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A friend sent me a link to the Extreme Aerial Bowfishing video. To be honest, I’m not sure how I feel about it.
In my life, I’ve been both a farmer of my own food and a conscience-driven vegan (I am currently neither). On one hand, I can see the point of destroying feral animals and gathering wild protein - and on the other, killing for sport no longer appeals to me personally. Killing out of necessity - to eat - I can see that.
Something to think about.
The internet is a strange and wonderful place. I’ve been online heavily since 1994 and shouldn’t be shocked about anything… this is more from the wierd stuff file than the truly shocking.
I present to you… the Lucky Golden Shit:
Consumerist.com uses these as awards - they’re called Unko in Japan. Hen-ne!
I found out about ezinearticles.com via a Dosh Dosh article on content creation for niche blogs. While ezinearticles.com’s layout is a bit 1997, and some of the articles I looked at randomly were landing pages for a product rather than anything educational in and of themselves, I could see that a lot of the articles were very good. I left it overnight and decided to sign up as an author this morning.
Here’s the error message I received:
They’re kidding, right? 
I know that there are other Andrew Boyds out there - it doesn’t challenge my sense of self, because I know that they are different people. I’m OK with that. What I am not OK with is being told that there can only be one Andrew Boyd on ezinearticles.com. Apart from the shock value, the error message is not helpful to me - they have a user experience issue. As a client, I don’t know where to go from here - do I try someone else’s name instead? No - because I want my writing identified with me and not someone else, otherwise the reputation building effort is wasted.
Do I append my middle initial at the end of my first name? Would you look at an article by AndrewP Boyd? Probably not, because if I couldn’t spell my own name then I would not be worth much as a writer!
To be fair, I’ve sent them the following message via their contact page:
Hi,
I went to join and you already have an Andrew Boyd listed as an author. Does this mean that I cannot join? If not, how do I join?
Thanking you in anticipation,
Andrew Boyd
I’ll let you know how it turns out.
We’re all very 2.0 these days - Library 2.0, Knowledge Worker 2.0, Government 2.0.
I face the “a pleasure delayed is a pleasure doubled” vs. “hair-trigger nerd instant gratification syndrome” frustration this morning. The budding blogwar with Anne Zelenka over her comments on Peter Drucker has lost a little steam now that she’s blocked further comments on the post, Technorati is down so I can’t check my overnight figures, and the wireless LAN at home is acting up.
So… is delayed gratification a part of modern nerd life or not? Single point of focus activities like coding imply a certain tradeoff between effort and result, an understanding of “give some now, get more later”. For myself, I work for a living, am happy to trade my time for cash - but I do want interesting and fulfilling work (which I get in spades at SMSMT). This implies a certain need for instant gratification - I want the work to be interesting now. Curious.