Yet Another Writer With A Blog

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It was a great win tonight when the New Orleans Saints won the Superbowl. Right? What a great game.

And now a little video about Demand Studios:

It is true. Demand Studios has issues. No consistency with their editorial team, not a lot of help from the ‘fan kids’ in the forums there. It’d be better if DS and the people admitted that there were problems. Being that there are many, many people working there, there’s going to be problems. Hiding their head in the sands is lame. They should step up and admit to the issues and try to work on solving it.

They’re banning talk of this video on their forums, I’m hearing. That’s really sad to know that they’ll basically prohibit people’s ideals and comments. It’s no wonder people feel the need to express their frustration with the company and the people who brown nose the moderators, editors and bosses.

If you like the company, if you enjoy the work, that’s cool. Nothing wrong with that. Can’t someone who enjoys the work still have ideas for improvement or wish for better?

If they feel the need to limit the freedom of speech in their forums, I’m glad I’m not a participant of those forums.

Check this out. I love chocolate chip muffins. Love them. I used to eat them a lot.
I found a pouch at the grocery store yesterday for Betty Crocker chocolate chip muffins where you just add water.

The pouches looked to be the best. You just add water, pop them into the oven and presto. Muffins.
Not to mention only 130 calories per muffin. I can eat that with some fruit in the morning and it’s prefect for breakfast.

No more guilt for wanting to eat a chocolate muffin for breakfast. I found these pouches at Walmart for about $1.00 each.

I compared them with other chocolate muffins on the shelf, most came out to around 200 calories each. So these are much better if you want fruit or cereal along with your muffin.

There was also a way to make cookies out of these muffins, which will probably be lower calorie, too.

How’s that for a non-diet food that’s still low in calories? I’m always looking for things like that, ways to eat fewer calories but not give up my favorite foods.

By the way, if you’re a coupon mongrel. (I need to work on the coupon thing. ) Betty Crocker usually has plenty of coupons on their website.

This is a supplement to the Samsung Exclaim Personal Ringtone article I wrote. There is more information at the article about how to do this, so go there to read and if you need the video, that is now provided. Thanks for watching and let me know if you have any questions.

This is how to make video ringtones, which is how you make ringtones for the Exclaim. This should also work for the Samsung Rant, as it should have the same software that is provided by Sprint.

Remember that you are trying to upload the video ringtone that you make to your memory card. That’s the one you want to do. You may need a memory card reader to hook up to your computer in order to do this right.

I had one of those embarrasing movie moments yesterday.

I saw this guy walking his dog yesterday. My string of thoughts were the following.

He’s kind of cute.

Wow, actually, he looks like Chris Trapper.

How is he walking three dogs at once?

He really does look like Chris Trapper.

How’d he get his hair to do that?

I really shouldn’t be staring at him.

Really, how is he handling three dogs at a time?

He’s going to notice me staring, I’ll just pretend I’m looking at the dogs.

But by the heavens, he looks like Chris Trapper.

So at that point I’m just staring. Probably really creepily too as my mouth was part open and like I was totally just bug eyeing him.

So he says hello.

And I croak, “Hi–”… Yes, I never get to the “I” because I’ve already choked on it.

Total movie moment. Yeah. I’m so embarrased. I walked on and then went through all the flutterings of embarrasment. I’m sort of shy about walking that way again. That was so funny though.

Honestly, why would you even want to pay an extra $50 or more a month just for television? If you have high speed Internet access, everything you need is online. Plus more! And I can pause and fastforward and rewind and all that fancy stuff that TiVo owners can do, too.

1. YouTube – Many of the video makers at YouTube are very talented and are just as entertaining as a lot of shows online.
2. The Guild/Dr. Horrible – You can get online for free. Nuff said.
3. Hulu – Free TV shows, nice quality, watch at any time, and limited commercials.
4. Netflix – They are now getting many TV shows and movies hosted on their service online, so you can watch instantly. No commercials, and anything they don’t happen to have online right now they will send you the DVD for.
5 – 10. Every other video website on the Internet. Srsly. There’s a ton. And you couldn’t go through all of them in a life time I bet. More are added every day.

The Guild

If you get through all of those, and you still have free time… get out of the house, dude/babe.

+5 to Sexterity!

Samsung made it pretty difficult to get a ringtone on the Exclaim and Rant by Sprint. I’ve written a couple of articles about the two that I’d like to share.

The first one is on the Personal Ringtone on the Samsung Exlaim.

The second one is How to Get a Personal Ringtone on the Samsung Rant.

Let me know what you think of the two articles. I have to say, I had a time trying to figure this out. It took me nearly an hour of trying to figure out what worked.

I also found out that if I downloaded my favorite YouTube video, cut it into a 20 second edited piece, and format it correctly using the instructions, I could actually have mini clips of YouTube videos as ringtones. Fantastic, isn’t it? I made a handful from some on my favorites list and some of my favorite moments from YouTube channels I subscribed to.

So if you are a fan of Nalts or sxephil or any of those guys, you can take a piece of them with you.

I might do the opening to Firefly sometime as a nice ringtone.

I can’t wait until I have more ringtones to share with people. I might make a few of my favorites and upload them to this blog for others to use.

I’m bouncing around excited. And I’m tired so watch out today.

First, I think I’m going to give up trying to code the front pages and trying to make CSS code. I get caught up in coding and things like that, I never progress forward. So the front page is going to be links to this blog, another blog  just for a ‘toon I’m making… basically a link page.

The Cajun showed me this: Awesome TEDTalks in a spreadsheet.

I want to do a few reviews sometime. One for a type of paint that makes a wall into a dry erase board. I’m getting a sample soon so that should be cool.

PLUS: Want to talk about the new TV series that I watch online. Merlin, Castle, the new episodes of The Office and House. Yay.

So lots to do. Going to get going so I can get work done and hopefully get the new templates in so I can get back to the fun part. Actually producing content.

My Samsung Exlaim is actually a pain about putting on ringtones. A friend shared this. I thought it was funny.

I’ll be writing an article and making a video on how to put your own ringtones on Samsung Exclaim, soon.

It has been a really rough year as far as developing content, building websites, and uprooting myself from hourly and working hard jobs, to transition to something more fun, more tech, more profitable.

So right I have been taking it easy. Right now though, I have weekends and a few hours throughout the day that are free. I’m going to be writing down plans and creating  just four websites.

One is this one, which is probably just going to be a general blog, a place to store art and news and links back to the other sites.
Another one is going to be a fun game/puzzle website for girls, which I already have partially up, I just need to get it really going.

I’ve got a health website I have in mind that I want to do.

I also have a tech website in mind.

Four websites, plus articles for passive income and building forums on a couple of those websites I think. Maybe just one. I’m not sure yet. I’m looking to see how it goes.

It will be slow, but I’m hoping to get building on it this weekend.

I’m going to have to move the button on my browser so I’ll remember to post blogs.

I had to go get a new cell phone last week. Now I’ve been slow to the cell phone game, I had only gotten a cell phone last year, which my sister bought for me.

I had the Palm Centreo, but I had dropped it and broke the base where it plugs in, so it was my fault. The other problems I had were that the phone buttons, the keyboard, were so tiny I was typing with my fingernails. My fingernails were cutting into the soft plastic of the buttons. Not to mention the battery life was terrible. Even with Internet not draining the battery, it wouldn’t last a whole 24 hours without a charge.

So I ended up going out to Sprint and bought a Samsung Exclaim. I got the blue one, for some reason the raspberry color wasn’t as appealing. I tend to go for pink colors but the lack of color options was kind of disappointing. I wanted the full keyboard, and I like that I can hide it. It is a bit bulky compared to other slider type phones, but I kind of like that it is.

I had a bit of trouble when I first got it with ‘butt dialing’, something which I hadn’t experience with my Centreo.

There was something to be said about less applications than the Palm unit had. However, I found I wasn’t using all the applications that Palm offered, as an average user. Most of my use came from web browsing, texting, and IM usage. The IM services, as far as I can tell, I haven’t tried on the Exlaim yet, but I’ll see if I can get that going.

I would love to hear from users who have used Exclaim, perhaps someone who has used it for a longer period of time. What do you think of it?