time yesterday so that means so said papa carroll that it will snow or sleet within two weeks we will see.”

I don’t even feel like writing today at CostPerNews.

It’s not burn out or disillusionment… it’s just my own reservations about the place becoming something other than a blog. Is it already too late? I’m having to watch my tongue there and keep on the correct side of the line.

Is there room for honesty when you have paid placements, or do the people paying (and reading) want honesty?

I’m guessing they do since they are consciously reading a blog and not Business Week or Revenue.

Still… it doesn’t get any easier as time goes on.

Where did it all go wrong?

Affiliate marketing, especially.  So much promise and potential there.  So much good that can and should be done with such a powerful, democratic and individualistic platform.

Stupid money.

Someone restore my faith in marketing (online or offline) … please?

Delicious Stew

Wayne is thinking of switching one of his boxes over to Ubuntu.

What are you waiting for, Wayne?? Even Anna uses it and seems to like it. At least her laptop is much quicker than it ever was with XP and she can do (just about) anything with it that she could do with Windows. Most of all, it’s fun to watch her play with tarballs, sudo apt-gets and compilers.

That’s what technology is for… playing.

And when did your blog become a splog? Geez, man. 🙂

Gore looked happy last night at the Oscars.

Wonder if he’ll ever run again?

Specifically on the importance of 2 Kings in the DH.  Read up on chapters 22 and 23 of 2 Kings if you haven’t done that in a while.  Fascinating stuff…

Deuteronomist – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

King Hezekiah centralised the religion and destroyed places and objects of worship that were outside of the control of the Jerusalem Temple and its priesthood. The Assyrian empire invaded Judah shortly after Hezekiah died, and gained suzerainty. Subsequent kings of Judah, owing allegiance to the Assyrians, restored the places and objects of worship outside the temple. However, Hezekiah’s great grandson Josiah instituted a new reform.

Here’s the new site.

You shouldn’t notice much of a change besides the fact that I’ll be updating here much more regularly and there will be a different design by the end of the week.

Let me know what you think or if you have any suggestions!

(BTW, my old email address me@samharrelson.com is working again, so feel free to write me there).

Wow…

Report: Family ties Sharpton, Thurmond – Race & Ethnicity – MSNBC.com

Beyond boring Busch Race from California tonight.

NASCAR.COM

Bring back Rockingham.

Moving things here over to a hosted WordPress blog.

SO, there may be some downtime.

Bear with me… it will be better when it’s over 🙂

Having a difficult time trying to decide how best to manage my email, feed reading, IM and metadata.

Offline or online?

Ubuntu uses the gnome desktop and has flexible yet powerful apps such as Evolution (sort of like Office, but with intelligence), Liferea (feed reader similar to FeedDemon) and Gaim (IM convo’s).

The struggle is complicated by the fact that Ubuntu has such a great file and data searcher (Beagle) which even has a Firefox plugin to keep everything organized for you.  It’s amazing how detailed you can drill down.  I don’t even put things in folders on my system anymore.  I just dump everything into one folder and let Beagle sort it out based on the tags I’ve applied and the data within the podcasts, mp3’s, jpg’s or .docs.  That’s pretty cool.

On the other hand, GMail, Goog Reader and Googl Desktop are great applications that don’t keep me tied to one box.

But with a laptop, is that even an issue anymore?

Decisions, decisions…

Dave Winer is tremendous.

I’m listening to the podcast of his talk on NPR and podcasts.

Winer, tech, podcasts and NPR… it doesn’t get any better than that.

Beautiful, creative, chaotic, artistic stuff.  Go listen for yourself.

Gosh, I’ve neglected this place.

Alright, now that CostPerNews has taken off and is doing well on its own, I’m back to what I love… which is posting about all sorts of random things here.

I was voted in Vice-Chairperson of our local Democrat precinct here in Asheville, NC.

I need a clone.

I’m at my “office” in the Broad River Coffee Shop sitting across from a group of young ministers and youth ministers.

Eaves-dropping on their conversation, I’m reminded that we Religious Studies folks should be thankful that Adonai chooses to work with slackers and jerks like Abram, Jacob, Joseph and Moses or Divinity Schools would not exist.

God works in Mysterious Ways…

Doing some Sunday reading and came across this from Michel Foucault’s work “Of Other Spaces” (page 22)…

The present epoch will perhaps be above all the epoch of space.  We are in the epoch of simultaneity: we are in the epoch of juxtaposition, the epoch of the near and far, of the side-by-side, of the dispersed.  We are at a moment, I believe, when our experience of the world is less that of a long life developing through time than that of a network that connects points and intersects with its own skein.

That is life changing.  Read it three times to make sure you at least see the direction Foucalt is pointing towards.  When I try to explain to people “what I do for a living” (academics, teaching and online marketing), I should point them to that quote.

Back to burying my nose in Foucault on a snowy Sunday afternoon (could life be any better?)…