This could be interesting...

Have you heard about Wii Sex? Not to be confused with wee sex...

I have to agree with Salon.com, this is definitely the WTF of the day. And while part of me doesn't feel like dropping $50 on this, a bigger part of me can't wait for this to be released so I can laugh my ass off.

More info on the game can be found here and in this podcast here.

Makes me wonder if we as a society have gotten either that warped or that clever that we're willing to burn calories any way we can via the Wii?

One quick note - upon further reading, it looks like this is something that one could check out now, although it's not meant for a game console, but for a desktop or laptop computer using a Wii controller. The catch is you have to make a bunch of modifications to the controller to get it to work with Bluetooth. However, if you're really wanting to check this game out, I guess it would be worth all the extra work?

Wanna irritate me?

It's quite simple really.

- First, make my internet connection dodgy where it decides to blip out here and there.
- Second, decide that my computer needs to be rebooted right then. Right in the middle of one of my favorite Soup Dragons songs.

Today that'll do it quite nicely.

Long live the MacBook Pro

I seriously don't know how I survived without a magsafe power adaptor. Seriously. These things rock. The plug doesn't get worn out over time (and due to how hot the laptop runs). If the stupid cat decides to rub her head against it - no biggie. The thing pops off, freaks her out, and it's a good hour before she's bugging me again. The kid comes screaming through the family room on his "motorcycle" (aka big wheel) and happens to run into the power cord, no problemo. The kid isn't clotheslined, and no damage is done. Life is good.

I also don't know how I got by without the iSight built in. No more swearing trying to get the stand-alone iSight to hook onto the lid properly, followed by 45 minutes spent trying to get the camera angle just right. No, I'm not delving into the live 24/7 webcam world again. That was sooo 1998. Naw, it's cool to have because of Photo Booth, which I admittedly spend way too much time playing with. It's also fun to have "video conferences," if you will, with my out of state friends. Just need to remember not to be picking my nose or anything while the cam is live.

In other technology news, I'm still rather frustrated by the lack of available Blogspot urls and otherwise. Yes, I realize I've been ranting about this for a week now. Part of the problem is I haven't been creative enough (read: years of writing advertising copy to sell toilet bowl cleaner and cellular phones online have zapped every last bit of creativity out of my brain) to come up with something else, so instead I will bitch about it until I either a) come up with something clever, or b) an angry mob shows up at my door and confiscates any and all devices I could possibly access the internet and use to post to my blog. I'm also growing increasingly frustrated with WordPress. I've been trying to beat the thing into submission for a few days now. I think a big part of the problem is I don't actually do anything remotely resembling coding anymore, so I'm just grossly out of practice. I still can write a line or two of HTML if I absolutely have to. Oftentimes I have a php script or two up my sleeve. But that's about it. I'll get there. Or I'll bribe a geek.

I Don't Wanna Stop

This song so ROCKS! Have you checked it out? I Don't Wanna Stop is the new single from Black Rain, Ozzy Osbourne's soon-to-be-released new album. I caught a sample on iTunes this evening and I must say I love it! Check it out, if you are so inclined.

I promise - you won't be sorry! I'm probably going to pre-order the album so I can download it as soon as it's released. Love Ozzy. Dude hasn't released a new album in like six years. I can't believe it's been that long. I think that was right about the time The Osbournes started on MTV. I admit, I watched that show religiously. Now I'm more of a Gene Simmons Family Jewels fan.

Scrapping Violet is coming along. I've been on several deadlines this week, plus a training this morning, so my work has been limited to the late evening hours. I also need to start creating again so I've got somethings to post. I've been playing with some new toys I received in my Close to My Heart kit (I signed up as a consultant during last month's screaming deal - yes, I know I should be ashamed but stamping and scrapping are two things I love!) and been to a couple of my Stampin' Up consultant's (aka my Stampin' Crack Dealer) workshops, but that's like it. I have not scrapped a damn thing this year. Part of it has been the chaos that has been my life the past few months. The other part is I need to get my groove back or something. I need to do something soon or else the growing collection of unused scrapbook paper is going to take over.

In most-excellent news, I ordered my new laptop yesterday. I got a new 15", 2.33GHz MacBook Pro. With Glossy screen. It should be here early next week. If it's anything like my 1st Gen Dual-Core G5 desktop, I shouldn't need to upgrade for a LONG time. This time last year, I had a 12" iBook. Loved that little iBook. It had the glossy, white case and was fairly lightweight. Then hubby got this brilliant idea to get himself a 17" MacBook Pro, give me his old 2nd Gen 15" PowerBook Titanium, and sell my iBook. Now I'm getting the new one, which I'm looking forward to. Apparently the new ones run cooler than the prior PowerBooks and I can boot both OSX and XP. Which is handy. No Vista here. Vista sucks. Next thing I need to do is a solid backup so I can move all my data to the new machine when it gets here. I probably won't know what to do with myself with all that speed! That and the built-in iSight. Anyone want to buy a gently-used, 2nd Gen Titanium with upgraded hard drive and memory?

More light reading

If you want to call it that.

I've spent the better part of this evening familiarizing myself with some of the freebie apps that GoDaddy offers and even does the installs for you. You know what this means. Yup. I'm finally going to get ScrappingViolet.com launched.

For those of you not in the loop (if there ever was a loop - I suspect I kept the bulk of this info inside my head, which is a scary, scary place), ScrappingViolet.com was this brilliant idea I had to launch my own scrapping & paper crafting-related e-zine. I was going to post tips and tricks about photography, scrapbooking, card making, altered items, etc. Talk a little about basic design principles, techniques for newbies, my favorite tools and products. Stuff like that. Yeah, I know there's places like that already, but I don't feel the need to grovel and beg for the opportunity to post and write about my take on things. I wanted things on my terms. Plus I figure I'm savvy enough to get my site picked up by search engines, maybe even do a very modest amount of pay-per-click. After all, I do pay the bills by pimping myself out as an interactive marketer.

Unfortunately life got in the way. My extreme burnout when it comes to designing and building websites got in the way - hence why this blog still looks exactly the way it did a year ago. Hence why my professional site looks exactly the way it did when I launched the thing nearly four years ago. Add to that the fact that I can't code my way out of a paper bag. I had these grandiose plans of using an open source content management system to organize everything and have all these fancy categories for everything I wanted to feature and write about. Sadly, I've never been more than a kick-ass web designer who knows enough about the back-end to be dangerous. Very dangerous. The IT guys don't like me playing too close to the big, expensive equipment with all the blinky lights. For good reason too. Some day I'll resurrect an old blog (well, back then they were called "personal home page") posting from 1998 or 1999 that talks about the day I took down a whole network whist trying to upload an intranet update. Good times. I think that site sits on a CD or Zip disk (remember those?) somewhere gathering dust.

So I'm going to give this a go again. Only I'm going to keep it simple to start. I'm going to make it a blog. Blogs can be categorized. By date or by topic. I can have everything just the way I want it. With a simple design. Ample room for shameless plugs and tasteful advertising (gotta keep the lights on, right?). If this thing takes off, then I will seriously look into moving everything over to a CMS (oh Aim - are your ears burning???). I may even add a forum. For now, let's just see how long it takes me to get this project revived and off the ground. Who knows - I may even do a gallery... off to read about that...

P.S. GO DUCKS!