It is time. I know you can feel it.
Continue reading “Everyday Normal Rises From Its Deathbed”Random Thoughts
- “Stop attributing quotes to me falsely.” – Albert Einstein
- When someone asks me if I want cheesecake, it sounds so much more appetizing than if it was called cheese pie.
- When it comes to web design, you can’t beat spiders.
- I am bound and determined to make a time machine. So I will occasionally look around to see if I figured it out yet.
- If we evolved from monkeys, why don’t I have thumb feet? Thumb feet are much better than big toe feet.
- If anyone has an extreme phobia we usually have an understanding and empathetic view. I feel sorry for people with homophobia, no one helps them out in their terror.
- Why don’t any restaurants serve sloppy joe’s?
- An added bonus of Christianity is that you have more weapons against vampires.
Standardization Will Save Us All
Gypsum board. Gyp board. 5/8ths board. Half board. Sheet rock. Dry wall. As I began my job in construction I heard these terms used with great frequency. Needless to say, I was confused and nervous that I was going to mess something up. The term that I was familiar with was “dry wall”, so I kept thinking, “What is so special about sheet rock, that it deserves its own name? Why refer to this one as gypsum board?” I quickly became annoyed as I learned that they were all the exact same thing (sometimes different sizes). I then began to think about the incredible amount of things in this world that we have multiple names for and how much that bothers me. Let’s pick one name and simplify everything.
How to Make Money With a Blog (The Truth)
There are millions of blogs out there on “the internets”. There are hundreds of ways that you can supposedly make money with your blog. A search on making money with a blog returns an impossible amount of articles and information.
In regard to this site, I have thought things like:
“This is good and funny. Lots of people will pop by and check it out”
But I was very very wrong. After some thought about it I have connected some dots that have been right in front of my face the whole time. Isn’t it strange that every site that I visited while researching making money with a blog, seemed to be a blog about blogs. I never figured out that normal people who like silly goofy junk will just go to big name funny sites that have money to advertise and get their name out there and not search far and wide for it. The people who are looking up new blogs are looking at computer related materials. They are people who are around their computers a lot. Why? Because they are the poor suckers like myself who want to know how to make some extra cash with a blog.
The Secret Truth
To make money with a blog you must start with one of two things. First you must write about how to make money with blogs. Blogs about blogs are extremely popular and the suckers will lap up whatever you are throwing out there. Blogs about blogs are also very redundant and pointless so be ready to bore yourself. (That is my opinion)
Second, you must write tons of lists about computer products and services. “Top 10 free “, “20 ways to get Vista to ” etc. This type of writing is more useful and can be more entertaining as well. The main thing to remember when using either of these methods is that you are writing for computer nerds because everyone else on the web is either barely on the internet or they are looking for salacious material.
You may say to yourself, “No I will get all my friends to come check it out all the time.” Well if your friends are all as computer nerdy as you are, then you’re in luck, as long as you have thousands of friends. Otherwise, you will ask your friends to check out your sweet material and send everyone else by, and they will visit twice and never tell anyone. It’s a hard lesson, but your friends suck, and you cannot rely on word of mouth for anything. The only thing that will help you is to write about nerd stuff and hope that nerds digg it.
10 Worst Things About Summer for Adults
For the youngsters out there who get summer breaks it is a magical and wonderful time. This situation is hard to deal with when you come of age and find that summer is just like the rest of the year.
Continue reading “10 Worst Things About Summer for Adults”Bad Design Focus
Here are a couple of designs that I feel could have gone better.
Continue reading “Bad Design Focus”How To Prevent “Page Rage”
There is a phenomenon on the internet that is somewhat like Road Rage, that I would like to call “Page Rage”. This occurs when a normally kind and understanding person gets behind the wheel of their computer and turns into a crazy, hate-spewing madman. This can range from complaining about spelling and grammar in a cruel manner, to name-calling and wishing death upon others. Here at Everyday Normal there is no desire to contribute to the hatred and anger in the world. There is way too much of that anyway. To pile on more, one would have to be a pure jerk. Ill will is never meant toward anyone and should never be implied. When anything is read on this site, it should be imagined that your goofiest buddy is saying it to you, in an informal conversation. You can disagree with this buddy and the friendship will still be intact.
Continue reading “How To Prevent “Page Rage””Don’t Make Me Watch Please
As I have been watching the NBA playoffs I have been seeing these commercials for the WNBA. At first I think, “Finally someone is telling the truth about how everyone feels about the WNBA.” Then they pull the old switcheroo on us and say they meant the opposite. It got me thinking about why I watch the NBA and why I get bored at even the thought of watching the WNBA. Apparently I am not alone either, as not many other people find the prospect very exciting. The following are just a couple of the reasons that I will not watch the WNBA.
Continue reading “Don’t Make Me Watch Please”Creativity for the Untalented
I heard Dennis Miller say some time ago that Contrarianism is creativity for the untalented. This is a very thought provoking statement and the more I have thought about it the more true it becomes. If someone with no talent wants to create something, whether it is a painting, a poem, a news article or just anything that can be created they many times look at another persons work and say, “I am going to do the opposite”. Doing the opposite makes it look as though the person thought of it on their own, since no one else has done it before. Only the opposite has been done before. “Look at my painting. I call it the Lisa Mona and it has an upside down man with a smile in it.”
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