http://www.blogrilla.com The big scary monkey of blogs. Striving to bring you the best of what's what. Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:00:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Everyone else ignore this.   Nate, click here: https://secure.logmein.com/i?l=en&c=iaa4bxdq63fa5m90wdxwbtsx6busr4jg3jmvrdoyGet the word out! http://www.blogrilla.com/2009/08/28/for-nate-jarvis/ Last summer i planted some corn to see if the stuff would grow and it did.  No, I didn’t actually eat it – events conspired to keep me from it, but I’m sure it was delicious. This summer I want to expand my garden to include beans, peas, maybe ... http://www.blogrilla.com/2009/03/27/what-to-do-with-the-weekend/ Maybe two years ago a financial advisor took a look at my portfolio and recommended “rebalancing” it.  Me?  i liked it the way it was, but he made a compelling argument for diversifying my holdings.  And since “diversification” has always been rule #1 with me, I went along with it. ... http://www.blogrilla.com/2009/03/27/genius/ Ok, who would pay $1100 for the blogrilla.com domain?  Not I.  Apparently the website WebsiteOutlook.Com thinks blogrilla.com might be worth a pretty penny. It also estimates that I could make upwards of $1.61 every day based on ad-revenue.  Interesting thought.  What if I included some advertisements on my website?  ... http://www.blogrilla.com/2009/03/26/1100/ Viva la libertad -- A Friend.Get the word out! http://www.blogrilla.com/2009/03/10/1849/   World of Goo for WII - World of Goo Wii - World of Goo WII Game Four stars for World of Goo!!  The whole family likes it.  Get the word out! http://www.blogrilla.com/2009/03/03/world-of-goo-for-wii-world-of-goo-wii-world-of-goo-wii-game/ I stopped posting for a while there.  I just didn’t feel like updating the blog and still feel reticent about it.  If this whole thing had more of a point I think I would feel better about continuing.  Today I’m testing out Microsoft Live Writer – it was ... http://www.blogrilla.com/2009/02/25/its-been-a-while/ I found out that our polling-place, the kids' elementary school would be open at 7am, which allowed me to get there before work.  Sort of.  I showed up at 6:55am and go the last parking spot in the place.  I walked inside and was greeted with most people and longest ... http://www.blogrilla.com/2008/11/04/voting/ Friday night we had some friends stay over.  They brought their three kids and two dogs to visit as well.  Let me just say it was a BUSY house!!  Holy cow.  Seven kids, four grown-ups and four dogs.  Wow.  At times it felt like even more, but mostly it was ... http://www.blogrilla.com/2008/11/03/it-was-a-good-weekend-2/ So on Saturday morning I dropped Ben off at the Danvers Fish and Game club to go camping and shooting with the boy scouts.  The place looked fine, it was all set up to accommodate campers and, in fact, I noticed that our group of boy scouts was not the ... http://www.blogrilla.com/2008/10/27/camping-and-lasertagging/