Meeze, toys and giants

I started off with Meeze because I liked the word (say it with me now "Meeze") but it was filled with avatars which, like all animatronics, totally creep me out. You see there was this incident many years ago on the It's a Small World ride at Disney land and ... well... These avatars were especially bad as they just kept jumping around all over the place. Too scary for my poor scarred Psyche so I moved on.

I really liked FDtoys very easy to use so I "Warholed" Walter (the sexist man in anime) . Pretty cool.

I eventually ended up in Glass Giant which has very easy to use image makers. ......

And fun projects such as how to build a siege engine.

and links for fun things. Such as how to build a siege engine.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/trebuchet/

Very useful. I love educational television.

Then I moved on to Library Thing and Rollyo

Nothing more fun than making learning more Ike work. Perhaps it's just me but really, come on. I tried to make it fun by listing my collection of books that were borrowed from the library and returned many decades late but even that seemed too much like working to me.

Now there is a similar site I really like called bookcrossing.

http://bookcrossing.com/

It is a collection of free range books that people register then "release" into the wild. It is fun to see where your book has been and where it goes after you set it free. I have been specializing in refurbishing old battered books. Sort of a wild book rescue & rehabilitation center. So don't scream when you see something dusty crawling out of the dumpster, singing show tunes, behind your local library. It's probably just me.

As for Rollyo. Love the name (sounds like candy), love the concept, found it boring.

http://www.rollyo.com/

Here is the link if you want to try it out. Really, it's not that bad I just found it well, boring.

Not much of an endorsement but hey, it is, what it is.

Week 4 bloglines news feeder

I had fun looking at all the news feeds available. It was different than I expected. I guess I thought I would see more feeds like Reuters AP and BBC but as it is a blog to create blogs I should not have been so surprised to see so many, well, blogs. I wish I could have just directly linked the news feeds to my current blog from the blog line. I will go back and work on that some more after the 23 things assignment is over. Worth looking at though. A lot of specialty blogs out there. A lot of weird stuff too.

Week 3 tech thought:
It is all moving very fast. First you finally let go of your Betamax (let us not even discuss the laser disc) because everything, everything is VHS . Then, you have to get a DVD player if you want to watch any movies because they have stopped releasing them on VHS but you keep the VCR because you might want to tape something on TV. Something educational of course off of PBS. But times grind forward and just as you begin to consider a recordable DVD or Tivo (you know, for that special on sharks on PBS for the kids, certainly not to record America's got Talent" or anything so mundane ) along comes Blue ray which seems to me to be just a glorified DVD putting on airs.
f that change threw you off for awhile you are lucky because now, forget the Betae, forget the VHS, the DVD, the RDVD, the Tivo and the Blue ray that is all old hat stone age technology that is. No, you don't want all that old stuff. What you want is downloadable media. ...
I guess they figure I have spent enough on hardware and it's time for me to buy software because I don't have the right programs on my PC. Then you find out that you 2 year old computer is really pretty out of date and don't you want a nice power book with Wifi instead? Of course, if you really want to enjoy this download properly, what you really need is a new home entertainment center with wireless surround sound and a touch screen remote with security camera options so you can see what Xbox video game the kids are watching while you tape that PBS special on sharks ... at least I think it was sharks ... I was distracted by the credit card and electrical bills and think I might have passed out for a moment.

NAK NAKAPALOOZA

The Nak Naks in my office have parties when I am not looking, I just know it.

It's not just that they all seem rearranged each morning when I come in. There's the smell of stale pizza in the air and the teeny tiny little cups with beer dregs and cigarette butts in the trash can that make me suspicious as well. Then there was the time I had to scrape purple icing off of the PC screen...

Then the complaints started from the maintenance staff. Skittles all over the floor (oh yes, they love skittles), itty bitty pool toys left in the sink, plastic forks embedded in the wall, that sort of thing.




My boss, of course, thought I was crazy when I said it was the Nak Naks. "Don't be silly" she said, "Toys don't eat pizza plus if they swam in the sink their little paper stickers would fall off!"

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No one would believe me. I was resigned to my fate. Destined to bear the blame for the misguided whims of demented plastic stacking toys, but then it all changed. I found this poster you see (It was about "1"x"2" and stuck to the bottom of my shoe) and it was advertising "NAK NAKAPALLOOZA" . "THE MOST STUPENDOUSLY AWESOME NAK PARTY EVER!"

"?" said I and read on.

"So BEYOND AWESOME you won't believe it. Wilder than a trip to 6 Flags Under the Freeway. More fun than the Ye Wee Renaissance festival. Better than CATS! Music, rides, food, free love, free Admission. Tickets available online. BYOB.

"Cripes!" I yelped. "Maintenance is going to have a fit! My boss's head is going to explode! I am in big trouble"

I wheeled on the miscreant toys. "NO, NO, NO, NO!" I cried.

"What?" they seemed to ask innocently.

"This!" I shouted, holding the poster between two fingers and waiving it at them.

"Oh, that" the small, possibly non-existent voices said. "That's nothing. Just a little get together. Don't worry your pretty little, um big, head about it."

"Don't you dare patronize me!" I shrieked, just as coworker passed my office. She gave me a puzzled look and moved on quickly. My reputation was spreading. I lowered my voice. "I forbid you to have this party." I said calmly.

They did not move, their faces did not change expression, and yet they seemed to be taunting me.

"I will not continue to take the blame for your, your, shenanigans!" I squeaked. "I'll tell!"

"Who's going to believe you?" came the whispered, most likely hallucinatory reply.

I stormed out of my office (I swear I heard laughing behind me) and hid in the bathroom for 20 minutes. All that afternoon I could feel their artificial gazes boring into the back of my head, daring me to tell someone about the party. I didn't look at them. I wouldn't give them the satisfaction of the slightest glance. Smug little plastic jerks! Besides, I had a plan...

That night, disguised as a reporter from the New York Times, I infiltrated their party and took the following incriminating photographs. Thus, vindicating my good name.

WARNING: The following photographs contain scenes of unbridled plastic debauchery and may not be suitable for viewing by children... or adults really for that matter...

NAK NAKAPALOOZA !!!

THE BAND KICKED OFF ABOUT 9:00PM

THERE WAS THE USUAL...

MOSH PIT

LIMBO

THEN, THE EXTREME SPORTS STARTED...

THE TRICK BIKE DEMOS (note the lack of helmets)



FILE CABINET RAPPEL

BUNGEE JUMPING

MAGNETIC BOOT DANCING

SNOWBOARDING





FREE FORM GYMNASTICS ON THE COAT RACK


IT WAS ALL STILL RELATIVELY CONTROLLABLE BUT

THEN, THEY STARTED HITTING THE SLURPEE CUP

AND THE OFF ROAD VEHICLES STARTED ARRIVING









THE PARTY WAS GETTING WILD












IMPROPER USE OF THE INTERNET AND OFFICE SUPPLIES BECAME RAMPANT

THEN SOME IDIOT HIT ON MY NANCY PEARL LIBRARIAN ACTION FIGURE. SHE TOLD HIM OFF BUT HER BOYFRIEND GOT MAD AND A FIGHT BROKE OUT

AFTER THE POLICE LEFT, A FEW OF THE STRAGGLERS DECIDED TO GO SKINNY DIPPING

AND, DESPITE, REPEATED LECTURING ON MY PART,

THEY STILL LEFT THEIR TOYS IN THE SINK!