Previously announced addition to Campbell Clan Industries has been produced. Final assembly completed on 5.30.08. Visual conformation of parts confirms previous test results and designation of Lilly has been assigned. Unit is now entering cocoon stage.
3 more robots that I got for my Birthday from my sister. I left these guys in plastic because I couldn’t bring myself to eat them. My son, on the other hand, has had no problems devouring 2 of them. You can order yourself some Robopops from Hearth Song magazine where they say:
Pop a robot pop in your mouth, and it fills your mouth with fabulous fruity flavors that really POP. A super solution for Easter baskets, the set of three candy contraptions includes orange, apple, and blueberry flavors.
He never mentioned that they poped like pop rocks, maybe I’ll have to try the last one.
While you’re ordering why not pic up a Sky Rocket or Space Blaster.
These guys are made by super cool toy makers Rocket USA.
Here are 7 commercials. Can you spot the fake one?
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I like seeing movies on opening weekend. Usually I try not to watch or read anything about it before. But it’s really hard. I’ve even covered my ears and closed my eyes for during the Trailer for LOTR 2 (never read the book). I like to experience the movie without any preconceived notions or expectations.
With S3 I really didn’t know venom was going to be in the movie until I got a web link to the make-up test. I assumed he would be in it, because the black costume was. Then the toys came out and there he was. But it wasn’t until Wednesday of last week that I actually saw a clip of him. I wasn’t expecting it and didn’t search it out. It was edited into an episode of video podcast that I watch called Pulp Secret. I’m not sure if they got it from a recent trailer or what. But there he was. I almost made it to the movie! Oh well.
You should check out Pulp Secret. It’s actually really funny and gives you just tidbits of information in a nice little package. You can even fast-forward the commercials. My favorite episodes loosely involve some sort of “theme”. Give it a go, but don’t start with the 3 part Spider-Man week coverage. Except maybe the one where Justin does the trapeze and kisses a girl!
I’ll be at the Atlanta Comics Expo this weekend.
Come on out and say hello.
I like naming my new hardware. Most people just leave the factory name. But I like giving them names. Like they are my pets. My keychain drives are Totem and Gobo, my iPod(RIP) was called Sonic Boom, My PSP is Gomer.
I just got an Iomega external hard drive. 200 gigs of portable space. I named him Giggles. And the little partion on it is called Giglet. Oh what fun I have with the naming of things. Aren’t you glad I shared it with you?
Any suggestions on what sticker I should get to put over the little Iomega logo?
FLUKE was a heck of a lot of fun. I’ll post some pictures soon.
The best thing that I got at the show was this drawing by Andy Runton. I asked him to draw his character Owly as Snuffy and he did it up right. Go check out some of the other “Owly as” drawings that he’s done.
You know something is going on when your dentist ask if you heard about that comic book character “Captain America” dieing. In all, I heard it from 4 different people in the same day. None of them were comic book fans. It was a strange.
It’s been a pretty deadly time for Super Heroes over the last few years. I can’t help but think that eventually this “crying wolf” game will backfire on the entire industry. Yes someone died, yes it’s vital to the plot and yes they will return to kick buttox again. With a gritter tone, and maybe a new costume.
Celebrate the death of one of Comic Book’s great icons by downloading a larger version of the above illustration for your desktop!
Have a great day, here’s a little valentine card for you to print and give to your special person. You could even write a little poem on the back.
Robots are metal,
Flowers have petals,
You’re really neat,
even your feet.
I’m not good at caricatures. I really should try and work on it. This is the best of the few I drew of the darling Mr. Bush during the State of The Union (I added the photoshopy color afterwards). Yes, the others look nothing like him also.
Here is a quick look at what he had to say.
Words listed with numbers of mention.
Taken from the transcript provided on CNN.
September 3
Iran 3
Environment 4
Freedom 5
Energy 8
Health 8
Good 9
Economy 10
Security 10
War 11
Iraq 22
Terror 22
America 57
Trouble in Cyberspace
I’m going mad! First of all, registerfly.com let www.wideawakepress.com lapse for about 25 days. With the only tech support being, “here’s your money try again” or “Start a trouble ticket and they’ll fix it” or “wait 5 days and it will be renewed.” Finally it did get renewed and is up and running. But I honestly believed I was going to loose it. I even registered wideawakepress.net fearing the worst. I’ve tried to transfer the remaining domains to another company. But they’ve yet to approve it.
On top of all that, my e-mail address has constantly been flakey. Which is from a totally different provider, infinology.com. I haven’t received e-mails sporadically and the people sending them wouldn’t get e-mails telling them I wasn’t receiving e-mails. My wife’s site was doing the same thing www.campbellcpafirm.com
Now I find out my 3mr mailing list is completely gone! All the subscribers e-mail addresses are gone. I have a backup from December 2005, so if you’ve subscribed to it sometime this year then you’re not on my list anymore. Regardless, I don’t think I’ll be sending anymore until I can get tech support to answer the phone. I’m going mad! Please Internet God, if you’re out there, ease my worrying pains. Make it all better soon!
Update: Thank you Internet God. My mailing list for robots is magically back! OK, maybe the trouble ticket I left at Infinology got answered by a tech. But who really responds to trouble tickets anyway?
What a year in the life of me. I thought about doing some sort of recap of the year. Maybe a remembrance perhaps of comics, music, television or movies. Then I thought, there are a million people out there doing that. Why not do a personal list, something I could actually look back on and say: Oh yeah, I remember that year. What? No, you don’t have to read it.
—February—
It’s all of your business
My wife quit her job, in the middle of tax season, and opened her very own firm. Campbell CPA Firm opened its doors and after we scrambled to put it together in only 2 weeks. Mostly it was my wife who did all the scrambling, I just moved stuff around. The third best thing we’ve ever done together, my son being the first of course.
Zig Zag 2 Comic postponed.
—June—
Going Blind and loosing my mind
Started loosing my site, hospitalized, treated and tested for Multiple Scorosis (a cause of Optical Neuritus) missed Heroes Convention (the most hyped one ever) due to complications from a lumbar puncture and sleep depravation. I regained eyesight totally! And quit wearing glasses later in the year.
Zig Zag 2 Comic postponed again
—August—
10 years on the beach
We were on vacation with our entire family, wife’s and mine. One day we popped it on everyone that we were renewing our vows the next day. We did it on the beach, on our 10-Year Wedding Anniversary. Yes, it’s the second best thing we’ve ever done.
Attack of the Swedes
My sister moved back home after 9 years abroad. Bringing her 3 young wonderful boys with her. Man this year has been packed with life changing events!
—October—
The horror of it all
Wide Awake Press first published book! Wide Awake 666 is killer horror anthology of stories from over 40 different artists. Printed locally. Promoted and distributed by 3 Boys Productions. What were we thinking?
—November—
Gobble Gobble Goo
We had an amazing Thanksgiving day at our house. 16 family members gathered around the ole table. Including my sister-in-laws new husband along with his mom and brother. It was an amazingly wonderful day.
—December—
He knows when your awake
Another great holiday, including our sons first Christmas that he kind of knew what was going on, Santa coming and presents and what not. I can’t wait till next year!
—Upgrades & Fixes—
New heat and air unit for the house
Friend falls through roof (emergency patch crew never finishes job)
Our dead tree hanging over neighbors garage removed
Finally moved old Dodge out of the front of the yard (sat for 4 years)
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It was a pretty crazy year. And I hope 2007 rocks half as much as 2006. What was yours like?
