Posts Tagged ‘Funny Money’

How To Rake it in With Google Adsense

December 10th, 2008

If you’re like me you dream of being an Internet millionaire just scraping by.  You wish that you could make more cash from Google Adsense than California has managed to get into debt by.  In case you hadn’t heard, that’s a lot of money [currently just shy of 52 billion dollars].  The best way to make mone like I do with Google adsense is to game the system with hot keywords, but I don’t know how to do that and I’m not interested in gaming the system.  Instead I make slow money as over time total strangers click through on the ads on this site when what they’re looking for (usually adult content, because this site is full of that content) is advertised in a Google ad.

I have, over time, received a very large Google check of $100.00 from Google every couple of what I have come to call “Google years”.  I run no less than 5 sites that have Google ads, but none of them actually generate what I would call revenue.  They’re blogs.  They have content that doesn’t get read often (other than a few pages that are linked to from within Wikipedia, surprisingly).  A Google Year is the amount of time it takes me to get the minimum amount of adsense clicky-clicky revenue.  The speed of light is measured in light years, the speed of money is measured in Google years.  The best way to compare the two is like this: Light years are like the fastest expensive sports car money can by and Google years (for me at least) are like a two wheeled Yugo being drawn by a three legged mule that is blind, missing a quarter of his right ear, and named Edna.  Edna is a boy horse who has been named incorrectly by a very abusive Yugo and mule owner.  Edna cannot compete with the expensive sports car in performance, but Edna moves, steadily forward.

If you want to maximize Google revenue you’ll want to put the advertisements all over your page, but I’m not interested in maximizing revenue, I’m interested in maximizing content.  You will find that I make decisions based on the capitalistic concept of ‘lazy faire’ which means, “let the people click on ads if they want to,” in English.  Lazy fair is Franglish, its English and French in origin and I think I just made it up.  Just like the money in the banks that Google dispenses every Google Year.

Another technique to becoming wealthy through Google is to be good at mathematics.  I understand that they only hire the best engineers, and then give them stock options.  I try to stay away from stock options because the stocks are right next to the gallows and I’d prefer not to get lynched.  Either way, being good at math will not hurt, especially if you have to use it in calculating the change from selling hamburgers at your third job because the Internet Millionaire thing isn’t working out.

Please Remember to Turn Off the Lights

November 28th, 2008

There is nothing more amazing than turning off the lights to preserve electricity.

Water Bill: Down for the Month of October

November 19th, 2008

Our water bill was down $roughly $30.00 for October.  We’re pushing the reasons for that to the following:

  • Sprinklers were turned off part way through the month
  • The new dishwasher was installed after the month of October
  • I didn’t bathe for most of October

OK, so the last two reasons don’t count, but the dishwasher will help a lot, and I fixed a very slow, but persistent dripping valve that lead to our sprinkler system, too, earlier this month.  Hooray for savings where we can get them!

Ninety-Six Cents I Didn’t Have to Spend

May 22nd, 2008

I had to laugh because to fix a problem with my evaporative cooler I had to buy some plumbers tape. Plumbers tape is a very thin tape that gets wrapped around threaded pipes or screws and the tape helps keep a water tight seal around the threading. I picked some up for just under a dollar at Lowe’s along with a few other odds and ends and headed home.

I climbed up on my roof to secure the tape to the water valve floater’s stem so that the water would stop entering the floater and making it a sinker (thus flooding my swamp cooler and causing water to flow out of the overflow hole). I wrapped the threaded stem, secured the floater and climbed off the room and let the water fill up the swamp cooler again and waited for the overflow. No overflow took place and the problem was solved.

I then walked into the garage with the plumber’s tape and reached to put it on the hook where I would expect to put such a thing. That is where I found the last purchased plumbers tape that I had all along. Ha!