NFL Draft, who cares...

So I'm sitting in the bar last evening watching the NFL draft. The first thing that comes to mind is how the heck are all 8 TV's showing the NFL draft? I mean there's gotta be a chance that someone else in the bar besides my buddy and I who wants to actually watch something.

Seeing the players get picked in real time doesn't change anything, you can still look it up tomorrow in about 5 minutes. So what's the big excitement in seeing that crap live?

As I'm sitting there barely watching I can't help but hope that most of these guys don't get picked. You see, they went to college to play football, not to get a degree. Most of these guys are good enough to make it in the NFL, and good for them. But if they don't get picked they are hardly qualified to do anything other than good ole Mickey D's.

How awesome would it be if these guys got a serving of real life? Because that's what will happen eventually anyhow, maybe not now, but 10 or 12 years from now they will "retire", and then what? You think they'll be loaded from playing in the NFL? Well see no one ever taught them any financial responsibility either, and when push comes to shove a lot of these guys will need real jobs. When that happens they might regret squandering that college education.

But hey, who wants to get smart anyhow?

jonesin for summer

Aren't you?

I am not going to tell you how much I hate winter or am sick of snow. I don't and I'm not.
I'm just a fan of all things summer...especially being outside all day.
This summer is shaping up to be a pretty awesome one too! At least 2 trips out west, with one involving a week long fish sampling trip in a national park and 120 mile white water raft trip out of the park.
I want to see some cool wildlife this year, new stuff. Hopefully stuff that is dangerous to be around.
Wrestling a gator would be cool.
Swimming with sharks would be kinda sweet.
Punching a grizzly in the face would be the best.

Who knows...

Maybe more of this kind of stuff:

Youtube Partnership Insights and Insight

I often get asked why it is better to be a youtube partner.
They want to know why they should be working hard to get the partnership.
This is a valid question since it seems as though there are many grey areas that are poorly understood, and as an aspiring youtube partner I'd want to know if it was worth it or not..

...it is

My most recent youtube video talks a little about one of the most important tools for a youtube partner, insight statistics. Check it out below:



If you have any questions please feel free to post them on youtube or here and I will answer them in the next episode..

Thanks for watching

I'm a Youtube Partner

I am a Youtube Partner. That probably doesn't need to be capitalized.

Its nice to get the extra benefits of being a partner like the channel customization and branding. I like those things.

I get a lot of questions about my partnership. How did you do it? What is it like? How much do you make?

I can't really answer a lot of those as exactly as you might like because of what I've agreed to but I can give you a lot of good advice nevertheless.



This video is just a little sampling of where I'm going to go with this. Think of it as an introduction.

Please leave your comments or ideas for topics on this post of the video.
My next video about partnership will be more in depth and will answer the viewer questions.

weird

I got an "Outstanding Senior" award today. Supposedly its not very easy to get and a big deal, I don't really buy that but I guess if it is a big deal then that is pretty cool.
Why again do I pay for the ticket to the banquet though??

pinback

So my favorite band has been Pinback for quite some time.

I think these guys have a lot of skill and try to share them with other people frequently.

The backflip story

So Max did a backflip off a 20 foot cliff, in 2007. We were freshman in college and jumping off cliffs is fun at that age.

I took a video of his flip. It was alright, something I definitely couldn't do, but there weren't any fireworks after he hit the water.

Shortly after the event I posted the video on youtube, mostly for Max to see. I thought it would be funny to give the video a false title. I called it the now infamous "quadruple backflip off 235 foot cliff" and left it at that.

At the end of 2007 I'm guessing the video had less than 300 views. By early 2010 I realized the thing had grown substantially and was to almost 200,000 views. It now sits at 1,007,000 views.

The fact that lots of people have seen it is awesome, but not my original intention.