Vintage Racing from Soviet Russia

There are some countries where is racing is banned at all. In such countries they don’t have racing teams or competitions simply for that reason.

In Soviet Union, the place where a lot of stuff was banned, they still had races held and available for general public to visit the racing and there were sport sections training young men from early age for becoming a race driver.

Maybe the biggest difference between Soviet race and race from other world was the absense of commercial stickers on the cars. In Soviet Russia they didn’t have any competition since all commerce belonged to the state and all the goods were manufactured by state - so there was no reason to advertise anything, so racing cars were clear - just with numbers on them, and sometimes the name of the team. Also there were no foreign car makes participating in Soviet Russia races, only the serial cars manufactured in USSR.

11 down, 1 to go.... then 8 more

Man, I'm just flat-out tired.  11 weeks of relatively intense lectures, and 1 left to go, and then the REAL missionary stuff starts. 

My family came to visit this weekend.  It was really good to see them.  Just makes me want to be back in MN even more.  I know people always talk about "the REAL world" like it's this terrible monster that tosses you into the rat race and mediocrity for 40 years, but those people aren't coming out of 20 years of school.  This is literally my 20th year of schooling.  I'm developing an allergy to all things scholarly.

I know our outreach is going to be amazing, and it will shatter my worldviews and all that stuff.  They say YWAM "ruins you for the ordinary" but to be honest, the ordinary is what I desire more than the set-the-world-on-fire thing.  I support everyone else who feels a call to international missions, and I hope to be able to support them financially one day.  But with all the prophecies I talked about in an earlier post about me being a pillar and an oak, I'm thinking I'm called to be planted.  And Minnesota is beckoning.

I'll leave you with a thought from this week's lecture:
"Sometimes the Good is the enemy of the Best"

Hold out for the Best.
-M

Minnesota Ice

You heard of Minnesota nice?
Well I'm that Minnesota Ice.
I'm that frost in ya breath
all crystallizin ya eyes.

Burger Pimps on @yayeveryday

The Yoomee lomo photoshoot

Foodie Tuesday, 1 day late: Blue Corn Pancakes

In keeping with my growing love for purple things, I thought it appropriate to share this discovery I made at Rainbow Produce about a month ago: blue cornmeal.  As soon as I saw it, my mind started racing, thinking of all the great things I could do with blue cornmeal.  Blue corn tamales. Blue cornbread and blue corn muffins.  Blue corn pizza dough!

Hard Graft 3Fold Bag

Why SEO is a S.C.A.M

SEO is a SCAM.

In Twitter, I see even experienced bloggers talking about SEO and SEM and SEX (X = random variable).

This to me, is pitiful.

You may still think SEO is crucial to your marketing efforts... But at the speed of information technology evolution, Your concept is neanderthal.

How SEO Started -- And WHY it's useless today:

Way back when Infoseek, Excite, Altavista, DogPile, and Inktomi for Yahoo was coming out, I was in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. I worked with many of the PhDs who built these Gen 1 Search Engines.

How they created their Search Engine ranking formula (called an algorithm) was forward engineering. How Google and Bing do it now is 100 percent the opposite. Google and Bing today, REVERSE Engineer.

Let me explain. Back when Mozilla HDP and Yahoo's Directory Project were launched, they were launched because all the algorithm based engines "sucked hairy balls" (Stanford PhD Technical Term -- You may have to use Wolfram Alpha to decode it). This is because:

1. Web Indexing Spiders Sucked.

2. Data Storage of Indexed Data was "Hella Expensive" (An MIT PhD Term. See above for explanation).

3. The entire internet was tiny. Even if you added up all the blogs -- both of 'em.

Since this was the case, it was impossible to get a comprehensive aka useful view of the internet. So, half of the PhD's in the "Valley" decided to just develop a human directory project (they Yang position In Daoism) and the other half of the Ying-Yang paradigm (this is the ONLY time ANYONE should use the word "paradigm") decided to just take a stab at best guessing an algorithm (the Yin position).

This is how Danny Sullivan's SearchEngineWatch.com came to be born. Danny collected marketing and ranking results from webmasters all over the world. He consulted to clients, reverse engineered every feeble algorithm, and now works from his pallacial OC oceanfront home. He earned it.

Back then, you COULD and SHOULD do SEO. All you had to do is make your site's keyword frequency and inbound links match Excite or Inktomi's (Yahoo's engine) expectations. Easy.

Now, Not So Mucho (just did an inspiring interview with IT Maven @jorgeavilam)!

They spider and measure your Gmail. They never delete a single email -- EVEN IF YOU DELETE AN EMAIL

Why SEO is BAD for Business

Now, Google has the entire frikkin internet graphed on one legal size page. They even have most every single business email conversation via Gmail. Yes. They spider and measure your Gmail. They never delete a single email -- EVEN IF YOU DELETE AN EMAIL (True Dat -- Cal Poly Phd speak).

Here's the big difference. Can I get a drum roll please?

Here's the big difference. Can I get a drum roll please?

Now, instead of guessing at how the bloguhsphere would link through to a relevant web url, Google simply reverse engineers the natural HUMAN linking patterns into their algorithm.

In other words, you cannot possibly, especially with a team of "SEO Experts" or "Social Media Experts," mimic the inbound linking fractility of the random public. You've all seen a fractal. Try to express that fractal in a calculus equation. YOU CAN'T. Give up!

So what do I do?

Simple.

How to Get to Page One of Google and Bing Today.

1.Make valuable content. Especially lists that people WILL NATURALLY LINK TO... like this:

2. Make all my Google Page One Pages a Youtube.
Google owns Youtube. Youtube is projectile bleeding money. Possibly a quarter to a half a billion dollars this year. So Google shows huge favoritism toward Youtube results. I know. I used to get thousands of uniques from google every hour from being #1 under "wireless internet." Now see: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=money+karma&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g-m1 AND http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=super+antioxidants&aq=f&oq=&aqi= AND http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=astaxanthin&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g10

Peoples: THIS is a "Take-Away! Google even ranked Blogspot blogs higher than Wordpress (they own Blogspot -- Not Wordpress. Now that WP has more Adwords (owned by Google) Ads, Not so much)"

3. Talk About Famous People. They will link their powerful (High Page Rank) blogs to yours.
This is a side benefit of Interviewing people of influence

Am I wrong? - @Journik

About @journik: @Journik is Bob Wan-Qi Kim. He has been an internet entrepreneur since his first BBS on the "Information," "Super," "Highway." He founded http://journik.com -- a community like facebook but only for philosophers and their bull-shit.

His passion is exposing to the masses the power of Ancient Daoist (Origin of Acupuncture) Herbal Medicine when fused with Western Modern Genomic and Proteomic Sciences: His Client: http://jbni.us

See @journik's health blog: http://herbholist.posterous.com

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one of the BEST packages I've received in a LONG time

So, I just got home and there was a HEAVY box waiting on my front door step for me. It was from my friend and mentor, magician Danny Ray (http://dannyray.tv, http://www.captivators.com/, http://www.tenthdotministries.com/ ) Inside this box was thousands of pages of magic tricks and some great gems on theology. (Not only is he the best magician I know, he is a great man of God!)

I am very grateful for this gift and the friendship that has developed between us. I contacted Danny a few months ago when I started to feel God tugging on my heart to start this magic ministry. I was very surprised when he contacted me back and a few weeks later I was spending the weekend at his house as he poured out years of knowledge and experience on myself and a handful of other magicians.

Not many people would do that.

And I am very thankful for what him and his wife have done for our ministry. Over the years I've met a handful of quasi-Christian Celebrities (oxymoron I know) and although they are doing "God's work" they have a hard time giving you the time of day. So, it is a real blessing to know that there are people serving God that "get it" and see the big picture. The knowledge that Danny is pouring out on me is just helping to continue to grow the Kingdom of God. This to me is very challenging.

I am challenged that I need to do the same thing. Not just when I am touring around doing shows, but everyday. Everyone I meet, realize they are an opportunity to share God's love. Everyone is in need of some help and grace and we need to pour that out onto them. No matter how big or how small they (or we) are.

Thanks Danny and Kim!! You guys rock!!!! So hard and hopefully I'll be out around Christmas to hand deliver these (and the crap load of knowledge I gain) back to you.

DavidMac!
ps. visit www.tenthdotministries.com it's a great way to spend time with God online (and stop wasting time on facebook)