What the Trend is a very wiki wiki where users edit why something’s trending. Could it be useful for marketing purposes?
Expect to see “#ultrabath: Because it’s awesome.” trend tomorrow.
WTT?!?
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Monthly Archives: May 2009
Mike, does this answer your Conduit question?
Click the photo (or here) to zoom in.
Imagine a Wii game where the studio took their time, thought through the storyline, and perhaps (wonder of wonders) have read a few books?
And they reference Cloverfield with They Live – what more do we need?
Solutions to the Word Puzzles
Misunderstood
Vermont
Statuesque
Swedish
Arthur’s
Africa
Sensation
Did you see the abbreviations for the days of the week?
Polimomce = Mother-in-law
Woohoo, workshop icebreakers.
Dave Matthews Band Streaming Concert
Sure, there’s going to be E3, with all of its conduits and nintenwebs in full swing. But Mike – has your wife seen this?
1Q84, LEGO Indy 2, and A New Puzzle
LEGO Indy 2 – Now with a brick-by-brick level editor?
We talk of getting an ARC for Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan (giving away galleys at BEA? Argh!). Can you imagine if I got an advanced copy of 1Q84?
What is the book about? No one knows, except that they need to buy it.
Perhaps it’s a puzzle, like this one:
Polimomce
Can you get the pictogram? It’s like one of those “head/heels” puzzles.
A hint? I’m fond of mine.
Aviary, A Different Pop Quiz and Let’s Get Irrelevant
Why didn’t anyone tell me about Phoenix, Worth1000‘s free online image editor? This is the quickest-loading one I’ve seen. Check out the rest of the aviary.
We’re in day two of a district training. Some of the stuff has been kind of goofy (like which candy bar you choose determining your personality type…I think I may have seen that quiz on Facebook), some just plain weird (thank you, Worth1000…yes, it’s EyePod/money laundering/cardiac arrest), and some brain teasers that I might be able to use as a warm-up in a staff meeting. To give the presenter credit, it’s three days, eight hours per day. We need some wake-up from time to time. (And teachers, if you’ve ever been surrounded by a group of them, are not always the best audience.)(Yes, I said it. Deal with it.) We did a cool graphing out of certain lessons on a rigorous/relevant X,Y chart (to really evaluate if lessons are doing what we intend them to do). I liked it so much, I took some photos with my phone. As I type, more teachers have gotten up and started taking photos with their phones. Muahaha! I am influencing creative uses of common technology. Perhaps some may even try their hand at booyoring next year.
Little known fact: when creating a survey, it’s better to have an even number of options so that you have to answer either high or low – you can’t choose the middle.
The meat of the training has actually been good, even though it’s during the summer. For my professional thoughts on how to make instruction relevant and rigorous, check out the other site.
For here, let’s get irrelevant.
We’ve seen three words to describe an animal you would become, three words to describe your favorite color, and even three words to describe your favorite river (don’t get me started on what educational psychologists say about that result). (I guess three is the magic number, whether in training or in Twittertopia. Nice break-up words, by the way, Devin. The Phantom Menace. That’s comedy.)
But here’s a fun challenge that I had seen before but had momentarily forgotten the solution.
So this week’s Pop Quiz takes on a new form:
What is the connection between these words? Hint: The number seven plays a part.
Misunderstood
Vermont
Statuesque
Swedish
Arthur’s
Africa
Sensation
Post some comments, post some guesses. (I should mention that my group won the challenge. Jodi, I’m gloating on the inside.) The solution will be posted on Saturday.
Mom, this one’s for you:
It’s from Tom Chapin (brother of the Cat’s in the Cradle guy).
How to Tune a Foot
More on my wife’s broken foot.
But first, the rumors are true – Target didn’t have a pre-order for The Conduit, so I gave my business to Gamestop. It does work out since Gamestop has an exclusive version of the game. I guess my ASE will look different than other versions of the game. I will say that I dig this box art better than the other.
vs.
On Tuning a Foot
The podiatrist was trying to see how healed my wife’s foot is. I guess X-rays are a little behind ultrasounds when trying to identify a break. Both were done, but I didn’t know about a third option.
Tuning forks, when vibrating and placed on a toe, will feel weird but won’t hurt. But if you have a broken bone and it starts vibrating, I guess it hurts.
Quick way to tell if you’ve broken a foot.
The foot’s still broken; she still has two weeks in the boot, but it’s like wearing a retainer. You wear it, it does what it needs to do. You don’t, it stays on longer. My wife has done a great job adjusting to life with a giant piece of metal and cloth attached to the bottom of her leg. (Although I’m pretty certain she’d like to not have ботинок массового разрушения.)
Children of Chernobyl
Reading from Donald Miller’s Searching for God Knows What this morning.
…we are mistaken to believe this is a war between people with flesh and people with flesh. The only appropriate war rhetoric is war rhetoric that calls our enemies spirits, and people with flesh the victims of this war. Satan wants us to fight with one another, and I understand that sometimes evil must be restrained, but our war, the war of the ones who believe in Jesus, is a war unseen. If we could muster a portion of the patriotism we feel toward our earthly nations into a patriotism and bravery in concert with the kingdom of God, the enemy would take fewer casualties to be sure.
Something for me to remember – he compares the effects of the first betrayal to what happened to kids born around areas of nuclear fallout. Our souls are mutated/broken.
William Wallace vs. Shaka Zulu vs. Shaolin Monk vs. Maori Warrior
It seems like geeks sitting around talking about match-ups has been taken to the next level. Get a computer programmer in the room with some martial arts masters and this happens.
Thanks, @ElScorpio.
Pirate vs. Knight? Anachronisms…building…
Demae-chan and Gladiator A.D.
Order food from a Wii channel:
http://wii.com/jp/movies/demae-channel/
It is a separate channel, so you do have to exit the game you’re playing. This channel is Japan only, but the U.S. has experimented with this when Pizza Hut and EverQuest teamed up for non-stop pizza in-game ordering.
The only hope for exercise was to get up and make some food.
We’re doomed.
Slade, check out Gladiator A.D. Remember how we talked about games like Street Fighter IV getting old fast because we’re not on the same team? Split-screen arcade swordfighting. It doesn’t look very Mario-friendly, though. It’s put out by some group called HVS. I think there’s a game called The Conduit coming out sometime soon.
Thank you.
Words fail when expressing appreciation for someone who gives their life for yours, but it doesn’t give an out to not say, “Thank you.”
Thank you to those who are serving, will serve, and have served.
History of Memorial Day
U.S. War Casualties
The President’s Address
Update Google Calendar by Text
I’m just now getting the idea to put the library calendar into Google and then synchronize it to my wife’s calendar.
But did you know that you can text “day” to GVENT and get an agenda for the day sent to your phone by text? (Of course you have to set up your phone number in your Google Calendar settings.)
Futile Ohm – remember when I thought Google was out to track us all? I still do, but since it’s for free I don’t care.
9-9-09
I’m excited for 9, the next from Tim Burton. It was very intentional that they showed us the trailer before Terminator (it was joined by Gamer (Master Predictor, remember when you went to see The Game/Citizen Game? It seems like they decided upon a name, finally) and Surrogates).
With watching LOST, Star Trek, and Terminator, I’m kinda burned out on time travel. Now will it be an excess of, “I’m metal, but am I human?” At least Tim Burton has samurai robots in his future. (Versus Bruce Willis with two bad haircuts.)
Countdown to (Passport) Judgment Day
Janet Napolitano, lead shareholder in Cyberdyne Systems, is implementing The Next Phase of WHTI (Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative)(Is it just me, or does the acronym conjure up a bad organization from a Shaft film? The Whitey Plan? Really? Might as well throw in a reference to mayonnaise and Lawrence Welk.)
How this will affect some of The BLOGgh’s readership is the Casas trip. You might want to work on your passports (legitimately or otherwise) for next year’s trip. Once people really see the bureaucracy in action (inaction…wakka wakka) they’ll start to freak out.
On the topic of Cyberdyne – If you liked action movies of the ’90s, where not everything had to line up logically, you’ll love Terminator Salvation.
I, for one, prefer Sydney Poitier’s characterization of the T-800.
A part that I did enjoy was the nod to T2 fans with a vehicle duel choreographed to Guns ‘n Roses “You Could Be Mine”. It’s fun that John Connor still has some old cassette tapes from his teenage years.
I also appreciated that John Connor ditched his Batman voice after the first few fight scenes.
Woo to Anton Yelchin! Congrats on being in two big summer movies. In Star Trek he was part of a great ensemble. In Terminator he stood out as the coolest character. (Kyle Reese has always been my favorite – the no-name soldier sent back in time that alters time.) Look for Kyle Chekov in New York, I Love You where he joins a big cast in a collection of short films.
Flashlight Peter, we can now answer two of your questions. Kate Connor is a veterinarian, so she might not have the same ethics debacle. Also – Roland Kickinger, who played Arnold in See Arnold Run, was the body of the T-800 in the current film (another Austrian bodybuilder?) and Governor “Get to the Chopper!!” had his face digitally masked over poor Roland.
If we all updated like Facebook
More for Futile Ohm, less for my mom:
Pulse of the City
static : pulse from Samuel Cockedey on Vimeo.
I still can find beauty in the urban.
Sometimes you just have to look up.
Has anyone else seen the human clock on Youtube? Check out the front page. (It’s an ad campaign, so it may be gone soon.)
Chuck Norris in a Shopping Cart
I taught how to change X,Y values for a movie clip and how to create a HitTest event handler.
With this kid’s final project, though, he added in cheats/Easter eggs. I had shown him Verb Volley (and how if you airball 11 times it shows @VafeR’s and adds $.42 to your score).
See if you can figure out how to unlock multiplayer and how to switch the cart rider into Chuck Norris.
Slade Goes Psycho
More so than usual. Check it out here. (Especially at 2:08.)
School of Rock
J and I helped his younger brother with a Social Studies assignment a little bit ago. It was on Sashimi Night, so that’s my excuse for the delay in posting the song. (I don’t know what that means.)
We had some options for which assignment to complete:
- Strengthen democratic ideologies in the Laos/Cambodia/Vietnam region
- Persuade the US government to cover post-traumatic stress syndrome under veteran’s health care benefits
- Write a rock and roll song
We chose the tougher of the three and wrote a rock song. Proof that this is powerful is measured in how much Communists hate rock and roll. Communists hate books, rock and roll, and Steve Martin. (No matter how much those mop-topped hooligans will try to convince you of otherwise.)
I had contemplated a parody of Justin Timberlake’s “Bringing Siam Back”, to fit Vietnam instead of Thailand, but thought better of it. (What with our previous experiences pillaging.)
Here are G’s lyrics:
And here’s the song:
Running in Fear
For it being a song for a G, I don’t think we had a sufficient amount of waving our hands in the air like we just don’t care.
We are the Knights who play Nii
That’s comedy. British comedy, to be specific.