iTube, YouTube, We All Scream for Ice Cream!!!

Mmmm... doesn't that look good? Don't even think about licking your screen (it doesn't work).

When I was a kid, we used to scream the Ice Cream/I Scream song in the back of our orange Chevy stationwagon as Mom drove us around town. Sometimes my mom remembers that car as being brown, but I remember it as orange. I guess it was probably old enough that the brown faded to orange by the time I was old enough to remember anything at all.

The point I'm trying to make is that back in the late 90s, everyone put an "i" in front of their company name so they could become overnight millionaires. It might have started with the iMac (those guys at Apple are always the trendsetters--except they never did convince the rest of the computer world to give up the second mouse button, did they?). Next thing you know, there's the website iWon (I never won a darn thing from them, but every morning I shot out of bed to see if I had been that day's lucky $10,000 winner).

Amidst the I-craze was the E-craze. If one vowel works, then why not another? So, we got Emachines, and E-commerce, and E-mail, and just about e-everything else you could e-imagine.

Well, we've come a long way (baby) since then. Now we have YouTube (they should have called it Utube). It's no longer about me (like MySpace and MyYahoo and MyEbay), it's all about YOU! Doesn't that make YOU feel special? Well, it makes about 10 bazillion people each day feel special as they watch crazy boring lipsyncs of crazy bad songs instead of doing... ummm... whatever they're supposed to be doing (like walking their dog, or typing an essay, or baking muffins).

So, really this blog is kind of a retro-blog (kind of like one of the older planets of the blog-o-solar-system) since it starts with an "i." If I wanted to be soooo 2006, I should have started it with a U or a You. And if anyone out there is anxious to start tomorrow's blog, I'd suggest you start with V, W, X, Y, or Z. That'll keep you one step ahead of 'em. After that, I think we have to switch to greek alphabets, in which case only fratties and sratties will know what the heck is going on.

Anyway, I sure could go for a big scoop of Zcream right now. Iwill have to make myway over to Eben and Ijerry's as soon as Ican.

First Post!!!

So, how do you like my new digs?

I bet you've never seen a blog with this layout have yoU? I'm pretty sure it's one of the rarer (is that even a word?!?) ones in the blogger solar system. did you know that "they" are arguing over what a planet is still? How long have we known about planets and they can't even decide if one of the planets is a planet. Well, this blog is kind of like a planet in the solar system of blogs. Except, "they" will never take away my planet status because I'm here to stay and I'm not going anywhere.

So, I thought I should start out with an introduction. I can't give you my name because I saw that program on Dateline that talked about stalkers on myspace and the internet, and I don't want to get stalked. Instead, this website is going to be kind of like a game where I write all sorts of things about myself, and you guys (and girls) try to figure out who I am. It's kind of like this poor old lady that got totally screwed over by AOL.

I'm not saying that I'm a lady (I'm not), or that I'm poor (poor is relative anyway). I'm just saying that AOL is not for me and they don't even let dead people unsubscribe from their service.

Anyway, the point here is not that AOL sucks and I'm not going to write about that ever again (promise). Really, the point of this blog is to describe my journey through the rest of the blog solar system. Some people call it the blogosphere, but I haven't read anything suggesting that it's a sphere, so I'm sticking with my solar system analogy. So, I'm like the mars rover thing, except that I'm human and I go to more planets than just mars. Mmmkay? Mmmkay.

So much for my introduction. Tomorrow I'll have my FIRST REAL POST!!! (unless my boss catches me doing this at work).