Just in case you ever wondered what you get when breed a bull and a mare, I have the answer - a jumart. While playing Beyond Boulderdash with the young marrieds last night, we came across this odd word, and I promised to provide a picture if I could google up such a creature. No luck though. It's just a fabled creature - Which the Boulderdash card failed to mention.

The more i use StumbleUpon, the more I really love using it. It really is an innovative way to surf the web.

Today's most interesting stumble: The Brick Testament. It's a website of a guy who is illustrating the entire Bible using only Legos!

Amy and I decided to chill out and play some Nintendo on the NES PC after dinner last night. We had fun playing crazy classic games like Othello, Family Fued, and Super Dodge Ball. However, mixed in among the list of .nes files was a game called "P***y City Pimps". After playing the game for about 3 minutes, we decided that it was way to offensive to continue.

Still curious about it though, I googled the game title and found a great review site of Hacked Roms at i-mockery.com. Here you will find all the details (including screenshots) of games like: Evil Dead!, Baby Dodge Ball, Beeralaga, and Knife Boy!

I've left out a lot of the details as many of the games are just to ranchy to discuss here. But to quote Lemar Burton on Reading Rainbow, "Don't take MY word for it!"

Andy Kaufman is alive and posting on blogger.com exactly 20 years after his "faked" death? It's really tempting to completely discredit this as a big hoax. But after all...who else but Andy Kaufman would pull such a stunt?

Today's not a special day. In fact, it really is a typical one. Amy and I woke up this morning at 6:45am to my alarm, then at 6:47am to her alarm, then once more at 6:55 when we realized we were still in bed. We took a shower together and then made the bed together. She got ready for work as I made some bagels for breakfast and we talked about what has been going on at work for both of us.

I don't have to wake up so early, I could sleep in, and I have a few times. But starting my day without her is like starting a day without sunlight. I really need that time in the morning with her. It's not just me though. The other night I was feeling pretty sick, and she could have gone to hang out with her friends at the young married bible study we go to on Tuesdays, but instead she stayed home, waited on me hand & foot , and we watched a movie together.

We don't really go out as much as we could. We're working on setting a budget, trying to work exercise into our life, and trying to learn Italian together - all of which have had their ups and downs. Our life is really one big work in progress, but I wouldn't trade it for any other one. I'm happy, fulfilled, and still just as in love now as I was in that mallmachine-polaroid from the week before I asked her to marry me.

So... when I said in my last post that I had a lack of free time to play with the new blogger. It is really because I have chosen wisely how to allocate the time that I have. I love you Amy and the last 3 years, 9 months, and 3 days have been filled with the greatest moments of my life.

As I was perusing my regular reads this morning, I came across the report by Zeldman that Blogger has been completely redesigned! That's right, the simple service (know owned by Google) that propelled many of us into the web-publishing age has reinvented itself.

It seems like many of the css/webstandards heroes of today had a hand in this overhaul. Doug Bowman (Stopdesign) was in charge of the redesign and enlisted the help of Dan Cederholm, Todd Dominey, Dan Rubin, Dave Shea, and even Zeldman himself for the design of the new templates.

Despite my lack of free time to "play" with such things, I'm really excited about getting in and twiddling the knobs. After logging in (for the first time in over a year) I see that not only does it produce commenting and standards-compliant code, it also generates xml feeds!

Never did I think that after coding my own php/sql blog and commenting system that I would have to play catch-up with blogger!

I know I've been spending too much time ranting about advertising, but while looking for new information regarding the Subservient Chicken everyone's been talking about, I found this page. The writer talks about an insert he had found in a magazine about a soon-to-be-published book about Humanoid Robots.

To make a long story (you really ought to read) short - the whole thing seems to be hoax marketing for the Mini Cooper. Although there is no direct evidence of this, the voice behind both Subservient Chicken and the Mini Cooper is a marketing company called Crispin, Porter + Bogusky. CPB has a history of alternative marketing and is responsible for the campaigns for truth, Molson, and Ikea - as well as Burger King and Mini Cooper. So, you be the judge. But be sure to check out the videos on "the professor's" webpage and be amazed at the depth of the deception produced for this campaign.

Hey kids, Penny-Arcade is having a coloring contest! Did I mention I used to love grocery store coloring contests?

I've been using, and admiring Mozilla Firefox for a while now, but have always had a reason to creep back into using IE6 as my default browser. Sure, stricter compliance to W3C standards and better rendering of CSS are important to me, but its little integrated features like right-clicking images to paste into Photoshop that really get me to go back. As a web designer I also want to make sure everything I create works for the largest amount of internet users possible. Right now, that means IE6 users. So even if I did prefer Firefox over IE, I still need to be able to see what a page looks like in the public's eye.

In my latest attempt to kick IE to the curb, I've found some staying power in Mozilla's never-ending list of extensions for the Davidesque browser. There's an extension to add "copy image" to the right click menu, an extension to add "open in IE" to your right click menu, and even one that allows you to zoom in or out on an image in your browser.

Even without these features I support Firefox as a superior, more advanced browser, but it's the open source nature of Mozilla, and the genius extensions created by everyday programmers that are taking it leaps and bounds ahead of IE.