Half Past Nomad: the beta life

a guilty mind

I know.
I am of a guilty soul.
Traitor to fellow typepadders.
Traitor to my own mind.
Just a traitor. A simple one, not a complex back stabbing double crossing mega cheating one. No no, I barely have time to blog here let alone be that complicated a traitor.

I have tons of lovely ideas. For those who frequent here and find nought, cry not tears priceless over me.
I blog here too.

How's this for a bite though. This entire week, I'm either in classes, or I'm at a Lego Robotics camp as a tech advisor, though I know jack. I'm more of a handy man. I would be anything to be at this camp, for free, for gifted highschool students who we mentor.
And I found out today that we have too many students, not enough full time mentors and that next week, I am to be elevated to a mentor status too.

Amen to a God Merciful and Most Generous.

Blogathon03

I'm just now reading about Blogathon2003. The event itself sounds amazing. To blog every 30 minutes for 24 hours, and based on how long you last, your supporters will donate that much to a specified charity. It's much like running a marathon, and for each mile -

*interruption*

"Hey O, check this out", I show O.O. the blogathon info. "What do you think?"

"Do it! That's so you, haha, 24 hours huh, oh yeah, do it man. Wait, when is it?" he chuckles back, naturally obviously amused at the idea.

*and then back*

Sat July 26th : 6AM Pacific Time : 24 hours : 30 minutes.

The thing is, I know I can do it. Though i'm concerned about what to write about, I'm sure it'll come to me, I have time to prepare and as of right now, I already have a few draft entries and I can write more ideas meanwhilst. I know I can do this, I can get movies, books, friends to keep me up.

What perhaps is the primary concern is who will be willing to support me, and donate some meager amount (yet in the sight of Allah, even a date given in charity...). So here's a simple test. I'm going to try and make a list of people who would be interested in sponsoring me for this event. If a sufficient number of people help out then I would go through with it.

Now, why would you want to participate in such an event and sponsor me in the first place?
1) You're donating to charity, to help make someone elses's life better. None of your money comes to me. It'll be a charity of my choice but you are more then welcome to recommend some.
2) It's morally uplifting. To me, to you, to the others who read of such an event. Be a catalyst, be someone elses' inspiration.
3) Depending on how much you donate, you get special mention on my blog and other possible "prizes":
3a) An entry dedicated to answering a question of your choice.
3b) Help on your website design
3c) A phone call conversation (though I doubt people will actually avail this)
3d) Suggest your own prize for a price =)

I realize that I'm going into this a little unprepared and unplanned. There are a lot of ways I can go about improving this right now. But I'm still not pledged and I would like to atleast get a few sponsors before I dig my feet in.

So, here's the deal so far: Comment/eMail a charity, comment/eMail if you would like to sponsor.

Honestly people. I would really appreciate it. We could give to some amazing charities, and help out people who are worse off then us, both here and abroad. Tell your friends, ask them, and finally, request of them.

Great. I love it when I make a plan on 4 hours of sleep after being up for over 14 hours to yet stay up for an additional twentyFour hours on a saturday mornin'.

NOTE: if you wish to remain anonymous, you can email me and we can talk this out more easily.