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New Song – Love Detectives – We Wanna Go Up

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Love Detectives - (We Wanna Go Up)

2011 was a good year. But was it next-gen? We will see. Here’s a song called, “Love Detectives (We Wanna Go Up)” hopefully it helps bring a little bit of extra happiness to your new-year.

-Tyler

 

appreciation

Things are going very well lately. There’s a new song coming out in less than a week. Also I’m going to get new tires soon so that will increase fuel efficiency.

I’ve switched to journaling in my hardcover books. It different. But this is still good. Things are moving so fast lately. Not me exactly, just the world. I feel like I’m at a steady pace. Around normal speeds.

When I look back at how much this site has done for me, it is amazing. It’s almost as if the idea fuels itself. It’s hard to explain in words.

People talk of perpetual motion and infinite free energy devices. But doesn’t the human spirit do that? It needs nothing but time, and eventually a spring will come forth…waiting for the next memory to record itself.

-Tyler

 

Awesome links for piano and guitar chords

Guitar Tuner (Acoustic and Electric)

http://www.howtotuneaguitar.org/

Piano Chord Finder

http://www.gootar.com/piano/

Piano Chords

http://www.list-of-chords.com/D%23-minor-7th.php

Guitar Chords

http://www.chordbook.com/guitarchords.php

power of memes at the 99 cent store

thnx for the nice

thnx for the nice

So I was at the 99 cent store a couple weeks ago…trying to buy some coconut water. And I was paying with coins.

Why did I pay with coins? Well, I pay with change at the 99 cent store cuz I collect coins and that means I pay with cash alot. That means I have a great deal of unwanted coins lying around. These are mostly the ones that are of more recent years.

So anyway, I’m paying and counting my coins for coconut water and bandaids for my toe because I need to walk around town all the time in order to walk off my true emotions…and as I walk away a woman says to a stranger in line, “That’s like that commercial about the credit card and the guy’s paying with cash it it’s all slow…” Then the guy listening is just nodding from what I could see from the corner of my eye.

Yeah, thanks meme.

You just enabled someone to meme-mock me without even directly addressing my specific situation. Why? Because I wasn’t even paying with cash. I paid in coins. These were hard-earned coins.

I really don’t mind getting made fun of all the time. At least I found a 1954 quarter…I’m goona one day make a 1954 surfboard and give it to green lantern to sell to silver surfer for a big markup. Then he can use that money to pay someone to make a design of a machine that makes liquid nitrogen out of air. And then we can sell that liquid nitrogen and really get the ball rolling. Once we sell enough liquid nitrogen to eletromagnet companies I want to invest in the same company that owns her credit card. Then I’m going to send her a new credit card that replaces her name with, “MEME-MASTER.”

-Tyler

1954 San Francisco Uncirculated Quarter mix

1954 San Francisco Uncirculated Quarter

1954 San Francisco Uncirculated Quarter mix

I bought a hot Venti tea today. It was going to be charged $2.75…and I was like, “Um, so I’m pretty sure that Venti’s get 2 teabags…so I don’t think you need to charge me an extra 30 cents for an ‘add teabag’ (upset face).”

So then he fixed that an I got 55 cents back plus some bills. The cents were what I really cared about.

One quarter and a nickel were OK, but this nice quarter got my attention.

It had solid weight to it and it looked good. I wasn’t sure about it.

Then I looked at the date, “1954″ and I said, “OOOOOOH!!!”

It was an uncirculated 1954 San Francisco Quarter. So snapety snap snaps.

If you’ve read my article on pennies are expensive then you’d understand how much of a coin collector and enthusiast I am.

So when I saw the 1954 in there I was very happy. I looked at it and the condition was so excellent. There is barely any wear on the quarter and it has amazing depth and quality. Only the tails side has any signs of discoloration. But it is beyond mint in my opinion.

After looking up prices I found that a quarter of this quality has a MINIMUM value of $6.00 – that’s right six bucks or more.

Now do you see what I’m talking about? I bought a drink for $2.45 and then received a coin that is worth six dollars or more. That’s smart business sense for ya!

So here’s my 1954 San Francisco Uncirculated Quarter sneak peek mix:

-Tyler

Trading Time vision of movement

trading time

Trading Time

We’re all moving. We’re all on a continuous cycle.

A room is just a room. But there’s something about one’s space. It has meaning where before it was a shell.

Is the sum of a human being the point? Or is there an aspect to our lives that has greater meaning?

Every waking moment should have value.

Not a square inch of space should be wasted.

I filled my humble room over the span of 2 months. It took much more time this way, but the room has a realness now. I feels like it is my own. And now I want to hold what I’ve got.

It gets hot down here. But I love it. It’s hot so I change my clothes. It’s dark so I get good sleep.

But an reasonable place to live that has access to what you need is key for getting things done.

Each time I went to my storage unit to remove a new item, I knew I was faced with a choice. Something for ascetic value, or something for utilitarian purposes.

Then there were the boxes that were unmarked. Those were like little cardboard shaped surprises. Presents to oneself.

I’ve found art that I made decades ago in pristine condition. Things that I thought I’d lost forever, pieces of one’s adolescence and teenage years that were presumed to be felt in memory only…if not forgotten completely.

To have someone’s memory repaired, rejuvenated. For what are we if not the culmination of remembered moments?

Then there were tired documents. Things meant to be forgotten. Purging of papers that have no meaning anymore. Receipts for gasoline from 2006, receipt for sneakers from 2007.

The video is a record of both song and time. An imprint of forgotten moments with music that symbolizes the uncertainty of physical change.

Regardless of where I’m going, I’m here now.

-Tyler

Broccoli, Mushrooms and Carrots

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broccoli, carrots and mushrooms

I like to cook. Cooking for myself takes a long time. But it is worth it because I get to control the ingredients and the preparation style.

This is some simple broccoli, mushrooms and carrots. I just boiled the stuff and made some rice to put underneath.

I used butter as well as eggs to increase the calories and nutrients in the dish.

The trick is to boil the veggies until they become so soft that almost all the water is gone away. The veggies will be a sort of sloppy stew.

Many people say that boiling vegetables makes the nutrients go away. That is actually only true if you drain the water. If you keep boiling everything until it becomes a reduction, the nutrients will stay in the stew. Where could the nutrients go if you don’t drain the water?

It’s almost silly that people don’t think of that.

It’s not like the nutrients get absorbed into the wok. That’d be ridiculous. That only happens if you do something like bake peanut oil into your wok to make it sealed. But that’s completely different.

The company I work for called, energyrebels.com sells this Tikka Masala Sauce that I’ve used. It actually makes the stew taste a litter better. It adds some extra flavor to it. Here’s a link to check out the article I wrote on the sauce.

-Tyler

Male Energy Cultivation Experiment 007A

I’m back and I finally have something of value to report.

I’ve been looking for a trick to make things work. I hate the feeling of the ancy-mcfraggledoc so I needed to come up with a system.

This new system is working out quite well. I’m nine days into this cycle and I got a feeling this one is going to be the one.

The supplies required are:

1. A 24 hour gym with a pool that is within walking distance

2. that’s it

When I say 24 hour gym I don’t mean one of those that are 24 hours monday-friday but on the weekends they close at 10. That’s not good.

I want the real prog rock.

I figured out that headaches, lethargy and tons of other stuff have to do with nutrients not being able to get to the brain fast enough. And conversely, the brain creates nutrients that don’t get to the rest of the body fast enough.

The ancy-mcdonglepeeps feeling comes from stagnant energy and nutrients staying in lower areas too long. Walking is great, but then it just moves it around. The whole thing needs to be moving around. That way when you sleep, you’re able to get tons of work done.

I mean actual work.

A few days ago. I was sleeping and in the middle of the dream I felt myself say, “Wait a minute…why am I dreaming about violence right now….oheyeah! I played an hour of Fallout 3 before bed. No wonder.”

But a week before that, I was sleeping and when I woke up I realized that in my actual dream I was still doing work. But the strange thing is that when I woke up I had a handle on my work day. It was as if I was organizing everything in my dream or perhaps on a subconscious level. It was very strange.

So here’s what I do. I walk to the gym whenever I have excess lower chakra energy. Then I do a little bit of eliptical cardio, then some triple sit-ups. The ones where you go on an incline and then do one in the middle and then one to the side then one to the middle again then one to the other side and then repeat until you don’t want to do that anymore.

Oops. Actually I do some basic yoga stretching before the situps.

Then after the situps I’ll go do either assisted pull ups or assisted dips depending on what I did the day before. After the assisted dips or pull ups I either do another basic exercise of my choice or I change and then hit the jacuzzi.

After the jacuzzi I’ll do some swimming and then go into the wet steam room.

Then during the walk home I just feel great. I can easily breathe and the next day seems like it will be chump change.

Sleep is excellent and if I’m still not tired after that I’ll read a spiritual book for a while. Then I’m good.

And that’s how things have been going for the past 9 days.

I think the jacuzzi really helps add some energy to the lower back. I know for men we keep a lot of stress energy in the lower back and in the neck/shoulders. But of course this depends on the person. My main areas easily are the ones just mentioned.

One thing that is excellent is that there are some forms of stimulus that can create tears of joy or sudden realization. Those are superb. I was listening to a new song that I had never heard before the other day, and I got those that are kind of combination of surprise, joy, laughter, deep spiritual feelings, and also connection. That’s when I knew that things were going really well.

That doesn’t happen unless the brain is overloaded with energy and it wants to create new pathways. I just let the tears just get out and then laugh the whole thing off. That’s what the gym is great for. You can’t let the energy stay in your head. You need to move it back into the body so the nutrients from the brain can send the signals and information of bliss and happiness back into the extremities of the body.

All these people are freaking out about nanotechnology and what it has to offer. I completely agree, it will be good for doing serious repair-work. But one’s own cells are the most advanced technology that anyone could ever make.

Your cells each have their own sensory technology and energy creation facilities and countless other faculties within them. When you have a moment of good vibes, you can harness that, let the nerve toxins flow out the tear ducts and sweat glands…and then begin to send new instructions to even the farthest reaches of the body.

-Tyler

How to make 103 dollars with your blog

103 dollar check from blogging

103 dollar check from blogging - CLICK TO ENLARGE

This is an addendum to our previous article, “How to make 25 dollars with your blog.” If you are new to blogging and need a place to start, read that article. If you are a little more comfortable with blogging and already have one cooking, then this will cover more advanced concepts.

When you monetize your blog, you will have several options for making money. You can sell products, do affiliate advertising, do adsense-style advertising, do text-links etc…The list goes on an on.

This articles only covers one thing. That’s Google AdSense advertising. I would expect that advertising through yahoo and others would be similar.

Let’s begin.

You already have a blog. You already have articles. You already have fans. You already are tracking your stats at least once a week. (preferably once per day)

The big debate is on number of ads vs traffic.

I decided to go the route of less ads. This is because I originally had a three-column site. But I changed overidon.com to have only two columns. It looks much better on small devices like an iPhone or an iPad. Also the site looks less cluttered.

I also switched from having multiple ad blocks, to having just a single area for ads on the left. That actually worked out better for me. I began to get clicks on my left ad block even though I hadn’t been posting as much.

Pop up ads annoy me. So why would I use those ads on my person site? It doesn’t make sense to do anything to your own blog that you wouldn’t enjoy on someone else’s.

I was approached by someone to do in-article text link ads. You need to be very careful when doing that. One company seemed legit but then they backed out. Another company was not legit after I did my research on them. You need to have the third eye of wisdom when accepting money from anyone.

Your blog is your baby. Remember that.

Overidon.com hasn’t been around for as long as the first post to now. In fact overidon.com has been a website of one form or another since approximately 2003.

That being said, I have had to pay for web hosting on the site since 2003. That’s racked up to about $1,000 – so I’m definitely still in the red here.

But in all fairness, overidon.com has only been a consistent blog since 2009. And I’ve spent about $400 on hosting and domain renewals since that time.

So right now, you could say I’m $297 in the hole. I am perfectly happy with that.

Making 103 dollars wasn’t easy. It took roughly 2 years of AdSense revenue to generate that money. Also, I’ve heard of sites that got in trouble with Google for breaching some point of the terms of service and then they didn’t get paid. So you really need to make sure you read the entire terms of service. Read the whole thing, cover to cover. I spent hours reading it. I also read any changes in the terms of service.

So how did I make 103 dollars with my blog?

Well, I made anywhere from two to eight dollars per month over the past couple years. I know two bucks per month isn’t a lot of money to sneeze at. But the truth is. I’d be doing this anyway, even if I didn’t have an ad. So the idea that I got next year’s hosting paid for is a very nice thing.

I told my friends to read my blog when I talked to them. If there was an article that I thought might stimulate the mind of a friend I’d tell him or her. I didn’t get business cards made till a few months ago. Most of the spreading of the word happened through facebook and word of mouth. Also google searches for keywords that appeared in my articles helped drive about 40 – 70% of the traffic, depending on the month.

If your blog is not a variety blog like mine, then you can still make money. Actually, you’ll probably make even more money than me if you choose a specific genre of information. The most important thing is that you love what you do and you’d do it even if you didn’t get paid. Trust me, that will shine through in every sentence.

People know when you’re losing emotional content momentum in an article. That will make it so you lose repeat visitors. Also, don’t steal anyone else’s content.

The main thing to know about making 103 dollars with your blog is that you need content. Overidon.com had approximately 550 posts as of August, 2011.

By having 500+ posts of good content, you will have a better chance that articles will last the test of time. If you just regurgitate what everyone else is saying, you’ll never get the hits long into the future. That’s why it is important to have original content with as much individual style, opinion, research, original photos, video content…the works. Every little bit helps.

-Tyler

 

Too much fun

I just got an old computer out of my storage unit.
It seriously is so much fun getting it working.

Here’s what’s been going down.

The computer only has a hard drive, a built in ethernet card, an old-style modem, an onboard video card and a some USB ports.

Fortunately, I had an extra keyboard and I managed to snag my USB wired mouse from my work-bag.

I bought a fresh copy of windows XP pro 3 years ago for this computer and the hard drive is 240 gigs strong. I’m only using 2 gigs so far.

The goal is to get this computer set-up so I can use it solely as a music creation workstation. My ESP-1010 soundcard should work on it. That’s granted that the soundcard isn’t burnt out from my when my last computer get zapped with bad energy from an old office.

So I took my secondary monitor from CyberTron (that’s the name of this computer) and I plugged it into the uncertain computer. I also attached my USB keyboard and Mouse.

It was hilarious because when I booted the thing, it said…”Hold up dog. I don’t even know what time it is, Snoops. NEVERMIND the date!”

So I had to input that information after giving the computer some suggestions for boot order. DATE/TIME the whole deal. The old dos screen was so much fun and it took me back to BIOS and AUTOEXEC days.

I was shocked to see that WinXP Pro actually started without a hitch. Of course, my screen resolution was 640 x 480 and my CD/DVD ROM wasn’t reading anything, both the onboard and PCI ethernet cards weren’t working, and there were absolutely no drivers on the computer.

That’s the beauty of a fresh install. I had nothing really. Just a lot of empty space.

So I doubled checked my devices to see which ethernet port was working. Neither worked. Actually I couldn’t even see the onboard ethernet port anywhere. And the PCI one had a huge question mark. The same was for the onboard card and a couple other things.

My main problem was getting on the net. I knew that once I could get a sturdy connection to the net, I’d be able to run automatic update and at least get the bare bones cooking.

Unfortunately, my ethernet ports weren’t working so when I swapped my ethernet cable it did nothing. I tried installing a psudo ethernet driver that came with windows but it didn’t work.

Then I got an idea. I remembered that I used to connect CyberTron to the internet at my parents’ house via a wireless internet USB adapter.

I was stoked because I even found the CD for my D-Link wireless USB adapter.

I knew that I needed to insert the CD first before plugging the thing in. That’s because some of these wireless usb puppies get ancy-pants whenever you try to plug the sucker in first.

But to my pleasant surprise, I found that the CD ROM was not autoplaying. That’s because when I went into MY computer, it said there was no disk inserted into the drive. Even though I knew it was physically in there.

Then I remembered that I had a USB external hard drive and cable in my desk. I grabbed it and found the drivers for the wireless network adapter and then dropped it on there.

I followed the instructions but unfortunately my bad install previously needed to be uninstalled before I could more forward. I didn’t want to futz with things too much so I just uninstalled and rebooted.

10 minutes later I was able to install the wireless internet adapter and now I’m 2 hours into the Windows Update process. Things are going well, although I won’t know for certain if the audio card works until I finish all the other updates. I’m waiting to install the audio card until everything else is perfectly operational. That way I will know if something goes wrong the card was damaged.

On a positive note, the video card is working because the resolution automatically set itself to a higher level. That’s a plus because my monitor is so small and the resolution was so low previously that I had to guess press in order to exit menus and accept operations.

We’ll see how this goes.

-Tyler

Pacman yeahright this is haaxorz

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You all think you are so tough.com. Well, life is serious. And sometimes it’s hard to avoid the ghosts. I’m not talking about ghosts in the shell or ghosts in the machines…I’m talking about the ghosts in pacman.

These ghosts were hovering so quickly…I couldn’t get away. Why?

They are moving quickly because this was some sort of bootleg combo case. The speeds of pacman were jacked way up. Stage One is not supposed to be this hard.

I’m not going to mention the pizza parlor that had this game because I don’t want them to get in trouble. But maybe you already can tell what place this is by the other games in the beginning of the video.

This reminds me of a story, it’s a story about a puppy that was getting a blood test. But this blood test wasn’t for rabies…it was for the heart of the champion.

The puppy’s name was William Wallace. He was a Schnauzerfrom Connecticut and his owners noticed that he wasn’t burying bones in the back yard anymore. The owners felt that the New England air was perfect for a dog to breathe in all the scents of the backyard. So burying a bone and trying to find it was a healthy thing for the young dog. Also, the owners didn’t have to play with the dog while William Wallace was burying bones.

One day, William Wallace buried a bone in the back yard. It was a milk bone. The puppy buried the bone, but two weeks later the bone wasn’t there. The bone had turned into the ghosts from pacman and I hate that bootleg garbage.

-Tyler

PS: TOO FAST!

Sausage Surprise

Sausage Surprise

Sausage Surprise

Life, love, truth, justice and sausages. Behold, the future of the ancients.

It all started around midnight on September 8th, 2011. I was tired from a night of traveling and blogging, so a friend and I decided to get some Jack in the Box.

We went through the drive through. I ordered a Sourdough Jack and a single egg-roll of the Sanguine Order.

After opening the bag, I handed the appropriate contents to my friend and myself.

Then, my friend said that the box with the surprise in it was not his. Confused, I asked what it was. None of us knew…because of the mystery.

That’s where our story takes a turn for bizarre.

What is a human being, other than the sum of his or her decisions? What is a man, without the cells that support his frame?

With those questions in mind, I opened the container.

Within the black and clear unit of storage, sausages dwelled.

Why did the sausages be a part of my evening? I did not order them.

Maybe the person running the place thought that a couple young guys getting Jack in the Box at midnight needed some extra sausages in their lives.

Low and behold, there were two sausages in the box. No! There are three!


-Tyler

Miss Saigon Vietnamese Restaurant

Value Town - Seal of Approval

Miss Saigon - Value Town certified!


Once a week, my girlfriend and I get a craving for Pho.  There’s only one place in SF we trust to give us ultimate value.  Miss Saigon’s prices are excellent (average of $7 per dish) and the staff is very courteous.  The place is kept very clean and our food is usually served within 10 minutes of ordering.  The food is delicious and the portions are perfect.  I never leave hungry.  They are open 7 days a week so any day can be value town Pho for me.

Since we typically drive to eat, having free parking is a big plus.  The first few times we came here, we would park at a metered spot and I’d have to put in $2 to cover our time there.  The most annoying thing was always having to find quarters to fill the meter.  There were occasions where I had to exchange for quarters in the restaurant and run back to the parking spot to pay the meter.

So in typical value town fashion, I looked around for free parking and both Minna Street/Natoma Street have free parking.  The best thing about these spots is that they are a 1 hour limit so there is almost always a spot open.  I’d say I’m 10 for 10 in my last 10 visits.  Actually, we started going here so often that we have been upgraded to “VIP” status with a free desert after every meal.  We noticed all the regulars get free deserts brought to them.  They don’t bring out the same desert either.  We’ve had three of four different types of deserts, all ranging from a taste of red bean to coconut.  My advice is if you start visiting here, chit chat with the staff and let them know how much you enjoyed their service/food at the end of your meal.  You’ll be on the quick track to VIP status!

The only knock I can give Miss Saigon is the location.  It’s located in the Tenderloin, which isn’t the nicest district in San Francisco.  You’ll frequently see homeless people walking around yelling in the street for no apparent reason.  That being said, I still feel safe walking around the area.  I’ve never been harassed by any of the street dwellers as of yet.

As I write this, my mouth is watering thinking about their Pho and Thai iced tea.  They value town the drinks here as well.  As you’ll see in the image below, the Thai iced tea drink glasses are HUGE!  Look how big my smile is.  That’s genuine happiness folks.  Next time you’re in San Francisco, stop by Miss Saigon for a value town meal – you won’t be disappointed.  They are located at 100 6th Street.

-Nauticaboy

Food at Miss Saigon

Delicious Vietnamese Food!