One of the things I’ve been working on is figuring out new ways to show some of my talents. I feel like I’m going to have to work on someone else’s dream before I can get the kind of funding I need to really commit to any of the things I want to create.

A few weeks ago Kyle Humphrey & Graydon Sheppard released a video called Shit Girls Say. It became a meme that resulted in parodies with just about every type of person making fun of things their group says. The meme may be on it’s last legs, but I decided I’d throw one in the mix using some of my favorite southern expressions.

If you’ve heard me speak, I don’t have much of a southern accent, but I did up until college. I pull this accent out of storage whenever I have to take my car in for service and talk to a mechanic.

This was fun to produce, if there are southern expressions you use or remember that I left out, I’d love to hear them and use them in a second Shit Southern People Say video.

I trust technology more than I could ever trust religion, government, and because I have a bit of Aspergers, I trust technology more than I trust in personal relationships. The constant purpose of technology is to work to improve life and solve problems. After technology, the thing I love is show business. I cherish the idea of people working to entertain.

In the last 100 years, we’ve seen technology transform transportation and manufacturing. In the last 60 years, technology created new forms of entertainment. Big, strong companies with expensive equipment and distribution systems worked to build bridges between content creators and content consumers. In the last 20 years, technology has begun to disintermediate the big, powerful systems of content distribution that produced physical products like books, records, cassettes, CDs, video tapes, DVDs and films. Change is hard and the established power of the entertainment industry wants to protect territory that no longer exists. Entertainment executives are like kings in a castle building motes to protect rejected authority.

It’s hard to let go of systems that worked well and made money. Trust me! I know how hard that is! Ultimately businesses created to produce, sell and distribute analog media products will have invent new business models or go out of business. So far the entertainment industry has been willing to spend massive amounts of money to try to stop technology. With PIPA and SOPA, they got close.

The entertainment business is holding on too tight and focused too much on the good ‘ol days. The sooner they embrace and work with the evolution of technology and the inevitability of change the sooner they’ll enjoy opportunity provided by innovation. Tech doesn’t want to compete with entertainment. Tech wants to invent new possibilities. The dispute over SOPA and PIPA shows tech culture has matured enough to have political muscle, but tech culture doesn’t want to have to deal with that nonsense. It’s an inefficient distraction from the work that matters.

Technology will ultimately win because technology constantly evolves to break through barriers and limitations. The culture that creates tech routes around anything or anyone who says no, don’t, stop, or can’t. Resistance is futile.

But THIS! This idea from a design firm called Les Forges MDK is the only external case for the iPhone 4 or 4S that can be justified.

Here it is …

From: MastersInIt.org

The old idea that the camera adds 10 pounds doesn’t apply to HD, but the camera sure seems to subtract energy. Of course it depends on the type of show you’re trying to do. One of my favorite Web TV shows is Kevin Rose’s Foundation. It’s very laid back and it works extremely well. It isn’t created to appeal to a Youtube audience, although that’s a great place to watch it.

If you’re just getting started, Youtubers are an important target market and people who do well bring a nuclear level of energy to their work. I’m just getting started in front of the camera and I don’t want to induce coma.

Yesterday, I shot a show and then promptly deleted it. Even though I thought I was bringing the energy. I wasn’t. Karina Stenquist is one of my favorite presenters (and one of my favorite sources for information about the Occupy movement). She told me to, “Drink 8 cups of coffee and pretend that everyone who will watch you is slightly deaf and will have to rely on your intonation to figure out what you’re saying.”

A great example of someone bringing the energy and doing well on YouTube right now is meekakitty. I’m not going to bring THIS much energy, but I’m shooting again to land somewhere between meekakitty energy and a tranquilizer.

I worked on things to fit what she said where her dreams. Modeling didn’t work because that business is just weird. She groked it and that business doesn’t like girl who grok it. We then started writing a book. Harry Potter was taking off and we started writing a book set in New Orleans with a flood threat that skidded to a halt with Katrina. My next thing was podcasting inspired by Dawn and Drew. The Crappy Christian Show quickly evolved from Luria and me getting drunk and talking into a mic into a ministry type thing to share the idea that God may love gay people just as they are, without any expectation they change. I didn’t want to be in ministry and Luria certainly didn’t.

Steve Jobs announced the first iPod that played video and I worked to make that iPod play GeekBrief.TV. That worked well. We started making money. Mevio was a great partner. Luria wanted more, and people in her life convinced her she was the character I wrote every day. Her belief that she was Cali Lewis grew into an argument that led her to leave our marriage.

I still want to be writing tech news as Cali Lewis and producing GeekBrief.TV. I don’t get that as an option, and I’ve come close to launching alternative visions. I almost released a gadget show yesterday.

Here’s the deal though … I don’t want to work on a next thing that is anything but temporary. My heart can’t currently believe in long term. I want to work, but I’m not ready to say, “This is the thing that replaces Cali Lewis and GeekBrief.TV for me.” Even my dreams for Bacon.TV in partnership with Wright Brand Bacon isn’t that powerful!

The Mayans predicted the world ends at the end of 2012. Obviously, that’s silly just like when that preacher dude did it twice in 2011. But you know what? So what! What will happen if I live this year like it’s not only my last year, but yours? That’s what I’m going to do.

Tomorrow I launch a temporary thing I can believe in and I think it will inspire you to do something better than you planned to do in 2012. It isn’t serious because I’m not ready to be serious. It’s just about fun.

I’ve lost my life goal of being married to a beautiful, smart, and kind girl. I’m not making that kind of goal again. To make it through. I want to live as though it’s not only my last year but yours too.

I stopped registering domain names with GoDaddy.com long ago.

GoDaddy was a huge part of GeekBrief.TV’s revenue. It wasn’t sponsorship. It was commission. We made money when people registered a domain name using promo code GB1, GB2, or GB3. Enough GeekBrief.TV viewers were using that code that we were making $10,000 a month in commissions. GoDaddy wanted to change our promo codes because so many people were using them. That pissed us off and we told Bob Parsons, “thanks, but no thanks.” We worked hard to brand those codes and we were not willing to give up the power of our back catalog to loose money. We were only willing to continue to work with GoDaddy.com if they were willing to continue to work with GeekBrief.TV

We stopped promoting them, and I started a search for a new domain name registrar. The one I picked and the one I recommend is Name.com

I won’t support GoDaddy.com because I believe Bob Parsons is a bad man for a simple reason. Supporting SOPA matters to me a whole lot less than the fact he shot an elephant. Any person who shoots an elephant is a murderer. It’s not the same as shooting a deer or a pig. If you think I’m wrong, do some research. Elephants mourn their dead in a way other animals don’t. Anyone who would shoot an elephant isn’t worthy of my business.

I’m not a PETA person, either. I love hunters. I’ve got elk and deer meat in my freezer now. Shooting deer or elk for food is not anything like shooting an elephant to prove to yourself that you have a penis.

There are lots of alternatives to GoDaddy.com. I’ve chosen Name.com and I’ve loved the experience working with them. I sincerely apologize to those of you who registered domain names with GoDaddy.com because of GeekBrief.TV. We misjudged them and I’m sorry.

No single person, living or dead has had a more important impact on my life than Steve Jobs. I’m just learning animation. This is my second one. I wanted to do something in memory of Steve Jobs. Some people like to listen to Linus quote Luke 2 on Christmas. I want to hear Steve Jobs toast The Crazy Ones who change things.

I uploaded in 1080p so watch full-screen.

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