Six Neat Things

I just wrote a post about pick up trucks and cotton over on Native North Carolinian. A truck bedlineris a neat thing for a farmer because it helps protect the farmer’s investment in his trucks. My post is neat because it includes a couple of awesome pictures, and rather than repeat myself, I am just going to send you there to read it. I’m sneaky that way. You love me anyway, right? Speaking of bedliners, they aren’t just for farmers. They are great for anyone who hauls stuff in their truck, or anyone whose truck gets wet or…anyone with a truck who wants to keep the bed looking nice.

Amazing. Incredible. Beautiful. Stunning. Captivating. Compelling. All of these words apply to this page of photographs. Go check out Big Cats, and I am sure you will agree. Then check out the rest of the site, there is plenty to see!

I know several of you like to run surveys on your blogs (yes, I read your blogs), and thought you might like this online survey software. I admit that I haven’t spent time playing with it, but there’s a 30 day free trial, and you can copy and paste to it directly from Word. They also have some sample surveys you can use, or you can use a wizard to build yours from scratch. You can even add logos and images, which makes it great fro bloggers. Have fun!

If you like true crime type stuff, here’s a neat site for you. The Los Angeles Criminal Attorney Blog | California Criminal Defense Lawyers Forum talks about current criminal cases (read that Phil Specter), defense strategies and other items of interest in California. This post on the medical marijuana issue is particularly good, and details some of the issues faced there by folks who are in compliance with California law, but in violation of federal law.

FTR, this blogger considers that marijuana legislation is best left to the individual state, as it is not mentioned in the Constitution.

that would be from me, to you. I’ve been hard pressed for time lately, and it’s been showing up in the writing I do for this blog. I apologize for that, and I’ll try to do better. Just because I accept Blog Advertising doesn’t mean I can be sloppy. In fact, it should mean I work harder to make this blog as neat as it can possibly be. After all, if I’d wanted it to be about boring things, I could have named it that.

Here’s a neat blog to feed the hedonist in you. Luxist is all about the big, the expensive, the incredibly chic. This is one fun blog, yo! Check out this post on the Green Giant, the coconut sized diamond found earlier this year in South Africa. I wonder how many diamond rings they’ll get from just the “scrap” off of that when they clean it up?

You know what would be really neat? Getting more memory for my laptop. I don’t care if it’s Dell Memory or some other brand. All I care about is that it is DDR2 in a 2gig stick, and I want 2 of them. I’m tired of this computer slowing to a crawl when I want to multi-task. It’s got the processing power and I know it;s just a lack of memory that’s holding me back.

If you’d like to make a bit of cash to advertise on blogs, check out Smorty. They pay a flat rate of six bucks per post, but the work is pretty easy. After all, you have a blog because you like to talk about things, so why not get paid to blog about your opinions? Posts you write for Smorty need to be between 150 and 300 words. Signing up isn’t difficult and you may have multiple blogs with them. You get paid a couple of weeks or so after you post. Smorty doesn’t have the volume of some of the other paid blogging companies, but what they do have is interesting to write about. And I can’t think of anything much neater than getting paid to run my mouth. Unless it’s getting paid to eat cake and ice cream, and if I find anyplace that does that, l will definitely let you know!

This neat thing is for bloggers. You probably realize that if you don’t update for a while, your readers will quit coming by. And yet, life happens, and sometimes you need to get away for awhile, take a vacation, or whatever. I’m not talking about a day or two, but a longer time period. That’s where autopublish comes in. Just write your post like you normally would, and change the time stamp to reflect when you want the post to appear on your blog. Viola, there it is, and there you are–somewhere else. Your readers get fresh content, so they keep coming back, but you get a break. It’s like anti-funeral insurance for your blog!

Here is a website for the blogger in you. Quiz Meme is full of those fun online quizzes that we all enjoy. If you’ve ever wondered what flavor of pie you are or what breed of dog you could be, you can find out here. Go have some fun, and let me know about the pie. My favorite is blueberry. No need to report back on the dog breed, I’m allergic to all of them.

I know I use to post to this blog much more frequently, and I’m well aware that six in no longer a number that bears any relation at all to this site.There’s a reason. I started this blog to hold the neat sites I found that didn’t find on my other blogs. But, then I got some other blogs, and while I still have sites in draft, I am finding that many of them fit on other blogs, or are no longer existent, or, or, or. I am wading through them, and whittling them down, and that’s why I haven’t been posting so much here. I will get back in to the swing of this. I promise. But you can help me. Send me a cool juggling site, cause that’s really what I feel like I’m doing just about now.

The premise behind One sentence seems impossible at first glance: entire stories, told in only one sentence. But I have been reading this site since October of 2006, and I’m telling you that it works, and it works in an incredibly powerful way. I never thought lives could be condensed so fully in such a small space, but you will find great joy and great pain here, as well as comments about the mundane. Just go read it and see if you don’t agree.