STAX. KILLER.

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It’s where it’s at.

Enjoy homies:

I just wish there was a way to record and replay….

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I have unworked-on solutions that are constantly bombarding my skull. This one thing that has been plaguing me is a solution for a few friends of mine that are obsessed with budgeting (you know who you are). These guys and their wives will take their daily collection of receipts and go through them at the end of the day.

They don’t seem to mind this song and dance but it seems pretty damn tedious:
1. Pull out receipt.
2. Review amount on receipt.
3. Open spreadsheet
4. Navigate to day/date
5. Enter amount on receipt.
6. Repeat 1-5 for each receipt
7. At end of month add up all receipts
8. cross-reference credit card with receipt to find discrepancies

Seems simple. But really a pain in the ass.

A solution that I’ll most likely have to build myself involves the same technology that newer ATMs use. These ATMs allow you to scan and deposit checks SOOPER-EASAYY.

So here’s my solution:

1. smartphone cam: take a pic of receipt:
- image is auto-uploaded to a secure site where logic grabs
1) location/restaurant name/etc
2) date
3) last 4 of credit card
4) amount

2. tough part: link to credit card account (ala Mint) to cross reference and match dates and amounts

3. month calendar view which points out totals for each day as well as marks discrepancies where mismatches occur.

BOOYA.

[comment please - i'm curious to know what you think of the solution, my AAFs (Anal Asian Friends)].

Another solution that I’ve been thinking about is the interface b/w human and computer. We’ve been doing this via keyboard and mouse since the beginning of time. Its the fastest, simplest way that we have and it annoys the living hell out of me.

Speaking commands/typing may be faster but is as annoying as burlap underwear and hemmorhoids in the sweaty summer heat. Something like minority report might be cool at first but having to mime fart pushes can be taxing on the shoulders.

I don’t have a solution for this but whoever does will KILL. Unfortunately, barring brain wave analysis, your fingers are the fastest way to get things done.

I’ve optimized the process a little by picking up a couple of these:

It ain’t a perfect solution but it allows me to keep my hands in one place. You can type and use the red nipple of life in the center of the keyboard as a mouse. Efficient. Smile.

If you’ve made it this far def check out this video. This shit gets me hyped!

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The last two posts, wonderfully spaced by 6 months, had to do with dreams. So does this one.

The recent passing of Jobs has made me think about things a bit. Why the heck have folks elevated Jobs to sainthood so unequivocally and so rapidly? It was his ability to create a comunity….. and well, his salemanship/marketing. He built a good number of products that people fell in love with – and then they united around those products. And they were and are willing to fight to the death with respect to their opinions about these products

The Google folks are a bit more insidious with this but their formula is even more effective:

1) Give away something spectacular for free (Google Search – which is still the bomb sonn)

2) Charge for other services related to Point #1 (Adwords Search…Adwords Content network)

I’ve been listening to the Joe Rogan podcast fairly religiously since I found out about it on XMRadio. This Rogan guy really gets it. It’s not just that I dig his philosophy and find communion in his comedy. It’s that he really understands the points above.

Basically what I’m trying to say here is that Joe Rogan is Google. Son.

1) Give away something spectacular for free (Joe Rogan Podcast)

2) Advertise on #1 (upcoming comedy shows, Fleshlight, Onnit Products).

I download and listen to the podcast while I commute to work. It’s highly entertaining and I’m hooked (point #1). So now if Rogan were to ever bring his monkey ass up to the tri-state, I’d show my appreciation by spending my ched to come check him out.

Rogan has been mentioning this new product that he’s pimping called alpha brain. You can check out the ingredients on the site but its basically an all natural a supplement that is supposed to turbo charge your domepiece. Use the coupon code love – for an extra 10%. Holla

side note on the term “all natural”. I just realized when I typed that last sentence that All Natural makes no goddamn sense. Isn’t EVERYTHING all natural ie from nature? True, some things are constructed by man, for example asphalt. But isn’t asphalt still constructed from elements from nature? So when we talk about ingredients in something edible, when are they not “all natural”?

So wait. Another thought. So when an advertiser claims that something is “Made from All Natural Ingredients”, are they essentially lying to you? Does that mean that the product started out growing from the ground and then they added something to it? Like – “Cocaine… made from All Natural Coca Plants”

Anyway.

So I bought the Alpha about a week ago. The directions on it say to use it in the morning if you want to be smarter. Use it in the afternoon if you want to experience lucid dreams. Naturally, since I’m already beyond a genius level intellect, I took it during a few afternoons. Nothing really noticeable happened the first couple of night. I stayed up late on those nights so it may have burnt out of my system before it could have any effects on my dreams. But on night 3!? WOW.

I had 2 memorable dreams that were #POWERFULSUN

1) I was a music producer -I understood music production, sound theory, and what artist fit what tune. I felt the way someone like Babyface or Prince must feel all day long. I had these incredible songs in my head where the arrangement was completely done by me. Incredible songs. I’m talking Old Testament archangels on harps incredible. And my mind worked like a disc player. It had the entire already completed and I would sit and listen to it. Next track. Perfect. Next track. Perfect.

And as the observer in the dream I just kept thinking – this track is so incredible in my head. it will be daunting to find artists & instrumentation that will match its intensity.

It was an incredibly audible dream. One that I’ve never experienced before. I still can’t believe music of that magnitude is possible

Those that know me know that I have a song playing in my head 85% of the day. Depending where I am or how comfortable I am, I’ll start singing the song. If someone around me knows the tune they invariably pick it up and start singing it within minutes. Current song playing in my head:

2) I was a HS student but I remember I was walking around my elementary school with a friend. For some reason we were being tracked by a lion in the hallway. In 100% of other dreams when something like this happens I do like every other rational thinking black person does – I jetsky (no time to investigate yo). So I started to do that with my buddy. Obviously lions are fast and like chasing slow dumb prey so the cat caught up to us and pounced on my buddy.

Something in my head went off and let me know that I was dreaming. Usually when this happens I wake up in 17 seconds. But I was like, lemme me blast this lion right quick. I grabbed the lion by the back of its neck and started destroying it. After about 30 seconds I remember screaming I AM INVINCIBLEEE.

Then I woke up.

I’ve had lucid dreams before. But its rare that I have dreams of great detail that I remember when I wake up. Unless they’re nightmares. I just thought of a slogan for Alpha: Dream Big. Without the Nightmares.

about the title: I was listening to an old podcast with Bert Kreischer recently. Kreischer is basically the dude that Van Wilder is based on (How that has a 17% rating is beyond me). So he tells this story about learning russian. I found the clip on youtube. POWERFUL:

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