Archive for November, 2008
Invest Two Dollars, Get Back One!
Lincoln Adams | November 30, 2008 @ 7:55 pmI’ve been spending the weekend exploring ways to bring more traffic to my site, which took me into the brave new world of domains. There’s an industry out there built on the notion that if you purchase enough old domains that once amassed a ton of backlinks and redirect these domains back to your website, it will give your site enough juice to bring in serious traffic.
The problem is, this whole domain business smacks of the stock market and gives me a bloody serious headache. There are literally hundreds of thousands of domains that expire (or are about to expire) every day, and sometimes you have to bid on them if they’re in high demand. Theoretically though, if you invest enough money into enough valuable domains, the dividends will make it worthwhile over the long run. So say I spend $1,000 on domains. If (and that’s a big IF) it brings in enough traffic that I end up making $500 a month in revenues as a result, I will have eventually gotten back what I invested after two months, and then some.
Here’s the thing though: every investment I have ever made in life has been a monumental failure with a capital F. Whether it was school or life or internet projects or relationships or whatnot, whatever I have purported to do in life has always resulted in ultimate FAIL.
So with that kind of batting average, do I really want to spend thousands of dollars grabbing up all kinds of domain names in the hopes that they will collectively bring me the kind of traffic I’ve been looking for?
See, that would work for other people, but not for me. Somehow, the laws of physics and economics all stop at my doorstep. You ever seen the show Lost? Well consider me the island. Once you’re on my shores, you can just forget about everything you’ve ever thought you knew about how the universe worked, because it’s all been rendered moot here. I am a walking wormhole of anomalies, a glitch in the system. 
That’s why I’m kind of hesitant in blowing thousands of bucks on this new experiment, especially when I’m so close to paying off my debts too. I just want this blog to work out so badly, and the more I think about things and about finding another job or another career, the more I’d rather be out of the workforce altogether and be self-sufficient and self-employed, that way I can live anywhere and go anywhere. I don’t want to be stuck at one job in one place forever and ever. I need to MOVE, baby. 
So, I don’t know. I think I’m just gonna leave this alone for now, and once all my debts have been squared off, I’ll come back to this and maybe think about making smaller investments instead of going all out, and see if it goes anywhere. I’m just so sick and tired of my 5 visits a day traffic that I’m just chomping at the bit to get SOMETHING going. Gaaaah. 
Tags: backlinks, blog, debt, domain, domain names, domains, experiment, FAIL, failure, internet, investment, job, life, money, traffic, website, workforce
Categories: Blog Fog
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Lincoln Adams | November 30, 2008 @ 5:31 pm
It looks like my supermarket somehow got a hold of Pee Wee’s bike and decided to raffle it off.
Categories: Gone Mobile
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I am thankful for nothing! NOTHING!
Lincoln Adams | November 27, 2008 @ 8:00 amAnd here I am once again arriving at another Thanksgiving, alone, empty, and even worse off than last year. What do I have to be thankful for? I’m still in a dead end job, I still haven’t found my dream girl, and now thanks to the Obamaton assbots who voted Antichrist-Lite into office, I can look forward to 4 years of misery so awful it will make me yearn for the Jimmy Carter years.
I have nothing to be thankful. NOTHING.
Well… at least I’ll soon be out of debt though, so I guess there’s that. And I have a job where I only have to work 4 days a week, so I guess I should be thankful for that too. And I have a nice car, a laptop, a desktop PC, two digital cameras, a fridge packed with food and a closet filled with clothes, and of course my incredibly designed blog as well. I also have two loving parents that still haven’t disowned me even when I accidentally set their car on fire. (And the kitchen too, after a failed baking experiment once.)
Ok, so maybe I do have a few things to be thankful for. 
I guess I should take this time then to at least try and focus on the good things in my life instead of the bad. And out of all the good that I do have, the one thing I should be thankful for above everything else is having a God who is always watching out for me, even when I accuse Him of the most horrible things.
So thank you Lord for putting up with me, especially when You’re the only one who has the patience to do so. But who knows, maybe someday You’ll bring a girl into my life who will also have the kind of everlasting patience to put up with me as well. 
Tags: dream girl, girl, God, life, lord, misery, parents, patience, thankful, thanks, Thanksgiving
Categories: Lincoln's Personal Log
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I’m air banding it today
Lincoln Adams | November 26, 2008 @ 9:00 amI looked out this morning and the sun was gone, turned on some music to start my day, I lost myself in a familiar song, I closed my eyes and I slipped awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay…
It’s a miracle I haven’t been commited yet.
Tags: air banding, band, boston, music, scrubs, song, YouTube
Categories: Comic Relief
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Walking Like A Man
Lincoln Adams | November 26, 2008 @ 1:34 amI hate women.
I hate them because in order to attract one, I have to prove that I don’t need one, (or at least act like I don’t need one.) Only women could come up with these kind of circular fudge nuts rules that they lay down like a psychological mine field, which in the course of dating history has become riddled with the dead bodies of once sane men.
It’s ok for a girl to pine away for her Prince Charming, and we men will all think it’s cute and adorable and it makes us want her even more, but God forbid we should yearn for our own personal Belle, because see, that just makes us weenie and completely undesirable to the fairer sex.
It’s the kind of thing that can make a grown man like me cry and go completely mad.
Well fine then. Bye bye baby, and I don’t-a mean maybe, gonna get along somehow, 
Soon you’ll be crying’, on account of all your lying, 
Oh yeah, just look who’s laughin’ now! 
(I’m gonna…)
Walk like a man, fast as I can,
Walk like a man from yooooooou,
I’ll tell the world, “Forget about it, girl!”
And walk like a man from you!
WooooOOOOOoooooOOOooOOoooo!
Tags: belle, dating, demotivator, girl, God, man, song, women, women suck
Categories: Romance and Relationships
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When I asked the Lord for a sign, this is what He sent me…
Lincoln Adams | November 25, 2008 @ 1:35 am
The Angst of Grocery Shopping
Lincoln Adams | November 24, 2008 @ 7:16 pmWhy must my favorite supermarket stock different items at different locations even though the distance between these locations is only a few short miles?
Case in point: I want a store brand diet cream soda. Store A has it, but Store B doesn’t. I also want Chips Ahoy Chunky Chocolate Chip Cookies, which Store B has in stock but Store A doesn’t. So in order to get the all the grocery items I want, I have to go to both stores.
What a load of crap. And then the worst of it is when I want to get a few cases of my favorite Snapple drink, Diet Lemonade-Iced Tea, which my supermarket doesn’t stock at ALL. There’s only one market in town that does, and of course they just HAD to be in Ghetto-We-Shoot-White-People-For-Fun-Ville. Still, I love this Snapple flavor enough to risk dodging molotov cocktails just to grab a few, and besides, after you’ve stepped over enough chalked outlines of dead bodies and broken glass as you make your way to Aisle Number 5, you kinda get used to it after a while.
Still it’d be really nice if just ONE supermarket could stock ALL the grocery items I buy on a regular basis. Is that really too much to ask? Stupid economy.
Tags: chocolate chip cookies, ghetto, groceries, grocery, shopping, snapple, supermarket
Categories: Lincoln's Personal Log
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