April 17, 2010
January 20, 2010
Hacking Haiti Donations
United Nations Development Programme on Flickr
I gave to Haiti, did you? While I did give, it just felt like it wasn’t as much as I would like to or can afford at the moment. I thought maybe I’ll take time to work in a local charity? Reality of course set in, the reality that I’m a full-time student and hold a part-time job.
Why not use what I know, social media, I mean, I did get my internship, now job because of it. So why not try to leverage social media again?
So what’s the idea/hack?
It’s simple;
Make sure to append the #hackinghaiti hashtag to the message if you make up your own. I would like to track this.
Haiti still needs your help, make sure to donate! http://j.mp/7tc6Or #hackinghaiti
This is what it it should look like.
A month from now you will post a reminder to people about the tragedy in Haiti and that donations are still needed. Maybe a person that sees the message wasn’t able to give when it was in the public eye? Maybe they have cash to spare when your message gets posted? So maybe, just maybe they will give when they see the message you just posted, a month later? Now, multiply that person times a thousand and you have some serious donations!
Also, it doesn’t have to just be a month from now, you can post up to 3 months later. Or even better yet, you could repost the same message multiple times for 3 months!
Helpful notes:
Curious if your message has been scheduled? Just add a column, select the service you scheduled it on and pick “Pending Update” then select the account on that service and click “Create Column”, now a new column will show up with your pending message for that service.
Hint: If your message doesn’t show up right away hit the refresh button.
Kinda confused about how to schedule a posting in Hootsuite? The embedded video below should start right when the guy is explaining how to schedule a tweet aka post.
Tell me what you think of this idea and tell me if you are going to take part in the comments below.
April 27, 2009
Discrimination Served Up Hot and Spicy [repost ]
I went digging through my old posts on Myspace and found this posting that had me laughing so hard I just had to post it again.
Things to keep in mind, Agent Smith and I are now good friends, not just acquaintances and Mr. Tubbs, well, he is actually pretty nice just, still old school.
Originally posted March 1, 2007
Normally I do not write about anything regarding my coworkers, however, I would say this warrants some fleshing out. Name changes will be used to protect the “innocent”.
Yesterday I decided to go out to lunch with my fellow workers for some very very spicy wings at some place called BW3. Now I had gone out to lunch before with my good bud who we’ll call Agent Smith. However, I had not gone out with Mr. Tubbs. Mr. Tubbs was a contractor and was generally agreeable to speak with on the job, the lunch provided an opportunity to get to know him as he really is.
Dialogue
Mr. Tubbs: What’s with all the Jews and gays on TV lately? I mean every show has either a Jew or a gay person on it.
Me: {in my head: Oh my god, did he just say that out loud? In one sentence he managed to take a swipe at me and my mother! } Verbal response: I’m not sure what you mean?
Mr. Tubbs: I don’t know, why they are always on and why do they have to kiss? It makes my skin crawl. But two women that’s another story.
Agent Smith: So seeing someone like Harvey Fierstein would just make your head explode?
Mr. Tubbs: That show Heroes is the only one I’ve seen lately that doesn’t have a Jew or a gay character on it.
Me: Doesn’t mean it wasn’t created by one. And also, while he wasn’t openly gay on the show, George Takei was on the show recently.
So yeah, the discussion went on from there and sorta fizzled out as we ate our hot wings that were so hot Mr. Tubbs and I were sweating. Then on to the drive back, Agent Smith decided to bring up the guy who got a horse to fuck him up the ass then died because of a ruptured anus and about how the video got out on the net. Then after that he brings up another guy who trained a dolphin to fuck him and he went through he trouble of setting up a website on how to do it….
At this point I’m rolling in laughter in my head at how funny this is. How Mr. Tubbs must be crawling in his skin. Then, right after lunch Agent Smith and I get on IM and the following conversation ensues.
Agent Smith: heh
so what do you think is on Mr. Tubbs’s mind?
(the one by you) complaining about gay guys in shows, seeing gay guys kissing, and then the whole disclaimer about “well I’m not starting at you all day but” on the way in the door just now
hehehehehehheh
s/starting/staring
Me: yeah well, i don’t flow that route…the married one…i respect aging institutions
Agent Smith: hahahaahah
I just think it’s funny that he seems to have his defenses so high
it’s cute
Me: yeah. i mean. insecurities much eh?
Agent Smith: like you’re going to misinterpret something he says and then suddenly he’ll accidentally have gay sex
sorry I can’t stop giggling about this
Me: accidentally is the funniest part
oops it slipped in
Agent Smith: hahahahaaha
Me: well you kept driving the part home…with dolphin sex
and horse sex…
Agent Smith: hey by then I was just trying to change the subject
Me: no wonder they think gay people marrying is gonna lead to man marrying beast
Agent Smith: I mean I can only bait someone for so long with “why girls and not guys” before they snap
hahahahahaha
THIS IS MY WIFE SNOWFLAKE
YEEHAW
Me: she’s got a purdy maine
Agent Smith: you know the second they legalize bestiality every “straight” redneck in Montana is gonna have a herd of fluffy girlfriends and half will be guys and the hicks won’t even know.
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July 26, 2008
Organizing Porn – Golden Comment
This is soo a geeks way of saying that you read Playboy for the articles.
Comment from Fleshbot a porn blog
“How Do You Organize Your Porn?” NSFW Link
My collection at the moment is about 9TB, all stored on a pair of local file servers. About 8TB of that is video, but I have around 1TB of pictures as well.
I have incoming directories for unsorted material, but generally speaking, I try to break things up by the studio responsible (Girlfriend Films, say, vs. Danni.com vs. Playboy etc).
For materials that I can’t categorize that way, either because I don’t know the producer or because it’s a one-off sort of deal (amateur stuff), I go ahead and but the material in a directory of generic content (Straight sex vs. Tranny Zombie Midget porn) or by the name of the principle performer (Faye Valentine, Tera Patrick etc) under a /starring directory.
Video content mostly isn’t that bad. Images are nuts. When possible, I still try to categorize by model name, but if I don’t know it, or if she’s one of the billion or so Eastern European models, the images get filed by the studio or “branding” on the image (Femjoy, MetArt etc). Picture collections just stay in their own directories.
Videos are indexed by name on my servers. I wrote a simple little web app that lets me search the whole collection by file name or with keywords gathered in a text file with the same name as the video (I make those myself, but only if I need to).
I actually don’t have much difficulty remembering where I’ve put things, even through 9TB of data (that’s 150x more stuff than the guy with 60GB) and even without my little search tool. The whole project of constructing this system has really been an ongoing project to teach myself about Enterprise-level data storage and information retrieval. There’s a whole system of failsafes and backups that I’m not even talking about.