dante cordova
A Victim Of Marketing

Today was the first day of school for Zach and Sydney. Zach started Kindergarten and Sydney is in Preschool. They were both very excited to to being going to a new school.

Just for fun:

There is a FREE service out there on the tubes (internet) that lets you ask (TXT) any question that can be answered by Google. In just a few minutes you get a TXT with answer. This pretty cool service is called Mosio.

Here is how it works:

You TXT a question from your cell phone, that question gets posted on the Mosio site, then real people do the research and txt you back the answer. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Kelly and I just started watching episodes of Better Off Ted starting a week or so ago (Thank you Internet).  I would like to report that this show is awesome! I encourage you watch it.

Over at hulu.com, they have episodes 9-13.  If you can watch it from the beginning you be glad you did.

Below is a 2 min 50 second video that gives you the gist of what the show has to offer.

enjoy.

Im rocking out the “High Score” theme

If you don’t know who Keyboard Cat is well…he’s kind of a big deal on the Internet. Check out this fun 4 minute video giving you the true internet story of Keyboard Cat, alternatively you can read about this fine feline in the following Wikipedia article.

Cottin one of my best pals of all time (that’s saying something) was able to use computer voodoo capture the audio from the keyboard cat video and created a MP3 suitable for a cell phone ring tone. Here is that ring tone modified to be just a bit louder for cell phones that dont have a good loud speaker.

Link: Keyboard Cat Ring Tone

Other Keyboard Cat Links if you dare: [Read the rest of this entry...]

About two years ago joined a men’s bible study called: Men’s Fraternity. During this study we were asked to find a mentor, somebody to pour into us wisdom and knowledge. At the time I was not ready to make such a move. I guess I was just too afraid of what that mentor will ask me to do or not do anymore. [Read the rest of this entry...]

As you may know I live close enough to the fires to see all the smoke, smell the burned mountains and have my car be dusted with ash but I have not seen the fires like this.

These two time lapse videos are pretty shocking.

As this blog gets updated more and more and my readership continues to quadruple day by day (all lies), I have decided to create a way for you, my people to contact me. If you have a question and or comment regarding this blog or myself, you can email it to:

AVictimOfMarketing@gmail.com

I have also created a permanent link to my new email address at the top right corner of this blog.

Don’t forget to Mark ye calendars…. September 19th is: Talk Like a Pirate Day!

No really… I found this picture of Jesus in the gutter today after lunch at Tacos Baja (99 cent taco Wednesday). The Picture was curled up and the image was unrecognizable until I held it up the correct way. It’s kinda odd that I found this picture just lying there. Anyway I ended up bringing it back to the office cause its kinda artsy. Now it hangs on my cube wall.

What is s4ve.as?
s4ve.as is an easy way to quickly share any file, anywhere, with anyone. Never worry about email attachment limits or FTP to quickly send large files to colleagues, friends and family.

How does it work?
Simply upload any file of any size for free and get back a link to that file good for 24 hours. Copy and paste the link anywhere and share it instantly via email, web page, instant message, status update, tweet, etc. Links are automatically shortened using bit.ly.

I believe this is what I have been looking for. A place for me to drop off a huge file for somebody else to grab. The best part about this service is that there is NO signing up, no email conformation, no nothing. Just go and upload a file any size you like, get a link, and share it.

PERFECT.

Last night Zach wanted me to help find some “kids shows” on TV before he went to bed. I started to flip through some channels and I ended up going around the horn a few times when I stopped on some Korean TV show (I was just trying to be funny). I was expecting him to say “DaaAAD, come on!” but he didn’t. [Read the rest of this entry...]

I came into some extra money (birthday money) a while ago and I thought it would be best spent on some “good” headphones.

So off I went to find a pair of sweet headphones. I bought several different of pair of headphones costing over 50 bucks. (I know headphones only costing about $50 bucks aren’t “good” headphones, but I’m no audiophile) All that I wanted to do is replace my $0.50 RCA headphones that I’ve had for the past 2 years. [Read the rest of this entry...]

So I lost 20 pounds in these past 6 weeks. Some of you may remember that I lost a bunch of weight about 2 years ago but I managed to put it back on (nothing new there). This time its different (promise), a few fatties (me included) at work are doing a biggest loser style contest. So there is $240 bucks up for grabs and I believe my self to be in 2nd place. =( I still have about 2 weeks left and I want to drop about 10 more pounds to either win or just barley lose.

Once this contest ends, a buddy of mine and I are going to enter in a similar bet where we keep the weight off  loser pays up $100 bucks!

My goal is weigh about 170 – 185 pounds (right around “high school weight”), just thought I would share.

In case anybody is interested, I am currently on the South Beach Diet (lame name, but it works… at least for me.)