How do I know what I think 'till I see what I say?

When I was living at my Grandma Blakesley's house I stumbled upon a few "one subject" spiral notebooks. I'm not sure what Grandma used them for, if anything, but I've habitually used them since for a journal/idea book that I take with me most places. I think of her a lot when I use them.

Benefits: they're light, compact, cheap, and come in several delightful colors. Disadvantages: I suppose they could rip easily, but I haven't had issues with that so far.

A graduate school professor once advised that writing is key to developing, understanding, and retaining thoughts. I've found that if I'm not writing daily, many things I learn are forgotten. And it's cool when writing produces new new ideas.

I guess this is a little plug for writing, but mostly a thanks for those notebooks at Grandmas.

new trailer: pirates of the caribbean 3

umm, yeah, I want to see this one. Looks better than the second. Hope it's written as good as the first! Notice shots in the trailer of the Utah salt flats

http://www.moviecitynews.com/views/2007/070318_POC3.html

Wife-o-Meter

Shigeru Miyamoto, the video game design living legend who made Donkey Kong, Mario Bros. and Zelda, gave a keynote last week at the Games Developer Conference. He used the symbol of a "wife-o-meter" to describe how successful his games are at winning approval from his wife. DK and Mario Bros. were low. But the Nintendo Wii console ranks very high on the wife-o-meter, he says, for social and family participation reasons.

I never really knew this before, and maybe it's because of Miyamoto, but Nintendo operates on a mission to make games that (cliche as it sounds) the whole family will enjoy. In a way this means their games have to be really good to keep different age groups interested.

We should all get a Wii to make our women happy!

Musing Ian's Day

Happy Birthday Ian! In my 28 years, I've had the joy of attending many of Ian's birthday parties, and being influenced by his adventurous character and true sensibilities. This break dancer nicknamed Kool Rock Ski conversed many a night with me about literature, honeys, religion, and cinema while we roomed together at BYU.

In trying to remember Ian's birthday parties when we were tikes, I vaguely remember being really happy if he got a new nintendo game like Kid Icarus, or Denver Broncos stuff. I'm glad we've been friends since our youth, and not just because I got to play different video games, and play with his dad's star trek figures (just a little Uncle Scott...we'd just move the arms).

Hope you have a great day with your women, Kool Rock. Happy birthday to your blog, too:)