BlogFerret

In the past, I’ve posted about focus, and then promptly and thoroughly failed to get some.

This is ok. Well, at least, I’m in a good place with that right now. Actually, I just wanted to let you guys know a few little things about my life, and sort of rev everyone (including myself) up for a few changes.

As some of you know, my life as taken a turn for the geek again recently. Now, while this turn really just involves an entry-level job at an engineering firm, it has forced me to re-examine a lot of my goals and my life overall. Read the rest of this entry »

I was a longtime fan of Fraggle Rock in childhood, but I don’t remember this episode. Still, this vid’s got three of my favorite things: music, knitting, and muppets! Enjoy.

Hey y’all. I would love it if you would try this  game, called Vikings, Pirates, Ninjas!

You can join with me as your referral by clicking this link:

http://www.vpnwars.com/meteor/vpn/redir/signup/?ra=51641

When you do a quest, and gain levels in certain increments, it gives me a certain amount of fame.

I suppose this is the latest game I’m interested in.  It’s a browser game that’s good for playing while you wait for other things to happen. (You know, that life stuff everyone keeps talking about.)  You can choose a faction: Viking, Pirate, or Ninja.  Of course, you get three toons, so you can actually be one of each, if you so desire. The game works with Flash and other apps, and you can do quests, buy stuff with the money you earn, or play mini games.  It’s only been live since April 27 or so, but it’s got a pretty good following. It was made by the creators of Neopets, which became hugely successful. This is a tiny bit more adult that Neopets, though. OK, in all honesty, I’m pretty experienced with Neopets, and it’s a lot more appealing to an adult audience than Neo is.  Apparently they know what they are doing. Also, this would be a good time to join, since you can “get in on the ground floor,” as it were. If you’re into that kind of thing. I’m totally digging it. It’s a bit more robust than many of the Facebook app games where you only have so many “moves,” but it’s still light enough that you don’t feel like you have to devote hours just to get anywhere. Many games are based on “time spent” type rewards, but I think this one is going to end up pretty balanced — if you make good decisions about where you need to use your energy, I think you can do pretty well.

If you join, be sure and friend my characters so that I can give you an “energy boost” when I see you on – energy lets you do more quests. My characters’ names are “Flintybones” (pirate) and “Kisi Wartooth” (Viking).  Facebook has this game as an app, but I don’t know how to get Facebook to do the referrals yet. But yeah, if you are even remotely interested, join through the link above and do a quest. That would rock. I don’t uusally ask for this sort of thing outright, but I thought this would be fun. I may even hit some of you up on Gtalk.  Sorry about blatantly trying to get referrals, but I figured that just this once it was worth a shot.

No really, I am. Now, this is going to seem a lot like some of my friends’ experiences when we were younger. I had friends who “came out” to us, their friends, and we all said, “Oh, really? You think we didn’t know already?” And I think anyone who has known me for, oh, five minutes or so, will have a similar reaction.

But I find it necessary here, to make some kind of public announcement. I’m a big nerd. I like to do nerdy things. I thought that as I got older and/or made more time to really look at my life and my interests, I would somehow find more “adult” and “sophisticated” versions of the favorite activities of my younger years. To some extent, it’s been true. I am able to do things now that I wasn’t able to do when I was younger. So what do I do with my time now that I have a little money and I have finally reconciled myself to the fact that I do have more time, and that’s ok? [editor's note: This is a very long entry. It is also very self-absorbed on my part. You have been warned.]

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Girl Genius is the best online comic ever! I would have a great little graphic here but my website is experiencing technical difficulties. These difficulties are probably due to a component error between the chair and the keyboard and will be rectified when I figure out what I did wrong.

In the meantime, I want to tell you about Girl Genius.

Thought I forgot, did you?

A student at Transylvania Polygnostic University, Agatha Clay seems to be your average beautiful but clumsy underdog of science. She’s orphaned, ignored, and seems to have a painful version of ADHD. The universe is created in the Steampunk genre, so you get the Victorian underwear and the more elaborate Rube Goldberg type technology. What could be better?  Magic and Science combined. Oh wait. and the best scientists are also a bit… well… MAD! Mad, I tell you! Oh, yeah, and the art is nothing short of fantastic. Fantastic, I tell you!

It should be noted that I have only reached volume three. I have to read the rest of it. You should too.

Ta.

I have updated this website to Wordpress 2.7 and also installed the “Subscribe to Comments” plugin. Now you can leave a comment and be notified if someone replies! Nifty, huh?

Brien gave me a gift card to Amazon for my graduation. Well, what with moving and all, and then my perverse enjoyment of anticipation over gratification, he basically almost got me a birthday present (2 weeks!).

I just wanted to say thank you again, Brien, and let you know that you got me really cool stuff. I got an educational book, a movie, and an electronic gadget – ok, a memory card, but it goes inside an electronic gadget. I put them on my Amazon store as the last three items, if you’re curious. But yes, through the magic of Amazon, I was able to get three of my very favorite things.

I’m pretty sure I’ve thank3ed everyone else for graduation goodies, but if I’ve missed you, feel free to berate me by email or even here, (sort of) publicly. I won’t be offended. And then you’ll probably get a thank you note in the mail if I have your address.

And yes, Brien, I could have emailed you, but this way is better: it announces your awesomeness to the world. If that makes you uncomfy, I’ll happily delete this post.

01/\/atch – Instructables – DIY, How To, tech

via Google, while searching for affordable binary watches. Why was I searching for affordable binary watches, you ask? Because I am not writing my paper on David Copperfield.

I finally decided to try this. This post was created using Avantgo and my faithful Sony Clie T615C.

…because the first thing I thought when I saw an ad for this was, “my pants.”

It’s the end of the quarter again, guys.  I’ve been up for 30 hours – mostly because I drank a pot of coffee last night and instead of leaving my paper alone after one revision, stayed up all night re-re-revising it.  So just give me a break.