Kerry 28, Bush 20!
Green Bay beat Washington 28 to 20.
See my previous post for the significance of this game.
Rock! Death! America!
Littering our noise on the EarthArchive for October, 2004
Go Packers!
You may have noticed the new blog colors (how could you miss them? unless you are reading them this through an rss reader…). I have decided to temporarily bathe my blog in Green Bay Packer colors!
As you probably know, I’m not much of a football fan. For some strange reason, I have a strange desire to see the Packers annihilate the Redskins this Sunday.
Is THIS the freedom we are fighting for?
“Kids at Richland Center High School in Richland Center, WI got a chance to meet George W Bush during an official visit. However, any student who turned up wearing a pro-Kerry pin, hat or shirt was threatened with expulsion.”
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/27/kids_who_support_ker.html
Lern to Speel at Fryz
While D shopped at Fry’s Electronics, O and I browsed the toys and whatnot. Ironically, they sell toys aimed at helping you learn to count and spell, while selling products that say:
Always good to misspell “Warning” on a Chemistry Set. Owen also spent some time sitting on one of those stupid pocket bikes, hilariously named Pocket Rocket. The sticker on the bike declared “Not for Childern under 12!!”. Oh boy.
The other toy that has been nagging at my brain isThe Wiggles Hot Potato. It is a stuffed potato that vibrates and plays the song “Hot Potato” On the box for the toy it says “It really shakes as if you are holding a Hot Potato!” Huh? Huh?? Huh??? HUH? Next time I bake a potato I’ll try to notice it shaking….
Visualize Winning
If you haven’t seen this, check it out. Quite a spirit lifter…
… visualize winning….
The Sun’ll Wash Up… Tomorrow….
Honestly, all I did was hit “enter” and it published this post with only the title. And it took like 4 minutes to do so.
ANYWAY, I’ve only seen tiny sunfish at the aquarium… imagine snorkling and running into this sucker!
nanowrimo and stuff
Our friend Eric posted today about an event he is taking part in — National Novel Writing Month. This looks very cool; thousands of writers will each write a new novel in 30 days. Some of the writers, including Eric, will blog their novels I am looking forward to following it starting November 1.
This reminded me of the Blogathon that started in 2001 where, on a specific day, people post a blog entry every 30 minutes for 24 hours. Before the event, bloggers solicited pledges for every post (or a flat rate). It raised $20,000 for 77 different charities the first year, $50,000 the second year, and $102,534.46 the third year.
I was seriously thinking about doing it in 2004. I joined the mailing list and everything! 
However, they decided not to do it in 2004. I found out too late that another site DID do it: Project Blog.. 172 bloggers participated and raised $25,661.71 for 118 charities. Pretty amazing.
Maybe I’ll do the Blogathon next year. As you know (if you’ve been reading my blog) I don’t have the skills to do nanoblogmo.
Next year’s Blogathon is currently scheduled for July 30, 2005 at the original Blogathon site. I have been considering writing and recording a song every hour. Maybe write it for 1/2 hour, post about it, record it the next 1/2 hour and then post the song for all to hear. A couple of things that would make this interesting:
- low self esteem usually prevents me from sharing much of myself
- i’ve never written a song
- i would be performing on a ukulele (well, maybe with the occasional cowbell thrown in )
BTW, this post started as a comment on Eric’s blog post but got too long…you really should go read the inspiration.
G the B!
For those of you that have never heard of Greg the Bunny, you missed the funniest show ever. Buy it now. More info here, great cast!
What’s Obscene?
Three Medford, OR school teachers were kicked out of a Bush rally yesterday because the shirts they wore were deemed “obscene.” What did the shirts say?
Protect our civil liberties
Wow.
