Randy Charles Morin blogs for the sake of blogging.
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| Your Aura is Violet |
 And you have the charisma of a great leader, even if you don't always use it! The purpose of your life: saying truths that other people dare not say Famous purples include: Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Susan B. Anthony Careers for you to try: Political Activist, Inventor, Life Coach |
Business 2.0 Magazine Staff: Our goal was to identify people whose ideas, products, and business insights are changing the world we live in today - those who are reshaping our future by inventing important new technologies, exploiting emerging opportunities, or throwing their weight around in ways that are sure to make everyone else take notice.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/peoplewhomatter/
Randy: I made the top 50 people that matter list by Business 2.0. In fact, I was #1. Oddly enough I didn't make the list of 10 people that don't matter. Honestly, I should have been on both list and #1 to boot. I'm suing :-)
| Your Luck Quotient: 74% |
 More often than not, you've felt very lucky in your life. You may be randomly lucky, but it's probably more than that. Optimistic and open minded, you take advantage of all the luck that comes your way. |
Check out this video of a flock of starlings attacking a tree. Thanks Coolz0r.
Video by Scott Fraser.
This is totally absurd. This girl (a restaurant waitress) is completely paranoid of pickles. Thanks Coolz0r.
Check out this clip of a shoe made out of flesh that automatically moves based on input from an MP3 player.
| Your Blog Should Be Green |
 You enjoy a good discussion, especially if it involves picking apart ideas. However, you tend to get easily annoyed by any thoughtless comments in your blog. |
Vincent Ferrari recorded his conversation trying to cancel his AOL account. Thus began the customer service nightmare. Another Coolz0r candidate for play tag with me link of the month.
Very cool video from Coolz0r. It's not a bat eating a centipede, but rather a bat-eating centipede. Yes, the centipede eats the bat.
| On Average, You Would Sell Out For |
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Amazing video showing an extremely large Iraqi sandstorm in the distance. By the end of the video, the sandstorm is on top of the camera and it's dark.
This is quite amazing. The biker gets hits by a car, flies up in the air, lands on his back, bounces up to his feet, starts walking around and swearing.
Genowefa Licha: If God does not help us, everyone in the neighbourhood will be stinky drunkards and only a hole will be left on the site of our lovely lake.
http://www.wbj.pl/?command=article&id=32372
Thanks Coolz0r! Another play tag with me candidate.
Thanks to anonymous user for leaving this gem in my comments. An amazing parody of the classic Six Flags commercial with the hyper senior.
Awesome footage of a jet taking off from the sea bed.
http://flickr.com/photos/konaboy/171222692/in/photostream
Randy: Maybe I need to move away from Toronto.
Seth: So, of course, I told him to quit.
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2006/06/time_to_quit.html
Randy: I think Seth just inspired a reader. I just looked in the mirror and I have a few more grays. A bit stressed this last week for no reason other than trying. Not happy!
Mark Evans: Canada's version of the high-tech Oscars was held yesterday with Iotum snagging an award in the emerging technology category.
http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/6/21/2045940.html
Randy: Congrats to Alec and team! Again!
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This Monday is eBay 10¢ listing day.
Please complete this survey, the results are available to everyone and I'll compile it into a spreadsheet after the survey is closed in one week. This survey specifically excluded blog search engines, blog hosting services or blog readers. Please repost it! The more responses we get, the better the data. Thank!
This is the logo on the shirt. I like the middle find being raised in trying to spell blog.
These two parents should be neutered.
PR: Microsoft Corp. today announced that effective July 2008 Bill Gates, chairman, will transition out of a day-to-day role in the company to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. [cut] The company announced that Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie will immediately assume the title of chief software architect.
| You Are 40% Addicted to Blogthings |
 But you're no addict. (Hey, this quiz *proves* it!) For you, Blogthings is more of a healthy habit. At least, that's what you tell yourself! |
Turns out I'm only a little addicted, but more than Sterling.
Jeffrey Nielsen: I believe opposing gay marriage and seeking a constitutional amendment against it is immoral.
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_3934360
Randy: I agree 100% with Jeffrey. Anti-gay is immoral, just as anti-colored is and antisemitic is. It's the modern voice of bigotry. 100 years ago, some churches didn't marry gays... I mean colored people.
Very cool animation and story. Another candidate for play tag with me link of the month.
| You Are 32% Sociopath |
 It's likely that you're not a sociopath... just quite smart and a bit out of the mainstream! |
I think I'm addicted to Blogthings. They should have a blogthing called Are You Addicted to Blogthings?
Update: What d'ya know!
| Your Quirk Factor: 71% |
 No doubt about it, there's little about you that's "normal" or "average." |
http://www.devilducky.com/media/46655/
Thanks Coolz0r! Another play tag with me candidate.
Too Funny! Paris Hilton scratches another car. I couldn't tell you how many times someone dinged my car in the parking lot. Unfortunately, nobody was taking pictures.
Mirror.co.uk: The job is up for grabs in Piel - a tiny isle of the Cumbria coast. [cut] Royal duties will mainly be confined to serving behind the bar.
Randy: Another candicate for play tag with me link of the month.
Find your frequency threshold. Mines 13 kHz.
| You Are 32% Gross |
 No one can be perfectly clean all the time, and it's better to be human than a neat freak. |
An interview with Blogger of the Day, Peter Dawson of Thought Flickr's.
iBt4iM: Tell my readers who you are.
Peter Dawson: I'm a 42 year old blogger who is kicking back and enjoying the new ways. I'm was born in the Silicon Valley of India, Bangalore. I started my career in Catering Management, wanting to be a Chef. But suddenly my Dad passed on and Mom could not afford the whole 5 years of college. So one fine day she told me, I have X amount of rupees left for your studies, what do you want to do? Now, way back in '86 the real hot thing was computers. So I enrolled into a computer school- NIIT and did a BASIC language course. Between then and now, I have seen a lot of stuff with programming, project management and all that nice but dirty stuff. My career had taken me thru assignment in Asia, Middle East and traveled thru Europe. During my last assignment in the Middle East, I flipped a coin as a direction setter. Heads to Canada and Tails to Australia. Oh , well for the last 6 years , me has been in Canada :)- In short, I am an open, curious minded person with a lot of zest for life, community and knowledge. I am currently employed with a F50 company in the vertical segment of Transportation and Supply Chain. I value integrity, truth and trust . More details can be read at my about me page
iBt4iM: What's your blog? What's your blog about?
Peter Dawson: I initially created a blog on Blogger, but did not like the behaviour and UI of that platform . I then moved onto Typepad. I run a blog called as thought flickrs. It's the "PeterDawson home of thought". This is one of my sandboxes, which I place my thoughts into. Now, I need to dive a little deeper into what my blog technique. The Red Monk (yes, that blogger, who is on Sun CEO blog roll) , described my behaviour as thlinking - "You just need to point at something and say why you're doing so. Or ask what other people think of the thing you're point at." This was one of the first indicators that I was blogging uniquely. (mea culpa- yeah it looks as if I am pimping myself there !) As a blogger, I also troll a lot and comment on various blogs. I believe, this is where true conversations happen, this is part of my ongoing research in the " attention economy". As a forum member on blogs and other lists, I currently hold minor status here. I cut information on google and also haunt other forums and groups. Like the LP's in Ontario say : "Yours to discover"-. That's like me :)-
iBt4iM: What secondary blogs do you have? Linkblogs? Moblogs?
Peter Dawson: I also have a vertical segment blog that is strategic in nature. It deals with Transportation and Supply Chain. The Value Props range in anything to a $1B and at times more. As an emergent entity, I also linkbloging . I am a Road Warrior riding a Blackberry device. I also harverst information using alerts and clips.
iBt4iM: Why do you blog?
Peter Dawson: I blog, because I have infonugget that I deem important, interesting, good to keep etc. These thoughts and insight needs to be placed in the community. Blogging permits this to happen. Most Blogs are about information, created by human beings. I like that that. People are the only resource which is hard to compute. However on the flip side, this could also mean, computing this the only resource to tap into the congnizeable social patterns. A good paradigm of such a thought is the golden projects. Blogs permit such congnization via simple RSS, tags, clouds and comments. This gives me a wonderful tapestry, which permits me to paint my own canvas and observe life in the digital enviornement. I am taking back-- my crayons to scribble --Wherever2.0, Whatever2.0 and ToWhomever2.0. These are my thoughts, I'll share what I am thinking. "I Blog, therefore I am" - is a statement I can live with )-
iBt4iM: What are your favorite blogs?
Peter Dawson: I really think that my fav is Google Blogoscoped. The community there is excellent. Its very vibrant, full of good people with cutting knowledge. For MSFT, I normally track minimicrosoft, Scobles and bink.nu. For Yahoo, I take a lot a little from Jermey and their official pages. But, this covers only the GYM spectrum. My Feeds are basically dynamic. As I move around, I make and break connections depending on content, viewpoints and interesections. My last share with OPML is here.
iBt4iM: What do you do when you are not blogging?
Peter Dawson: Beers and watching movies and Games !! Other then that, I Like chillin out in a Jazz bar now and then. I like my latest reading list was just culled. In between, I manage approx 4-6 hrs/week on a tennis court, gym. This keeps me going too :)-
iBt4iM: Thanks for taking the time to tell my readers about yourself. You are the Blogger of the Day.
Note: We are interviewing one average-Joe great-blogger every few days (we hope). If you want to be the Blogger of the Day, then email me. Previous Bloggers of the Day; Sterling Camden, Jason Schramm, Marcel Marchon, Rajesh Setty, Dave Taylor, fotoUR, John of Freshblog, Aimee Evans, Allen Searls, Steve Michel, Jon Watson, Dave Walker, Oleg Dulin and Miel Van Opstal.
If John Travolta was a dog.
Thanks Coolz0r. Another candidate for play tag with me link of the month.
You can thank Sterling Camden for this video. Definately candidate for play tag with me link of the month.
If this is entertainment, then in the words of Jean Gray, kill me, please kill me!
Another YouTube discovery. A trailer for a 1977 cartoon version of The Hobbit.
One of the worst endings I've ever seen in a movie was the ending of Lord of the Rings. CJ punched it up a bit with some humorous grunts and moans.
Paul Kedrosky: The newly retooled SEC Edgar full-text search got me adolescently curious about a subset of words. [cut] The most bizarre find I made was for the word "f---". Its single appearance is in a filing last year amending City National Bancshares' certificate of incorporation.
http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2006/06/10/the_seven_words_1.html
The post popular person in the world is a baby. Shiloh Nouvel Pitt, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's baby, is dominating the top search queries for the last week.
iBt4iM: Tell my readers who you are.
Sterling Camden: Randy, thanks for this opportunity to speak on your blog. You’re a true promoter of the blogging community. I’m Sterling W. “Chip” Camden. I’ve been an independent software developer for 15 years now, and I’ve developed software for hire for the last 28 years. I never studied computers in school; I learned it all on the job.
iBt4iM: What's your blog? What's your blog about?
Sterling Camden: My blog is called “Chip’s Quips” (http://www.chipsquips.com/). It’s not focused on one topic – it’s a place where I can let my thoughts wander a bit, as you can see from my cumulonimbus tag cloud in the sidebar. Some of the topics I regularly cover include the social web, programming, technology, diet, exercise, literature, and life. So far I’ve navigated clear of politics and religion, but I might have to collide with one of them some day.
iBt4iM: What secondary blogs do you have? Linkblogs? Moblogs?
Sterling Camden: I don’t know if it qualifies as a blog yet, but I intend to make it one: “Chip’s Tips for Developers” (http://www.chipstips.com ). This site contains programming tips, tricks, and downloadable examples in a variety of programming languages. I’m planning to move it to WordPress so I can easily add features like an RSS feed, user comments, and tagging.
iBt4iM: Why do you blog?
Sterling Camden: Interesting that you should ask me that question today, Randy. Just this morning on my daily run I was asking myself, “What are my objectives in blogging?” I love to blog – I’m compelled to blog – but I wanted to enumerate my goals so I could at least have some excuse for this obsession. I came up with these:
- To improve my writing skills. Not that blogging particularly helps with grammar and spelling, but the best way to become a better writer is to write often. You get more comfortable spewing words onto a page, and better able to mop up afterwards. I’m hoping one day to author books as well.
- Community. I work from my home, so I spend most of my time talking to programs rather than people (okay, a lot of the time I’m talking to myself). Blogging provides a way to talk to people all over the world, and sometimes they even talk back.
- Career opportunity. By interacting with people who are exploring new technologies, I just might hit on an idea or find a client that helps make work more fun and more profitable.
- To make money. This one’s pretty much an afterthought, as my Adsense income shows (I recently broke the $5 barrier! I’m talking US $5 here). But it would be cool if I could make enough money blogging to be able to do that more and do other things less.
It’s not about communicating with my clients. Not yet anyway. If my existing clients read my blog, I’m sure they’re mostly thinking, “how does he have time to write this crap while I’m waiting for him to finish (insert project here)?”
iBt4iM: What are your favorite blogs?
Sterling Camden: You can find my entire blogroll at Share Your OPML under SterlingCamden, but here are a few of my most favorite blogs (in alphabetical order):
- ::HorsePigCow:: life uncommon
- Alec Saunders .LOG
- Besting Adwords
- Chris Pirillo
- Creating Passionate Users
- Damien Katz
- gapingvoid
- Good Morning Silicon Valley
- iBLOGthere4iM (natch)
- Labnotes
- Naked Conversations
- Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger
- SOB: Scion Of Backronymics
- The RSS Blog
- Things That ... Make You Go Hmm
- Workbench
iBt4iM: What do you do when you are not blogging?
Sterling Camden: Besides work, I enjoy spending time with my wife and kids, running with my dog, reading books, watching baseball and football, and playing games. I prefer games with a subtle social engineering component, like bridge and backgammon (I’d probably make a good phisher). My favorite books are about history, philosophy, and humor – though I like a good novel, too.
iBt4iM: Thanks for taking the time to tell my readers about yourself. You are the Blogger of the Day.
Note: We are interviewing one average-Joe great-blogger every few days (we hope). If you want to be the Blogger of the Day, then email me. Previous Bloggers of the Day; Jason Schramm, Marcel Marchon, Rajesh Setty, Dave Taylor, fotoUR, Ozh of planetOzh, John of Freshblog, Aimee Evans, Allen Searls, Steve Michel, Jon Watson, Dave Walker, Oleg Dulin and Miel Van Opstal.
Some ideas from Amazon for Father's day gifts.
- Tools & Hardware
- Panasonic Cordless Drill
- Sports & Outdoors
- Swiss Army Huntsman Knife
- Music
- Kris Kristofferson's "This Old Road"
- Gourmet Food
- Omaha Steaks Bacon-Wrapped Filets
- Magazines
- Sports Illustrated
- Home & Garden
- Mr. Bar-B-Q 5-Piece Tool Set
- Health & Personal Care
- Panasonic Wet/Dry Shaving System
- Electronics
- Canon Powershot Digital Elph Camera
- Men's Grooming
- Men-u-Shave Set with Brush
- Automotive
- Actron AutoScanner
- Jewelry & Watches
- Invicta Men's Watch
- Books
- "Raichlen on Ribs, Ribs, Outrageous Ribs"
- Gift Certificates
- Any amount from $5 to $5000
- DVD
- "Kingdom of Heaven" (4-Disc Director's Cut)
- Apparel
- Arnold Palmer Men's Pique Polo Golf Shirt
- Outdoor Living
- Weber Portable Grill
From a friend: We had a very scary incident with Kylin Saturday night all because of some candy. It's a liquid that's sour and you just spray it into your mouth. I was right by Kylin and her friend and heard them say that it would be fun to see what it would taste like if the drank some instead of just sprayed it. (you know, typical kid fun stuff, I thought nothing of it) So Kylin said she'd try it and took the lid off (it's just like a pump style hair spray top) and she took one sip. I turned around to ask if she was ok cause I thought she was making noises like when water or something just doesn't go down right and realized that she was just gasping over and over again for air and wasn't actually breathing. She was having a laryngospasm!
What is and cause Laryngospasm.
Jessica Alba fact #82, she knows Tae Bo and likes to kick paparazzi ass.
| You Are 28% Obsessive |
 Sometimes your worries keep you up at night, though they usually don't interfere with your life. |
It would seem that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's daughter, Shiloh Pitt, is already blogging.
According to Blogthing, I'm an alcoholic. Yikes!
| You're An Alcoholic |
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Very cool flash animation of a flash animation.
http://abum.com/file/shadow/animations/17632.swf
Thanks to Coolz0r. Candidate for play tag with me link of the month.
I'm on the verge of a move forward in life. I purchased an $80 mobile audio player/recorder. Podcasting, here I come.
Bill Maher and Amazon are doing a weekly talk-show vidcast called Amazon Fishbowl.
Wired: Poor guy. But he found his defense undermined by his published autobiography Birth of a Criminal, which describes his past success at the exact same scam.
I would get online, meet a broad and be mailing her the check the next day. I saw damn near 50 states in just taking planes, picking up money. I would have my money in my ass, my shoes, and I would always shop wherever I went so if I got busted with the money, at least I got some clothes.
nbc5i: [The Bouncing Burglar] was attempting to rob Paul's Liquor Store [cut] when he fell through the ceiling and crashed to the floor. The video shows that the 30-year-old was knocked unconscious for about five minutes. When he came to, Bynum sat down on a beer keg inside the store, smoked a cigarette and waited for the store owner to unlock the door for police.
If you haven't heard, I run a continuous contest called Play Tag with Me where the person who sends me the best link every month, gets a free book from Amazon (<$20). This week's winner is astreet for the Grim Reaper Prank video. Anyhow, I have no idea who astreet on del.icio.us is, so he'll have to reveal himself to win the book. Also, since I don't know him, I'm gonna have to do an axe murderer background check after I find out who he is and assuming he doesn't qualify or reveal himself, then I'll pick a 2nd best.
BTW, for those that don't know the rules, you can submit a link via del.icio.us using the for:randymorin tag and you can submit as many links as you want each-and-every month. Thanks and congrats to astreet.
TDCanadaTrust: Use EasySwitch to transfer to TD Canada Trust and get an iPod shuffle.
David Pescovitz: Clara Jean brown [cut] prayed to the lord to protect her family from a storm in the area. Seemed like a good idea, until she said "Amen" and was struck by a bolt of lightning. [cut] The safety of praying is now up for debate.
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/06/02/praying_woman_struck.html
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted -- enough to have put John Kerry in the White House.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen
Randy: Robert goes much further than simply saying the election was stolen in this 4 page article. He makes claim after claim, all with links to more and more evidence. Read it all. This is very important. Blog about it. Get the word out.
Scott Adams: It’s difficult to imagine a minor looking at that image and deciding to become a gay hooker.
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/06/asoks_underpant.html
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