WINDOWS FAIL

From everybody's favorite, Fail Blog.

MORE?

The folks over at Fail Blog came up with a new sports blog. A sample post:

WORD TO YOUR MOTHER

Well, not really, but I thought I was funny that my mom (who now has a blog for school) told me about Wordle (here). It is a site that scans other sites (of your selection) and makes "word clouds" from the random words on that site. Here is one for this blog:

Kinda cool.

800

This is my 800th post. Normally, I would make a fancy graphic for it (like here, or here), but I'm on vacation. Thanks to my fans (all six of you) for the love and support.

And if you're one of those people who checks in from time-to-time, but never comments... well, you're OK, too.

THIS IS POST NUMBER

Thank you to all my readers, friends and family (both meanings of that word) for the love and inspiration to continue expressing myself in this new medium.

And here's to 700 more!

GREETINGS & SALUTATIONS

I regularly cruise the blogosphere, trolling for new, fun and fabulous things to read and see. And every so often someone new stops by my little corner of the web... and then, sticks around.

And if I'm really lucky, they leave comments on my various, wacky posts.

I'm happy to welcome two such fellow bloggers to my word: Scooter and Mac. Both guys have fun blogs, too. You can check out Scootersville (here) for more fun, wacky blogging, or Yummy of the Day (here), which is... well, yummy, but not really OK for work or readers with small kids.

Welcome, guys... nice to have you here!

SILLY RABBITS

Thanks to Scooter (blog here) for this funny gif.

ALL HAIL FAIL BLOG

If you've never been to Fail Blog (site here), you have to go. It's hard to explain, but here's a sample of a recent post that had me giggling for a few minutes:

THUS ENDS...

October sweeps! I know, I know... on TV they do November sweeps, but I thought I'd put a counter on my blog, and monitor some of the statistics of this site.

Now, I know I don't have the big readership some blogs do (I'm looking at you, Donnie), but my numbers are way up, over the last time I did this. The ticker almost hit 1500 for the month. But what really blew me away was the 8 comments, from various readers.

I'd like to take a moment out to thank everyone who reads this blog - and especially those who leave comments, no matter how lame (I'm looking at a certain ginger blogger, now).

More to come!

ALL HAIL FAIL BLOG

If you've never been to Fail Blog (here), it is one of the best sites I've seen in years... it is hard to explain, so here are a couple of examples of what they do:

LIKE, FER-SURE

from GraphJam (funny site for nerds, math lovers and all-around smarties, here)

SEPARATED AT BIRTH: Ultimate Edition

I thought I was really rockin' the Separated At Birth thing, until I saw The Notorious Joe's version of this blog posting. You can check out his site here, and see his Separated At Birth collection here.

P.S. This was post #600, by the way.

CORRECTION

While searching the LA Times archives, I was unable to locate the obituary for Mitch Pileggi. (Actually I gave up after the first couple of pages.) So I'm willing to admit I was mistaken.

So there. No need to call me a liar (although the person that did was a Ginger, and I don't expect them to know better, or how to behave in polite society.)

Cheers!

I REPORT WHAT I READ

There's been some debate as to whether or not Mitch Pileggi is dead or not. I read his obit in the Los Angeles Times, so until they retract the story, I'm standing by it.

A TIME-WASTING PARADOX

One of the local Los Angeles newspapers occasionally prints excerpts from The Mayor Of Television Blog. Ignoring the obvious - printing a blog in the newspaper smacks of trying to be up-to-date with what the kids are doing these days; and, Who the frack died and made this guy the MAYOR of Television? - the column can actually be a decent read. I'd link to the blog's actual page, but the site is poorly designed, and suffers from pop--up-itis. (Yes, you can turn on pop-up blockers, but then the site is even slower to load, and this can be a pain if you're browsing the web in tabs.)

The more recent (printed) diatribe by, "The Mayor," had to do with a poll over at TV.com - I'd link to the poll, or at least the poll results, but (again) Flash animation-mania, and over-designing dooms this otherwise enjoyable site. (And the bottom line is, the poll is only incidental to my post.)

It seems the folks at TV.com took a user poll to find out what characters people want to see get their own spin-off shows. The Mayor takes issue with the site's methodology, or lack-thereof, and then proceeds to trash the "winners" of the poll, and wind-bags on to give his own nerdtacular ideas for programming. (Which, when you read, explain why he's writing a blog, and not producing any actual television content.)

Ah, what the heck. You can read his rant here.

What cracks me up is that one of the (many) complaints/digs he gets in is how the poll is a waste of time, and how fitting this time-wasting is, given than anyone using TV.com obviously has time to waste, for various unsavory reasons... when in fact, his blog (whether reprinted or not) is a colossal time-sucker. He's basically wasting time pontificating on the many ways that other people are wasting time, writing about television.

Kinda makes your head hurt, no?

I (HEART) NEW BLOGS

I've found a bunch of new music blogs to troll (thanks, Donnie). Among my favorites are:

The Remix Archive (site here)
Geared more towards Top 40, Pop Remixes and a little heavy on the Britney Spears

Digital Eargasm (site here)
Strictly for the hardcore, great for the ol'skool stuff

Remix Land (site here)
A little more random mix of material, but worth browsing

Be warned: both Digital Eargasm and Remix Land have tracks that start playing, all on their own, once you navigate to the site. I absolutely hate it when sites do this, but I'm willing to overlook it these cases... for now. (The least they could do is switch the tracks up once in a while, no?)

SAY WHAT?

While posting a comment about the latest Fox & The City podcast (site here), the secure word generator spit this out:

500th POST

Thanks to the small, yet faithful crowd reading and commenting on this blog.

I HEART THIS SITE... SORT OF

I heard about JuicyCampus.com on the news, and I've been meaning to check it out before they got shut down. There's a campaign, led by Headline News and some do-gooder watchdog site to shut them down. And while I agree, sites like this can be harmful to the communities they report on. At the same time, freedom of speech is an important freedom, and we must be careful of any curtailing of our freedoms.

Juicy Campus is a "bathroom wall" site, meaning it publishes gossip of the prurient nature. I saw posts about who is the biggest slut on campus, who the closet cases are and a number of rants about race and ethnicity. (Although I must admit, I too always wondered what the difference between a Persian and an Iranian was.)

Morbid curiosity made me go to the site and check out my school, UCLA. It seems to me the majority of posts (at least for this school) were snarky people just trying to stir sh!t up. (I won't let this serve as a reflection of the type of people attending UCLA right now.)

My only beef with the site was the lame layout, and the way long-load time for reading comments. Also, you can't tab-browse on the site. But I'm guessing the people running this site don't really care about tech.

HOWDY, Y'ALL

An article from the Charlotte Observer came my way that both tickled me and ticked me off. It was about Paula Deen. For the most part, the article defender her (it listed two of her recipes at the end), but it started off by sharing some of the horrible, hateful things being said about my Paula on the web... which got me to thinking about the Attack of the Claymates. At least the people attacking Paula are funny. One anti-Paula comment reads, "She would put mayo on aspirin." Which is a great deal funnier (and more intelligent) than the feces flung at me for my post on Clay and his fat, ugly ass.

So until my next post, I send you love and best dishes, from my kitchen to yers!