New Dilbert Mashup: cool but broken
Scott Adams has a new Dilbert mashup on his main site, Dilbert.com. Very cool.
The question posed is: are you funnier than Scott? You then get to change the punchline on the final pane of a Dilbert cartoon to something else … and people can vote on your version.
Only problem: it didn’t work as advertised. Not cool.
Here’s my cartoon, and the ostensible problem: “invalid panel count.” I’m not quite sure what it’s referring to …
Buy the T-shirt
OK, so the buy-the-t-shirt crack in the sidebar there under my pic was a joke. Really.
But I needed something to do tonight, so I decided to actually make one. After all, who could possibly pass up the gen-you-wine one-uvva-kind most excellent and amazing Sparkplug 9 T-shirt?
Not me. And most certainly not you.
It’s minimalist, just like me. It’s cool, simple, but complicated beneath the surface.
Just like you.
Instructional video that’s fun
Professional photog Martin Weiss talks about how video can do a great job of explaining something … like a new product, service, tool.
His link lead me to Funky Cloud, which has come out with the greatest little productivity app, LifeShaker:
That is a great little movie - check it out. I loved it, and my middle school daughter loved it too.
One thing:
They need to make the video portable and give themselves a chance to go viral … I’d love to post the video here and let people see it. If people are interested, they’ll jump over the Lifeshaker site and get more info.
So I can feel like a winner
The kids all got their medals today from the Fraser Valley Regional Library summer reading club challenge.Aidan, when he came home with his, said now he’s got his first medal “so he can feel like a winner.”
How to blow one balloon inside another
Ethan’s instructions:
1. Blow both balloons up first (to stretch the balloons)
2. Let the air out of both
3. Blow up the balloon that’s supposed to be bigger (on the outside)
4. While holding the outside balloon put the other balloon inside it
5. Blow up the inside balloon6. Blow up the outside balloon just a bit more
7. Tie them both
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but mostly the stuff you see big in the tags to the left.
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