Christine is an Avenger of Sexiness. Her Superpower is helping Hot Mamas grow their Confidence by rediscovering their Beauty. She lives in the Heights in Houston, Texas, works as a boudoir photographer, and writes about running a Business of Awesome. In her spare time, she loves to knit, especially when she travels. She & her husband Mike have a food blog at Spoon & Knife.
I had a lovely little post to write up and share, and then some nice little punk kid decided to launch a DOS Attack, taking down Blogomania and more. It seems like over half the sites I wanted to surf were down right along with mine too. *sigh* Fortunately, everything has been restored now and is back up and running, nice and stable like always.
Amusing posts to come tomorrow – for tonight, I have to get to bed!
In my never ending quest for a clutter free life, I decided on Sunday that I didn’t have the energy to get out of bed, but I could always bring drawers from the dresser in to bed with me to clean them out. In one of my drawers, I came across what I like to think of as that special place where gadgets go when they are no longer needed or loved. I found three old cell phones, two phone chargers, and two pagers.
Pagers? Does anyone even use a pager anymore? The only time I ever see pagers, they are those awesome text pagers that get whole messages – not basic old-fashioned pagers like these. All this technology got me thinking if I have some sort of gadget addiction.
Gadget addiction is nothing but the use/abuse of gadgets so much that it starts negatively influencing your health and life as a whole. The worst victims of gadget addiction are children and teenagers. It’s because both of the age groups are have mind-sets that compel them to explore things around them. Some see gadgets as a mode of exploration and learning. But, for others they become sources of entertainment, resulting in addiction.
Now let me tell you the alarming statistics of gadget addiction: Over the past year, the number of gadget addicts has increased has grown by 123 percent. In March 2013, the number of gadget addicts was 79 million and by the same time this year the number has increased to 176 million addicts. So, this is the alarming rate of increase in gadget addiction. No wonder, if we don’t control it, there would be a gadget addict in every household very soon. The worst victims of gadget addiction are the children and the youth. Starting from communication modes to gaming apps, they use anything and everything on a daily basis. Mobile or gadget addicts are the ones who use such things 24/7/365. If you really love gaming, then you definitely have to buy league of legends accounts.
The cell phones? At least one of them is completely gone. It was a Aerial phone, and Aerial is long gone. Is that what T-Mobile is now? I noticed that the phone had a sim card in it. One of the phones is my old Nokia 5160, and it works with Cingular – so at least I might be able to do something with that one.
What do I do with the rest of them? Is there a market for these things? Should I try to sell them on eBay? Since there is a really big market out there for gadgets, now just anyone can go and find different gadgets online, so I should to sell them to this market, or just keeping them gathering even more dust?
What do you do with your old unloved or unwanted gadgets when you replace them? Where do old gadgets go when they die?
Lately, there have been a lot of issues with spammers attacking blogs and leaving spam in the comments. This weekend, several people that I know were victims of Lolita and her porn spam. In response, Jay Allen, along with a team of helpers, has developed the MT-Blacklist: Stop Spam Now plug-in! Let’s hear a round of applause for Jay! whoo hoo!
There are a variety of other options for stopping comment spam, many of which are listed here on ScriptyGoddess in a faboo post written by Kevin. Another good read is Yoz’s Seven Tips for a Spam Free Blog, found over at Donna’s site.
Power to the people!
You may remember that I have turned in to quite a Seinfeld junkie lately. I love watching the old episodes. Recently, they showed the Seinfeld final episode. You know, the one with the trial.
My deep thought for the day? Who were Elaine’s parents? Did she have a family?
We saw Kramer’s mom, it’s how we found out his first name was Cosmo. Jerry & George’s parents are characters on the show that we see a lot. But Elaine? Nothing. Who are her parents? Does she have any siblings? Why don’t we know these things?
Has anyone got a clue about Elaine’s parents? No. What’s up with that?
I can’t breath right now. GO RED SOX!!!
Update: They won! They won! w00t! They won! I’m so excited! They won! They won! whooooooooooo!
Do you know just how sweet a Red Sox vs. Cubs World Series would be? That would *rock!*