ARRRRGGGHHH!!!!

Hi folks, the blog's not dead, I'm not dead, just in stasis till I find a place to host my image files or my isp gets off their ass and hooks me back up with some webspace. Hopefully this will take place in the very near future, until then just go on over to MeFi or something, nothing to see here. My sincerest apologies to everyone.

Grrr....

Hi folks, just thought I'd check in and say hi...apparently my isp decided to change my username and the number I dial-in to and apparently they've also totally screwed up all the pictures on my blog I've uploaded over the past freaking year and a half. This sucks. I guess I'll have to call them tomorrow and figure out what gives, if my ftp account is still there, if they dumped all the pics, whatever. I'm not too happy right now.

Trivia Time

     Howa bout a game of Trivial Pursuit? It's a Flash preview of the 20th Anniversary Edition of the popular quiz game.

Speak & Spell

     Someone made a Flash version of the popular Texas Instruments toy you can play with here, either for nostalgia's sake or because you're still a crappy speller and could just use the practice.

Superman's Contract Extended

     I just thought it was worth mentioning that Jerry Rice was given a six-year extension on his contract to play with the Raiders, that would make him 46 at the end of the contract. What's this guy made of? He's still seventh in receptions at 40 years of age, by the way.

Say What?

"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada."
- Britney Spears, Pop Singer

     This and other pearls of wisdom can be found at GoodQuotes.com.

Was it Lionel Richie? Argh....

     Well, I could write a description of this Flash game, but I may as well save my breath, the title's pretty much self-explanatory - Name That Tune!

Topher's Breakfast Cereal Character Guide

     A detailed look at cereal spokestoons like the venerable Sugar Crisp Sugar Bear (above).

Flash Flash Revolution

     A knockoff of Dance Dance Revolution, in which you use your arrow keys to keep time with the beat of various mixes. This one's pretty darn big so if you're not on cable you'd best have some patience.

The Batcycle

     One man's endless quest for perfection continues as he attempts to realize his dream of having a reproduction of the TV Batman's "Batcycle", complete with sidecar.

Make-a-Flake

     Make your own snowflake, by cutting out a paper one in Flash. There were fifty-thousand made, last I checked, in their gallery of user-created flakes and some of them were pretty good, too.

     If you're feeling more industrious, however, and you'd like to make a real snowflake from good old water and cold air, you can go here and do just that.

An Ad Man, I Am

     The advertising work of Dr. Seuss. Link via Boingboing, by the way, as was the arcade cabinet project, it's about the only page I've had the time to browse tonight. I'm about to fall asleep over here, as you can tell by the really lame article title.

So...You Want to Play Donkey Kong?

     Two guys are building an ultra-sweet M.A.M.E cabinet, with all the extras. You can see pics of their arcade dream machine and read the logs they're making of their project's progress here.

Your Name in Chinese

     Calligraphic Chinese representations of many common names for wallpaper or screensavers.

Mirror Sytes

I Say Ketchup, You Say Catsup

     In yet another example of the fact that for every oddball obsession there is in this world, there's a website devoted to it, in this case, that obsession would be ketchup. I'm guessing that whoever made this site is probably one of those nuts who'll douse a perfectly good steak in the stuff, something that always makes me cringe when I see it.

Hurt

     In case you haven't seen it, Johnny Cash, who's been in very poor health recently, did a video of his cover of Nine Inch Nail's song, Hurt. You can see it here, on Mark Romanek's website, along with several other award-winning videos he's directed. Although the pairing of musical sensibilities sounded a little odd to me at first- NIN and Johnny Cash- it's a perfect fit and a really moving piece of work I highly recommend seeing.

Should We Be Happy or Worried?

     Well, big news in blogging land: Pyra Labs, the company behind this whole Blogger show, have been bought by Google, the internet search behometh. Maybe this will be a good thing, I'm not sure, but I'm thankful, at least, that they didn't sell it to AOL or Microsoft or something, that would have been really scary.

For All you Valentine's Day Lovers Out There...

     I'd just like to say this: the chocolate industry is driven by child slave labor and diamond's are over-valued rocks ....enjoy.
     As for myself, I plan on spending the holiday as always, curled up under my covers in the fetal position, lights off and curtains drawn, The Doors' song The End playing in an endless loop on my Winamp. Now that's a good, old-fashioned V-Day, if you ask me.

Exotic Sodas

     Outlaw Hemp Butterscotch? White Tail Birch? These are a couple of the out-there sodas profiled here. Only one of the bunch I've ever tried is Vernor's Ginger Ale, which I grew up on. Great stuff and I hadn't thought about it in years, but the stuff does tend to make you sneeze, like they mentioned in their review. Good, good stuff, wish I had a bottle of it. Incidentally, it's the oldest soda in the United States, first produced in 1858.
     It's funny, with all the choices out there as far as soft drinks go, it seems that 9 times out of ten I'll just grab a Mountain Dew. I like a lot of different sodas- the occasional root beer, the cherry-flavored stuff, cream soda- I guess my brain's just so hard-wired by advertising that, when faced with a myriad of choices in the convenience store cooler, I'll always unthinkingly grab whatever the media wants me to drink at the time and go along with the rest of the herd.
     Next time I'm faced with the prospect of buying a drink, I'm going to make it a point to take a moment, look around and go for something different.