The continuing adventures of little lost robot are now taking place here on my wordpress blog. Chances are you ended up here becuase of my Blogger profile or something. Hope to see you there!

little lost robot

I've been locked out of my blog for the past few days. I've been able to update my blog for YEARS without a problem, but all of a sudden it just mysteriously doesn't work. Apparently, Blogger changed the way stuff uploads to my Yahoo-based server (or is it vice-versa?), so I had to do a bit of forensic HTML and FTPing to figure out a workaround.

The solution I came up with involves nothing more than a randomly placed "/" character on my FTP string. Luckliy, some poor bastard had this problem 4 years ago and it was still up on his website.

Anyway, I'm on the new version of Blogger now - which sports a ton of new features(apart from randomly deleting your index or locking you out) and I'm eager to test them out for the week until I switch to something else.

Saw this sign in the beer and wine section of the local supermarket today and smiled.



Aside from that, here were other exciting highlights from this weekend:

1. Had this whole, "Let's go out tonight!" thing planned for Saturday, but Hasser and I ended up getting sucked into watching the entire third season of Little Britain instead. And now,we'll be talking like Lou and Andy all month long, much to my wife's discomfiture.

2. For the most part, I'm not a very big fan of holiday music and movies. Seriously. But I have found one thing (apart from my robot ornaments) that makes me all warm inside. Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas. I've always been obsessed with it as a kid, and this weekend I got the DVD - and watched every single feature on the disc. The making-of video was great, and it makes me hates CGI characters like Jar Jar and Dobby just that much more.

3. Someone mentioned that should check out the USB Snowbot from ThinkGeek. But it just so happens that I featured the snow-cylon a few weeks ago on my "Click on JL" podcast. It afforded me the opportunity to write the following line into WYFF4's 5pm newscast: "It will enforce holiday cheer with it cold robotic gaze."

This year my holiday robot tree is out of control. We got a fiber optic tree, and another half-dozen ornaments. I was planning on taking a photo to post on the blog, but I got carried away and made a little video [below].



It was thrown together pretty fast, but you have no idea how hard it was figuring out whether to edit the photos to the robot voice or the music - which obviously didn't sync up because they lack a soul (or rhythm). Eventually I just said "F-it." Also, I've discovered that there's about a thousand different lyrical interpretations to "O' Christmas Tree". Some of them were so in love with the tree it was creepy.

Anyway, Happy Tuesday!