Summertime… and the living’s easy!
May 27, 2008 | 0 Comments
Yesterday was Memorial Day and while it’s a day where we take time out to remember those who have given their life in service of this country, it also is a day that signifies the start of summer — unofficially of course. When I was in school Memorial Day meant that school was already out and the three month vacation had begun. Now it means that the summer mission trip season is getting ready to hit full steam. This summer I’m mixing in a nice bit of personal vacation as well, which will be nice.
The first such vacation took place during the holiday weekend. It started with a screening of Indiana Jones: The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which was awesome. Our idiot water moved about a slow as a elephant who was glued to the ground and caused us to get to the theater right at showtime — which meant seats so close to the screen you couldn’t see the whole thing at once. Despite that fact, the movie was a lot of fun and well worth anyones money.
From there it was off to Atlanta for two baseball games featuring the Braves take on the Diamondbacks. The DBacks took the first but the Memorial Day game was all Braves. It was great. I’ll be going back for July 4th to see the Braves go head to head with the Astros. Nothing quite says Memorial Day weekend like Braves baseball and Indiana Jones!
On another note, since updating the design here my little blog has been featured at the illustrious CSS Drive design gallery as well as We Love WP, which showcases WordPress designs. It’s pretty cool to be showcased on the same sites I use for inspiration.
Also, as noted in the comments section on my last post, I am going to try and rework the original Corked into a public release and put it out under Creative Commons licensing. Things are about to get really busy, so I can’t say exactly when, but it is on my to-do list.
You know how in grade school when you were taught the hamburger method of writing, where the top bun was an intro paragraph, the meat was your descriptive paragraphs, and the bottom bun was your conclusion? Well, consider this hamburger bottom bun-less because I got nothing.
Feel Like Traveling Time?
February 29, 2008 | 0 Comments
Today is a day that doesn’t really exist — well, sort of exists in a total time paradox of sorts. Considering this odd, twice a decade phenomenon, known as “leap day,” and LOST’s crazy mind-trip, time traveling episode last night, it’s a perfect time to talk about time travel.
This guy David Eggers, who happens to be a writer whom I had never heard of before about 35 seconds ago but seems to be rather famous, opened up a rather unusual store in LA. A store like any other store except for the fact that it’s called The Echo Park Time Travel Mart. What do they sell you ask? Well, your basic every day items that you might need at any point between now and, well, ever.
Some of the humorous products available for purchase include: mammoth chunks, barbarian repellent, packets of shade and anti-robot fluid.
Sounds good to me. Evidently the store is a means to make some money to fund a bunch of non-profit writing centers the Eggers guy has. Seemingly cool store with a solid purpose. On this day that sort of kind of exists, this is a pretty cool thing.
Then again, so is the new 1080p Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull trailer!
(Via Gizmodo.)