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.
