How do you find shade in front of the Riverside County Courthouse in California? The tiny palm trees planted in a grid in front of the building only provide four to eight square feet of shade. Continue reading 'No Shade at the County Courthouse'
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There was a whole truck full of white SUVs with “Border Patrol” painted on in green letters. I wonder why they chose green as their color?
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The multi-level marketing must be paying off for this driver. I saw this black Cadillac Escalade on the road yesterday. The picture is no good, but the back window of the vehicle is sporting a very large MonaVie logo. There was also a phone number. The Escalade is a bit of an ostentatious advertisement, I think, but a convincing one. If I didn’t know better, I’d be tempted by the lure of the MonaVie “business” plan. The truth is, if that Escalade was bought with the proceeds from the person’s MonaVie income, then he or she must be at least an “Emerald Executive” or “Diamond Executive” distributor. The company’s pretty open about the earning potential for its distributors. It even publishes an income disclosure statement. The Executive level of distribution is reached by only a fraction of one percent of MonaVie’s distributors. Unfortunately, ninety-two percent of MonaVie’s distributors are going to make less than five grand a year—and much of that will go to pay for their overhead. This is the nature of every pyramid scheme. Remember, it’s good juice, but bad business.
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The image above is an original digital artwork by Vivian Joy Smith, digital chalk on digital canvas, 2009. It’s also my newest desktop wallpaper.
Joy is impressively savvy with electronics for a four-year-old. She can send her name as a text message on a cell phone. She can turn on the television, change the channels, and “moot/unmoot” the volume. Joy operates the zoom function on a digital camera as best as her little hands will allow her. She even navigates around Windows Vista faster than our mother. Continue reading 'It’s Artrageous!'
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My sister was born with a bilateral complete cleft lip and palette, as well as the very apparent lack of relative pitch. We’re talking about a complete inability to distinguish between musical notes. This short video of her singing “Jesus Loves Me” is a little old, back from our family’s ill-fated trip to Big Bear in December. I’ve only just rediscovered this video, but she sounds the same now. Time has not increased to her talent. She speaks a little better, and knows more of the words, but the tune may have actually gotten worse.
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The video above shows Wordpress 2.7.1 with the Apture 1.3 plugin. I’m editing a post with Firefox 3.5b4. The video shows me open a new blog post, write a title and some paragraph text, select some text, and then click the Apture button to insert some associated content. I expected to see the page grey and an Apture modal window pop-up. Instead, the page greys, a new window opens that loads the Apture log-in page before closing abruptly, and then nothing happens. The page sits there, greyed out and unresponsive. Clicking anywhere on the page returns it to its regular editing state. Firefox users may also notice that is impossible to finish the installation of the Apture plugin past the step which instructs you to visit a post editing page. The installation modal window hangs at that step as well. If this is happening to you also, there is a solution. I had finished the installation and made several blog posts with Safari, but not being able to use Firefox for editing my blog was unacceptable. Continue reading 'Problem With the Apture Plugin for Wordpress Not Displaying in Firefox'
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Since I started drinking and selling MonaVie’s premier blend of Açai berries and 18 other body-beneficial superfruits, I’ve made 1 million dollars, lost 150 pounds, and spontaneously developed the genetic capacity for limb regeneration! The enriching Açai berries in MonaVie coat my skin with a perpetual fake tan! It’s like we’re unstoppable—as long as those FDA investigations don’t turn anything up.
I really get a kick out of watching this video. Dallin Larsen actually uses the word “synergy”. That “person-to-person approach” is actually a multilevel marketing scam. “Relationship marketing” is such a clever way to phrase that. Even Oprah is turning her back on Açai. Holly Roush reminds us that “the government tells us that we need to five to seven servings of fruit”, but scientists and the government also tells us that the Açai berry has a lower antioxidant potency than grapes. You’d be better off drinking red wine. That’s more fun anyway.
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