Rank This Blog?

Okay, so I find myself wondering again if I should keep singing that Ode To Blogging song as I have found myself singing so many times in the past. And I am not sure if I should continue singing it because I may be singing myself an Ode To Debt. As I was MyBlogLoging the other day, someones post caught my eye again. And this time their comment read, "Has your blog been effected by the Google page rank update?". And so the story goes, I can no longer quit my day job as I once dreamed of and I may find myself looking for a fifth day job as a result of that Google page rank update the other day. Is this Armageddon, the end of the world. Is this the end of the web 2.0 user generated content pay you to blog blogger world, or at least the attempt to blah blog your way to riches world? Is the Internet broken now or something. Is there life thereafter the Internet, and what was life like before the invention of the Internet. I tried a couple of weeks ago to post that disclosure policy on this blog in an attempt to drive Dracula away from the door and I am not sure if that is working because now instead of that Google page rank of a thousand that I once dreamed of, this blog now has a Google page rank of negative one thousand. And should I continue to use the words "this is a sponsored post" or not, I am not sure. What do I say anymore in my attempt to blah blog my way to riches? Is this that Pluto or Saturn in action with that season of change thing again, and what kind of change is this world undergoing, if any. And what song do I sing now, as I am not so sure if I should keep singing that Ode To Blogging song I once sang before. Have a great blogging day.

And Yet Another Ode To Blogging

And it seems as if that Google page rank update wants to send me in search of a fifth full time job so much that I thought to post this post on this blog yet again in my internetaholicness.

And being that on this day seems to find itself another one of those blagh your way to the bankless days, I find myself wondering what to blah blog about, again. Simply for the sake of attempting to maintain content for this blog and my other blog whenever possible in this social media web 2.0 user generated content era. And so goes that bloggers block again to where I find myself posting this post I posted on this blog some time a while ago.....

And even when it seems as if the world is falling down all around me, I still find myself blah blogging for some reason. And if you happen to be one of those attempt to get rich internet quick blogaholics as I have found myself in times past, it seems as if that latest Google page rank update the other day wants to send me in search of a fourth full time job. And so I thought to post that "Ode to Blogging" again that I came across somewhere in internetland during my internet time and have found myself posting on this blog every so often:

An Ode To Blogging(sung to the tune of "Mercedes Benz" by Janis Joplin)

Oh Google, won't you give me a PageRank quickly?
My friends all have Adsense, but you banned me.
Blogged hard all my lifetime, trying to make money,
So Google, won't you give me a PageRank quickly?

Oh Shoemoney , won't give my blog a big plug?
I post every day, but never get Dugg.
I like how you're bald, but don't wear a rug,
So oh Shoemoney, won't you give my blog a big plug?

Oh AGLOCO , won't you give up your little green scam?
Your members flood my inbox with lots of spam.
You know that I'm not your biggest fan,
Oh AGLOCO, won't you give up your little green scam?

Bloggers!
Oh Google, won't you give me a PageRank quickly?
My friends all have Adsense, but you banned me.
Blogged hard all my lifetime, trying to make money,
So Google, won't you give me a PageRank quickly?

Have a great blogging day.

A Cell Phone Zombie Apocalypse Again

Hey again bloggers or whoever could be reading this blagh. And even when that get rich internet quick is still not getting rich internet quick years later, and that Google page rank update is still sending me in search of a fifth full time job which has now become a sixth full time job, I still find myself blogging those random thoughts for some reason or another. And so on this day, its the Zombie Apocalypse again. And I have blaghed about that Zombie Apocalypse thing on this blog before in times past, you know, that thing where everyone now has a cell phone and life has become a robot nation of everyone fidgeting and staring at their cell phones as if in a trance, in all forms of transportation, people are now in a zombie trance on trains, planes, boats, cars, scooters, you name it. And it seems to have only gotten worse than when I last posted that Zombie Apocalpyse post on this blog in what seems like years ago, to where headlines now read, College Kids Text During Showers, Sex And Class. We're Doomed. And a bunch of other articles about the alienation and inhumanization of mankind due to technology, or something like that. And it also seems as if everyone, even the homeless, now have cell phones these days and times to where if you don't have one, and you are still stuck in the technological stone age or something,  it becomes like change or die, or you are going to get left behind, maybe. Oh, and did I blogger mention, aside from cell phones zombie apocalypse, This Is How We Date Now.  Have we all become a slave to computers? And even though it's a different day, it seems to be the same zombie apocalpyse game in these days and times, so much that I can just copy and paste those same zombie apocalpyse posts from times past over and over on this blog as follows:

Hey again bloggers or whoever could be reading this blagh. And even when that Google page rank update still wants to send me in search of a fifth full time job for when that get rich internet quick does not get rich internet quick, I still find myself blaghing for some reason or another. And I know I have posted these zombie apocalypse posts on this blog before. It's just that when I keep reading articles such as The anxiety of unplugging and why we should disconnect to connect, and coming across photos like that This Is Progress photo that finds itself posted above and then videos with titles like The Innovation of Loneliness and what Facebook is doing to us that also finds itself posted above, it just brings me back to images of the zombie apocalypse and the robot nation again of wherever people are gathered these days and times, and that's not even including my travels throughout planet earth on the streets, planes, trains, buses, boats or whatever social situation or traveling mode that one may find themselves in only to be surrounded by people staring at handheld devices with blue light emanating from them and fidgeting with handheld gadgets as if in a trance and life amongst humanity seems as if it is a scene out of a science fiction movie sometimes. And this scenario seems as if it is a world wide phenomenon these days and times. What has technology done to humanity, for better or for worse. And what if anything, does this have to do with a No Police State.

And this one.....

Robot Nation Again

And so I saw someone post this post on facebook that went something like:

"Last night my friend went to the ladies room at the theater and while I waited, 6 or 7 people were waiting outside with me. Some standing, some sitting, like me. I wanted to strike up a conversation about the movie we all had just seen. "What did you think about so and so?" "How about that scene?" "That guy really can act!" You know, basic human conversation. But I couldn't. Every single person was staring down at their stupid phone. Every. Single. One. "

And this one also....

Robot Nation

Hey Bloggers, and today in America at least, is it the world also? This day seems to be finish giving ones social security mark of the beast 666 number tax day where one gives unto Caesar what is Ceasers. And who is Ceaser anyway? And for what reason does the word Caeser sound like CZAR. And in other thoughts, what's up with technology these days. Is this the result? I was sitting on that MTA subway train the other day going my way listening to their prerecorded terrorize the riders with those "If you see something say something" messages and I noticed that practically everyone on the train has a wire hanging out of their ears with some sort of walkman like, I guess iPod like device, listening to or watching something on the other end. And those who were not attached to wires were staring at or fidgeting with cell phones of some sort. And this all seemed like some sort of scene out of a science fiction movie to me as I seem stuck in the stone age of technology or something. And then there are those people who are walking around town with mini, tiny cell phones attached to their ears. Hugh? And then there are those almost non stop telemarketer phone calls that one seems to get all day long and night with what seemingly seems like every sales pitch under the son that man can think of. And those telemarketer calls seem to be automated and voice activated these days with prerecorded messages pitching some sort of product with some sort of persons prerecorded voice in every single emotion that one can think of. And these prerecorded voices even seem to speak to answering machines, and can even fill up an answering machine if one is not careful to empty those messages on that answering machine in time. How long have I been stuck in the technology stone age? What has technology done to humanity. Is this the result, a robot nation? Have a great technology and more day.

And oh, that 

Can We Auto-Correct Humanity?

video that finds itself posted above, well that's just way cool and kind of sums up this whole technological impersonalization thing.

50 Signs You're A Blogaholic Again

And in my quest to get rich internet quick, I am lost in Bloggerland today trying to figure out which pay you to blog company to write for next, as some companies have blogging assignments available when others do not. And with that economic mortgage meltdown and economic recession impending depression that seems to be still melting down, I keep wanting to post that Ode To Blogging post again, as it seems as if no companies have anything to blagher blog about anymore and that Google page rank update keeps wanting to send me in search of a fifth full time job.  And in my blagholic quest, I ran across Cool Buzz online which had the following post from Jonathan Deamer on their blog and as it turns out, tens and hundreds of other bloggers have posted the same following post. It's hilarious! Absolutely hilarious! Today is Sunday (Okay, it's actually Monday, this is just another one of those Orwellian recycle this blog posts); the Sabbath, Sabado, a day of rest. I should take a break.

50 Signs You're A Blogaholic

Are you addicted to blogging? You know you blog too much if:

1. You have to turn back on your way to the airport because you forgot to “tell” your blog that you’re going away.
2. You sneak off during a date to check your hit stats.
3. You update Twitter about your life more than you actually live it.
4.You think LSD is something to do with RSS or XML.
5. Your family don’t call anymore, they just check your blog.
6. You have daydreams about links from Boing Boing.
7. You pray to Steve Pavlina.
8. You eat blogging. You sleep blogging. You drink coffee.
9. You think Nike should make a shirt that says “just blog it”.
10. You would buy it if they did.
11.You’re considering naming your first-born child Scoble.
12.You start conversations with the phrase “top 10 ways to…” because you think it will get you on the front page of Digg.
13.You’re listening to the travel news and get excited by the phrase “heavy traffic”.
14.You moblog your own wedding.
15.You keep a blog ideas notepad by your bed. And you go to bed early just so you can write in it.
16.You check your Adsense revenue more than your bank account.
17.You’ve got more “blog friends” than “real life” friends.
18.You turn down invitations to go out because you haven’t yet written your post for the day.
19.You introduce yourself at parties as a “new media journalist”.
20.Your breakfast of choice is toast, cornflakes and Google reader.
21.You care more about what Technorati says about your authority than what your children do.
22.You’ve got “Custom CSS for Dummies” on your Christmas list.
23.You think the 3 Rs are Reading, Writing and RSS.
24.You can’t remember what you did last week without consulting your blog.
25.Your blogroll is longer that your cell’s phonebook.
26.You think “I wonder how this’ll look on Flickr?” when posing for photos.
27.When asked to feed the dog, you think “RSS or Atom?”
28.The only time your friends hear your voice is on your podcast.
29.You include ownership of your blog in your will.
30.You know what a blog carnival is.
31.You’ve participated in one.
32.You wonder if they do vacations at the Googleplex.
33.Under the hobbies section of an online dating profile you just put “Googling myself”.
34.Your licence plate matches your domain name.
35.Your lifetime goal is achieving a Page Rank of 10.
36.People in the street recognise you from your MyBlogLog photo.
37.You have a scorn for Xanga users normal people reserve for rapists and serial killers.
38.You refuse to wear black hats because you think it will affect your SEO.
39.You got that last one.
40.You have more than three friends with numbers in their names.
41.You’ve ever used the term “blawg” in conversation.
42.Blogger.com is banned on your office network.
43.You try to offer links as a form of payment in restaurants.
44.You start getting withdrawal symptoms when you go a day without posting.
45.You met your girlfriend/boyfriend through a blog.
46.You get more “approve this comment” e-mail messages than spam.
47.People worry about you when you do not post for a day.
48.The name Kubrick means more to you than the director of A Clockwork Orange.
49.You make the wrong post to the wrong blog on the wrong day.
50.You finish reading this and go to make a post with your own additions.

That Ode to Blogging

And it is Sunday on this day according to that Gregorian Calendar that has rolled around again in this week. That day of rest, day of God, the Sabbath. Or is that Saturday. And even when it seems as if the world is falling down all around me, I still find myself blah blogging for some reason. And if you happen to be one of those attempt to get rich internet quick blogaholics as I have found myself in times past, it seems as if that latest Google page rank update the other day wants to send me in search of a fourth full time job. And so I thought to post that "Ode to Blogging" again that I came across somewhere in internetland during my internet time and have found myself posting on this blog every so often:

An Ode To Blogging(sung to the tune of "Mercedes Benz" by Janis Joplin)

Oh Google, won't you give me a PageRank quickly?
My friends all have Adsense, but you banned me.
Blogged hard all my lifetime, trying to make money,
So Google, won't you give me a PageRank quickly?

Oh Shoemoney , won't give my blog a big plug?
I post every day, but never get Dugg.
I like how you're bald, but don't wear a rug,
So oh Shoemoney, won't you give my blog a big plug?

Oh AGLOCO , won't you give up your little green scam?
Your members flood my inbox with lots of spam.
You know that I'm not your biggest fan,
Oh AGLOCO, won't you give up your little green scam?

Bloggers!
Oh Google, won't you give me a PageRank quickly?
My friends all have Adsense, but you banned me.
Blogged hard all my lifetime, trying to make money,
So Google, won't you give me a PageRank quickly?

Have a great blogging day.

Another Ode To Blogging

And being that on this day seems to find itself another one of those blagh your way to the bankless days, I find myself wondering what to blah blog about, again. Simply for the sake of attempting to maintain content for this blog and my other blog whenever possible in this social media web 2.0 user generated content era. And so goes that bloggers block again to where I find myself posting this post I posted on this blog some time a while ago.....

And even when it seems as if the world is falling down all around me, I still find myself blah blogging for some reason. And if you happen to be one of those attempt to get rich internet quick blogaholics as I have found myself in times past, it seems as if that latest Google page rank update the other day wants to send me in search of a fourth full time job. And so I thought to post that "Ode to Blogging" again that I came across somewhere in internetland during my internet time and have found myself posting on this blog every so often:

An Ode To Blogging(sung to the tune of "Mercedes Benz" by Janis Joplin)

Oh Google, won't you give me a PageRank quickly?
My friends all have Adsense, but you banned me.
Blogged hard all my lifetime, trying to make money,
So Google, won't you give me a PageRank quickly?

Oh Shoemoney , won't give my blog a big plug?
I post every day, but never get Dugg.
I like how you're bald, but don't wear a rug,
So oh Shoemoney, won't you give my blog a big plug?

Oh AGLOCO , won't you give up your little green scam?
Your members flood my inbox with lots of spam.
You know that I'm not your biggest fan,
Oh AGLOCO, won't you give up your little green scam?

Bloggers!
Oh Google, won't you give me a PageRank quickly?
My friends all have Adsense, but you banned me.
Blogged hard all my lifetime, trying to make money,
So Google, won't you give me a PageRank quickly?

Have a great blogging day.

Occupy Wall Street Day 28

Hey again bloggers or whoever could be reading this blog. And so instead of posting that Ode To Blogging poem that I sometimes find myself posting when that Google page rank update wants to send me in search of a fifth full time job with Wall Street as my occupation, I somehow find myself posting that on this blogging day finds itself Occupy Wall Street Day 28 for that event that has found itself in the headline news lately. And as far as I blagher know, tomorrow, October 15th is supposed to be Global Revolution or is it Global Change, International Day of Action Day. And there are so many events going on tomorrow and beyond as part of this Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Together movement, that it almost seems impossible to keep track of them all. And those photos and video that find themselves posted above, well they just seem to occupy wall street speak for themselves. And it seems to be all about occupy wall street worldwide and beyond. Oh, and by the way... seen on facebook - "We have entered the ninth and final Mayan wave/age towards unity consciousness. And it begins on 10/28. " A time for change, an awakening. I am/we are the ninety nine percent. Occupy wall street worldwide. And some of those events to be found tomorrow and in the coming days are as follows:

The Occupation Party . you're invited to the occupation party saturday, october 15, time square, nyc. and that design for that occupy wall street times square invitation Shepard Fairey rocks. o The Awake & Inspired,. This Saturday at 5pm we take: Times Square ...with music, performance and a message that the people of this country - not the banks, not the corporations - hold the true ..

and

John Penly is planning to Occupy Tompkins Square Park tomorrow. And his facebook invite reads something like OCCUPY TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK / 24 HOURS / TOMPKINS SQUARE EVERYWHERE, Tomorrow at 12:00pm - Sunday at 12:00pm, TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK EAST 7TH ST. AND AVE. A LOWER EAST SIDE NEW YORK CITY.

and then there's

that Occupy Wall Street page itself with a seemingly ton of posts amongst them being:

October 15th Global Day Of Action. Hi, we write you from the International Commission of Sol, in Madrid (Spain). We know that you have a lot to do in the USA, as we have here in Spain, but the 15O is coming and we need you to make a milestone in history out of it. It's the great chance we expected to start a real global revolution! This is what we are doing, and could be wonderful if you join us:

Please spread the web page of the call http://15october.net/, the graphic material http://15october.net/spread-it/ and the videos http://15october.net/category/video/. And please send us your videos, banners, posters to contact.takethesquare@gmail.com so that we can compile them and put them in common. Send all of this through your mailing lists, to all your contacts, but also to all your friends.

Explain to everybody that this is not just one mobilization. It's more of "we are reinventing ourselves". Tell the occupiers how the movement is popping all over the world that extend from the streets of the Middle East to Wall Street. Also tell the occupiers that over 650 cities have already confirmed they will do an event on October 15th . You can check in http://map.15october.net/ and if a city plans to do an event invite; tell them to add it to the map. http://map.15october.net/reports/submit Explain to them that 15O is the moment to wake up all of us together and especially tell them that it is in their hands to make it a success. It's not any more about parties, organizations or unions. The call should come from all of the organizations and from the people of the world like you. There is a text that could be very useful to send this last message: "who are you?" http://map.15october.net/page/index/1

It would be great to tell your friends abroad to spread it through their countries. We need one revolution in each single city of the world.

For a further explanation about the mobilization and a more specific plan there is a document written by the international network takethesquare. http://takethesquare.net/2011/09/24/15th-october-whats-the-plan-15oct/

In order to promote and discuss the activities for October 15th, everyone is encouraged to participate and to organize local meetings to plan the details and discuss the preparation of the events for the 15th. There will also be a chat http://webchat.freenode.net/?randomnick=1&channels=15october&prompt=1 , an audio-chat (mumble: Download in http://mumble.sourceforge.net/ Host:tomalaplaza.net Port:64738, see the tutorial in http://takethesquare.net/2011/10/04/mumble-setup-walkthrough/) and a collaborative document pad http://titanpad.com/15october open to everybody, so during the 48 hours people from all the world will be able of talking about the ideas and activities decided in their squares with every other occupation in the world! All the channels will be open for everybody...just participate!

A Host Of Events

And this seems to be another one of those days where I just want to post that Ode To Blogging post in my attempt to get rich internet quick blogaholicness, to where that Google page rank update wants to send me in search of a fifth full time job. And yet this post happens to be about a Nublu Jazz Festival and a Hoboken Artists Studio Tour. And again, as blogger usual, I know that Nublu Jazz Festival and that Hoboken Artists Studio tour are happening because those emails I receive, facebook event invites and friends who are playing at one of these events, says so. And what else is there to say about that all music and all art seemingly collective of a bar and club Nublu that is to be found in that yet trendy of a neighborhood of the Lower East Side now called the East Village for real estate marketing purposes maybe, that is to be found in that city of New York, except that Nublu Rocks. And what else is there to say about that 30th Annual Hoboken Artists Studio Tour to be found in another one of those trendy of a neighborhoods in that city of Hoboken that is to be found in that state of New Jersey that has not been said thirty times already, I am not sure, except that this Hoboken Artists Studio Tour rocks. And that announcement for that Hoboken Artists Studio Tour reads as follows:

Hoboken Artists Studio Tour

Saturday and Sunday, Movember 6th and 7th, noon to 6pm

A Free City-Wide Self-Guided Walking Tour of Artists’ Studios, Galleries & Community Group Exhibitions

Featuring the work of over 150 artists in over 40 locations

An 8 page Tour Guide with map will be available as an insert in the Hoboken Reporter the week before the tour or can be picked up at City Hall on the day of the tour.

City Hall is located at 94 Washington Street, between First & Newark Streets

Just 3 blocks from all public transportation including PATH, NJ trains & buses, NY Waterway Ferries and Hudson Bergen Lightrail.

And according to that eight page tour guide to be found in that Hudson Reporter, some of those participating artists and performers in this years event include:

Tim Daly, one of the original 13 who helped found this artist studio tour, Adam Saynuk, Frank Hanavan, Roslyn Rose, Kenneh Mueller, Virginia Rolston Parrott, Doug Auld, Chapeau Design, Paterson Arts Council, Lib Art Gallery, Monroe Arts Center, the Friary, Neumann Leather building and many many more.

And then some of those artists, performers and musicians in this years Nublu Jazz Festival November 5th-20th, 2010 include:

Alphabet Soup, Endangered Blood, Lew Soloff, The Fringe, Yeyi, DJ Spun,Brennan Green, Bato The Yugo, Paul Motian, Matt Pavolka, Ilhan Ersahin (Isn't he the owner and/or founder of Nublu?), Nublu Orchestra conducted by Butch Morris, DJ Vladi,Juini Booth, DJ Hardedge, Marianniwith, Jeff Ballard, Ze Luis and Band, DJ Greg Caz, Revive Music Group, DJ Ouga, Sun Ra Arkestra, DJ MKL, Clark Gayton's Situation, Wazzabi featuring Aaron Johnston, Redux, Underground Horns, Kenny Wollesen Father Figures, Dub N Such,Seamus Blake Quartet, Dodo, Didi Gutman, Anton, Forro In The Dark, Beco Dranoff, DJ Turmix, The Last Army Collective, Alex, Love Trio, Jonathon Haffner Band, Modest P and a whole lot more.

And what else again is there to be said about these events except that these festivals and tours rock. Have a great music, art and more day.

Stop Stop And Frisk

And on this day in North America finds itslef as Occupy Wall Street Day 550. And Occupy Wall Street and those global revolutions of a movement Occupy Together are still moving fast, well, sort of. And that google page rank update is still sending me in search of a fifth full time job when that get rich internet quick thing does not get rich internet quick. And so I find myself blaghing about a Stop Stop and Frisk event that finds itself in that city of New York on this day. And it is an event that has something to do with a We Want Justice For Kimani Gray Facebook event invite that also has something to do with an article titled Nine terrifying facts about America's biggest police force, that says something about that the NYPD has expanded into a massive global anti - terror operation with military capabilities. And it is also an article that has something to do with an Occupy the NRA Google+ page that also has something to do with guns, gun violence and a police state that could also have something to do with an Occupy Racism Facebook Page. And the text of that facebook event invite reads something like "Rally outside 1 police plaza with elected officials from Brooklyn to support police reform and stop the policy of Stop and Frisk." And what, if anything, does this have to do with a No Police State.

Occupy Wall Street Again

 
So what's going on with Occupy Wall Street? And the reason why I'm blogger wondering what's going on with Occupy Wall Street is because I can't find anything else to web 2.0 user generated content blaghers block post about on this bloggers block day except Occupy Wall Street. And it was either post that Ode To Blogging post again for when that Google page rank update wants to send me in search of a fifth full time job or post about Occupy Wall Street. And so I decided to go with Occupy Wall Street, because hey, they seem to have stuff going on all the time these Occupy Together global revolution days. And so the following seems to find itself as one of the recent posts on their page. Occupy Wall Street Worldwide.

 June 30 - July 4: Occupy National Gathering in Philadelphia .

The Occupy National Gathering is a nationally coordinated event which will take place from June 30th to July 4th in Philadelphia. The Occupy movement will convene the Occupy National Gathering in the vicinity of Philadelphia’s Independence Mall for a week of direct actions, movement building and the creation of a vision for a democratic future. The National Gathering will kick off with a massive march with Healthcare-Now! and will conclude on July 5th when attendees will join the Guitarmy for a 99 mile march from Philadelphia to Wall Street in Lower Manhattan.

Perhaps the highlight of the gathering will be the crafting of a Vision of a Democratic Future. On July 4th the National Gathering (#natgat) will facilitate a visioning process designed to allow all voices to be heard while allowing repeat visions to organically rise to the top. Together, by all those who choose to participate, a Vision of a Democratic Future will be conceived. Learn more about this and more here.
 

Another Ode To Blogging

Hey Bloggers, and I have actually posted these following passages on this blog before some time in time a while ago. And every so often I think of of these passages in my blogaholicness. And as I read them again these days, months and seemingly years later, they still seem all the more clear:

50 Signs You're A Blogaholic

Are you addicted to blogging? You know you blog too much if:

1. You have to turn back on your way to the airport because you forgot to “tell” your blog that you’re going away.
2. You sneak off during a date to check your hit stats.
3. You update Twitter about your life more than you actually live it.
4.You think LSD is something to do with RSS or XML.
5. Your family don’t call anymore, they just check your blog.
6. You have daydreams about links from Boing Boing.
7. You pray to Steve Pavlina.
8. You eat blogging. You sleep blogging. You drink coffee.
9. You think Nike should make a shirt that says “just blog it”.
10. You would buy it if they did.
11.You’re considering naming your first-born child Scoble.
12.You start conversations with the phrase “top 10 ways to…” because you think it will get you on the front page of Digg.
13.You’re listening to the travel news and get excited by the phrase “heavy traffic”.
14.You moblog your own wedding.
15.You keep a blog ideas notepad by your bed. And you go to bed early just so you can write in it.
16.You check your Adsense revenue more than your bank account.
17.You’ve got more “blog friends” than “real life” friends.
18.You turn down invitations to go out because you haven’t yet written your post for the day.
19.You introduce yourself at parties as a “new media journalist”.
20.Your breakfast of choice is toast, cornflakes and Google reader.
21.You care more about what Technorati says about your authority than what your children do.
22.You’ve got “Custom CSS for Dummies” on your Christmas list.
23.You think the 3 Rs are Reading, Writing and RSS.
24.You can’t remember what you did last week without consulting your blog.
25.Your blogroll is longer that your cell’s phonebook.
26.You think “I wonder how this’ll look on Flickr?” when posing for photos.
27.When asked to feed the dog, you think “RSS or Atom?”
28.The only time your friends hear your voice is on your podcast.
29.You include ownership of your blog in your will.
30.You know what a blog carnival is.
31.You’ve participated in one.
32.You wonder if they do vacations at the Googleplex.
33.Under the hobbies section of an online dating profile you just put “Googling myself”.
34.Your licence plate matches your domain name.
35.Your lifetime goal is achieving a Page Rank of 10.
36.People in the street recognise you from your MyBlogLog photo.
37.You have a scorn for Xanga users normal people reserve for rapists and serial killers.
38.You refuse to wear black hats because you think it will affect your SEO.
39.You got that last one.
40.You have more than three friends with numbers in their names.
41.You’ve ever used the term “blawg” in conversation.
42.Blogger.com is banned on your office network.
43.You try to offer links as a form of payment in restaurants.
44.You start getting withdrawal symptoms when you go a day without posting.
45.You met your girlfriend/boyfriend through a blog.
46.You get more “approve this comment” e-mail messages than spam.
47.People worry about you when you do not post for a day.
48.The name Kubrick means more to you than the director of A Clockwork Orange.
49.You make the wrong post to the wrong blog on the wrong day.
50.You finish reading this and go to make a post with your own additions

And here's that other one I posted a while back also, before I really understood what it all may have meant..

An Ode To Blogging(sung to the tune of "Mercedes Benz" by Janis Joplin)

Oh Google, won't you give me a PageRank quickly?
My friends all have Adsense, but you banned me.
Blogged hard all my lifetime, trying to make money,
So Google, won't you give me a PageRank quickly?

Oh Shoemoney , won't give my blog a big plug?
I post every day, but never get Dugg.
I like how you're bald, but don't wear a rug,
So oh Shoemoney, won't you give my blog a big plug?

Oh AGLOCO , won't you give up your little green scam?
Your members flood my inbox with lots of spam.
You know that I'm not your biggest fan,
Oh AGLOCO, won't you give up your little green scam?

Bloggers!
Oh Google, won't you give me a PageRank quickly?
My friends all have Adsense, but you banned me.
Blogged hard all my lifetime, trying to make money,
So Google, won't you give me a PageRank quickly?

Have a great blogging day.

Trash Worship

And as I blah blog along in the blogosphere today despite that Google page rank update the other day that sent me to looking for a fourth day job, I find my self blah blogging about Rolando's Trash Worship event that isn't for another month according to the email he sent. And what does Trash Worship mean anyway, to worship trash? And I also find myself posting more and more events these days because hey, it's less writing sometimes when I run out of things to blah blog about. And Rolando has been the Recycle and Pray, Trash Worship guy for as long as I can remember. He has some really cool artwork of recycled soda cans all over La Plaza Cultural Community Garden in the Lower East Side which is now called the East Village for real estate marketing purposes maybe. And from what I know, Rolando wants to save the world from trash, I think. The following is the email he sent for his event. Have a great art and recycle day.

Good News,

The first monthly meeting of TRASH WORSHIP SOCIETY is set for the first sunday of december. December 2nd. Save this date. An update will follow time and place and directions details.

With the coming of 2008, we plan to meet on the first sunday of every month.

Trash Worship was spawned in the year 2000. The approach to waste is spirited with the aim to elevate trash and trash pickers to a position of respect in society.

Matter, in this case WASTED MATTER becomes one with the human spirit allowing us to be redeemed as a wholesome unit again.

In the first gathering of september 2000, ANUKI, the protector of all insects revealed the third mystery, "TOKAGE" (STORAGE), to the attending Yanbukis.

A mythology about Trash has evolved in the past 7 years. A family of spirits, good vs. evil, angels vs. devils, much like established worships.

We have a PRAYER BOOK in continuos evolution with new TRASH SPIRITS and we have performed services, processions, ceremonies....e.g., THE MISSA PLASTIKON, TAERENWARE, THREE TRASH TREES HOLY DAY, etc...

For more on Trash Worship you can visit Trash Worship

This is a low tech non commercial site. It is based on Open Source and Copy Left Since in Trash we Trust and Waste is openly available to all of society

waste zero seven aka rolando

And Then There Is Brazil And Turkey

And being that that Google page rank update has long sent me in search of a fifth full time job, I find myself blaghing about headline news, news and more news. And it seems as if when one reads the headline news that one would sometimes think that the world is going to hell in a hand basket. Not only is there Occupy Turkey and Occupy Gezi, there is now Occupy Brazil, where the biggest protests in 20 years sweep Brazil. And even Occupy Bulgaria. A nation of unrest, so much that I am starting to wonder if that 2012 a time for change Mayan calendar thing is a year off track. And those photos that find themselves posted above, one of them with The Standing Man in Turkey, well they speak for themselves. Keep on standing at Taksim Square. And what else is there that I can say about these protests and world revolutions that has not already been said in headline news and current events time. And what do Bosnia, Bulgaria, and Brazil have in common? And it is a Global Revolution LIVE. Occupy Wall Street Worldwide. And what does this have to do with a No Police State.

Occupy Street Art

Okay, so in all blogger honesty, this blagh post doesn't exactly have anything to do with Occupy with Art. It's just that I find myself with that bloggers block again in my attempt to maintain content for this blog and my other blog whenever web 2.0 social media user generated content possible. And that photo of that Brooklyn Street Art with those artists from Brooklyn that finds itself posted above has some really cool graffiti colors in it. And is that one of those Instagram photos that seems to be transforming everyone's photos these days? And so in all blogger honesty again, between that mortgage meltdown that still seems to be melting down, that economic recession and impending depression and that Google page rank update, it seems as if I have been finding myself in search of a fifth full time job a lot lately in my internetaholicness. Have a great Occupy Art day and more.
 

A Dish TV

And as I still find myself in search of a fifth full time job from that Google page rank update a while ago, I find myself encountering what could be that blah bloggers block again in an attempt to maintain content for this blog whenever possible. And how do those bazillion other bloggers out there in bloggerlandville make it all seem so simple to blah blog away, especially on more than one blagh. Is there an internet guru to answer this question. And so my random thought of this day seems to be those deep dish television metal circle things that are to be found on rooftops and buildings everywhere as far as the eye can see, at least throughout that city of New York. And as I was going my way on that New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority subway the other day, I looked out of one of those subway train windows and noticed what seemed to be a seemingly endless field and landmine of Dish Network satellite television antennas passing by, pointing toward the sun, or that big satellite antenna in the sky for some sort of reception signal to watch cable television maybe. And what's that all about. Do those antennas and every other kind of satellite antenna device give off invisible radiation waves of some sort affecting the course of humanity. Does Wikipedia, that internet bible dictionary or some scientist have one of those how to disturb the magnetic poles of the universe study or entry for this recent phenomenon of watching televison here on planet earth. And then what about electricity and electromagnetic waves in general, radiation and electro magnetic signals from televisions, radios, cell phones, microwaves, the blue light from this computer I find myself blah blogging away on, the blue light from that television and so on and so on and so one. Do these invisible waves have some sort environmental global effect on planet earth, humanity and the universe. And so back to those Dish tv's again, what about the bees, are those bees still dying? Last I heard, those bees were suffering from something called colony collapse disorder and were abandoning their hives because they can't find their way to navigate back home, something being about cell phones and maybe even those dish tv's and a host of other satellite antennas could be blocking their antennas to navigate around, as the bees can see those electromagnetic waves and human beings can't see them, or something like that. And how are those bees doing? And I heard it said that Albert Einstein once said , " If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left". As those honeybees pollinate the food chain and are responsible for food supply and life or something like that. And how is this prophetic doomsday scenario doing during these days and times. How are the honey bees doing and what would those beekeepers have to say about this? And so I thought to myself, if man were given the choice between the I want my Dish MTV or the bees and humanity disappearing scenario, which one would he choose? And in other thoughts, how is that 2012 Mayan calendar reversal of the magnetic poles theory doing, is it 2012 on track. Have a great Dish TV day.

Kids Again

The only thing constant is change and some stories do not end as you expect. You take a deep breath, you jump and you hope that there is water in the bottom of the pool when you land. And a host of other blaghing thoughts and philosophies on this blogging day. And so as that Google page rank update still wants to send me in search of a fifth full time job when that internet get rich quick thing does not get rich quick, I find myself going through this blog in search of another one of those recycle this blog posts to post on this blog in an attempt to maintain content for this blog and my other blog whenever blaghers block possible. And in other blogging thoughts, boy is there weird wacky extreme weather on planet earth these days and times. And that's a whole another climate change global warming blog post....

Kids

Hey Bloggers, or at least whoever may be reading this blog post. And I am not exactly sure how I came across this one in my internet travels in internetland, though it seems to be from that publication WIRED, and I sure seem to find it sitting in my email inbox as if it could be waiting for me to post it on this blog or something. And the following is one of those postings I find myself posting that I thought was interesting to repost, and besides, hey it's less writing sometimes... Have a great 100 things your kids may never know about day.

Audio-Visual Entertainment

1. Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something.
2. Super-8 movies and cine film of all kinds.
3. Playing music on an audio tape using a personal stereo. See what happens when you give a Walkman to todays teenager.
4. The number of TV channels being a single digit. I remember it being a massive event when Britain got its fourth channel.
5. Standard-definition, CRT TVs filling up half your living room.
6. Rotary dial televisions with no remote control. You know, the ones where the kids were the remote control.
7. High-speed dubbing.
8. 8-track cartridges.
9. Vinyl records. Even today’s DJs are going laptop or CD.
10. Betamax tapes.
11. MiniDisc.
12. Laserdisc: the LP of DVD.
13. Scanning the radio dial and hearing static between stations. (Digital tuners + HD radio bork this concept.)
14. Shortwave radio.
15. 3-D movies meaning red-and-green glasses.
16. Watching TV when the networks say you should. Tivo and Sky+ are slowing killing this one.
17. That there was a time before ‘reality TV.'

Computers and Videogaming
18. Wires. OK, so they’re not gone yet, but it won’t be long
19. The scream of a modem connecting.
20. The buzz of a dot-matrix printer
21. 5- and 3-inch floppies, Zip Discs and countless other forms of data storage.
22. Using jumpers to set IRQs.
23. DOS.
24. Terminals accessing the mainframe.
25. Screens being just green (or orange) on black.
26. Tweaking the volume setting on your tape deck to get a computer game to load, and waiting ages for it to actually do it.
27. Daisy chaining your SCSI devices and making sure they’ve all got a different ID.
28. Counting in kilobytes.
29. Wondering if you can afford to buy a RAM upgrade.
30. Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it’ll load this time.
31. Turning a PlayStation on its end to try and get a game to load.
32. Joysticks.
33. Having to delete something to make room on your hard drive.
34. Booting your computer off of a floppy disk.
35. Recording a song in a studio.

The Internet
36. NCSA Mosaic.
37. Finding out information from an encyclopedia.
38. Using a road atlas to get from A to B.
39. Doing bank business only when the bank is open.
40. Shopping only during the day, Monday to Saturday.
41. Phone books and Yellow Pages.
42. Newspapers and magazines made from dead trees.
43. Actually being able to get a domain name consisting of real words.
44. Filling out an order form by hand, putting it in an envelope and posting it.
45. Not knowing exactly what all of your friends are doing and thinking at every moment.
46. Carrying on a correspondence with real letters, especially the handwritten kind.
47. Archie searches.
48. Gopher searches.
49. Concatenating and UUDecoding binaries from Usenet.
50. Privacy.
51. The fact that words generally don’t have num8er5 in them.
52. Correct spelling of phrases, rather than TLAs.
53. Waiting several minutes (or even hours!) to download something.
54. The time before botnets/security vulnerabilities due to always-on and always-connected PCs
55. The time before PC networks.
56. When Spam was just a meat product — or even a Monty Python sketch.

Gadgets
57. Typewriters.
58. Putting film in your camera: 35mm may have some life still, but what about APS or disk?
59. Sending that film away to be processed.
60. Having physical prints of photographs come back to you.
61. CB radios.
62. Getting lost. With GPS coming to more and more phones, your location is only a click away.
63. Rotary-dial telephones.
64. Answering machines.
65. Using a stick to point at information on a wallchart
66. Pay phones.
67. Phones with actual bells in them.
68. Fax machines.
69. Vacuum cleaners with bags in them.

Everything Else
70. Taking turns picking a radio station, or selecting a tape, for everyone to listen to during a long drive.
71. Remembering someone’s phone number.
72. Not knowing who was calling you on the phone.
73. Actually going down to a Blockbuster store to rent a movie.
74. Toys actually being suitable for the under-3s.
75. LEGO just being square blocks of various sizes, with the odd wheel, window or door.
76. Waiting for the television-network premiere to watch a movie after its run at the theater.
77. Relying on the 5-minute sport segment on the nightly news for baseball highlights.
78. Neat handwriting.
79. The days before the nanny state.
80. Starbuck being a man.
81. Han shoots first.
82. “Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.” But they’ve already seen episode III, so it’s no big surprise.
83. Kentucky Fried Chicken, as opposed to KFC.
84. Trig tables and log tables.
85. “Don’t know what a slide rule is for …”
86. Finding books in a card catalog at the library.
87. Swimming pools with diving boards.
88. Hershey bars in silver wrappers.
89. Sliding the paper outer wrapper off a Kit-Kat, placing it on the palm of your hand and clapping to make it bang loudly. Then sliding your finger down the silver foil of break off the first finger
90. A Marathon bar (what a Snickers used to be called in Britain).
91. Having to manually unlock a car door.
92. Writing a check.
93. Looking out the window during a long drive.
94. Roller skates, as opposed to blades.
95. Cash.
96. Libraries as a place to get books rather than a place to use the internet.
97. Spending your entire allowance at the arcade in the mall.
98. Omni Magazine
99. A physical dictionary — either for spelling or definitions.
100. When a ‘geek’ and a ‘nerd’ were one and the same.

My thanks go out to all of my fellow GeekDads for their contributions to this list.

The Headline News Again

Hey again bloggers or whoever could be reading this blog. And on this day finds itself as Occupy Wall Street Day 461.  And Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Together, those global revolution of a movements, are still moving fast. And it also finds itself a day before that Mayan Calendar End Of The World Countdown thing, and a few days after that unfortunate Connecticut School Shooting that has since ignited the issue of gun control and gun violence and has spawned online groups such as Occupy The NRA. And so I find myself attempting to find something to blog about on this day in an attempt to maintain content for this blog and my other blog whenever blaghers block possible and also when that Google page rank update wants to send me in search of a fifth full time job. And so I find myself pulling out this vanilla folder stuffed with torn out newspaper clippings of headlines from months and I think even years ago that I once thought that I would blog about on this blog that never happened. And so I attempt to I guess mini blog those headline news clippings without commentary as if to rewind headline news time with headlines that read something like as follows in an attempt to just put this stack of news clippings away again:

1.  College students targeted in online music piracy crackdown.
2.  Take Out the Plastic and Kill it.
3.  National Guard will help protect PATH. hugh????
4.  Workers blast city's Big Brother scheme....Something about an electronic payroll system.
5.  1 in 100 adults behind bars in U.S. prison population.
6.  Outsider Art Fair.
7.  E-waste wave heads for city....Something about televisions switching from analog to digital.
8.  Back to school.  Still coping, many Virginia Tech students return to campus.
9.  A Warning to the World.  Frogs in Danger.
10.  Van kills 2 kids in Chinatown.....  Can someone change the laws in New York City to where pedestrians and cyclists are not treated as disposable roadkill when an automobile kills them and drivers are not penalized or even given a parking ticket.
11.  Gov urges gun ban for violent mental patients.....How about urging a gun ban for every human being on planet earth.
12.  Bored? Tired of going to the same old places.  Try This! Rent a .22 Caliber Rifle...Safety Lessons Included. Such and such Rifle and Pistol Range located in New York City with an ad in a local New York City newspaper.... hugh??? can someone please banish all of these gun stores located in North America. 
13.  flavor of the week. Slim to None. Such and such gets a divorce and a veggie burger-all for less than $40.
14.  Big Bang re-created.
15.  Post-election Iran divided.
16.  Clinton Hill.  Fight for convent's site.
17.  Columbia debates old ROTC ban.....ROTC sucks, to be trained for war in schools.
18.  Police give out stop and frisk cards....Can someone do away with this stop and harass thing.
19.  Reality Bikes.  The masses take it to the streets for the Fourth Annual Memorial Ride and Walk.
20.  Cameras on street curb crime, NYPD says. 
21.  Injustice Behind Bars....Something about USA PATRIOT ACT and ICE.
22.  WHO:  Dangerous change is coming....Something about poverty, disease and climate change.
23.  FDA allows irradiation of some produce. 
24.  The greenest choice you'll ever make....Something about hybrid cars and light bulbs.
25.  City told to stop digging up graves in park rehab.
26.  The Bag Lady of Billburg:  Eighty percent of the bottles clogging our streets are for water.  Stop drinking bottled water.
27.  Whiting Out the Ads, but at What Cost?  The developer of Adblock Plus estimates that it has about 2.5 million users.
28.  Newton Creek Oil Spill, Greenpoint....Not sure for what reason that one is scribbled on some piece of paper.
29.  Something about kids who are not vaccinated can not go to school.
30.  Some flyer with the website www.nosubwaysearches.org on it.
31.  For Love of Water...Something about the whole idea of paying for water.
32.  A Month Without Shopping.  Or How I Learned to Start Worrying and Hate Credit Cards.
33.  Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself?  Of Bears, Bees and Deadly Mosquitoes.
34.  Planes, Trains or Automobiles?  Transportation Alternatives in the Face of Peak Oil.
35.  The Planet is Saved!  Well, Not Really.  5 Things We Learned This Year....And 5 More for '08.
36.  Reconditioning.  Air conditioning contributes to global warming through both energy consumption and the inevitable release of refrigerants.
37.  A Lifetime of Misery. Animal Circuses:  Are they really worth it? The Greatest Show on Earth?  Think again.... the circus you are supporting severely abuses their animals.  Such and such a circus is hell on earth for the animals.
38.  For what reason are all of those ads in the back of weekly newspapers for pharmaceutical companies?  Psychiatry Kills.
39.   For what reason does Penn Station and Port Authority Bus Terminal seem like a war zone with polizei in camouflage with dogs and machine guns as if awaiting world war four and one is supposed to pretend that they cannot get killed by some guy standing next to them with a machine gun. Guns are the worst invention ever.  If only guns could be banished from every human being on planet earth.
 

A HONK Festival 2016

And I guess it's that time of year again when that annual HONK! Fest rolls around, that festival of activist street bands that finds seemingly a ton or more activist street bands performing in Somerville, Massachusetts every year around this time of year for a weekend event. And I guess it's also been a while since I have been to one of those HONK Festivals.  And since this blagh has seemingly become about events, events and more events for when that google page rank update does not get get rich internet quick, I find myself blaghing about yet another event.  And then there's HONK NYC, which I guess you could call the New York City version of HONK! Fest, as HONK NYC has seemingly a million or more bands performing around that same weekend thereafter as HONK! Fest also, as there are so many Facebook event invites for bands performing at so many places in the New York City area that it is hard to keep track of them all, I think, such as HONK NYC! at World Maker Faire 2016, HONK! Barbès with Slavic Soul Party & The Nevermind Orchestra!,  HONK NYC! at Snug Harbor with SI Museum & SI Childrens Museum, HONK! for Staten Island Art Parade and Concert!, HONK! Dance Party with Frank London & Marching Cobras, HONK NJ! at WFMU's Monty Hall, HONK Rubulad! Brass-Tastic Blowout, HONK NYC! Percussion Workshop with Scott Kettner of Maracatu NY, HONK for More Gardens! Procession, Workshop & Performance and HONK Harlem! is Tomorrow! Whoot!, which is actually today as I type this blagh post.  And so it was that Underground Horns band at that HONK NJ! at WFMU's Monty Hall event that I found myself at for some reason or another as part of that Honk NYC event, as in some of those photos and videos that find themselves posted above. And that description for that Monty Hall Facebook event invite reads something like as follows:

HONK NYC and WFMU's Transpacific Sound Paradise w/ Rob Weisbergbring international brass band mayhem to NJ!

Get there EARLY for a special appearance by the Merasi Master Musicians of Rajasthan, India at 7:30! Followed by the sights and sounds of Brooklyn's Funkrust Brass Band; New York's first and foremost Balkan brass powerhouse Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band; the uproarious Le Pompier Poney Club of France; and the transglobal adventures ofunderground horns!

Merasi: http://www.folkartrajasthan.org/
Funkrust: http://www.funkrust.com/
Zlatne Uste Brass Band: http://www.zlatneuste.org/
Le Pompier Poney Club: http://www.lepompierponeyclub.com/
Underground Horns: http://www.undergroundhorns.com/

This concert will be recorded by the fine folks at WFMU Studio. Check out last year's show: https://vimeo.com/143038847

Don't miss this over-the-top international activist brass band performance spectacle in JERSEY CITY. Marching band music like you've never imagined, plus off-kilter dance routines, twisted baton-twirling, absurdist acrobatics, hysterical histrionics, and high school marching formations from an alternate universe!

And HONK! Fest and HONK NYC Rock.  Have a great music day and more.