What To Do #2
Continuing, with an eye on personal growth, personal cruft, and personal enjoyment:
- Collected Works hasn't been updated in years, and there's a good reason: it just doesn't perk my interest anymore. What's worse, I'm one of the authors whose work has been purportedly collected, and there's easily about five hundred pieces that are missing. Thinking back, I believe the last time I actually read or wrote a piece of fiction was four years ago, so what right do I have to maintain a site of quirky fiction? I'd much rather bury the hatchet and start a new experiment with fresh blood (which I'll describe in a few days). I've set Collected Works to be pruned of any semblance of life (like the "updated" material and the column on the right side), and then closed with a notice stating as such.
- Detergent is the potpourri of my smelly site, and it has worked remarkably well as such. It has no design or webpages to maintain, no regular updates and no commitment to any semblance of quality. It is my dumping ground of pocket lint and related ephemera. Things I've been meaning to do (like add new movies, setup some mirrors of important content, program a QEL reader, reveal some of my random everyday perl code, upload some of my pre-Disobey work, etc.) is all low priority, but wonderfully entertaining. It is, however, not helping me grow as a human being, so it's status remains merely maintain.
- The Horror Section is one of those "make your hobbies your work". I'm a huge collector of everything, and a huge fan of horror. Nearing 650+ movies, I've recently invested in some shelving from a company who normally ships to video rental stores. The problem with the current Horror Section is it's merely downloads - no opinions, no humor, no knowledge, and not much for anyone BUT like-minded collectors. Four years ago, I felt it was the first Disobey.com site that had competitors: there are LOTS of horror fans, and I partially viewed this as an attempt to "beat 'em all" (namely the now-dead Cabinet of Dr. Casey, which sucked so much ass, but received so many accolades). At the time, it did: we had the largest download collection available, all anally cataloged. Still worse, is that I've 2 gigs worth of stuff on my drive, waiting to be indexed.
After talking with my accountant, it seems that if I make an attempt to earn money (via Amazon Associates and similar gimmicks), I can claim new movie purchases as tax deductible. This is rabidly appealing, especially to someone whose collection grows by 30 movies a month. And, to further the original goals of "beat the competitors", my longtime friend and I will be re-releasing The Horror Section soon, but with added and regular reviews. Ah yes, the stereotypical movie review section. What better way to do more of the same, only with a disobedient flavor? Long-term goals have been discussed, and if becomes anything like Gamegrene, within the year, we'll be receiving free merchandise on a regular basis. Alluding to the allure, indeed. Priority high, growth.
Tomorrow: Low Bandwidth, Gamegrene.com, and AmphetaDesk.
