Since I slept most of the day I’ve decided that I should have breakfast for dinner.

I like some of the blurbs we get from Daypop’s Word Bursts. There’s nothing like a bit of out of context quoting.

Beaver:: so anyway, the cowgirl attributes an upskirt b shot to me to the detriment of the actual artist, so i get a lot of windfall traffic today (hello!).
– Radio Free Blogistan [Daypop Top Word Bursts]
(links added by me)

Today I’ve been asleep a good half of the day at least. I’m just exhausted. I’m not sure what’s happened, but I feel like my body is craving rest. Which is just fine because up till recently I hadn’t been able to sleep that much at all. I guess four nights of almost no sleep does eventually catch up to you.

At the same time I feel like I need to be more productive so I’ve dragged myself out of bed to finish up the last few steps on a consulting project.

(Please excuse my random rambling, I blame the Tussionex cough medicine the doc gave me).

One thing I like about this whole blog thing/web thing is that you really never quite know who is out there reading your blog. I remember way back when I first got back onto the Lung Transplant list Adam wished me good luck on his blog. I was kind of blown away for a moment. Adam Curry read my blog? But when I thought about it, it wasn’t that astounding. I had lots of random people that read my blog. I’d linked to things he’d posted about in the past so I’m sure he’d found my site. One difference may be that people who are part of/have been part of the public eye may hold themselves back sometimes.

The thing that made me just about it this morning was Adam Gaffin’s comment on my entry about Movable Type and mySQL. When I glanced at his site I found it was Network World Fusion, which is the online site for Network World magaine. The cool thing about this is that this definitely answers my question. Someone was using MT for a ‘real world’ application and just happened to stumble across my blog and let me know that it worked well. It’s one of the things I like about weblogs. Oh and you should check out Network World Fusion, they’ve got some cool blogs there. I like the Cool Tools one myself. (Hmm, and they are located in MA. I should keep an eye out to see if they are hiring at all ever (gotta network every chance I get these days!)).

The other thing I learned more about in the last day was Octopuses. Thanks to comments on my post about the one that can open up a jar. See, it pays to post about random things, you never know who will respond or what you’ll learn.

‘Mister Rogers’ dies at age 74

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Television’s “Mister Rogers,” the cultural icon and kindly neighbor to generations of American children, died Thursday at the age of 74.

Growing up I was a PBS kid. It was one of the few things my mom would let me watch regularly. I remember watching Sesame Street, Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood, and The Electric Company regularly. I still remember so many bits about the show now. There was the trolley that went to the Make-Believe land, and Mr “Speedy” McFeely (the mailman). I’m not even sure if PBS even still airs old reruns of the show, but I hope they do (it appears they do). I actually think I even have the record from the show on vinyl. Goodbye Mr. Rodgers, you’ll be missed.

Update: Here’s the New York Times obit.

Is anyone I know using MT with mySQL. What do people think of it? Does it scale well? I can imagine there being a point when the normal installation might end up slowing down some, and mySQL might end up being a slightly better choice.

Benjamin Franklin: “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” [Quotes of the Day ]

Spiral hadn’t had a new episode come out in a bit and then suddenly there were a bunch for me to watch. I took in 16 and 17 today and they were quite fun. I wasn’t sure where the show was going to go after the first arc of it, but they seem to be taking it in an interesting direction. These two focused around a plot by the hunters to take out the Blade Children. Of course it is the main character to the rescue.

While I’m not sure this show is real deep, it falls into that real of shows I like to watch just because they are fun. Another show that fit into that realm for me was Gatekeepers. Hey, not every show has to have these deep plotlines that keep you guessing every moment.

A few days ago Phil Ringnalda posted about a new plugin for Movable Type that let you have threaded comments.

After napping a bit tonight (No, I didn’t go out to the club. Right now if I breath funny I start coughing endlessly, so I decided to stay in), I decided to try popping the plugin in and seeing how well it worked. It’s actually pretty damn cool. It reminds me a lot of how LiveJournal comments work as far as threading. Though even more now I want to change the templates for the individual entry pages. But that’ll be for tomorrow after I sleep some more.

kottke.org reports that “Paul McFedries, who runs the excellent Word Spy, has received a letter from one of Google’s lawyers concerning his citation of the word google“. McFedries has a web site called WordSpy, that is “devoted to recently coined words and phrases, old words that are being used in new ways, and existing words that have enjoyed a recent renaissance.” He recently added the verb “google” to the site and it seems Google isn’t happy with his definition.

Something about Google’s attitude just rubs me the wrong way. Plus, I’m not sure how much ground they have to stand on in this case.