I Like shutupandgo.travel

Seems like a pretty basic concept: take the things you have and go...and...travel. Even if you're broke, just....go! The site/#blog or whatever it is, is run by two (beautiful) people named Damon & Jo and I think I discovered them a couple years ago when I was doing a random YT or Google search for “micro apartment NYC” because, I, like many people, want to live in #NYC one day. The only way I could afford to live in NYC would be to either rent a very small apartment or have a roommate or BOTH! I am hoping the project(s) I put together during & after the #EdX course (#CS50x) that I can actually have a little bit of cash to move to NYC as my lease here in S St Louis County is up in October. I basically have till the end of this month to decide if I am going to put in a 60-day notice that I am going to let my lease run-out, or if I am going to renew it. Either one is fine but having a place to live if/when it does run-out would be a nice thing. Haha.

Anyway, I really like their blog. Dog knows I have everything I need for a nomadic existence (as in, I have v little things. literally everything I own (except a couple pieces of furniture) can fit into a 20L backpack).

So, as I was saying about the project I am doing for the CS50x course – it is a Web #app and I already have a landing page for it (why not?) and I am going to buy the domain soon (why not?) and it is p dog gone simple and I will just charge people to use it, outright. That is the only way I will make $$$ off it because #ads are fucked these days w/ more and more browsers blocking ads (which is a good thing) and also because I hate ads, you hate ads, there is no way I am going to bother running ads. People don't even realize that ads aren't profitable at all unless you are a super-big service, Website, whatever. Charging $$$ for the service is better, IMO.

So there's that

Be back in a bit

Saved DigitalOcean to my Bookmarks List On Safari

I suppose that is the platform for which I would host the #app that I am building (should it be a Web app (probably won't be)). The goal (longterm) is to make a #mobile app and the deets I have mentioned in a #blog post somewhere on here before, but, I didn't go into much detail (& still won't) only because this is a fairly original, authentic concept and though others have done shit in the same vein, it is not what I am thinking of. If that makes sense? ..................................

Break in the #blog post because I had to get my ideas down on paper (TextEdit) because like many many many people have said before and I will repeat – until you have genuine ideas/plans down on paper, they are just thoughts!

So I am glad I got that all taken care of.

Also took a tip from (many) programmers I have seen in the past who rants and rave about Sublime Text for #writing #code and I am going to use that for my appy app ;)

So this is good. Drawing a lot of inspo, ideas from a lot of diff people around the WWW and I see myself making all of this happen in the months to come. I will be making a legit planner (like the one I have sitting next to me) with clear goals in mind and what I want to accomplish before January 2019. Then maybe I can set a badass NY Resolution with what I have done? idk.

Gotta get my goals down :D

I Probably Write About 5K Words A Day

Everyday. Seven days a week. If someone wants to learn how to #write and write well, start a journal, or diary, or #blog and just hammer away at that shit w/ ideas, concepts, contradictions (lol), etc. and it will definitely make you a better #writer. I am not saying I could write a legit #book (at least not at the moment), but what I do write is fairly legible, I would say.

#amwriting

A Much Smaller Internet

I saw some shit on The Verge (a loooong time ago) about TAILS OS and how it routes everything through Tor and is amnesic (idk if I am spelling that right) and how it (sites accessible through Tor) makes the Internet a “much smaller Internet” because of the fact that Tor cannot access a lot of “Clear Web” websites and whatnot. But in my experience – for right now – I am using a much smaller internet because I do not visit websites (ever) or blogs (ever) or click on other people's links (ever (how could I? I don't use #socialmedia anymore)) and I only once in a blue moon visit Medium or Pocket or any shit like that. So if not for classes, I could basically get by w/ using TAILS OS for...everything. I mean I have the Tor browser on here so I could route the traffic for this #blog through the onion router if I liked, but there is simply no point in that. But if I did go to TAILS, I would have no problem using this blogging platform w/ it. And that's all I need right?

Submitting Literature, Selling My Tablet, and Dying For Nicotine

Someone on Twitter Tweeted a link to a #blog post that was titled “17 Approachable Lit Mags” or something to that effect, so I took the bait and clicked and sure enough, there was a list of literary magazine there and a short description of each one and what they were accepting + their average acceptance rate.

I decided to submit to Page & Spine because they pay AND because when you are published by a paying lit mag or online mag or what have you, it has more...gravitas, or legitimacy when it comes to listing this work on your portfolio. Their waiting list is quite long but I went ahead and took a shot in the dark, anyway, and submitted “Metro” and if I am lucky, they will publish it. I will have the same e-mail when they decide to get back to me, one way or the other (because I plan on keeping this e-mail for, like, ever!).

I also tried to sell my Tab A to the Phone Surgeon down the street a little bit ago and it looked like it was going to sell, but then, the guy said he was more looking for a 10 inch Android tablet instead of an 8 inch. I then renewed the listing on CL and I am hoping someone wants to buy it. Like, TONIGHT! I am 100% broke, w/o nicotine, and it s.u.c.k.s. But enough about my problems.

I actually do feel quite good despite my economic disposition at the moment. Gonna study more later.

Be back in a bit!