Wednesday, August 9, 2006, 14:27
Section: Miscellany
This admission will likely get me talked to by the Secret Service, but the first thing I did when I saw Goggles, a flight sim Flash game that lets you fly a little cartoon biplane over a city of your choice, is buzz around over Washington, D.C., since it’s the city I’d have the best chance to recognize from the air.
While trying to find Georgetown so I could buzz the yuppies, I flew over the White House and then went looking for the nearby statue of Einstein. It turns out that, if your plane gets too low, it can crash. Oops. Sorry, Einstein fans.
So, there’s this bunny. And other than being a vaguely anime-looking critter, it’s an unremarkable piece of plastic, except that you and your snoogums can each have one, and they can communicate with each other via wi-fi and the Internet.
Your honey’s bunny (wow, I just felt my testosterone levels drop typing that) can read her poetry (in French) that you type in. You can move your bunny’s ears and her bunny’s ears will move to show you’re thinking about her, which is a good thing, since everyone in the office will be avoiding you by this point.
Fortunately, the little bastards aren’t available in the US yet.
(Now, if this was an e-mail narrating shark, it would be cool. Sharks are always cool.)
Well, Gilby Clarke last night said he was open to a woman fronting the band, and once again, Dilana and Storm were the clear standouts. We’ll see, we’ll see …
Jenn and I have no kids, but if we did, they’d be listening to lullaby versions of rock songs rather than the Wiggles (who, frankly, sort of creep me out). Heck, my two nieces may be getting an album each for Christmas this year.
Well, Amazon chose to drop the guy at the end of the alphabet from the list of the contributors (curse you, Amazon!), but The Koboldnomicon is now available there in softcover form.
Wikanby, the Tumble Down Kobolds and about a half-dozen spells are my fault.
