archshrk

September 2007

• Saturday 29 | Who’s going to win the WII

  (NetChick) This Chick’s Life- » The Finalists – It’s time to VOTE! (Who’s going to win the WII?)
  You have until the end of the day today to vote for the winner of NetChick’s “Super Deluxe 10 Year Bloggoversary Contest”. This vote is for your favorite of the 20, random, well-written, fun entries from all [...]

• Friday 28 | Bloggers are people too

  I just met my first blog friend. Or rather, met a blog friend face-to-face – for the first time. In fact, she was a house guest of ours for the week. It was not what I expected but still a nice experience. Strange, I thought my first “blog meet” would be with a more [...]

• Friday 28 | Official Gmail Blog: “M” is for…mute

  Official Gmail Blog: “M” is for…mute
  Found this very useful. Bill Kee from the Official Gmail Blog had this tip to share. I can think of more than one occasion where this would have been used me and the missus.
  I use the “m” shortcut key to mute the conversation and spare my inbox. As [...]

• Friday 28 | Nursing Covers by Julia

  Recently, Julia started making Nursing Blankets (commonly known as “Hooter Hiders” which is also sold under the name Bebe au Lait). The name brand ones cost $45 or more and do come in cool patterns. But they still cost $45.

  Making them isn’t very difficult, it just takes some basic sewing skills and time. [...]

• Wednesday 26 | Teach your man to dance

  I probably shouldn’t share this because my wife will see it and get some ideas but it’s too funny not to share.

  In other news (hey, I’ve been using that line a lot lately)
  I’ve been getting more fun and inviting emails spam. Lately it’s been job related as in this well written title for [...]

• Tuesday 25 | Some people just get me

  Some people just get me. Take Angie for example. She’s over in Australia doing her graduate studies and sent us a gift package from when she was in New Zealand. In it was a variety of items including jewelry, a t-shirt, some Tim Tams (yum) and this.

  It’s a set of [...]

• Monday 24 | shark infested beaches

  Saw an ad online for a certain search engine that was titled “top 10 shark infested beaches” which got me to thinking…
  Beaches don’t typically have problems with sharks – it’s the waters that are infested. Then again…
  References to “land sharks” appear in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century sailing chanties, referring to merchants who cheated sailors. Indeed, [...]

• Monday 24 | Cadbury Dairy Milk Rocks

  Cadbury Dairy Milk – Glass and a Half Full Productions.
  I just wanted to share this with my primate-loving blog friends. It’s not everyday you see a primate in his prime.

  In other news, I just love this comic. Is that disturbing? Speaking of – real life blog friend Wendy is here visiting the [...]

• Saturday 22 | For the sake of God and humanity give an immediate positive consideration

  With a title like that, who could resist…
  I could.
  This was the title to one of my recent spam emails. Or should I say scam emails since they wanted to give me millions of dollars from a secret trust to use for good. Only, I wouldn’t. I’d use it for evil.
  In related news, [...]

• Thursday 20 | Revolution in Orange

  Since we’re on the topic of baby gear, I thought I’d take a moment to share why we chose the BOB Revolution Jogging Stroller.
  There are a lot of choices you have to make when preparing for the joy of a new child in your life and the gear you choose can make things easier or [...]

• Thursday 20 | Cotton Tale Designs

  As Julia and I patiently await the arrival of our son (Dec 12), we continue to review the things we need to do and items we need to get. Some are absolute necessities like a crib and stroller and car seat and others are things that would really make things easier like safety gates [...]

• Wednesday 19 | Nebraska State Senator Sues God

  The Associated Press: Nebraska State Senator Sues God

  LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The defendant in a state senator’s lawsuit is accused of causing untold death and horror and threatening to cause more still. He can be sued in Douglas County, the legislator claims, because He’s everywhere.
  State Sen. Ernie Chambers sued God last week. Angered by another [...]

• Wednesday 19 | Talk Like a Pirate Day

  It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day and in honor of this special occasion, I offer you the following video from the archives…

  To learn more about this video and where it comes from (including lyrics) check out the original post “You are a Pirate“
  Here’s the video Sidar mentioned in the comments…

• Tuesday 18 | Student tasered for being a menace to society

  As you can see from the above video, the student in question was beginning to harass Sen. Kerry. For whatever reason, the campus police decided to remove the student (heckler?) from the venue. Now we can debate the validity of this decision but at the moment the student began resisting, he became a [...]

• Monday 17 | Quick Linker from Amazon

  Amazon has added a plethora of new widgets to add to your website. My favorite, is the Quick Linker Widget.
  After you install this widget to your blog or Web Page, you can quickly and easily link to relevant Amazon.com products as you write your blog posts or update your page content by including custom [...]

• Monday 17 | New Contact Page – Now with more spam

  So I realized recently that my old contact page wasn’t working. And by working, I mean the form didn’t show up anymore. So I quickly did a search for an update but the original author is no more. Not deterred, I turned to the ever-present Google to find a new contact form [...]

• Sunday 16 | Pachelbel Bedtime

  This is what I get to look forward to.

  Can’t wait.
  You can thank Honestyrain (and Imperfect Symmetry) for this one. Now if I can just find the lyrics, I can start practicing now.

• Saturday 15 | Featured Site – PhotoJulia

  By now, my long time readers probably already know about my wife’s site but new visitors obviously don’t but either way, I wanted to call attention to her site as she has really started to take this blogging thing seriously. Her site, PhotoJulia.com, was little more than a photo gallery site wrapped in a [...]

• Saturday 15 | Shadow Government

  They Might Be Giants have never shied from unique visuals and concepts. Hell, they invented dial-a-song and took inspiration from Williamsburg when it was still dangerous. In that vein, the uncompromising John and John duo teamed with ColourMovie for their animated new video, ‘The Shadow Government,’ off their latest album, The Else – Spinner

• Tuesday 11 | It’s quiet, too quiet

  I haven’t had much to say or have been too busy to say it but I thought a quick summary was in order.
  First, I’ve begun to read regularly to my son.

  I’ve heard that reading to your children before their birth is an effective way to bond with them. I feel closer to [...]

• Friday 7 | How to make a peanut butter sandwich

  A friend of mine shared this perfect ice breaker question for use at a party where nobody knows each other (say…a movie premier)
  What is the one correct way to make a peanut butter sandwich?
  Seems simple enough until you start getting into the details. What kind of bread, toasted or plain, PB on one side [...]

• Friday 7 | Domain for Sale

  I’m always on the lookout for a good deal. Luckily, one of my regular readers, archway, told me about a killer deal in a recent comment…
  I saw this domain for sale, according to the appraisals, its worth over $5000.00 usd. It has just the perfect amount of keywords….
  Turns out the site they were telling [...]