I looked at my Homer Simpson Chia Pet Time Lapse tonight and noticed that was ‘allegedly’* the 999th viewer.

A few months back I got a Homer Simpson Chia Pet.  Having prior Chia Pet experience on my resume, I already knew that they leak like a siv and i figured painting it would keep the water in.  I picked out a nice enamel paint, which was Homer Simpson yellow.  The water leaked through the terracotta pot and separated the paint from the pot, which formed as bubbles in the paint.  A few modifications later and I got the pot to hold water without leaking at all, and the paint didn’t bubble anymore.  Having gone this far, I wanted to make the Chia Pet completely self sustaining.  I didn’t want to be watering it at all, I just wanted it to grow.

I figured if I was going to go so far as to get a fish tank pump involved, I needed something more than the satisfaction of watching it grow once.  Thats where the photographs come in.  I started looking in to time lapse photography a little bit, and I found a few solutions, but nothing that would record for anything more than a few hours at a time.  This thing is gonna take 6 weeks to grow.  Resetting the camera every three hours doesn’t sound appealing when I already have a fish tank pump keeping Homers head full of water 24 hours a day.

More on that later.  Don’t let the suspense keep you awake at night.

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A message from ThisMyShiznat.com

Thanks guys for clicking my links.  Yesterday alone I made 4 dollars.  I just looked at my stats for the past 30 days, and I am actually quite assured of my success when I saw my hits for the past month were 1337.  Some of you know what that means, others don’t.  Funny story, when I moved to NYC my first paycheck was for $1337.73.  I still have the pay stub.  Maybe I should scan that and put it up too…

And just in case you don’t believe me.

Now I know 1337 isn’t a lot of hits for 30 days, but seeing as ThisMyShiznat.com has only been online for about 6 weeks, I am satisfied to have 40 hits per day.  Please keep coming back, and please tell your friends.  If you see an article that you deem worthy of sharing, get the word out.  Send it through email, instant message, twitter, facebook, carrier pigeon, or smoke signal.

I will be making a new post later on today.  Keep coming back and keep clicking on my links.  I really don’t want to hunt anyone down in the streets.  I’m not a violent person.  Please don’t make me hurt you.

-Das

This My Update

A message from ThisMyShiznat.com

Thanks to all my visitors, and my repeat visitors. There’s really something to be said about the loyalty of those who read my insanity and come back for more. Most importantly, thanks to all the people who have clicked on my advertisers. With the combined efforts of all 7 of you, I have officially earned enough money to purchase a Big Mac. Just the sandwich though, not the value meal. I don’t eat the french fries anyways.

That said, please click on my links or I will hunt you down in the streets like a dog.  I’m just sayin’.

I have been working on getting better advertisers over the last week.  I will be making some changes to the page layout, and the overall look and feel of the site.  Also, I will be integrating my advertising a little bit better than it is now.  You probable wont see any changes for a few weeks though.

For those of you who are scared of change, fear not.  I have absolutely no plans to change or otherwise defile the ‘integrety’ of my reporting.  (heh.  integrety)

Just in case you didn’t get the memo, please click on my advertisers.  Someone’s gotta pay my rent and I figure, why should it be me?

Thanks

-Das