Monthly Archives: July 2009

Photo-A-Day

Leverage is back

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Leverage is Back
Photo-A-Day #1559

One show that Allison and I totally love is Leverage on TNT. We’re watching the show and live tweeting about it at the same time. It makes the show even more fun to watch. When you want to follow something special on twitter you really must be using Tweetdeck. It is perfect for monitoring things that you are interested in and screening the stuff you aren’t. Also if you are interested in looking for tweeters in your area then Twitter Local and anther Adobe Air product is a good one to use. Really enjoying using these tools.

So, on to the show. It has been a while since I’ve reviewed a TV show so I’m rusty. I liked how many other people on twitter were enjoying the show. I didn’t find any tweets that were negative. The show is a fun one. There is a lot of great nuance to it too. Characters that you can immediately feel for and identify with the characters. When we left the team they split up and went their separate ways. This season starts and they are back, eventually.

I love how this show sets up the con and then reveals how they did everything in the episode. It is so clever and fun. Leverage is one of those shows that I have to watch live and I will certainly be live tweeting as often as possible. Maybe TNT wants a live blogger for this show like SavvyAuntie does for Saving Grace.

I received a very special package today. So did Ted Murphy. (I bought a pack for me and one for the IZEA Crew w my own money.) But more about that on Friday! Fry Sauce Friday!

Also if you live near Mansfield, MA there is a new Chipotle opening and they are giving away free soda and burritos tomorrow. We’ll be going for dinner.

Photo-A-Day

Many Colors

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Many Colors
Photo-A-Day #1558

Today was a whirlwind day. First off I participated in a huge simultaneous blog post with #10Ways. Unfortunately I jumped the dang gun and posted at 9:00am EST not 9:00 PST like I was supposed to. That is okay I remedied that quickly and waited for the big bang. At noon the big bang went off and it was huge. So many people were part of this post and the tweets went off like crazy. I followed a bunch of new people today and suddenly I hit the 2000 followers limit and can’t follow anyone else. Huh? I guess I will have to wait till the people following me gets higher.

Today also when I got home I colored with Eva. It has been so long since I’ve used a crayon and drawn anything. She has some Disney stickers and I drew Donald Duck and a partial Mickey Mouse before she got bored with it. They aren’t even half bad. When I walked in the house from work Eva pointed to the Pop Photography magazine in my hand and said “camera” I didn’t realize that I had the magazine in my hand so I went off to get my Canon SD 800is camera. I don’t mind her using that one, it is rugged. I also got the little camera that Dina from Market Leverage got for her. I let Eva put the button and showed her how to hold the camera. That didn’t go so well.

I thought I’d be cute and let Eva take my camera and I’d take hers for the Photo-A-Day but that didn’t work either because I accidentally erased the pictures and I wasn’t able to get them off the camera. I will try again some other day. Eva was much more successful however and she took a ton of photos, mostly because she just kept pushing the button. I uploaded the photos to Flickr and you can check them out. I tagged them EvaBooShoots.

Later after I read Eva 5 books before bed I called a blogger who goes by the name Bad Evan. The other day he DM’d (Private Twitter) me his phone number and then tweeted that he should now change it. We bantered a bit and that was the end of things. Then some other bloggers got involved and we playfully bantered some more. Well tonight I gave Bad Evan a call. He’s a wicked nice guy. We had a few awkward minutes of conversation then we fell into a groove and talked for a good 15 minutes or so. He’s got some amazing project that he is working on and I am looking forward to seeing that as well as seeing him blog again soon. So if you DM me your Phone # I might just call you.

Speaking of blogging, I was interviewed by Laurie Burkitt from Forbes magazine for an article that I personally think was biased and terrible. She (Laurie) got the blog url of this blog wrong despite my sending her 8 links to posts on this blog and also having my blog url in the signature of my e-mail (we exchanged a few, follow up questions) . She also misquoted me stating “I make $6,000 more every year for my family.” That is incorrect. Since starting blogging with IZEA and their many properties, PayPerPost, PayPerPost v4.0, Sponsored Tweets and SocialSpark I have made about $6,000 in total through PayPerPost alone, that is over the course of 3 years. With SocialSpark I have made nearly $500 and PPP V4.0 $35.00 Sponsored Tweets $3.50. I’m not retiring anytime soon but the money certainly has helped my family in many ways. Seeing my blog url incorrect and being misquoted makes me seriously doubt the integrity of the piece overall. What other facts are missing and skewed.