Friday, February 15, 2013

Youtube

Hurray, finally something good I can talk about! I love Youtube, it provides me with the tools to watch videos of my favorite bands, videos of people hooning cars, and it allows me to fully listen to a song that I'm thinking of buying on iTunes, instead of just a 30 second preview.

Alright, to go more in depth on these things. Bands; I listen to a lot of rock and roll, like stuff from the late 60's to the early 90's, and their new stuff in the 2000's. Apart from Rock and roll, I do listen to other stuff too, like Blues, Hard Rock, Dubstep, Irish Rock, and a small bit of Orchestral Stuff.Here's a couple examples of songs that I listen to: Love Hungry Man by AC/DC (1979), Tattoo by Van Halen (2012), The Gears of War by Body Count (2011), and so on.

Usually when I'm on Youtube, I find my way to videos of people hooning (messing around with cars) cars, drifting or just videos of people talking about their cars or overviews of auto shows. Here's a couple I've watched recently: Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG revving it's engine, The finish of the 24 Hours of LeMans 2012, the 2013 Detroit Auto Show recap by Car and Driver, Ken Block hooning his Ford Fiesta, just stuff like that.

Those are kind of the reasons why I use Youtube, as a time waster or as an informational media.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Twitter

Bah. I've never like Twitter, never will. I find it a website for people who have no life, but pretend they do and post stuff like "Eating a sandwich. lol." Oh my god, who freaking cares? Twitter is just a smaller Facebook where people can describe their menial tasks that they do in 140 characters or less, instead of just writing the novel on Facebook.

Do I have a Twitter? Unfortunately, yes. Why? For contests and tournament info for video games. I don't 'tweet' on a regular basis. Do I follow people? Yes, video game companies and people in the video game industry and people in the automotive world.

Do I have followers? Yes, but few. I only want people I know personally following me. I don't need people who spam my inbox with messages like 'I just won a 25$ iTunes gift card here:....." or have people who have an IQ sub 80 talk about how they didn't know that the Titanic was real or that Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, not rode a bike in the Tour de France.

Anyway, here's my Twitter account. Like it, hate it, I don't care (warning, thar be sailor talk).

https://twitter.com/LAZYH0B0

Friday, February 8, 2013

Blogs? What blogs?

I've found that today, to be a well known person, you have to advertise yourself across the world multiple ways, be it blogging, social media sites, or just have your own website.

One way that I got to know people is through their artwork. I see their artwork on a website, which usually ends with me 'following' them on that site. I look at their profile, like more of their work and become one of their many daily followers.

Art is something that I like to keep track of, new styles that people are using that give me inspiration to draw from. There is a website about a local art council that keeps track of all the exhibitions that are going to be around this area, called the Madison Arts Area Council (http://madisonareaartscouncil.org/), or the MAAC.

Another way is the News media. Doing something that gets you on the news, good or bad, will lead to people finding out about you. Like I said, it could be good or bad, but either way you will end up having people from different areas hearing your name or having prior knowledge of meeting you. You could end up local, or you could end up worldwide. It all depends on what you do.

Friday, February 1, 2013

Interesting Blog Article

 http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/23/a-new-kind-of-holster-for-iphone/

I found this article interesting, not because I own an iPhone, but because I had just recently lost my iPhone to the deadly fall from 5 feet. I didn't have a case on it (my fault), not because I forgot, but because my case is very inefficient. It's more of an 'aesthetic' thing than a protective case.

The only problem with this amazing case, is the price. $200.00. That'll set you back.

What's happened so far in my blog

 This being my first blog, this should be a very short post.

A few things to look at:
  1. # of post: Like I said before, I've only just recently started, so my massive amount of posts is....2.
  2. Topics: I've only done two topics, one on Facebook, and one on all of my precious electronics.
  3. Links: I've never needed to post a link before, so no.
  4. Template: Yes, I have changed the template. I like to personalize everything I do to an extent that I like.
  5. Comments: I've never posted anything that I need comments for. I just speak my mind, so I don't care if or what people comment on.
  6. Traffic: Very surprising. Italy, huh.