School is out for the summer

I was able to return all my papers in time. Unfortunately the last paper that I returned was not readable fully for the teacher. He did report it to me, but unfortunately I did not hear about it in time. I have submitted the paper again in pdf format, but the teacher has gone for holiday already. I just hope that it will not affect my grade, as I am not expecting to get a good grade anyway from that course. The paper has been delivered and I do not need to do anything during the summer. 

I got quite good grades from my other courses, so I am not that worried. The only course that I do not have a grade now is the RS, which is to me more important than the other courses. I had big trouble with it, because I had no idea what to write my thesis about. That was the subject of the RS this spring. We were expected to do plan for our thesis, which is really difficult when you have no idea what to write. I have chosen a topic, but I am not sure if I will be able to write it. Really annoying!

Now I have a bit more time during the day, than just an hour, to enjoy Canada. One more week here in St. Catharines as a cat sitter and then I go back to Toronto. I'll be home less than a week and then I will travel to Florida to meet some old friends! Yay! I can't wait it. I have been planning this trip for so long, that it feels unbelievable that it is actually happening. I should start planning the trip to Finland as well, but I have been way too busy to think about it. 

Some good news. I boss informed me that my job should be safe, although he has plans to move to Thailand.

Crowdsourcing and a tweet

Shemar Moore (@shemarmoore) tweeted at 1:35 PM on Sun, Jun 02, 2013: Thanks again for all the Support with #TheBounceBack http://t.co/lXAiKq2Os2 (https://twitter.com/shemarmoore/status/341246630860832768) Get the official Twitter app at https://twitter.com/download

Crowdsourcing part II

In the last post I spoke about this topic quite generally and gave two examples. Of which one was The Bounce Back movie. "The Bounce Back is a romantic movie in the making. This is a Shemar Moore's baby project that he is doing because of his fans. I do not know of a better reason to do something (if you have fans I mean). This is why I am giving a link to this Project (link is the previous word)!"

What I have gathered after following this project for a while is; Shemar Moore does have some devoted fans who are willing to back his project, he has started the fundraising with too high amount and people are so needy in Twitter. 

Considering how many followers Mr. Moore has, you would think that there would be more backers in his project. Although the backers he has, have pledged quite a lot (an average $200 or so). There was in the news about fake twitter followers. Now I am not saying that Mr. Moore would have bought fake followers, but I think that there are plenty of bots following him none the less. I have only few followers, and of those I think half are fake. 

He is trying to collect $1,5 million in just 30 days. This means that he should bank $50,000 a day. If you have checked out the project, you can see that he is a bit behind from this goal. I think he should have started with $500,000 and then continued with the fundraising with small target amounts when needed. This is a Hollywood for you, you will need to have the money before you can continue with a project. I am not saying that Mr. Moore will not succeed with this task, it will just mean that he will need to wake up the 200,000 followers that he has to get at least $5 from them. 

Needy people in Twitter... Surprise? Not really. One way that Mr. Moore has started to wake his followers is by promising to follow them on Twitter if 10 or more (dollars) is pledge. I admit I did it. I raised my pledge with $10. Did he follow me? Well not yet and I am not going to hassle him about it. Depending on my monetary situation in the end of the fundraising, I might even pledge more. So I had already thought of it, thus  whether he follows me or not, will not have an affect on my decision. However, some people in Twitter are sending "notice me" tweets all the time. Or "He won't notice me/why won't he notice me/He notices everyone else". Scary... 

One other thing that I have found out since the last post. There has been a movie released this year that is called The Bounceback and it also talks about breakups. The plot is nothing similar, and the title is written a little bit differently. I do not know if this is a known thing to Mr. Moore or not, or if it really even matters. 

Crowdsourcing

The Iron Sky did it first, and now there are others following. Well Iron Sky Prequel is one... The other is Shemar Moore's Bounce Back movie. I am not a fan of romantic (comedy) movies, because after long period of empirical research I have come to conclusion that I just don't understand them. This does not stop me from watching them in hopes that one day I happen to get them. I say what you have in romance movie you will also get in Scifi movie. 

That's not the point of this post. I am going to show some light on the two previously mentioned movies and how YOU can help them in becoming a real movie. There are few sites that are used in crowd sourcing. I know of Indiegogo and Kickstarter. I know that Indiegogo offers different types of funding; fixed and flexible. Fixed means that the money is paid forward only if the full amount is reached. Flexible means that all money collected even though the target is not reached is paid forward. In Kickstarter I think there is only fixed funding available. 

Both sites hold the idea that the general public will fund the projects and the project managers will provide supporters different "reward" depending on how much money you pledge to the project. These "rewards" can be anything from a public thank you to a role in a movie. Basically more you pay, the bigger the reward will be. 

Bounce Back is a romantic movie (hence the little rant in the beginning) in the making. This is a Shemar Moore's baby project that he is doing because of his fans. I do not know of a better reason to do something (if you have fans I mean). This is why I am giving a link to this Project (link is the previous word)!

Then I promised to tell you about the Iron Sky Prequel. Iron Sky The Coming Race actually might not be a prequel it might be sequel, who knows what it will be. Well I know it will be epic! I will see this movie when it comes out that is for sure. This time the makers have decided that they will not let anyone else say when and where to release the film, thus funding the whole movie from their own pockets and from crowdsourcing. To learn more about this adventure check out this amazing (link is the previous word) link!

Same old stuff

I can't believe it, but I have worked for the one and same company for the past 6 years come June 1st. Countless times I have thought of quitting my job, because this work is not good for my health or sanity. I haven't done so, because the job situation around the world is not that good. Oh boy, do I feel tired. I can't wait for the summer vacation to come. 

One reason is that there is no communication between me and my boss. I ask and tell him about the problems. Then I wait and wait and wait. Sometimes for easy problems I get a solution. So I have to deal with customers who sometimes have no patient at all. So yay! It is for sure that I do not want to work for a small company anymore. I want to work in a place where everything does not fall on me. 

I know that sometimes my boss has the same issues as I do. At the moment he is going through some difficult stuff and I don't think his mind is on work. 

I would love to have some work motivation right about now.