Flynn's Paws: My Thoughts, My Gripes

Tag: Publishers

  • Inflating value…

    My late Auntie Hely has a profound sickness in flourishing her stories. For example, if she gave only $20, she would brag to unwitting listeners that she gave $200. The same goes to the banana nutter lady who tells her local parishioners that she gives $500 every week to the coffers but actually was caught giving $5 by an usher.

    As for my random thought this morning during mass, I don’t think the pyramids are 12,000 years old but only 1,200 years. How else are these structures and other antiqities still intact? My calculations were done merely by removing an extra zero from the alleged stories by the “professionals” and their outmoded “scientific” devices for measuring artifacts and other “educated guesses”.

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  • Middle Americans…

    Well those who take the “middle ground” are really left with nothing because they are neither too rich to live without working hard and for a lifetime to pay down/off debt/mortgage nor too poor to qualify for government help/benefits. It’s the intention behind the entitlements/garnishments/bonuses and how these are best utilized, not for sex, drugs, gambling and more money/bling.

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  • 20111010-Trying Theme

    For the longest time, I really like this one WordPress.com Theme: The Journalist 1.3 by Lucian Marin. But I never really used it.

    “The Journalist is a smart, minimal theme designed for professional journalists.”

    Here are few things about this theme:

    • Has normal-Georgia serif looking fonts.
    • Has black bar to set off the post title above and contents below.
    • Handles un/order lists and quotes nicely.
    • Lacks tagline, time stamp, top nav, templates for Links and Archives.

  • Meaningful blogging…

    I think I’ve gotten “blogging burnout”. I could blog/list everything/all that I’ve experienced and still something is lacking. Is it the appearance of my blog? The content not being focused enough? But that’s where tagging comes along. I don’t know. I don’t care. I want to care but don’t know.

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  • 20111009-Tweaking Again

    I’ve finished tweaking my “front/home” page, which used to be the “contents” page, now renamed “page” properly. Fourteen pages are now linked on the front page. Linking the “page” to itself as the fifteenth page doesn’t make sense. There are currently fifteen (15) static pages.

    I had to shorten each sentence of the main links to fit the narrow width of certain WordPress.com themes, which I keep switching. I found that I needed both templates for Archives and Links. That frees up the bottom/side bar from clutter. Plus I can “track” through my blog stats if these pages are being viewed.

    All the extra pages are now grand/children of the About page. The other parent pages are found as part of the main menu: POSTS, PAGES, LINKS,  and ARCHIVES, which are capitalized, just to differentiate them from the About page.

    There are currently seven widgets in the sidebar. I’ve gotten tired of reading through all the links and decided to reduce the clutter to a more manageable size. Plus it much easier to read, too. My motto: “Simple is better. Bigger is not better.”

  • How do you stay true to yourself?

    To stay true to yourself is to be honest and to do the best despite laws, rules, regulations, norms, mores, memes, etc. If being true to yourself means to act on murderous impulse, then that is another “entity/enemy” within that must be accepted but punished because such acts infringe upon the concept of “free-will“. If being true to yourself means to exercise “free-will” to pursue happiness, life and liberty, then so be it. I think a fair and balanced mind set would be the ultimate truth to yourself.

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    http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/how-do-you-stay-true-to-yourself/

    What does it mean to you to stay true to yourself? Which part of yourself to you think about?

  • Guess my pic…

    Here is a photo of an object. Can you guess what it is?

    ~spider web?
    ~cat hair?
    ~dust bunny?
    ~gray filaments?
    ~silver wires?
    ~white threads?

    image

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  • 20111004-Trying Theme

    I was switching themes again and got the following message:

    “You are not authorized to use that theme.”

    That wasn’t the only time I got that message. It must be a sign or something telling me to stop trying different WordPress.com themes. Hmmm.

  • Should everything be done in moderation?

    Try blogging the whole day while living with your family, friends and/or pets. That would be suspect and down right anti-social! Therefore, a fine balance between blogging and other activities is better for the body (i.e. back and buttock) and soul (i.e. creativity and well-being). Only the INSANELY addicted (drinking, gambling/investing, smoking and blogging/gaming) would get VIOLENT and NOT try doing something different, such as doing NOTHING.

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    http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/should-everything-be-done-in-moderation/

  • No side/bottom bar…

    Last night, I had to switch back to the Twenty-Eleven theme. Don’t ask me why I am not satisfied. I would like a hybridization of all the free themes here at WordPress.com (as suggested by John Jr in one of his comments here).

    I like a clean and simple appearance for my weblog. As a result, there are no widgets to be seen in either the sidebar or bottom bar! And there are only three menus: Posts, Pages and Archives. Therefore, there are only “internal” pages, which include the blog/post entries.

    I’m testing out this “feeling” without the bottom/sidebar and so far it’s one day of idle satisfaction. But for how long will this temporary satisfied feelling last? I’ll give it another day or so. If only there are MORE shortcodes for all the other widgets, then I’ll be good.

  • No side/bottom bar…

    Last night, I had to switch back to the Twenty-Eleven theme. Don’t ask me why I am not satisfied. I would like a hybridization of all the free themes here at WordPress.com (as suggested by John Jr in one of his comments here).

    I like a clean and simple appearance for my weblog. As a result, there are no widgets to be seen in either the sidebar or bottom bar! And there are only three menus: Posts, Pages and Archives. Therefore, there are only “internal” pages, which include the blog/post entries.

    I’m testing out this “feeling” without the bottom/sidebar and so far it’s one day of idle satisfaction. But for how long will this temporary satisfied feelling last? I’ll give it another day or so. If only there are MORE shortcodes for all the other widgets, then I’ll be good.

  • What I know now…

    that I’m wasting my time blogging and reading other blogs.

    #1. WHAT I THOUGHT ABOUT THE BLOG’S NAME: Flynn’s Blog evolved to “My Blogging Path”. I like using my pen name. My real nick name is Flynn.

    #2. WHAT I THOUGHT ABOUT AUDIENCE: The audience is supposed to be PG13. Those that know my real name would NEVER meet me in person.

    #3. WHAT I THOUGHT ABOUT TIME MANAGEMENT: I blog everyday because I’m un/deremployed and have no other outlet to avoid going insane.

    #4. WHAT I THOUGHT ABOUT RESPONDING TO COMMENTS: I’ve responded to some comments and failed to response to a “feedback” regarding the customized image headers. I really don’t like using emails or my real name or responding to comments, which reveal my email address.

    #5. WHAT KIND OF BLOGGER I THOUGHT I’D BE: I’m a mean and nasty person in real life. Why? Ask TPTB and pals. They too created a monster. And this blog reflects my sentiments and the mess they created on this hellish planet. I’m not going to rest in peace until they MAN UP!

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    http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/blogging-tips-what-i-know-now-%e2%80%93-nina-badzins-blog/