Orlando Bloggers Untie!

I read a post by Cheyenne that mentioned something about Metroblogging. That’s a new organization of blogs that hopes to have a set of writers in each major city blogging about the local scene. Everything from photos to reviews to rants and whines. Right now they have Chicaco, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles set up. (Here is a list of writers.) Chey’s signed up to be a contributor for the San Francisco branch.

While they have Atlanta, Boston, DC, Vienna, Orance County, Paris, Minneapolis, Miami, Seattle, Dublin, London, Tokyo and Toronto on their to-do list, and they’re not exactly overstaffed (it’s just Jason and Sean), I thought I’d see if we could add Orlando (or Central Florida) to that list.

In order to make sure there is enough of a blogging ecosystem, they’d like to have at least 10 bloggers willing to contribute. So, I zipped off a couple of e-mails, and here’s who we have so far:

Blissfully Bitter
Dashboard Hippo
Dayzed and Confused
The Masked Blogger
Mount Sutro

I think I caught Chari in the middle of a move from TECHFLUID to SoapBoxBlog. But she’ll be more than happy to contribute. Right Chari? (Nothing like the smell of peer pressure in the morning.)

I’ve sent shouts out to The Daily Dewayne and Andy Dehnart, as well. If they would sign on, that would make nine.

Anyone else interested?

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Carnival of the Vanities 92

The Carnival of the Vanities is at A Single Southern Guy in America this week. I haven’t felt worthy of participating in a while, but I figured I ought to chuck some crap over the wall and see who I hit with it… or something like that…

Anyway, go read the other fine essays collected therein.

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Comdex Cancelled

Organizer cancels Comdex 2004 | CNET News.com

Wow. I haven’t really paid much attention to it in years (which I guess is the point), but Comdex used to be like the computer show. Times change.

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Movie Songs

AFI did another one of their 100 Years, 100 whatevahs last night. This time it was the 100 best movie songs.

I don’t think I can argue with the top few. A few of them I don’t recall ever hearing, though. Like:

11. “The Man That Got Away,” “A Star Is Born,” 1954.
77. “The Shadow of Your Smile,” “The Sandpiper,” 1965

And where is “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”? or “Rawhide”? or “Rock’n’Roll High School”? I’m sure there were others.

But at least these two made the list. *hee*

80. “Springtime for Hitler,” “The Producers,” 1968
89. “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” “Young Frankenstein,” 1974.

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Ant City

Pretend you have a giant magnifying glass that can focus the sun’s rays on the unsuspecting pedestrians… Ant City

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God speed, Lizard Man

Please send prayers and good wishes to Brian, as he heads into heart surgery on Wednesday.

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Off we go, into the wild blue yonder!

CNN.com – Private craft flies into space – Jun 21, 2004

Woo-hoo!

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This is the city. Glenburn.

The Degree Confluence Project has a goal to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. It was started in 1996 by a guy who just bought a GPS and didn’t know what to do with it. Now there are over 30,000 photos of these places where the longitude and latitude meet. You can spend hours just browsing the pics, but it’s also fun to read the stories of how people got to them — especially if, like the one for 45 N 69 W in Maine, it’s by a guy who’s traveling around an area he doesn’t know very well, but you do.

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Diary of a Yard Sale

6:00 AM
Some idiot put an ad in the paper that said:

Idiots having yard sale in June in Florida. Starting at 8AM. *snicker* Waterbed, refrigerator and other crap available. I doubt they’ll last an hour, so come on by around 10 and offer them a buck for the whole mess.

Since we hadn’t taken the waterbed apart or tried to get the fridge out the door, we decided to get up early. Two hours should be enough time to put a yard sale together, right?

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Ew, my brain is all melty

Turns out June is not a good time to have a yard sale in Florida. Ya know why? Because everything fricking melts before you can collect 25-cents for it! Then you have to scrape it up off the asphalt and put it in a trash bag. And then some people don’t want it no more. Stupid picky yard salers.

We did have fun playing with the melted crayons though… (“Look! I can draw with my finger!”) And we have made over fiddy bucks and gotten rid of some crap. Not to mention all the weight we’re sweating off.

I’m just taking a break to give my cerebral cortex a chance to re-solidify.

Is it bad when you can hear your brain slosh around in your skull?

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