Thursday, September 14, 2006

Ironic Post in July

So...in the Gratuitously Large Photo post (which turned out to be not gratuitously large because Blogger didn't upload it at its real size) I asked if anybody wanted to buy it. Kidding of course. About that time I was bored and started a CafePress website for S's and G's. My site is called Designs By Bryan (bored and not feeling very creative. Though creative enough to make my squirrel logo :-P )
Anyways I had just come from home in NY watching my mom row at a regatta in Philly. I took pictures and made her team a CD for their own fun/advertising/whatever. I got to playing around with one of them in Photoshop and came up with a pretty cool (at least I think) silhouette of their men's Four. So I threw it up there to see what would happen. Well that was like 2 months ago. I log in again for the first time in a month yesterday to find, Lo and Behold!, two people bought it! Yay! Commission! Cool. I just hope it comes out nice in print. They have a 30 day guarantee, so that's comforting for me but I still hope it's nice enough to keep and hang in a living room or boathouse or wherever. So yeah...shameless plug...for me. Go there. Buy stuff. :-) If you have any ideas for stuff too, let me know. Then I'll give you a discount. :-) Or! If you want to sign up and sell your own stuff you can do that too. Then you can be my Affiliate (sounds official) and I get a kickback from your sales. Then you blog about your site and get affiliates, and kickbacks. Sounds kind of pyramid-ish, but hey, it's all good.

How now...

Well, how's that for a break of a few months? Honestly I haven't been all that bored on the pipeline recently, so I haven't had much random downtime away from home. Of course now's the time of year where people are like, ooh...I better get this work done before winter, can you delineate my 80 acre parcel tomorrow? Yeah, you and everybody else who's asked. Anyways, in other news my girlfriend and I broke up. It's kind of given me lots of time to write here, but also not a lot of motivation. Anyways...What else is new?
How about random blog hits? Somebody Googled "Photodermatitis and beer" and got my blog. Odd. I thought so at the time so put up an away message on AIM exclaiming how odd that was, at which point somebody else (no doubt looking for my 'news' blog after seeing my away message) Googled "Photodermatitis and beer" and also got my blog. Now that two people have done it, it's officially a way to find my blog. Although, you're already here. So why am I talking to you about this? A few more searches and it'll be like Google-Bombing. You know, Google "miserable failure" and you get GDubs' bio on the White House website. It's a trick on how Google works to calculate which hits appear first. Other searches yielding my website include "Haggis order mn meat" and "Star Tribune wild parsnip". Mmmmm....meat.