A geek's life

It’s nice that I have so many spammers comment on my blog… and no one else.

They don’t make a new version of my favorite Autobot very often but when they do they sure do it right.

The last Wheeljack they made was for Energon/Super Link, he was pretty cool. One of my favorites of that line. Especially when you linked him with Rodimus. This latest incarnation is pure classic Wheeljack. His exhaust pipes even become wrenches in robot mode. Very cool. :) He’s based on the Track toy from the same line but with some massive retooling. More than I’ve ever seen on a “repaint”. He has a new head, new feet, retooled/shorter legs, new rearend to the car, even the shoulder slider has been tweaked to make him shorter and wider. He’s like a totally new toy but not.

I must say, awesome job Hasbro. :)

I’d like to welcome you to the “new and improved” Batcave.

I hadn’t really used my blog much since the onset of things like Twitter, Facebook and the wonderful Google Buzz. Most of what I had to say or share was fairly short and sweet and fit pretty well within the limits of those services. Plus they had the added bonus of some people actually reading stuff I wrote. Not sure that anyone I know (or anyone at all) ever read the old Batcave blog. That all came to an end anyway when Blogger decided to turn off FTP publishing thus rendering the Batcave null and void. :)  At the time it really didn’t matter much to me as I wasn’t really using it. I made one final post referencing my other online services and said good bye.

Now after all these months I find myself here again.
This all started as an excuse to play with Word Press and new software for my beloved Android phone.  Is that all it will ever be? Will I actually use this blog?
I really don’t know…

Is the blogging dead?
Maybe. I’m sure there are thousands of commentaries out there about this exact question so I won’t bore you with another. Just check The Google. ;)

Speaking of “The Google”, ever since the introduction of Google Buzz I have realized exactly how much Twitter sucks. And I’ve always hated Facebook. Google Buzz is a wonderful place where I can have endless conversations about things my close friends share and enjoy. Twitter is impossible to hold a conversation on and Facebook is jammed so full of “apps” and crap ads and all kinds of “I don’t give a shit” things getting thrown in my face that it is impossible to use. (I hate Facebook)
Is Google Buzz enough? Should I be writing all this crap there where my friends will actually see it and comment on it?
Probably…

So why am I wasting my time here?
I honestly do not know.  :)
Possibly just to play with Word Press for a while or at the least have something up here other than a totally dead blog.  At least I now have the option to post things here.

Why not use something like Tumblr or Posterous? Aren’t those the “new blog”?
Yeah, probably… and they link well into other places like Facebook and Twitter, which apparently I will still have to use if I ever want my friends to see anything I have to say.  :( But the last thing I want or need is yet another online service for me to pour my life into. Yet another log-in, another URL… No thanks.

So yeah… I already have a domain sitting around doing nothing. Might as well use it or at least play with some new software.  Which you might find it funny to know, the only reason I started using twitter was as an excuse to play with cool new software on my Windows Phone.  :)

I have decided not to try and import my thousands of posts since 2004 from the old Batcave and just start fresh here. There is a link on the side if you ever want to peruse my old posts. I just left it all on Blogger. I figure I will recreate any of the static content pages I had on the old site here eventually, the ones that I care about anyway.

Maybe this is why I don’t blog more… It just turns into a long stream of rambling thoughts.  :)

Oh well, welcome to the madness. I’m as curious/disinterested as you to find out what happens next!

This is a test to upload an image from my phone.

This is a test post from my android phone.