Monthly Archives: November 2007

Last year I wrote a post called The UnGrinch 25; a list of ideas on how to keep the fun, spirit and joy in your holiday season. In order to challenge myself, I’m upping the ante this year. So let’s … Continue reading →

A forum version of "My Team, Your Team" has been started by Tom Conger at the Brakenwood Forum.

[click on the graphic above for a full-screen version, if you like] Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I went with my brother to see "Beowulf," the new motion-captured, animated feature starting some guy, Angeline Jolie, and Anthony Hopkins. John Malkovich also … Continue reading →

Amazon has posted a video demo for its new eReader, the Kindle. This has real potential. First of all, the device itself doesn’t look like hell. The early shots of the prototype looked… clunky. The one in the video, and … Continue reading →

All communication intends to exchange meaning. "I’d like a cheeseburger with fries and a Coke." That conveys meaning from a hungry customer to a waitress or fry cook. And if the communication between customer and cook was reduced, let’s say, … Continue reading →

I don’t know. Moldavian? I can tell it’s not Spanish or French. But I don’t know enough about languages to tell which is being used at: Kdo bo koga zradiral. Whatever the written language, the visual one is the universal … Continue reading →

My Team, Your Team has been getting a lot of link-love over the past few weeks. Which is super cool; it’s a fun game, and everyone in the world should play it and be in love and have puppies. But … Continue reading →

Disclaimer: Go back and read the introduction to this series. The part about "there is no bad poetry." These lessons aren’t for people who want mindless stroking for their work, or who are content with their current output… it’s for … Continue reading →

I’ve been meaning to do this in one form or another for some time. And Jen (Hi, Jen!) told me I should blog more about poetry, so this is a good excuse to get started. It seems to me that: … Continue reading →

The robot version of MTYT. Awesome. That makes three. 

I’ve had a Gmail account for about… two years? Something like that. There have always been things about it I didn’t like as much as MS Outlook, which I’ve been using (at work and home) for going on eight years. … Continue reading →

New category: Juxtoobposition. Putting two YouTube videos next to each other in a blog post in order to well… er… I don’t know. But these two start things off. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUvind4t7Pk&eurl=http://www.battlebricks.com/wiigobot/index.html[/youtube]  And… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzp8S_7yspM[/youtube]  Make of it what you Wiil. 

So the drawing game my son and I started with "My Team, Your Team" (MTYT), was turned into the site/blog "The Superest" by professional artists, and from there became the open MTYT blog, "Bayou Battle." It’s an interesting progression, from … Continue reading →