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Did a little good deed last night before the scheduling fair (standing in the gym, letting parents ask questions about what their lil' precious should take next year) and visited Roc-a-Fellas, an NYC-style pizza joint in Sharonville. Wandered there partially because I'd heard good things, but also partially because the Pasta for Pennies campaign has a deal going with them where 20% of any check between 4-8 and Thursday nights (the deal just ended last night), and as the co-coordinator, I tend to go to a bunch of those things as support.
From the Doug files - Chocolate Deities, a small company willing to mint your favorite God or god or goddess or religious symbol in white, milk, or dark chocolate. Plus, for some of the deities, they're willing to paint 'em in gold (or a few other colors) just to make worshiping that golden calf just a little easier.
Hidden Passageways offers the coolest addition to a house ever made. Specifically, I'm talking about animation #4 in the videos section.
If my previous posts about the grossness of huge burgers didn't turn you off from that kind of food, have a gander at SupersizedMeals.com ...complete with pictures of 15 lb hamburgers, 22-slice bacon sandwiches, and a link to the Whopperettes. All kinda sick...
So, Al Michaels was traded.
Michaels had been broadcasting football games for ABC, but ABC lost their Monday Night Football games to ESPN. ESPN, in turn, gave up the Sunday night games to NBC who wanted to have Michaels in the stable. So, ABC and NBC worked out a trade because Michaels was still under contract for ABC.
It appears that the Australian wizarding community has had a major foul-up. The UK newspaper The Register has located a flying car using Google Earth. They do go on to investigate further, getting ground-level pictures of the flying car launch site and proposing a few alternate explanations, none of which seem too plausible.
Here's a little video of Prince showing up the entire remaining alive Wilburys. Check it out...
I think Craig Ferguson is funnier, admittedly, and David Letterman just might be, too, but I think Jimmy Kimmel's been doing a pretty good job on the late night scene (from my limited views, admittedly)...And all three are clearly funnier than Jay Leno...he and his chin haven't done anything useful or funny since he was the Crimson Chin...
I'm always amazed at what you can do and find on the internet. Tonight, I was looking for a review of the Blue Traveler album which made me think of my cousin Aaron who introduced me to the Travelers a long time ago.
Somehow, I'm thinking that this is a joke, but I'm dorky enough that I just might try it over the weekend... my wife and I have, after all, two cell phones... and it shouldn't be too difficult to set up...
So, I've got a Dell Insipron 8600...it's a handy thing that I've had for a year and a half now... quality laptop with wireless something or other that lets me browse the web and blog (of course) throughout almosthe entire house (not the very front room, but considering the palatial size of the Dusch manse, that's not really a surprise)...
Admittedly, I'm not entirely sure of how long my battery can last, but anecdotally I know it's getting shorter and shorter...and while I didn't exactly use battery life as the deciding factor in choosing a laptop, I do care about not being fully tethered...
Kyle may not be doing it anymore, but I'm willing to keep banging away at the random songs from iTunes. Speaking of Kyle, by the by, he recommended an excellent cartoon from Salon.com this weekend - Tom the Dancing Bug. Good stuff...and now on to today's promised music...
Film parodies are becoming pretty simple to make and post to the web, and now that a lot of the web is browsed at broadband speed, people can post decent quality video files. Today's movie parody is titled Broke Mac Mountain and tells a touching story of two men passing the time...
Postings could become a little less frequent for the next few weeks, folks, because the Pasta for Pennies campaign is in full swing now (5K run this weekend is the next big project) and if we're going to raise $40,000, we're going to need to work at it (feel free to donate once the online donation's online - supposedly Monday of next week, by the way).
I'd be much happier if they'd simply bring back the ABA - now there was a league.
Go watch movie trailers...and then go see movies...good ones...
One of my students had this story in his folder when I was checking homework this week, so I took a look. Simple enough - lost hippo befriends tortise. Nothing there but a feel-good story about two cute animals.
I was searching around a Louisville restaurant review website to send some interesting suggestions to Prof. John Fischer - retired from Wabash, my alma mater - and happened across a quick review of Emery's Ice Cream, a long defunct ice cream parlor of my youth. Only a block from my chilhood home, Emery's was the site of many of my early caloric indulgences - particularly the peach ice cream. 
On the same show as the below-mentioned Pirate Convention skit, was the Fly High Duluth skit...which I'd recommend much more highly...
And have been up for an hour...this is what I get for scheduling a cornhole tournament. I'm thinking the same sort of thing might happen next weekend for the 5K. 
For Christmas - you know, the holiday for which I still haven't written my thank you notes - I got a plug-and-play Atari with like thirty games built in. Loads of fun, but as I told my wife, I'd be okay and wouldn't become obsessed because I wasn't an Atari kid when I grew up. If they came out with a a plug-and-play version of Sega hockey - my college obsession - however, I'd pretty much be done.
One of my classes this semester is Designing Multimedia - a course that's supposed to teach us (or have us teach ourselves, I guess) Macromedia Flash. In last night's orientation, Prof Wooley showed off a few of his favorite flash-based sites. I'm going to throw a few of his faves here in case any of you folks are looking for something to occupy your time.
And, I'm paying to do it...arrgghh...
Looking for a way to kill some time?
Last.fm seems to be a slightly more social version of Pandora which I'd recommended earlier this year.
Because I'm sure everybody checking into this blog is at least as church-going and devout as am I, I thought I'd take a moment from the typical innanity and get my liturgical learn on for just a moment.
And apparently from the photo found on that website, they're employing tactics by taking advantage for our weaknesses for a certain look that could be kindly described as Ned Beaty-ish or like the salesman from Green Acres
Ah, the future...or at least the future of the past...lemme just mention that I'm still waiting for my personal jetpack...and this whole lack of a car that folds up into a briefcase is kinda getting to me...
The things that I bump across when playing on the web...and often, I haven't a clue how I dropped onto the sites I visit, but I do manage to find them anyway...such as Candy Blog, but I'm kinda glad that I bumped into it and its reviews of gorgeous candies like the weirdo varieties Kit Kat from Japan and such...
with its currently cool apple computers logo recreated in kissables - a new candy that clearly deserves a try on my part.
First off, there appears to be a sequel to the weirdest game ever. I haven't played it all the way through - just through the first screen so far, but it looks to be of the same type. Very strange but gorgeous stuff...
I was cleaning out part of our storage room - you know, finally putting the Christmas tree away - and bumped into a mix tape that a friend of mine who was with me in Aberdeen. The tape was a snapshot of her musical tastes during the summer that we came back to the States. It reminds me of her and of an entire year of my life, and it's one of the last mix tapes that I've got. There are a half dozen or so mix tapes that I've got from my now-wife, then-girlfriend, and the sight of the tapes sitting there together in my memory tub (a big, green Rubbermaid, in case you were curious) made me sad.Putting together a home-brewed compilation of songs used to be an act of love and art. Now it's just too damn easy to be worth caring about.At first the mixtape evolved into the mix cd which still took some planning. Less work went into it, admittedly, because some computer graphic showed you exactly how much time was left on the cd, and you could polish things a bit by fading in and out (depending on the program), but if done right, the mix cd showed feeling and had some weight.
Back to the old favorite top fives...
There are all sorts of things that people comment just say Cincinnati - from three-way chili to Graeter's ice cream, Montgomery Inn ribs to the serpentine wall.
Everybody needs somebody to love, and there are always options of how to find that somebody. Thankfully, the internet has provided us with tons of new options.
In the last year or two, I read - well, listened to, honestly - the entire Dark Tower series by Stephen King. It's an impressive piece of literature, and it does an amazing job as a capstone to King's literary career, tying together so much of what has gone before it.
CLearly, our society has advanced to the point where we need not only video games to occupy our excess time, but we need to enact those video games on the streets on Manhattan. Some folks in NYC have noticed that their streets can be redone as a Pac-Man board. As if they couldn't just write a blog or something...
More fun video entertainment... This one's like "a cartoon version of the water cycle" - according to my department chair. I just think it's hilarious and cute. Nice choice of songs, too...
Stupid, stupid game...my high is 531 (as shown in the pic)...
It's so simple that it's brilliant... fifty pounds of silly putty dropped from a roof - with video recording why happened. 
Martina Hingis was a beast... an absolute beast.
Just some options...
I got my email from Amazon that my shipment is on the way. It'll have Beck's Guerolito, the new sports almanac, and Ryan Adams's 29 cd - his third release of 2005 - just in under the deadline.
I am learning so much about the emerate of Dubai.
