The Many Happenings

Please keep in mind that this is not a review. This is a follow-up from last week’s post, which consisted of the notion that I was going to either keep or lose my respect for M. Night Shyamalan as a filmmaker. I was giving him one last chance with his latest film, The Happening, which was advertised as his “first R rated film,” and his “scariest yet.” I went on Friday night to see The Happening, and this was my experience.

Living in a college town and knowing how opening weekends are for these types of blockbusters, I arrived 30 minutes early to get a seat. I purchased my ticket and sat down – there was absolutely no one in the theater. Could Shyamalan’s reputation really be that shot?

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Generally, the internet’s independent music store eMusic, gives it’s users 25 free mp3s to try out the service. eMusic is a monthly based subscription service, but unlike the other big guys out there, you actually get to keep your high quality DRM free tunes even after you cancel. eMusic has partnered with many music festivals, magazines, and websites to offer users more than 25 free tracks when they first sign up, but there is a hidden url provided by SunFest that gives out 100 mp3s, totally free.

This is how it works. You click on this link, you see the huge and welcoming “100 Free Downloads” image, you sign up, (with a credit card,) and then your account automatically gets 100 free tracks. Your first thirty days on eMusic are totally free, however, they will bill you once you reach the second month. So what you have to do is download your tracks and cancel before it bills you after 30 days. It is very painless to cancel, and if you remember and do it right, you can walk away with 100 more songs on your iPod or Zune.

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If you are following me on Twitter then you probably know that yesterday I went to Six Flags. I usually go once or so annually, unless I have more free time – and then in that case I usually buy a season pass. However, due to the extremely high gas prices and the Six Flags closest to me is about 2 hours away, my friends and I decided to hold off until the time was right. I guess to them that the time that was right was yesterday, because we were tired of waiting for our dose of g-force. We all got up at 7 a.m and hit the road.

Another reason we went was because we had coupons that let us pay for a child’s price ticket. It is very hard for me to pay full price at a theme park, and if I do, I will probably have less fun there during the day than if I got in cheaply. So, after a long ride there, we finally pulled up to the parking area. The lady in the booth said, “Welcome to Six Flags, parking is $15.” What? Is parking really the price of one month of WoW? Didn’t it used to be several dollars, maybe $5 at the most?

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The economy is in a bind, gas prices are through the roof, and the employment rate is growing each day. Because of this, many people are looking for ways to generate some extra cash to either have some spending money or to help pay with their necessary finances. Well, maybe there is an easy way to do it online.

Some of the most populated sites on the internet are those of the PTC type, or pay to click. Pay to click sites are sites that give users a very small amount for viewing a third party ad, or clicking on a text link and bringing them to an external site. Amongst the many out there, Bux.To is the most popular and supposedly the one that works the best. I have just signed up to try and see if it indeed does work.

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It is said that the average site can double it’s traffic just by dropping their Entrecard on 300 sites a day for a month. This will give the user 300 points instantly, and enough exposure to those 300 people per day to come back to your site and drop your card. Many of those sites are part of the “U Drop, I Follow” network, where they will make sure of dropping a card back on you if you drop yours on theirs first. So, to help motivate some non-active Entrecard users out there, I am going to make it a habit of dropping 300 times a day and see what happens.

Now dropping 300 times a day might sound hectic, but if you Google “Entrecard Lists” or “Entrecard 300 Lists,” then you will find lists of sites that have the Entrecard above the fold, (above the point of where you have to start scrolling,) and sites that load quickly. This process should take around 20 minutes a day, and help you out when finding sites to drop on. These lists will help me out as well upon conducting this experiment.

I am starting this experiment with about 1000ec, and we will see where I am in terms of credits in a month of this post without purchasing any advertising or items. I will also post my traffic influx if there is one. To help me out, make sure you drop your Entrecard on mine, (on the right,) and within these next 30 days we’ll see what happens.

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