The photo you see here doesn’t have anything to do with this post. This blog post is an example of how you can publish content to a blog from 3rd party websites like Flickr. It’s not hard to get set up and it can be very convenient if your subject lends itself to the use of copyright free photographs.
During her ‘heyday’ as a circus fat lady, Celesta Geyer was consuming about 10,000 calories a day. Before joining the circus, she had lead a relatively normal life. She was happily married and employed. She was obese and suffered all the predictable social and health costs that come with that. The decision to join the circus was the result of financial crisis. Her husband lost his job with GM at the onset of the depression.
After a health scarein her late 40s, she began dieting. She restricted her intake to about 800 calories. Over time she lost over 400 pounds. She lived to be over 80.
Let me preface this post by saying that I had fun and the customer was very happy with the finished product.
One new opportunity for making money online is called Fivver.com and it is marketed as being fun and social. Basically members are free to make several listings advertising tasks that they are willing to do for $5. As an experiment I listed a whole bunch of these gigs. The amount of time and trouble that each task would entail varied quite a bit. Not surprisingly, it was one of the hardest jobs that finally attracted my first (and so far only) sale. I said that I would write a web address or short message on a beautiful island beach for $5. Here is a breakdown of what this involved…
So yeah, that’s a lot of time and effort for $5. Did I mention that the site take $1 off the top? Oh, and did I mention that I have to build up a minimum of $40 before I can request payment from Fivver?
When Huey Lewis released that catchy song back in 1984, people didn’t take him seriously. I think it’s time to take a long hard look at the idea. The United States Government professes to be in the middle of a War on Drugs. The enemies in this war are drugs that cause citizens to act in ways that have a negative impact on society and, by extension, the government.
Some drugs are considered allies. Caffeine is a drug and I can only imagine that it gets to sit in on strategy sessions at the White House. I have a favorite anecdote that involves the King of England shutting down coffee houses for a while back in the 1700s. The stimulating effect of this drug was making people think a lot and they were meeting in the places where it was prepared and discussing a lot of ideas that ran counter to the interests of the King. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think people gather together in crack houses to share revolutionary ideas.
Caffeine catalyzed the industrial revolution. I feel like we need some other kind of revolution at this point and maybe part of the process could be help with a new drug of choice for society. I don’t know what it should do and I don’t know how it would do it. It just seems to me that the people who ruin themselves and their surroundings because of a drug are using the wrong one.
