This is why I hardly ever go on vimeo, just to look around. I find tons of decent stuff and stay up too late. I usually go there looking for something specific as their quality is so much better than any other video site.
Totally putting skynet on my resume. I mean I am friends with fake John Connor on twitter.
I posted about this some time ago, PMOG is a game played as you go about your normal Internet biz-nass. You install a Firefox add-on and away you go. You earn 2 Data Points for every site you visit. Earning Data Points levels you up, but the points also allow you to buy tools you can use on any site of your choosing. You can leave a portal on a site that takes other players to another site. You can leave a mine on a site that other players will trip and lose Data Points. Unless, of course, they are wearing armor, than the mine only damages the armor. You can also purchase a crate and put tools or points in it and leave the crate on a site. Finally, you can put lightposts on sites. Lightposts are used to make missions, a tour of sites of your choosing. The missions have been a wealth of knowledge to me. I have learned about new applications, sites and more. That is why I started PMOG Link Monday posts.
If you have questions, check out the site, they have an intro video. If you choose to play, they’ve also designated several players as stewards, folks who volunteer their time to help new players. Seek out pixielo, lehall, chetyre, salmontickler or emberdione. Of course, I am no steward, but I would be glad to help. It is a really friendly community so you’d find loads of help and info. In fact, there are loads of missions with gameplay info, like this one (of three), by bunni3burn.
Enough with the shout-outs, onto the links.
Yes! I got this posted before Monday was over!
An open source vector art application suggested by salinat. As Adobe products get more & more bloated, I get frustrated. Granted, I haven’t made the move from Photoshop to GIMP, but I had no idea that there was an open source Illustrator program out there. Inkscape looks like it is just getting started, but GIMP started like 12 years ago and it has come very far.
Oh, I found this one before and forgot all about it. Thanks to a mission by orangerineman, I found this site again. The blog reminded me that working 10 years in retail sucked. Basically, people post their experiences with “funny & stupid customers.” Add it to your morning coffee surf.
orangerineman also introduced me to a new site, not hired. You ever sit around with your friends and laugh about stupid people who post pictures of themselves humping liquor bottles on social network sites and then can’t figure out why they lost their jobs? This site is for you. They post moronic resumés, craigslist job posts, etc.
Probably Not Safe For Work, but enjoy anyway. Someone dropped this one on me before, again I forgot about it until iree reminded me. The title says it all, I would just like to remind you to use CAUTION or else you might end up as a funny 911 transcript on the not always right link above.
Since my father was sixteen, he worked at Smalligan’s Bike Shop on Getty street in Muskegon, Michigan. Several years ago, the shop closed and my father was left without work. Luckily, Tom Anderson of the Bicycle Rack stepped in and not only hired my father, but also gave him a chance to become part owner and eventually take over.
After all my father has gone through with muscular dystrophy, this was truly a blessing. Tom decided to further invest in my father by paying for his health insurance. It was unreal; it was almost too good to be true. Well, it wasn’t all that dreamy, my father would no longer be working on, or selling his beloved Schwinns, as the Bicycle Rack did not carry that brand. 
Though, later my father got a hold of his old rep. and quickly solved that problem.
Unfortunately, last year my father had a stroke. It was a pretty scary time for us all. When the smoke cleared, he was left with only minor damage in his speech center. While he was recovering and going to therapy my aunts, uncles and cousins all chipped in and took shifts at the Bicycle Rack to help Tom and my father. A month or so later, my father, though on disability, returned to the bike shop. He gets frustrated and embarrassed when he struggles with his words, which makes him a bit self-conscious waiting on customers, however, he is still sharp and able to repair any bike you put in front of him.
Today, February 28, 2008, Tom Anderson fired my father from the Bicycle Rack. On March 1, 2008, my father would have been a fully vested partner in the business. Though I speak through obvious bias, I find this to be the unscrupulous behavior. This is the type of things that large corporations do, not small, local businesses. I realize that with the Walmarts in the world, small businesses struggle more and more each day. Yet, I will not sit silently by and watch my father be treated this way in our community. Is this a sample of things to come? Is this how small business competes with the corporations?
I would like to ask you to take your business elsewhere. Please do not patronize the Bicycle Rack. Breakaway Bicycles is out on Harvey St, if you have bicycle needs. Better yet, someone has started a shop in Whitehall that you might try. In fact, when the owner in Whitehall was getting off his feet, my father gave him contacts and reps. to get his business off the ground. By the way, in my opinion, that is a good example of how local business should be behaving, cooperating, not competing. Let me know if you’d like more info. about this shop or if you need some repairs on your bike. I would be happy to fix them myself, or my father is now available and would be eager to help you with any bicycle needs.
