You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

I like customizing my PC. I look at it all day long at work, and often for hours at home on weekends. I’m a big fan of changing my wallpaper from time to time, and I’ve also purchased and use Windowblinds.

One of the ways I’ve customized is by using Bootskin. Bootskin is a free product that allows you to change the screen you see while loading Windows XP. Granted, I rarely reboot, but when I do, I’m pleasantly surprised when I see my bootskin. It’s also kind of cool when someone else watches your PC boot (at a LAN party for example).

So I’m listening to Wil Wheaton’s PAX 2007 Keynote (mp3), and there is a portion when he’s talking about historical video games. If you recognize the phrase, then you’ve obviously played (for many hours) the game. Look at the blog title and opening sentence. Do you recognize the game? Of course *I* do. So I decide to be creative and make myself a new boot screen:

Link to Grue Bootskin (for your very own!)

I tracked down an Apple IIe true type font, and tried to find a green color similar to my old dimming monitor.

Welcome to my world…

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Leo Laporte has 4711 podcasts on Twit.TV now.  Being a subscriber to several already (This Week in Tech, Windows Weekly, Security Now and Munchcast) I don’t often go back to the main web page to see what’s going on, because I’m reading all the updates through my RSS feeds. I need to check out some of the others and see if I want to listen. I don’t know that I want a daily show like Daily Giz Wiz, because of the possibility of getting behind really easily. But who knows. I would never have tried Munchcast if it wasn’t be recommendation

The problem with that method is that things are often missed. One example is Jumping Monkeys. Here’s the blurb: Join Megan Morrone, mother of three toddlers, and Leo Laporte, father of two teens, as they talk about parenting in the digital age, featuring lots of helpful links and advice, plus interviews with other geek parents, web site designers, and bloggers.

I’ve just added it to my automatic downloads and now I have 11 weeks to catch up on. I’m only 8 minutes into the first episode and I’m glad I’m listening. Megan was a former Screen Savers cast member, and pregnant at the time. During the introduction on the podcast she admits that she’s come to the realization that their audience isn’t all 13 year old boys. There are adults too. Parents. Ain’t it the truth. Megan’s even got one more thing going for her — she’s the mother of twins..

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Regularly, Jeremy (ianraven) throws out a random lolcat phrase that makes reference to the current situation. Often they are very ‘heady’, and appeal on an higher intellectual level. We had several concerning the midrealm fencers during Pennsic.

While not a huge lolcat fan, I still find myself chuckling. Listening to this past weeks TWiT podcast #110, I found myself tracking down the following lolcat, + Maybe +, and thought of him immediately.

Current Mood:  bored

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