Margie and Edna, the fictional wacky senior citizens of Jericho, Kansas tagged me to write 7 Useless Facts about myself.  Normally, another of my golden rules is never to mix worlds. My Internet world, business world, family world, and social world all stay separate, unless there is an important reason to mix them. For example, my boss invites my family to a picnic, or a personal friend needs their blog set up. Many people learn this rule the hard way.

• Strange fact #1. I’ve received death threats over Entrecard. Some pussy in Singapore was afraid I’d expose his fake identity, that of a successful business women. He was so scared he sent me spam death threats using a Tor client trying to hide his IP. Silly guy. A simple Entrecard message sent saying “Hey, don’t blow my cover if you please” would have been enough.  Instead, he made a real enemy. 
• Strange Fact #2.  I have many great readers.  In fact, you guys are fantastic.  Not one reader has ever requested a personal detail about my life.  I’ve never had to explain why I don’t post personal info before.  Besides, the John Chow “what I had for lunch” thing is old.  You don’t need to know about my last bowel movement.  This Twitter like behavior is for self absorbed a-holes.  However, 3 Ass-monkeys, including the manboy in #1 above have expressed anger about not being able to attack me personally.  Quite funny how some d**chebag is angry at my opinion, then thinks I’m going to provide a roadmap to my house, my phone number, and business address, all so they can spam me in some fashion.  Like that really helps their argument.  “Hey Stupid Turnip!  I may be a marketing fraud, but your company lost 2.5 million last fiscal year”.  Yeah, that’s just the kind of comment I look forward to deleting.
• Strange Fact #3.  Ok, lets make this post at least interesting in some fashion.  In college I made the police report twice, but never mentioned by name.  Once I stole all the furniture of a Sorority House as a drunken prank.  Not easy to carry all that stuff down the street.  The cowardly Frat house where I hid the furniture smashed it all a week later after threatening to beat me up.  Despite the fact I was a member there, and their house was made up entirely of stolen furniture.  The 2nd time I made the paper was when I found the stolen head of the Rutgers University Mascot.  I called the athletic director who tapped my phone call.  He went and got the Head back, then called me later and thanked me.  The newspaper credited “the work of the university police department”.
• Strange Fact #4.  I spent 7 years living in South Korea.  There I taught English at every level, including university students and business men.  I also owned a bar there, met my wife there, hung out with mobsters, and travelled to many other Asian countries.
• Strange Fact #5.  I taught English at a corrupt inner-city high school in New Jersey.  My students would come to class with knife fight wounds and excuses like “I can’t come to school because I stole a car and have to go to court”.  I doubted it until I found a copy of the court order in a book they left behind.  They said they ran out of textbooks when the truth was the guy who hands them out didn’t get his usual $90 bonus pay.  My supervisor refused to talk to me for months at a time.  I watched them frame people who wouldn’t sign made up evaluations.  People openly bragged about who they knew in the mayor’s office or on the School board.  The Union Rep was getting paid for after school programs that didn’t even exist.  The money sure didn’t get to the kids.
• Strange Fact #6. Most of my adult life I dreamed of owning my own bar.  I loved drinking, bartending, and partying.  The perfect life, right?  Wrong!  Right after opening the bar I realized I hated drunks.  Drinking without any responsibility was fun.  Having drunks trash your place wasn’t.  I locked the door of my bar after a few months and made it a private hangout for a few friends to play pool and watch the large screen TV.  7 years later I’ve had exactly 2 drinks of alcohol and haven’t been to a bar since closing mine.
• Strange Fact #7. I took up blogging because I had too much time on my hands.  I had just quit Vangard (WoW clone) after my guildleader cheated me.  Years ago I had 2 blogs in Korea, but gave them up. I had heard about WordPress and just felt like making a blog.  I researched the topic and made Turnipofpower.com.  Then I got bored again and made sales.turnipofpower.com the next month.  Finally I made tech.turnipofpower.com 3 months later.  After making the tech blog, I was Googling ways of promoting it, when I discovered Entrecard.   So 1/1/08 was really about the time I started writing posts at Turnipofpower.com.  Before that the posts had little to do with anything, just testing WordPress or trying various marketing techniques.  So for all my detractors, Entrecard is the ONLY reason I currently blog, not the reverse.  My blog isn’t my primary or secondary source of income, it’s just a hobby.  Making money with it is like earning gold in a game.  I enjoy writing articles for the people that stop by.  After all, I was an English Major, English Teacher, and published book reviewer long before my first online post.  Almost daily I make new sites now, try new advertising methods and test other related Internet things like PPP, AdSense, AdWords,  Direct To Merchant Campaigns.  When I have success or failure, I report it here.  

I think this Tag thing is going to die here.  I’m not about to torment 12 people by tagging them.  Normally I ignore posts like this, but wasn’t in the mood to review another advertising company.  On the other hand, If you want to be tagged, I will tag the first 12 people that request it.  But if I don’t like your blog, the link will be NOFOLLOW.  Just telling you that in advance.