Monday, June 14, 2004
Shibby!!!
At least, that's how I think you spell it... It's the word the Dudes say in Dude, Where's My Car? I happen to really like that movie, and I'll probably like the one coming about about the two guys that go to White Castle. (I forget the real title, but it has Doogie Howser in it!) But that's neither here nor there.
Had a great weekend out cottaging. As it turns out, Settlers of Catan is a really fun game, especially with the expansion for 5-6 players. Full power to the Sheep Press! (For those who don't know, which is probably most, due to strange interpretations of resource trading in the game, the Sheep Press is what you use to make just about everything out of sheep. You'd be surprised how versatile they are, able to form everything from edible wheat to building material grade lumber, to bricks and even stone!) Other than a few mishaps (the least of which being I lost my sunglasses, but since they only cost me about 25 bucks and were on the verge of self-destruction, I am not too broken up about it) there was good food, comfy accomodations, great weather and wacky antics for all. Would do it again in a heartbeat, and even faster if it was instead of work!
Just when I had gotten all pumped up about posting pictures here using Hello!, Blogger goes and does it again: audio blogging. Now they have a tool at Audioblogger.com that lets me phone in and record my post. It then encodes it as an mp3 and posts it here. Is that not the Cat's Pajamas or what? Man, I love Blogger. Now (in my not-so-humble opinion) all they need to do is include the Friends and threaded comments that LiveJournal has and it would be one of the best blogging sites period. I mean, you have cool themes, post-by-email, post-by-phone, image hosting and 3rd party site capability, all with an easy to use interface, all for free, and with the additions I mentioned, it would add a more cohesive user community and improved feedback that I just might implement here. How do they do this? It violates the laws of economics in a manner similar to crepes violating the laws of physics in that you can eat them indefinitely and not get full! (I don't know how much sense that made, but I think my excitement is clear.)
Anyways, I'm now reconsidering this Blogroll thing, in that I keep forgetting to update it. And yet, I still want to share a bunch of the nifty sites that I see with y'all. Fortunately, Bloglines, the site I use to aggregate my RSS feeds and waste a bunch of time daily also has blogroll hosting, so I might just give them a try. In the meantime, just go take a look at what's there now, since it might disappear in a few days.
¶ 3:09 p.m.
At least, that's how I think you spell it... It's the word the Dudes say in Dude, Where's My Car? I happen to really like that movie, and I'll probably like the one coming about about the two guys that go to White Castle. (I forget the real title, but it has Doogie Howser in it!) But that's neither here nor there.
Had a great weekend out cottaging. As it turns out, Settlers of Catan is a really fun game, especially with the expansion for 5-6 players. Full power to the Sheep Press! (For those who don't know, which is probably most, due to strange interpretations of resource trading in the game, the Sheep Press is what you use to make just about everything out of sheep. You'd be surprised how versatile they are, able to form everything from edible wheat to building material grade lumber, to bricks and even stone!) Other than a few mishaps (the least of which being I lost my sunglasses, but since they only cost me about 25 bucks and were on the verge of self-destruction, I am not too broken up about it) there was good food, comfy accomodations, great weather and wacky antics for all. Would do it again in a heartbeat, and even faster if it was instead of work!
Just when I had gotten all pumped up about posting pictures here using Hello!, Blogger goes and does it again: audio blogging. Now they have a tool at Audioblogger.com that lets me phone in and record my post. It then encodes it as an mp3 and posts it here. Is that not the Cat's Pajamas or what? Man, I love Blogger. Now (in my not-so-humble opinion) all they need to do is include the Friends and threaded comments that LiveJournal has and it would be one of the best blogging sites period. I mean, you have cool themes, post-by-email, post-by-phone, image hosting and 3rd party site capability, all with an easy to use interface, all for free, and with the additions I mentioned, it would add a more cohesive user community and improved feedback that I just might implement here. How do they do this? It violates the laws of economics in a manner similar to crepes violating the laws of physics in that you can eat them indefinitely and not get full! (I don't know how much sense that made, but I think my excitement is clear.)
Anyways, I'm now reconsidering this Blogroll thing, in that I keep forgetting to update it. And yet, I still want to share a bunch of the nifty sites that I see with y'all. Fortunately, Bloglines, the site I use to aggregate my RSS feeds and waste a bunch of time daily also has blogroll hosting, so I might just give them a try. In the meantime, just go take a look at what's there now, since it might disappear in a few days.
¶ 3:09 p.m.
