Affiliate Fortune Cookies

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I think I’m going Tumblr crazy.

After finding a compromise between my beloved blog here and my tumblelog, I’ve set one up to focus exclusively on affiliate markeitng…

Affiliate Fortune Cookies

Should be interesting to see if people use it.  But honestly… just like my blogs, this site is more for me.  I love the idea of a running and easy to use compilation that functions as more than a link blog.  Plus, I don’t want to foul up this space or CostPerNews with tons of posts that just point somewhere else.  Stupid aesthetics.

Anyways, get a Tumblr site of your own!  All the kool kids are doing it.  And then get a Twitter account because all the kool kids are doing that too.

How to Find my Pictures, Diggs, Twitters, Bookmarks and Clips

Head over (and bookmark or grab the feed if you’d like) to:

tumble.samharrelson.com

Everything I twitter, digg, send to Flickr or bookmark on del.icio.us will be added there right away.  So, I’ll be using this space for extended ramblings, thoughts and paper publishing.  I’ll be using that page as an extension of this one to keep track of curious, interesting and relevant things I come across during my hours and hours of internet browsing every day.

So, don’t think of them as two different sites, but as one big meta-site.

If you’d like to see more example of tumblelogs like mine, check out:

Merlin’s Tumbamalog Merlin Mann‘s tumblelog

Tumbleo Leo Laporte‘s tumblelog

Ralph’s Blurbs Ralph Dagza‘s tumblelog

Go set one up to record your daily web browsing (and let me know if you do) at http://www.tumblr.com.  Let me know if you have any recommendations for how to improve mine!

Compromise Between My Blog and My Tumblr Page

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So I think I’ve struck a happy medium between my blog that you’re reading now and my Tumblr page (http://tumble.samharrelson.com).

I’m going to use the Tumblr page for all of my social bookmarks at places like Digg, Del.icio.us, Ma.gnolia and (hopefully one day) BUMPzee. I’m also going to direct all of my Flickr images to show up there and anything that I find interesting or amusing on YouTube, etc.

In other words, my Tumblr page will be sort of like a running scrapbook where I can quickly bookmark things as I run across them. If you’re looking for my pictures or my latest bookmarks, just click the link in the sidebar.

That will keep this page much cleaner and allow me to go link nuts in a dedicated space.

What do you think?

tumble.samharrelson.com

Ze Frank: Only 2 Ride the Fire Eagle Danger Days Left

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It’s starting to get sad.

What are we going to do on March 18 when there is no show?

Probably cry.  And make finger fruits.  I’m starting to realize that each one of these shows have taken on a certain permanence in my mind because I can remember where I was for most of these.

“Ah yeah, I watched that one after a tough day of teaching 8th graders last April.”

“That was an awesome episode… remember that one after a day of selling my soul at that conference in Orlando.”

“I watched that one with three others that I had missed because work had been really involved that week.  The release of watching The Show at 3am in a dark room made everyting right again.”

Only 2 “Ride the Fire Eagle Danger Days” left.

The best things are those with self imposed time limits because we really begin to realize how special and important they are.  Without loss, an experience is not complete.  Things that go on forever get stale for a reason.

Thank you, Ze.

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Boom Goes the Power

The transformer on the powerline outside our house just exploded (second time in a week).  I didn’t do it.  I swear.

Anyway, at least it’s in the 50’s with bright sunshine today.  Not a bad day to be forced outside to get some work done in the books.

I have about 25 books piled up beside my desk that I <strike>want</strike> need to read.  I also have a quiz from last week that I need to grade.  And I have about 1200 feed items that I need to pour through in my feed reader (Linux’s Liferea… thank God I keep an offline feed reader).  And, I have a major paper that I’m trying to write to claim that the Deuteronomistic History was written very late (close to the Maccabean period) by an pro-prophetic agency (not pro-monarchical or pro-priestly).  Fun stuff.

How am I blogging this you ask?  Linux’s cleverly titled “Drivel” blogging program.  I do most of my blogging here because it’s a clean and clear interface.  If you run Ubuntu (or any Gnome distro), I highly recommend.

Gosh, I want to check my email.  Oh wait… I have a smart phone!

UPDATE:  Lights are back on.  A squirrel was fried on top of the transformer, however.  Poor squirrel.