Sunday the sisters took Dad out to beautiful Vallejo to the Pirate Festival! Arrrr@ Kinda like the ren faire … with pirates! None of my party had been to any kind of festival, so it was nice to show them this. I recognized a *lot* of Dickens peeps. It was mellow at 10, slightly overcast and a bit chilly as we wandered around. A few hours later, as the sun came up, it was hotter and more crowded. Dad escaped the angry powers of the sun, the sisters … not so lucky.

Pre-sun. We are slightly cold, but ready for action!

I am pretty sure those are chicken legs.

Tats!

Ali was selected to go on stage and elect a Pirate King. Although the damn speaker was in my way I could hear her giggling through the entire performance. She even got close to Jack Spare-Rib!

Okay , its a hoax, but think about it. Meat water! Comes in Tandoori Chicken! Yum!

http://dinnerinabottle.com/

Meatwater, a new line of flesh-flavoured bottled waters, has been “launched” on the internet, sparking debate among bloggers about whether it is a daring attempt to cash in on the rising popularity of enhanced health drinks, or an elaborate hoax.

The drinks are being marketed as “High Efficiency Survival Beverages”, made of “only the finest protein – an organic compound composed of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen”.

Whoa boy I am late with this but its been a busy month! Better late than .. well you get it….

 Final project was to create a bookpile with a certain theme and take a pic. I wanted to add some D&D books, but well …they are 3.5 edition and 4th edition is coming out soon and well… thats an argument for another day.   So instead I added some web dev books, a call out to the love of coffee and a few dice I have scattered in my office.  My LibraryThing

 Next  was to choose another method to represent my woodpile.  Well my del.icio.us is already chocked full of web dev goodness so instead I added a video about upcoming 4th edition of Dungeons and Dragons!  My next character is a tiefling!

Another idea the Web 2.0 class is bringing up is LibraryThing. Library Things is a social cataloging web application for storing and sharing personal library catalogs and book lists. Users, known as thingamabrarians, can catalog personal collections, keep reading lists, and can connect to people based on the books they share. Browsing the ‘bookshelf’ by searching titles, authors, or tags generated by users as they enter books into their libraries.  Pretty darn easy interface!

Sounds cool huh? Just think:

• Find people with freaky similar tastes.
• Catalog with Amazon, the Library of Congress or 252 other world libraries. Import from anywhere.
• Get recommendations. Tag your books and explore others’ tags.
• Put your books on your blog.
• Enter 200 books for free or as many as you like for a small fee

So now I am trying to remember the last few books I have bought. One I have on the desk right now about New Orleans tourist stuff, only 4 other people have tagged it and no reviews. But the other one, The Time Travelers Wife has over 10,000 peeps have tagged it with lots of suggestions or recommendations.

One of the assignments in the Web 2.0 online class was to create an account in Flickr and pop up some pics of the library. Well I already had an account, but this was my chance to add photos via the iPhone. One of the negatives about the iPhone is the inability to include photos in your text messages. One way around that is to send your buddy a text message via email. Flickr also has the ability to upload your photos via an email. I added a plugin that checks out my Flickr photos and bam here are some library photos!