Let’s set up the back story so you understand.

Last Christmas, I asked for the Xbox 360 Kinect and Kinect games. Well as you know, I just used my xbox kinect because my laptop is currently broken. I figured that this was a better time than never since I haven’t used it yet of course. My parents bought me a few games with it which included Kinect Sports, Motion Sports, and a few others. There was one game though that I couldn’t even imagine using and I thought it was my parent’s way that I have gained a beer gut – The Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout.

That brings us to yesterday. I’ve had this game sitting, in its wrapping and all and I had errands to run. I thought: perfect time to get rid of this and replace it with something I want. Naturally, I grabbed it and went on my way. I had to check out a sound system for a client who wanted help with his. Instead of getting my game first, at the last moment, I decided to turn around and help him out.

I go in expecting this to be quick and easy. All he wanted was Pandora One running in their store to allow them to play the music they and the customers enjoy without having competitors’ advertisements playing as well. Imagine you are in your store and you hear that your competitor’s ad come on and you lose business. Definitely not what anyone wants. I go in the shop and check out the system.

After looking at the system for ten minutes, I realize that it is a simple auxiliary cable that would connect to his computer. I explained to my client what he would have to do and hearing this, he immediately shuts the idea down. Confused, I asked him why and he told me that his computer can’t handle it and he thought he could play it out of his iPod. What he didn’t realize is that his iPod isn’t an iTouch nor an iPhone, so the computer was the only way.

That all said, I wasted approximately a half hour. Normally, I wouldn’t have cared about the time spent away and could have spent forever. Well, yesterday was different. First off, my friend was down for the day only and wanted to see me. Second, my family was in from Texas and I have been trying to spend every day with them for as long as possible. A half hour is a big deal as I only had two hours planned to buy a used game, a few cables, buy a t-shirt, replace The Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout, and pickup dinner for the family. I had this all planned out and I was supposed to spend only an hour with about another half hour travelling. This would have provided a good amount of time to allow me to do everything and see everyone.

This is where my day went to shit and my blood pressure shot through the roof.

I leave my client’s place and head directly to Best Buy to replace The Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout. I remember that my parent’s bought it there, so I decided to go there first. Note: this is where you might decide to tell me that I am an idiot or tell me that you would have done the exact same thing. I did not have any receipts being that it was from Christmas and it was a gift. Personally, I thought it was no big deal since it was completely wrapped. It is literally brand new still, so what does it really matter?

I walk in and head for the customer service. I stand in line behind all these foreigners which annoyed me. It wasn’t the fact that they were foreighn that bothered me, but the fact that it took so long for me to get situated since the people working there couldn’t understand a word if it was on a billboard and screamed into their ears with a megaphone. After waiting what seemed like forever, I got to the woman. She looked at me briefly and listened to what I said.

She looked at me some more and then said: “We don’t do that anymore. Go to the Video Games Section.” Puzzled, I inquired what she meant. She said that all video games are taken care of in that area. I really wish I really knew a Best Buy employee to clarify if I was crazy. Ok, so all returns BUT video games are taken care of in the customer service. WHAT THE FUCK? Either way, I turned around and went to the video games section. I spent a good five minutes walking around only to find two employees sort of hiding and flirting with each other. If I weren’t in quite a hurry I would have flirted with her too. Instead of cock blocking, I asked both of them only to see whoever would help me.

I told them that I would like to return and/or exchange my game. This is where he looked at me at like I was crazy and told me to go to customer service. My blood pressure goes up right here. I explained to him that I just came from there and all I wanted to do is get rid of the damn game. He got on his walkie talkie and brought me over to customer service for the second time putting me back into another long line. This is where I start to get angry. You can tell by my tweet:

#BestBuy is full of fucking idiots leading me back and forth on returning a simple gift.

July 6, 2011 2:26 pm via Twitter for iPhoneReplyRetweetFavorite

@fattony69

Fat Tony69

She explains to him that it is his job and he comes up with some bullshit excuse on why he shouldn’t do it and she would. Obviously there is quite a bit of miscommunication in the staff. We then head back to the video game section for him to look some stuff on the computer. He starts typing some random bullshit on the computer, asks for my license, and spends a few minutes hitting buttons. This is where it gets me angry. After about five minutes, he looks at me and says that he’ll give me $18 for the game. I look at him with the dumbest look on my face.

As soon as I get over the initial shock. I say to him: “That’s it? Seriously. It is a brand new game basically. It even has the wrapper on it and all. How the fuck did you get that?” He explains to me how the computer has an algorithm based on when it was purchased and such as well as the fact it still has a wrapper. Also, that this is based off of no receipt. I then told him: “This is absolute bullshit. This game is still the same fucking value as it is when it was purchased for me. It was a gift. Give me the fucking game back. I have a better chance of shoving the game up my ass and hoping I shit out what I want for more than the $18 they would give me. I grabbed my game and license and left. He tried apollogizing for walking me back and forth and such, but I told him to shove it up his ass and that the girl wasn’t interested in him and off I left.

Sure, he didn’t deserve it. He was just doing what he is told to do, but when you complain about your job, not help me out by letting me exchange the game, and walking me around…you are going to hear it from me. I got off in my car and immediately went to Game Stop since it was in the same the same plaza. I walk in with my game and stand in line. This time behind a Quadriplegic Olympic athelete and some mom trying to buy a shitty Wii game. Luckly, the line went extremely quick and I went up and asked if I could exchange this game I had received as a gift for something I wanted. They asked for a receipt and once again I explained how it was a gift, but this time made up some bullshit story of how it was from my grandparents who live in Florida.

This time, I was rejected right away. Once again, I was bewildered and asked them to explain why. They told me that they can’t accept anything without the receipt. I was telling them that I do not want to return the game, but all I was asking was to exchange. I was then told some absolute bullshit by the one guy explaining how that the state of New Jersey created this new pawn law that didn’t allow them to return items without a receipt. I instantly knew this was absolute bullshit, so I called out him out. He then went on to tell me that his colleague could tell me in more detail. Of course, I turned to her and asked her. Knowing that I was calling them out, she smiled and told me that they can’t and to leave. I stormed out. I should have said something along the lines of fuck off or fuck you, but there were children.

Hoping that third was a charm, I decided to go right to Target hoping that I could get rid of the game. It was in the plaza as well, so what the hell? To shorten this one up since it was a quick stop, I walked right in and directly into the customer service area. The line was disgustingly long and I was already frustrated beyond belief at this point. I turned to my right only to see their return policy. It wouldn’t allow really any returns with video games without a receipt.

I ran right out and sat in my car screaming. I just wanted to get rid of this damn game. Once I started screaming, I decided to do something logical for the first time. I took out my iPhone and went onto everyone’s favorite website, Google. I searched: “Returning Video Games without a Receipt.” To my obvious surprise (much sarcasm), there were many other people who had the same issue as me. It turns out that everyone returned their games at Wal-Mart. Why the hell did I not think of that? Before I did go, I decided to stop at Modells to see if they had the t-shirt I wanted. For your information, I was looking for a Philadelphia Phillies player t-shirt; Cole Hamels to be specific. I went in both stores and neither had him.

Onwards, I went to Wal-Mart. I sat in their customer service for a bit because people are trying to unload their shit. After about 10 minutes, I was able to get a gift card for the game in FULL price and I was the happiest child. If the woman was decently attractive and not four times my age, I might have kissed her. I skipped down to the electronic entertainment area and went to find the game I wanted: UFC Personal Trainer The Ultimate Fitness System.

So I scoured the video game cases for it and I found it! I was extastic. Then, I realized I should look for the HDMI splitter that I needed since I was tired of switching the cables. Low and behold, the switch was there. After looking at the box for about 5 minutes, I realized I needed another HDMI cable. No big deal; except the fact that the cable was locked as well.

I thought that was no big deal. So I search all around for an employee. None to be found. This seemed a bit odd. I am in perhaps definitely the most expensive part of the store and I can’t find a single damn employee to ring me up. After about 10 minutes, I see someone wearing a Wal-Mart team t-shirt and I ask him for help. He explains to me how he is off the clock and is busy. Now does that seem like the Wal-Mart way? Absolutely not! He could have helped me since he worked there or better yet, help/call someone in to help me, but instead, he walked away. VERY RUDE.

My blood pressure is now back where it was when I was trying to return the damn game and now I can’t buy it. I go back to the register and see the photo guy busy with some couple trying to exchange photos or something stupid. Finally, there was another guy selling a piece of shit laptop to more foreigners. They were doing that for a half hour. What was worst, the guy who fucking blew me off was with them. All I wanted was to get what I needed and get out of there.

I patiently waited thanks to my iPhone and the games/Facebook and had the guy get me everything. I spent the money on the gift card and bought the cable and switch. All work great and the game, unfortunately I have not played it due to my stomach virus. I ran out of there, bought dinner for my family and went home. I was unable to see my friend at the beach, but I did spend time with my family. Mind you, I did spend about 3 and half hours doing all of this; if not more.

Overall, I have had it to my wit’s end with all these businesses: Best Buy, Game Stop, Target, and Wal-Mart. Each one of them angered me, so I am not going to any of them unless I really have to. I rather deal with them online so I don’t have to even face another incompitent employee, but mainly I am going to purchase all my items via Amazon. It was quite an adventure and I do not want to go through any of that again.

PS. Small side story coming tomorrow.

@fattony69 Enjoyed your story about getting the 360! Alas, it's something Support would have to help with - not in an area where I can...

June 10, 2011 12:10 pm via TweetDeckReplyRetweetFavorite

@dennya

Denny A

@fattony69 Believe it or not, there are lots of launch 360s still going strong out there, and among the folks here. :)

June 10, 2011 12:14 pm via TweetDeckReplyRetweetFavorite

@dennya

Denny A

@fattony69 hey at least the console lasted you this long right? :-D

June 10, 2011 1:54 pm via TweetDeckReplyRetweetFavorite

@Kiesey78

John

I do appreciate the responses from these people. I did tweet about 15-20 people, but that is neither here nor there. After realizing that I would have to pay $100 for my Xbox 360 to be fixed while waiting a good like month for it to come back or pay $300 and get it right away. Understanding that, I had some nice words for my Xbox and left for the mall in search for my new Xbox. Right before I left though, I texted my friend Shane about the hardware in Xbox. He is notorious for this lovely 360 Info/Buyers Guide, although he did not know anything about the new Xboxs. Oh well.

As I drove to the mall, I stopped and picked up my friend. I needed someone good looking to balance out the fact that I was going to Gamestop. It isn’t like I am self-conscious about being a gamer and/or nerd or anything like that, but I do enjoy the faces of all the individuals. Yeah, I know I am stereotyping, but she is extremely attractive and well, the usual people I see in Gamestop aren’t quite the attractive bunch.

Whatever, when I went to the store, they had all these displays for plenty of Xbox 360′s. It looked like heaven for one to get an Xbox. I go to the counter and get blown off for a kid who wants some shitty Nintendo game. That guy was a dick. After helping that kid who didn’t even buy the fucking game, he helped me – well sort of helped me. He told me that the only Xbox 360′s that were available were with the Kinect. Considering I received a Kinect for Christmas, which I haven’t even had a chance to open, I left. I did learn that the other Gamestop that was in is the only one left and the other one that was in the mall disappeared months ago. That made me look like an idiot.

Before going to Best Buy since it was down the street, we decided to get lunch. Plenty of fajitas later, I went to Best Buy and right as I walked in was the Xbox 360 section. Lucky me. I didn’t have to go far. I picked up an Xbox 360 and as I turned around, a vulture aka some saleswoman. Right away, she was trying to get me to buy a ton more shit. I’ve been an Xbox owner since the original Xbox. Like I said, I’ve had the Xbox 360 for 6 years. She was a persistent one. I took advantage of it. I needed a transfer cable and she brought me one.

From there, she sort of took the hint that I have had an Xbox 360 before and especially after I told her I’ve had it since the beginning. Mind you, she was quite impressed it lasted that long. Although, she was still trying to sell me an Xbox Live subscription, warranty, a few accessories, and a game or two. I taught her a thing or two about everything and told her I didn’t need anything. I payed $340 for everything and was on my way.

As soon as I got home, I instantly did a lovely photo shoot for all of you readers of mine. I must say that I am quite happy with my purchase. Sure, I miss my baby, but hot damn, the new Xbox 360 S is quite amazing. First of all, I am loving the sleekness. The whole thing is is touch responsive. My favorite part is that it uses HDMI and has a 250GB hard drive. I was able to move all my files over without any issue and have not faced a problem. For being $300, I expected a bit more with the cables though. It only came with a standard definition cable. Even the old Xbox had one…sure it was split, but it came with composite cables. Luckily, I had an HDMI cable laying around, but now I need to purchase an extra brick and a composite cable.

All of this said, I am quite fond of my new Xbox 360. I don’t know if I can say that I am glad that my baby died for this, but it is convenient turn of events. One window shatters, I get a brand new glass house.  Now, I can get back to playing LA. Noire and NBA 2K11. Catch me online!

Like many children, I wanted Microsoft Xbox 360 for Christmas when I found out about it back in 2005. During those days, I was still a halo 2 fiend. Although, the Xbox 360 was the thing to have and of course I wanted one. I remember specifically how I kept trying to purchase it, but during those days, I did not have much money. I was all over GameStop.com constantly to check if it was sold out and such. The day that it was sold out, I was very hurt and died a little inside. So like any other idiot, I turned right towards eBay. Unfortunately, that was the worst idea since Xbox 360′s were going for almost $2,000. Insane.

November eventually rolls around and November 22, 2005 comes and goes. For those who don’t know what is so special about that, it is the release date of the Xbox 360. Well, upset little me pouted and continued with Halo 2 on my antique Xbox. Don’t get me wrong, I loved it, but new stuff is better. Being a child didn’t help, but I learned my Uncle had purchased it and was loving it. Like any other jealous child, I was at his house playing on it and drooling on it. Eventually Christmas was around the corner and he said the second best thing a child my age could hear at the time: “You can have my Xbox 360 for a week.” I literally ate, slept, and played Xbox 360. Such a huge fan and I played the hell out of it. Little did I know, I was only boosting his gamerscore.

Luckily, I didn’t have to use his Xbox for so long because Christmas came. My parents were awful people about it. (Note that they always do this to me each year.) I got threw all my presents and it was like Xbox 360 games and accessories. Naive me believed their lies when they told me that the actual Xbox 360 was backordered and I would be lucky to get it by my birthday. If you do think about it, my uncle got lucky and waited at midnight for his and it sold out like crazy everywhere. I opened all my gifts and there was no Xbox 360 to be seen. I had tears in my eyes and was choking up, but then my dad mentions that he forgot to bring out one gift and I need to get it from his room. I sprint faster than Usain Bolt and run up to his room where I see a box wrapped up. Torn it open. Look it it with eyes bigger than my face. Start playing it right away after transferring my gamertag. Gotta represent Fat Tony69!

Let’s speed up this story to June 2011 and give you a brief overview of what has happened between December 25, 2005 and June 2011. First off, this is almost a 6 years difference; more than a half decade. Damn, I don’t remember ever having a console lasting this long. Based off of Wikipedia, I am going to go through these updates so you get my point of how far it has come.

Types of Xbox’s since the time:

• Core
• Premium/Pro – the model I have had
• Arcade
• Elite
• S

There has been many updates:

• Facebook
• Espn
• Twitter
• Netflix
• Multiple dashboard remakes
• Avatars
• 1 vs 100
• and many, many betas – Halo 3, NXE, and other games.

You get the point by now that I am a huge Xbox fan. I have games like Kameo and Perfect Dark Zero as well as all of the Call of Duty games and Halo Games. I’ve wait in many midnight premiere lines. I’ve bought all the accessories – the steering wheel, the infamous HD DVD player, and the Kinect (which I have not been able to use because of timing and school, but was about to play it with Kinect Labs and games…). I even had a few faceplates which I received from Gears of War opening and such, although I always used the wood-looking faceplate to make it fit in with our shelves. I like to look fancy.

Now through out the years, I kept reading about the Red Ring of Death plaguing Microsoft and the Xbox 360. It was on the news. It was on countless blogs and every video game blog you heard of. It was on many sites. It haunted every Microsoft Xbox 360 owner, the Microsoft team, and their pockets. I couldn’t tell you how many times I have read about this and heard friends discuss this. Hell, my uncle went through nine Xbox’s. This isn’t unusual as others were on their sixth, seventh, and such Xbox 360. Although, I wasn’t one of these people. I had my Xbox 360 from the very beginning and didn’t have one issue at all. I was still on my first Xbox when others had to keep buying other Xbox’s, newer Xbox’s, repair Xbox’s…but not me.

This is where my sob story becomes more about me. On June 9th, 2011, I went to play my Xbox 360 while waiting for my friends to pick me up for dinner. Everything was smooth. Everything was fine. I was in the middle of a game in NBA 2K11 when it froze. I did not freak out. This happened before, not often, but it happened before. Although, when I turned it off and turned it back on, there wasn’t a picture. Ok, now I was suspicious. Then, I saw these Red Rings. Three of them, staring me dead in the face. I didn’t know what to do. I was stunned. It was out in the open, no issue at all. I am very upset my Xbox 360 is dead. I want my Xbox 360 back!

Look at that Xbox 360. It looks so sad. I have had my times where I’d play over 12 hours a day. I had my times where I barely touched it. I treated it like a god! I never dropped it or anything. It is my Red Ring of Death Xbox 360. This is where there is a catch. Microsoft expanded the warranty for everyone’s Xbox 360, but that is my issue! Due to the fact that my Xbox 360 is from 2005, my warranty is expired. It even says on the support page, “Your standard warranty expired on March 06, 2007.” That ruins me! The warranty is currently expired by 1,557 days. It has been 4 years, 3 months, 4 days since it expired. Well, if you consider the fact that the warranty was expanded 3 years, then I am still expired. That is ridiculously long time especially since my Xbox 360 is 2043 days old or 5 years, 7 months, 5 days old. My awesome Xbox! Everything still intact. I didn’t even upgrade the hard drive, not even new hardware – fixes or anything.

This leaves me with certain decisions. I can do the following:

1. Repair my Xbox 360 for $100.
2. Buy a brand new Xbox 360.

One issue: I don’t have the money. Yes, I can work for the money and it won’t be that hard. That’s not the main issue at hand, but it leads into the second issue. I love my Xbox 360 very much so. I don’t want to lose it. Getting it fix taints it a bit because it won’t be quite original anymore. Buying a new one sure as hell won’t be original. I like my 20GB Xbox 360 Premium. So that leads me to take this to the internet. What can I do. I am not sure if this is a big deal, but I feel like it is the only Xbox 360 left from the launch to get the Red Ring of Death – damnit, I used to brag about how I have one that didn’t break. I don’t know what to do, which is why I am asking on the internet and trying to get notice as I can’t find anyone that has an older Xbox than myself.

This is the catch. Always a catch is what I’ve heard from everyone. My catch is this, I need your help. I need to know what to do. My Xbox has been my loyal friend. This may be sad, but it is the truth as the Xbox 360 defines me. It created the world I am in now. It has helped persuade the decisions I have made and all. I guess this sounds a bit overzealous and a bit ridiculous for me to talk about this way about my Xbox 360, but truly when something has been around for almost 6 years, it does. With that said, I am hoping I can hear of a good thing from like Microsoft or something that they can fix my issue (preferably for free or get like a reward or something for the oldest usable Xbox). I am not asking for what Microsoft and Bungie did for that kid Nathaniel. Why that would be beyond amazing, I am not worth the effort. I want my Xbox working again. I want it to last until the Xbox 540 or whatever the next Xbox may be. If not, I just want something to make up for this. I don’t know. I also want one other thing, I want to know if anyone else is rocking a launch Xbox 360 or first shipment Xbox 360.

I decided to take photographs because I thought the moment called for it as I was beyond shocked and for proof of how old my Xbox 360 is.

Here are the rest of the photographs.

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Well, if you have heard of the Oatmeal, THANK YOU! Anyway, with his Winter 2010 The State of the Internet comic, he mentions in it about the We’ll Be Back Shortly Tumblbeasts (renamed Tumbeasts) he made for them.

Then, with this tweet, he asked Tumblr to make it official for their site:

Dear @tumblrhttp://bit.ly/gN6HfN

Within an hour, it became official. Now Tumblr has something similar to Twitter’s Fail Whale so when they go down for another 24 hours, people can’t be completely mad. Plus, there is a nice backlink to the Oatmeal to keep you busy.

Due to all of this, the Oatmeal gets a spike in traffic!

PS. I fell into this the Oatmea case study…damnit.

So, after being able to read one full tweet without getting bombarded, I realized that these were actually good bloggers, including Darren Rowse himself. I am not putting him on a pedestal, but the man knows his stuff and does make bank blogging like a champion. Anyway, I realized that these bloggers are actually using twitter as a chatroom to discuss blogging. After further research, I learned quite a lot about the group. From what I read, this has been happening for almost two years now. In these two years, they have been discussing all types of topics. I just so happened to be in the discussion about process of blogging or at least that is what I thought the discussion was about. There was so much chatter that there were so much conversations taking point.

Although, from the discussion about making a plan came other talks. We conversed about writing our niche such as how to stay in the perimeters of what we intended to write about, how to come up with ideas to stay intact, and how others managed multiple blogs. I do remember one person tweeted how he managed ten blogs! That is insane. I have trouble managing my own sites and such and this guy is running ten. Much to say, I wouldn’t doubt that he has a staff or outsources his work. That isn’t the point. It got to the point where monetizing became a question where as if it is necessary and such. As you can tell, there was much discussion.

I must say, I loved every minute of this! Unfortunately, most of my time wasn’t focused on this past week’s chat as I care more about my Philadelphia Eagles kicking ass! (NUMBER ONE IN THE NFC EAST BABY!) Anyways, I learned a lot from the times I was there and actually will take my time to ask questions and help others solver their issue. I have some questions of my own also. Definitely need to take advantage of this and hopefully I will see you there to answer your questions or ask you for help.

Some things you should know about #blogchat.

1. You must stay on topic! This is huge and like the only rule.
2. You may promote your link(s), but keep it classy and don’t spam the website.
3. Don’t go off the main topic.

Lurk, post, please come out and check it out! Also, if you have an issue keeping up with everyone, please check out the conversation! I wouldn’t doubt if you were on. Right before I left, I received the most important load of advice yet:

RT @chrisgarrett: #Blogchat Pro Tip: Follow the people you had great conversations with #blogchat

Remember this with anything.

Do you have anything to say? Do you partake in any talks? Please discuss!

RT @chrisgarrett: #Blogchat Pro Tip: Follow the people you had great conversations with #blogchat

A few months ago, my aunt came to me asking for a website. The whole idea stemmed from recently losing her job like many, but unlike those many, she decided to do something about the situation. This is where she came in asking me for a website. I won’t lie, I was hesitant about making a website for her. There are a lot of factors to the website. Many of these factors I, myself, have not even stepped foot in, let alone conquered. Originally, I told her everything. I wasn’t about to dedicate my time until she understood everything I was going to tell her. My aunt and her friend Gail were very open to all I had to said and were ready to learn.

I must say, I was amazed by their drive to learn.

The Start

I am not going to exaggerate on anything in this article because that would just taint this article. Before they even started the website, I talked with them for about 10+ hours preparing everything. This talking session included everything.

1. Domain name
2. Idea
3. Logo
4. Slogan
5. Traffic
6. Ideas
7. Everything.

This is some of the issues discussed. Did I mention that my aunt and her friend knew hardly anything about their computers. I wasn’t sure they knew how to turn on the laptops without the stickers guiding them to everything. I was in for a treat! OH BOY!

The Steps Discussed

The first thing I asked my aunt was what did she want. This turned out to be quite a question as she wasn’t able to answer appropriately and completely. Knowing the internet very well and all the blogs out there, I was wondering what type of blog they decided to run. After showing them all types of websites from http://bunziez.com to http://makemoneyontheinternet.com to http://netbookreviews.com to http://johnchow.com and everything in between. The reason these sites were chosen is because they are all different types of blogs to choose from. After setting on the fact that my aunt wants to make money, but more importantly share her stories and ideas, she should do a combination of the same.

After deciding that she was ready for the blog world and the type of blog she wants to create, the name was an issue. I wish I could write out the major humor in this, but I can only try to explain this. My aunt spent all day bouncing names off of my family and I. Every type of name possible. At one point when I was in another room, she thought of a name and felt as if it was perfect. That was until I heard it and thought of high-priced escorts or prostitutes. So after bouncing names for a bit longer, they came up with: http://www.unemployedwoman.com/

It was like magic from there. I personally came up with the design of the site. Using Studiopress, I was able to make it look awesome. That along with their amazing content, they were able to start a blog.

Now, you might not understand the triumph in this. The fact of this is that they went from barely understanding the blog, the internet, and computers at a whole. Marketing was a whole new terrain for them. Writing successful blog posts to make money is still taking them some time, but I must say, they are learning and if they can do it, you can too!

Check it out! http://www.unemployedwoman.com/

Check out their rap video. It is an interesting take in marketing!

I am working on a lot of websites. I have a few new sites in the works. One is being designed slowly and surely by my friend Vince. I hope for the site to go viral and you will see me (if you check out my forums, twitter, etc…) post a lot about it coming up. The other isn’t officially released, but seeing as it isn’t something huge, I will write about it now without being very secretive.

The site that I am going to pre-release now (when you go on it, it looks ugly) is my image-hosting site. The reason I made this site is because my forum has an image hosting option. Unfortunately (well not really unfortunately, I am quite happy with what I am going to switch to), I am thinking about switching forum scripts. The reason is I am not quite happy with vBulletin 4 series as I don’t like the look and such. Plus all the bugs and all doesn’t make for quite a good forum script. Now, one might say why not stick with 3.8 series? The fact is that I love the 3.8 series and I been around vBulletin since 2.0 era, but only owned a forum since 3.5. Like 2.0, 3.8 and the whole 3.0 series is going to go EOL (end of life) which means no more updates for security issues. I do own a vBulletin script…two to be honest as well as two matching vBSEO scripts along with an assortment of premium vBulletin mods. I am not thrilled to be giving it all up since I paid a lot of money for them all only to get rid of it at the snap of my fingers. Although, I do not see myself doing much of anything else.

To get back on topic (I will talk forums in another blog post – most likely tonight or tomorrow), the site is: http://www.theimageigloo.com. Creative name thanks to my friend Mike aka Velocity on The Best Forum Ever. Considering it and the reason stated above, I immediately bought the name. With this site, I plan to run for my site. As for advertising and trying to get it big, it isn’t my main focus as it is just another image host. There are a billion damn image sites and I don’t want to dedicate a server or so just watching images and then patrolling the shit.  It’s just a shit load to do. I can go on and on about it, but no one cares and to be quite honest, it isn’t my main concert.

My besides my secret site, my main concern as of now is my network site and my forum. I realized that I have had a few domain names just chilling around and had nothing going on. I had plans constantly, but with lack of knowledge, lack of currency, and lack of will power to do so. So with that said, I had Bundiez, Bunziez, Steal the Internet, and Analaquarium. All of them…well half of them have been figured out so far. Anal  Aquarium is a site I just want to keep for sentimental reasons. Technically, it is the longest running site I own. It probably gets zero traffic, but I still love it because some of those videos are just so damn funny. Originally, I manually did it, but when I  lost everything due to my old host, I tried automatic.  Unfortunately,  I just need to figure out how to make the updates happen automatic.

As for Steal the Internet, I realized that it would be a cool name for my photoblog. What many people don’t realize is that I enjoy photography. I first started by taking pictures of my family and they noticed that my pictures turned out very well. Something about the angle and the lighting and the blah blah blah…bullshit stuff. So, the more they complimented my awesomeness, the more I wanted to do it more. Eventually, I received a Canon T1i and I love it, but like all technology, it likes to screw me over like a month later; Canon screwed me over by releasing the much better Canon T2i. Either way, it doesn’t matter. I love my camera and even if I had the best camera in the world, I wouldn’t be able to do what these two guys (from my forum) do: Donkey’s One Art Piece a Day Thread and Filman’s Photography. If you haven’t been on my forum or are just too dumb to check it out, you got to. Some AMAZING work done by both of them.

Now as for Bunziez, I want to keep it and make it into my clothing line. I’ve always wanted to do this as I love fashion. I, for one, are not the insane fashion person though. Lately, I haven’t even been matching as for example – my outfit from today was a Black t-shirt with graffiti that had different color shadowing along with my dark blue Under Armor shorts and my Timberlands. Yeah, I am a hot mess. I am comfortable. On top of that, I have no-shave-November going…you tell me how good I look haha. Anyway, I plan to make t-shirts in the near (or late) future and use this as my brand name.

The last site I had available is Bundiez. First off, I know it is similar to bunziez. Like wow, how creative am I? I was just a bumfuck who came up with one name and changed the letter to make another. Well, no…asshole. My friend Zack and I wanted to come up with our own type of vocabulary. Not really a whole language deal, but like a few words that would mean something to us and no one would know. Out of it, came Bunziez and Bundiez. Let me explain one thing. It is sounded as it is spelled. Bunziez is like bun (as in honeyBUN) and Ziez (like multiple letter of “Z” Zees) – to form bunziez. It means cool, awesome, amazing, bonkers, and any other synonym. Bundiez is like bun (as in honeyBUN) and diez (as in deez nuts are in your face, or like the unDIES, or even multipe of the letter “D” Dees). It means crazy, bonkers, wack, stupid…basically the complete opposite. Either way, I got off-topic and what I am using Bundiez is for my network site. I am going to list all my services, clients, and my own sites on there as well as update it (not frequently) as my sites update. Twitter feeds and stuff will be provided. The look of it seems great. I am just waiting for my friend Kai to finish up logos and such.

Besides that, I have nothing else to talk about for this post. I need to do this tomorrow. On that note, GO GET ME A DAMN INVITE TO FACEBOOK MESSAGES!

Talk to you tomorrow. Shooting for every day…

This is a tattoo someone tweeted him to get. It is the amazing fail whale that we all have been seeing more and more lately. He also added two random twitter users name that tweeted to get their name on there. That is pretty fucking intense. Not just intense but, pretty fucking intense. This guy has seriously gone above and beyond to go here. What is also amazing is we get to watch every bit of it here David on Demand. Truly amazing. If you follow me on twitter, you will notice I have been tweeting a lot to him and yes, he has done most of it including giving a shout out to my forum, The Best Forum Ever! So, I definitely suggest you check this out and give him a tweet. Don’t be upset if he doesn’t do it right away. A ton of people are doing it as well, so you might have to tweet it a few times, but eventually he will do it or a variation of it. This guy has taken twitter and social media to a new level!

As for me, I  am going to continue watching him and see if he will tattoo Fat Tony69 and TheBestForumEver.com on him and if not, continue making himself look funny in Cannes. Check him out: David on Demand!