Computer Careers Book
Monday, June 29, 2009
On desktops
I'm planning to move to Southeast Asia before the end of this year. Probably The Philippines, but I'm not sure yet. One puzzle is what to do about computers, about desktops. I want to have my own office and PC and not have to depend on an Internet cafe. Still, maybe that'll be too
expensive. Maybe I can use an Internet cafe and have remote access to my PC if my mother will let me set it up in her spare bedroom. I know it'll be hard to get work done around the house where I live, because of all the kids and interruptions.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
On life insurance rate
I'm still reading CHINA SAGA by C.Y Lee, and it's now in the 1930s. Not too many pages ago, the current main character, Brigid/Fon Yun lived with her old revolutionary friend with Dr. Sun Yat Sen's widow in Shanghai. One character mentions that it's fun but dangerous. They soon have to leave on the run, because some gangsters were hired to kidnap Mrs. Sun and hold her for ransom. All of this was a desperate time for most of China. Warlords ruled various areas of China. If nobody ruled an area, it was systematically looted by gangs that came and went, raping and killing and stealing everything they could, time after time. The Nationalists killed communists at night, and they probably killed their enemies too. Most Chinese were poor and starving. Under such conditions, how could a company establish a profitable life insurance rate?
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Lipofuze review
Lipofuze is another of the new weight loss products that combine many different ingredients. If one particular ingredient doesn't work well for your particular weight loss problem, then another one likely will. And it's also likely that they will all work more powerfully or efficiently in combination with each other. The list of ingredients here seems similar to another such product. This Lipofuze review cannot say though whether or not it will work for you. You should pay attention to any ingredient that could affect you medically. And you should maintain a sensible diet and get moderate exercise and drink lots of water.
On Apidexin
It appears that companies are now getting smart by coming out with weight loss products that are combinations of many different weight loss ingredients. Although it may seem impossible to loss four to seven pounds per week, that's the claim on the site for Apidexin. I'd thought it was impossible to burn more than one to one and a half pounds of fat per week. Any more pounds gone, and you're losing water, muscle and/or tissue. But they have a lot of science and experience behind these ingredients increasing the fat burning of the body itself. But I would recommend backing up these ingredients with a sensible diet and exercise as well.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
On Total Merchant Services
I've started reading TOXIC FAT by Dr. Barry Sears, of the Zone Diet fame, and it's a scary book. He manages to find a new way every few years of writing a new Zone book to appeal to the public, and concern with fat is far more popular than simply how to be healthy. So he writes from a different angle, and with recent scientific studies to back him up. Too bad it has nothing to do with Total Merchant Services. But everybody should read this book and act upon its recommendations to follow the Zone diet and take fish oil to reduce inflammation. When I did those things, I lost weight and felt better. I'm off now, and I'm getting fatter and feeling worse, so I've sent off for a hypnosis weight loss product that focuses on the top 4 type of diet plans, including the Zone Diet.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
On top diet pills
I recently read a new book by Dr. Al Sears and Jon Herring about the benefits of sunlight. They're totally against the current "sun police" who want us to stay cowering inside or to buy carcinogenic sunscreens. One interesting fact is that exposure to sunlight helps you to lose weight. I can't recall all the details but it works partly by improving your metabolism so you burn calories more efficiently, and also controlling such hormones as insulin. Thus, it also helps prevent or control diabetis. Sounds crazy, maybe, not like taking top diet pills. But there is a big correlation between many degenerative diseases and geography. The farther north you live, the more likely you are to have many such diseases. For instance, blacks who live in equitorial Africa and the Caribbean are virtually free of diabetis and high blood pressure, but blacks living in North America have very incidences of these diseases.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Golf training aid
It's well-known in the copywriting world that the premier writer of ads and sales letters for golf products is John Carlton, though I think he writes only for his one client, though that doesn't stop others from coming out with competing products. If I was bringing a golf training aid to market he's the one I'd want to write the copy. Next would be Harlan Kilstein. It's apparently a crazy market, because some people take it so seriously they'll do and buy anything to improve their game, although they focus on the macho goal of making their drives longer, without caring about their putting game even though it's probably more important in terms of scoring.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
On an appetite suppressant
Maybe one day the consumer will go beyond buying an appetite suppressant to keep them from eating too much and gaining weight, and somehow will be able to install internal controls so that they desire to eat only health foods, and only those within proper balance and quantities. Add to that something that would force us to exercise in proper ways and amounts, and then we'd never have to think about being overweight again! I don't see why a biology sophisticated enough, combined with microtechnology, could not somehow signal to us when our body levels of some nutrient was too low. Or monitor or blood sugar and somehow release nutrition into our blood streams as needed. This would require a sophisticated knowledge of the body, of course.
On RV parks
I wonder if rv parks are becoming America's new homes, as baby boomers continue to get older and start to retire. Many will want to sell their homes and move someplace warmer. Some will not be able to afford housing in the south, however, so will buy an rv instead. But won't necessarily have the money or desire to drive it around much. Others will want the flexibility to drive back and forth across the country, especially the southern parts during winter. I've heard that recreational vehicles cost at least $75,000 and can get a lot more expensive, so they're not the cheap way of living I'd thought. Still, that's cheap compared to most of America's housing, and so still a cheaper option than buying a full-sized house in a major urban or popular southern area.
On dog supplies
Once as a pizza delivery dude I had a rough time with the manager of a local big time pet supply store. He ordered his pizzas and some salads, and I delivered them. He didn't tip me. When I returned to the store, I found out that he'd called and complained that he'd ordered extra salad dressings and hadn't gotten them. The manager on duty knew this was a lie -- because he'd taken the original order, so he knew the manager hadn't ordered the extra dressings -- but he still wanted me to return to the store and give the manager the extra dressings for free. So I did that, and the matter grabbed the extra packets of dressings, snorted like he was really offended and very offensively turned and walked away from me. He acted like a terrific *sshole and if I'd owned a pet I'd have written the marketing department of that chain and told them that I'd never buy dog supplies or anything else from their store, and I'd tell all my pet-owning friends to stay away from their store. I didn't, only because I don't own pets.
