Flippy - I Rant, You Read

Monday, October 08, 2007

mid-afternoon

Hey, San Diego Chargers Fans, You’re Welcome!

I knew exactly what you needed to get Philip Rivers out of his slump.  I dropped him from my fantasy football team earlier in the week, to pick up a quarterback who had a bye.  I played Jon Kitna, who had an enormous 2.54 points.  Of course, he almost looked like a superstar compared to Larry Johnson (yes, that Larry Johnson) who had 1.5 points.  It’s been five weeks and Larry Johnson, who started the season ranked #3 in the whole league is now performing at #90. NINETY!  My kicker has more points than my superstar running back, and he isn’t even the #1 kicker.  My other players are getting injured left & right, and my team, no matter how hard I’ve tried and no matter how good they look on paper, they’re 0-5.  Normally, I’d blame myself, but these guys SUCK!  Seriously, how can I blame myself when Larry Johnson has yet to score a touchdown this season?  My team is so bad that I can’t even settle on what to name them.  I think I’m going to change the team name to Witness Protection.

At least the Leafs won on Saturday.  Oh, and Marl told me that the Wranglers signed identical twins, Chris & Peter Ferraro.  <---They've been playing so long that an article about them appears on an Angelfire site. Remember Angelfire? Oh, and here's a site more about the guys and less about the sad story of Chris’s wife, Jennifer.  But, it’s so old that it’s a Tripod site.  Remember Tripod?  Here’s the latest info from the Las Vegas Wranglers’ website - I like how the webmaster thought to him/herself, “They’re identical twins, let’s save space and only picture one of them.  Surely they won’t mind, they’re identical after all.”  Anyway, it sounds like they’re pretty good (if a bit long in the tooth) and will add some character to the team.

lunch time

Blog World Expo - I’m So Excited!

I’ve been waiting for the Blog World Expo for almost a year, and now it’s only a month away.  Unfortunately, the Executive & Entrepreneur Conference where you get the more advanced sessions, is OUTRAGEOUSLY (in my opinion) expensive.  So, several bloggers that I’ve personally signed to syndication contracts for Newstex…and Arianna Huffington, will have to just wait until next year (if I can even afford it then - it’s $695 before Oct. 19th and $895 after!) to have me as an attentive student in their sessions. Leigh-Ann and I paid for the poor people’s “Standard” conference, although my employer offered me a free pass that they received with their payment for a booth/sponsorship, but those don’t come with any sessions, which I’ve been looking forward to for a long long time, so we had to fork over our own cash.  I’ve wanted to get as much learning and schmoozing out of the conference as possible since I haven’t been able to go to any of the blogger conventions over the past couple of years.  Ah, that just reminded me, I need to make up new business cards.  “Flippy - Blogger Extraordinare or maybe just Ordinaire.

Here is my schedule (and Leigh-Ann’s too - we have similar interests for the sessions we could afford, although we probably would’ve taken some different ones if we could’ve afforded the Executive & Entrepreneur ones) for the conference next month: Thursday - 8 November OPENING KEYNOTE 8:45 AM 9:45 AM Good to Great: Blogging & Profit Potential 1:30 PM 2:30 PM How Online Conversations Change Markets 2:45 PM 3:45 PM Maximizing the Benefits of Small Business Blogs 4:00 PM 5:00 PM THE NEW MEDIA MOGULS ROUNDTABLE 5:15 PM 6:15 PM Friday - 9 November The Future of New Media Publishing Tools 8:45 AM 9:45 AM Using Social Media to Drive Traffic to Your Blog 1:30 PM 2:30 PM Building Relationships with Bloggers 3:00 PM 4:00 PM FEATURED SPEAKER KEYNOTE 4:15 PM 5:15 PM

Hmm, I just looked over the sessions list again, and we’ve signed five or six of the speakers whose sessions are too pricey for us.  That’s kind of sad.  Maybe we can wave at them from down the hall.