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I wish winter was over and summer was here. It’s easier to dress up and be fashionable when you’re not covered up in a bubble coat and snow boots.
I was tipped off about the site Futuregirls.net, which offers Beauty and Fashion Hints and Tips. At first glance, it makes recommendations of products related to makeup, hair, clothing, shoes, bags, jewelry, and strangely enough, electronics as well. I would have thought that these electronics would be related in someway to beauty and fashion. However, while cameras can be considered essential in the pursuit of beauty, I’m not so sure about the GPS and the HDMI cables. Perhaps a little more streamlining is in order.
The establishing webpage also needs a little more color and images to jazz it up, as well as a copyeditor to catch those grammatical errors that never fail to irritate me. “Jewery”? Really? In large font, at that.
When I clicked on the link to Futuregirls’ makeup page, there were only seven products being advertised, and no text to guide both those experienced and new to makeup as to what these products are for, what skin tone they would be best suited for, and which products they should be used with. A few tips on blending these products with others would have been ideal.
The link to the Futuregirls’ hair page also needed improvement. I wasn’t even sure if the products on the page were hair care products, beauty books, or biographies.
Finally, Futuregirls.net needs to work on its product presentation. Uggs are not the best way to lure me into an afternoon of shoe shopping, yet they were the first results when I went to click on the Shoes link. Bring out the pretty shoes first.
I tried clicking on the Shopping Cart link and I ended up in the Amazon webpage, which left me thinking, why do I need to go through Futuregirls.net when I can simply shop via Amazon? Futuregirls.net needs to give me additional value for my clicks: it has to give me content by way of product reviews, sale prices, and actual beauty and fashion tips before I consider using this website.
Joined a new channel on YouTube today: http://www.youtube.com/earflstories and here are just some of the videos that I liked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63nZPmGMVWw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ62LTFgR-M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a1mQHotWVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmdXznQA71E
My mturk money dropped from $145 because I bought the Sweeney Todd DVD and other stuff. But there are videojug hits again, and there are nearly 30,000 hits to choose from so I have no doubt I can get my balance up again.
It was 1991, my friend Jojo just turned 32 and discovered the internets for the first time. Specifically, Match.com We were necessarily skeptical but he met Ruud, who didn’t turn out to be a bogeyman. After a few real time dates, they ended up with two puppies and a hybrid car. Hurrah, internets.
That was in 1991. Nearly 20 years later, the internets became slightly freakier.
I can’t imagine how Jojo would even begin his search for true love today. Facebook, Multiply, blogs — everything is so out there and everyone is connected. Of course, friending someone who is a friend of a friend is infinitely safer than chatting up a total stranger, but I remember how Jojo literally found the strength to reach out because of his relative anonymity. The internets freed him from the bounds of friendship and his old self and left him able to reinvent and rediscover himself.
He had agonized over the then new issue of anonymity v. trust v. personal safety. He wanted to establish a connection with his new faceless stranger friends but he was aware that if he was being coy, then the other person could be concealing so much more. Oh, the juggling act of privacy and friending.
Fast forward to 2008 and we discover Crush or Flush. Chatting through text or YM, without the other person having to find out where you are. It’s another social networking site that lets people discover other people through their interests and social demographics. If you like someone, you Crush them. If they like you back, they Crush you and you end up with a Mutual Crush. (Awww, high school prom, anyone?)
The important difference is that Crush or Flush comes with its own “telephone operator” to block unwanted messages. If you want to drop someone, you Flush them, and they will never know that they got flushed because they don’t have your real digits. As the site promises:
If someone harasses you or causes a problem, we will block his number and that person will permanently disappear. No one every gets your e-mail address, real name, or cell phone number – they always remain private.
I guess people can always agree to be more open and truthful as the relationship develops but at least it’s a safeguard against freaky people who reveal their icky quirks too early. Me, I’m a believer in facetime and long relationships where you goad the other person into showing their worst, but yes, sometimes, even I wish for an intermediary to tell the other person, No.
It’s been at 32 degrees since Monday, and I’ve been cocooning inside the house instead of going out. At least I’m saving money by my passive attitude. My mturk money is up to $145 now, huzzah! but the gains I’ve made online has been offset by my failure to finish a real life job. Never mind. To distract me from the heat and my own inertia, I will just window shop at Homeandbeyond.com and see what new toys this site has to offer. I am overwhelmed by their kitchen and housewares selection. Lots of lovely information arranged so prettily that you forget it’s a True Value site. And nothing like their microfiber cleaning slippers to get me off my chair and have a go at the bathroom, finally. Lookit: aren’t they precious?
All this talk about the economy is stressing me out and making me think second thoughts about going to New York. This vacation is going to be a major expense and will use up all of my savings. It’s a good thing I have a job but it might be a good idea to scare up another source of income. Living in a small community doesn’t make it easy, but I’m glad the internet offers certain opportunities without having to leave the house. With a full-time job, I can’t afford to take on something that will require me to physically report to another office. I just need something that I can do during my spare time.
I toddled off to TechieCrossing today to look for part-time tech jobs. It’s easy enough to search for job opportunities by state. I bookmarked some openings using the Add to My Hotlist option onsite. I also tried looking for jobs by field using the advanced search function. I was surprised that the drop down search function offered to search for jobs for me in non-tech related fields, such as Law and Blue Collar but apparently, clicking on these options will lead me to other Crossing sites that specialize in that particular field. Very very interesting. And convenient.
I haven’t finished my search yet. The site promises 138,222 openings at the moment, with 18,014 new jobs posted in the past 7 days alone. Wish me luck.
I have six months to raise $800 for a New York trip in October. Right now, I have $117.17 earned through Mturk.
Let’s see how fast I can achieve my goal.
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