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TTOTD Radio The Thing- Summermix 1
2007-06-27 12:29:00
There's a whole hour-plus mixtape radio show today. It's mostly new music for the summer. The 90 meg zipped M4a file can easily be burned off to a CD for driving around. Also, if you listen on your ipod, the show has different album art for each of the 18 songs. I whipped up some pretty simple stingers and bumps for in between the songs as well. If I make more shows, I'll do some more mixing and make some more complex sound interludes. You can grab the CD Jewel Case HERE. The PDF file has artwork and track listings. Print it out.Don't worry about the show pirating music, each of the songs in the show were a free download on the internet from Salon and Discollective. If you like the songs, go out and support the artists. There's a ton of free music out there! The Songs 1. Spoon - The Underdog. New music from Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga.2. 1990's - You're Supposed to be my Friend.3. The Arcade Fire - Keep the Car Running.4. The New Pornographers - My Rights Versus Yours. This is an advance...
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Stick Men-Weather
2007-06-27 03:33:00
When lazy meets deadline, you get...
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Web Snippets
2007-06-25 11:16:00
SnippetsToday's Thing is learning more about Rapidweaver. I played with the Rapidweaver snippets function and boxed up some of the sidebar. Snippets let you easily add in HTML code into the various parts of the site.

Bino Graduates
2007-06-23 01:29:00
My brother (finally) graduated college a couple weeks ago. Click on the picture to go to the Blabber I made for him.
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Video Killed the Blog Star
2007-06-22 19:57:00
Today, nothing fancy. I created some accounts at Youtube, MySpace and Veoh for The Thing Of The Day. I'll fill in more details on the sites later and add to the sidebar.I've also uploaded the classic Ninja Kel video as well as yesterday's video to all the sites.I like Veoh the best because they have a video uploader and don't put any limits on video quality or size. How do they have all the space? I noticed a bunch of free movies on the site, can't be legal.
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Reveal & Review
2007-06-22 04:14:00
The Worth 1000 photo contest I entered has finished, and I didn't do very well. Not. At. All. Let me reveal the photo I entered:Now, I realize it's not the greatest photo. I was inspired by another photo I took not too long ago, and I was trying to recreate it with purple beads. Obviously, I didn't capture in the purple bead photo what I did in the Czech bead photo. I remember now, something I learned in my 4-H photography lessons. They taught that I should write down how, when, where, etc I took each photo. Now back then, it was partly about remembering what was in your camera, BD (Before Digital), but it was also about being able to recreate a photo if you want to. Making those notes when I took the Czech bead photo would have helped me get a better shot on the purple beads. It's ok with me that I didn't do very well in the contest, honestly. But what I'm not so ok with is not understanding the voting, which leads me to write a short review of how Worth 1000 works. Because t...
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Did ya know?! A re-butt-le
2007-06-21 12:53:00
Recently my dad sent me this link:I was watching the video on my fictional macbook while eating at the Taco Loco, home of the honey fish taco. Some hairy bus boy with a nose piercing and an eight-inch goatee out of the blue grabbed my fictional macbook and demanded to make a reply to the quote, "Totally BS blah, blah, blah video I was watching," unquote.I didn't want spit in my Grande Taco Salad, so I let him borrow my fictional mac while I watched 'Bill E' pound away at the keys and grunt. Here's bus boy 'Bill E Goat's' video: Enjoy.
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Matching Things
2007-06-21 04:54:00
Thanks to the Playful Painter Blog, I discovered Scratch today. This is an awesome site where you can download their program to make little games. Someone else on Scratch made the template, I just had to change the pictures. But I'd like to try making something from scratch myself.Click on the picture to go play!!
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The Stick Men- Another indie Comic
2007-06-20 18:59:00
Proving I've run out of ideas.
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Photo Page Update
2007-06-20 05:42:00
I've updated my photo page, and my flickr page. On the sidebar, see the new and improved seeshells' photos, and click here for my flickr page, complete with collections.
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Bryan Passes
2007-06-19 20:19:00
Both of my ideas for today fell through and I don't have enough time to make the deadline on the third, so I have to pass today.
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Felt Finger Puppet
2007-06-19 01:36:00
In the same style as the felted flower, here is my first felted finger puppet with blanket stitching and beaded blanket stitching. Click either picture to go to more photos on flickr.More on this Thing
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Space Whistle
2007-06-18 22:02:00
A week ago or so, Shelly bought a Tin Whistle and made a short song.I couldn't leave well enough alone.Here's my remix called Space Whistle. Yea, I luvs me the Sci-fi sounds.

Pimpin'
2007-06-16 00:56:00
Today I'm doing some pimpin' of the site. I've signed us up for Blog Explosion, BlogaZoo, and registered us on Blogarama, BlogFlux, and Globe of Blogs.

Pass Scoreboard
2007-06-15 19:29:00
Here's a little scoreboard of our passes I made with tables and modified code. It's in the sidebar, too.
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TTOTD Media
2007-06-14 20:53:00
Wanna know what movies are in the TTOTD household? Well, today, I've created a website with most of our movies on it. You can browse, request to borrow and see details on over 40 movies in our permanent library. It's part of Delicious Library and a web program called deliweb. There will be a link called TTOTD Media in the sidebar. Later we'll add games, CD's and books as web space opens up. Check it out.

Photo Contest
2007-06-14 13:56:00
Worth 1000 is one of the sites I visit daily. I love looking at the Photo shop contests, people get so creative, the contests are inspiring and fun. Worth also has text contests, mulitmedia, and photography. Three and a half or so years ago I entered a beginning photography contest with the photo below, and came in fourth place. I have entered a few other times since then. My 'thing' today, is that I have entered another beginner photography contest. Voting started today, and goes for about a week, so I won't tell you which entry is mine just yet. Here's the link to the contest, if you choose to vote, I think you have to sign up, don't feel like you have to.
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The Goon Soprano Premium Edition
2007-06-13 11:32:00
I've created a director's cut of yesterday's entry. There's three new pages, a slightly different cover, a different ending, more Goon y-ness, some necessary copy editing and a much improved higher quality presentation. I wanted to see if I could put together a full comic in the comic book format used in digital comics. The format is CBZ. It's basically a zipped file. You can use a comic book reader like the free Simple Comic or Comic Book Lover for mac or CDdisplayEx or Gonvisor among many for Windows. Since it's just a zipped file with images, you could unzip it and look at each JPEG page individually as well.The zipped comic is 13 pages long and 13.5 megs. Don't unzip if you use a reader. Click on the picture to download it.Also, please check out and buy Eric Powell's The Goon as I've stolen his artwork and changed the words. The comic's great. Buy it or it's a fish hook in the eye for ya!Oh, I tried to get Janice in as the Zombie Master, but it just wasn't working.
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A Few Tuesday Haikus
2007-06-13 05:18:00
Tuesday is the day The week feels overly long. How long 'till Friday? Ruts and graves compared, Are more similar than not. Climb out while you can. Words across the page Written by hand or keyboard Help clear up the mind.
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The Goon Soprano
2007-06-12 12:22:00
Missed the series finale of The Soprano s? Click on the picture. The Goon can help. Lots of copyright bein' broken here---so go out and buy a copy of The Goon comic to attone or ya'll sleep wit da fishes!I'll upload better, higher quality pics to flickr later.

Team Pass
2007-06-12 06:41:00
Blame it on the Sopranos Finale or the new Big Love or our new Blockbuster movie Netflixy-thing or the fact we just received a new team pass on the first of the month, but we're having a team pass today.
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One Continous Line
2007-06-08 20:04:00
About halfway through writing the evil, evil game I had planned for today, I realized I wouldn't have enough time to finish the post. I'll have it done for Monday. Although I did remember a puzzle I created when I was bored in middle school. Can you solve it?
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Carmel Coffee La La
2007-06-08 04:53:00
Here's a drink recipe I made up when I was thirsty for something sweet.1 part rum1 part coffee liqueur2 parts carmel flavored colaLots of iceUse your own measurements to your own taste.;p
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Dead of Night
2007-06-07 19:40:00
This free game cost me thirty bucks! A few weeks ago, I wrote about a free zombie game I ran across called Dead of Night . Today's Thing was to put the game together. At the time I downloaded it, Dead of Night was a free PDF with all the maps, cards, tokens, graphics in the PDF. I've found out theat the game is to come out commercially in a few months. So, I decided to print out the 40-plus pages and cut out all the bits. In just ink alone, I must have spent 30 bucks. The cards are double-sided. There are over 30 rooms, 80 cards, 50 items, 100 zombies as well as other pieces and a 28 page rule book. The whole project took over three hours. I haven't played the game yet, but it looks like there's a lot of customization and turns in the game like a Zombie movie.Looking at the commercial version online, if the game's any good, this free game may cost me another thirty bucks. The commercial version looks nice, if not exactly the same as the PDF version graphics-wise.

Tin Whistle: The Beginning
2007-06-07 03:34:00
Last Saturday, I purchased a Irish Tin Whistle . Learning the Tin Whistle is something I've been interested in for a while, so I was excited to finally find one. The music store had three choices, and I got the one that had a book included. ('cause I'm smrt!) I've probably practiced a total of two hours since Saturday, so I'm far from a vurtuoso, but please enjoy my first recording on my new instrument by clicking on the "podcast" link below.The song is an Irish Single Jig called Rogha Mhaoir Ui Chathail. (but don't ask me how to pronounce it!)Podcast

Attack of the Zombie Dogs
2007-06-06 10:11:00
Okay, it's a stupid title for a game. That's one of the zillion points that'll change as this game develops. These are the beta rules, beyond pre-alpha. This is version.002 of the rules, basically just a few ideas strung together under a generic theme.The basic idea is to combine a tile laying strategy game with a miniatures game. Do well in the first phase, you'll do well in the second, but a good war gamer could still prevail after a lousy set-up. Much work will have to done during play testing, probably whole sections will be revamped and overhauled. This version also uses another game's tiles and pieces to play. Hopefully, I'll develop the playing pieces as I work on the game. For now, you'll need a copy of Zombie s: The End, some other zombie figurines from other Zombie games (really any consistent tokens for each side could work) and two decks of cards. You could use tiles from other Zombie expansions, but The End has the most open tiles.Attack of the Zombie Dogs is a zo...

Short Story: My First Boss
2007-06-06 05:32:00
Reading Bryan's yesterday post, one phrase grabbed me and pulled this short story out of me. The phrase:"my super professional broadcasting voice"My First Boss He certainly was not the kind of boss that would hire you for a job you were qualified for and very excited about doing with “Well, I don’t have any better choices, so I guess you can give it a try, and see if it works out,” not give you the assistance he promised, or for that matter a clear detail of exactly everything he wanted you to do, and then fire you because you mispronounced a town name, some odd foreign name that really could go either way (and for the record, even people who have lived there didn’t pronounce it his way). He was more the jovial, hard-working, encouraging kind of boss, that when the actual adult (married-with-kids) full time news director needed to go on vacation, he would help you stretch your experience and resume, by asking you to fill in for the week, for two summers in ...
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Drakon Review
2007-06-05 20:34:00
Two weeks ago, Shelly and I joined a gaming league. The league hasn't started yet---this weekend--- but soon. The idea is you play a different game each week throughout the summer and earn points for how well you do against other players. I look over at our wall of games and see about 20-25 games we've never even played. I've read the rules to all of them and oogled over the crunchy bit goodness, but time is a monster. This gaming league, hopefully, will spurn some more game playing. It's also a chance to meet some new people---people nerdier than myself.To celebrate joining the league, we, of course, bought a game. Recently at a game con, we played Tom Jolly's Cave Troll. It was a fun, relatively easy to learn game that mixed luck, strategy, player interaction and game engagement. Lots of fun and although I lost the one game I played, I wanted to play again and the game felt close, even against a much more experienced player.So, we bought Tom Jolly's other game, Drakon. Cave...
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The Roach Commands You!
2007-06-05 06:28:00
It's a week of game-related Things. Monday kicks off with a whole damn professional game for you to enjoy, minus the cards. About a year ago, I recorded the rules to The Shab-Al-Hiri Roach for Shelly to listen to on her ipod at work. Last week, I contacted the nice folks at Bully Pulpit Games and they said I could share the recording on this website. Hooray!The Roach is a rules lite, GM-less tabletop role playing game. It's not the nerdy elf 'n swords RPG new players think of when they think of RPG's, but a weird Lovecraftian mix of pompous, back-stabbing, dark humored, egotistical college professors and the hotbed of turn of the century small-town college politics. Oh, and alien roaches that infect you and guide your actions. It's eeevvviiiiiilll, I tells ya!From the website:The Shab-al-Hiri Roach is a dark comedy of manners, lampooning academia and asking players to answer a difficult question - are you willing to swallow a soul-eating telepathic insect bent on destroying hum...
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Googly Eyes
2007-06-05 02:39:00
I bought a package of Googly Eyes , and I had to have a cool place to keep them! So I collaged the lid, and glitter glued some eyes around, too!P.S. I uploaded a new picture for the Felted Flower with Beaded Blanket stitch. The other picture did not have a frame of reference so you could see how small it really is, and that old background was too busy for my eyes!More on this Thing