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Overseas trips, DJing, books, Will and Grace |
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I delayed this blog because I was going to Sydney and wanted to write about that. I didn't end up going because I had an expired passport. Insurance won't pay out, no surprise. They look for excuses not to pay.
I'm going to Europe in June. I have ordered a new passport so hopefully things go to plan. I was advise not to use Airpoints, which really doesn't make sense to me so I am thinking Vegas/LA next year. Trying to think of a business reason to go back to China too. Preferably after a vaccine is created. I love creating software and I have created software to DJ, tested it out Saturday, it was barely functional, doing request didn't work, my fault for not testing requests while music was playing. I'll fix that next time. No, I'm not considering a career change, I don't like basing a career on a personal brand, because I say all kinds of crazy shit. I just like creating software. I really want to create a music mixing application and plan to start it soon. If I ever release music it'd be under a stage name, I'd rather produce for a DJ and occasionally join them on trips in the crowd, or manage a gay club. I probably don't have time to go into music professionally. However I am available to DJ for friends' parties and if a gay club offered. Yeah I'd consider doing it, if the guys there were hot LOL! I did general music on Saturday. My next book is 80% complete. I'm inspired to write other books such as about my short time in comedy and about traveling. Perhaps I'll do one book a year. Self published, probably less professional and with more casual writing. I think this works best for me. I think that I could write a book about sex and also some erotic fiction; I'm completely serious. Though I don't read erotic fiction or any kind of novels so I need to study it. I'd release the sex books under a pen name. Also Will and Grace is a bit shit this season because Karen has been absent for two episodes; she's the best character in the show in my opinion. | |||
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Goals, Christmas, New Year |
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Did I achieve last year's goals. No. However one of my goals was to launch a concert site and while I didn't do that by I hope to have three sites loosely connected to music soon, and possibly more after so I am claiming victory.
I am still not where I want to be but some of my websites are getting big. As long as I continue to grow my portfolio of sites hopefully things will work out. I never noticed how weird Christmas is. It's November, let's put up green shit all over the place. What's with Christmas trees? Did Jesus have one? Is cutting down all those trees even environmentally friendly? Christmas is not environmentally friendly, there's a fuck load of waste and rubbish. Giving cash reduces rubbish, just saying! Why are people saying happy new year? It's happy new fucking decade! Stop underselling the event. Celebrating time also seems like nonsense but I don't care as long as I can get shit faced! | |||
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Carly Rae Jenpsen, Festivals, Music websites |
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I went to a small town for a multi day event. I hate small towns with a passion. The accessibility is usually shit, I also don't like smaller populations. I can't stand small towns. The event was OK.
Fucking didn't get on my flight to Christchurch because it was windy in Wellington. Fuck that, they should have been more prepared. It's not like it's a rare occurrence. Windy in Wellington, happens all the time. It's rare if it's not windy. No reason why I couldn't have gotten on the flight. Fucking health and safety crap. I had to go to Auckland from Wellington then Auckland to Christchurch. Delayed by four hours. What a bastard. I am not a fan of small towns, or Wellington, or Wellington airport. Worse airport in New Zealand! I go to Wellington too much. It's too small of a city for me to want to go there often. I think it has beautiful buildings but I'm over constantly going there. I was sick of going to Auckland at one stage too. When I do too much of something or see someone too often I just get sick of them. It's been like that all of my life. I went to Carly Rae Jenpsen in Auckland, she was better than expected. Upstairs but manage to get decent enough photos by going around the side. I am going to finally use my Airpoints to go to Amsterdam next year. I am going to some trance festivals including going to one in Sydney. I just thought why not? I have never been to a trance specific festival and it's my favourite type of genre. I like vocal trance most of all. I am finally starting to launch music sites. Turns out my own software is buggy and I forgot to program some key features. So I am doing a lot of fixing. I haven't released it commercially yet. That's something I need to do. I plan to launch international event sites, but will get local sites up first. | |||
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U2, Shawn Mendes |
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Friday I went to U2, Mt Smart Stadium staff are a bit paranoid frankly. They asked me to stop driving completely unnecessarily when I was already going somewhere. My view was fairly good from a segregated seat. I enjoyed Noel Gallagher. U2 were good.
Saturday I went to Shawn Mendes. I almost didn't go because of all of the screaming girls at these things but when U2 was playing I thought that it was more economical to go to both. I could better justify going because of economies of scale. Nobody took me to my seat and didn't know where it was so I just went on the floor up the front. I had no idea if I was supposed to be there but nobody complained. I was a bit off to the side but it wasn't crowded. Shawn saw me and gave me a peace sign, then patted me on the arm later. He came up to me twice. It was more fun than being at home. I wish I had video, but got a guitar pick, I don't know if it was Shawn's. I also forgot that I specifically wanted to be upstairs for this concert, to avoid crazy girls, sometimes my memory sucks, oh well, it worked out great! I enjoyed Shawn's concert more because I was at the front and he came up to me, I also like collecting things from concerts. Not having video is a fucking bitch but maybe I can look back on these blogs, and laugh at my own jokes. I say if you don't laugh at your own jokes you probably aren't funny! Sunday I am at the airport for about four hours, just writing blogs, can't be fucked with WiFi. Was on WiFi at hotel but couldn't be bothered with Email or Facebook, that was pretty much off the grid when it comes to me, OK? Wrote most of some starter articles for a new partying product site I'm developing. Hopefully that's vague enough so fuckers don't steal my idea. | |||
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Arts Access Awards, business |
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I don't know why I continue these blogs. I am busy and really can't be fucked. So talking about myself is burdensome. I am not a fucking narcissist hahaha.
Last month I hosted the Arts Access Awards; it was the best event I've hosted all year; it also was only event I hosted all year. However seriously it was a top event of my performing life, well I can't really call it a career. I totally can do corporate gigs. Not that I have any plans to do so. Performing is a skill in my back pocket in case everything goes to shit. And everything is going to shit, I am not happy with my lack of financial success, I haven't been for the past 5 years. I am not happy that I haven't sorted eye tracking yet. I am happy with the websites I've created, I've just got to make them profitable. I still believe that I'm going in the right direction. However I don't feel successful, at least financially. I have done so much in my life like performing overseas, performing in Parliament, wrote a book series, done speeches in Universities, appeared in a music video, went to like a billion concerts, danced with Anastacia. I've done things I don't wish to take credit for, I know you're shocked. I've made thousands of people laughed. Have I lead a great life? Sure. Do I feel successful? Not really. However life can always be tweaked. I believe that I can be successful. I am successful in some ways. However I can do better. Some of my problems are self inflicted. | |||
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Whining comedians |
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This month I'm randomly ranting about comedians. I am sick of their whining about political correctness. Good comedy in my opinion courage but comedians whining about people not liking their jokes is not courageous, it's pathetic.
Every industry has to adapt, why would comedy be different? You cannot make fun of the same minorities you could 20 years ago, and that's probably a good thing. If you do and you get booed or blacklisted that's on you. Smart comedians will just adapt. I'm not the biggest fan of gate keepers and some probably go too far. If you don't want to deal with them you could put on your own shows and/or start your own open mic. Take the initiative instead of whining. If there's a market for your stuff you will succeed if not sorry people don't have to embrace your humour. If you make fun of the powerful this wouldn't be so much of a problem. If you do the opposite then yes you're going to get shit. You CAN control your jokes, you CANNOT control people's reaction to them. Instead of complaining endlessly why don't you modify your act? If you're a rich comedian and complain, fuck you! I give no shits about you. You have enough of a following to do your own thing. I have millions of dollars and annoyed people don't like my joke about transgendered people. Yes, fuck you! If you're a poorer comedian, you just have to deal with modern society's expectations. It doesn't have to be a negative, try new things, refine. Perhaps you'll hit gold! If you really don't like today's culture by all means find a way to develop your own following. I don't care. Comedy regularly offends people and that's ok. Comedians should push boundaries but there's possible risks of doing so. If you want a safe space to tell jokes, there's nothing stopping you from creating one. Also some may consider me a whining (ex) comedian about other things, oh well. You're right and I don't care. However rich comedians complaining about audiences does genuinely fuck me off! | |||
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Wellington, content sites, Rich rant |
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Went to Wellington for a meeting. Stayed at a hotel with crappy access. There was steps to the bathroom. Serious what the fuck? Meeting was scheduled when an international rugby match was on, that was probably a bad idea.
I have noticed that I like building content sites more than programming. I always seem to work extra on my content days. I am focusing on 3-4 industries, which frankly is a cut-down for me. To people who insist you have to do one thing to be successful. Steve Jobs wasn't really successful until he did iPhones, iTunes. He didn't just do Macs. Amazon didn't make a profit for years and years and the company now has defense contracts, cloud services, wholefoods. It is not just one thing. Richard Branson had multiple things. Rich people are also rich largely because they're tight asses and do a lot of investing. Many rich people are complete cheapskates. I know this from YouTube videos and dating a guy from a wealthy family. It's not really to do with doing one thing and getting good at it, it's more financial strategy. There's a reason why half of lottery winners go broke. Even if most rich people do one thing, they have other investments too. While I'm not great at sticking to one thing, I've done some stuff for years and sooner or later some will be successful. I've launched about 6 websites this year and a few more are planned. This is different from previous years where I just did programming. I am getting more sites up and am feeling great. Some sites are small or can be semi automated. | |||
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Disturbed |
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Honestly I feel disturbed, and not in a good way. Recently I learned that people with disabilities are denied medical care that others get. I read about how beds are inaccessible in Australia so people don't women don't get appropriate examinations. Apparently denial of care happens in NZ but people and articles aren't good at providing credible sources so I have to do more research into this. If you have particular examples please message me. I have discovered other disturbing facts about disability and the medical industry but I don't really feel like typing horrible events here, at least about other people.
This makes me wonder if am I a bad disability advocate. I often wonder the same thing about gay rights, considering I do more disability work. Perhaps blaming yourself for systematic issues is a bit narcissistic. I also don't like to refer to myself as a advocate frankly. However it's clear to me that there's critical issues that need resolving and people need to do more and this includes myself. However I am also happy continuing doing other stuff. It is about balance though, that balance is out of sync currently. I do view myself best suited to providing strategic advice and delegation. Mainly because I like to focus on multiple things at once. I'll also try to create more disability content for my network of sites. Perhaps this is self serving however I truly believe that growing a strong network would help the entity advocate in the long run. NGOs are apolitical mostly and in my opinion they screw themselves by doing this. Political organizations also frankly play it too safe. I believe that freeing yourself of maximum restrictions is the only way to do anything. Sometimes this means freeing yourselves from the group think in the disability community. However other times it's worthwhile to listen, research and change your mind. | |||
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Broods, Angerfist, Life |
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Saw Broods again, couldn't understand a word they said but good to have a night out with a friend.
Saw Angerfist, loved it. Took a picture with him. Well he wears a mask so I assume he's a he. I also assume he was actually there and not some random local wearing an Angerfist mask. I'm joking of course! I launched a music themed website, finally and probably will launch a few more in this area. I probably should just mainly focus on passion niches going forward. Knowing me I will probably just continue doing random shit but that's ok, something will pay off eventually. As long as I am slightly more focused on a few passion niches and getting stuff out there I will be happy. The good thing about passion niches is you can do what you love as a business. I have always wanted to do concert reviews but unfortunately I do too many things so that hasn't happened yet but hopefully I can sort this eventually. A problem with traveling for business is you have to take an assistant for a person like me. This adds up over time. Also considering airpoints, I could have gone on a free overseas trip already but of course I'm a cripple so I have to pay for two people. This also fucks me for conferences etc. So I have to do better at earning airpoints and do more to structure business around traveling. I did get the eye tracking API working with my own accessibility software but I still have to assess how accurate it is and need to sort out a switching system first. Unfortunately I'm having issues. Aside from that I'm working on something to semi automate Twitter usage and something to check statistics for multiple affiliate programs in one place. Nobody cares but this is my blog so I will write what I like. I could write about this new guy I am seeing but I am happily single so can't do that. Normal people also talk about their offspring, don't have those and I am thankful, and I would probably make a disastrous dad. I get sick of people if I spend too much time with them. People post about their pets. I wanted a new dog but said to myself they cost money. People regard me as cheap but really I just know how to hyper focus my spending on things that make me happy. I have to pay double for airfares anyway so yes I'm going to be even cheaper. Plus there's lost productivity since I operate the computer slowly. I need to get better about investing so money works for me. The same goes for websites, I really need to make them work for me better. | |||
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Software and music projects |
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Currently frustrated, am coding too much, need to get more things up. Though have launched about 4 sites this year and have a few more coming up. I should have more fun which is not related to getting sites up, I am super busy and need to have more fun.
I deeply regret not using OpenCV for eye tracking development, I probably could have completed that years ago. I'll probably revisit it soon. I badly need a new computer, but accessibility software sucks so I am forced to create my own. Hopefully that's nearly complete. I acquired publishing rights to my books. I don't really have time to get that sorted but will anyway. I really wanted to delegate that income stream. On the bright side I'll have an additional asset. I don't really do anything other than coding and web development. I wish that I could travel more, and go clubbing. Though I can't really be fucked going out, that's half the reason I quit comedy. So I need to connect clubbing to my business somehow. More on this in future blogs. Comedy was a business, but I primarily liked writing the jokes. I liked performing at the time but I just couldn't get myself to want to do it constantly. I am too use to my own company. Interacting with people can be exhausting and going out can be burdensome if you'd rather spend time writing software. I don't really want to go to concerts nowadays. Though I can't find a decent gig in Auckland. I could have gone to Boyzone, but they suck. Shawn Mendes, I am sick of the screaming fans. I don't want to spend money on someone I've seen before, that rules out half of the music industry. I liked going to Auckland occasionally, but I haven't been motivated to do that recently. I need a music role that would allow me to dip in and out whenever I want. I have something in mind but can't do it without massive capital. On a positive note I am slowly phasing in music projects, but I need to create an income stream for these to build that capital. Hopefully this works out. I have problems with people stealing my ideas, so I could be more reserved about what I give away. So key focuses for the immediate future is getting self publishing sorted, getting one or two music sites going and fine tuning technology to have sites update at least semi automatically. Oh hopefully eye tracking with an API is a few weeks away! | |||
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Wellington, Work, Running as a candidate |
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OK I haven't done this in a while. You're lucky I am blogging. I have shit to do.
Basically did nothing except went to Wellington last weekend. Fucking booking site didn't pass on the fact I needed an accessible room. Fucking incompetent. My flight home was late. Apparently it's perfectly acceptable to be late if you are in the medical, transport or aviation industry. I have shit to do! I still haven't wound down programming at work. I may do that soon. I am not inspired to do programming anymore. I want to launch more websites. I am currently doing a site in a passion niche. I am probably going to create a game around the niche, but that would require more programming. Programming isn't really the problem, I am just uninspired to start new projects and like doing content sites. I think I can do a game. I started a game interface seven years ago but never completed it. I have a ton of things like this. I do need to do a map interface. That is going to be fucking long winded, created one before. Oh well, gives me something to work on in my spare time instead of being frustrated because I can't pick something to do. I currently have two things I do in my spare time. (This is different from regular work time.) SEO research software and a another passion niche. I need to do less of the first because I am neglecting stuff I really want to do. This doesn't contain much humour but whatever. Someone will only steal my jokes anyway! Someone recently suggested I run as a candidate, again. People like to connect with people, I cannot talk. I don't see that happening. Also if there are debates I am fucked. I know that I am good, but it's probably impossible for me to create software that I can use to debate. Many people have suggested I run, some were probably being sarcastic. I also frankly like my job, yes I just finished bitching about how bored and uninspired I am. I have complete freedom to go anywhere I want, say anything I want. Especially considering I completely avoid attaching personal brands to businesses. In public life I would probably be asked to apologize every 5 minutes, and be asked to apologize again when I say fuck off I'm not apologizing. I am in the industries I want to be in all because I create sites for those industries. Granted I need to be better at making sites successful instead of constantly programming. Being in office sounds like a nightmare, I do need to improve my life, but that isn't how I would do it. | |||
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Slash, Fatboy Slim, Lilly Allen, Auckland, The Prodigy, Conclusions |
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Fuck, I have been to so many concerts recently I am having trouble remembering them all.
First, Slash in Auckland. I didn't really want to go but the event with All Saints was cancelled and the flights and accommodation were already booked, the music was OK. The fucking accommodation was going to put us upstairs the first night so we stayed elsewhere the first night. I got back Monday. Wednesday I went to Fatboy Slim. There was a particularly annoying blond woman trying to hold my hand all night. That's not the way I like to dance. Fuck off! The only way that I could stop her was shoving my hands in my back rest. Another blond was staring at me for some reason. Another woman said that she hoped someone was helping me, well she can fuck off too I am not fucking hopeless. And people wonder why I spend all day on a computer! Despite this it was one of the best concerts I have been to. They let me backstage when Fatboy Slim came on, which looking back has segregation issues but I was just hoping to meet Fatboy Slim, and I did. So that was fucking awesome. He tried to read my board but only got a few letters. Points for trying though. I was given a T shirt too. Excellent! Friday I went to Auckland again. I can't see me going to Auckland as much this year. I have been to 50 concerts, there's also nobody coming that I want to see. There's a few in Christchurch I am going to. I have got to go to Wellington twice this year which frankly is worse because I like cities with bigger populations. Wellington is just a hilly version of Christchurch. Some nice buildings though. I mainly go to Wellington because I am obligated to. I'll go to Auckland again when someone decent comes along. I am getting sick of being away from my main computer. Saturday I went to Lilly Allen. I managed to get in the second row. It was a good view when people weren't in my way. Some guys additionally went in front of me for the last song however the woman beside me told them to go elsewhere. The first act looked like she was in an orange jump suit. Issue was a great concert! Wednesday I saw The Prodigy, good music. Terrible venue! They fucking segregated me. I have been in hard rock mosh pits before so they can fuck off with their namby pamby conservative discriminatory crap. They restricted my access because I have a disability. Fuck them! Saturday I went home. Conclusion: If I want to dance in the crowd perhaps pop music is best. Although I don't really like being around screaming silly fans. Perhaps D&B/house/trance at clubs is a happy medium. I could be a DJ, but hate personal brands, I prefer to stay the background. My dream would be to manage a band and travel around with them. Alternatively own a club. Neither is something I can do until I get major cash flow. Wrote 5244 words while away. Most was content for websites. Hope that they help with cash flow eventually! | |||
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2019 plans, new years eve |
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| I think that I did fuck all since my last blog entry. Happy 2019 or fuck 2019 depending on your mood. My goals are to continue developing SEO analysis and niche research software and make a fuck ton of money with the results. The first phase is completed but need to improve it and finish the niche research system. I expect this to be ready in a month. I need to spend less time programming and more creating content sites, this is not going terribly well but hopefully I can do this in March. I need computer upgrades, and I want a disco light system for my room eventually. Well that and a wall TV. I was just given a TV and I grateful for that but I have a vision of a few screens me around plus a wall TV, you have to work towards something, right? I'm crap at making money but need to change it this year. I say that every year but late last year I acquired some premium SEO courses and education. Hopefully I can put these to good use and get some capital to invest. I hopefully have just about finished an eye tracking system. It's not the system I originally wanted but will hopefully do for now. I also want to launch Windows programs and do more marketing of my web products. I want to launch a (better) clothing website with funny T shirts. Hopefully I'll get around to launching a music site this year too. I wanted a production company but that will have to wait until capital starts flowing in, whenever the fuck that is. I am crap with making money because I focus on building many types of software instead of getting things out to the world but the SEO software will help me do that. Oh I went out on new years. Fucking chair malfunctioned. This head gear is a piece of shit, needs replacing. First bar I went to it was completely dead in the dance area, everybody was in the smoking area. So went to Mickey Finns. Then went to Rock Pool which was more to my and/or I was piss drunk because I enjoyed it much more. I really don't like bars with cover bands. I find that boring. It's always the same songs that you hear every time. | |||
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Catherine Tate, Meeting, Shania Twain, SEO |
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I went to Catherine Tate, sometime in the past. It was a very funny show but thought that the Bovvered sketch could have been better. I also thought that the videos in between sketches were a bit shit.
Before that (or after) I went to a disability issues meeting. I like to be as productive as possible so I frequently blog when I am away from my programming computer. Problem was I was blogging about how some people don't go to disability meetings because they think that they are talk fests. I didn't notice that the person taking the meeting was reading my screen. By the way always ask before you do that! If you don't it's your problem as far as I am concerned. Luckily he thought that what I was writing was interesting and shared it with the group. As far as the meeting itself, honestly I don't consider spending time on the history of the New Zealand Disability Strategy a productive use of time. I also question the usefulness of discussing things at a table and leaving 90% of what's discussed there without any action. Well OK, that is not really useful. Sorry! Maybe come up with a different model for meetings. Tuesday I went to Auckland to see Shania Twain, the concert was Wednesday, I didn't want to come early but it worked out great. Concert was pretty good. First act was OK. He tried to be funny, keyword tried. People should pay me to write jokes. Shania had good effects. Thursday I am going home. Probably will post this today. My move towards doing more SEO is progressing. I am helping top SEOs and in exchange I get to learn from them. So that is cool. Trouble is I do too much programming to focus on ranking stuff in search engines. I'll cut back programming next year and try to focus more on ranking sites. Apparently small sites still work under specific conditions so maybe I will invest in those plus some bigger ones after my own SEO software is running. 90% of the SEO industry really doesn't know what the fuck they're doing. They either build shitty backlinks or think backlinks are the devil. You can rank sites without backlinks but you can do it more effectively with backlinks. I'm not calling people in the Good Content Club idiots, but I think that there are more efficient ways of ranking sites. If some of them make money by ranking the specific types of websites that perform under those conditions, good for them. Some SEOs don't know basic terms for fuck sakes and think that SEO is different than CRO, last decade that may have been correct but that is just an utterly delusional attitude at this point. This industry is full of complete idiots. It's like working in economics or politics! If you do SEO for me and do shitty backlinks I'll fire you. You can fuck off and do that for people who don't have a clue about SEO. In my opinion shitty backlinks are not entirely worthless depending on the niche but could get your website flagged for review and don't have as much power as high quality backlinks. If people are going to work for me I expect my instructions followed to the letter. | |||
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Dunedin, Taylor Swift,, Sleeping |
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A few weeks ago I went to Dunedin. I don't particularly like going to small towns but many of the things I attended I enjoyed.
Apparently comedians are meant to enjoy going to small towns. I need high buildings and a large population for a city to be enjoyable. That part of comedy wasn't going to sync with me. Random rant about comedy over. Since leaving stand up comedy I have learned some people perform to make themselves feel better. I however like being cynical. It's the same reason that some people constantly post positive crap on Facebook, they're just trying to cheer themselves up. I am very happy being bitter and don't need to pretend to be something I not. The world is beyond fucked. Thursday I went to Auckland. The trip pretty much sucked apart from seeing Taylor Swift. It was good to spend more time on business blogs though. Friday was the concert and it was surprisingly fucking awesome. All three performers were good. (CharliXCX and Broods also performed, though mostly couldn't understand a word the second band said) I particularly liked the light show from Taylor Swift which included lights on people's arm band syncing to the music, it looked awesome. Replaced my third coffee of the day with hot chocolate, now I don't get insomnia as much even after typing for 6-8 hours. Though spent at least two hours listening to music before bed. Maybe I should test that volume of typing with one hour of music time but probably won't be soon. | |||
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Rants, SEO and Cher |
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Yes my monthly blog is late, I don't care. I have better things to do than to write about my life most weeks. Shock horror I'm not a narcissist that takes every opportunity to write about himself. You are lucky I bother to post crap on Facebook, or unlucky if you dislike my crap.
My friend requests are back to public. I have hidden my gender and display public "interested in men" to see if I can attract male spam bots. So far, nothing. I suppose that is a better consequence of hiding my gender from public but does say that blackhats have shitty algorthms that do not account for gays. Conclusion: Received a friend request from a female bot, my theory didn't work. If they get too annoying I'm restricting friend requests again. Speaking of blackhats. I have decided to focus more on SEO. (search engine optimization) I am not going blackhat but I am beginning to see blackhat SEO as a way to trick Google, experimenting more seems like a fun challenge and I'll probably dabble with it from time to time. I won't do anything illegal. However experimenting is worthwhile, I am just being a computer scientist. I don't really care about what hat I am wearing as long as I don't break any laws. Most of my stuff will continue to be whitehat. Blackhat stuff is mostly useful for turn and burn stuff which I do not do. However recently I discovered evidence based SEO and that's interesting to me. If I can earn money with these experiments that's also good. I prefer long term assets but turn and burn could be useful for experiments. Just call me a mad computer scientist. I am also creating SEO tools which I expect to use in a few months. Last Wednesday I went to Sydney. Had some Jack Daniels samples at Duty Free, because I could. Sydney took a long time to get my wheelchair. Turns out we booked a non wheelchair friendly place, regulations in Australia must be crap. Apparently I had to be upgraded to the Deluxe room. If this is the Deluxe room I would hate to see what their regular rooms look like. Thursday was the Cher concert. She gets a C for too many Costume Changes. I didn't like the way she performed Strong Enough. She didn't perform some of the songs I liked like You Haven't Seen The Last Of Me and This Is A Song For The Lonely. Definitely a C. Just call me a concert snob. I did stand far for almost the entire time though with my stand up wheelchair. Friday I am spending most of the day writing blogs. Saturday I am going home. On the planes I blogged and watched Westside. The scheduling fucked up and my PVR didn't record half the episodes so it was good to watch it. TV selection otherwise has gone downhill. Also it's totally fucking stupid having Antarctic scenery on the screens in our NEW ZEALAND national airline. What the fuck? I probably should make more of a effort to have Grindr when I go to Australia. | |||
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Pink, Bob Dylan, Concert, Business, Idea |
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It is Wednesday before I post this. I lead an exciting life. Just had some meetings since last time I blogged then going to a Pink concert tonight, second time seeing her. In Auckland. The flight attendant said that he knew how important my computer was to me. I am glad that I have a reputation as a computer geek. That wasn't sarcasm. I am a proud nerd.
Also saw Bob Dylan in Christchurch. My life is exciting comment seems less sarcastic now. For most of the show I couldn't tell where he was. It could have done with some screens. The mic was at the piano and you couldn't see it. Business wise, still pretty fucked. One site is now receiving Google traffic. I need to get Google traffic on more sites and turn them into true assets. I have started my yearly half day holidays and planning to spend some of my holiday time developing sites. I am a geek with nothing else to do! I have no interest in seeking a partner, well at least not one that requires me to actually spend time with them, beyond the bedroom. I don't currently have someone suitable. So I guess my sites can do with my spare time. Again, total geek. #sorrynotsorry why am I putting hashtags in a blog? The Pink concert was good. I didn't enjoy her covers, she has of own music. The DJ before her was crap. First band I didn't see much of, and that was fine. Was a bitch not getting General Admission tickets. I moved by the door before her last song but she was flying around the room for it so that was probably a mistake. Sister thought that she sounded better in Sydney. It all still a great concert with awesome effects. Great trip overall. I almost want to try how the effects would work with stand up comedy. Perhaps once I am crazy rich from websites. | |||
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Projects and speaking |
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For the past two months I have worked on integrating Print-On-Demand abilities into my event listing software and ecommerce software. Nearly fucking done, took much longer than expected. I can move on soon. Next I need to conquer social media automation, SMS APIs, and advertising APIs. Code for the first two is mostly complete. I should have some great products to use and to sell. I'm a crap seller but have learned some new techniques recently, fingers crossed! Was going to take some time off in August (half days) but I am busy so I can leave it until September, right prick for my spare time projects though.
Monday I spoke at Canterbury University, I love doing speeches. I'm going to turn my speech into an article for my disability site, even though Google still seems to hate that particular site for some reason. I will still try to improve content until things start to rank. I've started doing articles for my event listing software, plus I'm doing content for another set of sites, I am playing the long game. Hmmmm I want it shorter though. I am going to take three months to do passion projects for half days as my holidays then with any luck I'll generate some income from passion projects to justify spending part time on them. This may be boring but I don't lead an exciting life so fuck off if you don't like my rants. Hopefully to FINALLY put my accessibility software to practical use later this month. Apparently I should work on releasing my text to speech queuing system too as some people don't have such software. | |||
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Music video, projects, porn stars, YoutTubers |
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Another one of these, fuck.
Filmed a music video, not mine obviously. Though I could be a musician but I am not right now. Filming a music video was something on my to do list, was it a new years goal? Probably not, but let's say it was and I achieved it! Horray! Let's just ditch all the other goals because I have achieved fuck all of them. I can always put some back in. So I have achieved my only goal. Yipee! And people say you can't make your own reality! I say as long as you say you're doing it, it's ok! Projects are dragging on and I want to do more passion projects. Hopefully I can finish off the boring crap in July and I can move on. The projects started off as passion projects but I'm sick of them, I want to move on. I have a bad case of shiny object syndrome but I view it as building things up. Surely more assets are a good thing. However I know what I want to focus on in future, but I need to finish current projects. I am hoping one of these projects will help me increase the profits from my comedy T shirts and that may help my production company. I think long-term. I am following porn stars on Twitter, should I be admitting this? I don't care anymore. It's interesting, they tweet about how they want a relationship, though I guess that is what people do. Apparently they enjoy their job because they don't have to worry about STDs etc. I was told it was difficult to film but many say it's a good experience. Some have thousands of followers, some have fan accounts that actually seem crazy obsessed, many stars will retweet their fan accounts. I am finding this world fascinating. I am trying to grow a following by being one of the first to reply to pictures etc. Yeah I'll probably stop soon and try a different approach as growth has been slower the last few days. Unrelated rant. Can't stand YouTubers that say guys, literally or actually every ten seconds. They literally annoy me and it's literally like nails on a blackboard. I was literally told repetition is a bad writing practice. I literally try to not do it anymore. See how fucking annoying it is? I should probably stop clicking on their videos. | |||
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Richard Dawkins, business, sex |
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Since last blogging I went to a speech by Richard Dawkins, rather boring beginning but it was OK from the middle onwards. He was entertaining but extremely dreary at the beginning. I know he's not a entertainer, well hopefully. Presentation was still good, glad I went.
I follow more business people on YouTube, some appear to be assholes but some are OK. I followed someone because he said he does business to get laid, which I can totally relate but apparently socialism is evil, fuck the government, fuck paying taxes blah blah blah. You get those types in business I guess. Following business people helps you spot their tactics. Like "I am doing a webinar", but it's pre recorded and the person probably isn't doing the chat. What a bunch of crap. why pretend you're live when you're not. I also hate people who delay telling me the price and instead play a sales game. Give me the information or fuck off! I do not buy from people who do that shit. I also watched a ton of drop shipping videos. Sounds difficult if you need to fuck around with ringing your bank to start, would be OK if you can talk. I'm doing too much to consider drop shipping, I'll stick to programming, print on demand and affiliate programs. Also you can't automate drop shipping, I like automation. Some people use virtual assistants to do it. Maybe I'll dabble in it sometime but getting other projects up is a priority. I was reading a blog post and it says the disability community needs to talk about sex more. If it would increase the people who are willing to have sex with us I'll be all for it, but I don't think it would. A lot of disability advocacy is saying things in an echo chamber. I have previously written about sex many times and will probably start an anonymous blog at some point. Though for others feel free to write about sex but I am just skeptical how helpful it will be as the programming of society is fucked. | |||
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POD, Business |
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Since I last blogged I went to P.O.D. and was fucked off that I found out about Simple Plan days before the gig and couldn't plan to go. How was P.O.D.? Music, good, venue staff, good, accessibility, shit, absolute shit. It had stairs and I couldn't go upstairs so sat on an arm chair at the back. What a fucking liberty as nan says, not my nan, a character off Caterine Tate. We were told it was accessible, Emailed the ticketing place who said that it was accessible, didn't hear back. What a fucking liberty. If I had known that I would have gone to Auckland instead of Wellington.
Nothing else to report as far as gigs etc. In my work I have completed two 1890+ word product descriptions, working on the third. Apparently people like three sentence paragraphs and headlines. Obviously I'm not doing that here, if you can't be fucked reading long paragraphs that's entirely your problem and feel free to fuck off. I am even doing some article writing in spare time projects but most of it is programming. Half my work time is still programming. I am also working on making my sites compatible with mobile screens. That's all for now. Actually can I say how much I hate responsive site coding and backwards compatibility? Of course I can, it's my blog. There are no good solutions. I try to make my code as backwards compatible as possible unlike many piece of shit designers. They don't consider people with disabilities that are forced to use old technologies. Fuck them a thousand times. I am probably behaving this way because I collectively spent about a day on a problem and still not sure if the solution works in older browsers but it appears the best I can do. Or I am just an angry bastard, or insomnia, probably a combination. My main blogs aren't completely converted to a responsive design yet. Hopefully next month. | |||
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Me, blogging, Wellington |
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If you think you know me, you probably don't. Most people assume that they know me because of my few year career as a comedian and these blogs. They only reveal so much. People make assumptions about what they think you are, it's all projection. Sometimes this has positive and negative consequences. Very few people know the real me if anyone at all, one is kind of close (and some people would probably mistakenly think it's them) but the rest of the people reading this probably only know me to a certain degree. I do like being honest but most people don't take an interest, though I also don't like talking to people online. People get their own ideas about who they think you are and go based on that. Even people in the right wing love the fact I'm politically incorrect etc.
One thing you probably don't know is that I used to be very good at getting my websites at the top of Google. Dominating rankings was as easy as buy keyword dot com. For my main business for eight years; I held the top spot. Since then I swapped the business for another business, was probably a mistake. I keep telling people I am a nerd and I like being a businessman so getting my sites on top of Google is important to me. Things have changed, to be on top of Google you need about 1800 words, though probably less for less competitive terms. My point is maybe it's best for me to reduce my personal blogging in order to do this. Maybe this means just monthly blogs. I'll try to keep my weekly news blogs but I am getting fucking sick of the news recently. It's all what a fucking idiot Orange Buffoon is. At this point if he set off a nuclear bomb well that would least be different than people getting outraged that he is a racist asshole, or his tweets, or his tweets that prove he's a racist asshole. You probably seen I tend to brush off these types of stories, I am sick of this shit. It would also be ideal to pay a person to write articles for the business side but for now I am stuck with myself. So perhaps this blog is going monthly. Saturday I am in Wellington, I try not to publicly announce when I am going away these days. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean people are not trying to fuck you. No offense to people who like being fucked. And this is the reason I don't like advertising my accomlishments or connecting businesses to my name. I like saying crazy things and feel I can accomplish more from people behind the scenes. Plus there are advantages to people underestimating you, you can surprise them. It is also a good way to remind yourself that you're not a total narcissist and don't need to take credit for things. Fuck taxis that come 1 and a half hours after you ordered them. I was looking forward to my home computer. It's Sunday. Fuck Christchurch taxi companies, they fucking suck. WHAT A FUCKING LIBERTY! | |||
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Limp Biskit, Music, Dating sites |
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Monday I went to Limp Biskit. Had insomnia so really wasn't planning to go up the front. However I saw it wasn't crowded at break so probably against my better judgment I thought that I would. You kind of have to dance when you go up the front otherwise people will probably annoy you to get you to dance. Anyway met this girl, she got me further up the front. Limp Bisit even walked by me and gave me a "hell yeah". So that was my second favourite concert experience, even beating the one in LA. I also got a set list, a pick and a pair of drum sticks. Oh and a hat, not entirely sure that it is ethical to keep gifts from drunk people. I don't know for sure he was drunk. So now I have a hat.
I am finally working on my music site again, wait didn't I say a post or two ago that I have no time for music projects? I say a lot of things. I have been wanting to launch a music site for two years. If I don't do it now I'll probably never do it. I'll do it simultaneously with developing marketing automation tools in spare time. I am still progressing the production company but decided that it was a bit pointless working on screenplays if I don't have the capital to produce them. Using that time to launch stores instead. One is already up. I need to get better at marketing, that's why developing marketing automation tools is a key focus. Quiz sites could be something I do, was thinking last night I could combine them with my music site and create post event surveys, I know they're not quizes but very similar. I was approached by a dating site to partner with a few weeks ago but later found out that they probably use chat bots. In other words they're scamming people by getting fake profiles to talk to them. Yeah, that is not the type of site that I wanted to run. Glad that I declined. Probably will do a site or two using my own software after one or two marketing automation tools are running. Also glad I'm happily single since half the sites are probably scams. Did join a specialized dating site a few years ago (not disability related) I didn't pay anything because I am a cheap bastard, glad I didn't now. | |||
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Bruno Mars, Jimmy Barnes, James Blunt, business |
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Monday I went to Auckland, fucking accommodation was cancelled. They also didn't say it was cancelled until about four hours after we rang the booking company. They said they were sending a key. What the fuck? They should have told us it was cancelled when we first rang, or the second/third/forth time we rang. The hotel that we were staying at had a cancellation at about 10, had to pay extra for that room. Even a surcharge. What bastards actually. They could have waived the surcharge out of common decency.
Tuesday the booking company relocated us to the top floor at Barclays Suites. Nice! Good view. Then we went to Bruno Mars, some songs were good. The bangs can fuck off. Thursday we went home. Saturday I saw Jimmy Banes. Didn't really want to go after four days in Auckland and not being able to do programming but he was great. Most songs sounded the same though. Also enjoyed The Feelers. Didn't enjoy an annoying person putting my hands up. If dancing like that was natural for me I would already be doing that. Do people think I'm a puppet? Fuck off! Thursday the next week I saw James Blunt. Don't really like his music so I wasn't sure if I could be bothered going. However I decided to buy a ticket Wednesday and go. Turns out, pretty good music. His most famous song is kind of crap but most of his other songs I was impressed with. I was amused that someone asked another person in a wheelchair if she liked James Blunt. I thought what a fucking stupid question to ask someone at a concert. I know that I said that I was not a fan of him before the concert, but I am the exception to the rule. Also I was glad that I went. Looking forward to Limp Bisit on the 19th. Business wise I'm finishing up documentation for software products then maybe I will work on sales pages. On the creative business side I'm spending just one more half day on screenplays next week then I'm going to launch three separate clothing lines to help fund productions and other projects. I need to work out promotion strategies and work that into the price, and probably do the same for my software lines. Most of the time I spend on product development, however that can't go on and I need to start promoting. | |||
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Ventures, Kevin Bloody Wilson, music, Facebook |
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I had additional ideas regarding dating sites, I might move that project up. However the first priority is working on films productions and I am now working with a friend to sell his products. These two things are the priority for the next two months, along with regular programming/manual creation.
Tuesday two weeks ago, fucking busy day. Had a dentist appointment, turns out they sent the wrong mouth guards. They kept falling out. I got the harder ones today. Then I spent a few hours dealing with my new wheelchair. Fuck knows how long that is going to then. Lastly, went to Kevin Bloody Wilson, my brother liked it much more. I liked one of his Christmas songs, but overall not my style of humour. I think that I will need to postpone my music projects a few months more, up to six, however maybe I can work on DJ software before that, maybe parody songs while I'm away in Auckland etc if I have time. Yes, these are not my only music projects. I do a lot of stuff! Maybe I will just do the other music stuff at random times. I am human and I type slowly. I am not writing and selling books on facebook. (my Facebook posts are not going in a book is my point, I sell books and you should buy them) Y'all will get the spelling and grammar that I can be bothered to produce, same with blogs. It's not my problem if people get hung up on stupid shit rather than focus on the substance of the posts. If I'm unclear just say that you don't understand. People who waste my time with stupid shit will get unfriended or blocked. I never used to do this but my tolerance for idiots on facebook screaming CHEMTRIALS, 9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB, AND YOU ARE NOT USING THE PROPER CAPITALIZTION has gone way down. Fuck off! Capitalization people really fuck me off FOCUS ON THE FUCKING SUBSTANCE ON WHAT I AM SAYING also my accessibility software is shitty, sometimes when I use upper case it doesn't work and will put them in random places. I am typing on facebook not writing a fucking book. I type slowly and don't like Facebook anyway. I am busy. This is not to a particular person; I just read a post this morning saying FUCK PEOPLE WHO BITCH ABOUT LANGUAGE. I agree, if you can't focus on substance that's not my problem. No need to bitch about the repetition of this paragraph, I am aware of that but have to work rather than spend more time on this. | |||
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Birthday, profile picture |
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It's Friday. I am at a birthday, I am blogging. Had two Sambuccas. I figure that I will have fuck all time to blog this weekend. There's a fucking fly hanging around me. Fuck off. Rest assured I am enaging engaging in conversation. So much so much I only wrote this.
Did nothing else since I blogged last. Apparently the waiter was hot, I thought that the blond one was hotter but he was not our main waiter. Apparently people can't stand Sambucca, I love the stuff. I forgot to actually give my present to the person. In my defense I didn't buy it, because buying presents for people is a thing nice, considerate people do. Doesn't sound like me. I should have at least given the presents people buy on behalf of me. Fuck sakes. Lucky my brother is actually a nice guy and dropped it off. This is posted early because I planned to work today due to a day of interruptions Tuesday but also had insomnia the past two nights. Fucking bastard. I am back with the "mean" profile picture on Facebook. If I put up something remotely hot people in India constantly contact me wanting to hook up because Thane is a city in India and apparently people don't bother reading or disbelieve my actual location. If I put up a wheelchair I'm constantly bothered by people with disabilities wanting to chat. I type slowly and really am not a people person. I also am fucking busy and don't want to be bothered by random people online unless it's business related. Back to mean face. | |||
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New wheelchair, Alanis Morrisette |
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Wednesday I had people over to fine tune my new stand up wheelchair, it needs more fine tuning. Worked the Saturday before and took the day off. Also redeemed a few public holidays.
Saturday I went to the middle of nowhere to see Alanis Morrisette. Maybe I will just stick to big cities. Local comedians love small towns, I hate them. Travelling is only fun if you can hookup! Tempting to go on a walk way bridge, but my chair would probably collapse it, so fuck that. Have to go to Dunedun later this year, fuck small towns! Not such a problem with this trip. Morrisette will be worth it. Sunday I travelled to another middle of nowhere for the concert. It was worth it. I was at the front. Some mad bitch wanted me to go in the middle of the front but I deemed that too much hassle, she asked about five times. Mad bitch. Could have done without the vomiting there, sunburn and insomia. Good concert otherwise. Monday I will just say fuck hotel internet! I was going to get a Vodafone stick this trip. I didn't get around to it. Couldn't load pages out in the middle of nowhere. Travelled to an apartment in Auckland, the internet is again not fucking working, fuck this shit. Pre pay is fucking expensive but I have no fucking internet. Fuckidy fuck fuck fuck fuck. Tuesday I am going home and posting this. Well I had ten minutes of working internet at the second hotel. Fucking useless! I wrote about six blogs though. Suddenly interested in starting a dating site for young hot guys (and older guys that want to date/hookup with them, like me!) but due to my project load it could be four months before I can start working on it. Better get more disability and music projects launched first. I will probably work on some backend parts before then as I can sell the software. I also have developed model agency software but I don't know how I can operate an agency myself, worse case I can just sell the software; so far I have developed it all in my spare time. I do projects in fields that I am passionate about. I also am working on automating stuff. Main passions are music, screen writing and hot guys. Disability technology and ecommerce too. Still don't have staff yet. I will consider getting some in a few months. May as well try as automate as much as possible before hiring. | |||
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Comedy, sitcoms, music |
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I tried to do comedy this week, but couldn't get a spot. Oh well. I am probably not performing in the near future. I should write more screenplays and play with my music production software if I am doing anything in the arts. This will be the goal for the next three months. I new have acquired two industry level cameras. I should actually work out how to film some productions, by that I mean actual planning to film.
I suddenly have the urge to crowd fund an over the top, crazy sitcom, but obviously low budget. I don't know, maybe this could be a future goal. I could fill it with some really fucked up characters and the whole thing will be chaos. This is a good idea. I could go through a network (well no, but hypothetically) but maybe crowd funding comedy makes sense. I heard a theory that sitcoms aren't funny nowadays due to political correctness. I am not sure how true this is, but I have watched some sitcoms recently, they seem like dramas. Although I laughed very hard at a Will And Grace scene recently. I am friends with a very big TV enthusiast and she always says sitcoms aren't funny anymore. So, what the fuck happened? They once were. I loved Becker, Titus, Will And Grace. Very happy the last one is revived. How did we get from those to today's unfunny shows? Was it political correctness? The absence of a laugh track? Though Arrested Development was good, and it didn't have one. Being a performer I know how infectious laughter can be. It's possible people would laugh more with a laugh track. Which direction I'll go with this, I don't know. Asking Facebook, though in the past it has proven to be fuck all help to things that actually matter to me. I had two problems watching a few series of Cougar Town. First again, not that funny, more like a drama. Second the absence of young hot guys, there was only one in the main cast and not even guests, at least in later seasons. Fucking pathetic for something called Cougar Town. May as well be called Middle Aged People Hang Out, Town. Though less catchy! Maybe I should just work on a pilot episode in between other artistic projects. OK spoke to the TV enthusiast. She said it's probably more to do with must having likable characters instead of having sitcoms focus on comedy. There's probably something to this; why wouldn't you have a sitcom focus on comedy? That seems stupid for starters. We don't need to overblow the likeable characters and story telling. That's what dramedies are for. Sure you need these things to an extent, but situation comedies should focus on comedy, fucking duh??? Anyway since most sitcoms are cancelled after two years, maybe again I should just crowd fund a sitcom, some sketches, or both and not bother with the networks. About political correctness, sure I complain about it but people are also quick to blame it on everything in society. Sometimes it's not the "feminist nazis" that is are problem, you're just not that funny. I am sick of comedians like Bill Maher and Jerry Seinfield whining about political correctness and college campuses. A good comedian should say fuck it I'm doing what I want anyway. I think comedians; both local and in the US are not aware of the power of the internet. You don't necessarily need TV. The internet alone can be a very powerful promotional tool. I am now mixing vents. The locals should accept my offers to develop online promotion tools. Back to Bill Maher, he did lose his show once. However political correctness is not something you can magically change, so your best solution is to find ways around it rather than constantly bitch about it. This is posted Monday due to insomnia, had it most nights last week but hopefully I've solved my pain problem. Having it Saturday night was a different origin, night out, had to work computer, trying not to throw up. I didn't! Also had regular pains, but that is happening much less since I am putting my leg in different positions, again hopefully it is solved. Went to a party, they got me to do music. If I had known I would have finished my DJ software so I didn't have to suddenly change songs. Couldn't find half of the songs on the computer! My DJ friend hates requests, although dealing with drunk people is funny. One took three minutes to think of a song going ummmmmmm... almost have it... ummmmmmm the entire time, sorry but that was fucking hilarious, I didn't have her song, or the majority of songs requested. Perhaps what my friend says, "if you want requests you should get a juke box not a DJ" has some validity. Although maybe a solution is getting my DJ automation software going. Though I like DJing. Clearly I need to get more songs or a streaming service if integrating requests. | |||
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2018 |
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I would say happy new year but that would mean wishing people joy and happiness.
This has turned into a I'll post whenever the fuck I get around to it blog. I'll try to do every two weeks on average. I'm in hibernation mode. Did go out for new years. Went to 3 bars. Enjoyed the last but then they changed the music. Think I enjoyed listening to Pulzar FM more in the van coming home. Someone said Jesus loves me, well if that were true I'd be much richer and get loads more sex. Lately I'm getting annoyed when people randomly throw religion at me. I know I shouldn't but can't help it. Also if Jesus loves everyone he's obviously not very selective. I am very selective, I only love myself... Also my family, and a few other people. New years goals. THESE ARE NOT RESOLUTIONS! Take public holidays off or acquire them for when I need them. Launch my music site. Learn more music production. Work on starting a film production company. create documentation for about eight projects. Oh fuck! I am currently programming a tool to semi automate this work. Launch Windows software, as well as web based stuff. Launch an accessible places directory. I was going to run an open mic night but I am probably too busy, we'll see. This is probably the only way I'll do more gigs unless I'm hired or have an overseas trip. I am improving my software capabilities in regards to live subtitles and laugher analysts. Maybe I'll do some gigs to test. Get employees and work on marketing automation. Set time goals for some of these. Probably go on an international trip. Buy some crypto currencies. Also finish software for financial trading. Upgrade computers Start mobile development Buy at least one new phone Do other work/stuff I'm interested in. Quite the list! This year I need to be focused on creating documentation, launching stuff and hiring employees rather than constantly adding new features to stuff I never get around to promoting. I need to limit my time on new features and get things market ready. I wish guys would stop coming on to me online! Had to reject 3 people in two months! I prefer to find my own! I must do more of that this year. No interest in a relationship though. | |||
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Sia 2017, comedy |
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Monday I am going to Auckland, made up about 2.5 days of before and will probably work Saturday. I am back to working full days but insomia came back, don't know if it's related. Will see. Apparently some people work less nowadays, though generally I like my job.
Using time away to do some research. Tuesday I went to a Sia concert. Support acts were good, apart from the second one mentioning Auckland every five minutes; does she think we forget where we are? Her music was good though. Sia's act was having music videos acted out which was amusing and weird. Had my favourite mini donuts but sat on one pack. Never leave things on my seat. Oh I absolutely hated the wheelchair platform, too far away from the Stage. If I buy a general admission ticket I should be allowed in the general admission section. Fucking stupid namby pamby policies. I wonder if I should complain to the culture arts and minister, who is also the prime minister, don't see why not! Thursday I went home. Friday i am seeing a friend. Sunday a BBQ. People were complaining about Sia because she just sang. Fuck them. I was frequently laughing at the dancers. Maybe you should fucking research shows before you buy tickets if you're pissy about things. Complaining that a singer just sang is like complaining that I am a super bitch. Not everyone can be Pink! The only show I really hated was the Vengaboys but even then I really enjoyed the support acts. I do sometimes go to shows without knowing what to expect, but concerts are a good excuse to travel; I am easy going. I am thinking about my own comedy night series. Just because I have project ADHD, and to support the comedy community. Apparently people think I don't. Total bullshit! I keep telling people I am a nerd. If they wanted help with technology all they need to do is ask. In fact I have made countless offers. I think that people expect me to be something I'm not. I also don't think that the local scene harnesses technology to its potential. They're working on old models, mostly. The world is changing, it's worthwhile to try and change with it. Not saying do away with offline shows. However digitally selling sets/membership sites and newsletters/apps could be very good for revenue and promotion. I am doing work in this area already. People say that I should optimize my sets; what better way than to run my own gigs. There will some revenue and work going around, including for others. I don't recall being hired in NZ this year, but that's fine as I have been busy developing technology and was hired in Brisbane! I'll look into my own gigs and build up technology and assets (like amps) at the same time. Comics need stage time so I'm helping the community too. If I get too busy to perform I'll still run the gigs, they'll again be useful to develop technology. What did I tell you? I am a massive nerd! People should fucking appreciate nerds more! I'm in search for a willing wheelchair accessible venue. I'm finally getting my own commercial voice but that's a subject for next time. | |||
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Concert, DJ |
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Yes, this is a week late. deal with it. Was too busy last week and swapped my Sunday to Friday for a DJ gig Saturday. Lots of work to prepare. Unfortunately I couldn't do it with my own software as intended. Will take a look at the DJ software I developed next month. I tend to break from projects when things don't go well, had lots of breaks from eye tracking! Project load hasn't decreased but now I can focus on projects. I also committed myself to producing a radio show, but what's one more thing to do?
Three Fridays ago I went to a concert. Went for Jason Derulo but also enjoyed Jonas Blue. Other acts were crap. In segregated seating, a friend beside me also seemed to hate the seats due to the lack of interaction with the stage. No shit, I prefer to be in general admission. You can see fuck all. Fuck all the fucking people who insist on having us back. My advice; just buy general admission. Venues can be talked into letting you on the floor from experience. You may have to settle for the side but it's still better than segregated seating. Two Saturdays ago I went to my sister's wedding. I forgot that I was a crippled vampire that doesn't function in sunlight; eye tracking wasn't going to work outside and barely worked indoors. If I wasn't DJing the wedding I'm sure anti social and workahollic me would have spent the entire time blogging; I quite liked DJing. Would have liked it better if my eye tracker wasn't a piece of shit. Next year I hope to finish my own DJ software. Not for any professional goals. I tend to build stuff just for something to do. Some stuff I build as spare time projects I'll eventually turn into products though. I could probably combine my DJ software with my DJ automation system; best of both worlds. Nothing else to say, so, bye! | |||
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Concerts, Project ADHD, Mad Computer Scientist |
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Sunday I went to Auckland for a concert. Enjoyed Kelis and Ne-Yo. Saw a bit of Sean Paul, had to leave early because I had something else to do. There was only one really crap act who seemed to be getting off on telling the crowd what to do. I generally don't like acts doing this. "Put your hands up in the air" If I wanted to pay for someone to tell me what to do I'd hire a BDSM hooker. Yes I get it's concert culture blah blah blah, clearly not my thing. If I am paying you should be my puppet.
Monday I went home, short but good trip. I think my project ADHD has hit crisis point. I want to do too many things. Just this week I resumed eye tracking development and researched how to build a SMS application. I have been talking about launching a music site for about a year, never get around to it. It's also tempting to presue similar faces technology and super resolution technology for video. Before that I am developing laughter analysis software to score jokes. I have a whole other line of entertainment software that I want to launch, same with ecommerce and building navigation software. I MAY have figured out the problem with my pitch shifting code so I can do singing synthesis/auto tune text to speech voices. I need people to sell! I occasionally inquire but it leads to nowhere. I'll try again in a few weeks. I also want to do screenplays and music production, I'll try and spend a few hours a week after a wedding I'm DJing, need to spend my arts time on that, before that it was Brisbane. The reason I'm developing a SMS application is so I can use phones overseas. There's a bunch of stuff I haven't mentioned. Perhaps I do too much. If I could monetize the building navigation and ecommerce products that would be a start. Some projects are small so although it feels like a crisis and overwhelming it may get better after a month or two. I decided that I like the term Mad Computer Scientist. People are free to call me that. This is a play on the term Mad Scientists, a common thing in pop culture. If you're sensitive to mental health issues, I am also quick to anger so it works for that too. | |||
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Brisbane 2017 |
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Tuesday I performed my final test before Brisbane. Had to delete some stuff, otherwise it went OK. It has been suggested that I do more crowd funding to travel. I am not really comfortable taking people's money but I am not going to rule this out entirely. I want to proceed with screen productions and music, but traveling with comedy is also appealing. Some people have said that I should tighten my script. I think that I am already hillarious but also think that trying to optimize is a good idea if traveling internationally. I will try to do more experimenting at paying gigs. Some artists frown on this but also frown on not tightening. I will do things my way. As long as I stay hillarious to the audience that is really all that matters. Should I want to travel internationally I will try and pick up more local gigs. Productions are the first priority. For years and years I have fantesized about hot guys, but also doing productions like sitcoms and legal shows. It's time for me to presue my dreams. Funding is an issue but I can start small, take things from there. Thursday I went to Brisbane. I can do lots of blogging here. Fuck it's hot on the plane. Slept for two hours last night. Fucking insomia. My fault for working late. Friday and Saturday I performed and also experienced some shows during those days. It went well. First time was the larger crowd. A man said he liked my comedy because it tells a story of what his mother must go through. Had some straight Vodkas, only about three. More international trips are appealing, funding is a problem. This one was fully funded. Thanks Access Arts Queensland! Would it be narsissistic of me to view my comedy as a public service? I am narsissistic, so that's OK. Sunday I went home. Didn't do about as much blogging as I would have like but as Tony Abbot says shit happens! Shit happened with my phone, couldn't get a SIM card, that was an utter bastard, must buy a new phone before my next trip overseas. Basically my phone is a dinosaur and some countries don't support 2G but the accessibility software for it closed down and I am not sure if the accessibility software will work because its serial number is tied to the model. Fuck that, that is a stupid fucking system. Fuck software developers that discontinue their software too. Maybe I can make my own software or find something else. Not being able to text locals is truly disabling. Otherwise good festival. Trying a margarita on flight home taste appears to linger. Good temporary effect. | |||
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Comedy, projects, politics |
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Performed 6 new minutes Wednesday, mostly went well, one dud line. I don't know if getting impatient for the crowd to stop laughing is a good sign or not? Have one more testing set, then hopefully two professional gigs. I may have something else that is going to require me to invent remote text to speech software so I can live speak at a remote location; I am looking forward to the project!
I was going to blog about the election but ended up doing it on my news blog last week. Some plans depend on which way it goes, ultimately I prefer left but I have plans to enact (a website to launch) if it goes right. Left would mean I can focus of other things instead of launching a site to do what the government refuses to do. Although the site would be easy but ultimately I have a zillion other projects and not having to do it would be easier. This blog is a bit short. Oh hurry the fuck up Winston. For people that complain he has all the power you should have done more to increase your side instead of bitching after the fact. This system is shitty but is at least better than parties winning with only 33% of the vote. All eyes on Winston, he probably likes it this way. Stupid pundits should stop mentioning a blue green government is a possibility, you're in an utter fucking fantasy world! Their base would leave the greens and the party would die. How many MPs did the maori party and United Future get? Oh that's right 0! Act 1! All parties had multiple MPs at one stage. Greens would die quicker because their core base is anti national. Greens are not just an environmental party but a their base largely prefers socialism too. Did your TV job come with cocaine? | |||
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Comedy and blogging |
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Tuesday I performed stand up comedy, I was fantastic, as always. Well most of the time anyway. Enjoyed it, I always do but I have to have an objective to do gigs. Need to test new content for Brisbane. I may have some other stuff lined up beyond that. However I'm developing a line up of arts related software and that will remain my primarily focus when it comes to the arts, and learning music production. I also want to professionally write comedy, can never get success finding jobs. Maybe I will email more producers or whatever after Brisbane. I am considering crowd funding productions, again after Brisbane. Maybe I should do animations first to build a base. I don't know. I get ideas, and don't have the manpower to capitalize on them. Some I start and forget, some never make it out of the development phase. Some active projects I don't devote enough time to; I just have to automate more of my work. Hey at least I'm not a president too stupid to do anything productive with the power. I feel much better!
I have a Patreon page that basically hasn't been used for years since its inception. I am wondering if the Pateron model would work for a disability oriented production company, could be worth doing. I know that I want to start the organization after Brisbane, undecided on what form. Regarding monetizing my personal blog posts, would be a dream come true, but I am not sure how popular I am. I am lucky if I get two likes per post LOL. I would like to spend more time blogging, but there's probably more creative avenues that would be better use of my time. I am finding it hard to restrict myself to one Brain Blog a month; I could do two however maybe monthly ensures I don't run out of content. I have a post on weight and psychology next month. I wanted to do technology blogs, but I just keep posting about psychology. A problem I have is between blogging and spare time projects I have almost no time for anything else, like researching new porn. I would love it if I could do some blogging in work time; alternatively porn. No not as a performer, I would definitely write scenes though. Would need to research what people like. There's a joke by Jimmy Dore "I'm a wanker, I don't want to do a medical examination" Do people really like the extreme close ups? Let me know? Also let me know how I can be paid for blogging; thinking of connecting my main disability blog to Patreon, that might be a start. Will probably connect a comedy division to my disability production company and talent agency. Sounds like a plan. | |||
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Ariana Grande 2017 |
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Tried another stand up wheelchair. No idea if I am going to get funding for it. The salesman has everything he needs to provide a quote. Hopefully I get it.
Never staying here again, practically a dump with shit access, both outside and the room. Slightly more privacy. YouTube doesn't work, facebook video does. Fuck that. It's Friday as I am typing. Off to Auckland. Having Burger King at airport, just because I can, I like soft meat, easier to eat. Sunday, back home. went to Ariana Grande Saturday. Music was pretty good, stage show was great at time. She pretty much just sang, which I know duh she's a singer but some singers also provide entertaining dialogue. I'd give the show a B. Does this count as a website review? Can I write off the trip as business? Probably not. I really need to start my music site so I can do that. I keep getting sidetracked with other projects. Latest is a DJ automation system. It's my first dual web and Windows project! Now to do programming for three hours. | |||
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Music, comedy, 32 |
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I don't feel like blogging; I have no idea how much I slept if at all. Let's say it was a rare time I got intoxicated. Although I did some work at the same time, for a DJ gig. Gives me experience in the field. I should note last night was totally sanctioned by my client, I don't have some horrible work ethic.
Fans of my comedy should note that I am probably going to resume stand up comedy in several weeks; got a probable overseas gig and need to test some new material. I am now 32. I really should start to make changes to my life; though need an significant income stream first. Eh perhaps I'll continue to build up stuff and do that next year. I don't want to be a birthday grinch, but I am not enthused. Every year I want to do something big, but my business always seems to be not as successful as I would like to warrant it, possibly next year. I need to travel more. At least I have one probable overseas trip, one per year is the bare minimum that I want. Recently I that overseas accessibility is not good. So maybe I can do something with that. I already have two tourism related ventures, perhaps combine those with a few other things and who knows? | |||
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Little Mix 2017 |
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After Auckland I went to the doctor and it turns out I have a chest infection, on antibiotics. With combined insomia due to hip pain all I could do is half sick days without much spare time programming projects. I didn't like it. I'm probably going to start my half holidays next week. I promised that I would do it for my month of birth.
The following Saturday I went to Auckland and again for a Little Mix concert. Weekend is turning out to be only slightly less crappy than last due to guys cancelling on me. I do enjoy getting rooms very high. On the 14th floor; I like the skyscrapper view. Room also has air conditioning. Stupid case sensitive Wifi password. Didn't work it out until the next morning. Would help if it didn't have a fUckedCode Concert was good, would have been better if I wasn't on antibiotics and could drink. Found their music to be diverse, enjoyed it. A criticism was they weren't on for long, however nothing could be as bad as the Vengaboys who danced to other people's music half the time, they didn't even use their own voices for many songs. Personally I'd rather listen to a short amount of original music than have them do random covers to fill in time. Monday I went home, not terribly happy about the 2pm flight, though I did get another two blogs done. 6 blogs in total I wrote. | |||
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Sugar Rios |
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Nothing noteworthy in the first week. Thursday the second week I went to Auckland for a Sugar Rios concert. Not feeling 100% so maybe just sticking to a segregated seat is worthwhile h. Almost didn't come.
Saturday now. Concert was good. Spent most of the first half in segregated seating but the music was kind of soft so I thought why not go down? They would only let me on the side for some strange reason; if people can't see me it's their problem, I just laugh when they crash into me and hope they're hot. Surprised the arena was so full a non English speaking band. Going home today. Generally I avoid annoucing when I go away on facebook unless you I absolutely have to. This time It avoided posting for two days in order to stop an annoying daily notificaton. You've shared 107 days in a row and your friends are responding. Don't care. Fuck off. I'll always post one every 96 hours and almost daily. I appreciate the incentive to not post. Was going to blog again next week but I think I am happy with a two week schedule for now. | |||
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Trial wheelchair, NdT, etc |
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Well insomnia continued for about a week then I was able to kick it, so far, it's Wednesday July as I am typing this... *opens email inbox* it's the 5th. Well I don't fucking know what the date is otherwise. Got a trial stand up wheelchair today, days off were adjusted to fit with this. For some reason I have leg pads, I hate them! They must incorrectly assume that I fling my legs out randomly. I don't! It's too restrictive, not getting one permanently. Just a chest strap will do for standing. Otherwise good apart from sharp parts. And things fall off randomly, hopefully they'll be secured if I get it permanently.
Last night I went to Neil deGrasse Tyson, enjoyed it, although the opening video kind of sucked and the topic frankly was a horrible fit for the rest of the evening; out of place. Let's criticize muslims for being anti science, because talking snakes in the Bible is totally science based and factual. Turkey is pushing for evolution not to be taught, so are legislators in Texas! Sure some parts of Islam are extremists, but the problem also exists in Christianity to a lesser extent. Right wing Christians have had some pretty crappy ideas too such as neoliberal economics, the Iraq invasion and oh not doing anything about climate change because God will save us; fuck off and fuck you. Neil didn't mention Islam, ridiculously out of place video. I'm blaming the Australian organization for that! Otherwise good show. Inspired to write about the myth of over population; he was answering a question about it and basically thinks that there's no such thing, which is basically what I declared on a Facebook post a few months ago. Smart man he is; most people who agree with me are. I also like the idea of science entertainers, will keep that in mind for upcoming talent agencies I run. Today (Sunday now) I took the trial wheelchair around the block, not bad, just turns too fast in comparison to going straight, can be adjusted, good chair. Bye for two weeks. Hopefully I will finally start my half holidays then! Having trouble bringing myself to not work full time, too much to do. | |||
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