It's hard to take advantage of the spring time tame.. what can you do with a lost hour of time?

But in the fall, you have a chance to live a single hour twice! This is generally discouraged by the powers that be, since they put this at a time when most people are unconscious, but think of all the things you could do in two hours and claim it was all done within an hour!

Let's say you can run at a speed of 5mph. People wouldn't be very impressed if you told them you ran 5 miles, but if you told them that you ran 10 miles between 1am and 2am, well, that sounds a bit more impressive.

I imagine that flights are the most impressive when it comes to this speed/time ratio. Think how far you could get flying for an hour only to end up somewhere at the same time you left… ooh, what if you crossed a timezone and went backwards and additional hour?! Crazy!

Ok, these are pretty lame. There's gotta be a better way to utilize this phantom hour. Ideas?

You tweet… but is anyone listening? All of your friends (that are on twitter) are already following you, maybe some people that read your blog, and some random guy that thinks you're someone else – but you want more?

Perhaps you should take a look at Tweet Penguin. Tweet Penguin uses the fundamental idea of multi-level marketing (also known, in some cases, as "pyramid schemes") to use your followers as leverage to gain even more followers.

Here's a basic breakdown of how it works:
1) You sign up at Tweet Penguin (takes 10 seconds)
2) Tweet Penguin automatically adds you as a follower to six other twitterers (tweeters?, twitterizers?)
3) You encourage people to sign up using your Tweet Penguin link (you're listed in the six that are automatically added, the last person that you ended up following is bumped off the list)
4) Someone signs up and ends up following you and 5 other people.
5) Now, anyone that signs up under that person, or up to 3 levels below them, is automatically following you.

There's really no risk – if one of the 6 people that you end up following is a complete tool, or really boring, you can just unfollow them like you normally would. The potentially exponential increase of followers seems too much to pass up. Right? Right. 🙂

Here's the link again – give it a try: Tweet Penguin
If you don't like it – or if you end up with a bajillion new followers eager to hear about your latest adventure, or lunch choice – come back here and leave a comment. 🙂

As promised, I've uploaded the audio and transcription of spudart reciting the Pledge of Allegiance as a video on YouTube.

If you can't see the video below, you can click this link to get to it: Pledge of Allegiance

Just S four all!

Everything you need to know about gopherwood (gopher wood)… and hapax legomenons:

Also, it's my birthday today. Happy that!

Hey Pepsi, what gives? The Mountain Dew labeling has had some stylistic changes over the past few years, including the previous font choice (which I wasn't big on at first, but I'll admit that it grew on me) – but never has it changed its name. Mtn Dew? Mutton Dew? What is that?

"Mtn" reaks so much of an attempt by marketing to "be hip" and "in with the twitter crowd" (I imagine that's how people that have no clue speak), that it comes off as exactly the opposite. "Mtn" is the hip-equivalent of an 80-year old man trying to skateboard down a railing.. and like his actual hip, it's broken. Lame.

The pointy mountains in the design are kind of neat, but there are too many of them and they look too similar.. they look too repetitive, and uninspired. The entire re-design just looks lazy.

Why not just drop the whole "Mountain" and call it "Dew"? Or is this part of a larger plan to rename "Pepsi" to "Psi", because 3 lettered words are cool?

I guess it's time to go and get a Mutton Dew from the vending machine now. *sigh*

Why aren't more urinals designed with little dividing walls between them?

I hate using public restrooms because somehow I always end up with the guy standing next to me that can't keep his eyes straight ahead.

For those of you thinking "big deal"… it's not much different than if toilet stalls were designed without doors. Think about it.

As you may, or may not know, Google purchased the GrandCentral service awhile ago. GrandCentral gave members a free phone number that they could use to ring multiple phones at once, free voicemail, and a number of privacy settings. Google recently rebranded it as "Google Voice" and added a number of features, the most interesting being voicemail transcription – Google will translate your voicemails into text and send them to you via email (and send as a text message).

Since it wouldn't let me leave myself a voicemail, Spudart was kind enough to call and leave a test message. The transcription is pretty bad. I've posted the resulting voicemail and transcription as a video on youtube.

Later this week I'll post his second call – reciting the Pledge Of Allegiance three times. 🙂