Month: April 2018

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What is the deal with my site?

I know it is all over the place. The menus, the graphics, the text, the domain, it is all over the place. That has never really bothered me because I never wanted to use it for anything more than a sandbox. I never wanted to make money off of it. But, as one gets older, one begins to see the world in different lights. I would have to say my base level Geckoesque greed is bubbling to the top. I would like to make some money now so I may centralize. Or, I may scrap the whole thing.

But, it really doesn’t matter what I do in the mean time. Because when it sits up here as a sandbox, I will be testing the best ways to improve it. Yes, I do not have https yet but that is not such a big deal to me because I know all of what is involved. Cart functionality is always there but no products, which is ok for me too. I am running the most recent versions of Woocommerce and WordPress. The main thing that interests me at this point is being able to post from WordPress to Twitter and Facebook while having the post maintain its appearance exactly how I drew it up. This still eludes me and it really shouldn’t. It bothers me almost to the point where I may get into how to make sure of it technically by writing something myself. But, I doubt it.

As far as hosting goes, the average WooCommerce startup would probably prefer to be a subscriber to WordPress.com rather than to host their own installation. I can understand this. Wix.com, WordPress.com, Weebly.com, Bigcommerce.com, Squarespace.com, and Shopify.com all do roughly the same things. Why worry about administration of a server when that can get taken care of by others? Just worry about the products, posts, and content. I tend to agree that one should not worry about administration. It is the planning of the business that is of primary importance and often the CRM system.

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Ready Player One review

I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. Actually, it really made me pretty emotional. I almost cried or full-on cried. But to explain why it would take a while. I am making this entry using voice, so there may be parts that sound conversational and may need some editing.

I really don’t want to cover the movie’s content. There are numerous angles from which to come at it. I would rather cover the historical significance. There is one thing related to the content that I would like to point out that some people may skip over and it has to do with me(typo, should be “the”) continuous recording of one person’s life in the movie. As expected it’s not a normal science fiction movie because it actually redefines the future of humanity. In my opinion the average science fiction movie doesn’t really redefine humanity’s future, it just highlights a certain technology and sells tickets based on how interesting it is. Of course it is a possible future and of course many things have to happen before the date of the setting to make this dystopian future a reality. But, those aren’t such big concerns. The average American probably thinks that VR gaming is an option but that movie in some ways presupposes its eventual dominance.

I’ve always thought that a movie like this one is far better to watch repetitively rather read any kind of review like the kind I am writing. There are concepts in this movie that involved virtual storage, virtual object generation and communication that can be better expressed with a less verbose means. In other words, just viewing the interface that’s envisioned is all that is necessary to fully grasp what the filmmakers are after. And more linguistic hand-holding is going too far the only response you can give is just say watch it again.

(4/12/18 I actually don’t mind this review in terms of flow. I spoke it in a Starbuck’s just after the movie. I only want to change one word and it’s a typo, I will put “typo” in parentheses next to it. I could have added a few more commas but hey, it’s voice in 2018. Incidentally, I went by Boosted Board to a matinee showing.)

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