marbits are the marshmallow bits that come in boxes of lucky charms. duh.

The interenet tickles me sometimes. Okay so Marbits is also the new category name for when I post stuff like this, little snippets of info that add up to the equivalent of hard marshmallow bits of goodness. If they made a cereal that was just marbits I'd eat it.

Defintely seeing Spider-Man this weekend. I'll post some thoughts. Darrel doesn't hold much hope, but MCF is pretty stoked as am I.

If you really want to tax your brain then try reading something written by a 16th-century Puritan.

If you want to get fired discuss guns at work such that others can hear you. This sucks btw.

I suck as a softball pitcher.

I also suck at getting my debate stuff up. Apologies Sid. I'll rectify it this weekend.

I'm getting stomped at online chess, but it's fun.

Well that's all for the nonce. Have a great weekend!

A bunch of little stuff all in one post!!!

Well, we've arrived at Friday again and not a whole lot of substance on the ol' bloggy-blog.

There is some action at my tumblelog.

I am going to be participating in the Rocky Mountain Ride shows so that should be interesting. I'm sure we'll talk about the Republican "debate" a bit and who knows what all. The religious show will continue to find its way. We'll be talking about simple churches aka house churches at some point in the near future, hopefully with a special guest. Maybe a bit about the religious right with the passing of Mr. Falwell.

So go outside, enjoy the beautiful weather, and please call in to one of our lovely podcasts!!!

Lest you think I've been lounging around, here's what's been going down.

I saw the newest Bourne movie and it was good. It would have been reeeeally nice if i had rented number two first. It's not a must, but it's a good idea.

I caught up on Jekyll on BBCA. I'm not sure if BBCA rawks so much because American TV largely sucks or if it just does because it does. Either way, we win!

We went on a trek to Pilot Mountain. I will post pics tonight.

I rented Hot Fuzz. If you are like me and tend not to make it to some of the awesome movies while they're still in the theater, you should make this a priority rental. It has a fair amount of British swearing, a surprising amount of grue, references Point Break and Bad Boys 2 a number of times, and all of that works in a remarkably hilarious way.

I did manage a short Tech Stew cast, solo this go 'round due to someone else having a social life (and no he didn't call first).

I also managed to make it on The Political Ride though not the Religious one. Next week I'm planning to make it to all three.

MCF posted this and I love me some lists, so here you go.

at being a blogger and NaNoWriMo-er. No writing of any kind this weekend. I'm flying to California on bidness Wednesday and hope to get some writing done at some point between then and Friday when I return. We'll see.

Food for thoughts:

I think Hillary crying sexism is pretty funny, but is she right when she intimates that being sexist in this country is easier than being a racist? I think so.

Olympians won't be able to carry any religious items into the Olympic village in China. I'm not surprised, I'm not even angry. I'm something I'm just not sure what.

The writers strike hurts good shows and helps crap (reality) shows. I'm not a big fan of unions and strikes and in this case I think that if writers are so worried about their monetary future I think that they should be creating it instead of clinging to DVD sales. Still they are in some sense fighting the power and so rock on with your bad selves.

The JLA movie will rawk hard as will Iron Man. Don't pinch me.

Why do people inist on building houses where they know they will burn down/blow away?

TTFN

We use table time as discipline on occasion. You must sit at the table, arms down, with nothing to do until you are excused.

K2 after being sat down, "God's gonna save me from this table and take you to jail."

Aaron and I waxed political on his BlogtalkRadio show. First time I've been on in a while. We talked about corruption, Hillary, Obama, bias, all sort of good stuff.

I hope to blog about the following this week:

1. The birthday trip we took this week to Pilot Mountain. (My wife's b-day)
2. Why I am a Democrat Pt. 2
3. More entries in the ongoing story I'm calling The Cage

See you round!

Soooo, I feel the need to update the ol' bloggy-blog but don't have one solid thought. Thus you get the following.

- "Auditioned" for a part in The Metamor City Podcast. I had a couple of chapters recorded for a podcast novel of my own and sent him those.

- I will start posting said novel by this weekend and will do so weekly. Sunday seems to be a good day. Watch this space for updates.

- Speaking of updates there are none on my wifes condition. The wait, while not fatal, is certainly maddening. Keep praying.

- MCF has posted his second tier brackets and I made it. I'm going up against the Unseen Blogger an ultraconservative Catholic with whom I agree with rarely, but who generally makes interesting posts.

- I am officially addicted to Twitter. You should join. It doesn't hurt and doesn't change your personality... much.

- I love Jango

- You should really be reading Spitball Politics. It will make you smarter, better looking, and quite possibly liberal.

- Go buy Infected. It will make you cringe and laugh. Possibly at the same time.

That is all.

Oh gosh, you really need to listen to Doc Popular's podcast Drown Pirate Radio mixtape. I don't know if it warrants subsribing to. Too early to tell. But if you are a troo geek it at least warrants clapping your earbuds in for a quick taste of nerdcore rap, sampling from Star Wars and ancient kitchy records, and assorted weirdness.

Okay so first things first. Some of you may remember us getting Brownie the dog who fell in da pit. Well he and Tempe (our Pyrenes mix) love to play tag. The size ratio is 10:1.

Second of all if you'll look over on my flickr sidebar you'll see that I did indeed get my beer in the bottles. Once I'm sure they're reasonably stable and am able to taste one I may be sending some out to the universe. Rhodester, Pat, and Ben I'm looking at you guys. Send me your addresses if you want one. Quantities are limited. Operators are standing by.

Thirdly.you should try Festina Peche by Dogfish Head. It's about as tart as any beer has a right to be. This is not a fru-fru fruity beer. It's incredibly refreshing. It won't be my go to summer beer since it ain't cheap, but it's well worth checking out. What is my go to summer beer? Well in years past it's pretty much been Sam Adam's Summer Ale, but I tried Shock Top by A-B (I know I know) and it is indeed worthy and inexpensive.

I had a good weekend. Worked hard on the new shed, though it doesn't seem much got done. Had a good time with my mother-in-law's visit (Hi Mom!). Otherwise here are the highlights:

Got a new microphone/desktop stand for my podcast endeavors. I WILL be putting up the new episode tonight. You still have a chance to leave me a call on the voice mail line 206-888-4760 and get in on the feedback action (podcasters feel free to pimp your stiff on the voicemail, it will get played). Or email me an MP3 or leave me an iTunes review or a comment or an email!!

Used said mike to try out a Skype session with Indiana Jim. He's an awesome podcasting friend.

Also used said mike to try a session on Stickam with Rhodester, Coffee Sister, Bob/Not Bob, and some other cool froods/froodettes. Friends good, Stickam buggy.

Read this monster: An Unexpected Party Chat (with del Toro and PJ) transcript now available!. If you're looking forward to The Hobbit movie, read it. They don't give away much, but it's a good read.

Tried Starbucks' Chai and Espresso Chocolates. They were good.

How about you?

Life has been a little busy and I haven't had the creative energy to put into a blog post. Okay so it's only been a couple of days, but tha'ts been packed. Allow me to summarize.

I tutned thirty-seven on Monday. The best gift? My hand painted wooden space shuttle. My most useful gift? Apple's Time Capsule, the 500 gig version, a simple, elegant thing of beauty.

I also got some ducats with which to a) pay the guy I bought my mixer from and b) spend on something not as good as the Archos 605 or an X-box 360. Still there are some DVDs I want and some music and whatnot, so it's all good!

I had a picture that I took go up at Insect Pod's Picture of the Day. Go look at it!

The next three nights I'll be interviewing some of my favorite podcasters for Hollywood Jesus and putting up reviews of said podcasts. I'm also helping Chris Lester produce his podcast (basically editing the raw sound file, taking out breaths, burps, and flubs; dead sexy) Metamor City. He's moving halfway across the country thanks to a new job. If you read this Chris, good luck!

I've also been tweaking my blog's CSS a bit to make everything a bit more readable. It doesn't do anything for the content though. ;-) I found a web based CSS editor that's WYSIWYG so that helped a ton. I'm not good at coding crap. There's a reason I'm not a programmer.

So that's it for now!