Another important piece of my childhood has fallen by the wayside. The WWF is now the WWE. That story makes it sound like the World Wildlife Fund was being all unreasonable and litigious, though, when I thought that the wrestlers were the first ones to sue over copyright. *shrug* Oh well. Excuse me while I put on my Cyndi Lauper and reminisce about the Junk Yard Dog, Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant, and of course, George the Animal Steele.
Month: May 2002 (page 8 of 9)
No more Celebrity Jeopardy. It is a sad, sad day.
Sorry to be so absent. I’m working on releasing GoddessBlog to the world. Still have lots to do…
Since you guys did so well with the whole Thrustmaster/Stickmaster quiz, here’s another creative consumer challenge for you. There’s a commercial currently running on Australian TV that infuriates me. It’s shot like a 1940’s crime movie. With tense music pumping in the background, a well-dressed woman is cleaning up after a murder she has just performed. She drags the dead businessman on the floor out the door. She sweeps up broken glass. The music gets louder as police begin to close in on the house. She sweeps a pile of money off the desk into a bag. Just before the coppers burst in, she notices a small puddle of blood the corpse has left on the floor. So she…
What? Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to guess what the murderess does to avoid arrest, and to determine what product this stupid melodrama is selling. Any ideas?
Holy crap! Gretel was just getting ready to announce this week’s Big Brother evictee when the whole Channel 10 feed went black. No sound, no picture. It came back ten seconds later just in time for us to catch Aaron picking up his bags. (Good riddance, asshole.) But man! Somebody’s going to lose their job over that one. Or maybe it was industrial sabotage? The timing of it couldn’t have been worse. I love this show.
If you’re into comics, May 4 is Free Comic Book Day in the U.S. Apparently you can go into any comic book store and get one free!
As the weather gets colder here, my urge to bake kicks in. Yesterday I got a hankering for monkey bread. (Hey, even Cindy Crawford likes it!) Unfortunately they don’t seem to sell any kind of pre-prepared bread dough at my grocery store, so I decided to make it from scratch. I’d never even done a yeast bread before! My only previous yeast experiment was pizza dough (and I think we all remember how that went). But I persevered. I kneaded and I mixed (“Thanks, Stickmaster!”) and I pushed and I pulled. Eventually I got the damn thing in the oven. It actually turned out quite tasty, but there was one crucial flaw: it fell apart! The little balls didn’t stick together! I don’t know if my dough was too floury or what. Snookums thought it was great, but he’d never had it before. He didn’t realize that it’s not supposed to be a mound of individual cinnamon balls, but rather a cohesive loaf. It’s good to feel appreciated, though.
Sidenote: Bread is so damn labor-intensive! I don’t think I’ll be doing this very often. I’d rather pay a dollar for a loaf than spend three hours tending a big pile of goo.
I just received this from a friend. You’ve probably seen it already, but it gave me a chuckle.
When Mark Shuttleworth (that very rich space tourist) returns from
space, everybody dress in ape suits. Pass it on.
My newest web project, Purple Weasels.org, has finally launched! It’s so fun to see people using this thing that I have created. I think it’s a pretty good “community” site overall. I had originally planned on using phpWebSite for it, but I found myself spending most of my time turning off parts of the thing that we didn’t need. It was too huge and unwieldy for our purposes. Then one day, while doing my workout at the gym, I had a total epiphany and decided to rewrite the entire thing myself. It turned out even better than I expected. Now I’m wondering if maybe other people would be interested in it. I could write some documentation and package it up… Of course, I haven’t even gotten around to posting GoddessBlog yet, so don’t hold your breath. 🙂
Following his report on usability for kids, Jakob’s now come out with one on usability for senior citizens. Very interesting stuff. And as he notes, it’s the one user category we’re all likely to join someday. As you might expect, bigger text is the number one priority for older surfers. Hmmm, in OmniWeb my text sizes nicely up and down. Can you test it out in your browsers? Does anybody have any problems?