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BlogEvidently,
Engadget read my
recent blog post and decided to create Evaders for their comment system as well. They're calling them avatars but it's obvious they stole the idea from me. Nobody else comes up with this stuff.
Stavos, co-creator of the evaders, is already pursuing legal action against them.
Today I finally completed
Portal, a full
8 days after Stavos and probably long after the rest of the world. Naturally, I'm obsessed with
all things portal now, including
desktop backgrounds and the
end song, which I loop at work. I even started building the
papercraft companion cube from the game, but fortunately it's complicated enough to possibly free me from my obsession.
My obsession with Windows Home Server is
well documented, so naturally I check the
team blog regularly. After a long gap I finally checked it again today to find a post about the
Stay at Home Server ad campaign. While the acting in the clips is horribly cheesy, I'll write it off as their attempt to reach the average consumer, which went horribly wrong. Fortunately the most amusing part doesn't have any actors to make you cringe; enjoy
Mommy, Why Is There a Server In The House?
A
half-foot of snow today answered my question about global warming potentially ending big snowstorms. Drifts up to
two feet were also a pleasant surprise. My hatred of winter is temporarily lifted when snow falls thanks to the light-reflective anti-
SAD effect, and exponentially more exciting winter 4x4 driving. It also brings potential for more
Yee Haw Sleddin which was missed last year.
After the
Morlocks holiday party, followed by a visit from Chase and the flatlanders last night, I decided to assemble the
inflatable snowman to help keep the good times rolling. Lisa has often told me how much she enjoys my obnoxious decoration, and the Morlock even stopped by promising to violate it frequently while I was setting it up. Repeated violations make me wonder if I'll get a 6th year out of this $50 investment, but even a 5 year eyesore was well worth the money, especially with so many
great memories.
The
Morlock messaged me today with the news that
Google Maps Street View had added our street to their image library. You can even move the camera angle to the ground and see the car that drove by taking the 360° images. I wasn't able to find anything displaying a date in the imagery, but since my truck is in the back and my Cougar is in the driveway I would place it somewhere around the time I was
shoveling rock in July. Now that I'm officially famous I'll be signing autographs for $1 each.
Lisas obsession with
Carcassone and a few other Xbox 360 arcade games has finally pushed my
gamer points over 1,000. By beating various online challengers she has fully unlocked the game achievements, which also happens to be the only game we own that's fully unlocked. With phase 1 complete, and Lisa fully ensnared in online gaming, the next step is to gradually move her up to more challenging games until she's fully dedicated to unlocking achievements in my name. The final phase of course involving the sale of various game currency she earns on eBay. Like a chinese game sweatshop but in southern Michigan.
Thank you to everyone who helped
celebrate the death of my 20s today. Now that I finally reached 3 decades I'm finding it's not so bad. As my sisters friend stated, turning 30 means you didn't die young, so I can now list that along with losing my hair and growing a gut as my accomplishments for the decade. Gifts were strictly forbidden but Stavos broke the rule with a Transformers Monopoly game. Lisa was exempt and bought me an Optimus Prime, two gnome shirts and an Optimus Prime blanket. The Transformers theme continued into her mega-party plan including an Optimus Prime cake and favors. Excessive jello shots rendered me incapable of stopping the party killer movie, but everything else went swimmingly. I know most of you won't speak to me again now that I'm officially old, but I appreciate you stopping by for one last visit before ex communicating me.
Stavos recently suggested
avatars for the comment section of this website. Not quite sure how I would fit the images in my compact comment area I resisted at first, but some gentle coaxing and a few mockups later and I was convinced. What else was I going to do for two hours anyways? While I was working on the design (before crying uncle with DIVs) Lisa asked "What is your evader supposed to be anyways?" It required a full 8 seconds of mental processing before I realized she was mispronouncing avatar, which then prompted several minutes of uncontrollable laughter and Lisa shakes. So now that you know why I call them "Evaders", next you'll ask "So what?" Well I don't really have an answer for that, but the dropdown allows you to choose from some preset Evaders (uploadable custom capability coming soon). Once you choose one, the preview shows below the dropdown and once you submit, it sticks along with the other fields in the cookie for next visit. Yes, way over engineered for a website 2 people visit on a regular basis, but fortunately for those 2 people, I made exclusive
TM custom©® avatars©®
TM and backfilled old comments with the same one. I promise I'll keep my sugar intake down in the future.
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