I've turned off commenting on my blog since I've been blogging mostly at Torrentocracy and I've really been pelted with blog spammers lately. It's too annoying to keep up with and I'm not content to live with graffiti spray painted on my home.

Here's a mini interview I did on my corporate blogging for Dell on Jon Cass's PR Blog.

Tomorrow is father's day. I'm seeing a spike of traffic from people doing google searches for "dad jokes". Dad would be proud.

this is what happens when you fight a stranger in the alps

Which one do you like better? ...i posted this one yesterday

Here's a nice shot that I took perched over 360:

Now that the ace of spades has been caught, it's time to move on to the next great set of cards. Just in time for the new year, complete your collection of Psychedelic Republican Trading Cards.

What's with the random IM chimes during Monday Night Football? I've noticed this the last couple weeks, and it appears the AOL folk are running a campaign to remind you of their product in the middle of the football game by inserting the familiar sound in the background noise inbetween plays.

Or, am I just hearing things? Maybe they are just upset over the lost cultural importance of the "you've got mail" guy.

I added a couple photos taken from the balcony of my apartment onto my photography page:

Technorati tells me that it took me 11 days before I saw this link:

This is a real product.

Brad Edwards at ESPN is projecting that Ohio State will overtake USC in the BCS rankings even though Southern Cal didn't lose this weekend. Well, the Buckeyes are the defending national champions.

Did I mention the Bengals are in first place.

Foo has gone mostly unupdated lately as I've been working hard on producing some new blogs. Go check out TexasForClarkBlog.com to see the final product. The site design was mostly done by Kathy Oeffinger and I think it came out well. She's been busy at work on the TexasForClark.com site.

I'm a big fan of his new show on HBO.

"flash mobs are fight clubs for pussies"

ha

I'm at LinuxWorld right now, but based on the suggestions that keep rolling in on my previous flashmob blog entry, it seems like the concensus idea which I like the best is to coordinate something outside the new Cheesecake Factory in the Arboretum. I happen to like this idea just because I never understood the hype behind these restaurants-- really, to me, I find it rather horrid to have to wade through advertisements on my menu as well as the room itself is a glorified cafeteria with columns to distract you from this fact.

Anyway, people seem to flock regardless and I never quite got it. The irony is that where now sits another "Something for Everyone!" cookie-cutter corporate dining experience, the previous tenant was the independent movie theater, Arbor 7. Wouldn't it be appropriate if we all randomly showed up doing such things as asking the Factory hostess for directions to the Arbor 7, showtimes for your favorite indie movie, or, perhaps, their opinions on the cinematography in Waking Life?

That movie made me nervous. I'm sure the hostess will be too. Thoughts?

Walked half way across the city from the beach through Golden Gate park up through Haight/Ashbury only to make it back to the hotel to find the Reds/Giants game on from Cincinnati. Life is good.

The Reds aren't.

I'm sure by now we've all heard about flash mobs-- organized spontaneous meet-ups of large numbers of people. First created in New York, they've now spread to even Minneapolis. So, the question is, where is Austin in all of this? Surely in this tech-haven, this could be put on quite easily. Well, just throwing this out there. Austin-bloggers is a highly connected group .... anyone have any good original ideas (and oh yeah, enough people to invite to make it interesting)?

on the lighter side of things, i'll keep a look out for someone wearing this shirt:

Why are there always cops in Chipotle? Has anyone else ever noticed this?

Influential South Korean Website Uses "Citizen Reporters" to cover news. It sounds like blogging taken a couple steps further. This whole internet thing, I think its gonna be big.

This morning was sweet. I hit all 4 green lights on Parmer between Riata and MoPac. Nobody was on the road and I guess the stars were aligned or something because hitting all those lights is a pretty rare occurence. Of course, with all that open road and nothing to stop me, i was doing just about 80...

Get onto Mopac and am almost to Wells Branch when I see the cop on his motorcycle with his lights on. Did you know that reckless driving is a class B misdemeanor and is an arrestable offense? But, sir, I was just late for work. No, I didn't realise you had to do 115 to catch up with me.

My first Texas ticket. 75 in a 55. doh!

Should have known something was aligned to get all those green lights in a row. At least texas has great laws on getting tickets expunged. Anybody have the best suggestion for the defensive driving class?

Back home in Cincinnati for the weekend. Must have skyline chili. Living in texas, you hear a lot of that texas superiority attitude, but there's no chili like skyline for me. I've even heard a couple who've had skyline before saying "you call that chili". But thats right, i do, and its good. So good that they're sending it to the crew of the USS Nimitz in Iraq. Yes, that's right, its so beloved that this is how Cincinnati school children support our troops.

"What do you mean you put the chili on top of spaghetti?" And if I had more time, I'd be stopping at the Montgomery Inn, too. There'd be quite an uprising in Texas if they knew how good those ribs were.

I must say, I'm one fine writer of Chinese prose. Well, not really. The pdf looks cooler.

The NYtimes catches Rumsfeld in a heated press conference yesterday.

UC chokes in the first round ... big surprise.
Ohio State doesn't make it into the tourney ... still, big ten tourney over-achievers
Ohio State loses to GTech in NIT ... now I owe a co-worker lunch

Getting my hands on an OSU National Champion Coke can .... f-in priceless

This unoriginal entry brought to you by the mind of someone educated at THE Ohio State University. Go Bucks!

Do you think its weird that the weatherman is this television personality that gets really excited about good weather but spends his entire day inside predicting the weather?

let's try again. link.

Is it bad form to link to one's own blog? In anycase, this is a test entry to try out trackback. Here's a link to yesterday's entry.

On occasion, I'll find myself pondering what the name of my band would be if I were in a band (or had some form of musical talent). Yesterday, I came up with "The Royal We". But, alas, it appears its already taken. And taken again. So much for original thought.

In anycase, the thought process which led me to this name stemmed from The Big Lebowski. If you haven't seen this movie, you should, or something. Any movie with a role for Saddam Hussein can't be bad. But, that's just like my opinion, man. The dude abides.

It took me a couple days before I realized it, but on the current Texas license plates the shuttle flying over Texas in the left corner is kind of freaky. I doubt these plates will exist for much longer now. I almost feel like putting a black ribbon on my plates next to the pic.

And speaking of freaky, did you see the Michael Jackson thing on ABC last night? Man that guy is just seriously messed up. Its almost hard to look at him for an extended amount of time. Its amazing what a crazy rich person can do to him/self. Usually, I wouldn't watch this kind of trashy TV, but for Michael Jackson I can make an exception. As for trash TV, what has become of 20/20? From what I could tell of the previews of upcoming stories, its turned into a celebrity news mag. What the hell is wrong with the citizenry of this country? Wake up, who cares about this meaningless crap. Except for Michael Jackson, of course.

Anyway, here's some more Jacko fun. A wook or a wookie is a semi-derogatory term for a dreaded hippie type person. Wooks.org was built for spreading the wookie love.