words of wisdom April 12, 2009
Posted by brandon in : me, ramblings , add a commentliving well is the best revenge
random April 12, 2009
Posted by brandon in : ramblings , add a commentso someone challenged me to take every individual item i did in the last 24 hours and write as many as i can think of down. here we go:
took a shower [x3]
work
fixed computers
made customers happy
broke computers
rocked out to def leppard
memorized every word to the new ataris demo
played me some geeetar
did a ton of pushups
did a ton of situps
did a pathetic amount of pullups
did some laundry
copied some dvds
helped a friend buy a grill at 11 last night
watched HDTV on said friend’s new 73 inch tv
had a drink or two
spent way too much time on myspace
sent a message on said myspace, then wished i hadn’t
slept
spent an hour on wikipedia reading everything about battlestar galactica
bought some oil for my car
paid bills
remembered that as usual, ive been neglecting twitter
overall, not a bad 24 hours lol
changes to blog comments April 5, 2009
Posted by brandon in : ramblings , add a commentto help curb the spam comment problem i’ve been having, i made a change to my blog. now all users will have to register/login in order to leave a comment. the register/login is located on the top left of any page on the site.
twitter wisdom from gary vaynerchuck April 5, 2009
Posted by brandon in : ramblings, videos , add a commentso normally i try to avoid embedding other peoples vlogs. i feel like im sort of cheating their ad revenue by using them on my site. but this time i think its worth it. here is my newest favorite from arguably THE most successful, creative, wise businessman of them all, Gary Vaynerchuk. The man commands a damn legion on twitter, his internet tv show, his onair tv appearances, his conventions, everything. he just signed a HUGE book deal. this man is going to be bigger than oprah. every single video he posts is GOLDEN advice that anyone anywhere who ever wants or tries to start any sort of business needs to watch.
that being said, im posting this one because i too, am sick of everyone and their thousand times a day questions of how is twitter ever going to make any money, blah blah blah, they are a fad, they arent going anywhere, etc. look, next to google, myspace, and facebook, they are the most influential, important, and talked about website right now. they have been for years, and they grow by leaps and bounds every day. to all the people who say they have no plan for being profitable, guess what! you can’t get tens of millions of dollars in funding if you dont have a profitable revenue source plan. trust me, they have one and its going to be great. and if this weeks rumors are true at all, google is going to be buying them for a HUGE ton of money.
twitter has singlehandedly changed the way business is done on the internet. you have immediate, unprecedented access to any and all potential customers at the moment they have your product on their mind! think about this. its f-ing HUGE.
and now i leave you with Gary V:
why is it…. April 4, 2009
Posted by brandon in : ramblings , add a commentthat i can never get anything done?
On one hand i wish i had the ability to reign in my crazy new idea every single day kind of self and focus a bit more…. but on the other hand, thats what makes me me! It would just be nice to be able to accomplish something for once. Everything lately seems like I get super excited for a couple days and then move on to something else. And lately I just keep rotating through like the same 5 or so things. Starting a band again, fixing/modding the eeeeclipse, getting my drum set together, getting new guitar pedals, coding a website for my work, coding a website for myself, pulling the weeds in the yard, cleaning the garage, the list goes on and on. Each day i wake up and get excited about accomplishing one of these, then nothing happens that day, and the next day means a new idea….
I think more or less I’m just frustrated that its already april. I feel like I’m wasting this year. I dunno…. Maybe instead of sitting here writing this I should go do something. I just noticed that I capitalized almost every singe ‘I’ in this post. And the first words on my sentences…. wtf. something must definitely be wrong with me
lyrics to live by April 4, 2009
Posted by brandon in : ramblings , add a commentIt was the first snow of the season
i can almost see you breathing
in the middle of that empty street
Sometimes i still see myself
in that lonesome bedroom
playin my guitar
and singing songs of hope
for a better future
life is
only
as good as the memories we make
and i’m taking back what belongs to me
polaroids of classrooms unattended
these relics of remembrence
are just like shipwrecks
only theyre gone faster
than the smell after it rains
last night while everyone was sleeping
i drove through my old neighborhood
and resurrected memories from ashes
We said that we would never fit in
When we were really just like them
does rebellion ever make a difference
life is
only
as good as the memories we make
and im taking back what belongs to me
polaroids of classrooms unattended
these relics of remembrence
are just like shipwrecks
only theyre gone faster
than the smell after it rains
So long astoria
i found a map to buried treasure
and even if we come home empty handed
well still have our stories
of battle scars, pirate ships and wounded hearts,
broken bones, and all the best of friendships
and when this hourglass
has filtered out
its final grain of sand
i raise my glass to the memories we had
this is my wish
this is my wish
im takin back
im takin them all back
why i get an F- in social media February 14, 2009
Posted by brandon in : ramblings , add a commentsitting here at the DMV gives me a chance to finish up some blog material I started awhile ago.
I try to pretend to be a social media nut, but I tend to fail epicly. I just don’t understand how some of you have the time to keep up with everything. I realize all the time, that I’ve completely abandoned Twitter for days at a time. My flickr hasn’t seen an update in 5 months. I can’t stand facebook. You get the idea?
I can’t seem to remember how all of you kids always remember to take pics of everything and update a zillion sites a day, 555 times. I wish I could. I wish I had the discipline to always carry my camera. Always record things. Keep the inrernet in the loop. Maybe this could be a fresh start.
Let’s see how long this lasts.
here’s where i geek out about my car February 12, 2009
Posted by brandon in : ramblings , add a commentnow, i know that no one actually reads my blog. and those of you who do, couldn’t care less where i’ve been this past week. but i feel like i owe the internet an apology. last week was supposed to be the ‘relaunch’ of my blog! and two posts in, i fizzled out. but i feel that if, given the chance to explain…. those 25 or so of you unique visitors i get a day will understand.
this saturday i bought a car. there. thats my excuse for being a recluse all week. and not just any car. a 1997 TURBO mitsubishi eclipse! alright now for the real story.
i’ve been searching for months for a good condition turbo eclipse 1997-1999. They are my favorite car. I’ve already owned one, and will probably never own anything else. Last Friday I found one…. 600 miles away in San Jose, CA. So, deciding for once to have some fun, i called up a friend, booked two tickets to San Jose and said lets go! Let the record show that the drive to vegas from San Jose is nothing but a straight boring line with nothing at all to look at for 8 hours. [i'll go into detail one day about the trip]
That ate up my saturday, and i’ve spent every waking minute since then working on it. I’ve stripped off my Intercooler, exhaust, turbo timer, and a million other mods from my old eclipse and installed them on my new eclipse. Aside from my stereo and subs, i think I am finally done. My hands are all forms of cut up, i have spent days out in the cold rain, but it was so worth it.
So there. That’s my lame excuse. I hope the internets will forgive me. And i’ll be back tomorrow with some real material [hopefully]
my blogging rebirth February 3, 2009
Posted by brandon in : me , add a commentlooking all the way back to my first blog post here at TOGNB [July 2008], i find its time to apologize to the internet for 7 [off and on] months of crap from me. I wanted to blog, but I had no direction, inspiration, creativity, or self control. My social internet self was trying to branch off into 10 different directions and projects. Today marks the day I reel them all in, and keep them in, until they are ready to hatch.
Yesterday I finally got around to purchasing Wil Wheaton’s audiobook, “The Happiest Days Of Our Lives.” I believe it clocks in around 3.5 hours. I listened to the entire thing today. In one sitting. I laughed. I cried. I laughed again. I spent hours just drifting off into nostalgic memories of growing up. It was so great, that I am immediately purchasing his other writings and audiobooks. And for a mere $19 bucks [and NO DRM], i highly recommend you give it a listen: http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/
I don’t have any possible way of explaining the connection between the two, but somehow it has re-energized me about my blog. I spent the last few months trying to find funny things to post and digg and spam everywhere I could, instead of writing honest, interesting material. I realized its not about how many people i can trick into reading my blogs, its about the memories and ideas that come with the mental process of putting the everyday moments of my life into print. This blog is about me, and the things that matter most to me
[I've already made a few important changes to the layout and functionality of TOGNB, and i'll get around to the rest soon. Comments require registration, I'll get a good subscription link up soon and some much better categories soon]
the man’s remote November 18, 2008
Posted by brandon in : hilarity , 1 comment so far
