New Game Plan

I got an A on my physiology exam and final, that was a big surprise, it’s much easier now that I know to study from the notes.

I wanted to export this blog from blogger to my site at AZN Blogs but wordpress doesn’t allow for the new blogger 2 to be imported yet. dammit. Oh well I got Jackie’s installed and should be configured tonight.

Got done with my chemistry lab it was an easier one than last weekend’s, still have to go to lab today at 2:30

I heard that Google is now going to be introducing a “phraserank” system into their search ranking. They say that the webmaster can’t control this at all but I don’t know how the fuck they figure. I’m thinking it’s gonna be big and gonna change alot of thing s that are going on with getting in the serps now bigtime.

I’m going to start a new approach with my websites and actually start to try to put alot in to them one by one. It’s a simple theory, make high-quality pages and you’ll get more links to your site, more people will see them and with more people seeing them the better chances you have of getting clicks and money.

I guess I’m going to have to join the bandwagon like everyone else and join like feedburner and technorati and crap like that, maybe even digg too? I don’t know, I guess it doesn’t hurt but I hate making sites other than mine more powerful by giving them free links to their site. I want to be the site that does that! I want them to come to me instead of me coming to them!

Facebook also recently just added icons you can buy for a $1 on their site and give it to people. It’s like a total rip-off of cyworld. Those two sites really know how to make the money, I’m jealous because I can see everything there doing like their tricks to advertise and sell and shit and I can’t do it… I only hangout on their site and view impressions which give them money and I just feed the beast, hate it.

Andrew recently posted on facebook something about his purpose of being a recycler or something, and I’ve copied and pasted it here:

Not Your Typical Environmentalist…

I wanted to be a lot of things same as many people when I was much younger. The profession of scientist was a huge attraction to me, especially the field of biology. Even though I’m not sure if I have the brain for it, but still I believed I would eventually become a biologist someday until I changed my major to Environmental Science in my sophomore year. Living in Taiwan for more than half of my life, the idea of recycling or sustainability was more incorporated into people’s daily life and mind compared to the States, which Americans are wasteful IS a typical image. The shock of actually seeing this would inevitably become the motive for me to study Environmental Science.

Of course the story doesn’t end here, I began to get involved in Students for Recycling, trying to help promote recycling on this huge campus. I remember one of my Indonesian friends used to ridicule me of going to SFR and suggested that it is useless. For me to deny his word would be naïve as I realize the obstacles environmentalism faces here in the States. For example, the association of animal rights with environmentalism is a discouraging sign.

I don’t like to be “categorized”, especially when the label is commonly misunderstood. I do not or try my best not to consume meat and for this I would probably be labeled “vegetarian” in the sense of animal rights or what not. Yet my reason for doing this has nothing to with animal rights, it is simply for health and for the environment. Meat production is probably the most wasteful and inefficient way of food production especially considering the scale of human population today. Same resources in terms of water, energy, and land used could yield more rice, wheat or soy beans to feed more people and are relatively affordable than meat. When the impact of meat production is devastating and there are people still starving out there, I couldn’t think of the option of meat.

I would argue that environmentalism has NOTHING to do with animal rights. The truth is humans have to eat or consume materials to keep ourselves functional. All biological life forms on this planet take what it needs and play their roles (for example, predators or scavengers) to help keep the ecosystem in check or equilibrium. Animal rights movement is not a logical approach in a sense that the existence of carnivores is part of nature. The question should be what do we CHOOSE to eat? Does it achieve sustainability? The essential goal of environmentalism is simply to find a “sustainable” way for us exist in harmony with nature.

It is sad that environmentalists (this term sounds so serious… don’t really like using it) have to face these misconceptions. In my journey towards what ever, I’ve learned that to know the truth takes courage to put down all preconceptions. Well, I could be wrong about everything I just wrote…

I try my best.

“Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.” - Gandhi

I don’t know but shortly before he posted this on facebook he asked me if I was successful in my meat diet off not eating meat. I said no but I’ll get around to it or something like that, he just looked off and nodded his head, not looking surprised. Then he wrote this. I have a package of sausage and about of pound of meat in the fridge thats become old and I haven’t ate, and he says in his note how wasteful americans are. I wonder if he was referring to one of those wasteful americans as me, hmm….

The thing about Andrew is is he’s crazy. He thinks he’s a superhero that’s going to save the day and save the earth from pollution and save it from the terrible bad guys, known as americans. You know before going to Japan I wouldn’t have cared how much you insulted americans becuase I thought then that America did suck and that other countries were better. After going to Japan, I found out how awesome America really is and how it is better than other countries and so now when he says that it makes me pretty angry. Not only that, but Andrew IS american! He was born here and spent half of his life in Taiwan and the other here. With all the things he tries to conserve and make a difference, he does nothing. For about as much as he saves and conserves something or recycles something, I throw or waste double, showing he’s not even making a difference that’s reaching out of this household. Andrew is crazy because he thinks he can make a difference by:

1. Not turning on the heat during the winter to conserve energy.
2. Not eating meat even though he likes meat.
3. Being a stickler about recycling all the fucking time.
4. He talks about keeping the environment clean and being healthy and everything, even though he smokes quite alot.

But the real reason why this pisses me off is because his craziness and delusions of grandeur are affecting my life. It’s ok for you to live in your own little fantasy world and do what you want with recycling and stuff, but once you start trying to control how I live and what I do, you’re going to have a problem.