Sesame Chrysander

Jeff posted this link in a comment... it's good enough to post up front here for all to see. Yeah, all of you ;)



?Jeff, is that YOU?

:)

Gygax Loses Saving Throw

Gary is dead.

Colbert Report - Rolls a natural 20

/Big time geek for those of you who know who Gary is

Google Down

“Google shares were down 7.1 per cent to $451.90 by lunchtime in New York, following a 4 per cent fall on Monday. The stock is down 20 per cent in the past month and is nearly 40 per cent off its all-time high of $747 last November.” - Financial Times in depth. It’s just about time to buy my google stock… I’ve been waiting since their IPO, still waiting.



/I will fix the above link tonight when I get back in front of my home computer – this post is an email post again, and I think I will need to spend a little time learning how to properly email a link to the blog. Until then, let me apologize for the broken-ness of the recent posts.

Spending in Canada

“Canadians are spending a greater chunk of their incomes on housing, air travel and cell phones while the proportion devoted to personal taxes has hit a 14-year low, a government report showed Tuesday.” – reportonbusiness.com – Globe & Mail

From this same article; a record 31 per cent of households (in Alberta) bought new computer hardware. I am, unfortunately, one of the remaining 69 per cent who continue using old technology. Much to the chagrin of those folks I *used* to play COD2 with. It’s been a while. Meh.

Spidey & era & Speed Painting

Today era wore his spidey slippers with the light-up eyes. They looked kind of like moon boots on the little boy. I am slowly ensuring that era grow up with Spidey along side (thank you Marvel...). You will recall the indoctrination includes memorizing the original animated jingle. And now, pictorial proof i'm dressing the little gaffer up in spidey wear.


Life is good. Life isn't any worse with spidey duds on.


This is my new screen saver here at home. (a better version obviously, which, i might share if someone i knew were interested...) Anyhoo...

era rocks!

This Spidey illustration video is quite stunning, and well worth the few minutes it takes to watch. This video is 4 minutes of sped up paint shop pro style sketch & color. Nico di Mattia. Intense sound track too... heh.



/era has seen this youtube video, but we haven't watched any of the Spiderman movies yet. i need to save something for his early teen years, don't i? :)

Lord Tennyson Charge

At Toastmasters today i was working from a brand new manual. My speech today was an interpretive poetry reading. It's just a good thing it wasn't an interpretive dance, that might have been uncomfortable.

"This poem was written to memorialize a suicidal charge by light cavalry over open terrain by British forces in the Battle of Balaclava (Ukraine) in the Crimean War (1854-56). 247 men of the 637 in the charge were killed or wounded. Britain entered the war, which was fought by Russia against Turkey, Britain and France, because Russia sought to control the Dardanelles. Russian control of the Dardanelles threatened British sea routes." - National Center

/it's probably important to note that the Battle of Balaclava was in Ukraine, not "The Ukraine"... would you say "The" Canada?
//don't mind me, i just watched an episode of Corner Gas where Oscar was on that exact rant about pronouncing "the" Ukraine. Heh.

Alfred Lord Tennysonis known for writing The Charge of the Light Brigade (and not nearly as well known for wild wild hair)

"Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!" he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

"Forward, the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldier knew
Some one had blundered:
Their's not to make reply,
Their's not to reason why,
Their's but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.

Flashed all their sabres bare,
Flashed as they turned in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wondered:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right through the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reeled from the sabre-stroke
Shattered and sundered.
Then they rode back, but not,
Not the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came through the jaws of Death
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.

When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!"

/worth the read!
//Now you're even more cultured... you can thank me later.

HEMA - online winkelen

Occasionally one might find true brilliance on the interweb. Absolute stunning beauty and design... from time to time it can be found. Honest.

HEMA - Online Winkelen is such a site. Visit... and wait for the flash player to load. It is worth it, i guarantee it! Stunning quality and visual stimulus in a sort of ode to mouse-trap. Ahh, those creative Dutch.

/thanks to instapundit, where i first found the online winekelen, proving once again that bloggers are quite lunatic. Kinetic art, whether a product of Flash, as displayed by HEMA, or within physical reality, as display by Tim Fort below; kinetic artistry is a lot of fun.

//Tim Fort's video may be the longest domino sequence ever! at least that is how he bills it.

Weijers Domino Productions: The Number 1 Dominotainment Company in the World. The Dutch appear to take dominotainment extremely seriously. wow. A blogger by the name of JackMonkey does a fine job of providing a background and synopsis of this apparent dominoluminati, and manages to bridge a Pet Shop Boys video into the conversation...

The interweb is a strange strange place.

Hasbro Litigates Scrabulous

"Rather than participating in the online gaming market, Hasbro is suppressing it with litigation. Scrabulous, a Scrabble imitation, is already fighting to prevent being shut down." - Slashdot

i've not joined facebook yet, but for those who have, Scrabulous is a big reason why, or so i hear. :)

Era - Pez

Era helped me take stock of my PEZ collection the other day. i had the digi-cam out and was updating my inventory with digital pics. Era likes pics... and he loved the Pez i gave him for all his help.









The E.T. pez era has in the last two pictures is one i bought in Kenya... at a super market in Nairobi. The super market was on the main floor of an open air 3 story mall... lots of stairs, and lots of fun.

Orexin A

Hmm... This looks promising;

Snorting "a totally new route for increasing arousal, and the new study shows it to be relatively benign, said Jerome Siegel, a professor of psychiatry at UCLA and a co-author of the paper. "It reduces sleepiness without causing edginess." - WIRED.com

The article goes on to say that "A nasal spray containing a naturally occurring brain hormone called orexin A reversed the effects of sleep deprivation in monkeys, allowing them to perform like well-rested monkeys on cognitive tests."

My blogging would increase, that is for sure.
/Did i just imply that my blogging of late is likened to the blogging of a sleep deprived monkey? (i must be tired)

:)

Era, Levi & the Seven Samurai

A couple era pics to hold you over to new years... or sooner.



era & Duke kickin' it by the tree.


On Christmas day, the boys out at the farm.


Little buddy Levi and era.




That last picture isn't even staged... Renee found era with the video, he had gone and picked that video case over all the others. I am assured of era's good taste now. The Seven Samurai is an absolute classic... i've seen it almost as many times as i've seen The Godfather, or The Blues Brothers.

ASUS mini laptop

I know what i want for Christmas... (or maybe, as my after-Christmas-buy-it-myself)



/Thanks Instapundit for the link...

The ASUS Mini Laptop according to Engadget

//must justify this as a necessity for work... hmmm

85 Grrr

When was the last time you spent $85,000 and didn't know it.

Cellphone user rings up $85,000 bill - Globe & Mail.

This happened right here in Alberta. That's a lot of downloaded material.

Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day

It's too late now, unless time travel really is possible?
Saturday night, it's late and i just found out how important today really was; how much i could have had... oh the sadness:

"It's "Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day" on Saturday, Dec. 8. Here are some suggestions to celebrate the traditional holiday:

Remember, dystopian future travelers are very startled that they've gone back in time. Some starters:

- If you go the "prisoner who's escaped the future" try shaving your head and putting a barcode on the back of your neck. Then stagger around and stare at the sky, as if you've never seen it before.

- Walk up to random people and say "WHAT YEAR IS THIS?" and when they tell you, get quiet and then say "Then there's still time!" and run off.

- Stand in front of a statue (any statue, really), fall to your knees, and yell "NOOOOOOOOO"

- Stare at newspaper headlines and look astonished.

- Take some trinket with you (it can be anything really), hand it to some stranger, along with a phone number and say "In thirty years dial this number. You'll know what to do after that." Then slip away." - The Volokh Conspiracy

/ala 12 monkeys. i could have had a lot of fun with this today. I'll have to watch for today next year.

Battle Friction

I am re reading one of my favorite marketing tombs. In it (and near the front too, which is nice) the author (William A. Cohen) says this:

(regarding flexibility) "An old maxim says that everything that can go wrong will go wrong. Von Clausewitz called the difference between what was planned and what was actually encountered in combat *battle friction*. Every corporate strategist must be prepared for battle friction. This is accomplished by building flexibility into the plan in such a way that risk and uncertainty are allowed for to the maximum extent possible. Thus a change of direction, once engaged in the marketplace, is not only possible but fairly easy to accomplish."

/As an aside,my computer, i am told, is horribly out of date. Don't get me wrong, the computer still works, i can blog from it, i play some games on it, Renee uses it for her latest facebook escapades, so it works, and it has a fantastic custom case (totally rad, or something). I digress, CoD4 is coming out this month, and i fear that my computer might experience extreme battle friction if i were to try and play said game on this old jalopy of a rig. Sad really.



//Did you watch that trailer? I'm buying a new rig.

Robot Versus Pirate Versus Ninja

Yesterday i innocently posted the Ninja Parade video.
Immediately i received a comment of the ever popular "Ninja vs Pirate" conversation.
A conversation i've posted on this blog at least once before, June 2006: Ninja Versus Pirate.

Seeing as that is where this conversation is going, and how this topic is descending... i might as well throw some fuel on the fire:

Popular Mechanics is running an article right now titled Robot Boats Hunt Pirates. The article is easily as interesting as it sounds, maybe more so.

/i am reminded of last weeks Toastmasters meeting, where J.K. explained to us during his table topic the secret training process of ninja's, as it related to his small children. You would have enjoyed being there, i did.

Ninja Parade

Parades are good.
Ninja's are good, too, i think.


Ninja Parade Slips Through Town Unnoticed Once Again

/This is satire. it is supposed to be funny... and not true. Satire is a good thing, sometimes.

/Thanks for the link C.H.

The Link: Monty & Caffeine

Attended the Link this morning.
Link is church, but not like any church i imagine you've attended before. Maybe you have, maybe not.

To start with, when i arrived, a good man brewed a fresh americano coffee for me. For real. I think i know coffee, this one wasn't just good, it was fantastic... mmm Caffeine.

Then, to make the morning even better by leaps and bounds (and it worked!), Pastor Mike used a video clip from Monty Pythons for the sermon illustration.

Youtube has a copy of said clip. Watch and enjoy. Then remember we saw this clip this morning... at church.

(!--- EDIT) this below clip is NOT what we watched at the Link this morning. The clip is funny for sure, just not what Mike used as his sermon illustration. The illustration was the first minute or so, when Arthur approaches the castle for the first time... which transpires just before this clip fits into the movies continuity.
The link should now work too... meh, hypertext. The youtube video box is now GONE. oops.
(end edit ---!)

/Off to watch the Quest for the Holy Grail (i have the 2001 re-release, if you were wondering. This version contains an additional 24 seconds of material that had not been released before (even tho it had been released before, who am i to argue).

Blackberry Pie

I received an email today, from a distraught blackberry user. The email said, in a nut-shell:

“Get RID OF HEADER!!!!!!

Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device”.

/ten bonus points if you can guess who sent that note.

Heh. The graphic signature that Kris at Classic had designed for me makes a mess of blackberry users being able to read my emails.

The work that we do here is entirely to time sensitive to knowingly risk something important NOT being transmitted, or received as intended. I don’t ever want to do that to any of you.

I wonder if major events &/or natural disasters might be averted entirely merely by doing away with the graphic signature (as ego boosting as I might find it!).

It’s almost as if technology itself is stating “say no to graphic signature files on your emails, and say yes to a better, more productive, more peaceful life… You can do it!”

So, as of today, and until I need an ego boost of my own, I have answered the sirens song: The graphic signature has been retired… make mine text based. Mmmmmmm blackberry pie.

Ciao,

Jace Anderson

Escapa 26.797

26.797 seconds!




Click here to see the pic in full size, if you care.


I first got this *Air Force* game Friday afternoon from someone at work. My afternoon was shot from that point on. The game says if you beat 18 seconds you are "doing brilliantly".

I'm not anywhere near *air force* material (120 seconds), but i am doing better than brilliantly, which is gratifying.

This is a good way to pass the minutes while i wait for all 48 polling stations in Medicine Hat to report.

The Loonie & Colbert

"Canada was founded by a duck, a beaver & a moose. That... that's known." - Steven Colbert (1:28 into the linked clip)

The Loon closes higher than the US dollar... Steven Colbert puts Canada in his cross hairs.

Wendy's Contest Period Closed

The Wendy's Kick for a Million contest ends September 16th... that's a Sunday. Upon closer inspection, that is this Sunday, aka today. I have a total of 124 entries logged online for this contest. Not nearly enough i fear.

/This is that familiar part of addiction... the crash. :(

//And now, for the reflection... it was fun while it lasted;

August 26, 2007 - "The Baconator Made Me Do It"

September 3, 2007 - "Nine For Nine"

September 15, 2007 - "Stamps Game Today"

///Nothing left to do but wait for the phone call.

Rocketboom & Brie

I had lunch with a couple friends this week. We met at TWIST downtown. I enjoyed (in a panini w/ pear & glaze) the most incredible brie i've tasted since spending that sunday morning in Amsterdam.

During the conversation we reminisced about Rocketboom & Amanda Congdon. It's been a long time since i talked about, let alone thought about either. When Amanda left Rocketboom, so did i, tho i didn't think to follow Amanda either. It was a different time i suppose.

i watched this episode of Rocketboom tonight. It was fun i guess. The new host is ok, i guess. What i appreciated tho, was the link and referral to see this Chris Jordans' current work; Running the Numbers. Genius... pointed too.

/i've never read about Chris Jordan before, but i'm sure i will again.

Badonkadonk

Heh... oops.

i suggested a good friend (b.k.) by his son one of these when he turns sixteen. Seems harmless enough, and i know he is a big starwars fan.

Said friend thought i meant one of these (This is the oops part i mentioned above). i've never even heard of Trace Adkins before. ("...goin' on like Donkey Kong" - now THAT is funny)

/i had some explaining to do. It *was* good for a laugh. Semantics can be so fun.

// i can already imagine the influx in traffic i'll be getting to this page from google. Sorry folks, no pictures here, but thanks for stopping by.

NEWSCIENTIST RATATAT

Try this:

Listen to RATATAT; Brooklyn electronica & hip-hop. You can find their music on their myspace page.

Do you have that music going yet? The music itself isn't the trip, or the point. This is the point:

Now that you are listening to RATATAT (headphones preferably...) now go read the New Scientist article on "13 things that do not make sense". Yeah, this is a good little sensory overload. Maybe a bit too deep for Sunday night, or it might be exactly what the doctor ordered. What do you think?

Nine for Nine

Every day, once a day you can kick field goals on Wendy's website. Each field goal you hit (getting consistently farther and farther away from the uprights) is worth an entry in their "Kick for a Million" contest.
I play this almost every day (i missed yesterday due to lack of computer access). Today, just moments ago, was the first time that i hit ALL NINE of the field goals (including the 50 yarder). Now, i realize this is an online game, and i further realize that i am labouring over a trite marketing campaign. But seriously, Nine for Nine... Boo-yeah! (i would so nail the real life 50 yarder for sure, now that i can account for wind direction and stuff)

You also get extra points when you Lift the Lip of your Wendy's drink. We were in Calgary this weekend (for the Zoo) and i wanted to eat at Wendy's for every meal. While i do like their menu more than most fast food shacks, i have to be brutally honest, all i could think of was getting more free entries in this addicting contest.

Is it weakness or strength?: We ate near Wendy's once, and it was all i could do to avoid going down their drive thru after dinner and buying a drink (i wasn't even thirsty) plus, i thought they might just sell me a couple dry cups, and save the actual fountain pop for someone else. Heh.

Bo Knows Tecmo

I remember doing this. A lot.



Tecmo Bowl for the original NES. Classic!

Kid n' Diapers

Google search features are a huge supplier of targetted traffic to this humble site. In fact, the two most popular word-string searches for the month of August 2007, so far (wherein folks find jaceanderson.com) are both:

Diaper Cakes
&
Kid n' Play

Should this concern me?

Blue Ocean Pirate

"You can keep your Bluebeards and your Blackbeards. The most successful pirate of all time controlled a fleet of more than 1,500 ships and upwards of 80,000 sailors --" - Mentalfloss

The pirate queen Cheng I Sao took pirating to a whole new level, exploiting industry generally left outside the realm of pirating all the while creating an economic industry in the blue ocean, thus devouring the highly contested red ocean.

/There is a website call mental floss? i like the internets. a lot.

The Baconator Made Me Do It

I like marketing. A lot. I could probably say that i *loved* marketing but, like the guy by the elevator in the recent Aero commerical "Love is such a strong word".

Subtle marketing for the soul is nice, but every once and a while i'll allow an in-your-face marketing campaign to grab my attention. How about that Baconator? The Official burger of the CFL. Heh. I love Wendy's. A lot. (Some folks aren't big fans of the new sandwich)

Lift The Lip (homage paid to Tim's Roll Up the Rim) today after lunch and won a free frosty. Them's are 1 in 9 odds. I'm hooked. So i grab both Pin #'s that i need to submit to the Wendys website and here i sit. I love the internets... i sure hope my odds carry on in my favor, i would love to kick for a million. Remember the last contest? The guy actually nailed the kick... he's raised the bar. I'm not sure if i'd nail the kick outside the 10 yard line, but in this contest, 10 yards is still worth ten grrr.

My odds would be infinitely better if i were able to use the PS2. (i kicked a 67 yard field goal once, Madden 2004 i think)

Anderson Leads Team Canada to Victory

I wasn't going to say anything but,
notice the boxscore for Team Canada's basketball victory over Venezuela (Fourth down from the top). i went 6 for 10. And played 33 minutes, more than any other team mate. Not bad after a long drive back from Pincher.

I love FIBA, i'm just glad we won...

Thread Killer?

So, i don't often post comments on blogs that are rife with debate... debate and temper flares for the most part. i read, lurk and move on "nothing to see here..." etc.

I was compelled to post a comment on a blog over at medhatblog.com about a playwright's interest in meeting folks in Medicine Hat about their perspective on the Richardson Murders.

The thread was getting hot under the collar... it was, and then i commented.
It's been a couple days now... and nothing. Not even so much as a "shut up jace". Nada. Zilch.

I would love to know from the host if anyone is even visiting the page any more.

The thread in question.

/Thanks Dave for the title "thread killer". heh.

Jace & Jace & ...

I'll recap a few links here...

The ebb and flow of popularity that is the name Jace

Jace INC

i have found the odd Jace here and there on the interweb. (pun intended)... and i have made off hand glib comments regarding one Jace Anderson in particular (other than myself of course, i can be my own harshest critic).

Anywhoo, i was googling myself again, to see if i'd made any inroads with the other Jace Anderson, and i found a personal blog (myspace) of the Hollywood Horror Jace Anderson. In the most recent blog post "Would the real Jace Anderson please stand up?" i found that i am described, in the world of Jace Anderson's as Medicine Hat Jace Anderson (i kind of like that, in an old world "your name is your moniker" sort of way).

In a twist of fate, i was glib and rude with my mention of the *other* jace anderson. The post was several years ago, and due to the interweb being a living form of archival it has been brought to the forefront again. a simple comment over a drink would have been taken differently for sure. Irregardless (which, is not a real word, if you are keeping score), irregardless, it was a stinging comment, and out of line; Interweb or not. My apologies.

The interweb can be such a hard place to write in, even looking back at past comments i wonder what i was thinking, what sort of humor tangent i *thought* i was on to think all would be funny.

Undersea Photography

Andrej Belic, Unterwasserfotographie

You just have to visit the site.

Bio Diesel Motorcycle

David Hubbards' Do It Yourself Bio Diesel Motorcycle runs on 0.65 cents a gallon. - Popular Mechanics

This is a MUST READ!

/Someone be sure to get this link in front of Rod!

Simpsons go to Tabaka

i have a reasonably long history with soapstone.
It really started in 1995 when my folks gift store was host to three Soapstone carvers from Kenya, they were traditional Kisii tribesmen.
We carried the stone in our store from then on... and sold a lot of it too. The chess sets were always a real hit.

Since 2005 i've been to Kenya a number of times, and the artisans working in soapstone have always been of special interest to me. I've not been let down. They really are phenomenal.

Now, with the beauty of the free market, the Simpsons have gone to Tabaka for a traditional soap stone rendering. And it looks good.

"The team carve replicas of the characters that sell for $6, a huge improvement on the $1 per piece they earned before The Simpsons came to Tabaka.

The business employs around 80 people - the carvers, the miners who provide the soapstone and the women who wash and polish the finished statues.

The head of the team, Daniel Oigo Mogendi, said he won the tender by accident when he had gone to the capital, Nairobi, to collect payment for a soapstone chessboard.

His client asked him to carve a prototype of Homer, the big-bellied family man who is fond of a beer" - BBC News

White & Nerdy

Weird Al played the Esplanade tonight.

i was there. It was as great as you'd expect, only a bit better.

Internet Africa

I've talked about this before. The interweb in Africa where i have been is remarkably slow... imagine a slow 14.4 connection. I recall talking with folks in Eastern Africa a couple years back about how excited they were for a new internet option to be added along the Eastern Coast line. It doesn't sound like it's happened, yet.

"...a market ripe for development, but the article explains that there are numerous difficulties involved getting an infrastructure project off the ground." - The current state of internet connectivity on the African continent.

David Lloyds Kickback

Kickback - Full Cut

Posted Jul 10, 2007

David Lloyd (V for Vendetta) talks at Jim Hanley's in NYC while on his U.S. publicity tour for his new graphic novelKickback. Lloyd discusses the book's 7-year journey from conception to publication and the obstacles he faced when trying to publish in the U.S.

He's proud of it. He said so. Several times.
V for Vendetta is classic Which i last blogged about, here. Sin City is referenced... and they mention France too, which i suppose is nice, for the French.

Michael Bays Little Pony

Transformers.

After watching the movie tonight, i am utterly convinced that if Michael Bay released his version of Hasbro's MY LITTLE PONY, i would watch that, in the theatre, his rendition of Transformers was that good. (Does he do G.I.Joe?)

Good movie... above expectations!

Sturgeon & Fergus

We spent some time in a cottage on Sturgeon Lake, just down the coastline from Lindsay & Bobcaygeon (remember the Hip?).
Then, a little more time in Fergus, and the surrounding countryside. What a great assortment of old world architecture, cultural diversity & great farmers markets... Wow.

First, era had the pleasure of learning to ride (a dog).
It is going to be stampede soon... and you have to start *busting* something, why not Petey the Dog?



/for those of you with knowledge of the sport, yeah, era got a full 8 seconds in.




Next, while boating Sturgeon Lake, Ontario, era managed to use the wheel. He's gonna make a fine pirate some day.





Summer time meant Sun time... and era got his share. This boy knows how to travel, and how to relax.

/i bought a can of Cheetah Energy Drink... heh... Not to drink (yet), but to put on the shelf as a reminder of that pivotal race in 1988 that i watched & CHEERED as Ben Johnson won. And now this: "Yes, I Cheetah all the time." Punny i suppose... but it's not a big hit, as reviewed by ads that suck.

// i bought the book. Hard cover. Reading it has been an absolute blast.

Flight of the Conchords

A good friend introduced me to the Conchords some time ago... funny funny kiwi's. Thanks for the links Dave.
This link is for you... they're not just musicians any more... now they have their own tv sitcom on HBO. Premiere was June 17, 2007.

The embedded link below is from Season One episode One. Visit their site for the entire episode for free... for a limited time.



i so LOVE that bicycle hat.
Oh, and "BINARY SOLO
00001111000011110000-0000" Heh.

/i think i will learn the Binary Solo so i can sing it to era.

Grover Teaches era

It's not saturday morning, but thanks to the interweb i can have Grover teach my boy any day of the week. Thanks Grover...

/and thanks Tim Berners-Lee who invented the interwerb (someone should have told him to make it larger)

//i suppose some thanks needs to go out to youtube as well!

Jace

According to the US Social Security Site the name Jace is growing in usage.

Popularity of the male name Jace
Year of birth / Rank
2006 187
2005 208
2004 228
2003 249
2002 281
2001 299
2000 310
1999 336
1998 379
1997 406
1996 466
1995 524
1994 568
1993 555
1992 550
1991 559
1990 552
1989 603
1988 626
1987 616
1986 616
1985 665
1984 736
1983 747
1982 850
1981 a
1980 947
1979 716
1978 a
1977 a
1976 a
1975 a
1974 a
1973 a
1972 a
1971 a
1970 a
1969 a
1968 a
1967 a
1966 a
1965 a
1964 a
1963 a
1962 a
1961 a
1960 a
1959 a
1958 771
1957 931
a Not in top 1,000 names for indicated year of birth
Note: Rank 1 is the most popular, rank 2 is the next most popular, and so forth. Name data are from Social Security card applications for births that occurred in the United States.

/Not sure what this means... Later i might explain why i even care.

42% More Buzz

Beaver Buzz

Just upped from a sleek 250 ml can to a sleek (sleeker?) 355 ml can.

Life just gets better and better.

42% bigger

42% stronger

42% more buzz

Falkirk Wheel

"The Falkirk Wheel, named after the nearby town of Falkirk in central Scotland, is a rotating boat lift connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal. The difference in the levels of the two canals at the wheel is 24 metres, roughly equivalent to the height of an eight storey building." - Wikipedia

/in case Grover's not your thing (the last post), dig this!

GOOG

Aside from the PR maelstrom of fears that Google unwittingly released recently, there are in fact other ways for the tech giant to crumble. Or so says the latest "Survival of the Nerdiest" column.

/GOOG is always a good look, for added depression inducing emotional responses. (i really regret not buying one or two of these).

Janke & Joost

Chatting about the intarweb the other nite, the topic of Joost came up.

"The magic of television, with the power of the internet built right in. Joost puts you in control, and TV will never be the same again." is the Joost marketing verbage.

Joost is in Beta i said (then added some glowing comnmentary) and left it at that.

Seems that Steve Janke (of Angry in the Great White North internet infamy) is a Beta Tester. Sweet.

"This is where things get really interesting. Television is a "lean back" medium. You consume the data stream with virtually no control besides selecting the channel.

The internet, on the other hand, is a "lean forward" medium. The data is modified and filtered by your active participation in how the data is consumed.

But now you've got television on the internet in an implementation that is stable enough to really begin thinking about what will result from the convergence." - Steve Janke's blog post.

Joost is designed by the same smart folks that came up with the concept for Skype, there is a lot of expectation on their latest offering.

Paul Goes to Spain

While i have never played any sport professionally, i have traveled some. So, in some way, i can really relate to the latest blog post by Blog Shirley: (at least his travel rants, heh)

"This particular entry may or may not make any sense, for two reasons:

1. I am sick and so am processing information at Apple IIe speeds.

2. I've already begun to speak in a mutated form of broken Spanish and pidgin English, resulting in sentences like, "Me go store now."

The second will become clear in due time.

What follows is an approximation at the time line of a portion of the last week." - Paul Shirley - ESPN.com

/ Paul wrote a book. A book only he could: Can I Keep My Jersey?: 11 Teams, 5 Countries, and 4 Years in My Life as a Basketball Vagabond

//Pauls myspace page is a friend of my myspace page. (This fact does not count for much, but i felt is was reasonable to mention)

1, 2 , 3, 4, 300

"Why the liberal furor over 300?"

Link found via my multiple daily visits to instapundit.

Ronin Next

i guess i will answer my own question:
I wonder which story is next? (Cast my vote for Ronin, ground-breaking)

The answer found:
In 2007 Gianni Nunnari, producer of 300, announced he would be producing and Sylvain White, director of Stomp The Yard, directing the Ronin film adaptation. Ronin Wikipedia

Ronin it is. I'm already looking forward to it.