Sometimes Silent

Remember to keep at least 15 movies in the Queue at all times. It’s the best way to avoid interruptions to your shipments

LOL! Right now I have 124 movies in my queue. Think I’m ok? Well I mean in the sense that they’re talking about? Hehe.

The scary thing is that as much as I love film, I was a bigger book worm when I had more leisure time. I used to take home the max 12 books from our local library and come back 3 days later. I believe I read the entire science fiction and fantasy collection (alas it was a very small library though).

With films I don’t feel as much as a drive to “see them all” dispite what my large queue may indicate. Many are there as back ups, some I plan on playing on my laptop as I work on my desktop computer. I will say it’s nice to watch a movie while eating dinner.

Well anyway, thank you Blockbuster for making it easier for me to rent movies, and at a reasonable price. Now I’m back into filmaholic mood I guess. It’s almost as bad as when I was at Paramount and could borrow stuff from their archives. At least now I can knock of some of those films that friends have been telling me I “Have to See!”.

P.S. If you’d like to try out the Blockbuster Online service, and you’d also like a PS2, GameCube, Nintendo DS, or an Xbox, please sign up for Blockbuster through this giveaway offer I’m going for a PS2 for myself

So I started to wonder today about who might have been the first to grab their first name as a dot com and if the original owners still had them.

I tried a few names at the office and got a few The site soon and the placeholders for “If you want to buy this site…”.

I also found one production (?) company when looking up Ginger, but I rather doubt that they were the original owners of ginger.com

My one promising lead was for Leah which has ” Sorry! This site has been closed. ” however the graphics look promising. I then did a whois look up:

Domain Name: LEAH.COM

Created on…………..: Wed, Apr 10, 1996
Expires on…………..: Tue, Apr 11, 2006
Record last updated on..: Mon, Jan 26, 2004

1996 is early in net years when last month may seem like an eternity in a constantly updating world, but it’s still not that long ago. I wondered if there wasn’t an earlier Leah owner.

At any rate, I was not much closer to finding out if any original name holders were still around.

What about you? Try looking up your first name dot com. What do you see? Or, do you know someone who is the original owner of their first name dot com? Tell them to post here!

“Bright people have the capability of freaking out faster and more dramatically than anyone else.” - Sidebar quote from Getting Things Done, David Allen.

Alright, if you’re a MMORPG gamer you might have heard about a certain company called IGE or about companies like them which deal in selling in-game items, characters, game money, and game accounts — the majority of the time against the EULAs of the games in which these items and characters exist.

Activity such as this is a sensitive issue with gamers because it brings the real world into the gaming world and has many repercussions. It now seems that certain community sites have been infiltrated.
Here’s the rundown.

I sent off this email to FutureMail’s creator, Ben Sinclair:

Hello,

First off, great app, thanks for sharing it!

Now on to the idea / request: Would it be possible for me to forward an email I’ve received to myself at a future date without having to copy and paste its contents into your form? Perhaps by me forwarding the original to an email address for this purpose?

I’m trying to get started with the whole Getting Things Done system and I was thinking about using FutureMail to handle some of my “tickler file / calendar” type stuff. So that the emails themselves could be the reminder to myself rather than me typing something into my calendar.
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Thanks for your time,
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http://sometimesilent.blogsome.com/

Any GTD fans out there get what I’m hoping to achieve?

I could just cut and paste email contents into the form but that could lead to odd or broken layouts, and I would need to rev up the futuremail interface to do it. If we could just foward the email to a certain email address, perhaps with a certain format in the subject line to indicate what date we want to receive the mail, it would be easier to do.

Gmail Label Tricks
An interesting idea that may work out well with the Getting Things Done system (which I’m not finished reading yet but am pretty excited about).

A good summary of Getting Things Done can be read here.

If you’d like to take a look at the book itself here’s my Amazon link to it: Getting Things Done.

I am a Japanese School Teacher By: Azrael

Here are some sample post titles:

11.11.04 My Kids Are Perverted
11.11.04 In The Ghetto
11.11.04 It’s So Pretty
11.11.04 Japanese Kids Say The Darndest Things

I’ll leave you with a warning that reading during work may lead to embarrassing explanations as to why you are laughing so hard.

I received this email from myself today:

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 04:02:12 -0600
From: ss@gmail.com
To: ss@gmail.com
Subject: FutureMail: post about this if it works

nt

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Sent from FutureMail.BenSinclair.com

I sent it in the past using FutureMail. Handy way to send yourself a reminder or a “to do” if you, like me, check your email more than your calendar.

Puzzle Pirates This game cracks me up. What an odd (and fun) concept.

Now let me explain. Have you heard of MMORPGs? MMORPG = Massively Multiplayer Online RolePlaying Game. Massively multiplayer means that thousands of people can play simultaneously. Online is self explanatory (in this situation you can play through a dial up modem, other games pretty much require a high speed connection). Roleplaying in this case means that everyone is pretending to be a pirate. Game in this case… well this is where Pirate Puzzles breaks the mold.

In Puzzle Pirates you play a little pirate (isometric, 3rd person view). You can job for the Navy, join a Crew, keep a shop, challenge others to a duel or a drinking game, join tournaments, lose an eye, buy a hat, and do many other piratey things. The twist is that whether you are helping sail a ship, or fighting a tavern brawl, how well you do is determined by how well you (as in the person at the keyboard) do at a number of “puzzle games”. Some are like Tetris, others are maze like (in the sense that the old game Plumbing Works or Pipe Works was), and others are traditional games like cards, or a simplified variation of Go!. Each of the games of course has sound and graphics to make it more pirate-like.

What makes the game fun is of course the social element and the team play. You can become reknowned for being the best cannon loader in your archipelago for instance. What makes the game hilarious (in my mind at least) is that in a ship to ship battle my captain is relying on how well I (and 3 others) do at this tetris inspired puzzle to determine if we sail faster than the other ship. So I’m playing tetris, but I’m actually nervous!

The beauty in all of this is that, as can be expected, Tetris type games don’t last hours. You can jump in and play a little while, or stay in and participate in a blockade (I’ve yet to do that though). What I have done though is found a crew to join, fun bunch of folks, participated in a few ship to ship battles and bought myself some boots.

I’ll do a follow up on this post. I’ve got the greenlight to do an interview with the CEO of Puzzle Pirates for The Safehouse so I’ll be gathering more info.

Well I surprised myself at the gym today. I finished the “All Wood” route on the overhanging part of the climbing wall. Basically, it entails climbing about 30 feet high using only the thin wood pieces for your hand and footholds. It’s like doing a campus board in a way — very “pumpy”, a bit of back and arm strength dependent, and hard on the fingers. I’ve tried this route once before and didn’t finish it without cheating. I started out this time and realized I was going faster than before. Before I knew it I was 3/4s of the way up… and I decided that I was not going to stop. I made it to the top and smiled. I guess I’m getting stronger