Monthly Archive for June, 2007

Nine Types of Annoying Drivers

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Jason Mosley
on June 27, 2007
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I have been driving for about 9 years and found that there are many different types of annoying drivers. Here is a list of the first nine I could think of, if you think I missed an important one feel free to comment. If you are one or more of these drivers, please try to change your bad driving habits.

Instant Beepers, are drivers that as soon as the light turns green they beep at you. NOTE: If you encounter one of these drivers, drive thought the intersection as slow as you can.

Ambiguous Lane Choosers, are drivers that drive right down the middle of two lanes or dance from lane to lane without using turn signals. What really makes me mad is when there people are driving under the speed limit, you can get around them.

Floor Pickers, are drivers that are not looking at the road, but instead are looking at the floor trying to pick something up. What ever you have just drop can not be that important, so why don’t you just wait until you stop driving.

Peddle Pushers, are drivers that rev there engines at any stop sign or light. I really hate it when it’s not even a bad ass muscle car, but instead some POS Civic.

Bass Boomers, are drivers that play there music way to loud. Most of the time the bass is so loud, it sounds like its going to vibrate the car apart. I often wonder how there hearing is after driving around town.

Butt Flickers, are divers that flick there cigarette butts out the window. I guess they don’t realize that it’s littering. My favorite is when I see someone do this, and it just blows right back in there back window.

Brake Slammers, are divers that for no reason slam on there brakes in the middle of open road. I think most of the time these people are just lost and panic. Still they should really try stopping at a gas station, not the middle of the road.

Slow Pokes, are drives that insist on drive 5 to 10 miles per hour under the speed limit. You will find that most of these types of drives are over the age of 65.

Cat Callers, are drivers that feel it’s necessary to beep at every girl they see on the side of the road. Do they really thing anything good is going to come from this? I have never seen a girl go, “Oh Baby, Take me home!”, after a guy beeps at them.

Internet Radio: Day of Silence

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Jason Mosley
on June 26, 2007
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This is the one of the best protest I have seen in a long time. It looks like a lot of internet radio stations and services are banding together to stand up to big government. Here is what I found when I went to Pandora.com today.

“I’m sorry to say that today Pandora, along with most Internet radio sites, is going off the air in observance of a Day of Silence. We are doing this to bring to your attention a disastrous turn of events that threatens the existence of Pandora and all of internet radio. We need your help.” - You can found out more information at SaveNetRadio.org.

Good job to all the participating internet radio services. There is no better way to get the word out about this issue. Everyone that uses these services will be affected by this and will then know about the issue.

To save internet radio all you have to do is go to SaveNetRadio.com and get the contact information for your congressmen; then let him know you’re not happy. Trust me, they care about what you think, it’s there job to.

Ask Google : Email 004

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Jason Mosley
on June 25, 2007
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Here is another installment it the ever popular Ask Google. If you have no idea what I am talking about. Then you should check out these links (link 1 / link 2). They’re the links to the original features I wrote, that appeared on shinyfire.com.

From: Rachael
Date: Jun 25, 2007 1:59 AM
Subject: google image search (another sorry)

i liked your idea so much i tried more.
i didn’t think i’d send any more, but this one was toooooooo good.

i asked:
who loves me? (click for answer)
-how messed up is that???

From: Mlle
Date: Jun 24, 2007 4:36 AM
Subject: google images, question

“What am I going to be when I grow up?” (click for answer)
… A scary prospect, as I’m a teenaged girl at the moment and wasn’t planning on going in that direction with my life.

From: Ashley
Date: May 20, 2007 1:09 PM
Subject: google question

1. Where is my brain? (click for answer)
-apparently, it’s in this woman.

2. Who created religion? (click for answer)
-well of course it came from adorable anime girls!

Warnings About the Baconator

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Jason Mosley
on June 21, 2007
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Here are some warnings that should be on the packaging of Wendy’s Baconator. If you think of your own warnings, email them to me and I will ad them to the list.

Warning:
* People over the age to 65 should not eat the Baconator.
* Nursing or Pregnant women should not come in contact with the Baconator.
* After eating the Baconator if you have an erection lasting longer then 4 hours, contact your doctor.
* You may feel chest pains while consuming the Baconator.
* Chuck Norris had trouble finishing a Baconator.
* Keep away from an open flame.
* If your Baconator asks you about Sarah Conner, eat it before it gets away.
* Do not operate heavy machinery for 3 hours after consuming a Baconator.
* Driving and eating a Baconator, may cause serious injury.
* Do not use the Baconator as a projectile

Nine Things That Are Better With Bacon

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Jason Mosley
on June 20, 2007
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We have all heard the phrase, “Everything is better with bacon”. So I decided that I would list the first nine things I can think of, that are truly better with bacon. WARNING: This list will make you hungry.

Salads – Just a mere salad by its self is barely satisfying, but ad just a few strips of bacon and you got yourself a meal!

Cheeseburgers – Biting in to a juicy burger and hearing the crisp sound of bacon, makes my mouth water.

Brownies – I know you heard of putting nuts in brownies, well just to the same with bacon! Here is a recipe.

Drinking Beer – Just ask the people that go to free bacon night at Harris Grill.

Grill Cheese – Slap some bacon in there and you have yourself a testy treat that will get the girls saying, “Hey Baby”!

Broccoli and Cheese – Just like the salad you can’t go wrong adding bacon to this.

Bake Potato – Take one potato, some cheese, sour cream, and a hand full of bacon crumbs, you will have a tasty lunch.

Scallops – You take a scallop and wrap it in bacon, I like to call it “Sea Pig”.

Mornings – I hate waking up, but if I can smell bacon its makes the morning easier. If someone could invent an alarm clock that cooks bacon, they would be millionaires.

Advertising Epiphany

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Jason Mosley
on June 19, 2007
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As many of you already know I read a lot of blogs about how to make money online. Most of them just focus on adsense and search engine optimization. I tried a lot of information learned on this blog to see if I could make money. Most of the tips worked but they didn’t really make a lot of money, just enough to see that they worked.

I would like to make it clear that I didn’t start this blog to make money, but it would be nice to get something out of it. Hobbies are always more fun when you’re getting paid to do them. It makes you feel good to know that your work and worth something to someone else. So that was my main motive for trying to make money in the first place.

Back to the point, I thought the main reason I wasn’t making the big bucks like the other guys was because of traffic. I need to get more visitors to the site. But then last week I looked at my stats and find that I have a lot visits and most of them are returning readers. So traffic can’t be the main issue. There must be another reason I am not making money.

Then I had an epiphany. The reason the other guys were making money was the kind of visitors they were getting, not how many. Most of the people that read my site are fellow bloggers and experience internet visitors. So the odds of people like that clicking on an ad are slim. But the other guys, their blogs attract new bloggers and less experience visitors, so they are more likely to click ads. So it’s the type of audience, not the amount that makes a blog money on adsense style advertising.

So this got me thinking. What type of advertising dose an experience internet visitors like me click on? This was an easy question to answer; I find myself clicking on links in sponsored reviews and featured links on sidebars. I click on them because I know the blogger him self personally picked those advertisers and if he liked them, maybe I will too. Advertising with a personal touch is what experience visitors like me will support.

In closing, I am going to try out this new theory of mine, and see if it works better then the other advertising services. So by next month you will no long see adsense, banner ads, or kontera on this site. You will only see a few sponsored reviews (if I can get some) and a feature links section on the top of my side bar. If you would like information about advertising on my blog just send me an email.

Also I will keep the buy me a drink plugin activated. I still don’t know if it works since I have yet to get a drink from anyone (hint hint). The only person that tried said they had problems, so I don’t even know if it’s working.

Please try to buy me a drink and let me know if it worked or not. Once some has, I will update this post so we all know that it’s working. Thanks!

UPDATE: The plugin works, Beth bought me a Double Mocha!

Great Minds Say Wait to Get the iPhone

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Jason Mosley
on June 15, 2007
in Technology
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Last night I went to a meeting at the Creative Treehouse to plan for the big open house event. Happing June 30th at 6pm, go to their website for the latest details. While I was there we started talking about the iPhone. If you remember a few weeks back I posted about how I was not excited for this thing. And I still feel the same way today. I was trying to inform them that Apple will come out with a better iPhone in about 6 months after this one comes out. So they should wait to get one.

If you remember this was how it was in the iPod and the MacBook. Everyone ran out to get the new ones then 6 months later for the same price you can get and upgrade version. And I am not the only one that feels this way. The guy over a CrunchGear.com wrote a post about how the iPhone has planned obsolescence from the start. He points out a lot of the missing features and also Apple’s track record.

So it looks like even the experts say wait to get the iPhone, so great minds really do think alike. Its going to be hard not to jump on the band wagon, since it dose look amazing. But I can see dropping $500 on something that will be obsolete so quickly.