Here’s a fun little game: Guess-the-Google. You have 20 seconds to guess what Google image search keyword is common to each image in a 4×5 grid. Your score is based on the correctness and timeliness of your answers.
I got a score of 158 on my attempt. How about you?
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It’s not for me, it’s for a friend… Yeah, that’s it… For a friend…
The day job has tasked me with finding some decently robust blog software. Blogger’s still a possibility, but I was looking into running something as nice as WordPress for them.
The problem is, our corporate servermeisters don’t/can’t/won’t support the PHP/MySQL setup that I’d need for WP — not for “60 to 90 days,” anyway. Nice folks, truly, but that was not the most helpful of answers, given that the peeps here are wanting to launch sometime in the next week or so (and especially given that I was given the same answer when I started here six months ago).
They do support ASP+Microsoft SQL, so I was wondering if anyone had any good knowledge of or experience with a blog package that runs on that platform.
Let me know, and then I’ll see where I go from there.
Arkham Asylum’s a possibility at this point. I’m just sayin’.
Via Whedonesque:
Hey guys.
I’m here on the official site, so that can only mean one thing: somebody finally told me my password! (Again.) It probably also means that I have some big-ass announcement or other. Well tops on the announcement list is this: after months of intensive yoga, i can finally touch my toes! (They feel round and bunion-y.)
But there’s more! I’m talkin’ movie news, peeps, so no more drumroll: Trailer. Serenity. Tuesday.
Yeah, kids, the haps is hap’nin’, and it runs thus: EXCLUSIVELY on Apple movie trailers (and linked through this site as well of course) will be a small, medium, large or FULLSCREEN trailer for Serenity the major motion movie. Yeah, THE trailer. And the following Friday said trailer hits theaters. Which theaters? Until I get confirmation you’ll have to guess, but I’m betting you can.
Now, here’s a word of warning: this trailer ain’t shy. If you’re looking to live totally spoiler-free, know that there’s plenty of key dialogue and images running through this bad boy. It’s pretty tasty, though, and it doesn’t give everything away. But close scrutiny will definitely learn you much of what’s to come. (Anakin TOTALLY goes evil.) It’s a nice piece to while away the time till September, and hopefully should intrigue th’ peeps that don’t have coats of brown.
The only thing more exciting than y’all finally seeing this was showing it to Nathan. Like a schoolboy giggled he.
Bye-ee!
Joss “You can’t take my toes from me” Whedon.’
Hella shiny! It even makes up (mostly) for the fact that today was, originally, to have been the release date for Serenity.
Rule #3: Spammers are stupid.
- Russell’s Corollary: Never underestimate the stupidity of spammers.
Hey, Pope-o-tron: Message for you, sir!
In what some could consider to be a big, fat “fuck you” to the new conservative pope, the lower house of parliament of the overwhelmingly catholic country of Spain today passed a bill legalizing gay marriage. The bill will move on to the senate where it is expected to pass without much difficulty.
More here: SuicideGirls - Spanish Parliament Approves Gay Marriage
My friend Cindy, who’s a huge fan of Gerard Butler (there are strong parallels to MFWNK), got a chance to hang out briefly with him last week after he taped an appearance on the Tonight Show.
Cindy: across the street, in a park, after the police had chased us away
Kevin: And he came over to y’all?
Cindy: we had a pre arranged meeting thru his management
By all accounts, he was super-nice, and even spent some time chatting with Cindy’s daughter via cellphone.
You can tell how much the moment meant to Cindy.
I was feeling very emotional because of his phone conversation with my daughter.
All in all, one of the best fan-celeb encounters I’ve heard of in my circle of friends. Anybody have any others that they’d like to share?
UPDATE 4/19: Cindy has posted a full recap of her Close Encounter of the Gerry Kind on her site. Check it out!
…now to restore all the little configuration tweaks I’d installed.
It’ll be an ongoing process.
I’m going to be upgrading the backend of my blogging software, so if it’s broken or looks messed up (more than usual, anyway), that’s why.
