Does Anyone Need A Job?

 I like to believe that I'm an avid reader.

I'm wondering,

do audio books count when I'm on my daily walk

or driving in my car?

Unfortunately,

I started reading late in life.

I never brought homework

or my school books after class because I could get a passing grade without trying too hard.

I did try reading comic books as a kid,

but never really got into it consistently.

  It wasn't until I was in
High School

when the bug bit me.

It started when my brother gave me

"The Hobbit"

to read.

After that,

the wonderful worlds of imagination I found inside of books has been a constant joy in my life.

I do read the occasional nonfiction book

but on the whole I'm a fiction fan.

That is why I try writing fiction myself these days.

There is a joy in writing a story where you create a person,

place,

or thing out of nothing

and it all comes from your imagination.

I'm writing two fiction stories right now,

where I already have about 52,000 words for each.

The problem I have is editing.

I have a real hard time editing my own work.

I do query

Literary Agents

once in awhile

but I always get the same type of email which states,

"Nice work. Let me know when you are done editing it."

The consensus is that I'm a bit too wordy.

I might start a

"Kickstarter"

project to publish my book.

I haven't decided yet.

But,

anyone who signs up as a

Follower

on my

Blog

will get a free copy of the first book I get published.

Also,

if I do start a

Kickstarter Project

the people who donate to it will receive a free copy too!

This is,

If Anyone Would Like A Job Editing My Work Please Leave A Comment Below Or Send Me An Email

Unfortunately I Cannot Promise Paying You Until I Sell My First Book

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” 

- Winston Churchill -

 

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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Scholar Or Academic

I usually don't like to promote one search engine over the other but in my studies....

Don't I sound so pedagogic!

Keeping with my theme of yesterday,

that of learning,

I have found that reading scientific papers late at night can really put me to sleep.

I mean,

it feeds this craving mind I have for knowledge!

Like the other day,

when I wanted to read articles on

"Planetary Boundaries Framework."

Just your usual light reading I dare say.

First I went with the old granddads of the search world,

Google Scholar & Microsoft Academic.

Found everything I was looking for,

including tons of tracking cookies to bog down my web browsing.

Then I went to one of the newer kids on the block,

DuckDuckGo Semantic Scholar

because they profess that;

"DuckDuckGo is an internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results. DuckDuckGo distinguishes itself from other search engines by not profiling its users and by showing all users the same search results for a given search term."

Which is a good thing since they are not using algorithms to put forward groups who pay to be first in line when you search a subject.

Also,

these algorithms like to put up the worst case scenarios to hopefully outrage you so you keep clicking more websites, which in turn pays the bills for these grandad search engines.

Sorry,

sometimes I get carried away when I am talking about the

Internet Age!

Back to all the scientific papers on the
"Planetary Boundaries Framework."

Ahhhh,

just go to

Wikipedia,

it's easier.

 This is

I Have So Much Useless Information Stored Up In My Mind That I Have To Clear It's Cache Pretty Often

TwoBuckHowie

 

And

 

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
- Jeffrey Eugenides -

 

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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Learning For Free

I will be completely honest about not writing.

I have been extremely lazy lately.

Sorry.

Hopefully I haven't lost all of my readers because of it.

*****

I haven't been wasting all of my time though.

I have stated in an earlier post that I tried volunteering to work at the polls this last

November

during the

Election

and signed up online to work with

Greenpeace.

Nobody called me back.

Greenpeace actually sold my cellphone number to other organizations who did constantly call me asking all kinds of questions about my political affiliations. I block all of the telemarketer's numbers.

In the meantime I have found 

The King's Centre for Visualization in Science

which is in

Canada.

Explaining why the word centre is spelled the

British

way.

They do have a lot of free educational tools you can use for yourself

or your children.

Visualization education is so much more effective these days with young people.

Before they can even talk

Kids

are learning by watching videos on cellphones because their

Parents

give them their phones to keep them occupied.

By experience,

I saw one of my grandchildren navigate through his

Mom's

phone to watch his favorite

Talking Tom

videos.

 This was when he was too young to speak.

 

One word of warning.

Some of the

Visualization Sites

still use

Flash Player

which

Adobe

is discontinuing at the end of the year because it is so easily hacked by malicious malware.

There are plenty of substitutes,

but use them at your own risk.

The

Learning Sites

I find are a lot safer.

This is,

Always Trying To Learn Something Everyday

And To Learn It For Free

Jim Hauenstein

And,

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
- Benjamin Franklin -

 

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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How Dependent Have I Become?

I can tell you that I am not as dependent as I was in the early days of the computer age.

I got my first computer in 1990.

Nine years after

Windows 1

was released.

The operating system I was using was 3.1,

which meant I had to upgrade to

Windows 95

when it came out.

Anyone under the age of 20 has no idea what we had to go through in those dinosaur days.

We actually had to pay a monthly fee for a web browser.

And I am talking about long befor

 AOL 

came along.

During the 1990s I would hack into different software companies because I never wanted to pay for anything.

Everything back then had a back door.

I did it because I needed my money to raise my seven children.

We all know how expensive that can be.

Not complaining,

just stating a fact.

I remember starting out one

Sunday Morning

and spending eleven hours before I found a way to back door

AOL

so I could get free internet through them.

I wanted to be a

Cyberpunk 

back when it was still an underground movement.

I used to sign all my emails;

Jim Hauenstein Keep The Internet Free.

When high speed internet came along that all changed.

I did get a discount because I worked at a cable company for almost 20 years,

but it wasn't free.

Besides,

I couldn't risk my job any longer since I kept moving up the ladder because of my computer skills.

Now,

to get to the point of the title.

Ever since I retired I no longer stay up on all the new tech.

If I had,

I would have jumped on learning everything I could on how to make an app for cellphones.

I just don't have it in me anymore.

When the internet stopped working at my house the other day it was harder on my kids than me.

No WiFi,

no Xbox,

no On Demand,

just unlimited data on our cell phones.

Oh the pain.

To stir the imagination of my kids who were bored,

I told them to do what people have been doing since the time of

Gutenberg.

Read A Book!

 

This is,

Suggesting Reading One Of The Classics When You Get Bored Because It Stirs The Mind Better Than Watching A Classic

Jim Hauenstein

 

And,

 

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
- Italo Calvino -

 

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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My Internet Is Down

Sorry,

but I don't have much time.

The router from the internet company I use has failed.

After being on the phone for over two hours,

the technician I was talking to finally decided that the router had to be replaced.

He said,

they will send me a new router by priory mail

and I will get it on

Monday.

Then all I have to do is hook it up myself

and mail the old one back to them.

Remember a time when the satellite

or cable companies would send out a technician that same day on a

FREE Service

call because they were afraid they might lose your business?

No longer.

Now if you want somebody to come out to fix your system you have to pay a service fee or pay a monthly fee so you won't have a service fees when they do come out.

Either way they are passing the cost of service calls onto their customers.

The other thing these huge profitable companies like to do is charge a large installation fee when you first get hooked up.

Even though the infrastructure in your house has been there for over 30 years.

Well,

since I don't have internet,

I don't have the

Xbox

working,

which means my grandson didn't want to come over to visit this weekend.

I also have three young adults,

with three computers living with me who aren't too happy either.

To top it off,

I won't be able to write on this blog until probably

Tuesday!

I better get some kind of credit on my bill for all this inconvenience

or that company is going to get a really bad

Yelp

review from me.

How am I writing this post you ask?

That's why I am in a hurry.

I told my neighbor my problem

and said I was going to hack into his

WiFi

for only this morning!

 All he asked was that I don't hack into any of his household computers

or equipment

and that I would tell him after I was done so he could change the password.

 

This is,

My Neighbor Carlos Is Such A Great Guy

And His Checking Account Number Is........

Jim Hauenstein

 

And,

 

“Hacking is a talent. You won't learn it at school. If you were born to become a Hacker, it's your destiny. Otherwise, you'll be Hacked.”

- Amine Essiraj -

 

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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