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A couple of weeks ago Google sent me an email informing me that they were holding money for me.
Phishing spam.
Nope.
They really were.
Back in November 2011 when I set up my YouTube account, I monetized my videos. What that means is that if you watch one of my videos, after a few seconds you’ll see an advertisement. They always irritated me, but I always just clicked on the X to close the advertisement.
What I never could understand is why Apple, or IBM, or General Electric, or any of the Big Boys would monetize their videos.
Now I understand.
I don’t have a lot of videos on YouTube but the amount of money that had been collecting in my account since November 2011 certainly encourages me to upload a lot more videos.
Now I also understand why the Big Boys surf YouTube looking for stuff of theirs that has been used illicitly. It’s called copyright infringement, and if it’s sufficiently valuable, and popular, and it’s been monetized by the illicit uploader, it can pull in a lot of money!
I won’t tell you how much Google is sending me, but it will buy a few gallons of gasoline to get me to the store to buy lots and lots of cans of cat food for Zoey the Cool Cat, after which I will be able to stop by On The Border for about a dozen weeks and have nice Mexican fiestas accompanied by Grandé Raspberry Swirl margaritas. I might even be able to buy a new car. Well, maybe not. But it’s a nice windfall!
My most popular video has 118,551 views. With what I’ve told you, imagine if a monetized video gets, say, a million views! We’re talking rich!
Don’t be surprised if you see a lot more videos on my blog, beginning today.
Following is a short video of a steam tractor from the 1890s plugging along at the Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum in Vista. Notice its name!
I have always loved complicated machinery and the Museum has so much equipment in working order and traversing around their 55 acres of land, including a garden railroad for the young’uns to ride and a model railroad exhibit.
The annual Antique Engine & Tractor show is coming up soon, June 15, 16, 22, & 23. Except for working railroad museums, the Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum has to be one of my favorites, definitely my favorite non-railroad museum. Head on out with the family and have some fun!
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So disappointed in Google………………
Am I the only one who actually reads spam before deleting it? I mean, once I recognize it as spam, I still read through the whole thing to get a chuckle for the moment.
A spam comment on my WordPress blog this morning:
“Pretty section of content. I just stumbled upon your site and in accession capital to assert that I get actually enjoyed account your blog posts. Anyway I will be subscribing to your augment and even I achievement you access consistently quickly.”
What does that say?
I tried running it through Google’s translator and even Google doesn’t know!
So disappointed in Google…………..
My words of wisdom to the spammer:
SNIPPETS are short posts about anything and everything.
Each SNIPPETS will have at leasst one picture.
After all, this is Russel Ray Photos.
Looking for real estate services in San Diego County?
I recommend
James Frimmer, Realtor
Century 21 Award, DRE #01458572
If you’re looking for a home inspector,
I recommend Russel Ray (that’s me!)
Google has won me over with its translator!
I dislike liking something that I haven’t read. So when I’m camping out in a blog where there are lots of long posts that I want to read, I’ll often read them all first and then go back through real quickly and like all of them.
The reading problem is exacerbated when the blog is in a foreign language. I’m not good at foreign languages.
In fact, at Henrietta M. King High School in Kingsville, Texas (see map at right), I made my only two non-A’s in Spanish; my high school required that we take two semesters of a foreign language.
At Texas A&M University, my major required me to take two semesters of computer science, another foreign language. I made two C’s…. barely. In the second semester I had an F going into the final. This was back in the card punch days. My final exam was to write a program in COBOL that would spit out the initial of my last name. I spent Friday, Saturday, and Sunday — 72 hours — in the Computer Science Center trying…. no luck. On Monday morning at 7:00 a.m. for an 8:00 a.m. class, I simply sat down and used comment cards to create the initial. I knew I was going to get an F, but I had fun.
When I went to see my grade, there was a note next to my name: “See Professor.” Ooopsie.
I went to see the Professor only to find that I had an A on the final and a C in the course! Yahooooooooooooo! He said that comment cards weren’t programming but he liked my ingenuity since no one had ever done that before. Reminds me of the Star Trek movie (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, and 2009′s Star Trek) where Captain Kirk defeats the Kobayashi Maru test by re-programming it.
This all brings me back to those foreign-language posts. I just discovered the Google Translator. It’s awesome! And fast! Just go to translate.google.com and enter the URL of the blog post you want to translate and — voilà! — just seconds later you’re reading in English…. or any other language!
I feel like an emperor!
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