Check out the “ergonomic pirate keyboard”
Corsair has to be my favorite pirate synonym.
My lame pirate joke – Where do pirates go to school? Harrrrrrrrvarrrrrrrrrd
harvard sucks.
but Pirates Rul3z!
So . . . I’m reading “Getting Things Done” and I’m all about organizing my life and having everything synchronized. I feel that the pieces are coming together on the table, but it may take some time to get them to fit together. Ok, so here are the current pieces on the table:
there they are, now I just need to organize them (and I’m sure there are other pieces on the table too (i didn’t mention RSS and Sage/Firefox)). All these places to put my data, and webservices to make that data sharable with tools that make the data readable and editable.
so, this is totally a geeky post (but, hey, what did you expect) and maybe it should have gone on my tech blog, but oh well, so be it. I just felt like getting these thoughts out on a blog (ha, hence the sloppy writting style (once i get my todo lists in order, I’ll add to reread The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
The two instruments I want to learn to play most (right now) are the Tablas and the Harmonica. Tablas are awesome, I just love them. Harmonica is also great, I’m a sucker for any guitar w/ harmonica music (a la Bob Dylan). Harmonica may happen first, just because they’re cheaper. (Tablas aren’t really cheap) Anyway, I was thinking about this — And then it hit me — I could play them both at once!! Would it be a folk implosion or pure musical genius? Hmm, perhaps we’ll never know. I could probably write songs about lychees . . . Anyway, if ya’ll ever come across music like the music I’m dreaming of making, let me know, I’d love to hear it. Ok, this post must end, it’s a run-on, meandering disaster.
So, my latest addiction (don’t worry flickr, there’s room for multiple addictions in my online life) is Kingdom of Loathing.
It’s a very simple html implementation of an adventure game (An Adventurer is You!). All the images are stick figures and the basic gameplay is: click here, then click here, then click here — proving that the most important thing about a game is the Content and Story. Also, it’s free! It ‘s also a great example of Creating Passionate Users (take me as an example: I’m giving free advertising and I’ve donated to the game (and I’ll probably donate again).
So, if you have some time to spare, I highly recommend playing. Careful though, it is addictive (you’ve been warned).
Sign the petition to get Dr. Katz released on DVD! This show is so awesome and hilarious, and especially in today’s world of everything is on DVD (insert link to lame show that is on dvd here) it is a crying shame that we can only buy this show on vhs and only then at swap meets.
Petition Link
Show Home Page (soup2nuts)
Wikipedia Dr. Katz Homepage
Oh My God! I’m in heaven! I thought that I would never taste that sweet lychee gel again! But no! But yes! The time is here again! Thanks to Amanda, who bestowed upon me this bounty of lychee based glory! Now I just have to decide how to ration out my lychee gels. 6 months of lychee gel with one a month? Or 6 minutes of lychee gel with one a minute? Only time will tell. Hooray for the lychee!
No, not me listening to Creed! Haha. So, lately I’ve found that I’ve been clenching/grinding my teeth more often — especially (I think) when I sleep. I’m attributing this to going back on coffee (don’t you worry coffee, things are still great with us), but it may also have to do with anger and stress (but mostly coffee). Anyway, chocolate seems to help ease the tension. So, I guess I should watch the coffee intake at night (and chill out a bit, what’s the big deal anyway?).
So, we were all just screwing around, making up lame gang signs for ourselves, like, a B for Ben, etc. This one was for Nebraska (I’m from there) (obviously you can see how we derived the sign). Anyway, we were out partying that night, and we met some guy from Kansas. So, I being from a rival state (Nebraska is rivals with all its neighbors), threw my sign and said, “yo, I’m from Na-brass-ka.” The guy from Kansas put his head down in shame, “ah, Kansas doesn’t have a sign.”
with coffee! I brewed a pot of kona coffee this morning. I’m back to my old routine. I’ve got most of the coffee in my thermos ready to take to work. What wasn’t put in the thermos was enough to fill a coffee cup. Amazing how I’m waking up now, feeling a bit more alert and ready to get going with the day. btw, kona coffee is delicious. it’s just solid and smooth, there’s nothing wrong with it, every drink ends in me thinking, “damn, that’s some mighty delicious coffee.” Thanks again Mike for the coffee! Onward with my day, and the coffee insanity.
2 cups in the morning and still I had to bed down for a killer nap this afternoon (it is a holiday after all). I guess my caffeine tolerance is still relatively in-tact. We’ll test that theory more tomorrow.
