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Yes, indeed. I didn't know about all the brain stuff before though. It's amazing sometimes how all things are connected.

@katiem2 you are welcome, take care cleaning your cieling fans.

I write on both sites, and find each has different advantages and is suited to different kinds of content. It's also really important to diversify so that you're not solely dependent on the income from one site.

There's one huge difference between Wizzley and Squidoo which you haven't mentioned.

Wizzley substitutes its own affiliate ID for yours 40-50% of the time, so you get none -- zero -- of the commissions from those sales. (By contrast, you'd get half of those commissions on Squidoo.)

However, on Squidoo, you can embed your own affiliate links with your own affiliate ID, and get 100% of those sales, 100% of the commissions. Squidoo won't take a cut if you use your own ID.

So, based strictly on how the sites are set up, you can potentially get a bigger chunk of income from sales on Squidoo.

However, Wizzley's advertising pays directly, rather than through a tiered payout system. So if your pages don't attract enough clickouts and other factors to get a high-ranking Ad Pool payout on Squidoo, then they may earn more through advertising on Wizzley.

Just finished filling out my absentee ballot yesterday because I'll be out of the country so I'm going to miss election night. You have some fun food ideas here!

Good to know, I was just considering a ladder that will reach my ceiling fans in two rooms both with vaulted ceilings. These fans are way up there but need a good dusting all the same. Thanks for the tips. :)K

Sandy, I understand how that feels. Both stay home or working parents are good for a growing child. Rest assured you did what was right for your family. :)

Pam, Yes I am very serious and so are the men who enjoy wearing women's shoes. Thanks for stopping by to read. :)

Thank you very much!

I'm right with you on that one, hence my love of Shirley Jackson's stuff. She's just so subtle about it. I don't think I've read 'Lisey's Story'! I'll put it on my reading list.

Stuff like killer thrillers, in literature form, just bore me. When they're in movie form, they make me jump, but there's nothing clever about it. It mixes being startled up with being scared, which means that there's no real fear there.

The best horror stories ever still have you staring wide eyed at the wall, whenever you remember certain scenes, several years after you've read it. They take you in so well that a part of you stays there.

Great article!
I've always found horror is at it's best when it's believable. Most good horrors will start out normal, and gradually get scarier, really dragging you in and making it credible.
For example, the most chilling book I ever read was Stephen King's "Lisey's story", not necessarily because of all the horror stuff, but because the main character was facing life after her husband''s death. That was scary.

Liam - Consider yourself a star. :)

That's why I love putting things like this together as a timeline. It's the historian in me, wanting to see how it all fits into one bigger story. Nothing happens in a vacuum after all. (You're going to tell me now that, as a Physicist, you can assure me that protons and zappy things happen in vacuums.)

Again the 'bandit' aspect of DayZ allows our primal, 'uncivilized' nature its full expression. We can't kill for convenience in reality (unless we're serial killers), but we can when zombies take over the world.

Bromista - You articulated that so well! I hadn't taken into account how ubiquitous the zombie and the zombie threat are. I'd got that they're relentless (and don't have to sleep), but not that there's literally nowhere really to hide.

I didn't know that in some military programs, the targets are dressed as zombies. That's disturbing on so many different levels. Are you talking real world programs? Not just sims like DayZ?

I'm certain that you're right on the deep-rooted instinct born from the need to dispose of our dead.

Thank you for your comment and insights!

Are you serious?
I sometimes buy men's clothing because it's comfy and cheaper than women's stuff. Flannel shirts and pjs mostly - but I can not picture any guy wearing the shoes you have on this page... really???

Am I the friend who quips 'I hate people'? :P

But I really enjoyed this article. While nothing I hadn't considered before seeing it place d in one connected narrative links it altogether quite nicely.

Also, an interesting side effect of DayZ is the rise of 'bandits'. Players who survive the punishing zombie apocalypse by killing other players for their equipment, and weapons.

Really good points, Greekgeek. I also like the descriptions of how people use their smartphones and iPads. These little devices sure have changed the way we do things, and I agree with Brenda and Sheri, we online writers have to change the way we do things continuously if we want to keep up.

I have not seen the outdoor one before. These are interesting looking trees.