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Miscellaneous Ramblings – 6/12/2008

written by John Chow on June 12, 2008

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Over 400 Entries in 24 Hours

I can’t believe how many people entered the Market Leverage bag of stuff giveaway. You guys must really want that Flip Video really bad! At its current rate, I may have a thousand entries before the big draw on June 21 at Dot Com Pho. If you haven’t entered yet, then go join the fun.

Dot Com Pho Resumes

After being MIA for a few weeks, Dot Com Pho is back at its usual time and location. Anyone who likes the taste of Pho noodles and making money online is welcome to join us. Dot Com Pho starts at 12:30PM at Pho Lan in Richmond this Saturday. If you wish to attend, let me know and I’ll save a seat for you.

Vote for Ian Fernando

Ian Fernando needs your help to get into the Top Affiliate Challenge. Please go to his TAC page and vote him a 10. It would be really cool to have Ian on the show. Right now, he is in the 56th spot. He’ll need to get into the top 10 in order to have a shot at it so please go vote.

The Coolest Gift I Got From Computex

I received many gifts at Computex Taipei, but none was as cool as this one.

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I think the whole idea of getting something for nothing is very appealing to those of us working really hard online to make some income, that is probably why you have so many entries in the contest. Lets hope the winner is the most deserving entrant!

Forgetting the Ian part of it, FERNANDO sounds like FERDINAND (me), ha ha ha ha...so you will get my 10...

thanks john and as an update I am now ranked #12, huge jump!! I want to thank everyone for helping me out! really appreciate it and if I am on john's team I will make sure I pos all his evil secrets!!

Where's my plug, John? :( Lol I'm just messing. It seems like you're not the only one getting all the Market Leverage packages for a contest.

I sure hope Debby (above me) would send one my way, so I could start yet another contest ;)

-Mike

We are extremely happy about the overwhelming amount of comments left on the contest post! Your readers are great! I don't think I have ever seen this many comments on a single post before! Good luck to everyone!

thanks! john I definitely want to see what you got to teach at TAC! if anything I will probably see you again at another convention! =P :twisted:

400 entries, and i'm sure it will keep on growing!

400 entries! Wow! My chances feel high. :oops:

i think i can also win then!! :mrgreen:

That would be funny if it was real. It wouldn't surprise me if someone started selling those.

Now that's a very cool idea to keep you cool :)

Wow. Completely useless but highly entertaining.

Wow, John is quite a humorous guy. Cracking slick jokes. That's how the web dudes roll.

John, your video's are funny. It's cool how authentic you are and not afraid to be a "goof" on camera. Most people are like that when they're relaxed and hanging out with friends, but turn all serious when they get on camera or when they know the whole world is watching.

I think this "authenticness" is a large part of your success online. I can't make it this weekend, but I definitely want to come out to more Dot Com Pho's. The last one was fun.

Actually, we're complete idiots on camera. Off camera, we actually have smart things to say. For example, while we were having a John Chow Free Edition Dot Com Curry House experience in Taipei, we actually talked about US politics. It was probably the most intelligent conversation that has ever come out of Ed, Michael and me.

When we turned the camera back on, all we could come up with was toilet humor and stupid shit. I guess we all put on some sort of face for the camera when the red light is on.

I think most people are like that. But then...if we all weren't silly on camera, who'd want to watch us? :-)

Yeah this is a cool gift, fortunately they didn't send you a hot one because they would send you a heater :smile:

What everyone really wants is the bag, not the Flip camera.

Go buy it yourself at the NIKE Factory Outlet. I think they are 10 bucks.

But it's got the logo on there! It's different.

Say no to other people's logos! Put your own on there!

thats a cool fan! :smile:

running out of ideas...
next will be usb car..for kids

what about a usb condom :grin:

I stumbled across a USB vibrator once, was only small though, guess USB doesn't have the "punch".

My brother in law got his two year old a battery powered jeep for his birthday. It has AM/FM radio, cup holders, and seats two.

So yeah, not too far off I don't think. ;-)

Hows that? 400 entries is a good number for earning rambling...

I think you mean 400 comments and trackbacks and not entries John. If you multiply the trackbacks by the 5 entries you are giving each, your total entries will be well over 400.
~Terry

I rather have this- http://tinyurl.com/4s9l3j - but use it for keeping beer cool.

The coolest gift I got from COMPUTEX was an iPod nano and a whole bottle of Johnny Walker Black Label! :D

Oh, I got the fan too, but it's kinda sucky and doesn't do a whole lot.

John,

I want that fan! It's darn hot around here :D

Unbelievable!!! 400 entries is pretty amazing.
I created a contest and only a few people entered! :sad:

John, you have 439 more entries on your contest that I have on my blog contest with ML stuff and other gadgets.

Thats called marketing muscle!

That fan is pretty darn large... but it looks like a desk fan that you would use on yourself rather than your computer, because of the base at the bottom that would allow it to stand upright...

I'd like to know the answer to Germz question. If that's the case, I need to get linkin'!

Yeah I know to the contest page, but What I mean is if I have 100 pages linking to the contest page will it be 100 x 5 = number of tickets I'll get? Thank you for the answer :)

If you have so much time to do so many links and blogs, why dont you spend the same amount of time and earn money to buy those things?

It's per blog. Linking from 100 pages from the same blog still gets you only five entries.

:razz: lol.. superb fan. can be pc cooler too. :lol:

Hey John, couldn't help but notice the date of the draw. It's June 21st, not Jan (as in January) 21st right?

The contest page crashes my firefox because of all the comments.

Yeah, its giving me errors too!

I think it's time to get a new computer!

Just give it enough time and it'll eventually load.

It will take time to load...the comments keep on building up!

I know but there is some kinda script that smashes up the whole thing!
I think some kind of Javascript error or something!

I would love to see a hover craft desk! That is a very awesome fan, totally sweet!

On a side note, I have been reading and rereading your ebook and I must say it is a very good read. I can usually ramble on for hours about one topic or another and now I've found a way to have multiple reasons to do so! So, I just want to say, thank you very much!

There was a guy that built a desk car that he drives around. It looked pretty cool and like an actual desk, except with a motor, sterring wheel, and tires. He also built a couch car and a few other weird vehicles.
~Terry