Jim’s Brain Online

Posted by Jim at April 4th, 2004

A couple semi-cool ideas I sometimes think about trying:

1. It might be interesting to run a campaign online using blogging software. Each message is a scene in the game. You play out the scene in the comments section.

2. Using a blog as a tool to write a novel. Just write on a daily basis what your character would write. This could grow quickly surreal for people if you begin writing about rather normal stuff and then make it slowly apparent that the character is not writing in this time or place.

Imagine the confusion of the readers if you were writing something that related to the real world in the same way that the X-Files does. It would be like an April Fool’s joke except on a larger scale. And how long would it take before people realized that you’re writing a novel and not blogging about your life?

Depending on what you write about, the lag might be longer than you’d expect.

Posted by Jim at April 2nd, 2004

A few years ago, my wife and I happened to be at Eastown Deli. While we sat there we happened to notice a truck with the words “Steel Erection Company” on the door.

I’m going to guess that they came up with that name in the 1940’s. It’s probably a decent work-a-day name for a construction company–at least it used to be.

It just goes to show how a shift in the most commonly used meaning of a word can really cause you pain sometimes.

Disclaimer: I just noted that between yesterday and today, this blog seems to have taken a turn for the icky. Hopefully I’ll have something more high minded tomorrow.

Posted by Jim at April 1st, 2004

Disclaimer: Those with low tolerance for things toddlers do in diapers should read no further.

Still there? Okay. I gave Abby and Rebecca a bath today. I placed Becca in the tub (without water) before Abby. I removed Abby’s clothes next and was ready to put her in the tub when Abby said, “Becca pooped in da tub.”

Becca had. She had also stepped in it.

I wish this entry were an April Fools’ joke.