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Is the dancer turning clockwise or anticlockwise?

April 25th, 2008 · 4 Comments

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What do you see when you look at this picture? Is the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise? When I view it she is dancing clockwise. The thing is there is no right or wrong answer here your answer will depend on what side of the brain you use the most. The original post can be viewed here.

The Right Brain vs Left Brain test … do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.

Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
“big picture” oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can “get it” (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking

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Contest in May

April 21st, 2008 · 20 Comments

I still have another contest to roll out, and initially I was going to have it this month but the more I thought about it. The more I realized it would be great to have the contest in my daughter’s birth month. She’ll be turning five in May. Wow, how the time flies. Things are starting to settle down for me in the real world so you’ll see me posting a lot more and stopping to visit my blog buddies. It was great to take a break, although an unexpected break from personal blogging, but I’m slowly making my way back.

Question: What’s one of your worst dreams? I think I had one this morning I had to repeat high school. Please don’t make me go through that again. High school was nice, but I really don’t want to make that trip again. ;-)

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Cleaning of the Spam

April 5th, 2008 · 41 Comments

Well I’m back, and it looks as though I have a lot of spam to clean out. Whew! I was actually away longer than I expected. The real world called, and I had to listen. I’m still trying to hunt down my lost emails, most of my old emails were wiped. Regardless we are doing well Aiyana, and I wished we had more snow in Maryland but are looking forward to planting season and hopefully our bees. I’m hoping I can get a hive this year.

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Disturbed - Land of Confusion

February 28th, 2008 · 47 Comments

I saw this video a few moments ago. Surprisingly, I like it better than Genesis’ version, Land of Confusion and the video was interesting to. Lot’s of prominent people portrayed in both videos.

Corruption, violence, and greed? All right I’m getting it. This song made me think about the media at times will only show us what it wants us to see? How many of us are willing to question their actions. That has been fairly easy for me. I’ve always questioned everything, even things I believe. My father used to call me his little question box. Today I have one of my own, my daughter.

Update: The group that did this song is Disturbed, and the song is Land of Confusion. I never heard of the group before but I’ve been checking out other songs by them since discovering this one and yes a few of the songs are now in my iPod. I mainly listen to rock, techno, and pop during my workouts.

In other news still having issues with my email.

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Writing for Dollars: Getting paid to blog

February 27th, 2008 · 39 Comments

Earlier this month I took a position as a freelance blogger/journalist. If you enjoy blogging and have always wanted to work from home it might be something to consider. Naturally, your writing skills and you have to write articles that people are interested in. I though, I can do that so I applied for the position. I received the freelance blogging job, and I now write for a technology website. I mainly write about Apple and the Mac OS, but occasionally I’ll write about other things that are related to technology. Technology is something I enjoy, and read about daily, so it’s nice getting paid for what I know.

calvin-writing.gifThe beauty of writing on the WordPress platform is that I can utliize advanced posting so although I post on a daily basis many of the posts have been created in advance. One of the many things I like about WordPress is the advanced posting feature. It allows me to schedule posts well in advance. I use an offline editor for my personal website along with the website I write for so this greatly reduces the amount of time I spend in my Word Press admin.

The amount of people that make their living freelance writing is fairly high. Naturally, how well you do is based on your writing skills and how much effort you are willing to apply to land a job. If I wanted to I could depend on the money I make from freelance writing since it covers all my expenses. Personally know several freelance writers who make their entire income writing for other blogs.

When I see a position, I usually will forward it to someone I think would do well. It’s usually someone that has expressed an interest in working from home. At times, I’m surprised when the person doesn’t act on the job. However, I have had a few buddies that have. One of my buddies left his job six months ago and is now working for himself full-time. Guess what, many of us have that dream but how many of us are willing to do what it takes to turn that dream into a reality? I know I was, and I did it. If I have any say in what will happen I won’t be going back to working for someone else.

What’s his position? He’s a technical writer. He also writes for a variety of clients. He also works as a consultant. Thinking outside the box landed him the positions he has. He now can work from anywhere thanks to modern technology. The last job he acquired I sent his way. He received the position because he was qualified. It was blogging job. The website needed a blogger who had a strong background in Linux. He definitely fits that criteria. Many blogging jobs I’ve encountered the writers are paid a flat rate, after a set amount of page views they are paid either a percentage of the proceeds, or they are paid by page view. From that position alone he’s making over 3k monthly. That’s not a bad way to make a living, is it?

Although I haven’t been writing with the website for long, I’ve passed the flat rate, and now I’ve moved onto being paid per page view. The website owner has given all the writer’s access to the stats reports so we are able to see which stories are doing well. The majority of my stories have ranked #1 when you search Business in Google news. Having that top position usually guarantees you will get a lot of traffic. Writing at a highly trafficked website has given me ideas of how I want my network of blogs to grow. If you think, I had been planning to write for a large blog network you are correct. I figured if I wrote for a highly trafficked website I would get ideas of what I need to do to make my own blogging network thrive. What I’ve learned has enhanced my blogs and the amount I’m making is increasing.

If you search “blog writers” on any of the search engines you usually will find numerous websites that are looking for blog writers also frequenting websites like freelance writing gigs can score you some valuable jobs but you do have to apply, and write good content. I’m always looking for ways to improve my writing skills so I write often, interact with other writers, and have purchased books that have helped me enhance my writing.

In other news I’m still having email issues.

Question: Getting paid to blog, would you do it?

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