Philaahzophy Philaahzophy Personal musings on life, business, anarchy, fatherhood, and earning money online. 
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Goodness Gracious Great Ball Of Fire!
2008-05-20 09:01:00 I first heard the name Cesc Fabregas when he played for Spain in the 2006 World Cup. He’s since gone on to not only become a key player for Arsenal, but now he’s got his own television show as well. Yes, you could say the boy’s on fire, and according to this video ... More About: Movies , Great , Fire , Goodness , Ball
Roller Coaster at Fun Town / Funderwoods, Micke Grove, Lodi
2008-05-20 08:55:00 In my ongoing quest to ride every roller coaster in California, this was, by far, the most difficult to locate. Let’s start with just gathering information about it online… It’s name is simply “roller coaster”. This doesn’t really give the search engines much to go on, does it. Add in the fact ... More About: Town , Quest , Roller Coaster , Lodi , Grove
Research Your Next Web Hosting Company
2008-05-20 08:29:00 The folx over at WebHosting Rating gave me a sneek peak at their new template earlier today and I gotta say it’s far nicer than their current site design. It’s just as clean as the old interface, but has a much slicker ‘feel’ to it which I think will help them go far. ... More About: Research , Web Hosting , Company
Getting Serious About California CoasterQuest
2008-05-20 08:12:00 Last November I dropped a post about some long term goals in order to provide a template of sorts for Z. One of those goals was to ride every roller coaster in California . As I’ve noted here before progress toward this goal has kicked in to high gear recently. So, I though ... More About: Roller Coaster
Buddhism, Freedom and Society Without State
2008-05-20 03:35:00 We aspire to a world community without enemy, without war. Man is not enemy of man except through lies of the State and State of the lie. Once violence is chosen as method, falsehood becomes principle. Our direct eyewitness experience shows that the State owes its existence to violence, and maintains itself by lies, coercion, ... More About: Society , Freedom , Buddhism
BAH! Technology Sucks!
2008-05-19 17:14:00 Modern technology let me down once again over the weekend. While driving up to Lodi to visit Fun Town and mark another roller coaster off my California checklist I took about 3 dozen pictures of “cool things” along the freeway. Upon reaching Fun Town, however my camera started returning memory card errors whenever I tried ... More About: Technology , Sucks
$15,000 Video Contest and You Don?t Need A Camera?
2008-05-17 10:39:00 If I told you CommercialPitch.com was running an Online Video Contest and the winning ad will get $15,000 would you believe me? What if I said that you could win that $15,000 prize for best “Original and Out Of The Box Commercial” without even owning a video camera? Would you believe me then? ... More About: Camera
Ripley?s Believe It Or Not! - Myrtle Beach, SC
2008-05-17 10:23:00 The first actual tourist trap Z and I visited in Myrtle beach was the Ripley ’s Believe It or Not! Museum. Ripley’s actually has five different venues in Myrtle Beach : the museum; Haunted Adventure, a permanently installed three story haunted house;Ripley’s Moving Theater, a 4-D movie/ride experience with two different films; a Super Fun ... More About: Myrtle Beach
A New Twist On GPT Sites - Free MP3s
2008-05-17 10:01:00 I honestly didn’t expect to be writing any more articles on general GPT or “Paid For Action” sites. I decided some time ago that signing up for offers I only intended to cancel simply wasn’t worth my time or sanity. But when I heard you could Get Free Music From MPFree.com I headed ... More About: Sites , Get Paid To , Twist
Pirate Radio Is Alive And Well!
2008-05-17 08:58:00 I first heard about pirate radio stations from my father when I was about 10 years old. The idea fascinated me even then - some guy in his garage or basement sending out signals that anyone could pick up and here. No commercials, no program directors, just a man and a microphone. I’ve looked into the ... More About: Radio , Pirate , Alive
The Making Of An Epic Ad
2008-05-17 07:59:00 Difficult is worth doing. So sayeth Honda. And so sayeth my drill sergeant in high school. Both are right. I cannot encourage you enough to go visit difficultisworthdoing.com via the link above. What you’ll find there is an amazing look at what goes into making an epic advertisement like the latest one for ... More About: Movies , Epic
Back On The Weight Loss Track
2008-05-17 07:34:00 Okay, so I didn’t reach my goal weight of 200 pounds before I went on vacation to Myrtle Beach. But The good news is that I was still able to ride everything at Hard Rock Park and that’s what really matters. When I weighed myself upon my return late Saturday night I had ... More About: Weight Loss , Weight , Back , Subway , Loss
Dockers Contest Casting Call - The Pants
2008-05-17 06:45:00 Now that I have my actor for my entry into the Dockers contest I still needed one more thing before shooting - the pants! Another casting call went out to my local area (again, my very local area) and we once again had a grand total of three at the audtion. Casting for ... More About: Contest , Pants , Contests , Call
California CoasterQuest Continues
2008-05-17 04:12:00 My long term goal of riding every roller coaster in California has tripped into high gear with the coming of Spring and all the amusement parks opening up for the year. In fact, next week three new coasters are supposed to be opening here in California: Pony Express at Knott’s Berry Farm (Thursday, May ... More About: Tony Hawk , Magic Mountain
Still Looking For The Right Credit Card
2008-05-17 02:12:00 After my last semi-disastrous trek into the world of credit cards I’m doing a lot more research before signing up for my next card. A good part of the research is being done at Credit Card Club. They allow you to browse through uhndreds of credit card offers based on criteria you select yourself ... More About: Personal Finance , Credit Card
My Personal TSA Nightmare
2008-05-16 21:43:00 Okay, Nightmare is too strong a word for it, but it makes for a much stronger title than “My Personal TSA Bad Experience” I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned it here before, but Z collects snowglobes from the places that she’s visited. Thus far she has somewhere in the neighborhood of 40. ... More About: Fatherhood
Here?s A Fun Little Election Toy
2008-05-15 19:06:00 Bloggers love their toys and their widgets. It’s one of the things they have in common with those who follow politics (and helps explain the large number of political bloggers). Well, I was just introduced to a nifty little election toy that I think y’all are going to love… Predict the outcome of the ... More About: Election , November
Vacation Posts Are Coming Soon - I Promise
2008-05-15 18:00:00 I know, I know, I’ve been back four days and still haven’t posted very much about our vacation last week. The truth is I’ve been working at it, but processing dozens of videos and well over a thousand photos is taking much longer than I expected. Everything’s been processed now and it’s just a matter ... More About: Travel , Vacation , Myrtle Beach , Posts , Promise
Dockers Contest Casting Call
2008-05-15 16:47:00 As I mentioned yesterday there is currently a Dockers contest running to make a new commercial. The winner will have their video played on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Well, I’ve finally come up with the perfect concept for my video and now I’m just looking for my leading man. What ... More About: Contest , Contests , Call , Casting
Can SocialSpark Advertisers Really Be Happy With This?
2008-05-15 16:46:00 Since I didn’t sleep last night I was refreshing the Social Spark marketplace with some regularity this morning as the IZEA staff started releasing opportunities. An excellent opp titled “$15,000 Online Video Contest” appeared that seemed perfect for Philaahzophy, so I clicked over to take it only to find that the slots for today had ... More About: Business , Advertisers , Happy
The Mystery Of .edu Links and SEO
2008-05-15 10:54:00 When I started to get serious about monetizing the websites and blogs I’ve created over the years the first thing I realized was that it was going to take traffic. And large amounts of it. So that led me to pondering where, exactly, web traffic comes from. The answer, ultimately is two ... More About: Blogging , Links , Page , Mystery
World?s Largest Visitor Center? I Think Not!
2008-05-15 08:45:00 As my regular readers know Z and I love to road trip. To me part of the joy of road trippin’ is finding all the great local spots that the tourists normally miss. After all, isn’t that what travel is supposed to be all about? One of the resources we use ... More About: Travel , World , Visitor , South Carolina , Center
Wild Vacation Memories
2008-05-15 05:56:00 I had a dream last night (perhaps I should say today since I slept all day) about my first visit to New York City. I was only 16 years old and went back to New York to visit the family of a school friend. It was a wild and crazy time - seeing ... More About: Travel , Boston , Vacation , Wild
What Happened To Wednesday?
2008-05-15 05:46:00 I seriously don’t know what happened to today. You see I just woke up about an hour ago - 7:30pm! Last night at about 9:40 my DSL went out, AGAIN. With one PPP opp reserved and due by 3am and 2 SocialSpark opps reserved and due by 9am, this was completely unacceptable. But what could I ... More About: Wednesday
Adventures Of The Seat Of My Pants
2008-05-14 10:35:00 No, I didn’t use the wrong preposition in that title. I’m not gonna share some close call that I narrowly avoided, rather I want to follow the tack of “If Only These Pants Could Talk”. I intentionally packed light for my recent cross country trip for two reasons: 1) I didn’t want to have to ... More About: Contests , Seat , Adventures
County Sheriff Stands Up To Feds ? And Wins!
2008-05-14 09:45:00 Okay, I’m pretty late with this story (it’s from February), but I told y’all I had some serious catching up to do. On to the news… From the Keene Free Press- Bighorn County Sheriff Dave Mattis spoke at a press conference following a recent U.S. District Court decision (Case No. 2:96-cv-099-J (2006)) and announced that all ... More About: Police , Wins , Federal Court
What Happened To Aahz And Z?
2008-05-07 18:30:00 Although I’m going to try to update Philaahzophy over the next few days I don’t know if I’m going to be able to. Why? Because I’m taking Z on a surprise trip to both the Soft Opening and the Grand Opening of the new Hard Rock Park amusement park in Myrtle Beach , SC!!! We’ve been ... More About: Travel , Fatherhood , Aahz
The ?Net Empowers The Market In Making Better Choices - Again
2008-05-07 07:44:00 Who needs American Idol? Not Alisa Apps and not anyone else with a video camera, and inertnet connection, and faith in their product. You see, Alisa Apps is using the power of the internet in general and YouTube in particular to run her very own Pop Star Challenge. As the video explains all you ... More About: Technology , Market , Choices
eBay Offering Up Bunches Of Goodness!
2008-05-07 07:30:00 Received two intriguing emails from eBay this evening. The first isn’t nearly as exciting as eBay seems to think it is, but I figured I’d still pass on the info. The second will likely be of little use, but is mucho exciting so I’m sharing it as well. The first email trumpeted in ... More About: Ebay , Goodness , Bunches
Introducing The Third Wave Of Imported Horror Films
More articles from this author:2008-05-05 08:13:00 The First Wave of Imported Horror - When I was a kid all of the best (read bloodiest and most intense) horror films came from Italy. Sure, we had Freddy Kreuger and Jason Voorhees, but tracking down multi-generation VHS tapes of of Italian horror films was what all the true gore aficionados were into. The Second Wave ... More About: Movies , Films 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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