Rock Solid Wallpaper Tuesday

July 1, 2008

This Wallpaper Tuesday we have something a little different, an original image! We went camping last weekend, and found this terrific cliff, with a large expanse of rock. I thought a picture of the rock would make for a nice wallpaper.

I know, that’s pretty bad, I’m out in the middle of the wilderness, on such a magnificent creation, and I’m thinking about my desktop wallpaper, but what can I do, I’m a geek.

I actually took several shots, but I like this shot, which has a large horizontal crack in it, best out of them.

Clicking on the image will open the original in a new window, and you’re more than welcome to right click and choose “save as”, so that you can use it as your very own wallpaper.

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We Spend How Much on Games?

June 28, 2008

Seems like this is another curve that I’m not quite hitting. According to a Post on Extreme Tech, Gamers are spending about $765 a year on games.

The survey was conducted by GameStrata, and polled gamers from ages 18 through 48.

I don’t know about you, but my yearly game spending is probably somewhere around $100, at most. I think the last game I bought was the Civ 4, and that was way back in January. Before that was the Orange Box, so it looks like I’m buying about 1 $40 game a year, but I’ll throw a couple of $20 PlayStation games in there too, just to round it out.

The kids have been hooked on Lego Indiana Jones, which is terrific because it gives me a quick and easy punishment when they misbehave. As a matter of fact, today ended a 3 day, parent induced boycott of the PlayStation.

Photo by Chance Agrella

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4 Blogs That I Enjoy Reading

June 27, 2008

If I didn’t include you in this list, please don’t be upset. There are a few of you that I read all the time, and you know who you are, heck, you’re on the blogroll. I just thought I would mention some other blogs that I read as well. So, here goes. Sorry Kelly, I noticed that I hadn’t added yours to my blogroll yet, so I corrected that.

1. Sass and Veracity – Food Blog. Love food? Love cooking? If you answered yes, then you have to check out Sass and Veracity. Kellypea runs the blog, and she does an amazing job. I wish I hadn’t put it on the list first, because now that I’ve seen it, I’m hungry.

2. Simple Help – Great Tech help site. It’s interesting to read what tips Ross is spitting out today. Of course, I’ve got my own site that I guess is competing, but I’ll never be able to post the volume of content that Ross does. Great stuff!

3. Parent Hacks – Lots of ways to make neat stuff, save money, and just do the whole parenting thing better. Like how to make a Port-a-potty for camping, and what valuable lessons can be learned from a “toy jail”.

4. Getting Green – Or is it American Consumer News? Whichever it is, there’s lots of good financial advice. Savings, mortgage, shopping for produce, lot of stuff. I know I’m always looking to stretch the dollar a little more, are you?

What I’ve been trying to do is to theme these link posts, but to  be honest, it’s getting harder and harder to find a theme in my bookmarks. I’m going to have to think of something for next week, after all, I don’t want it to be “6 sites I visited this week”.

Hope you all have a good weekend!

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Rats!

June 26, 2008

In the video, I was just joking about the getting aggressive when they don’t get fed what they want. Or maybe that’s what the rat overlords would want me to tell you.

For my son’s birthday, he wanted to get a gerbil or a hamster. We did a little research, and it turns out that Rats are friendlier, can be trained, and have a longer life expectancy. So what the heck, why not get some rats?

Actually, we started out with just one, but he didn’t seem happy, and we read a little more, and it turns out they don’t like to be alone. So we bought a second rat.

So far so good. They are really cute, and everyone likes them. We haven’t tried to train them yet, right now we’re just trying to get them used to humans. They seem to be adapting pretty quickly.

It does seem a little strange that we bought something that many people pay good money to kill.

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An Ironic Wallpaper Tuesday

June 24, 2008

Wow, has a week gone by already! I’ve been keeping pretty busy, but with things not in the realm of computers and technology.

For this week’s installment of Wallpaper Tuesday, I’ve picked a ironic wallpaper, called, well, "Irony", which I found on InterFaceLift. The Artist is Blackbird, and no, I don’t think that’s their real name.

I hope today finds you well. More later.

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