The Historian

This year has been rough… but it is starting to turn around. So, I just want to say thanks to everyone who has been there for me or tried to help in whatever way they could.

I do appreciate it.

I will get back to the “My Acclaim” Posts soon. I’m actually finding it difficult to know what to write next, but I think it will be about Project Top Secret, though I was really only involved early on. I them might talk more specifically about the weird things we did for the 2Moons launch. After that, I’m not sure.

But again, thanks to all of my Twitter followers, Facebook friends and everyone else.

I think everyone has an interest in horoscopes. For some it may an interest in stomping it from the face of the planet for its blasphemous ways and others a thing to rules their lives. For me it is a passing amusement, purely entertainment. That said it is often striking when they reveal something that seem to be largely true.

Tonight in my wandering of the Internet I cam across a Chinese Horoscope page. I’m a Metal Dog which goes something like this:

Metal Dogs have extremely high standards and expect a lot of themselves and of others. They are loyal and hold a strong outlook about the direction they want their life to take. They choose their friends and causes with care, as they do not plan to ever not support these people and things again. Once they have committed themselves, there is little to no turning back. They are bold, unafraid to disagree out loud about anything they feel is unjust or unfair. Metal Dogs are easily stressed if a plan does not go accordingly. They find it difficult to relax when there are things to be done.

And of course in Sun sign astrology I’m Taurus. Which I will leave to you to look up, if you so desire. But what really got me caught my attention tonight was the blending of these two, the “Taurean Dog”

These Dogs are more conventional in how they view the world. They are heroic community leaders and concerned neighbors. They are stable and resilient in their search for truth and justice.

Amusing isn’t it… But I have to admit not quite as uncanny as my Myers-Briggs (Jung) Typology… but that is for another day.

For about a month now we’ve been getting these stupid tv commercials where a female voice repeats "Beware the 26" over and over with the words on a field of static, it then drops to a color test screen. And there have been bill boards that looked spray painted with the same message.

Turns out is was a pathetic marketing campaign by the local newspaper.

Fearful of losing readers to the world of online news it claims that 26% of us are under a "crazy misperception" that "newspapers are yesterday’s news".

The truth is 26% of us know that the online world is a more efficient way of getting the news we want the way we want it. In fact I haven’t been to the local news web site, save for the monstrosity of "bewarethe36.com" in a very long time.

And this certainly isn’t going to get me there…

If they had bother to spend the money making their web site less cluttered and easy to use then it would have been money well spent.

Link to Jacksonville Advertising and Periodical Readers – Are you the 26? – Florida Times-Union and Jacksonville.com