So after six seasons, LOST finally concluded last night. I started watching the show three weeks before this season, I got through all of the prior five seasons in that time. Once I started watching, it seemed to get more and more confusing but I just wanted to see how the show was going to end. I wanted all the questions that had been building up to be answered. What was I left with? …Nothing.

When I first started watching, I thought it was going to be just a shipwrecked trapped on a deserted island show…cool idea. Then they bring in polar bears, Dharma, time travel, and all sorts of crazy sci-fi elements…I was loving that. In the end, they explain none of it. At the start of Season 6 they create this “side flash” storyline. The whole season everybody is wondering what that even means, but I think all of our heads were still more curious about the island. What was the black smoke? What’s really special about the island? We’re told this last season would “reveal all”, but it seemed to just keep stringing along this side flash plot-line. This all builds up to the final episode where all they do is close out the weird side flash storyline they created. How do they close it out? Oh, they’re just all dead no big deal. WHAT??!?!?!

I’m sitting there wondering :

• What is the purpose of that black smoke?
• How did EVERYONE else die? It’s not just Jack in that church, it’s everyone who appeared to escape on the plane too.
• How did man in black turn into the smoke monster instantly after being thrown into that well, and why?
• What were all the weird symbols and markings?
• Island moving? Time travel? Yeah none of that explained.
• Dharma Initiative? They started going into that hardcore I think the second season, and then just dropped it.
• How is Richard immortal, and then why is he mortal in the end?
• WTF is the light in the center of the island?

These are just questions that are coming off the top of my head. I thought it was awful to just end the finale with a 2 and a half hour reunion only to find out that they’re all united in death. Seriously…they’re all dead?

I feel like I wasted so much time on this show, anybody saying it was a great finale has become just to emotionally attached to all the characters that anything would seem good. Even them all…being…dead.

Except for Ben, but they don’t explain that either. He’s just chilling outside the church that’s in…purgatory? Earth? Where the hell are they that once they walk into a church they get to walk into heaven or wherever that white light leads?

Seriously people…you cannot be happy about this ending. If you are, you’ve been duped hard.

Pretty neat. Centurion card members can maybe post what holiday type gift they received from Amex (if any).

As far as the card goes itself, yeah it’s the poor man’s Centurion. Membership fees are $500/year (same as Amex Platinum), and the worst part is…the card is plastic. Point/cash-back wise, it’s no different than any other card really. Benefit wise, so far it doesn’t seem to really compare to the Amex.

A lot of times when I’m out at stores and use it, the cashier asks “Is this a real black card?” Unfortunately I always respond “Nope, this is the Visa version.”

All in all Visa thanks for the gift and all, but I will probably be canceling the card before the next membership charge.

This is what affiliate marketers do for a living I guess.

Oh and I’m actually writing a legit post, probably be done with it today or tomorrow.

As a preface, just go sign up for Twitter and follow me. You may think Twitter is stupid and you want no part of it, but I’ll be sharing tips there so you might as well at least join to follow me and some of the other guys that post useful information.

So. I started uberaffiliate a while back when I actually started seeing success with affiliate marketing. I wanted to share my success and experiences so others could learn from it, while also building a name for myself. Both of those things worked out great I think. Good name, bad name, sellout, good advice, fake advice, whatever anybody wants to call it…this blog has been great for me and for most people.

Over time though, you do start seeing the people claiming “bad advice, sellout, etc.” more…it’s natural. And this post isn’t to bitch and moan, it’s to explain. After a certain point in time, blogging just got repetitive. And that was natural, a person can only write about so much before they start to go over what they’ve already talked about. So instead of my long articles on how I have a good Adwords quality score every other day, every other post turned into something not so significant (knowledge wise). People start moaning about that, blogging loses it’s lacquer, posts become infrequent as well as partially useless (aside from a few good posts I’ve had lately).

I wind up talking to Dr. Ngo at 1am a couple weeks ago just talking about whatever, and one of us brought up how I haven’t really been blogging at all anymore. That’s when he said “You should just start Twittering instead of blogging”. I started thinking about that, and it seemed like a good solution. Nothing good was coming from my blog frequently anyway, and Twitter was really easy to use. It kind of provides a more “real” feel too, as I could talk about my campaigns and projects as they’re actually happening. That’s when I thanked Ngo for the idea, and the next day is when I put that page up in place of uberaffiliate.com.

Fast forward to now. Taking uberaffiliate down in general was stupid, I’d have to move the archives and lose my SEO and whatnot…newb idea my bad. I’m tweeting a lot now and I’ll admit, I do like it a lot. It’s a lot more social than the blog which I like, and if you really dig into it you can get some decent tips from people.

About blogging? DoshDosh has the idea. One kickass post every month or so. No pressure to blog every day, no pressure to always find something new to write about, just one major topic every month to really cover. I already have an idea about my first post I’d do like that, so maybe we’ll see something like that soon.

As a wrap up, I’ll be tweeting every day still and I’ll be there more than here, but I will still be blogging every now and then., just understand the posts will be spread out a pretty decent amount. Going to save all the off-topic talk for Twitter.

That is all.

I can now attend Affiliate Summit and after parties with a clean conscience, woo.