Nerdy Dork

Would you advertise on the bottom of your foot? Heck yes I would!

Consumer Generated Advertising at it’s worst

I thought it was odd that Brian McCann got thrown out in last nights game. It seems to me the ump was just on a major power trip there!

After Davies issued a third-inning leadoff walk to Carlos Delgado, Brian McCann had a civil exchange with West, who promptly issued the soft-spoken catcher his first career ejection.

“I asked him, ‘Where did you have that call?’” McCann said. “He said, ‘I had it low.’ Then he asked me, ‘Where did you have it?’ I said, ‘I had it down the middle.’ Before I could even … I was getting thrown out. There wasn’t one cuss word. I wasn’t even yelling at him.”

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Living a normal life: Shawn Murphy always considered his all-star father just his ‘Dad’
By Jay Hinton
Deseret Morning News

While growing up, Atlanta’s Fulton County Stadium was Shawn Murphy’s playground.

He spent many summer days playing catch on the field with his brothers and father, running in the tunnels, or just hanging out in the clubhouse waiting for the game to start.

His dad played for the Braves, was a national and local hero, and was on TV regularly.

At the time, it was normal. That’s just what Dad did.

Continue reading “Dale Murphy: Family Man”

Some time last year I tried an experiment. I blogged every weekd day for one month. My experiment was to see what kind of traffic I would get - but more especially, what I could earn from Google Adsense from this traffic. It was moderately successful. I certainly made more that month than any other month before or since - maybe even more than every month combined.

Well, I’ve found a new easier way to make money. I was reading my Gmail this morning and noticed a link to PayPerPost.com. I think this is a great idea for both bloggers and advertisers. Here is why:

1. As an advertiser you can get real blogs ranting and raving your product or site.
2. Blogs are great for getting better search engine placement.
3. There is more potential to earn as a blogger - especially with a blog that only has a small audience.
4. You can blog sporatically. You don’t NEED to blog every day to generate income. (Of course it never hurts to blog more often.)
5. You can find topics to blog about!

So why are you still here? Go make money!

I’m a big fan of Dave Ramsey. I’m sure he’d endorse this book!

Continue reading “How to get out of Debt”

So, who needs traffic lights, stops, yeild signs etc. Keep traffic moving and avoid accidents with this every man for himself approach!

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OK, I always figured myself for a nerd, thanks in part to my family continually reminding me of that fact. Hence, I have appropriately named my freelance portal: Nerdlance.com. I never knew I was a Dork though.

Some of the questions on this quiz may not be fair. I have perfectly reasonable explainations for all of them!
Continue reading “I’m a Nerd and a Dork?”

I often build websites for people as well as computers and other odd jobs. Invariably I’m asked, “do you have a card?” Well, I used to have business cards for my “real” job, but giving those out must have been confusing. How could and quality assurance analyst/automation engineer help Joe Blow build a business website.

I like nice stuff, but I’m also very cheap. I didn’t want to buy my own kit to print business cards with computer ink that runs all over at the first sign or moisture. I can’t be the only person with a sweaty bum right?

Well, I did find this place that gives you 250 free business cards. All you have to pay is shipping. Not a bad deals says I! Well, I did it and here is how they turned out:

Click here if you want to get your own free business cards.

I’ve been plagued for months, but today I’m free! I like to watch video highlights the day after each Braves game. I’ve had problems on my laptop ever since I was put on our companies domain. I figured it was because they enabled a firewall I could not turn off. Turns out it was something totally different.

First let me describe the problem so hopefully the search engines will pick this up and I can help some poor soul out there searching for a solution.

Whenever I wanted to watch streaming video on windows media player, I would wait forever while it said “Connecting to Media..”, then it would give a message that said, “Ready”. I found a lot of useless tips on the internet, all basically telling me to set my proxy server to match my browser, but that didn’t work. The problem occured in both IE and Firefox. I tried WM9, WM10 and WM11 beta. The odd thing was that I could right click on a video and see the url it was trying to connect to, go in to Windows Media and “Open URL…” to that path and it would work. It was really a pain in the butt though.

Well, today I saw that a co-workers computer worked just fine, which gave me a new determination to find a solution. Well, I found it! Thank you! Thank you!

Turns out Google Desktop has been the culprit the whole time. I uninstalled it and now my WMP plugins are working fine! I never use Google Desktop anyway.

No, Weird Al does not know me!

They see me mowin’ my front lawn
I know they’re all thinkin’ I’m so
White and nerdy

Think I’m just too white and nerdy
Think I’m just too white and nerdy
Can’t you see I’m white and nerdy
Look at me I’m white and nerdy

I wanna roll with the gangstas
But so far they all think I’m too
White and nerdy

Think I’m just too white and nerdy
Think I’m just too white and nerdy
I’m just too white and nerdy
Really, really white and nerdy

First in my class here at MIT
Got skills, I’m a champion at D&D
M.C. Escher, that’s my favorite M.C.
Keep your 40, I’ll just have an Earl Grey tea
My rims never spin, to the contrary
You’ll find that they’re quite stationary
All of my action figures are cherry
Stephen Hawking’s in my library

My MySpace page is all totally pimped out
Got people beggin’ for my top eight spaces
Yo, I know pi to a thousand places
Ain’t got no grills but I still wear braces
I order all of my sandwiches with mayonnaise
I’m a wiz at Minesweeper, I could play for days
Once you’ve see my sweet moves, you’re gonna stay amazed
My fingers movin’ so fast I’ll set the place ablaze

There’s no killer app I haven’t run (run)
At Pascal, well I’m number one (one)
Do vector calculus just for fun
I ain’t got a gat, but I got a soldering gun (what?)
Happy Days is my favorite theme song
I could sure kick your butt in a game of ping pong
I’ll ace any trivia quiz you bring on
I’m fluent within JavaScript as well as Klingon

Here’s the part I sing on…

They see me roll on my Segway
I know in my heart they think I’m
White and nerdy

Think I’m just too white and nerdy
Think I’m just too white and nerdy
Can’t you see I’m white and nerdy
Look at me I’m white and nerdy

I’d like to roll with the gangstas
Although it’s apparent I’m too
White and nerdy

Think I’m just too white and nerdy
Think I’m just too white and nerdy
I’m just too white and nerdy
How’d I get so white and nerdy

I been browsin’, inspectin’ X-Men comics
You know I collect ‘em
My pens in my pocket, I must protect them
My ergonomic keyboard never leaves me bored
Shoppin’ online for deals on some writable media
I edit Wikipedia
I memorized Holy Grail really well
I can recite it right now and have you R-O-T-F-L-O-L

I got a business doing websites (websites)
When my friends need some code, who do they call?
I do HTML for ‘em all
Even made a homepage for my dog, yo
I got myself a fanny pack
They were havin’ a sale down at The Gap
Spend my nights with a roll of bubble wrap
Pop, pop - hope no one sees me, get freaky

I’m nerdy in the extreme and
Whiter than sour cream
I was in AV club and glee club
And even the chess team
Only question, I ever thought was hard
Was “Do I like Kirk or do I like Picard?”
Spend every weekend at the Renaissance Fair
Got my name on my underwear

They see me strollin’, they laughin’
And rollin’ their eyes cause I’m so
White and nerdy

Just because I’m white and nerdy
Just because I’m white and nerdy
All because I’m white and nerdy
Holy cow, I’m white and nerdy

I wanna bowl with the gangstas
But oh well, it’s obvious I’m
White and nerdy

Think I’m just too white and nerdy
Think I’m just too white and nerdy
I’m just too white and nerdy
Look at me I’m white and nerdy