EverydayOrdinary

And yet I post about it.
I’m referring to this headline on CNN: “News sites stay up during Jackson memorial”
That’s what’s supposed to happen, isn’t it? Isn’t news supposed to be when something unexpected happens? When the news sites crashed a couple weeks ago, okay, that was news.
This is, I don’t know, wither the lamest follow-up storyever, or self-congratulatory drivel. If my tiny little site on a shared hosting server stayed up during a flood of 90+ million visitors, okay, that’s news. But CNN? Come on. They’re the corporate big boys with real servers.

I’ve noticed over the past few years more and more of these stories that shouldn’t be stories. The Octomom. The actual day of the DTV switch over. Steve Jobs’ health. Why, James Taranto’s “Best of the Web Today” (at opinionjournal.com) even has a section called “Bottom Stories of the Day” full of non-stories. Heck, celebrity deaths in general fit this category.
I’m not talking about posts on blogs, mind you (mine included). I’m talking about on “official,” main-stream news sites.

I think this era of non-stop 24-hour-a-day news on multiple TV channels, radio stations, and websites has created this need to report on something, anything, just to fill up the airtime/web space so that more than just the same few stories get reported. Or maybe it’s scoop mentality: “Ah-ha! The competition isn’t reporting on X, we’ll report it first!”.

And I don’t think it will ever go away.

And yet, I would very much like to start a “new media” news network. Le sigh.

Sometimes, for breakfast, I like to put a sliced hard-boiled egg, a slice of american cheese, and a slice of bologna between two slices of toast, and warm it in the microwave for a few seconds until the cheese melts. It’s simple, but I like it.

It’s apparently a pale imitation of something called a Croque Madame, which looks absolutely delicious. I would like to find a place that sells them, because I’d really like to try this.

And if I ever learn how to properly make a roux (I completely screwed up the one I tried), I might even attempt to make one.

So I utterly failed NaNoWriMo last November. Again. And moreso than the last three years.
To be fair, it was competing against both Thanksgiving and the Wrath of the Lich King expansion for WoW.
But, my spirit undeterred, I have, for some unfathomable reason, decided to attempt yet another form of torture opportunity for expanding my horizons from the Office of Letters and Light.
Yes, I am going to try Script Frenzy next month.
Problem is, I’ve never attempted a script before. I have NO IDEA WHAT I’M DOING.

But that’s never stopped me before.

Well, rarely stopped me. So I will plunge headlong into this. I’ve downloaded Celtx. I’ve bookmarked script-sample sites. I’ve told myself I can do this, even if I couldn’t do NaNoWrimo four times.
Now I need a plot.
And a setting.
And characters.
And…well, everything.

Onward to adventure! Script ahoy!

http://www.nationwidechicagoteaparty.com/

“You see me/you hear me/there are millions/think just like me…” (Chumbawumba)

And so it begins…

So. I don’t usually click on ads for things that look like scams. And I don’t usually post links to those same things. But I feel like an adventure. Or at least an fun story to tell. So I clicked on a link that said I can earn $5000 a month posting links on Google. Why Google would let me post links on their site is beyond me, but I figures this is too funny to pass up.

So I end up at http://www.nicksgreen.com/, which I’m not going to hyperlink, if you want to see it, you’ll have to copy-paste. That site’s entire existence is to direct me to emillionaireinstitute.com — yeah. With domain names like those, how can I not be be set for life buying whatever scam they have to offer?

The whole thing feels fishy already, and I haven’t even gotten to their plan to seperate me from my hard-earned money. The sites feel like those old ads from the back of magazines promising great wealth if you follow the steps in this book, and then you buy the book, and all it says is how to sell photocopies of the book in ads in magazines.

It is starting already to look like this won’t be as entertaining of a story as I’d hoped.

I’m gonna follow along for a bit more, and if anything interesting or funny comes up, I’ll update this. Don’t hold your breath.

*** update: Aha! They want my credit card number, and they want to charge me $1.95 shipping and handling for a “free” trianing kit. pfft. Oh, and looky here, at the small print. That $1.95? Why, it’s not shipping and handling at all! Ahem.

“By clicking the order button, I am ordering the eMillionaire Money System™ and trial membership for $1.95 s&h, after the 7 day trial I will be charged $39.95 a month thereafter if I do not cancel.”

Sigh. I’m not going to make $5000/month after all, because I’m not going to  pay them $40/month. I guess I’m just gonna have to lose out on my $4960/month profits … oh well.