Growing and Growing

I'm not sure what this game is, but I find it a little to addictive.

I have tried to figure out the best solution, but each time something else comes up short.

Give it a whirl.

This is pretty neat too, though not very robust. Have the superstars sing your lyrics.

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Take stock in those photos

I would like to recommend a stock photography house that is one of the best out there.

IStockPro Is located in Alberta, Canada. The selection is new, there search options are awesome and their customer service is top notch.

You can search by the usual keywords or themes, but they have also set up a search by color palette.

When their credit card application went down last night, they called me, and said they would send me the images so long as I gave them my word that I would pay for them later when the server went back up. I, of course, agreed. While it took a bit to get my images, they did come, and I did pay. Just plain good service.

I know that this site was mentioned on K10K, but I thought it was worth mentioning again.

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REJECTED:: I am a banana

As the story goes is told, Don Hertzfeldt was commissioned by The Family Learning Channel to design and animate some bumpers for their station IDs.

While this is an entirely fictional back story, the following no longer available on the following link 9 minute film was the spawn of that "commission". And would you believe they were all rejected on review. Requires Windows Media Player. [Via Amber]

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If its small, does it really last 15 minutes?

Apparently my Wack-an-Oates game has found its way into some strange corners of the webasphere.

A friend of mine was reading Real Detroit Weekly and in on of their articles was a link to my little game.

15 and counting. [via Sanford]

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Candy Brandy

My coworker, George, recently purchased a Twix Brand candy bar from our beloved vending machine, when, on closer inspection, he discovered that it is in fact called "Twix Brand".

This word "Brand" irked George to a degree where he decided to contact the company to find out more information. I somewhat agree with his knee-jerk reaction to the branding, but I know I've seen it other places, like my previous post about Risk. Risk is a brand of Hasbro.

Now I'm not sure of the laws governing copyright, trademark, branding et al, but I know that these huge companies probably have it right, and we have it wrong.

Still I absolutely, emphatically support George's effort in resolving this naming fiasco. It brings me back to the time when we wanted to find out where Stephen's pita got is 4 grams of protein.

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World Domination

During lunch, at work, we usually watch some sort of cartoon or television show, albeit on DVD. When we forget bring something in, we look for other forms of entertainment, because conversation just won't do.

I decided to bring in Risk, one of the only board games I can say that you play for several days.

In honor of that game, see how many countries you have dominated, when you map out all the countries you've visited.

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"Anim" for the effort.

On a recent trip from Detroit to New York, I was sitting in at the gate waiting for my flight where, on the arrivals screen, was some sort of Japanese animation.

Normally I wouldn't care, but it seems to me that arrival and departure information is fundamental to the whole airport thang.

I probably wound't say anything if there was sound. But there wasn't. Silent ninjas only.

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Mel-o-drama

Tonight airing at 10 p.m. ET on ABCNEWS, Diane "Journalistic MasterBlaster" Sawyer will be interviewing Mel "Bartertown" Gibson about his upcoming feature film The Passion of Christ.

Get your Crazy-to-English Dictionary ready...should be entertaining.

For more information on the broadcast and to get your own pre-game crazies on, visit the ABC NEWS site.

Just finished watching. And yep, crazy.

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Valentine's Big Up!

I love my wife. You all should know that.

Happy Valentine's Day everyone.

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Appropriate (Sp?)

Apparently I misspelled a word in the tag line to this site and thanks to one of my five avid readers, I have corrected it.

In that past year, I've found that email, IM and even blog readers have become more forgiving in how many 'typos' they have. I say 'typos' because because I'm sure that while some would say that 'teh' is a typo for 'the', others would not.

While my mistake certainly wasn't interweb-façionable, and my gist was clear, I'm left wondering how much of my w00t!, werd, and WTFing people actually get.

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Buy afraid....buy very afraid.

I take the hundreds of MacMall catalogs I get each month for granted. I never really take the time to sit down and settle into one. Yesterday I did.

I'm not sure what they are feeding the people in the design department, but seriously, WTF is this?

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5 minutes late, but I feel great!

I have watched this clip, you have watched this clip...it's been around the world and back. But I can't get enough of it.

I don't know if it's the jerked camera at the beginning, or just the super positive attitude that a breakfast bar can bring out in a person. I feel great looking at this clip. The clip is great, you're great for seeing the clip again.

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Mini's Gone Topless!

One of my favorite cars, the Mini Cooper, has gone convertible.

Now I've heard that this car was a bit of deathtrap before, but now this luxurious deathtrap is available without a roof.

I still think I want one....badly. Not the convertible. Just a plain Mini please with a side order of trend.

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It's like taking candy from a Meatwad.

The Folks over at Adult Swim have stretched marketing to the next level with the Meatwad Piñata.

Not sure who the audience is for this product. My assumption is that you wouldn't use it. After all, it's $24.99. That's seems a bit steep for something you plan on destroying with a stick.

Children find nothing more appetizing than wailing on a wad of meat to free the sweet, sweet candy inside. I happen to know of one person who would fill that bad boy with cheese and meat products to keep in the spirit of the vessel.

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Hey There Mr. Food Monstah

New Aqua Teen game on AdultSwim.com. Check it out.

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Firebird, meet Firefox

The newest release of Mozilla's Firebird is out.

Redubbed Firefox, the new browser totes the tabbed browsing we all know and love, pop-up blocking, an integrated search, and less bugs (not that I ever noticed).

If you're on a PC and your not using a Mozilla product, might I suggest this one. It loads up in no time and is blazingly fast.

For all three of you web developers out there reading this, check out these web developer tools. They allow you to manipulate your coded page's display properties on the fly so you don't need to mess with your browser settings. It is a enormously helpful tool no developer should be without. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like there's a Mac version. One can always wish. [via George]

This article comes from George's link dump: 13 Reasons To Use Firebird Over IE

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What are the odds of that?

I've always wondered what it would be like to be born on a leap year. When would you celebrate your birthday? How about driver's licenses?

Turns out, my cousin Jeremy's girlfriend was born on a leap year. Her concerns were the same as mine. She will be 5 years old at the end of this month, and she too was concerned about getting her drivers license.

Some facts about leapers, as reported by the Associated Press:

• 2000 This is the first leap year in 400 years to start a century.
• 1 in every 1461 people is born on a leap day.
• Julius Caesar adopted the leap year system.
• An extra day is added to February every four years, except for years ending in 00 unless that year is divisible by 400.

So on the 29th be sure to wish her a Happy Birthday, after all, she gets them so rarely! [via Amber]

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Single Serving Lifestyle

When you don't have someone to cook for or eat with, you find out quickly that cooking for one is neither cheap nor easy. And the end result us inevitably disappointing. Furthermore, creativity is nowhere to be found.

With a serious lack of enthusiasm, and no one to police my eating, I've settled into the warm-plastic-wrapped, sodium and fat filled world of the TV Dinner. Now I'm trying to eat healthy, so out the cornucopia of flavors and textures, I have chosen the Traditional Lasagna with Meat Sauce.

While I wasn't expecting what I saw on the box, I was surprised to see the significant lack of care that went into the actual preparation of my entree. I was going to chalk the ugg factor to its currently uncooked status. Clearly the wrong approach.

Having the sauce all on one side and the noodles on the other proved challanging when there is no room to move things around in the tray. With a grid attack plan in tow, I dive in.

The noodles had a interesting al dente property that I have to admin I enjoyed. I found that I was trying to mask the "flavor'" of the "meat" with noodles and sauce.

At only 7 Grams of fat and 300 Calories, you can easily keep the pounds off by yorking the whole thing up.

I'm gonna stick to Swanson, cause they classify their meals by weight.

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In Soviet Russia, Blog Write You.

It's time for me to stop being such a lazy-ass. With the wife in the jungles of Ecuador and me stuck here, I'm still not getting this design done.

Didn't I mention that...yeah Susana is in Ecuador. She tells me that she'll be posting all of her wondrous adventures to a blog. You can check that out at susy.waxelastic.com.

While we wait for her to get into it. I can share for you her travel story.

She took off yesterday for Quito, Ecuador. Her flight was diverted due to weather and curfew. Seriously, curfew. So they put her up in a fancy hotel, and get her on the next flight. That's seems anti-climatic, but I don't want to steal her thunder if she wants to post about it.

Pluh.

[UPDATE] :: Susana has arrived safely in Quito. That's good news.

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It's 10PM, do you know where your appendages are?

Last Tuesday I was diagnosed with Epiploic Appendagitis. I wouldn't wish this on anyone.

According to an independent study of 3 people I know in the medical profession, when blood flow is restricted to any part of the abdomen it is some of the worst possible pain you can endure.

According to one other friend, who learned much of his medical knowledge from Reservoir Dogs, getting shot in the stomach is the worst pain you can have.

Either way, I'm in pain. The ER docs say that it can take up to a month to subside. So I got that going for me.

In the process of being diagnosed with EA, I was given a CT scan. During that test they flood your body with iodine through your IV tube. And things get hot. Damn hot. I felt like I was boiling.

Bottom line, this is rare. Really rare. I'm just lucky I guess.

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