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Alien: The New Meme
Posted by jdodson in life, offhandstrangity on January 25, 2010
It was my friend Jeremy’s 30th birthday this last weekend. His sister had a alien themed birthday party for him. She handed out miniature aliens to all the party guests. I took a picture of the alien and my celling and that started a few texts back and forth between myself and Jeremy. The following pictures and gallery were the fallout of that exchange from my camera. There is a partner tagline with each picture.
I dubb this gallery “Alien: The New Meme“. I will only feature a few of the pictures here, check the entire gallery for the full set.
Your addiction is known to me.
Standing amongst greatness.
Jesus doesn't want me for birdseed.
The limitless potential.
Making a Few Dollars Online
I blog. I Tweet. I put ads on my site to see if I could make any money blogging. Thus far I am not sure its worth having them up. I don’t make much money on click throughs. Recently ive been experimenting with having an Amazon referral account. Basically if I talk about a product and someone buys it I get a 4% cut. Leaps and bounds its a better system than click through ads. My first day with Amazon referrals I made a reasonable amount of money. Its strange that just talking about something can lead someone to buy it, but it is cool.
I can’t tell who bought what, its pretty secure in that regard, but its nice to know people do actually buy things based off what I say. Its as if I have some influence on people in some capacity that I didn’t realize I had before. Its a cool feeling.
Thanks for reading.
.Beat Super Mario 2
Posted by jdodson in life, video games on January 24, 2010
Beat it. I just beat it.
Today I beat Super Mario 2 with no warps all the way through. Overall this game is much harder than I remember it being but quite a bit of fun.
I recently made my way through Legend of Zelda Links Awakening and I just pieced together that those games both are dreams. Mario 2 being a dream in Mario’s head and Links Awakening world being a dream of the wind fish.
Sleep well.
These are not screenshots from my game. However, my line up was princes like 22 times, Toad and Mario once. I believe the Princess is the best because she can float. Its a nice thing because platforming games like this see you fall into pits often and you can just float over them most of the time.
I had quite a problem beating the crab boss of world 6.3 but I watched someone do it with Mario in a YouTube video and that seemed to help.
Whats next on my video game plate? I am going to nickel and dime the remaining Fallout 3 quests and expansions as I have time. However the next big thing will see me moving on to Super Mario Brother 3.
The biggest most exciting mario yet!
One thing down on my things to accomplish it 2010.
Credit Card Skimmer
Know the tricks.
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Brian Krebs’s “Krebs on Security” features an ATM skimmer that is chillingly well-camouflaged. After seeing photos of early, crude skimmers — devices that capture your card number and work in concert with a hidden camera that records you punching in your PIN — I assumed that I could rely on my own powers of observation to keep from falling victim to one. Now I don’t think I can be so sanguine. Be sure to follow some of the links in the post for some hair-raising examples of the form.
This particular skimmer was found Dec. 6, 2009, attached to the front of a Citibank ATM in Woodland
Hills, Calif. Would you have been able to spot this? This is fairly professional job: Notice how the bulk of the electronics fit into the flap below the card acceptance slot. Also, check out the tiny pinhole camera (pictured below), ostensibly designed to switch on and record the victim’s movements as he or she enters their PIN at the ATM.
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Things to Accomplish in 2010
Yesterday I made a list of things I wanted to accomplish in 2010. A random thing off the list:
Beat Super Mario 2 start to finish using no warp zones.
The world needs to get out of the way of my goals.
Happy New Year
I spent this new year with my family in La Pine with no Internet so this is a belated Happy New Year.
I Took From The Oregonian?
The Newspaper I Took From
I just got a call from the Oregonian because I recently cancelled my subscription. This is how it went.
ME: “This is Jon”
LADY: “Hello, is this Jon”
ME: “This is Jon”
LADY: “Hello yes, since you recently took away your weekly paper from us I want to offer you the daily paper free.”
ME: “No thanks”
LADY: “But its free for 5 months.”
ME: “No thanks”
LADY: “OK then you get no free paper. *abruptly hangs up*”
One thing. I didn’t take anything away from The Oregonian. So its strange that she said I took it away from them.
With word choices like that its like saying: “You took something from my yard, please have something from my yard for free.” Then again, I love words and find it funny/strange/cool how people use them.
All in all a completely strange conversation.
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
Posted by jdodson in life, offhandstrangity on December 10, 2009
The Wizarding World Map
“The Blu-ray and two-disc edition DVD of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” was released today. A special Wizarding World of Harry Potter sneak peek feature on the extras disc reveals a few more details for the new land at Universal’s Islands of Adventure.”
More details about the theme park are here.
The wife and I are resonable Harry Potter freaks. When we heard about this we were pretty excited. Give it a few years and we will prob go. On our nutty Harry Potter scale, id say we are a good 6 of 10. Reading the books thrice over isn’t too bad. 8′s are cosplayers and 9-10′s go to JK Rowling book signings dressed as characters and host “Hogwarts parties.” Then again one year for Halloween we went as Ron and Hermione.
