Getting Warmer

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Flying Mowers

I made a background for my Twitter today.

I was inspired by a video I had seen two years ago posted on MetaFilter.
The sight of a flying lawnmower is the epitome of awesome.

I found the video on YouTube.
(Apparently there is a lot of BS one has to go through when trying to embed YouTube videos, so suck it up and click on the link because nothing I’ve tried is working.)

Bonus: Cotton Eye Joe is the soundtrack.
Like I said, the epitome of awesome.

Blogs, Twitter, Etc.

I’m currently trying to figure out which blogging platform I want to use: Blogger, Vox, or WordPress. I’ll probably end up crossposting to Vox anyway, because nobody reads my actual blogs, but still. So far, I have to say that I really like wordpress. Odds are I’ll end up sticking with this one. The thing that I like most about it is the fact that they don’t obstruct my header with the title of the blog. I like that. Gives me a lot more options of what pictures I want to use, whereas before I had to choose them based on how light or dark they were in certain areas, so you could see the text.

What is the point of Twitter? I’m still unsure. It’s like a tiny, tiny blog, absolutely dripping with Web 2.0. It’s also lagging like a sick dog. As someone had already pointed out on #bunnies, it’s just like the “So and so is_________” feature on Facebook, sans the rest of the profile. There has to be a way you can add a little widget to your blog that will show Twitter updates. Sooner or later, they’ll make it. I’m sure I’ll figure out if I want to keep the damn thing or not in a few days.

So I’ve secured myself work for this spring break. I work at a church up in Providence. I am a jesus janitor, christ’s custodian. I’m out of fancy names. But either way, it’s a job, and a pretty nice one at that. Pays very well, and it’s pretty laidback, so I can’t complain.

I just remembered my roommate wants to go up to Boston to see 300 in Imax. I wonder when he’s planning on doing this, because, as I mentioned, I have work now. I should probably ask him.

Update: Found the widget. They refer to it as a “badge.”