July 30, 2008
The Cake is a Lie Hideous Abomination
Anyone who has decorated a cake knows it's harder than it looks but when you pay a professional to decorate a cake for you, you don't expect Cake Wrecks.
July 20, 2008
Dr. Horrible
You only have until midnight tonight to see Acts I, II, and III of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog for free.
If you miss it, you can download it ($1.99 per Act or $3.99 for all three) from iTunes.
July 12, 2008
Obama: “I don't speak a foreign language. It's embarrassing!"
Obama came under fire by conservative groups earlier this week, after he said that more Americans should learn a foreign language.
G.W. Bush can. (Spanish)
I wish just one reporter would point that out to Obama when he's talking about the value of a second language.
July 11, 2008
Less QQ
Yesterday Phil Gramm called us a nation of whiners. He later clarified it by saying our leaders are the whiners.
There are plenty of people who try to solve problems rather than complain about them but the ones who claim to be victims and expect someone else to fix things for them are more vocal and will lead anyone to think that we're all whiners.
July 10, 2008
Epic Fail
Pupils are being rewarded for writing obscenities in their GCSE English examinations even when it has nothing to do with the question.One pupil who wrote “f*** off” was given marks for accurate spelling and conveying a meaning successfully.
The question that was being asked was, "“Describe the room you’re sitting in". Although I think the student's language was inappropriate, I can understand the sentiment in response to such an insipid question.
July 08, 2008
Nearly Perfect Park
The park has the regular things you would expect to find: picnic tables and pavilions, playgrounds, walking trails, and an adult softball field.
But a park just isn't complete without a torpedo.
Jeffersontown Veterans Memorial Park where there is also a M60, a Huey, and a couple of anti-aircraft guns "guarding" the entrance.
There are also memorials that speak of honoring the service and sacrifices of those who served God and country. The machinery of war takes my mind away to foreign lands but the memorials make me feel very anchored to the land I'm standing on. And very grateful.
July 06, 2008
Random Design
A couple of weeks or so ago I downloaded Spore Creature Creator. I tried the free trial version first and had fun with it so I got the $9.95 enhanced version (more creature parts available).
When you register the game, they send an email to the address you supplied for verification. For some reason my myway.com email wasn't letting the verification email go through. I lowered the filter as much as I could, put ea.com on my accepted list, and told myway to deliver all email from ea.com to my inbox. I would request the verification email be resent but still no email arrived. I knew it was my email account since my son had also gotten the Creature Creator but had listed his gmail account when he registered and had gotten his verification email with no problem.
Everytime I tried to log on to the Creature Creator it told me that I still needed to verify my account so I contacted their customer support. Their first reply to me didn't give me much hope. You have to pick a topic/category for your problem before filling out the help request form and I think they just look at the topic and send a canned answer. Basically they told me to make sure I was signing in with the username and password that I registered with...even though the message to them had been explaining exactly why I haven't been able to do this.
Someone actually read this one and told me that if I provided some information they required to prove the account was mine they could verify it from their end. I did, they did, now everything is just fine. Their customer support ended up being quite helpful even though the main problem was due to an email account they had no control over and no responsibility for.
Now, if only we didn't have to wait until September for the full game to come out.
My creatures are still mostly products of random design...I'm working my way up to intelligent semi-retarded design. The creatures my kids build are much cooler. It's tough being a god of creation when you have these showoff godlings around. But we'll see whose building creatures that can evolve and survive long term. Their flashiness may just get them eaten by predators earlier.