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Thoughts On Professional Sports

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

I cannot figure out what the big deal is about profesional sports. What is it?

When you boil it down, all it is is a bunch of grown men playing with a ball.

A ball.

That’s it. The only pro sport that doesn’t use a ball is hockey, but the puck could be considered a ball that has been squished so let us continue.

I truely believe that the reason we have not been contacted by aliens is our insistence that professional sports are important.

They look at us with thier telescopes every so often and say, “Nope, they are still playing with balls, their society has not matured enough.”

So what is it about professional sports that fascinates people?

I realize that there is a level of athletisism beyond the norm in professional sports but isn’t that what the olympics are for?

Then there is the team spirit part of it, which I can understand, but can’t you be proud of you city or area without the artificial construct?  Do you really need a bunch of jocks (that probably did not even come from you city but were hired like mecinaries) to beat another bunch of jocks in a game with a ball to show spirit?

What’s the big deal? There are people out there who live for <insert game here>. Why?

What part of my brain does not work right (because obviously it is me that is broke, not the rest of the world) that I cannot see the tremendous value of professional sports?

I wish I could get into it, the fun they seem to have, the comradery they share. But no, I can’t. I just sit here like an alien looking through a telescope at them, shaking my head sadly.

And then there is Motorsports - don’t even get me started on that.

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How To Start a Blog for Ten Dollars

Monday, August 13th, 2007

FIRST: What is a Blog?
Blog is short for Web-log. It is different from a traditional website in that it is database driven and is updated and managed online while a regular website is edited and managed offline then uploaded via FTP. Some benefits are that it is easier to manage,  multiple users can post articles, no html skill or software is required and you can post by email even!

So now that you are convinced that you want a Blog:
SECOND: How to make a Blog.
I am not making any money from godaddy.com but maybe I should join their reseller program because that is where you should go. find a name that you like - like maybe your name or a related word with “blog” appended to it or whatever. I found HollywoodMovieBlog.com.  

DON’T buy it yet!

Now find the link to “hosting and servers” then “Personal, Small, And Med. Businesses, or Click here. Now select the Economy Plan for $3.99 a month for two months. after you add it then you will see on the next page - Domains are only $1.99* with any new, non-domain purchase - so now you buy the domain you found before. Now pay for it all.

If you already have a website hosted with godaddy than you can do this next part also.

After you get notified that your website is ready, go to the “Hosting and Servers” - “My Hosting Account”  then login again. Now in the column where it says “Control Panel” it will say “set up” or “Open” so click it. If you have to set it up go ahead and do what it says. If it say “Open”  then on the next page find the link to “Metropolis”  and click it then find the link to “Wordpress” and install it on the root.

Now you have a Blog.

Wait for an email telling you it is set up then go to your website. It should be blue themed and have ”Hello World” displayed. 

Click login and go into the site admin part of wordpress. Add a post, look at themes, just explore and figure it out.

Make sure you go to “Options” then “Privacy” and make your Blog public because we want everybody to see it.

After you write a few posts then try to find other like minded blogs and post comments. when you do there is a field for “website” and in there you type yours. Also you can find plugins and such so people can “Digg” your posts.

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