It seems my blog-off rival, the dazzlingly insightful Ben McLaughlin knows which side his blog traffic is buttered on – he’s joined the Tetris loving fun – pointing to Google’s 25th birthday tribute… which looked a little like this…
Author: Nathan Campbell
Nathan runs St Eutychus. He loves Jesus. His wife. His daughter. His son. His other daughter. His dog. Coffee. And the Internet. He is the pastor of City South Presbyterian Church, a church in Brisbane, a graduate of Queensland Theological College (M. Div) and the Queensland University of Technology (B. Journ). He spent a significant portion of his pre-ministry-as-a-full-time-job life working in Public Relations, and now loves promoting Jesus in Brisbane and online. He can't believe how great it is that people pay him to talk and think about Jesus. If you'd like to support his writing financially you can do that by giving to his church.
Higher heights
Well, I was expecting to see a spike in visits thanks to that bookofjoe linkage so I checked my stats. And there was a spike – though not from bookofjoe – instead it comes from this German? site (translated). 777 visitors. From an article about Tetris featuring this translated passage:
“Even a Tetris Olympics is on the way.Real Tetris fans will Gesumse not all that upset. They sing the song to the peddlers.And wait for the next block. (Detlef Borchers) / (It / c’t) “
I’m the “Real Tetris Fan” linked there. Bookofjoe has so far produced nine hits.
New heights
I feel like I’ve hit blogging gold. After all these years of meaningless toil it appears that the “World’s most popular blogging anesthesiologist” over at bookofjoe has visited my site – because I’ve scored a link.
Awesomeness.
Dedicated pie area
Oppression of pie eaters is everywhere – no longer can one take one’s pie eating break at work without attracting the scowls of colleagues. No more. Up with this we shall not put… with just a permanent marker there’ll be dedicated pie eating areas in all the least popular real estate in town…
Musical maturity
I thought this piece of Graphjammy goodness was too good to pass up after last week’s music debate.
I put U2 on the right hand side.
Nacho, Nacho Man…
Homer Simpson spawned a legacy of men wishing they could wear their dinner on their heads with such panache.
Well now you can. Thanks to this little tutorial all things are possible.
Fun with science
Squirt your (ex-)friends in the face with this “now that you mention it, it’s obvious” practical joke from Wired, it’s harnessing the awesome powers of science…
Cake that’ll fill the gaps
In honour of Tetris’s 25th birthday I give you this. A geeky Tetris wedding cake. Beautiful. No doubt my wife (and little sister number 1 – who made our cake) is thankful that we’re already married.
This is part of an article featuring geeky wedding cakes which also featured this Mario cake…
Extreme Segway
Segways are our future. So it’s great to know that in the future there’ll still be something like Motocross for bogans to enjoy.
Speaking of Motocross reminds me of an old motorbike racing game Paul (best man at my wedding – currently in South America and occasional reader) and I bought once where you could design your own awesome tracks and win money to upgrade your bikes… it was awesome.
Anyway, I found this at Gizmodo.
Spider man strikes again
David Thorne gained international (or at least internet) notoriety for trying to pay his bill with a drawing of a spider.
So he’s not the kind of guy you should send this sort of letter to. You’re really just asking for trouble…
There’s some pretty funny stuff on his site – but also some not so funny stuff. Be warned.
Here’s a sample from the string of emails he sent to his real estate agent…
“Currently I only have eight dogs but one is expecting puppies and I am very excited by this. I am hoping for a litter of at least ten as this is the number required to participate in dog sled racing. I have read every Jack London novel in preparation and have constructed my own sled from timber I borrowed from the construction site across the road during the night. I have devised a plan which I feel will ensure me taking first place in the next national dog sled championships. For the first year of the puppies life I intend to say the word mush then chase them violently around the apartment while yelling and hitting saucepan lids together. I have estimated that the soundproofing of my apartment should block out at least sixty percent of the noise and the dogs will learn to associate the word mush with great fear so when I yell it on race day, the panic and released adrenaline will spur them on to being winners. I am so confident of this being a foolproof plan that I intend to sell all my furniture the day before the race and bet the proceeds on coming first place.”
A bunch of links – June 5, 2009
- To be honest, I can’t understand why there’s still debate about abortion.
- Chinese Election
- Thoughts on Music for the Media-Gorged: Part 1
- How long is a million minutes?
- Best TV of the decade
- Getting Along
- Binder Clips As DIY Emergency Cuff Links
- Stop Writing Mid-Sentence To Ward Off Writer’s Block
- Joan or John? How Do You Minister the Gospel to the quot;Transgenderedquot;?
- What kind of discussion is this?
- No way back for dumped Symonds
- YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace
- Ideas for uni ministry: Encouraging Bible reading
Blog Off: Update
Simone now has 19 posts (including a post that essentially amounted to her reposting my Sizzler toast recipe…)
Ben has 26 posts. All of them original.
I have 50. I’m going away for the long weekend though – so I suspect the others to put on a bit of a lead (remembering that I’m now on 0 after knocking over the 50 post handicap).
Crunch decision
There are dumb lawsuits and then there’s this law suit…
On May 21, a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California dismissed a complaint filed by a woman who said she had purchased “Cap’n Crunch with Crunchberries” because she believed “crunchberries” were real fruit. The plaintiff, Janine Sugawara, alleged that she had only recently learned to her dismay that said “berries” were in fact simply brightly-colored cereal balls, and that although the product did contain some strawberry fruit concentrate, it was not otherwise redeemed by fruit. “
It would seem there’s a legal precedent with a case involving “Froot Loops”…
The judge put the plaintiff in her place:
This Court is not aware of, nor has Plaintiff alleged the existence of, any actual fruit referred to as a “crunchberry.” Furthermore, the “Crunchberries” depicted on the [box] are round, crunchy, brightly-colored cereal balls, and the [box] clearly states both that the Product contains “sweetened corn & oat cereal” and that the cereal is “enlarged to show texture.”