I’m officially a ChaCha guide. I’m making 20 cents per question. Some of them are quite easy but others are very hard such as one I received today: how many Milky Way candy bars does it take to reach from the surface of the earth to the surface of the moon? It was 200 thousand something or 2 Million something, I cannot remember. Other ones, that are more simple are simply asking for jokes, which I can easily provide because I am full of them. That’s about all I have to say today. I will be devoting some more of my precious time to ChaCha and answering questions coming from around the nation.

Good night. listen

P.S. I had to calculate how many Milky Way bars for that answer myself… it was fun.

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    That was my first test using Jott. I am very impressed. It only took about two minutes to process. At the moment I am not sure whether it is a person who transcribes the message or if it is done by voice recognition software. The actual text was just a little off but if you listened to the actual recording you can hear that I just woke up and my sentence flow fortifies the chaos theory.

Google 411

    Recently, I found out about a few helpful voice services. Each one is FREE! I heard of 1-800-GOOG-411 some time ago but did not believe it was actually free! It is and very helpful. It is certainly much easier then texting Google and reading the response. Plus you cannot text while driving a car… well you can… and I did once. Nothing happened but it was stupid of me. I recommend Google 411.

Cha Cha

    There is another one that I think would come in handy now and then, maybe in a dispute over some menial fact with a friend, like, Who is the smartest person in the world? In a situation like this Cha Cha would probably return an answer like: Marilyn vos Savant, an American magazine columnist, author, lecturer and playwright who rose to fame through her listing in the Guinness Book of World Records under “Highest IQ”.

    Cha Cha is easy to use. Simply dial 1-800-2-ChaCha and ask your question. A few minutes later you will receive a text message with the answer. The questions are recorded and played back to someone who searches for the answer online. So there is some room for error but for the most part the answers seem to be spot on.

    One thing I did not like is that you receive three text messages. One confirming that your question has been submitted, another confirming that it has been submitted and that other charges may apply (I am unsure what the other charges are) and finally the third one answering your question. If you are like me and do not have text messaging plan, this could add up quickly if you use Cha Cha often.

    There has been so much going on in the past few weeks. Wife and I are looking for a new place to live. We originally wanted to look for apartments but now we are thinking of buying a house. With the market the way it is we could live in a house cheaper then rent. There are some smaller homes which are on the market for extremely cheap. This is something we never thought we’d do. We always thought renting would be the way for us.

Glam Shots for the Ages

    My sister, brother and me did a photo-shoot for our parents anniversary. As you can see they are not really glam shots. A friend of mine is a professional photographer who does amazing work! He could easily and probably has, done work for musicians cover art and advertisements, I’m sure. One of the pictures is 18×20 inches! That’s huge! It was quite odd changing my clothes in the middle of a street and then going into a freezing cold, flooded river up to our neck to get some shots. Then changing all of my clothes in a handicap porta-potty.

One of our Zissou poses (below)

A Wife’s Domain

    A few nights ago I was hanging out in a van that my friend was borrowing as a prospective buyer. There were about six of us there having a few beers. Before this we had cleaned a warehouse (his job). We get to hang out in the barricaded parking lot when we are done and not worry about some crazy people approaching us and asking for our money. We would not be so careless as to do this in an unstable environment. It was getting late and I get a text message from Wife wondering when I would be home. In it she tells me she needs to talk to me about something. This worries me, what could have come up in the middle of the night that she needs to talk to me about!?

    Upon entering the living room I looked at her and asked what was going on. She said with a very worried look on her face,”I don’t know what I did, I don’t know if I did something wrong.” as she got up and walked to the computer,”I was reading this article on how to make money being an affiliate and it said I should get a website so I went here and now I have a website.”
    ”You mean, you bought a domain name?!” I asked.
    ”Yes.” she said.
    ”Really!?,” I asked, thinking she may have been scammed.

    She is not the type of person to purchase a domain name and the host was a very odd one, Blue Wire Domains. By the way never purchase a domain or host with them. They are crappy. She showed me the article on how to make your website Search Engine Optimized (SEO) and it was spot on but the guy who wrote it suggested Blue Wire Domains, who I still suspect could be scammers. So now she has a domain name, that is a gargantuan anomaly in life.