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How to wake up early in the morning

December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Having recently completed Nanowrimo, I decided to do this blog post on how to wake up early in the morning. For those of you who don’t know, Nanowrimo is a challenge to write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. It’s a feat I don’t think I would have accomplished had I not [...]

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Tags: Miscellaneous · Motivation

A Farside cartoon come to life – Watch the short film!

September 19th, 2009 · No Comments

“Wild Pasture” is an eight minute documentary film on a species that is commonly overlooked in our society. These animals are generally peaceful creatures, but the males have been known to be dangerous on occasion. They can stampede and crush you, so that makes them excellent subjects for a documentary film… sort of.
The film’s inspiration [...]

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Tags: Humor · Miscellaneous · Movies

How to optimize a landing page

September 19th, 2009 · No Comments

This video posted on the Google Adwords blog, talks about well converting landing pages and the “7 deadly sins of landing page design”.  If you are a web designer or web marketer, it’s a must watch. The breakdown of the 7 sins goes like this:
1. Unclear call to action
2. Offering too many choices
3. Asking for [...]

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Tags: Design · Marketing · Miscellaneous

Orange Karma

May 25th, 2009 · No Comments

Jeremy and his wife Katheryn, a couple in their mid 30’s, were parked at the curb of a fifties style drive in restaurant eating their burgers and fries. On a tray designed to sit on a partially open car window, sat a rootbeer float in a frost covered glass with ice cream melting down the [...]

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Tags: Humor · Miscellaneous · Short Stories

Forgetting things

May 17th, 2009 · No Comments

Today, my wife and I were about to leave the house when I got the sudden feeling I had forgotten something. I began to look around the family room to see if I could find what I was looking for.
“What’d you forget?” my wife said.
“I don’t know.”
“Did you lose something?”
“My mind.” I said.
She then used [...]

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Tags: Miscellaneous