Category: Digital Culture

Taking a tip from another blog that I frequent, I was going to look back at my blog post from Dec 31st, 2003, and see what wisdom I had preserved for the ages.

Turns out that it was utter drivel.

Ah well….my post from Jan 1, 2004 asking people to donate to the Wikipedia turns out to have been a good idea.

To all my friends out in the InterEther….Happy 2005. Some of you have big plans, and others I’m just happy that I get to keep up with you from a distance. I appreciate everyone though, especially in my physical absence.

I haven’t said much about the tragedy in the Pacific, but largely that’s because I have been spared the majority of the coverage. We were very much out of contact with media when it happened, and we’ve been under 7 year old media supervision since then, so we’ve not really kept caught up on the events as they unfolded. Most of my news has come from 30 second glances at BoingBoing’s coverage.

But I know that this is terrible, and I know that much, much money is needed to get any sort of assistance that can possibly help the people that are still alive. I’ve decided to go with the Paypal link to Americares that Kevin McDonald set up on his blog WritersCafe. Why? Mainly because Americares seems to be a solid charity donating medical supplies, and they appear to be not religiously affiliated. I’m a humanist to the bone, so that does make some kind of difference to me.

But no matter the reasons: go donate something. Even $5 will up your karma, and we all know you need it.

With a trip to Chattanooga today, we managed to include Lunch at Mellow Mushroom, trip to the Aquarium, the Children’s Discovery Museum (why is it that there are always like 10% broken exhibits at any children’s museum?), and a stop at Ben & Jerry’s on the way home.

All in all, a solid day.

After a ton of travel and time, we’re back on the homefront. But we brought with us both Betsy’s mother AND her 7 year old niece Kelsi.

So we’re definitely gonna have an interesting week. We’ve literally been back one day and so far we’ve:

Played video games on the Xbox, Playstation AND Gamecube.
Taken a walking tour of campus.
Gone to the rec center and played basketball, raquetball, tennis, and gone rock climbing.
Played school.
Used the computer.
Baked brownies.

I’m not sure what we can possibly keep doing for the next week.

Everyone has probably seen these already, but just in case: Scared of Santa photos.

Oh, and Happy Holidays to all my random readers. Nearly 50 of you a day are swinging by, which makes me very pleased. Keep coming by, and I’ll keep finding random things to say and link.

These guys got blogged by BoingBoing today, but I had to link to them here. I was nearly in the floor laughing at some of their commentary…

Crazy Asian Drinks.

One of a number of really great 404’s.

This page cannot be fucking displayed…

• Sirloin Rib Roast, marinaded in olive oil/soy sauce/balsamic vinegar/garlic/white wine and cooked medium well
• Grilled Asparagus with butter
• Roasted New Potatoes with leeks and whole garlic cloves, flavored with rosemary and scallions
• Braised Wild Mushrooms in Killian’s Red
• Beer and bleu cheese sauce for the roast, made by deglazing the roast pan with Killian’s and melting bleu cheese, butter, and a clove of the roasted garlic

Mmmmmmmm….good.

After the delicious repast, we exchanged gifts (hey, we’re heading out on Thurs. and wanted some time to enjoy them!). I got a couple of most excellent DVD’s (go Buffy Season 5!), the game Puerto Rico which I am really looking forward to playing, and a Ninetendo Gamecube which I will be supplimenting with many Miyamoto games.