Open Hatch

Following is an assembled recording of “Grandfather” calling me to leave voice messages.

Messages from Grandfather (.mp3 file, 2:28, ~1MB)

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Tommy’s Kittens (last post) made little “Nad” grow introspective about the real issues of life.

Nad’s Introspection (.mp3 file, 23 seconds, 183 KB)

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Following is a recording of the first attempt that very young "Tommy" (and his friend "Nad") made at sewing.

Tommy Sewing (.mp3 file, 28 seconds, 196 KB)

Here is a transcript, and a t-shirt inspired of this.

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Speaking of BIG LOVE (last entry), what about BIG BEEF?

For two years in the post-High-School wasteland (though this was a few years after High School), I worked at Arby’s to save up money to get into the mission field. One day this customer came through the drive-through. This is what he said and this is how it sounded. Not kidding. I didn’t get to see him - someone else handed him his Big Montana.

Arby’s Man (.mp3 file, 13 seconds, 91 KB)

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[Update: Maybe it’s not in beta, but released. I’ll look further into it later..]

I think this thing, in testing, is a tool to track what comments you make at other people’s blogs. Most blogs allow you to provide a URL to your own blog when you comment. I presume this tool would have you provide a URL to your own comment tracking database instead, which would auto-generate an entry in a database, then add it to a dynamically generated list of links at your own blog to your comments at other blogs. I’ve thought of programming that, but figured someone else probably has and is doing it better.

Right now it’s in beta. I’ll watch this one.

Another cool thing: a blogroll service where you just enter the URL of a blog/site you found that you like, and it adds it to your dynamic blogroll (list of blogs and sites you follow), which I believe you can dynamically load at your blog. Otherwise I have to wander into my template through several links, then republish, and I think it’s that way for most blogging tools, not just movable type.