I've tweaked the new look a little bit. I added back on the comments link and the permalink for each post. When I did that it took off the cool little box I had around each date. I've tried to get the sucka back on there, but it says "Huh uh, no way, forget about it. I ain't touchin' that date!" So what can you do with an uncooperative box? Suggestions?
I decided to change the look of the site. Hope you like it. It's a little more subdued than the previous skin I had. I found it at blogskins.com. Thanks to Beece for the cool look. I played around with it for a while until it was one solid color. I decided there wasn't enough contrast, so I changed it back to the blue on white theme. The blog text was origianlly very light, so I darkened it to match the right column text. I hope the font (comic sans) works for everybody that may cruise through here. For some reason the bottom entry doesn't have a date around it. Haven't figured that out yet. And I am going to have to manually update my archive links. But that's ok. I like manually encoding html. Yeah you're right, I'm lying again. Who knew?
Do you ever get that feeling about life? You know, yuck. Is this really where I am at? Is that really where I'm going? Yuck...
But what can you do? Sit back and enjoy the ride. Well that's what I'm trying to do. Sometimes you want to jump out of the ride, but that would be really uncomfortable. And the landing would really suck. So strap yourself in, crank up your favorite tunes, and hang on!
Since I have discovered 16 of Robert E. Howard's stories online (legally I hope), I have been furiously reading them. Seven of those stories involve Conan, Howard's famous barbarian. Even though the Hollywood Conan may be more famous than REH's version. Also included are seven tales of Solomon Kane, the strange puritan adventurer who's strange brand of religious justice took him to the far reaches of the world. If you are interested in reading the origianl Conan, I would suggest reading 'Jewel of Gwahlur', 'Beyond the Black Coast'. More on the good ones as I read them.
That leaves two stories, bothof which are fantasy based but don't involve any of REH's major characters. Of these two I have read 'The Valley of the Worm'. It is very interesting, but not totally unique. It could just have easily been a Conan Story
I've been posting regurgitated crap all week. So here' something original..... Flying Fruitcakes!!
Sorry, that's all I could come up with. Pretty stupid, eh? The last two days have been pretty weird for me. I'm pretty sensitive to caffeine, and I've been riding a caffeine buzz for two days. I guess that's what drinking coffee all week will do for ya. You know what? There are some pretty pedantic (look it up) blogs out there. They range from in depth rantings of teenage angst to like what crazy things my cheerleader friends like did like last summarr. So what's my point? Beats me. I tend to lean towards the angst laden ones.
Yahoo: Internet withdrawal anguishing | CNET News.com
Yahoo: Internet withdrawal anguishing | CNET News.com The first step is admitting you have a problem. I don't have a problem. Do you have a problem? Didn't think so. It's all good. Now, what are you waiting on? Get back to surfing dude!
My (now) favorite source for ebooks has 17 Robert E. Howard stories on line!! 17!! Who is Robert E. Howard you might say? No other than the creator of the origianl ass-kickin' barbarian Conan. Duh. He also created other memorable characters such as Solomon Kane and King Kull. I've downloaded all of these stories. I've got some reading to do people!!
I'll give a further breakdown of the number of stories when I have more time to sort them out and get my brain back on track.
Everywhere else is posting their opinion about this, why not here? Only in star wars geekdom would high quality digital upgrades and movie theatre quality sound be outweighed by Greedo shooting first. Sure, some of the changes old George made may have been a little hard to swallow. But it boils down to this:
IT'S HIS OWN DAMN MOVIE AND HE CAN DO WHATEVER THE HELL HE WANTS TO!!!!!!
Thank you for listening. Tune back in next week when we dissect the meaning of the universe as we know it. The answer: 42. Discuss amongst yourselves.
Nintendo announces the official launch date and price point of there new DS system. Nintendo fans everywhere celebrate wildly.
I may try to get one of these, even though the new price for Gameboy Advance is very tempting.....
Wow. I've actually been using this site pretty regularly. And I have absolutely no comments from anyone other than myself. That's really exciting. What I really need is some direction. One idea I've had is to have a theme that is relevant to me for each day of the week. One day could be PocketPC oriented, another geared towards music, maybe a whole day for the Grateful Dead, a videogaming day, a day for poetry or some other wacky stuff. Hey that's five days right there!! Now if I could only find time to update that often......
Maybe I can post from my pocketpc on the creatively inclined days. That way I wouldn't have to spend time at *cough*work*cough* coming up with stuff to put on here. In case you haven't noticed, I don't feel really comfortable putting extremely personal information on here. I like remaining slightly anonymous anyway. That keeps me under big brother's radar. No, really. The Man is watching us every step we take. Like right now. He knows you are goofing off at work and reading this garbage at the same time. I know because he told me so. So there. Stick that in your hashpipe and smoke it, fool.
We had a beautiful weekend here in NC. I visited Grayson Highlands State Park in Virginia with my family. It was a little cool (52 in the shade) but we had out picnic anyway. Me and my brother threw around the frisbee some while our wives watched the wackiness. It was fun and relaxing. I love throwing frisbee in strange locations. Kind of a gorilla frisbee thrower if you will. OK, back to reality again.
Oh yeah, I added a tag board a few days ago. It's over on the right hand side of your screen. That way --->. I don't really like it though. It looks like a big zit on my beautiful blog. Besides, how fun can it be to tag yourself? I think I will now pop that zit. And remember, a watched boil never pops!
I discovered a new email program for my pocketPC today called nPOP. It allows you to download your email from POP3 servers to your PocketPC. So if your like me and have limited time to read your email while on a PC, then this is perfect. You can also send email from your POP3 accounts. I have tried another program like this called onemail, but it was very buggy. So far this is working great. The downside: Yahoo charges extra for POP3 access. This is my main private email when I am at work. Oh well. I can redirect all of my yahoo mail to my isp email account. Are you excited yet?
"I'm testing out a new program on my pocketPC. So ignore this message, because
gerbils ate my brain."
I'm slightly excited righ now. No, not that kind of excited. I got an invite for a g-Mail account. A guy over one of my favorite forums, N-Philes, had some extra invites laying around. I asked for one and got it. It seems everybody and there brother has one of these accounts now. But I secured the name brokedownpalaceatgmaildotcom. I hope to get some more invites through this so I can get some more of my favorite names. It's pretty basic righ now. No frills, which is exactly the way it should be. I kind of wish they had POP3 support, but they say that may be coming in the future for free or a nominal fee. Hopefully it will be free. I'm very cheap and poor. Please send me money. Now. Thanks.
Ok, somebody has got to stop screwing around with my blog. I mean this is serious business here. Millions of people read this thing every day!! And somebody has hacked into here and posted some kind of crap about giggling yahoos. I'm really ready to.....huh? Ok, Ok. So I don't have million of readers, maybe more like a few.....thousand? So anyway, I'm tired of all of this crap getting ready to......what this time? Yeah, I know. I might have exagerated about the number of readers yet again. Ok, so maybe we only have a few hundred COUGH COUGH COUGH.
ALLRIGHT ALREADY!!!! Absolutely nobody reads this. As of today, I am the only person who has ever seen my blog. Are you happy now that you have totally destroyed my ego and sense of self worth and all that is important to me in this crazy mixed up world as we know it? I'm glad somebody is happy with it. Because I'm leaving.
I apologize for the previous interference. My blog was temporarily overthrown by a gaggle of giggling girls. They have now been painfully eliminated. We now return to your regularly scheduled programming chocked full of boring crap. Enjoy!!
I found this really cool web site today called Yahoo! It has all kinds of links. You can even get your own free email. It's really neato. Right now they have a picture of Ashlee Simpson on there. She is the bombzo. She really roxoroxoroxorox. Enjoy!!
Yahoo! xoxoxoxoxoxo
I think I am going to change the name of my blog. The new name will be "Brokedown Palace". Named after one of my favorite songs by my favorite band, the Grateful Dead. I usually like to go for more original titles for my endeavors, but I think this title is fitting for this vomit pile I call "my blog". wow. That was a little graphic wasn't it? Sorry. Wait a d**n minute. Nobody reads this garbage anyway, so why do I care? blah blah blah
Anyway, I'll try out the new name for a while. If I don't like it, through the wonder of modern science that is blogger.com, I can always change it back.
Pocket PC Thoughts - Daily News, Views, Rants and Raves
Here are some links to some reviews for the latest greatest PocketPC's coming out. I would like to upgrade my Asus A620 sometime, but it may be next year before that happens. Built in WiFi would be the only advantage, but would be absolutely useless in this backwoods part of the universe. We're lucky to have 26kbps dial up internet
So during my only vacation of the year, I got a very bad cold. It started on Sunday with a sore throat. I woke up Tuesday night running a fever. By Wednesday I was full blown sick as a dog. I didn't let it stop me from bodyboarding though. Well, Friday and Sunday I didn't feel like doing anything. But Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday I tore it up!! Pass me another cold one junior.
Anyway, I still tried to have fun though. The place was pretty deserted until Saturday. There weren't more than a dozen people on the beach where we were staying during the week. On Saturday we decided to stay Sunday night. We just couldn't bear the tought of coming back on Sunday. Plus the place was really coming alive with the influx of Labor Day vacationers. We cruised "the strip" on Saturday and Sunday nights. It was fun watching teenagers get busted for doing stupid crap. Well enough of this, I'm going back to work.
Yeah, ok. I had fun on my beach trip. Except that I got sick. Really sick. Like hacking up a kidney sick. I didn't let it stop me from playing in the ocean though. I did some fun bodyboarding. Saturday was the best day for waves. Some of the waves were breaking 3 or 4 feet above my head (maybe slightly exaggerated). I wiped out on one wave that knocked my block around for a few minutes. But I jumped back into the thick of it in no time. There were surfers out in the water all week. I guess they were expecting some big waves in front of Frances. The waves were pretty consistent the latter part of the week, with the biggest waves on Friday and Saturday. Look for the rest of the beach story later on.