Booyor’s BLOGgh!

Have you seen the ocarina application for the iPhone? Touch-screen holes and blow into the phone mic.

Thanks, Driver of Sidewalks, for the link.

Check out their site for more details.

How do I know that you’re patient?

1. You’re still using Internet Explorer.
2. You put up with IE’s rendering of my Sire for Hire sidebar slideshow.

I guess IE decided to render my Flash slideshow with a CLICK sound every time a new slide appeared. Tres 1970s Pentagon briefing… I have now simplified that ad (as well as turned the azcentral embedded video into a link (why autoplay? Is this Xanga?)).

For everyone’s information:
Monday Night Football, you are on notice.

I left my school at 3:30pm to visit my brother across town. I just arrived. 6:00pm.

Across town as in up the mountain to Flagstaff across town?

YA news: The Clique (very popular series by Lisi Harrison) is going to be a straight-to-DVD release on Nov. 18. Will it be better than Stormbreaker and Eragon? It’s a little easier with more “Did you see what she’s wearing?” and less “I, the Shadeslayer, banish thee to the depths of depthiness with my swordy sword!”

“You can wipe a memory. But can you wipe away a soul?”

Most definitely I am excited bout Dollhouse, Master Predictor. February 13, my friends.

But a production shutdown? When will they learn that…
Devin, clue them in about signal stoppage.

Click here for the video.

Every time you hear a cacophony of metal hitting metal in the video, that is J and I “cheering” with strained voices.

Also, the Scion has a feature that rocks. Some readers may view it as archaic, but I view it as borderline arcane: the exclamation point. When ! shows up, it is necessary to check tire pressure. 35 psi for the front, 32 psi for the back. This is in the comparison to the, “Eh, looks alright. Maybe fill up that other side a bit more, now that I see it” that the Reliant inspired.

Star Wars (yes, Jeremy, I immediately posted it)

My Dictator Pets


Scott Westerfeld
With his nanobots (built using rat heart tissue)(just like mom used to make)

and grandma soap

How God Works
My big stress by staying home sick today was trying to figure out how to teach someone else how to use our closed-circuit cable system. The creator of that video sent an e-mail apologizing that she didn’t have the video ready for today but would have to show it next Friday.
My Loving Wife
Taking care of the girls, my prescription, and me (The Slacker Librarian)
Andromeda Strain
Nothing beats staying home sick and reading Andromeda Strain.

Especially imaginary ones.  Hence, my new favorite fascination on the internet: Strange Maps. Whether it is talking about the almost-but-never-was state of Absorka or 1942 plans for the New World Order, this blog offers me hours of entertainment.

[Booyor], you might be interested to see the map of Tea as a North/South Litmus Test.

Also of interest: A tourist map of Gotham.

Halloween for me was staying at home with my youngest who is still having some breathing problems. Tonight is another stay at home night, missing the Freedom night. (I was very excited to see Jon painting on a blank canvas (as well as all of the other awesome people there).) (To see the people, not that Jon would be painting on them.)(I don’t think. I can’t go, so you’ll have to update me.)

Since I’ve been homebound (but loving the extra time with my youngest (who is now Bronx cheering me)), I’ll share with you what it looks like to have Halloween in New York.

Okay, so it’s not ALL complete lameness on Oct. 31. Check out the West Village (as caught by Jason’s iPhone):




Crazy night.

A lot was riding on this. And it all came down to two toilets.

Starclimber comes out in February of next year. It’s a lot of fun, in a “Canadian Victorian space exploration” sort of thing.

Definitely met expectations, unlike:


Check out the full story on Cake Wrecks, my wife’s and my answer to LOLcats in time-burning.
Updates:

1. Youngest does in fact have croup. A visit to the urgent care late last night resulted in a shot of MGH like her father before her (and nothing like Mohinder). She’s doing better today. Warm showers, cold breathing treatments. Tons of fun.
2. She’s going even crazier on the tottering/standing thing.
3. And I now have digital proof about the cuteness: all me
   

   MyHeritage: Look-alike Meter

4. I had forgotten about Apple’s original logo until I was looking through a company bio book I have on my shelves:
   
   Rockin’ the Apple portable in 1989:
   
   Yeah, I like my Macbook better.
5. The district site is coming along swimmingly. I spent yesterday afternoon staring at CSS pages. Here’s one of the resources that I used. Feel the power of CSS!
6. “Just get me back to 1972. I’ll walk from there.” I love pirates who don’t do anything.

I used to go to Mrs. L’s house in high school and would be fed gourmet cake scraps. She whipped up a whipped cake for one of my dates who hadn’t had a birthday cake on her birthday (and making me look much cooler than I was as Mrs. L slaved in the back kitchen).

Well, Mrs. L is blogging about all things cakes (is there anything else to life? I think not.) and she has great recommendations, like Cake Wrecks.

This is a blog that is just as disturbed as I am about the misspelling of ‘congratulations’

(and bad typography)

choking muppets

and a bridezilla that Jeremy and I may have seen before

Wow.

Marc Ecko, purveyor of all things hip and/or rhino-related, has come out with a new branch of his clothing line:


Click here to see more.

My thoughts? Well, for the stormtrooper hoodie, let’s do a comparison:

$98

$10 Wal-Mart

$0.99 (Also from Wal-Mart)
Total cost: $10.99 vs. $98
And yet in both scenarios, you look like a doofus.

But the Mandalorian hoodie? I would walk up to the florist, buy flowers for my wife, and ask, “Will they survive transport? They’re no good to me dead.”

My wife wants this one:

but I told her to hold out for it in pink. And not $98.

This one = what?