New Skates!

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One of the downsides to living in downtown Washington is that I must travel a great distance just to get a new pair of in-line skates. After getting a haircut at the barber on Florida Ave., I walked down to the U Street Metro and rode the Yellow Line to the Pentagon. (The Pentagon Metro station and bus terminal is right outside the building itself, on the opposite end from where the plane crashed. That’s the closest I’ve been to it. Coolness.) From there, it was a medium-short bus ride to Ski Chalet, where they had some pretty good recreational Rollerblades on sale.

Along the way, I had merienda at McDonald’s, which, pleasantly enough, was playing classical music. Nothing goes better with a double cheeseburger and fries than a Vivaldi concerto grosso.

Bovine Invasion

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28 indexes done. More than halfway!

Given the name of my weblog, I think I need to post cow-related links more often. With that, I present to you xtcian’s wedding proposal, fraught with a perilous bovine invasion — and more! (via Evhead)

Virtupets Space Station

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“Evil Dr. Sloth has plans to turn all the NeoPets in Neopia into his mutant slaves! Go to the Space Station and help thwart his evil plans! There are also games to play, things to buy, and much much more… “

Gosh, the evil arch-villain runs a command base where those who would thwart his dastardly plans can also play games and go shopping? Suddenly I’m reminded of Dr. Evil’s base in Austin Powers II, where every morning the staff could enjoy an all-you-can eat breakfast buffet. You know the scene… “It got weird.”

RandyFro Spam

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I woke up at almost 10am this morning. Nasty habit; I really need to get my waking time back up to 6am.

Randyfro: spammer.. I didn’t take much notice of it when I received his email last week, because quite frankly, I thought it was either: (1) plain and simple mass Unsolicited Bulk Mail (U.B.E., aka SPAM), or (2) some wide-eyed blog newbie who was actually kapal-muks enough to send his U.B.E. out to over a hundred sites. His victims’ standard response would most likely be annoyance and repulsion; I wonder how much hate mail this guy must be getting now. And why does he go spamming for links when his name seems to get around pretty well anyway?

Boba Fett

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There’s a Boba Fett Fan Club? How could there be so much infatuation over a character who has barely any exposure across two Star Wars movies? Hired by Darth Vader, tracks down and captures Han Solo, dies in the Sarlacc pit. That’s it! So where does the rest of this romanticization come from? What is it that causes fans to think Boba Fett is cool?

Neopets 2

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Whoa! Now I can see how Neopets makes its moolah; the signup process is littered with spam-bait checkboxes and other advertising offers. Parts of the role-playing game itself are interspersed with advertising promo bonuses. I thought that this would be just a tamagotchi on a webpage, but it looks like far more than just that. There’s a whole community here, and it looks quite involved.

Update: Neopets is connected to Scientology. I am not touching it ever again.

More links to come…

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My blog list currently consists of 106 weblogs, not counting the 2.5 that I currently run. (The .5 is Pula.ph, which I’m not sure I can continue. The total number would be 107 if I could just find out whatever in the world happened to silvergrrl1, the first weblogger I ever linked.)

I’ve been remiss in linking additional weblogs, but as soon as I can put the shuffled rotating list into operation, I’ll be adding the following, and more…

– Ben

– Boxing at Sunset

– TruthBecomesLies

– In the Light

– O’Donnel Web

– Stacie

– The Daily Blah

– The Daily Bleat

– Narrow Minded Simpleton

– Bloggedy-Blog

– Balikbayan Box

Attack of the Bootlegged Clones

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I don’t see why a digitally bootlegged Episode II should make headlines. Back in SE Asia, the sidewalks were strewn with VCD’s of movies filmed straight out of the cinema long before the films’ release dates. You could even hear the audience laughing and see people walking in front of the screen.

A rather scathing review of Attack of the Clones from the New York Times. (Login required.) One thing interests me greatly: Yoda dueling. Or, as I prefer to call it, “Yodeuling.”