Mad City Bonsai

Brain-Fart or Brain-Storm?

Paul Stokes — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:50:10 +0000

I was sitting back in my chair today when it hit me. Would people be willing to pay me money to wear their branded shirts? Or better yet would people be willing to pay a couple of guys who do a fair amount of traveling to wear a different shirt every day of the year. With a price of $1 per day?

This could be interesting.

Better yet, what if I had a network of 100 or more people all over the country all willing to wear a shirt for one day, all day and get a percentage of the fee. $1 per shirt per day per person wearing the shirt. All with photographic evidence of wearing the shirt out in public.

Hmmmm…

If you would be interested in participating in wearing shirts, let me know.

Well…The Holidays are Finally Over

Paul Stokes — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:55:52 +0000

I hope that everyone survied the holiday madness of 2008. It was quite uneventfull for me, other than getting together with the family. I got Sunshine a nice Color Laser Printer for her to use when she starts teaching, since theacher get squat for funding.

I had the plesure of taking the entire week of Christmas off from work and got almost nothing accomplished, except for cleaning out the office for doing school work.

Did you holiday wishes get met?

Winterey Weather is here! - And my first WP Custom Theme

Paul Stokes — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:49:50 +0000

I do not know how many of you have been struck by the recent snow storms, but to me at leased it is welcome. 4.4 inches last night with a forecasted 10-13 tomorrow night. I hope all of you are safe. With the fat man in red so close to arriving, the sales at stores just reaching their pinacle, with old man winter pummeling us, I wiash all of you a safe and sane season.

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On another note, I have just completed my first custom wordpress theme for my employer. Their blog was a project of our marketing director and it only took a few days to convince hime of making the switch to wordpress.

Let me know your thoughts on this theme below. The URI is http://blog.omnipress.com, but please do not comment there, comment here.

Now this is a shelf for me!

Paul Stokes — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:42:52 +0000

On one of those blog that I like to look at once a week or so http://www.sixdifferentways.com/

They posted a great shelf unit that I just may have to go out and find.

The Machine is Us/ing Us

Paul Stokes — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:20:47 +0000

Winter is Finally Here and other thoughts . . .

Paul Stokes — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:55:04 +0000

It has been quite cold here in southern wisconsin for some time now. I hate the cold, unless there is a reason for it other than it beeing winter. This morning I woke up before my alarm clock started going off, which was nice because I hate listening to that darn thing. I took a look outside and too my surprise everything was covered in snow, now that is a reason for the cold that I can handle. I hate the cold, but love the snow - go figure.

Well the Kob sponsored blogs seem to be going pretty stron right now. Some recent additions include Craig Coussins, I really look forward to read is posts.

Not much else going on right now, so I will sign off for now.

New and Improved KoB Sponsored Blogs

Paul Stokes — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:57:53 +0000

I have been working like crazy these last couple of wek to improve the programming of the KoB sponsored blogs. I have finished and will be adding several new bloggers to the system (still a couple of bugs to work out, but nothing major).

I hope that everyone will find them easier to use, I know I will ;).

Thanks all for now.

-Paul

Interesting Contest Thoughts. . .

Paul Stokes — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:34:26 +0000

I find it very interesting that the Art of Bonsai Project gets hundreds, or you could say record breaking amounts of entries to their Art of Bonsai Awards. Yet the Knowledge of Bonsai Forums struggles to get more than 20 in the Knowledge of Bonsai Forums Progressive Styling Contest. It is true that one could say that you would acually have to do work or put in some accual physical effort to be a condender, and one could say that you really would not have to do much of anything (now that is) to enter AoB Awards.

The Facts

AoB Awards Stats:
226 entries from the following countries.
“The 25 countries that are participating are:
Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, India, Indonesia, Italy, Turkey, Mexico, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK, USA, Venezuela”

KoB Stats:
19 entries from the following countries.
Austria, Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Spain, USA

Prizes:
The prize offerings are almost equal, minus the “sponsor” awards.

So I am asking you, the readers (if there are any)

Why did/would you enter one contest over the other?
Why did you not enter one or the other?
What would make you enter either contest

Until next time;
-Paul Stokes

The Revival is Here!

Paul Stokes — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:17:32 +0000

I am going to bring this blog back to life, if it ever had one that is. Stay tuned to read my thoughts on various subjucts and yes it will include writting about bonsai stuff.

One of My Favorite Non-Bonsai Blogs

Paul Stokes — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:17:39 +0000

Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness in a quiet American suburb.
http://garfieldminusgarfield.tumblr.com/