Ok, let’s be honest: how many of you started your blog to make a little extra money. I’m sure a lot of you would say yes. How many of you are mothers that are starting blogging for that exact reason? Maybe its for a little extra gas money. Maybe you’re doing it so you can provide better treats for your kid’s soccer team.
Well, there are plenty of programs out there that can help you make a little extra money for whatever your purpose is, whether your a mom, dad (like me), single guy or girl, whatever. One program you should check out is SocialSpark.
I know I’ve talked a little bit about these guys before, but the basic idea is that you go in there, set up a free account, and then sign up for different opportunities that come up. One of the nice features of SocialSpark is that you can reserve a slot when an opportunity is already full. Not all of them come back again, but some do and then you’ll be given the chance to post about it and still get paid.
So if you can’t tell, the key to something like SocialSpark is to make sure that you check it often. You need to make sure that you are signed up for notifications. This way you’ll know when one of the slots you signed up for has become available. Also, make sure to check your email because once the spot becomes open you only have 12 hours to write the post!
A friend of mine sent me a link to this site the other day. I’m a sucker for these little quizzes and really get a kick out of them. This one is the Geek Quiz!
So how much of a geek are you? To be honest, I don’t consider myself to be a ‘geek’. ‘Nerd’, yes. But a geek is something else entirely. The funny thing is that I had my family take this quiz as well and my one brother that I would assume to be the biggest ‘geek’ actually got the highest score, so I guess I was right!
So a couple months ago I wrote about a new service that IZEA started for making money from your blog called SocialSpark. I have to first admit that I haven’t used it as much as I would like to, but even so I think that there are a few things that they could be doing better with it.
First of all, it seems like the site always loads really really slowly. Not sure why this is, probably too many scripts (or just my computer lol!), but that would be one thing to change.
Also, it seems like because of their ‘wait for slot’ feature, it is really quite hard to get an opportunity with them. It’s one of those things that I’m not entirely sure how they could do it better, but my thought is that when you reserve a spot they do it on a first come first serve basis. But I also know that some advertisers aren’t going to do more than one run, so you might be waiting for a slot that is never going to come.
Now, there are also a few things that I really like about SocialSpark. I think the idea of making it into a social network as well as a money making site is pretty cool. I still haven’t taken full advantage of this feature, but I really like the idea. Just for fun, here’s my own profile if anyone wants to be ‘friends’!
So I’m thinking that overall SocialSpark is a good idea. Give it a little more time and I think it will become one of the better paying blogging social sites.
So over the weekend my wife and I rented the movie I Am Legend staring Will Smith. I must say that Will Smith really is an awesome actor. It’s actually funny to go back and see him in Fresh Prince and then see some of the things he’s done the last couple of years. Who would have ever expected him to go from that to an action movie star?
Anyway, this movie was ok. His acting was great, but the story itself was pretty weak. I think it had a lot of potential, but it seemed like the just sort of ended it at the end. That was very disappointing. In fact, at the end my wife and I just looked at each other with a puzzled look on our face saying, “That’s the end?”
I read a synopsis of the book, and I think it sounds like the book would be quite a bit better. But, isn’t that how it normally is with movies?
So when my wife and I moved into our new place back in August, we quickly found out that the company that was supposed to connect us with cable was in no rush to actually do it. We even followed up with them a couple of times but were never able to get a hold of someone. So instead of complaining, we decided to just not worry about it and try life without TV.
And you know what, it’s actually been great! So I haven’t really watched TV for several months now and I have to admit that I don’t really miss it. We’ll keep up on some of the shows that we like either by renting the season on DVD or watching it online. For example, I love the show Lost, and we’ve kept up on it by watching it online.
If you’ve never tried going without TV, you should give it a try. Honestly, whenever I watch TV now I’m amazed at the kind of stuff they can show on TV. I was probably just desensitized to it before…
Over the weekend my wife and I saw the movie The Ultimate Gift. I thought it was a really good show and would recommend it to anyone!
Granted, although I might recommend it to everyone I know that not everyone is going to like it. It’s one of those movies that actually makes you think about what you’re doing with your life and after watching it I felt motivated to make some changes. Good thing is I’ve been motivated to make changes already and so it mainly just confirmed what I’ve already been thinking.
I really don’t want to give away the plot or anything, but the basic idea is that this wealthy man dies and his family comes to the law firm handling his will to learn about their inheritance. They are all a bunch of rich snobs/jerks that don’t even care that he died, they just want their money. And, they are all upset with what he left them. Then the one lone, most punk looking person there is told that he will be given a special gift. So the movie goes through what he has to go through to get his ‘gift.’
Anyway, great movie, if you haven’t seen it you should!
A friend of mine wrote this post a couple months ago, but I still think it’s funny so I thought I’d bring it up here. There are a lot of email extensions these days, and my friend’s comment is that you can tell a lot about a person by the email they use. While I don’t agree with everything that he says about this, it’s really funny and has a lot of truths to it.
So what do you use? Here are the types that he mentions:
So this last weekend we got together with some old high school friends of mine and played some Guitar Hero. I’ve honestly only ever played this game once before, but I thought it was a lot of fun.
I even got my wife to play it for a bit! And she started to get the hang of it, so maybe…just maybe that’s one game that I could convince her we should get . But the question remains, do I like DDR better?
They both have their qualities. Granted, the music for Guitar Hero is a TON better than anything on DDR, but I like that with DDR you really get more active. I think that in a group setting DDR is a much funner game. But when it comes to just 2-3 people, Guitar Hero can be a lot of fun.
So in the end I guess it depends on what you’re looking for. Both are fun, but I think DDR is a better party game.
I came across these videos the other day and thought that they were pretty funny!
Did you ever wonder as a kid what would happen if you put all sorts of stuff in the blender? Well, I’m sure most of our blenders would have just broken, but these guys at Blendtec use their blender to show what happens when you put things like and iPhone, Guitar Hero Guitar, and more into their blenders. The results are amazing…and funny!
Here’s one of my favorite: Blendtec vs. Chuck Norris. Check it out!
I don’t know if you’ve seen the previews for one of the up and coming Marvel movies, Iron Man, but it’s looking to be pretty cool! I’ve never followed Iron Man (I used to watch the cartoons for X-Men, Spider-Man, and Batman, but never was introduced to Iron Man), but after seeing the previews and reading up on him a little bit I think it could be a pretty cool movie.
I’m just really glad that these superhero movies are getting better. There have been some real duds, but in the last couple of years I would say they have been improving significantly. I think the best so far has been Batman Begins (my favorite movie right now), followed by Spider-Man 1 & 2. I don’t think that Spider-Man 3 was half as good as the other 2, so we’ll see what happens there.
As for duds, did anyone really like Dare Devil? I thought it was pretty lame personally. Elektra followed suit in the lame category. The Fantastic Four movies have been ok, but nothing special.
So I guess in the end my hope is that this new Iron Man film turns out to be really good. The previews look interesting enough, so I’m excited to see how it really turns out!
So when my wife and I moved into our new place back in August, we quickly found out that the company that was supposed to connect us with cable was in no rush to actually do it. We even followed up with them a couple of times but were never able to get a hold of someone. So instead of complaining, we decided to just not worry about it and try life without TV.
. But the question remains, do I like DDR better?
I don’t know if you’ve seen the previews for one of the up and coming Marvel movies, Iron Man, but it’s looking to be pretty cool! I’ve never followed Iron Man (I used to watch the cartoons for X-Men, Spider-Man, and Batman, but never was introduced to Iron Man), but after seeing the previews and reading up on him a little bit I think it could be a pretty cool movie.
