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Contest Factory: Pimp My Cube Contest

A great new contest is now underway. It started on December 5th and will not end until the last day of January 2012 (Jan 31st @ Noon Time). So you still have time to enter, if you think you have a really bad office space at work. No joke! You could actually win a super office space or a whole new cubicle or cubby hole space, if you can convince others of just how bad you have it at work.

This is the Pimp My Cube Contest from the guys at the Contest Factory. To enter this awesome new contest, you must first create a video of your situation at work. Get out the camcorder or a video recorder and show us the lousy conditions you have right now. Be sure to speak loud and as clear and plain as possible, when you walk us through your horrible conditions.

You may talk about the old computer, fax machine, phone system, type writer, or any other tech gadgets you have, which are out-of-date. Would a technology upgrade help you? Maybe you work in a distant corner and have no lights over your desk or cubicle space. If it is too dark, perhaps this Pimp My Cube at Work Contest could help to lighten things up a bit? It will be up to you, to convince others online and the contest judges of your poor working conditions. Perhaps your desk is just a mess and nothing is organized properly. To get things clean, organized, and up-to-date, it will just take 1 video and some help from your friends, family, and co-workers and you could be the grand prize winner!

Once your video is uploaded and you have entered your name into the Pimping Cube Contest, you can do a few things extra, to help your chances in winning this great contest. Get all your friends, family, and those folks you work with everyday, to come online and vote for your video. The video with the most online votes, will have a real good chance at winning this contest. The judges from the Contest Factory will also look at your video and see how well you did, in presenting your case to the online viewers. They want the “worse” office space or cubicle to win. It is up to you, to show just how bad things really are for you at work each day. You can demonstrate this, by showing us visually with your video and talking us through each portion of your presentation. Be sure to do a good job with it, but also have some fun with it. Your sad story needs to be funny to others and I think comedy will help to secure some extra online votes; from the strangers who might see your video on the Internet.

Do you think you understand it now? If not, go back and reread this blog post again. Or just go to the Contest Factory’s Contest Page and read the official rules your self. It will take votes and getting the judges to like it (or feel sorry for you), to capture the grand prize. Also, a nice 2nd place prize will be given randomly to a contest entrant. This will be a $200 gift card for one lucky person, who gets their name chosen randomly from a drawing. This 2nd place drawing will take place after the Pimp My Cube Contest has officially ended. So go grab the recorder and start working on your video entry. Get your friends, neighbors, co-workers, online contacts, and anyone else you know, to help your chances with the online votes. Be creative and most of all, be sure to have a lot of fun with it! Good Luck!!!

This post brought to you by Parker Pens. All opinions are 100% mine.

Top of the Line in Ink Pens

How often do we see a nice, stylish pen with all the great modern looks, but the darn thing won’t even write? Or at least write as well as the cheap pens you normally buy. Here is a great looking pen, which will write as smooth and clear as any ink pen you have ever used. Does that sound like a pen for you? I know I have to write with pens a lot. I also have to change around a lot, since most of my pens wear out or just can’t keep up for very long.

The Parker Ingenuity collection of ink pens is what I want Santa to bring me this year. Pens that work and can keep up with my fast hand-writing skills. These classy pens even come with their own technology, if you can believe that. It’s true! They like to refer to this new tech as 5th Technology. Consumers will get Fifth Technology refills and all the benefits; which come from a magical pen like these in the P.I. Collection.

Short Pen Video (please watch)

These beautiful pens with all the great technology have to be the best pens on the planet. Pens that look this great and combine all the best features of the other ink pens out there. You will get the smooth writing results, like you do from the roller ball pens; which I do like very much. Parker also provides beauty of a fountain pen, while making sure it is as easy-to-use, as a standard ball point pen is to use. I want one of these pens, how about you? What if you had the chance to win a modern and classy-looking pen like this? Would you take the time to try and win it? If so, which part of the pen excites you the most? Is it the great looks or the fact it will write with the greatest of ease and keep the ink lines smooth, without any gaps in your letters or numbers.

Parker Ingenuity Pen with a Stylish Pen Case

Please be sure to reply back to me on my blog post here, so I can read your thoughts about using an ink pen. Do you have trouble finding a good ink pen? Did you use to have a pen that would write really well, it got lost, and writing has never been the same since then? These guys also have their name on some social network sites. If you do plan to go out and  find Parker on Facebook , be sure to go ahead and “like” them on their page. This will help your contacts out, if any of them desire a high class pen, that actually does write!

Please don’t forget the holidays! If you have a business-minded man or woman living at your house or perhaps this describes a co-worker of yours; then a Parker Ink Pen would make a great Christmas gift. If I get this as a Christmas gift,, I would be using it. Some folks may want to just keep it on their desk, for the fashionable side of these wonderful looking pens. Happy and safe holidays to all and be sure to have a great New Year as well!

The Atlanta Hawks will be making another trip to the playoffs. They have clinched the 4th spot in the Eastern Conference and it appears they are likely to play the Miami Heat in the first round.

The 4th spot does mean the Hawks will have home court advantage in the playoffs. This has been the goal of the team this year and making it past the 2nd round is unlikely with Mike Woodson’s coaching ability. He seems set on playing Joe Johnson 40 plus minutes a game and this is not right for the team right now.

Congratulations to the Atlanta Hawks organization, their players and coaches, and for all the loyal fans that continue to support basketball in Atlanta.

The game was played between the hedges under a light drizzle for most of the day. It was the battle for pride and bragging rights in the state of Georgia. The Georgia Bulldogs hosted the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and it may have just been the best game in the historic match up. These two teams have been going at each other since 1893 and it’s always a good game with the Bulldogs of Athens get together with the Wramblin Wreck from the ATL.

It started off as a route for the home team and the Bulldgos got off to a fast start in front of their home fans which was easily over 90,000+ cheering fans. The 28 to 12 halftime score favored the Bulldogs and it seem Tech would fall short for a 8th straight year. The triple option started to show why it’s been so effective this year and the Yellow Jackets used it exclusively to get back in the game. It was a run away 2nd half for the guys in white and gold and the Bulldogs defense had no answer for the unique offense in the 2nd half. Georgia Tech couldn’t be stopped and when the dust settled between the hedges, the Yellow Jackets had put 45 points on the scoreboard and the Georgia Bulldogs only managed 42 points in their final efforts.

This may have just been the best game ever between Georgia and Georgia Tech. I’m sure the state of Georgia will be buzzing about this one for a long time. So it’s the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets that will have bragging rights for the next 365 days and I can’t wait for these two teams to play each other once again. Mark Richt suffered his first loss to the Yellow Jackets since he has been head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs. On the other side of the field, Paul Johnson now has the streak and he has never lost to the Georgia Bulldogs in his first year as head coach of the Jackets. So be sure to mark this one down on the schedule next year and the rivalry in Georgia is alive and doing well!

The former USC star and NFL running back star is finally going to find his self behind bars. It might be 13 years too late, but OJ Simpson is finally going to be in police custody. OJ was the culprit in a double homicide that took place more than a decade ago; which he walked away from. The good folks in Nevada didn’t let him walk this time and OJ was found guilty on all 12 charges brought against him. He was the part of a armed robbery and kidnapping and the sentence could be a life term in prision. I think the Goldman family has to be very happy tonight knowing that justice finally got served in a round about way. It might not be the kind of justice they had hoped for, but they finally get to see OJ Simpson going to jail and he will be there for a very long time.

The exact sentence won’t be known until December 5th, but even if they give him a 20 year sentence and he only does 12 years for good behavior; he would be 73 years old when he got out. I think 12 years behind bars would be the least amount of time he would do and he really should be given a lot more than that. OJ Simpson won’t be a free man on our streets no more and I think a lot of Americans are happy about that tonight. OJ was the guilty party 13 years ago and his brutal slaying of two people deserved to be punished then and he got very lucky in a California courtroom. So any punishment he gets now will be well-deserved and there will be no such thing as “too harsh” of a punishment.

Our laws really need to change and the double jeopardy thing makes no sense, if someone really is guilty. OJ Simpson should have never walked our streets again after the horrible acts he did so long ago. He pushed his luck and found his self in a armed robbery in a Las Vegas hotel and there is no excuse for these wild and foolish acts. My prayers continue to be with the families that lost loved ones from the hands of OJ Simpson and I’m glad the jury in Las Vegas delievered action on the man that is no better than Hitler.

I know I have been watching a lot of the Olympics and it’s fun to see all the different countries competing in China. I think the event I like best is the men’s basketball. I really like the USA team or Redeem Team as they are being called this year. Seeing all the guys like Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Dwight Howard, Dwayne Wade and Carmelo Anthony on the same floor is exciting. I’m not sure why the Utah Jazz players are there and it seems like Carlos Boozer and Deron Williams is wasted space. Their play on the court proves that too and Williams and Boozer are clearly out-matched with the talent level on their team. Kick the Jazz players off and replace Carlos Boozer with a real athlete like Josh Smith of the Atlanta Hawks and then you have a nice front line. You could go get a Ray Allen, Tracy McGrady or Allen Iverson to replace Deron Williams who has struggled the most on the Redeem Team in the 2008 Olympics. The USA men’s team has a lot of weapons and I hope they can win the gold this year in China.

I also like the women’s team and its fun to know that no team has ever beaten them. Good job girls and I am rooting for you too and I hope you bring back a gold medal to the United States too. I think swimming has been popular this year and no wonder with Michael Phelps winning all the gold medals. Michael Phelps has won more overall gold medals than any other athlete ever and in 2008 he won more gold medals than any other person has in the same Olympic year. The USA women get to play Brazil on Thursday for the Gold Medal in soccer, but I really doubt they can beat Marta and that Brazilian team she is on. Marta is the best female soccer player in the world and I think Brazil is in the driver’s seat to win the gold medal in soccer. Let’s just hope the USA can pull a upset and keep Marta covered for 90 minutes. I wish we could use our MLB baseball players to play for our Olympic team, but the guys out there now are doing a great job. So those are a few things that come to my mind when I think about the 2008 Olympics that is currently underway in Beijing, China. What are some of your favorite events or athletes in this year’s Olympics?