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9月29日

100 Greatest Hits From YouTube in Four Minutes

 

For the meme loving but attention deficient netizens across the globe, Dvorak Uncensored had this recent post to a YouTube video that I thought I would share.

Enjoy!

Seen In A Bathroom Stall


In case you can’t make it out, it states : “Toilet Paper Guy Says! Please Put Me In Toilet.”  I really don’t want to imagine the problem that prompted this.


9月28日

Over The Weekend


Weekend was long and short at the same time.  Essentially there was a lot and very little was accomplished.  Friday night we picked up paint to redo one of our rooms.   Xie assumed this was going to be a quick adventure that would be over in a couple hours.   It lasted over 12 hours  all things considered.  There are still some spots that need some touch-up work, and I need to sand down and stain the trim.   So there is more touch ups to do, but two coats of paint are up on the walls.

Other highlights of the weekend:

  • Better child proofed the TV room, now there is only one single exposed wire Lex can grab at, and it’s a network cable.  Without drilling into something there is no further way to get rid of this last wire.
  • Had a McDonald’s Breakfast
  • Had a Denny’s dinner, we only ate their because we had a coupon for a free entree.  The food and cost still isn’t worth it.
  • Had KFC – yes we ate a lot, this happens when half the house is torn up, and no time to cook.  Though I did make sloppy joes last night.
  • Cleaned up paint chips.
  • While trying to get through a mess of stuff to answer the door yesterday morning (house still was a mess from painting) I sliced my toe open.   I’m standing on the porch talking to a guy and holding Lex and I look down.   I’m standing in a pool about 6-8 inches wide that had come from my toe.    I gingerly get back into the house to minimize blood on the carpet I wrap up my toe.   I managed to go from a pool of blood outside to three drops on carpet.   Not too shabby.   Toe is still bandaged up.
A weekend full of a whole lot of nothing that was taken up by painting.

9月25日

Like The Monster Cereal's Like Boo Berry? There Is A Blog For That


Getting this story from Boing Boing, I found this site that show cases the monster cereals from General Mills.  It chronicles their earliest days, to spoofs,  and commercials.   So if  this is the type of thing that you find interesting visit it now at http://monsterscereal.blogspot.com.

Pee Wee Herman on Leno

 

Blog Has New Look


I’ve spent the last few days picking and plodding over the blog.   I actually made a few posts also.   Heck I’ve posted on my sons blog more then I have my own the last few months.   Part of this is laziness, the other part is wondering what to write.   I have a few segments I need to write out and take to conclusion, maybe that’s part of the nagging.  I do need to get those done in the next 2 weeks.  I have deadlines that some are not even aware of.

I’ve wanted a clean blog template for awhile and the one I’m currently trying on is close, closer (while maintaining a work functionality that doesn’t cause me to redo all my posts) then anything else I’ve dealt with so far.   I have decided a new thing.  I’m not going to worry about the long winded posts, I’m not going to worry about the topic.   I’m going to use my blog to not just do posts, but to showcase videos and pictures.  In a way I already do that, but normally I have more behind something then just posting a unique picture.  Normally I offer commentary, or at least some more of myself to the blogosphere.

I think I take too serious sometimes.  That everything has to actually mean something.  It doesn’t.  Like life and the things around us, things can be fun an empty instead of serious and deep.   Things don’t always have to make you ponder something.   It helps that the spammers writing on topic are my biggest commentors these days.   I get a faux interaction with the community,  but I’m not speaking to a specific audience.  I’m not even sure who my audience is any more.    It’s been a long strange year so far.

The baby being born definitely changed things, but like band, I need to do this for me.   If I don’t leave my mark for him to read someday in the future, then I’ll always be grumpy dad.  The guy who never understands anything.   At least showing him the blog in twenty years I can point to the fact that I’ll have been through similar life experiences as  him.

It’s late – so far tonight I failed on my task to get a LAMP server up and running.  That’s OK I’m only going to be configuring to backup my “cloud” data anyways.  It can wait awhile longer.   So to all those readers out there goodnight (I’m only getting to bed an hour later then I had wanted to).

Spammers Actually Commenting Completely


Spammers as part of the conversation, how do you resolve this?  I understand how to deal with normal blog spam, ala “Check out my webcam or herbal remedies here”.   What do you do when they take part in the conversation.   The spam part comes into their website link, but they are actually commenting on topic to the post instead of willy nilly going through and posting things that have no bearing on the topic.   So how do you deal with these topical spammers?

For the moment I’m letting most of them slide.  The ones that have attempted to impersonate my top commentors, I don’t care how on topic they are, I know those commentors email addresses and I’m not going to let that little tactic stand.  I find it funniest when it is the ones impersonating my wife.   I don’t have anything to show you as an example since I’ve removed all of those posts.

My question to you is, how would you deal with this situation?

9月23日

Peek A Boo



IMG_3778, originally uploaded by Creeva.

This is a mirror shot that I did a week and half ago.