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Social Media: Cleveraging

Turning other companies social media initiatives in your favor.
Recently to promote Transformers 3, a facebook based game was launched where people play Autobots or Decepticons and try to take over the web for their side. The facebook app includes a top 20 battle sites listing. When I saw this I immediately thought of how we could leverage this listing to get my company’s site featured. So I’ve been playing the game a lot.
Speedshape.com is currently the only top 20 site held by decepticons and is ranked in the top 10, alongside google, yahoo, facebook and the app site itself. Our site has had a dramatic increase in traffic.

So are they going to pages? Yes, people are going to more than one page, which may be helped by Speedshape having done work for Transformers and Chevrolet in the past, but still. Someone else paid for this promotion. I am simply wasting some time with it and generating traffic to my site.

Cleveraging. Enjoy your new gorilla social media experience.


Fear

so yeah., now we need to stop a lot of others.
bring it.
easy.
im stopping here easy.
just fix the shit
please.


2010 Tshirt 021

AT-AT. Get it? Seriously people, its not that clever. But it is Star Wars.

Wonder whats jacked up with my shoulders, the left one is always higher. Probably should get that checked out.


2010 Tshirt 003

Tshirt 003.
“Alien Workshop”
Skate t. This shirt got me to first in line at the Bubba Gump Shimpshop in Montery Bay site because the line guy was a skater. :)

Alien Workshop


Wonder Woman

I have to chime in.
Thankfully, Wonder Woman has been getting a ton of press due to the recent costume change.
This is a good thing. Anything that makes people buy more issues of Wonder Woman I am for.
The team on the book is incredibly talented. J. Michael Straczynski has proven to be a well respected writer that can hopefully handle the character he’s been given to write. The artist, Don Kramer, I know will make Diana look better than she has in decades. Don is brilliant.
Before I digress into rants, let me remind you of the HORRORS that John Byrne subjected our heroine to. Apparently everyone has forgotten the horrid Deadato black outfit times, and for a good reason; it took the character in the wrong direction.

While I personally don’t care for the new look, I do have hope and faith in the team on the book to do the right thing.

A ‘street tough’ Diana has been done and is an unnecessary direction for the character, but I’m willing to give these guys a chance. At the end of the issue, I know I will have enjoyed the art.

I’d post here what I think they should do with her, but I still harbor the hopes of helping this character. Suppose I should gather up the last 20 years of notes and start. That being said, as a writer, ‘relaunching’ Wonder Woman, I could only hope and pray to have such an incredible artist as Don Kramer to help me.

It’s all about the Details
When you tackle an iconic character as Diana, the key is in the details. You can’t just abandon history, and try to put your spin on it. Even temporary. It’s crucial to respect the history of this wonder. She is older than anyone reading her. And the fans that stick through are aware of it all. Do we need new fans? Of course, and seeing a bit on the ABC news and in the New York Times probably makes DC think they succeeded. And they did.

But they have disrespected the character and the fans. Diana has a well established history. Fight for peace. Warrior for truth. Champion of justice. Wonder Woman was established on a core of values that people seem to have forgotten, especially those writing her. Now is the best time ever to bring a warrior of peace to the forefront. Putting her in another dumb jacket and black tights is not the way. It got media, sure. But its not the right way.

Come on DC. Respect Wonder Woman as much as her fans do. That’s all we ask.


Right?

Whats better? Someone who makes their life from reporting on superheroes and life; or someone that makes superheroes their life?
One is way harder. You can write. You can draw. You can ink. You can color. Easy.
You can put this heroes skin on every day? Crazy.

Seriously. Crazy.
But a crazy i respect.
wonder woman. find me girl. we have some time.


more

im kinda having fun that no thumb nails are posted. i dont need an image for my thoughts. they have some, but it is not necessary. Guitars, Drums, Words. That will transport me as much, if not further than pictures. Now would be a good time to make my own; pictures, sounds.
The hour is getting late.
Then what? Just acceptance of what they say? No more ideas of you. No more ideas of me.
It’s not too late. I know some of you are still awake. I know you are.
Awake.
Awake.
Awake.
Listen to me now. WE MUST CHANGE WHERE WE ARE. NOT WHO, BUT WHERE. THIS WHERE IS WRONG. IT GOES ON WRONG UNLESS WE CHANGE IT.
We are in the wrong place unless we change this place.
My main idea is to change both. Firstly this place. Because it is wrong for many more besides us that won’t stand up and say it.
Time for change.


Goals

I want to write children’s stories about a squirrel that goes on adventures across the planet and teaches biological and sociological and philosophical well being to people.


Yourself

Never going to amount to anything.
My brother was never part of the deal.
Now we have to. Publicly. Time. Wasted. Waste. Done. Then what?


New iPhone is SEXY.

Apple, this almost makes up for the adobe crap. Almost.

http://gizmodo.com/5520164/this-is-apples-next-iphone


Hamman Attacked!


Bounded by wind

a flower trusts its seed to the wind
and the unknown
faith in the delivery of reproduction.
mankind fears
the ease of this
and reproduces our own destruction


iChing – Hidden Dragon – Do Not Act

“The main thing is not to expend one’s powers prematurely in an attempt to obtain by force something for which the time is not yet ripe”
Found this quote in my journal from 1996. Liked it enough to share again 14 years later.
An interesting side not, the very first true coin flip reading i did from the i Ching ended up with P’i – Standstill – which is now tattooed on my left arm.
From the journal entry sometime novemberish 1996:
“When ribbon grass is pulled up, the sod comes with it. Each according to his kind. Perseverance brings good fortune and success. Hiding from the public eye.”


Significance of 21 – How Awareness Changes Reality


Significance of 21 – How Awareness Changes Reality or “Why does everyone have a mustache when you do?”
I was asked about the significance of the number 21 in my life, due to today being International Squirrel Appreciation Day which happens to be the 21st. I had to think about it for a minute and traced the initial noticing of it after I was nicknamed TwoOne. Which made me think: Did the number 21 suddenly start occurring more around me, or is it that my awareness of these occurrences increased?
For the record here are the references to 21 that I was able to come up with:

  • TwoOne – nickname
  • The best issue of the original G.I.Joe comic is 21 – Snake Eyes silent interlude
  • Wonder Woman 21 is the source of the sun design in my tattoo
  • International Squirrel Appreciation Day is January 21st
  • The solstices occur on the 21sts
  • The 21 – Universe card in Tarot comes up more frequently than others for me

Currently that’s all I came up with, which is not a huge number by any means. So the real question is repeated – whats the importance of 21 in my life? From my list only the first and the last have unique meaning to me. The coincidence of Squirrel Day falling on the 21st is strange, but probably nothing more than that.
But it feels more to me, perception alters reality. I notice it more when it does occur, therefore I perceive it happens more frequently than other numbers.


Joshua Tree

Joshua Tree trip with Paul. Just found this amazing photo.

Joshua in Joshua Tree

Joshua in Joshua Tree


Mustachio!

Pay no attention to the man in front of the scroll. The great Oz has spoken!
josh_mustache


Incredibly weird karma: Daisy Bell

Why HAL sings daisy bell in 2001.

This correlation, coincidence, randomness nonrandom is slightly unsettling.

You’ll look sweet, upon a seat, of a bicycle built for to.

There are some things in my life now that are intrinsically tied to other things. This is one that was simply a song until now. Why did it have to be the first song sung by a computer? Why did I have to be so tied to computers for that to matter now?


Green Lantern Ch’p : Intergalactic Guardian Squirrel

Just watched Warner Bros/DC Green Lantern animated movie. And guess who should be in it? Good ole Ch’p, the Green Lantern of sector 1014.
Here are some images of him from the movie. As well as the Daffy Duck: Duck Dodgers cartoon that was on it.
chp11chp10chp09chp08chp07chp06chp05chp03chp02chp01

Here’s a link to an illustration I made of Ch’p a while back.


The Turning Point

This one is for you mom;
Once again i asked a question of the I Ching. Once again it gave me the same answer twice.
This time, both readings resulted in the 24th hexagram, Fú. The Turning Point..i_ching_24_fu
The best summary : “Turning back or returning. Reaching the point of no return and returning. Reformation and thus rejuvenation.”

“He will return and repeat his proper course. .. There will be advantage in whatever direction movement is made”

Its represented by the earth and thunder. I like it.

Link for Pí : Standstill
Link for Fú : Turning Point
12 and now 24. whats next, 21 and 42? oh.. wait……those have been here for a long time.


Jinx the Cat: then and now

Comparison of Jinx the cat when he arrived a few weeks ago and now.
Then:

Jinx the cat on arrival

Jinx the cat on arrival


Now:
Current Jinx

Current Jinx


Jinx the Cat

New friend for Cala and me today. Jinx the cat! Yay.
He hasn’t come out of his crate yet.
jinx_thecat


Great link for LHC

Started following @waybis on twitter, and he posted this link:

http://www.nibipedia.com/app.html?view=video&videoId=FG-r-oTrBMM&nib=Large_Hadron_Collider&playlist=37BA5B9D83F6D451

Good overview of the whole BS of gravitons.


Squirrel Feed

Yay squirrel stuff. Thanks Eliya!


I dont feel good

I don’t feel good today.