lolcats explained

well it's 3 am and i can't sleep. i guess it's time to write a blog post.

i've noticed a lot of people i've met recently just do not get my lolcat references. like when i say things like "ohai thur" or "i has ___." i understand if it's an older crowd, but when it's someone my age, it baffles me that they haven't even heard of lolcats. maybe i'm just so used to nerds since i went to a nerdy school. but even most of my non-nerd friends have at least seen a lolcat.

so i guess this post is directed at those remaining people who live under a rock. and also just to post all my favorite lolcat pictures.

local wildlife

sometimes i feel like i live out in the boonies. i mean, i don't really. it's a suburb. i'm walking distance from a tom thumb and starbucks. but after living in dallas and its surrounding cities for a few years, i feel like my town is so rural in comparison.

when i stop and think about it, there's a lot of things i see around here i would never see in the city, particular certain animals. here's a list of animals i've seen around my hometown:

jujube lady

my mom told me a funny story today.

before i begin, let me explain what a jujube is for those who don't know. my mom calls them "chinese apples" but they are also often referred to as "chinese dates" or "chinese prunes." after performing a google search, i found that the actual name is "jujube."
heh. jujube. what a funny word.

this story is for dwight

so this happened a few weeks ago while my parents were out of town. it was one of those nights where i had been drinking and i probably shouldn't have driven, but i did anyway. i mean the bar was closed and i was in dallas. my friends were tired and wanted to go home and probably were in no mood to babysit me. so i went ahead and headed home.

happy birthpost

welp, it's my first blog post after about 4 years. after messing with the settings for a good 2 hours or so i've finally come up with a somewhat satisfactory layout. i really should get back into html and web design. not that i was ever amazing at it. but who knows, maybe i could use it as another source of revenue while i figure out what the hell i'm going to do with my life. i mean, one of my motives in starting a blog is in the hopes of gaining enough renown on the interwebs to where i can make some money from advertising, merchandise, random donations, etc. yeah... i guess i should stick to finding a real job.

speaking of ways to make quick money, i got a little bit hooked on amazon mechanical turk. i can't remember how i even found it to begin with. i think i was looking for a way to earn free virtual points for some mmorpg i was playing.
anywho, for those who don't know what mturk is, it's pretty much a marketplace for cheap online labor.
 let's say you need a paper edited, or hell, the entire paper written for you. you can request a human intelligence task (or "HIT") and pay $0.05 for each successful HIT. the assigned task will be "write 100-200 words about ____." have 100 HITs available, post your request, and wait for the responses to come in.
you view the ones that are up to standard, accept them, and pay 5 cents to each worker that gives you a good response.
you can use this to edit your paper, translate text into another language, transcribe audio into text, get traffic for your website, conduct surveys, etc.
so i'm a mechanical worker. it's pretty much the equivalent of tech support guys working from india, or chinese children in sweatshops making shoes. i do repetitive task after task to get paid... 10 cents. if i'm lucky. so far i've accumulated $4.77. it's probably about equal to $1/hr, not counting the time spent searching through available HITs for a task that i can actually/am willing to do for the pathetic few cents being offered.

.............

so after awhile i've decided it's probably not the best way to make money... but some of the tasks can be sort of fun and addicting on their own, and the fact i'm getting paid at all is icing on the cake.

still, i think i'm better off selling my plasma.