Seems like I fill quite a few of these roles… so how come I don’t have all the spare time these guys do? Maybe I need to have a single role, so that instead of switching roles while one is “busy” I can have one role with blockers. Hmmmm….
Only one I’m missing from below is the 3D artist. But that’s ok. Cute comic though. =)
This is perhaps one of the coolest things I have ever seen: http://www.woehr.de/en/projekte/budapest_m730/index.htm. I wish I could embed it but I can’t (sadly, you need flash to watch it). It’s the parking system in Budapest.
I can see this solving all kinds of parking issues. And the geek factor is way too cool. I would totally love to stick my car in one of these things. =) Awesome stuff. I wonder what OS this thing runs?
Merry Christmas to all my compatriots, friends, and (strangely enough) the folks who find my blog interesting enough to read! =)
Got spoiled something fierce this year. Feels nice. =) wOO! 25th anniversary Transformers boxed set! I’ll be reliving my childhood for a long time to come… I have no idea how many hours 16 DVDs are but it sure sounds like a lot. =) And all the other goodies I got spoiled with… well.. I’ve got a great set of girls here. Mind you, I spoiled them as well.
Post-Christmas kitty in a month! He’s so cute! He’s the bottom-left one. I think he’s 3 weeks old in this picture.
I’m in crunch mode right now… wrote 2400 words today, another 4300 to get back on target (need to write 1167 words per day to make the 50k target at the end of the month).
Not an excuse, really, but this was a stupid work week with stupid little things going on that totally distracted me and by the time I had some downtime, trying to be creative and imaginative were the last things I wanted (vegetative state, here I come!)
Anyways, aside from having to fix some electrical issues (lose wires in breaker box are _not_ a good thing as my melted wires will attest to!), I’ve been able to write more today than anytime this week. And since there’s nothing decent on tonight, I hope to crank out those 4300 words tonight and then I can be sane and try to keep up.
Oh, for anyone interested in seeing some stats, my profile page on nanowrimo.org has my word counts as I update them.
So last year I participated in National Novel Writing Month but didn’t pull it off. The idea is to go nuts and write a 50k word novel during the month of November. People all around the world do it, and it’s quite fun but very time consuming and pretty crazy. Last year there was too much going on for me to really focus, so I think I hit about 20k words. Not quite an epic fail, but not nearly what I had set out for.
This year I’m at it again. I’ve got some vague ideas as to what to write about and it should be fun. I’m definitely aiming for 50k words this month so stuff like blogging and other “extra-curicular” activities will be on hold this month while I churn out a novel (or something vaguely resembling one).
Wish me luck!
Every time you turn around someone is posting about, talking about, writing about, or otherwise having something to do with H1N1. While I get this is a new flu, and the media have a job to do in increasing sales and readership, the sheer volume of “OMG! H1N1!” is frightening. Found this good graphic that puts things into perspective:
I sincerely hope no one gets H1N1, yes, but come on folks… it’s obvious in the grand scheme of things that it’s just another illness making the rounds. It actually frightens me that more people have died from TB or meningitis in the last 300 days than swine flu.
