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MySpace Rant

March 29, 2007 By

No offense to anyone who is on MySpace (especially those on MY friends list!), but most of the people on there are not the sharpest tools in the shed. My intro clearly states that I do not collect friends and I will not just randomly add people just because they asked. I checked my email earlier today and saw that I had 2 friends requests. One was from Adam (172640993 if it’s still up), who is a 22 year old Leo. The other one was from Jonathan (172639018), a 23 year old Capricorn. Now get this – both profiles were exactly the same, right down to the friends lists (which included Jenna Jameson). What kind of idiot does this person think I am? I also got a friends request from a local crap band. Just because I live in Las Vegas and clearly don’t have the same taste in music as you do, which anyone would know if they looked at my friends list, doesn’t mean that I want to add you so that I can have some God-awful music blaring from my home page.

MySpace has its purpose, I suppose, but I just don’t understand why any intelligent, internet-savvy person would want to use it. The only reason I’m on it is to keep in touch with my nephew, and he never emails me anymore (because he’s 13 and 13 year old boys don’t email their aunts).

3/30/07 7:09am update – I just checked my email and “Donald” (173334809) who is 21 and a Cancer, just tried to add me. I sent a message to MySpace to report the abuse, gave them all 3 user numbers, and told them to do something about the bots. We’ll see if anything happens (yeah, right).

Filed Under: Grrr, On the Internet

Allergies Suck

March 29, 2007 By

Yes, my friends, it is that time of year. I thought I could avoid it, somehow, but no, nature had other plans. The winds that we’ve had this week have forced pollen spores into every crevice of my body, along with dust and other particulate matter that I’d rather not think about. I thought I’d be fine, but yesterday the pressure started. Just one side, but I sure was sneezing a lot. I’m still sneezing, my left sinus in my cheek is painful at best, and I can’t see straight. It doesn’t help that it hurts to wear my glasses right now. I’ve taken the allergy meds, and though they keep my nose from running a marathon (thus saving me money in tissues), it does nothing to help the pressure or my vision. Right now, the main pollen in the air is the mulberry tree. Where the heck in the desert are the mulberry trees? I can’t recall seeing any here. I know that soon the olive trees will be blooming, but for some reason the thick coating of yellow pollen they leave all over the city doesn’t bother me as much. Whoever said that moving to the desert was good for allergies had no idea what they were talking about.

Weather map courtesy The Weather Channel

Filed Under: Grrr, Health

Cool New Formatting Trick

March 28, 2007 By

…will add an air of sophistication…

I found a cool new tool to add to my template over at BlogU. It allows the pullquote formatting that you see in this post. I’m always looking for easy ways to format my blog to make it even better, and this pullquote stuff will add an air of sophistication to my posts. But don’t worry, I won’t overuse them by putting them in every single post. That’s just annoying.

Where in the world have you been? My travels in the past decade have not been as extensive as I would like them to be, but I couldn’t live with either one of my parents forever (as much as my mom would like that!). I checked off every state and country I have ever set foot in, so while to some of you these figures are artificially inflated, it works for me.

Filed Under: My Blog, Travels

I’m Still Smarter Than Most of You!

March 27, 2007 By

Gale challenged her readers to an IQ test, found on Blogthings. Here’s what I got:

Your IQ Is 125

Your Logical Intelligence is Below AverageYour Verbal Intelligence is Genius

Your Mathematical Intelligence is Genius

Your General Knowledge is Exceptional

Though I did score higher than Gale did, I did not score quite as high as I did on a more in-depth test I took last year. You can see the results of that test here. But if we average them out, I have an IQ 136, which I am still quite happy with.What is your IQ on the Blogthings test vs. the Testriffic test?

Filed Under: Talking About Myself

Linky Love and Blog Rants

March 26, 2007 By

There’s a bit of a scandal going on in the blogosphere. It concerns Bobby from The Bestest Blog of All Time. When the site was started, it was supposed to be a simple link exchange – exchange links with him and you have a one-stop shop for finding all sorts of new links. Great idea, and I exchanged links with him, and got a decent amount of traffic for my little blog. But then Bobby started getting full of himself. He redesigned the site to make it harder to navigate, harder to read, and recently, hasn’t even been updating with new links, which was the main purpose of his blog in the first place. Sure, he still has little about nothing worthwhile scattered in between his PPP posts, but on his site, I really don’t care about the posts. I just wanted an easy source for new links. I haven’t yet decided on whether or not I’ll take down the link. I need to sit on that for a bit and see what develops.

Since Bobby has been seriously slacking, I’ve been finding new blogs to read elsewhere. I go thru all the links on the blogs that I link to, and chase links again from there. Chasing links is much more fun than expecting them to come to me, and I’m almost assured that I won’t come across any crap. (Hello, this is my furst blog post and i am an eggspert on how to make moneey bloging). No, chasing links is a much better way to find blogs that offer quality content, even if that content doesn’t interest me at all. If I like you and want to read you on a regular basis, I will link to you, simple as that. I like it when people link to me, but I’m not going to be a link hound. If you like me, link to me. That’s the way it should be.

One more thing that bugs me. I understand that certain people want to keep certain blogs private. That’s not an issue. But what bugs me is when people make their profiles private. Now, when I see you left an interesting comment on my blog or someone else’s blog and I want to check you out a bit more, I can’t even see what blogs you have because I can’t read your profile. It’s not that I want to stalk you or anything. I just want to find and read interesting blogs. And privacy concerns? Well, this is the internets, but you’re not required to put your name, dob, SSN and other major identifying details on your profile. You just have to have a name, and it doesn’t have to be real. So why can’t I read your profile to find out more about witty commenters?

Here’s my advice: If you’re going to start a blog, have some real content on there that people actually want to read. Make your profile public, even if your blog isn’t. You can always put a note in there on why the blog is private. And if you do start something and can’t continue, either pass the buck or have a compelling reason on why you’re discontinuing.

Filed Under: Blogaholic, Grrr