CogBlogged from ‘September, 2008’

Custom Bb Mug by cogdogblog posted 6 Sep ’08, 10.58am MDT PST on flickr Don’t settle for the swag they choose for you; make your own with the Mug Generator: www.metasolutions.us/mug/ More generator fun. Must stop. Someone pull my plug.

Are You Talking To Me? by cogdogblog posted 6 Sep ’08, 9.49am MDT PST on flickr Next time you need a good nom de plume, try the Mob Name Generator. Tell them Shakes Pretiili sent you. Yes, I am all over the Generator Blog a nearly infinite list of fun little things to do on the web that create things dynamically. Next up… maybe.. the Chinese movie generator, the Swedish Furniture Name, or next time some asks you for a reference, spit out something with the Endorsement Generator. Besides the silly stuff, which of course is very important here at CogDogBlog, I found a link to PhotoSoup which creates a word finder puzzle generated by pairs of tags in flickr… very cool indeed: PhotoSoup is a visual word puzzle generator that allows users to create word search puzzles with tag-photo pairs taken from Flickr. The tag is hidden in the [...]

No Excuse Not To Blog by cogdogblog posted 6 Sep ’08, 9.49am MDT PST on flickr Holy Snapping Duck Do! I just noticed I have not updated this since the long board was invented… You would not believe how terribly tardy the Victorian internet can be. Apologies to my regular readers! Even the little blue ones!. I am lost in a sea of pseudo-olde-english with responding to fanmail, hoping you haven’t found other blogs, just generally being asleep, dreaming and chancing to various lawyers I met recently, and my day is passing in a blur from the first cockadoodledoo from the rooster to I run out of alcohol. I am not being a whinging Pom or anything. but who cares. I declare solemnly I will make more of an effort to blog more often until the nice men in the white coats come back. You wanna test me? Cats if [...]

I always knew some day I’d have a reason to blog about something I could relate to the insurance duck (don’t seek an answer why). In my travels last week, a friend I stayed with shared some (well a lot) of concert audio files, all in .flac format- which I had maybe heard of before, but now know it is a lossless audio file format. My ears are not near discriminating enough to know, but that is way besides the point. Of course I expected to find a free audio converter as something I could use to bring in the music to iTunes and onto the phone/pod (you can open them in Audacity and convert but that would be a one by one manual op. I first went to a reliable source of Mac apps, VersionTracker and searched for “flac”- scanned a few (I peek at the reviews as well), [...]

Going Where I Have Been by cogdogblog posted 3 Sep ’08, 12.36am MDT PST on flickr This is in the last hour of my 1700+ mile jaunt to Denver and back, a 6 day road trip with only loosely defined plans– mainly just to spend some time not glued to a laptop (ironically, I was glued to a steering wheel). There is so much that is magical about a road trip, especially to counter the aspects of living out of your car, but mainly the freedom of choosing directions, where to stop, where not to, what kind of horrible non nutritious food to ingest. My preferences is secondary highways, and only resort to the bland interstate when time is short. As I rode along many familiar roads, I kept wondering what it would be like to see myself go by in years past; when I first drove west n I-40 [...]