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Baccus for President

Winston — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:42:21 +0000

Chris Hill found me out.. it's true.

I'm running for President.

Fun, Satirical Behind the Scenes of MS Paint

Winston — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:42:38 +0000

Check it out on YouTube

Unbelievable Rube Goldberg Machine

Winston — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:13:15 +0000

This video is unbelievable. They must have spent a week getting all of this stuff perfected to work together. Check it out.

GrandCentral + ConquerClub

Winston — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:16:42 +0000

According to DownloadSquad, Google has just acquired GrandCentral, a Web 2.0 site that I was unfamiliar with, but am loving the concept of. It's a (currently, and hopefully continually free now that Google has bought it) phone service where you sign up and get a free local phone number. My new number is 901-457-1134. Via the website you enter in your other numbers and then when someone calls that new number, all of the phones you have entered will ring. You can customize a bunch of stuff like set up groups and route callers from those groups only to certain phones, etc. You then have a web-based voicemail set-up too. You can have it email you about voicemail or send you a text message. Very cool.

Back when I was in college, several of us used to get together to play Risk at the Wesley Foundation. Good times... those times are back with ConquerClub, an online Risk clone where you have 24 hours to take your turn, allowing you to play for just a few minutes a day. If everyone is available to play, each round can go much faster than 24 hours, but you'll always have at least that long. The site is kind of Web 1.0, but it's still fun. With some Ajax and other Web 2.0 tech, it could really rock. Let me know if you want me to send you an invite. I have several college/camp friends who are playing.

Turkey Vulture!

Winston — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:38:51 +0000

I loved Andy Brown's frozen chicken rules video from a few years ago and I thought that it was probably time for something else like that. For some reason I decided to purchase a vulture and some stage blood and make a video with it. When I told the team what we were going to do, they thought we were crazy. We had so much fun making the clips that I was crying from laughing so hard. You just have to understand camp, to really get the video on some levels. There's just something about going out and acting like an idiot that is refreshing. So without furthur adieu, I give you... Attack of the Sumatanga Turkey Vulture

The Office

Winston — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:03:57 +0000

Everyone seems to be in love with the Office, so I thought that I would point out a couple of brilliant clips from the original UK version. These are both from my favorite episode, which I think was the 3rd one overall…

24 Season Six Trailer

Winston — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:36:37 +0000

The trailer for the 6th season of 24 has launched. How in the world can they ratchet up the action/suspense. Take a look and see. I wonder what they're going to have left to do in season 7?

Where is Alvar?

Winston — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:51:05 +0000

Where is Alvar?

Black/White

Winston — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:42:25 +0000

I found a link to this site where you can upload a photo and it will scan a database of celebrities and match your face. Interestingly enough the results for my family's showed us to all be light skinned black people. Click on the image for a larger version.

The real purpose is for you to be able to scan family photos in and discern who is who. Interesting....

Ask a Ninja

Winston — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 21:23:22 +0000

Thanks to my friend Chris again for turning me onto this:
the Ask a Ninja Podcast is hillarious. I think we'll use these at Senior High 1 this summer at Sumatanga.