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So, as just about anyone reading this knows, we built a Jabba the Hutt puppet a while back. Full sized… quite the beast. And we made a little 15 second video clip of his tongue moving:

After a conversation at work about how more time has been spent watching the “history of dance” video than fighting certain notable wars, I went to look at the stats.

The Jabba video has over 77K views. At 15 seconds each, that means that over 13 days of human existence has been spent looking at Jabba’s tongue.

That’s just scary, sad, and sort of cool.

Speaking of Jabba, if you’re in NH come check out Granite State Comiccon this weekend on the 31st. http://www.granitecon.com/

We’ll be there, with Jabba!

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Today starts “summer hours” at work… The office closes at 1! Add to that the Monday holiday and this is a good weekend indeed!

A busy one too. A zombie musical, a wedding, a drive-in and a parade (marching, not attending).

Speaking of… I can’t remember the last time I watched a parade. I march in a number of them every year but never watch. Which is sad sometimes, since I don’t get to see the other groups.

Zombie musical… yup. You read that right. In Waltham even.

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today is fantastic. the window next to me is open, the breeze is blowing, the sun is shining. i could get used to weather like this!

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You get on a bus.

The last empty seat is yours.

You sit down next to a gorgeous redhead.

She is eating a bag of peanut m&ms.

All you can think about is how much you want those m&ms.



A couple of clips from the upcoming reboot of V…

http://www.visitorsite.net/

Looks good. I’ll definitely be watching this!

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My BzzScapes post was the #4 google result for Bzzscapes. Hah!

http://www.bzzagent.com/

Go. Sign up. Follow Star Wars (and other stuff too!)

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Help me win stuff!!!

I work for a marketing company called BzzAgent. We give you free stuff! No, really…

Companies sign up for campaigns with us. They give us free products, and we pass that product on to our volunteer Agents.

Where does this benefit our clients?

Say you just got a free $100 Harmony remote control in the mail. You’re going to brag to your friends, right? And there you go, talking about the product, generating honest, unscripted word of mouth marketing… arguably the best kind available.

The companies get to learn what people think of their products in the real world through reports our agents submit, and get the benefit of people talking about their stuff. The agents get free stuff, and everyone wins.

We just launched a new section of our website… BzzScapes. The idea of BzzScapes is that it’s a place for people to share information about products / brands / etc… that they love.

To help get this section started, we have a contest for employees. At the end of each month, whichever employee has the most people following his/her BzzScape wins a prize… and they are nice prizes like a 52″ LCD TV, free parking/transit passes for a year, etc…

My BzzScape is, unsurprisingly, Star Wars!

Here’s where you come in!

Go to http://www.bzzagent.com/ and register (it’s free, and if you want to participate in the polls / campaigns / etc… those are free too, and you get cool stuff!)

Once you’ve registered, click the “BzzScapes” link near the top of the page, then go to the Star Wars BzzScape. Click “Follow & Add Content to this BzzScape to become a part of it.

That’s all that needs to happen to help my BzzScape grow! If you want to add content too it, comment, etc… by all means, please do! Heck, create your own BzzScape if you want! The more the merrier!

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phew.

last night, silk road bbq. it’s in belmont. it’s just a cart… no building, no chairs. but awesome lamb kebab and rice pilaf. mmmmm. followed by gelato at angelato, also in belmont, right across the street from the parking lot that the cart is at.

today. sowa open market / open studios. so. many. artists! we fizzled out eventually, after going through… over 200 artists. and all the antiques / crafts / food in the open market. then we walked all over boston, finally getting back on the train at charles/mgh.

oh, and we saw some anonymous people partying at government center, with music, masks and fliers.

we made dinner, and then caught up on all of our dvr stuff.

castle finale. supernatural finale. dollhouse is done. man… tv this summer is looking bleak.

but, supernatural and castle are both getting season two!!! so excited!

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Today I learned about porn and neck ties. Yesterday it was kettle bells and networking like a man.

Fun site… I’ve mentioned it before, but it’s worth repeating:

http://artofmanliness.com/

I’ve gotten a bunch of recruiter calls today. Spring is in the air?

I went back to Weight Watchers officially. Over the last year I gained back an upsetting amount of weight… almost 20 pounds. Still down a LOT from my worst, but not a good trend.

The “new” online tool optimized for men is interesting. First off, it set me at 6 points a day higher than I used to be at the same weight. They must have decided that guys need more food than women. It’s funny that paying $16 a month is enough motivation to make me stick to eating well, vs. my own free self discipline, which was a failure.

I also don’t recall them allowing you to bank activity points for a whole week… a workout today could yield an ice cream tomorrow. Seeing as I get 2-3 activity points a day just going to work, that’s not a bad change ;)

What else is going on? Got a ton of molds to make… Fett gauntlets, jacket for the Fett helmet, Ahsoka headpiece (I wonder if it will fit zanylikethat?), another clone bucket, new Rex pistols. And I have to get cracking on my clone shins.

4:08. One hour to go today. Will tonight see motivation and energy, or Heroes watching on the sofa?

Speaking of Heroes. Star Trek. SO GOOD! I loved it. I’m not a huge Trek fan… I’ve seen my share of episodes and movies, but there are no gole velour Fleet shirts in my closet. But seriously good!

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