Showing posts with label World Wide Wednesday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Wide Wednesday. Show all posts
11.24.2010
10.10.2010
Fox News?
So what did I do to deserve an appearance on Fox news? In the last year I have appeared on Fox News (once) more often than I have watched it. Apparently, amid the latest hullabaloo over whether Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton are destined to switch seats for the 2012 election the network showed an old clip from Biden's speech in Nashua when I introduced him. I show up at screen right at about 1:02 and cough. If your curious about my thoughts on Hillary I clap a little too softly on Biden's comments that she's qualified and laugh a little too loudly at the notion that the one-term celebrity senator is more qualified than Biden. I wonder if I can sue for using my image without permission? If Joe Biden reads this blog he would know, as a former constitutional law professor.
On edit: I am aware it is not World Wide Wednesday, I just thought that the Fox News thing was too funny to wait three days.
9.29.2010
Who needs cable?
So chalk up one point for who needs cable with the website Hulu.com. All the content you crave? No, but a lot of content and free.
8.25.2010
8.18.2010
Rrrrrrrrr!!
Family-friendly fun, free, pirates, hours of online entertainment...how could you go wrong? Addictive, somewhat mindless, major waste of time, and possible detrimental to you marriage...you know for starters. Then of course there is the stigma of admitting to playing video games when you are a grown adult in a management position.
I could never really get into the MMO scene (that is massive multi-player online). Frankly, I'm not that social in real life I don't have a lot of interest in being social in the land of make-believe. I will admit to having (and yes using) a PlayStation 2. When I get a little downtime, every six months or so, I do still like to pop in a sports game and run it up on the Yankees or Ohio State. There are just some teams I will always love to hate. Anyway, for World Wide Wednesday I thought I would provide a link to Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean which offers a free mode and a naturally more elaborate pay for play mode. And for the record, in my video game world USC never goes on sanctions.
8.11.2010
World Wide Wednesday
Perfectly normal valedictorian speech until about 1:15 in, then things get a little weird. Credit the young lady for four years of hard work but then you have to scratch your head a little when she lets a puppet give half her speech. God, I love YouTube.
7.21.2010
I Write Like
For our first installment of World Wide Wednesday I picked a simple little website which I came across "which analyzes your word choice and writing style and compares them with those of the famous writers." I write like is a very straight forward website where you copy a sample of your writing and simply paste it into a block, click on the analyze button at the bottom of the page, and presto your work has been compared to a famous and well respected author.
I played around with the website and copied a few different posts. The website is certainly good for one's self esteem because at best I was comically compared to James Joyce and at worst I was compared to Stephen King (who does OK in spite of what critics might suggest). Interestingly enough the website never responded by saying, "your writing is crap, did you ever wonder why your a blogger rather than an author?"
7.17.2010
The Best Laid Plans...
So I have thought out an agenda for the blog. I doesn't necessarily mean that I will start writing every day and I reserve the right to break my own self imposed rules. In the interest of sparking a higher quality of creativity I will try to post on different topics on different days. That way over the course of a week a thought can be more refined on a given topic.
Monday- Motion Picture Monday's will be for discussing or reviewing movies, either the family movie of the week, a new movie coming out, or perhaps a classic favorite. Another possibility is secondary topics related to movies such as who's the best Bond or the Jedi Religion.
Tuesday- Fish Stories will be reserved for Tuesdays. I do most of my fishing over the weekend so this is a good day to spin some new yarns or share some photos.
Wednesday- World Wide Wednesday is the day to explore unusual articles and websites from the web. A link to a link can lead you to some interesting places, and there's always YouTube.
Thursday- A picture is worth A Thousand Words. Picture, link as appropriate, and credit only no words on Thursday.
Friday- Family Friday will cover our adventures in parenting, what the boy is up to, etc.
Saturday- Jumble covers loose odds and ends Muskrat scores, politics, crazy drivers with cell phones, whatever.
Sunday- Super Sports Sunday covers topics near and dear to my heart in the world of sports. The Tour de France, the Little League World Series...whatever as long as it's sports related.
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