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An excellent tool to quickly create a somewhat customized WordPress template. The options are limited, but widgets could add to it quite a bit. If only it allowed custom footers…
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Chumby is a wireless internet device that gives you information, music, pictures, etc. based on your interests provided. Interesting idea, but is it any good?
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The first smart rabbit – Nabaztag
Another wirelessly connected device that provides news and information. This one is unique as it is a rabbit with lights and gyrating ears instead of a screen. News is provided via speakers. Sounds fun, but not too useful.
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Deadliest Catch Game : Discovery Channel
Avast ye mateys; ’tis the Deadliest Catch browser game. See how many crabs (heh heh) you can catch in the alloted time. Far more fun than I would expect…
Monthly Archive for February, 2008
White Sands Flying Leap, originally uploaded by Marc Shandro.
Instead of being happy about an extra day this year, I realize that if today were the first, I would have tomorrow off… Damned month-end.
BTW, this is an awesome picture for “leap.”
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I find it rather sad that any Batman satire that either: simplifies the character’s thinking to the singular or shows him doing the impossible by explaining “I’m Batman” resonates deeply with a primal artifact of my sense of humor…
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The subprime mortgage morass: as explained by profane stick figures… Good Shit.
A quick tip for people to free-up their valuable mental resources using technology. Use your cell phone camera to take pictures of things that you could easily forget, but are not important to remember long term. Case in point, where you parked:
This is also good for remembering things such as:
- Things that your wife comments as being cool, hoping that you will remember in the future
- The order of things as they are taken apart
- Where you hid something
- a temporary password
I am just making up possible uses for this storage system on the fly, and there are many, many more. Obviously, don’t store important information as pictures in case you lose your phone, lose your data, someone hacks it or picks it up and looks at your pics.
Along the waterfront in Downtown San Francisco, there is a tourist trap called Pier 39.
It is basically a mall that sells streetcars and Alcatraz shirts to people looking for these hard-to-find items downtown. Other than stores with local interest, there is wide array of the most worthless stores you could possibly imagine. The website says there are 110 stores, but it feels much more like eight stores with 15 locations each.
The best part about the pier is that it has locations scattered about the perimeter known as “Photo Spot[s].” These are particularly nice locations for photographs pointed out for you and sponsored. I would love to create a map of these locations and find the identical photographs taken from these spots…
This photograph brought to you by…, originally uploaded by pressuretobear.
Although the shopping is lame, the ground is sponsored and the culture artificial, the Pier does have Sea Lions…
There are even these nice signs to point you in the right direction to view them, although they are unevenly and counterintuitively spaced on the top floor, making them difficult to follow as they are placed in odd locations (like this one twelve feet in the air):
