Dallas Chipmunks

There's not a lot of websites I visit religiously these days; of course, I check in here several times a day, go to the tv listings to see what's on, Drudge for news and during the season and training camp, I like to keep up with my beloved Dallas Cowboys.

They've recently revamped their award-winning website and have been putting in more articles and videos, gearing up for what is hoped to be another exciting season.

Something caught my eye, though: the following screenshot is from a recent video about today's scrimmage. Look closely, just to the left-of-center, the guy on the back row.

Is that just the glare from the sun, an odd angle or is the player storing up nuts for the winter?

No Spam Here!

What? I must have accidentally reported this blog as spam!



I "unflagged" it, then went to check the TV listings. When I came back, it was flagged again!

I unflagged it again, then refreshed the page only to find it had been flagged yet again. I checked several times, even logging out and seeing if it had something to do with that. Still flagged!

I deleted cache and cookies, came back and saw where it was still flagged!

Then I thought that maybe someone was flagging it just to get it shut down, or at least to cause me problems.

Worried that this site was soon to be "shuttered", I went to Blogger Buzz and saw this:

August 01, 2008

Spam Fridays

While we wish that every post on this blog could be about cool features or other Blogger news, sometimes we have to step in and admit a mistake.

We've noticed that a number of users have had their blogs mistakenly marked as spam, and wanted to sound off real quick to let you know that, despite it being Friday afternoon, we are working hard to sort this out. So to those folks who have received an email saying that your blog has been classified as spam and can't post right now, we offer our sincere apologies for the trouble.

We hope to have this resolved shortly, and appreciate your patience as we work through the kinks.

Thank goodness! This blog could be accurately described as inane, silly, worthless, a waste of time, horrible, stupid, etc. but not spam!

Whew. Shades of MSN Groups, huh?

Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits

What Flavor Popsicle Are You?

You Are a Blueberry Flavored Popsicle

You are a very unusual person. For you, summer is all about adventure and travel. You are brilliant and bright. Your mind is always sharp and working at full capacity. You seek out new and different experiences. You get bored very easily. You are very creative. Of all of the types, you're the most likely to invent a new popsicle.

What Flavor Popsicle Are You?

The bad thing is that, no matter what flavor I am, I would still have a stick up my butt.

Create Word Clouds

From the website:

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Here's a Wordle word cloud using the URL of this blog:

(click image for larger view)



It really picked up on "tasteless", I see.

Discarded Doll in the Dumpster

I was taking out my trash yesterday evening when I noticed a splash of color on the dumpster down the alley.



It was a clown doll, in fairly good shape, looking incongruous amongst the nasty dumpster, the tall weeds and the abandoned and run-down houses at the end of the block.



The sight made me sad for some reason, and my first inclination was to rescue the doll, at least throw it in with the rest of the discarded items, save it from such an embarrassing postion.

As I knelt down to take the photos, the doll's smile gave me pause. I tilted my head to look into its face.

It was as if the doll was saying to me: "I've done my job, I've been a faithful companion, made a child laugh. It was time to put away childish things. Don't feel sorry for me."