Wyszdom

While researching my previous post, I learned that there is an article about Ted in the German Wikipedia, but as of this writing, not in the English edition.

Ted is now playing in the ABA, which apparently exists, and is even featured in a recent film. Now I’m no sports expert, but something sounds fishy here. Why would a bunch of lawyers want to start a basketball league? The slippery floors, discrimination based on physical abilities… I just can’t see that as a situation where they’d want to be defendants. Nevertheless, there was, in fact, a basketball league known as the ABA created in 1967, but according to this memorial, ended its run in 1976, before Ted was even born.

More than that, Ted claims to be a player for the “Frost Heaves,” conveniently located way up in Vermont, where there are probably polar bears and stuff. Frost Heaves? That doesn’t sound like a real team name. I don’t even know what heaves are, and had to look it up. Heaves is a respiratory disease of horses, characterized by flatulence.

But Ted is my friend, so I trusted him upon hearing of his new accomplishment, and soon thought this trust was confirmed when I saw news articles appearing mentioning Ted’s new role. However, reading a couple articles past the headlines showed otherwise. For example, look at the following snippet from this article from the Times Argus in Vermont:

Skucha will have little time to acclimate himself to Vermont.

And a quote from the Burlington Free Press:

Skuchas, a recently-sgined 6-11 Vanderbilt graduate, made his home debut against the Rainmen, who fell to 8-18.

Note that both articles include typos which should have easily been caught by a news publication with any sort of proofreading resources (such as a spellchecker). If you’ve ever attempted an IM conversation with Ted, you know that typos are part of his trademark style.

Nice try, Ted.

“We’ll talk about procrastination tomorrow.”

Dear Mike Leotta,

Please rewrite my blog’s CSS file so my blog is pretty like yours. My current theme is ugly and hard to read. I would love to pay you for it but I’ve already blown my cash on a Mac Pro.

Also, I <3 Steve’s wardrobe. But not as a joke like you.

Mockingly,
Wysz

While searching for an old parody post I did about iTunes, I discovered that one of my favorite blogs, Crazy Apple Rumors (currently on “hyenas“), had a very similar entry about two years later. Hmm.

I caught the tail end of Jeopardy! earlier tonight. I wonder what Alex and the contestants talk about at the end while the credits are rolling.

Mike Leotta is now blogging. Before he pollutes the web any further, let me give you all fair warning by highlighting some of the key differences between Mike Leotta and Michael “The Wysz” Wyszomierski:

• Mike hates space. Michael loves space.
• As a teenager, Mike had long hair. Michael changes his hairstyle every 10 years.
• Mike’s website has little content. Michael has been at this game for a long time.
• Mike has big muscles. Michael concedes this one.

Those are the facts, folks.

It looks like Scott Giambastiani, a fellow Googler, has a cooking video of his own. From Pure Ingredient Café, where I coincidentally ate lunch on Valentine’s Day, Scott shows us how to make Cupid’s Crab Cake:

If you want to make it yourself, check out the recipe. As far as my own cooking show goes, I’m hoping to crank one out over this long weekend. Stay tuned.

I’ve had a few other domains registered for a while but haven’t publicized them. You may find these two useful:

If you want to go straight to my blog: wyszdom.com
If you can’t remember how to spell Wysz: theinternetissocool.com
If you can’t remember how to spell Wysz, and you certainly can’t handle “Wyszdom,” but you want to go straight to my blog: theinternetissocool.com/blog

My photo gallery, called Imagery, is now open for your viewing pleasure.

I don’t have much in it right now; in fact as of this writing I only have one album with some pictures of my K-1000 camera. But now that the hard part is done (installing and configuring Gallery 2), I should be able to add the rest of my library over the coming weeks.

I still have some work to do, such as organizing the photos on my computer, and then figuring out how to allow my family members to add to albums as well, while keeping them from public view. As of this writing I’m not allowing guests to add comments, but I’ll try and change that as soon as a comment moderation feature becomes available.

I only installed Gallery because I wanted to be able to host the photos on my own domain, but I wonder if it’s really worth the trouble when services like Flickr and Picasa Web Albums are so much easier to use, and don’t rely on me to keep everything up and running. I’ll probably end up uploading my photos to all three locations, so that way if I ever prefer one as my primary location in the future, it will already be all set. Plus, redundancy is always an essential part of a good backup strategy.

Please try it out and let me know what you think.