One of the books I have been intending to read is The Four Hour Work Week. I have heard good things about it, and truthfully, I am really just interested in cutting a day out of my work schedule. I hate getting stuck in the grind of working 9 hours every day only to get home, take care of a couple things before passing out and getting back up the next morning to do it all over again. Then I try to pack as much fun as I possibly can into the two days I have off for my weekend, before its back to doing it all over again. The only positive is that weeks tend to fly by when you are in such a repetitive grind, but god damn does it start to wear on you. Thats why when a buddy of mine sent me this link about Outsourcing Your Life in an attempt to achieve a condensed work week, I began to question if this could really be done. Intriguing:
I borrowed that image from his site, but look at all the cool stuff he has time to do in that extra day! Turn into a woman and get a massage, turn back into a dude and go skiing down mount everest, and enjoy an African sunset in the middle of the sahara desert. I WANT THAT LIFE! Well, maybe not the woman/massage part. Well, I like women, and massages, but I don’t want to be one. Anyway…
With such cheap outsourcing in India (I think he paid $4-10 per hour for outsourced assistants), why not do this to delegate the menial tasks that you are assigned with day to day? Granted, their English is not flawless, and you pretty much get what you pay for, but if these people can take care of your searching and reporting research for you, hey why not? This sparked an idea for me - why not start a blog that is written, inadvertently, by outsourced Indian personal assistants. Every day I could pass off a research topic to them to have formatted for a blog post ready for the next day. Essentially it could be my blog, containing topics I would love to write about but don’t have the time, and the content is created from their perspective. This could be a pretty interesting experiment in outsourced Blogging. “Outblogging“? no? “BlogSourcing“? Not web 2.0 enough? hmm… I’ll have to think this one over. What do you think?
On another note. I’m burnt out. I need to drink a bottle of wine tonight. SeeYuh!
I came across this really cool blog authoring tool (still in beta) from (!gasp) Microsoft that seems to be pretty cool. Lets you write locally from your machine and then upload to your blog when finished. A few cool features like integrating this youtube video (No more using 2 accounts to post video and text?!)
I read about the cool feature to integrate live maps - lets see how this works with a shot of my office?
nope. instead i got a debug error. great.
well, at least Microsoft built in the capability to flawlessly display the screenshot of the errors they cause. This may be my last time using Live Writer.
…That i probably shit yours at the same time when i saw this.
Think back a few weeks back when Ian and I were in a fight to the death of who could dig deep into the dark underbelly of the internal network (internet) and bring for the mother of comedic video pay dirt. Then think about the incredible pride obliterating bitch slap i delivered to Ian with a simple yet masterful peice titled “Overdrift”. Overdrift put us in the passenger seat of a high octane adventure filled with intense drifting and a quick yet refreshing lesson in archeology. We were also left in an exhaust cloud of confusion and suspense when our hero left to find out what really happened to his brother. Thank God this is proof that we are coming closer and closer to the truth…
Growing up in the 80/90’s most of us were exposed to a TV show that quite possibly helped mold me into the great, athletic, competitive, handsome and incredibly self challenging man i have become today. Never before had a TV show combined the raw, brute strength of a warrior mixed with a deadly challenge and charged an “every day joe’s” with the task of conquering these spartanesq men and woman and their challenges. I do not speak of the sissy “WWF”….im talking about “American Gladiators”. Turbo, Siren, Nitro…you know…who im talking about. These men and woman were unstoppable. This interview with Malibu is proof that even after taking a great blow and near fatal injury that you cannot stop an “American Gladiator”.
Please…if you sprain you ankle, have a bad hang over, stub your toe and just feel like you can’t go on…let this video inspire you…
I the wake of Ian’s 8 random things, i feel as if i should say a bit about myself.
1. I just graduate college in May from CSUCI. It took 7 years but i was busy
2. I have been in multiple bands and toured the world which is why it took me so long to graduate. I currently wail on on six strings in Versus The World.
3. I have a germ problem which might be associated with my own OCD. Sucks but o well.
4. My favorite drink is Jameson.
5. Some the best internet conversations ever (as you’ve all noticed im sure) are between Ian and I.
7. Im all over the place if you google me…it’s weird.
8. Im single…so if you’re like a smokin hot babe holler at…yeah
Outsourcing Your Life
