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Spiderman. Spiderman.

Does whatever a spider can.

Spins a web, any size.

Catches thieves- just like flies.

Look out! Here comes the Spiderman!

Is he strong? Listen, bud.

He’s got radioactive blood.

Can he swing, from a thread?

Take a look overhead.

Hey, there! There goes the Spiderman!

In the chill of night, at the scene of a crime.

Like a streak of light, he arrives just in time!

Spiderman. Spiderman.

Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman.

Wealth and fame? He’s ignored.

Action is his reward.

To him, life is a great big bang-up.

Wherever there’s a hang-up,

you’ll find the Spiderman!

Humorous commentary from the irrepressible Meg:



WHY AMERICANS ARE FAT, FIRST IN A SERIES

So I’m watching this commercial for Tostitos Scoopers. The premise is that most chips aren’t easy enough to dip. Regular chips are designed so that you can only use dips as a condiment, a chip enhancer, if you will. Scoopers have a more spoonlike quality that lets you eat entire tablespoons of sour cream with each chip. The dip becomes the object, the chip merely a passive conduit. Right now, they only make corn chips, which is too bad. If they made a potato chip version, it would be great for scooping butter.

Ahh, if only I’d known there was an easier way all along! Think of the hours wasted increasing my girth by fumbling with normal Tostitos and lard dip, when I could have been maximizing my run away expansion with engineering-enhanced chips…

Ooooh! Floor pie! – Homer Simpson

The Exceedingly uninteresting story Of The origins Of floorpie.net Presented under An Oddly capitalized title As i Am sometimes wont To Do

So as my notoriety and fame grew, I got more and more interested in moving to an actual living and breathing domain, instead of continuing to camp on geocities’ billboard. When my daily hits had swelled into nearly double digits, I decided it was finally time to move. Now came the task of thinking of a clever domain name, something that was simple and understated, easy to remember, catchy like a song, and that embodied my heart and soul.

After several failed attempts at finding my heart and soul, I decided to go with something random instead.

Enter floorpie.net. Originally, I wanted floorpie.com, but that domain was mysteriously bought a week after I mentioned it.

But where does “floor pie” come from? Well, just as any good dork is, I’m an avid fan of the Simpsons. In one particular episode, Bart, in training for a Junior Camper’s badge, sets a trap for Homer with pie as the bait. Said pie is sitting on the kitchen floor, and, as Homer walks by he exclaims, “Oooh! Floor pie!”, grabs for the pie, gets caught in the trap, and is left swinging upside down from the ceiling, pie out of reach… I, for some reason, often repeat this phrase in non-relevant situations, to the confusion of some and the consternation of others.

Bottom line, it seemed better than david-kleeman-is-an-egomaniac.com, ’cause we all know that that doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue…

Blogger ate one of my posts this morning, and it’s too bad, too. Never before/(or since) had/(will) you seen/(see) such a work of literary brilliance. How I could have expounded so eloquently about missing my alarm this morning for nearly 47 full pages I’ll never know. Alas, it was a thing of beauty that shall, most likely, never be repeated. Instead, I am forced to leave you with this shlock:

Dr. Verne’s Northern White Trash Etiquette

Thank you, oh Google for being you

The great American author, Ken Kesey, passed away this weekend. Both his most famous work, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and his lesser-known yet arguably better Sometimes a Great Notion, entertained and educated me in lasting ways. My world is a little less special for our loss.

Yeah me, I’m at my new domain!

So now you know the secret that nearly three of you were probably waiting for: I went with floorpie.net, which nobody liked but me. Ah well. I’ll be implementing many more changes (in theory) over the next few weeks until I get everything the way I want it. This should be functional for our purposes, though. So let me know what you think.

Oh, and I bid a fond farewell to Reblogger in favor of the rumored-to-be-more-reliable Snorland.

What the huh?

Pope to Bless Internet

Domain Name Update

So my plea for my .com domain name was rejected. Ce la vie. I’ve gone ahead with the .net version and am now just patiently waiting for my hosting service to process my order.

The degree to which my new unveiling will be anti-climatic is stunning in scope.

I saw a lecture by Karim Rasheed (care-um raw-sheed) tonight. This is the second time that I’ve seen him speak, and it was awesome both times. For those of you not in the know, Karim (we’re on a first-name thing, you see) is a well-known designer of a multitude of differnet things (be it consumer products, buildings, interiors, art, etc). He’s probably best known for the Garbo/Garbino trash bin, and if you look hard enough you’ll probably see one within 5 minutes of yourself.

What made tonight even better was that he was signing his new book. So, he and I bro’d-out a bit, and he signed my book. It was strange really, this lecture was given at Stanford and the auditorium was filled with what I presumed to have been mostly product design grad students that hadn’t actually worked in the industry as of yet. Then there I was, an interloper of sorts, who actually was in the industry and probably had a greater appreciation for his work because of it. In short, I was a bit star-struck.

Some things to hear and see when at a lecture:

.: They have a cafe in there

:. Was it good?

.: It smelled good

.: nerd-speak: I’ve designed a drivetrain where all of it’s within the front wheel.

.: When you go to the trouble to sit at the front of an auditorium, word of advice: don’t fall asleep you dork.

I saw Pixar’s Monsters Inc. last night, and it was quite rad. The animation was amazing NOT to the point of distraction. This, I feel, is actually good, as it means I didn’t notice that it was animated, and instead assimilated the movie as if it was live action. There were many subtle-ish details that made the movie fun (The Stalk/Don’t Stalk signs in reference to our Walk/Don’t Walk ones), and the story was good and engaging. I recommend it.