What are the possible rewards for a self-employed, Internet Marketing Business? Well, the sky is the limit!!! OK.. seriously. There are over 200 million people online, on the Internet, in the US and Canada. Most, if not all of them, are searching for stuff ... information and things. Let's create a sales environment to provide a widget or a service. Of the 200 million online customers, could we get 2,000 customers to buy from us? 2,000 out of 200 million people. Surely SOME of those 200 million are wanting to buy what we are offering. 10% of 200 million is 20 million. 10% of 20 million (or 1% of 200 million) is 2 million 10% of 2 million (or 0.1% of 200 million) is 200,000 10% of 200,000 (or 0.01% of 200 million) is 20,000 10% of 20,000 (or 0.001% of 200 million) is 2,000 So, might it be possible to get 1/100th of 1% of Internet users in the US and Canada to find our website/web-page, and have them buy what we are providing? If we were selling a widget for $100, and the 2,000 people bought it from us.. Is that equal to $200.000. If 10% of that $200,000 is our reward for providing the service ($20,000), would that be a good pay day? Now, is it possible to sell a different widget every month, and have a similar reward? That would be $240,000 for 12 months. Well????? OK, cut that possibility in half. That is $120,000. Cut that in half again. That is $60,000. This is an example of what a home based Internet Marketing business could bring if it is properly executed. WOW!!! Now, let's read on to see how to do this.. step by step.

That's what they told me. All men are dogs. Ofcourse I believed them! Didn't I fantasize 18 long years, asleep on the couch a lot of the time, waiting for this day? Didn't I dream of a sex vacation one day when I would finally be able to be a real man!!! But then I started dating again. And my fantasy crumbled to the dust. Sex without intimacy is utterly uninteresting and boring. In fact, I can't do it. God bless the porn stars! Now I cry alone in my bed. Why did God put me so quickly in touch with my feminine side? Couldn't he have given me at least a few good years? ...Months? ...Weeks? Days? HOURS???

Our debt: $14.2 T (T: That is 12 0's, just in case)

This year, 2011, has been busy in speculation on the heavens. As is usually the case, Science does have its surprises, or rather, I should say - uncertainties. Here are some stories of stellar significance in case you missed them so far this year: KING OF THE KUIPER BELT Which is bigger – Pluto or Eris? Despite being demoted in 2005, Pluto may be bigger afterall, but Eris is denser, recent measurements indicate. It seems there is still some uncertainty in the size of Pluto, so it’s true size may have to wait until NASA’s Horizon spacecraft does a flyby in 2015. The true King of the Kuiper belt will be revealed! The War of the Worlds, Round 2 Dwarf planets Pluto, Eris battle for a spot in a vast universe ZODIAK ZEITGEIST What’s Your Sign? A recent story suggests this is up in the air! Due to the precession of the Earth (like a wobbling top) and 2000 years of said wobbling, the signs of the zodiak are not where they used to be. Everything is shifted by a month it seems – Capricorn in January and Aquarius in February, etc. Now that’s a Zodiak Zeitgeist at work! Did Your Horoscope Predict This? THE APOTHEOSIS OF APOPHIS Is Doomsday coming? Apparently NASA and the Russians disagree (slightly) on whether we should worry. The killer Asteroid Apophis is due for a ‘close’ visit to Planet Earth in 2029 and 2036. If it passes through a ‘gravitational keyhole’ in 2029, it would impact in 2036. It’s a 1-in-250,000 chance according to NASA. A ‘nearby’ approach in early 2013 is pending for more data. Stay tuned for the Apotheosis of Apophis Announcement! Russians: 2036 Killer Asteroid Collision: NASA Unimpressed I took the liberty of giving these stories my own clever titles as possible alternate headlines from the links. Feel free to suggest your own. I have provided these links for further exploration. On a personal note, it is interesting that these stories all seemed to emerge around the same time (Jan-Feb, 2011) and have some significance in skeptical science from the heavens - Worth a look in case they passed your notice. Here’s one more to ponder… JUST PLAYING ASTEROIDS Is it as suggested – the first observation of asteroids colliding? NASA's Hubble Captures First Images of Aftermath of Possible Asteroid Collision The heavens are alive with the Sound of Science…

I've had a pretty interesting life, and thought it would be fun to post some of the more remarkable events and see what other, out of the way occurrences have happened to other people on this site. My most improbable trip was to Seville, Spain, a few years back with a dubious English character who ostensibly was doing a charitable book for the Red Cross that I'd organized a number of other artists to help out with. He asked me to come over from London, all expenses paid, for some sort of meeting. I had a feeling that all was not right when the fellow represented me to the American consul in Seville as a member of the American soccer team. Now, there was and is no one less likely to resemble an American soccer player than myself. I like to watch soccer, but do not play. The consul kept a straight face and was kind enough not to throw us out of the lovely Moorish building; I remember he owned a Steinway player piano, and demonstrated it for us, and there was a fine fountain in the courtyard. I also remember the dubious character's female assistant going bungee jumping over an inflatable swimming pool in a short skirt that wound up over her head, to the general applause and yells of the all-male crowd below. I did not go bungee jumping. I have never been bungee jumping and don't wish to try it. I did visit La Geralda, a former mosque. We went back to our fine hotel where I felt like a stain on the carpet...and hoped that we would not be tossed out. We weren't. It was a lovely weekend. I have no idea who paid for it. Seville oranges are the best in the world, by the way. <-page-> I always wondered about these dating sites. No matter whether they were intended to match people with particular intellectual qualities, particular interests, or particular locations...the only criteria for most of the applicants was appearance. I'm hoping that this site is the exception to the rule, but the blogs and forums do not appear to be updated frequently.

A Utopian Ethic is the belief in creativity as the force that drives evolution. A belief that through creativity, we can find ways to increase abundance and standard of life without exploiting others or Degrading the earth's environment. Of course, It's easy to believe this, you may say, living in Silicon Valley. But I have lived in Thailand, South Korea, Mexico, and Canada and so I have a bit of world experience. I know that current life in silicon valley is not extensible to the rest of the world, and is not sustainable in the long run. But I believe creativity can transform what we have going to something that is sustainable.

It was tough to find a good name for this website. I wanted something that said it's smart is cool and that was easy to remember. I considered many names like smart-date.com, intelligent-singles.com, but none of them have the right ring, or they were already taken - most were dormant or unused. One of my friends suggested "Brainiac Dating" for my website, and luckily enough the domain name was still available. It was not ideally what I wanted, but it is a catchy sounding and people remember it. Brainiac really is cool I thought - because it is about the brain - the biggest sex organ, and that's what makes us be - or brains! The problem unfortunately that the word "brainiac" can be interpreted in many different ways and a lot of people don't join this site just because of that. Even some of my single friends were hard to convince. There are three sort of bad interpretations that I didn't want the site to be associated with: 1) aloof or stuffy, not friendly, and stand behind their credentials, 2) too smart or intellectual, and can be intimidating , 3) or even ditzy. Britney Spears has called herself a brainiac when she smashed her car into a tree. Read article. Like "if you're so smart, then why are you still single?" Ultimately, we may have to redefine the term like this: Brainiacs - "it's sexy to be smart!"

More free time mean I wrote a blog a few days ago: optimism, pessimism, and good intentions Finally saw Iron Man 2 with a friend. Looks like it's left the big theater. Went to the smaller theater in my neighborhood. They made a mistake and told us it was cancelled, when it wasn't. We were allowed to see the movie for free. KTU radio on. Cleaning set.

The original deal was that the guy was supposed to interview me with his supervisor. But she really meant for next week. Meaning the formal interview is next week, but the guy showed me the ropes and basics of what the job would entail. I'd say I have some advantages in prepping for the interview. Paper to finish by Monday. Looking forward to end of next week.

No, they are not "too slow to cause trouble". They terrorize when humans don't lay the law. Watch: Poor doggie