This morning I wake up bright and early and realize I have an appointment with my therapist at 11. Of course this means there is no way I can make it to lunch with my friend Peter who works a good 30 minute drive away. So I drop Pete a line and reschedule to tomorrow. Then, when I get to my appointment it ends up that it is actually for tomorrow at 11 instead. Of course at this point it’s too late to change the plans with Peter, so now I’ll have to change the plans for tomorrow, hopefully he can do lunch a little later. One of these days I’ll get more organized.

So, BloggerCon is coming up in October and I got an invite for it in my email over the weekend. The good part about it is that I really think it could be an interesting thing to go to. I’ve definitely really gotten into the weblog thing and have used them for all kinds of things. The only issue is that it’s kind of expensive. Bryant posted about this over at Population: One and I somewhat agree with him, though can see know things like this can easily get expensive to run. The part about it that really sucks is that I’m unemployed (just hit my year anniversary) and there’s just no way I can swing this, even though I think it would be very worthwhile (as both a learning experience and a networking experience). Dave Winer posted about the idea of micro-sponsorships, which I think is a really interesting idea that I may pursue more. Or maybe I’ll see if they need any volunteers to help getting set up in exchange for attending. Since I’m local (like 5 blocks away) I may be able to help out somehow. We shall see.

Dave Hyatt posts about playing a Dark Side character in Star Wars: KOTOR. I just started doing this as well. It is more fun than should be allowed. I never play evil characters, but I did in this case. At times you get to do things that are just too wrong. For instance. I meet a lady on the street who was poor and starving. The last thing she had some something from her late husband. I offer to take and sell it for her. I then sell it, pocket the cash, and then go back and tell her I did it and she runs away crying. Woohoo! Dark Side Points Earned! It’s oh so wrong and oh so fun. It’s also fun doing something for someone, then when they pay you, you demand more. If they don’t give you more? KILL THEM.

Abraham Lincoln: “‘Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.” [Quotes of the Day]

Yes, it’s another episode of guilty pleasures with Gregory. This time the show is Happy Lesson Advance, the latest in the Happy Lesson series. The series is about this boy, Chitose, who has five moms. Yes, five. Oh, yes, and they also happen to all be teachers in his school. It’s kind of a twist on your typical harem show (I mean, try imagining having five moms). They fit a couple of common stereotypes. You’ve got the cosplaying art teacher mom, the quietly disturbing science teacher/mad scientist mom, the sports loving PE teacher mom, etc. With this show we’re introduced to a new character who says that one of the moms is her mom too. I just got done watching the fourth episode show and parts of it are just too cute and actually very sweet. Oh yes, and it has dancing chicks at the end, any show with dancing chicks earns a few points in my book.

Okay, who let Faust out of Shaman King and into Ultra Maniac?

The Universal Church of Cosmic Uncertainty has a link to a post that takes about chihuahuas and synchronicity and getting bit on the ass. There really isn’t much more to say about it than that.

Ellen’s giving me great links left and right tonight. This one is for a great deal on a 20″ TV thanks the the More Stuff 4 Less Bargin Blog. That’s a heck of a lot to go through just to get a TV (and CD-Rs, and Speakers, and other stuff).

Lockergnome has a link (that appears to be slashdotted) pointing to the “100 oldest currently extant domain names” and lists the oldest 15.

03/15/1985 SYMBOLICS.COM
04/24/1985 BBN.COM
05/24/1985 THINK.COM
07/11/1985 MCC.COM
09/30/1985 DEC.COM
11/07/1985 NORTHROP.COM
01/09/1986 XEROX.COM
01/17/1986 SRI.COM
03/03/1986 HP.COM
03/05/1986 BELLCORE.COM
03/19/1986 IBM.COM
03/19/1986 SUN.COM
03/25/1986 INTEL.COM
03/25/1986 TI.COM

Unfortunately, that list is wrong. That might be the 15 oldest .coms, but cmu.edu (Carnegie Mellon) was registered on 4/24/1985, mit.edu (MIT) was registered on 5/23/1985, and Harvard, UC Berkeley, and Stanford were also registered in 1985 (as I’m sure a bunch others were). I’d actually like to see the real list.

This is site showing how pictures of models are retouched is scary. There’s another one there that just made me go buh too. I mean, I kinda sorta understand airbrushing, but that’s much more than just airbrushing. Yow. [via Lockergnome [via ellen]].