Pockets of Sanity

99 Things You Should Have Seen on the Internet

I was thinking of doing a list like this myself, but someone beat me to it.  How many of them were you already aware of?

http://youshouldhaveseenthis.com/

Uh, what's going on here?

I almost don't want to know what the heck is going on in this animated GIF.  It's just amazing on several different levels.

Twitter Me This

So I've decided to start Twittering.  Or Tweeting?  I dunno.  Twatting?  Oops.

Twitter is this thing that has essentially whittled down blogging into one sentence increments.  People then read your one sentence and I guess go on about their lives?

You can follow mine here: http://twitter.com/watercoolerfilm

You can read them on the web or have them sent to your phone like text messages.  Just be sure you don't get charged for text messages, because I ain't paying your bill.

I don't know what I'll use it for.  Maybe for announcing new videos and podcasts.  Maybe for when people in Target piss me off and I want to quietly judge them, but outloud via text form.  We'll see.

Anyway, go sign up and follow me.  You know you want to.

Friendly Neighbors

Oh, of course...

Important Safety Tip

I wish there had been internets when I was in school

What's Boing Boing?

Check out one (or both) of these websites.  But do it when you're not at work.  Good times.

www.kissingwithross.com
www.thewebsiteisdown.com

Okay Let's Give It a Go

I realized that once again I expressed my desire to podcast and yet totally backed down from it for no good reason.

So here's what we're going to do.  I'm going to put matters squarely into your hands.  You have the power to enable me to live my lifelong dream of podcasting or to let it crash and burn, leaving me a hopeless, worthless shell of my former self.

I have a service set up that converts voice mail to audio files (you know, for easy editing).  This is where you come in, dear readers.  Call this phone number: 1-206-339-6063.  Leave me a voice message.  Ask me a question, give me a topic, leave a comment, anything.  Just make it interesting.  You don't have to identify yourself if you don't want to.

And if you're going to disguise your voice and make something up, that's fine.  Just make it through the call without laughing or giving yourself away.  I don't care.  Anything that gets the ball rolling here.

When I get a good number of calls, I'll put together a show and we'll see what happens.

Don't let me down folks.  Speak up, speak clearly, and well... please just call.

Captain Trips, Dan Savage and the Pod People

Sorry I haven't written lately, but I'm currently battling the deadly bronchitis again and haven't felt much up to posting anything.  Not even a video.

This scourge started as an allergy attack after all the dust and junk we kicked up last weekend when we started getting furniture and other assorted stuff ready to move into a POD, one of those giant storage device things that a truck drops off in your driveway and then picks up later once you fill it.  It's a big shed basically.

Well we live in a somewhat goofy neighborhood, and apparently one of our neighbors got a little goofy on goofy juice and decided that our storage bin was some sort of Salvation Army drop off point.  And so one day last week we discovered a bag that had been placed in front of our POD that contained a rather odd assortment of items like a coffee mug, some giant stretch pants and an equally giant bra.  Charming.

Speaking of pods, over the last month I've started getting into the world of podcasting.  During the two months I spent moving out of my apartment I listened to my iPod incessantly, and got a little tired of the tunes.  So I was looking for something else to listen to on my now doubled commute to work every day.

So far I've stuck fairly close to my wheelhouse.  I've been listening to a good selection of video game podcasts, including the Joystiq podcast, EGM Live, 1up Yours, Retronauts and The Sports Anomaly.  I may be dropping that last one though.  While I like the guys who run it and have warmed to their rather insane banter, there's just way too much real-world hockey and basketball talk for my taste.

Recently though on a recommendation I ventured out of my video game shell and subscribed to the Savage Love podcast, which as it turns out is a rather explicit sex-help call-in show.  People call into a voice mail service with their crazy sex questions, and then sexologist Dan Savage calls them back and makes them feel somewhat silly as bluntly as possible.  It's fabulous.  And okay, it's not outside my wheelhouse at all.

One day, if I ever get more than two readers, I'm going to do my own podcast.  I swear it.