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Gamers; Warcraft fans; P.S.A.

I once was lame, and though that the South Park meets World Of Warcraft episode was the highest this game could reach. Maybe a custom themed W.O.W chess game for Christmas and that’s good to go. Oh no.. not at all. Did you assume the movie they announced for 2009 was all… that would be it?

Blizzard has big, big plans for the future of this series. All these years, we have all have been raised to love Blizzard Entertainment and the games they have provided. You know the shortcut to build a farm, you memorized the maps and know what gold mines to send your mass arm of Peon’s too first, and you definitely know what the Warcraft Cheat Code “There Can Only Be One” does. Some of you twisted gamers probably have a few female Warcraft game characters you prefer over what you could find at a local pool-hall, mall, or pub. I know, rejection can be harsh. Blizzard sympathizes, since the majority of World Of Warcraft players fall into that category, they want to meet half way.

In the first movie to ever attempt to cast a shadow of a dwarf and an elf over The Lord Of the Rings trilogy, Blizzard Entertainment is going to make a high budget, epic trilogy based on the extremely popular gaming series of Warcraft and W.O.W. (aka World Of Warcraft). It will be filmed in the great mountains of New Zealand, and will be directed by none other than the acclaimed Peter Jackson. The World Of Warcraft Movie, trilogy.

Yep, this is the real deal. Your dreams have come true. You can go spread the word on all your World Of Warcraft forums, you can dream of what a female elf will look like, what characters you hope they incorporate, ponder if they will graphically represent an Undead Abomination as well as they developed The Lord Of the Rings Characters for the movie and so on. Will they move through the stories like the games did? Is Blizzard budgeting and planning this, or is Alec Baldwin a closet Warcraft addict? The story line details? I have all the answers.

No I don’t. Seriously I really don’t. I haven’t gotten that far in my web of lies and deceit. Sorry for the waste of time.

I have good news though, I just saved a ton on . . . . . nope, that would be a lie to if I finished where it was headed. Go back to gaming, leave a comment.

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Warcraft Movie Suggestions

In all seriousness though. Maybe this is the real P.S.A. Shouldn’t the movie be a huge epic trilogy? Shouldn’t it have a huge budget to afford great graphics, good writers, and a great director? Here is a small snippet of what I think the movie should include.

Have your own? Leave ‘em in a comment for others to read, you have probably been getting bored of the forums and chats.

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I have a few friends that work for Sherwin Williams. Paint the world. The product, is actually really good stuff. I like the company too. They seem very deserving of my business if a need calls for it. Looking to the retail paint world, I may not be in the position to ever buy paint more than once every few years, but I am impressed with the stores in Utah that I have had exposure too.

Unfortunately, outside of Sherwin corporate control they occasionally might have an employee who could possible make one mistake. Not that this should really ever reflect on the company as a whole, but sometime you just get a sour-duck who might not be up to par for a few minutes when making a judgment call. With my recent State Farm Insurance Review I know, and admit that it is somewhat of a rare case.

When State Farm got wind of my review, and found that is was on the negative side, they contacted me. Apologized for the bad service, asked for feed back, discussed the whole ordeal one more time. I may feel that they have failed in fixing the issue and have shown a lack of interest in actually doing anything to get me back to where I was before my wreck, but they did show some integrity and strength in calling me.

Companies can find out who is talking about them online through a variety of avenues. Google alerts is a popular way to know who is discussing a topic you want to follow. No doubt, every major corporation either has an internal department to pay attention to their online image (like State Farm does) or they can hire risk management companies to help out with the public relations side of things.

Apparently, when someone who’s I.P. registered at a Sherwin Williams corporate office got a notification of a friends post about car dealerships in Utah who merely briefly mentions Sherwin Williams as a point of reference where he was traveling, he came to the site to check it out. Publicly his display name is ‘ED’ and after obviously seeing that my friend’s post was harmless and had nothing to do with Sherwin, he decided to stay (slightly anonymously) criticize the blog because it somehow really cut him deep that there is someone out there who thinks differently than he does. Instead of doing damage control, he kind of did the opposite since his action and opinion weren’t actually anonymous. My apologies to my friends that work at Sherwin, but whoever is actually the user ‘ED’, is retarded and should go trolling the web on his own time under a different e-mail address and IP. His generic banter was pointless.

Now personally, I guess I really don’t care that much. So I don’t need to hear one of my friends disagreeing with me or trying to make some random point about how I am wrong or shouldn’t have written this. (hehe.. though just saying that I expect my comments may fill up). I think from an SEO perspective. Actually, most of my posts as of yet have really been to only serve an SEO purpose. Admittedly, I am a troll, hypocrite, and just a dumb search engine optimizer.

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Sam from Gthing.net and our buddy Brikon introduced me and my other roommate to Skurfing. Wake-Skate surfing on a canal. We go to a canal in near the mouth of the Spanish Fork Canyon, tie a rope to a cross-beam thing across the canal, and hop on to a wake-skate type board and ride the waves.

The reason this canal is ideal, is a small drop in the cement lined canal, which shoots the water down in a fast and streamlined manner as seen in the video and the pictures. Brikon made the wood board we used, and the video is one Sam took on his first time going. No broken necks, and no injuries (that we will tell you about).

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Shepizzle is a new internet source for learning about new or recently discovered Indie musicians. Here you will have an online music review site to find out who’s who and what’s what. As an Indie Music Review Website, SHEPIZZLE provides you with a variety of authors/reviewers with a diverse range of different musical preferences, like any good Indie-music review website should. Be serious, people don’t want a single emo-pain-inflicting-fast-food-worker to be a trusting source for a variety of underground music, a variety works. Even the emo kids get sick of and tired of My Chemical Romance an feel the urge to stop cutting themselves and possibly even move their black hair to see out of both eyes for a little while, let’s just hope they don’t turn to Jack Johnson in the emo off-season.

Shepizzle is turning to multiple people who actually have different musical preferences from one another, and who each look for new Indie music in different places. Result? You get exposure to a wider range of music and you get an increase in the chances of finding something you like and had never heard of before. New bands and musicians are being spotlighted and reviewed all the time, and your suggestions of musicians that Shepizzle should review are more than welcome. Even you can take part in sharing new Indie Music around the internet. Oh yeah, don’t do drugs.

Website location: http://shepizzle.com

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As you should be able to tell by my recent posts, I went on a road trip. On longer trips, it can be a strain to fork out cash for a hotel every night. A friend of mine recently left on a one month trip around Europe, which could have ended up being extremely expensive even staying in a hostel for 30 evenings in a row. He turned to the internet and used Couch Surfing to find people who would let him borrow their couch in the various countries and cities he would be staying in.

The concept for Couch Surfing is that you research an area you will be in, find people willing let strangers sleep on their couches (that also have good reviews from past surfers), and e-mail them a request. If they are socially able to let you stay with them, and check to see your reviews as a guest during other couch surfing experiences they reply with a request accepted or possible denied (maybe you peed the couch).

I don’t know a ton about couch surfing, because I just had my first experience using it a few days ago.

Kind of last minute, we e-mailed someone in down town San Francisco a request for 3 people to stay with him. He confirmed that it would be OK and provided us with an address. We were a little apprehensive about it since we were couch surfing virgins and weren’t sure what to expect. It was not some weirdo who’s apartment had a strange indescribable smell and was located disturbingly close to some busy train tracks. We met our host outside and found him to be seemingly normal and friendly. His past user reviews spoke highly of him, and we left with the same attitude. We had a free place to stay for the night, with a host who was just willing to share his living room with some people in need.

Though I rarely find myself in a situation where I don’t know where I will be sleeping, I actually left my recent trip with the feeling that I would be comfortable using www.couchsurfing.org again if I need to and would recommend it to others. As I gain more experiences form couch surfing, I will try to come back and leave updates. Possible I may or may not still recommend it. Hopefully I continue to have good experiences, and you will too if you give it a try.

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Quite often I find myself at a point in life where I am unchanging in how I think and act. I don’t utilize my experiences in life as much as I should sometimes. I could definitely expand my comprehension. I just plain fail to realize how much I could be growing mentally if I would allow myself to. During the last few months I have been expelling this desire to change and grow, which has built up over the course of a year (possibly a few years) of dealing with the problems of life, pains of physical problems, and just generally still being kind of stagnate despite changing my scenery and social life.

With the many different attempts I am making in different areas, I have been trying to get a feel for what would help me change and what things I can do to improve my situation. Specifically referencing the “how I think” part of this whole equation I have been utilizing a few different sources for the motivation to improve and expand how I think and act.

Sometime last year my friend Sam and a few others showed me the series of Ted Talks that highlights speeches at a conference in Monterey, California by guest speakers who are invited to talk about “ideas worth spreading”. If you haven’t heard of ted.com and what they do, you are in for a treat. You are as long as you are in to expanding the way you think and seeing what some of the worlds brightest people have to say.

They are very good at choosing who they ask to speak usually. People who know their fields well, or have made an impact because they dared to do something no one else would. There are people with different kinds of wisdom who want to share it with the world, and are good at it. They discuss everything from art, music, global issues and human desire to physics, genetics, technology and even spirituality.

I wouldn’t say I have enjoyed ALL of these speeches, but I really appreciate TED and the effort they have put into organizing all that TED has become. The speakers come in a huge variety of people from Bill Clinton to Ze Frank, Bono to Tony Robbins.

Found below, I have embedded one of my favorite speeches from the TED Talks line of free videos, which is from Sir Ken Robinson.

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After going to high school in Sacramento and serving my mission in Los Angeles, I was less than excited to move to Idaho while being single and in my mid 20’s. Despite living in Idaho as a kid, I was scared that my social life was going to be absolutely non-existent and that everyone in Idaho would drive me crazy. I had some confused judgments on the area, and basically feared the worst: Potato eatin’ farmers kids everywhere whose idea of fun was moving irrigation pipes.

My parents live about 25 minutes west of Boise Idaho now, and I lived with them for 8 months before my mission, and an additional combined 18 months after my mission. I was really surprised to find so many people that weren’t actually from Boise. There were lots of transplants like we were. Many of which were from California same as us, in addition to a vastly varied population that came from many other parts of the United States.

When I attended Boise State I started seeing more of the social scenes in the area in addition to meeting a great deal of cool people. Yes, I admit that meeting many of the people I did out here surprised me at first. I worked as an installer for custom home theaters in an extremely nice part of Boise called Eagle which is actually absolutely nicer than anything I have seen in UT. This combined with my mother working in real estate all at the same time when Idaho had it’s single largest growth period ever I got to see some amazing changes happen in the Boise area and meet some great people.

Though many of the locals have always feared the growth, and hated the “Californians stealing all their land” Boise/Eagle and Nampa have really improved quite a bit over the last few years. Aside from having a good solid variety of quality restaurants, independent movie theaters, art festivals (jazz festival and a Shakespeare Festival included) as well as large University which has also had some amazing growth. Boise has the largest Basque community in the United States. The Big Easy concert house has had almost every band and musician come through that I have wanted to see and they always sell out, the whole green-belt around the Boise River has been improved time and time again. Urban Outfitters ven built a store here before they built one in UT (to many people that means nothing, to me though it’s a pretty big deal).

Since moving to UT, I have seen an unusually high number of people that I really have no desire to meet or get to know. I am lucky to already be friends with some of the coolest people in the state anyway, but maybe you will agree or disagree that all over UT county at least there are quite a high concentration of “Bro’s” we call them, and “hair school” girls. The term “hair school girls” can also apply to students at BYU or UVSC and doesn’t mean necessarily that they actually go to hair school, it’s more of a train of thought and character label.

Boise on the other hand actually has a large number of locals and transplants who are genuinely interesting and diverse people. They are not obsessed with telling everyone they play the guitar even though they don’t (pretty much every other single guy in UT county), and they most definitely don’t have a large population of guys who fake tan and wear pink popped collared polo’s. A lot of people here are approachable and friendly, and usually end up being people I want to be friends with. With a growing culture of it’s own in recent years, the people and activities here are growing more attention than most would imagine. There really are very few farmers in the area anymore. A few of the companies that have their headquarters in Boise are Micron, HP Printer division, Washington Group International, Albertsons, WinCo, and Simplot.

Just a 10 minute drive from down town is Bogus Basin Ski Resort. A few hours to the north there is the prestigious Tamarack Ski Resort. In the valley there are two accessible reservoirs which I have enjoyed wake boarding and boating on. If you like watching insanely crazy football games, Boise States last 3 seasons have been jaw-dropping from start to finish.

This image from Wikipedia’s article on Boise, the city is called “The City Of Tree’s” which I made fun of at first because I thought Sacramento would probably fit the name better, but actually Boise really does have a large quantity of beautiful tree’s which set’s the city apart from the surrounding dry sage brush and farm land areas.

In 2006, Forbes named Boise as #4 on their “Best Places to Own a Business”. National Geographic did one of the best articles I have read about Boise, naming it one of the last great cities in the west and the premier pace to live for outdoor activities and lifestyle..

I enjoyed my time at Boise State, and always enjoy my visits here. I may not move back here ever again, but props to you Boise. Maybe people will stop assuming no one in Idaho has indoor plumbing, and stop wondering if everyone eats potatoes for every meal.

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I know my blog has had a few, limited posts which really have only done moderately well on Google organic searches. Usually when I notice a group of terms from a specific article that bring traffic to my website from Google, I usually do some link building online to that post anchored (meaning “anchor text” devin) with related terms to the traffic I get for that post.

I know my website is still a relatively new blog with just some basic traffic on random things. Nothing to really get any attention, except for recently. For the first time this Easter I have started climbing into some decent visitor numbers. Apparently there was a large quantity of people searching for Bunny Cake. Easter is here officially, and for possibly just a few days, the main bulk of visitors being referred to my blog was strictly for a term I never thought I would even get one visitor for. The Bunny Cake post.

My top 4 referring terms from Google have been dominated by “Bunny Cake”.

I am not sure if I should be embarrassed that Google has made my blog more popular online with people who are looking for make a small edible rabbits than anything else I have written about. Or if I should just appreciate the traffic and feel good that my SEO work is slightly successful. It’s seasonal and temporary traffic I realize. I doubt I will get so many people every day continuously in the future for the term “bunny cake” now that Easter is over.

It does go to show that finding the right niche online, and doing some classic SEO work is actually successful on getting people to read my stuff, regardless of how random the term’s are compared to what I have written about.

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I left work early on Friday to come up to Idaho for the weekend. It’s Easter and in my family, there are a lot of random traditions that we still follow. Most people thought going home for Easter was slightly odd, because it isn’t a major holiday. . . . . . . . tell that to the Sandersons.

Generally we almost always play lots and lots of games, have a great BBQ, and just generally enjoy one another’s company. Easter was different for me growing up than most people. It is a little more intricate than just having an egg hunt, and candy filled basket’s. One strange tradition is the use of M&M’s as a mark that the Easter Bunny had visited us. When we get up, there are tracks and trails of M&M’s all over the house and we were told it was the Easter Bunny’s poop. We would run around and try and gather as much as we could. I know it’s a little odd. . . Easter Bunny excrete’s name brand chocolate peices.

Easter weekend is also spent playing poker as strange as that sounds. When we were younger and went to Craters of the Moon for our Easter Break, we were stuck in a camping trailer surrounded by lava fields with tons of candy. Oh, and we had a deck of cards. Against our mother’s wishes, my father taught us all the poker variations that he knew and we spent the weekend trying to win more candy from each other and from my father. He always had 5 times as much candy as we did, so he felt the necessity to lose some to us.

Recent years we have pretty much entirely replaced Black Jack and 5 Card with Texas Hold’em . The pot gets bigger and the game is much more enjoyable to play anyway. So as you can imagine, I have spent the last few hours playing poker with candy and will probably spend a few more through out the weekend winning even more candy, that I will most likely just give to my nephews and neice if I don’t finish it off before I go back to UT on Monday.

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