You really have to go to this cool make your own monster site yourself, to see the animation too, no way to save the pix. I chose the face because it reminded me of my favorite obscure Trek race.

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I think it's lame to tell you what I was GOING to do, but in this case I am telling, because I was very annoyed that it didn't work! Ugly Betty teamed up with Scrapblog, but I couldn't get it to upload my photos no matter what browser I tried. Here, try it yourself, let me know if it works for you.
Since that didn't work, I'll just caracterize myself:

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As long as Bryan is posting caracatures, I figured I'd make one for him, too.

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HERE.

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HERE.

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Mmmm, mmmm. You can create your own ice cream at Ben & Jerry's. This is a morning ice cream with chocolate covered expresso beans, hazelnuts, dark chocolate and other goodies.

Yea, morning ice cream.

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There's new web based programs to make mash-ups on the web. You're taking content and repurposing it. I made this simple test using Dapper. There's also Pipes where I made a TTOTD flicker feed. I was lead down the mash-up rabbit hole with this cool ad generator.

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My Thing today is a new (turns out brand-spankin'-new, as today is their launch date) promotion and marketing tool for blogs. You know me, I always have to try something new! I'm putting it on my blog, as well. We'll see how well it works.

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You can build your own action figure here. They all look like they're in a gang.

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Not like I need a special persona to be wild...but here I am:



Go build your own here.

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Grab the large version to put on your computer's desktop.

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A few Peecols I made. Make your own here.

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For hipster T-shirts.

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A couple web banner to use on Blog Explosion, made with Banner Maker.



And because I can, a sparkly one:



And a button made with the GR Button Maker to put in the sidebar to link to our map.



Feel free use any of these buttons on your site, click here for all my TTOTD buttons, just link from Photobucket.

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P.S. Happy Coming Out Day!!

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Come put your pin in our map! I think that most of the pins will be in the same state, but who knows?

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So Bryan introduced me to a great program today, Skitch. You can take a photo or a screen grab and draw on it, type on it, goof on it, and then share the 'doctored' photo. Very fun so far in the few minutes I've had to actually play with it.
One of the gamers at Nuke Con put up a website with photos, so here's a couple borrowed and Skitched shots, to prove we were really there.
Click on the photo to go to the page they are from, and respectful thanks for the borrowed pictures.

Me at the 'Artist Jam'



And the youngens getting in their foam swords groove.



And I suppose, just taking a couple photos and messing with them isn't much of a Thing, so for an added bonus, a mini review of one of the games I played. (And also using Skitch!)

The game Vikings comes from the publisher Rio Grande Games, which told me right off the bat that I would probably like it. I've loved Rio Grande and Ravensburger since I got Labyrinth in '91. From watching some other folks play, I see there's little wooden dudes, and board bits, and it appears it doesn't take up the whole table, but yet has lots of cool parts.
When it was finally my turn to play, I learn that it is somewhat random (drawing the doods, and the shuffled stacks), and somewhat strategy (deciding if/when to buy things). The basic premise is to get the most points by making your own set up better, not specifically by messing up the other players, altho there are definitely times when helping yourself messes the others up. It's pretty quick to play, because there are only so many tiles, and it works as a 2 player game, tho our expert teacher said it wasn't quite as exciting with only 2. It looked complicated when watching, but was quick to learn and actually simple while having several things to keep track of. I only played once, but I came in tied for first. Awesome bonus, I tied with a friend that I hadn't seen in about 20 years, and we reconnected at the con.

Again, respectful thanks for the photos, and click on them to go to the web page I Skitched them from.

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Next weekend we are going to a gaming convention!! All I can think about is games. Check out my cool badge from BoardGameGeek!!

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Another web test. Click here to see all of my results and try it yourself.
P.S. Three months from today is my birthday!!

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Today's Thing is a set of morality tests. I took them all. It took about an hour and a half to take all of them, but you can take the main ones in a short period of time. The problem is squaring your self-image, either up or down, with your actions and practical thoughts. I have a hard time with absolutes as well.

Try it yourself.

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Thingor is a Giant Dragon that kidnaps Blonde Women, has a Toughened Steel Skeleton, is in League with Dark Forces, and can Regenerate. Strength: 7 Agility: 7 Intelligence: 9 To see if your Giant Battle Monster can defeat Thingor, enter your name and choose an attack: fights Thingor using Strength Agility Intelligence

I'm working on a longer comedy piece this week, so some entries may be light.

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I have a bad cold and when I close my eyes I see only evil clowns.



The slow Thing week continues with evil clowns, as if any other kind exists.

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Kind of a slow week this week, Today's Thing continues the endless stream of TOTTD hollow promotions, I signed up for facebook. I created an entry for myself. Then created a group for this website and put it in the sidebar.

I like facebook way better than myspace---better layout, easier to find people, impossible to remember the URL. However, there is a bit of a stalker-y vibe to the whole site. I know the just-outta-college girls and the creepier just-outta-college boys at work sit around eating up company time cross-referencing all their comments and semi-connections to each other and every other just-outta-college kid on the planet. It's a rabbit hole of endless, pointless info.

The amount of cross-referencing of groups, ID's, locations, work and everything else is tasty tempting catnip to even the laziest of looky-loos. It's almost im-pos-i-ble not to click down the chain.

Anyway, I still think cell phones can be blamed for all this self-absorbed constant blather. Not a new thought, but cell phones + Twitter will end civilization.

Anyway, enjoy the TTOTD facebook page.

I hope inspiration hits, so there's real content from me this week.

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A few people have asked for the meatloaf cake recipe, and that has prompted me to finish an overhaul project that I've been working on. This is yet another blog of mine, one that I used to keep up regularly, just on food, recipes, and cooking. I've revamped the format to make searching for recipes easier, and deleted a bunch of unnessessary posts. Click here to go check it out.

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Make your own here.

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After spending a weekend figuring out Fantasy Football, I've decided to start a faux advocacy group, Games Not Gaming. GNG is founded on the idea that if you have to bet on a game to play it, the game itself is boring. It's not an anti-gambling group, it's an anti-lame game group. There's no real game in Fantasy Football. It's just gambling dressed up and nerdified. Ever play Blackjack NOT for money. Bo-Ring. However, people play Monopoly, a game about getting money for free, with no bets everyday. The only betting game I can think of that's interesting is poker. And really, it's just mildly interesting. Playing for no money renders poker pointless. Slots ISN'T a game. Real games of skill and strategy are only played for money by hustlers and fools. Case in point, pool. And you can enjoy pool without money changing hands.

So remember, if you have to pay to play, the play is lame. Word.

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Today's thing is a creative Commons License for the web site.

This is for the original work on the site. If you must steal, please attribute.

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Celebrate with me!

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More bad conceptual art. For some reason, you get a lot of toliets. It's avant garde art circa 1926. Try it HERE.

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Have you ever made a wish list on Amazon or somewhere like that? Forget all about those lists, this is the ultimate wish list! You can 'wish' for anything on any website, and it has a plugin for some browser windows, too, so one click wisting is at my fingertips. Plus, when looking around at others' wists, I found that some folks use their wist to list projects they'd like to do. I may have to make a second wist for all the tutorials! Come wist with me! (as always, my username is seeshells)

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I don't watch a lot of reality shows. In general, reality television needs to be a fad that is over! But one of my favorite shows right now is a reality show, but it's so much better than regular reality television. Who Wants to be a Superhero? on Sci Fi, is campy, fun, exciting, adorable, and inspiring. After watching it last night, I fell asleep thinking about what my superhero name, costume, and ablities would be. I was going to make her in Hero Machine, which the kids have been playing with a lot lately, but the SciFi website had something better!


www.becomeasuperhero.com

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Coloring is always fun. Click picture to color one of your own.

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Don'cha love all the avitar sites out there? This one is Meez, say seeshells sent you and I'll rack up some coinz!
This is my inner muse and pet penguin getting ready to paint.

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On my other blog, I do a meme on Tuesdays. Today, the topic was fun enough to make a Thing as well.

Ten Interesting Websites You'd Like to Share

See Shell's Schemes My projects blog.
FixYa New to me today. A cool site where people can give advice on how to fix things.
Crafster Craftopedia Crafster is an awesome crafty forum, and the craftopedia has tons of info on every craft imaginable.
Post Secret A collection of secrets written on postcards. They are funny, touching, scary, and inspiring.
WikiHow A Wiki Encyclopedia of how to do anything.
Game Table Online You can play cool board games solo or with others online. And they are still giving away free lifetime memberships!
Etsy The online store for selling arts and crafts. I plan to be opening my own shop there soon.
Creative Whack From "A Whack on the Side of the Head" by Roger von Oech, the King of Creative Thinking. Hit refresh for a fresh Whack.
The Cute Project Sometime almost too cute for even me! The most adorable photos of cute animals. When you need an 'Awwwweeee' moment.
Grow-a-Brain A blog full of cool links in fun catagories. A daily must-read.

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Two minutes to make, a lifetime of stupid.

Bad Pop Song Dancing.

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Don't get any funny ideas about me picking the kitchen for the background. It was the only good one.

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Finally got Simpsonize Me to work. I look much younger and with blackish hair. More tweeking is needed. The above photo photo was simpsonized from this photo.

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After trying unsuccessfully for about an hour and a half to get Simpsonize Me to work, I had to give up and whip up some modern art in about 10 minutes with viscosity. I blame the stupid Burger King and his overall creepiness.

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Hifructose is an art magazine I've been wanting to read for a while after I saw it previewed in Boing Boing. I finally picked up issue five. I like it --- the art exists somewhere between ART and toy. It's trying to figure out the world using day-glo martians, saucer-eyed girls and morning-time dreams. That's my lax impression. In a magazine like this, I want to explore more art. So today's Thing is every URL in the magazine randomized. All the ads-which are mostly for galleries and toys-plus I went back and found the home page for each artist or work shown that was available. There are 80 links. Click on the button for a new, random link and get exploring. Sorry the button itself is so lame, it's a generic script. Hifructose does have a link page here, but this randomizer has links their page doesn't.

Click Away.

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Today's Monday update Thing is a banner image for the podcast page. I had to stretch it out on the web page. Learning, learning...

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Come check out my new layout and updated sidebar on my other blog, See Shell's Schemes. This is where the Paul Harvey of my artsy/craftsy posts are, and ideas of what I'm working on next. Template by Chic & Sassy Designs.

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If you're signed up for the Monsters By Mail e-mail list, then you, too, received the following e-mail this week:



Did you see the name of who won the free t-shirt?? That's right, this zombie lover right here! YAY! The shirt came in the mail today and the personalization on the envelope is awesome, too!! It fits the 1/2 manaquin pretty good, I hope it fits Bryan.
So my Thing tonight is a big, heartfelt, purple "THANK YOU" to Len!

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Today's update day. It's all about the podcast page today. I updated the look of the page a little bit. I embedded a new MP3 player on both sites. Right now, there's no way to show AAC or embedded files in a flash viewer, so starting NOW, the podcasts also have a crappy MP3 version, so those unfortunate few who can't play AAC files can listen on the web page or download to their Zune.

Like anyone has a Zune.

There are now two versions of each show, AAC and MP3. You can listen to the MP3 shows in the players in the sidebar. Thanks libsyn! Also, today I updated and got the podcast listed in itunes, so you can easily subscribe there as well. I also added the podcast page to Feedburner.

Here's an array of icons:






(Feedburner)

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Today, I started a new network thingy. It seems to combine several good ideas out there into one good idea. I will add more content in the coming days, but for now, I've set up the community page. Come join me!

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Always looking for more readers, I've added a Blog Log 'recent readers' widget. Now you can see who stops by to visit (if they're Blog Log members).
Setting Bryan up on Blog Log as a co-author, I decided he needed a cool avatar, so I made him this one:

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I've been thinking about doing regular weekly items to make thinking up new Things but easier and more consistent for everyone else. Two Things I like doing are comics and podcasts. So every Tuesday will be comic day and every Thursday will be music podcasts or some kind of podcast. Monday is update day. Wednesday is free day and Friday is promotion/free day. However, better ideas take precedent.

So, today is update day. Over a year and a half ago, I had a podcast hosted on Libsyn called Just Cheap Dirt. It's no longer around; I burned myself out, but I like the Libsyn service for hosting podcasts. They've updated their features in the last year and I can put video up there as well.

So Today's Thing is a TTOTD podcast page. You can grab all the new shows there; I will also post them here as well. Look to the sidebar, there's a player there and a few new links. The show I did last Thursday is there as well as in the player. However, it's a long download. The best way to get new shows would be to subscribe to the RSS feed and stick it in itunes or your RSS reader. If you click on the direct download on the TTOTD Radio Page and open up the AAC file in a new browser window.

In other words, there's a bunch of new ways to easily get new shows.

Also, look for the podcast icon on new posts here and click on them for the show.

I've spent all weekend promoting the new pages to a bunch of sites and searching for legal music to share. The music shows take the longest to make of than most of the Things here, but generally have the longest value for me. And I hope they have provide the most enjoyment for you as well. I should have a way to subscribe in itunes by the end of the week, waiting for Apple to get back to me.

The Links:

TTOTD Podcast Page

TTOTD Podcast Page RSS Feed

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Here is a photo of the newest Pea in the Pod, my cousin's new baby.




And a few fun photo tricks.

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Snippets

Today's Thing is learning more about Rapidweaver.

I played with the Rapidweaver snippets function and boxed up some of the sidebar.

Snippets let you easily add in HTML code into the various parts of the site.

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My brother (finally) graduated college a couple weeks ago. Click on the picture to go to the Blabber I made for him.

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Today, nothing fancy. I created some accounts at Youtube, MySpace and Veoh for The Thing Of The Day. I'll fill in more details on the sites later and add to the sidebar.

I've also uploaded the classic Ninja Kel video as well as yesterday's video to all the sites.

I like Veoh the best because they have a video uploader and don't put any limits on video quality or size. How do they have all the space? I noticed a bunch of free movies on the site, can't be legal.

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Thanks to the Playful Painter Blog, I discovered Scratch today. This is an awesome site where you can download their program to make little games. Someone else on Scratch made the template, I just had to change the pictures. But I'd like to try making something from scratch myself.
Click on the picture to go play!!

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Today I'm doing some pimpin' of the site. I've signed us up for Blog Explosion, BlogaZoo, and registered us on Blogarama, BlogFlux, and Globe of Blogs.

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Here's a little scoreboard of our passes I made with tables and modified code. It's in the sidebar, too.

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Wanna know what movies are in the TTOTD household? Well, today, I've created a website with most of our movies on it. You can browse, request to borrow and see details on over 40 movies in our permanent library. It's part of Delicious Library and a web program called deliweb. There will be a link called TTOTD Media in the sidebar. Later we'll add games, CD's and books as web space opens up. Check it out.

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New Earrings:


More on this Thing

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This website is mostly created with the mac program Rapidweaver. A new version came out today. While, I'm not crazy about paying an upgrade price, I do like the new tags feature. Today's Thing is a web-related project putting tags on all of the previous posts. Check below the post to see the tags. In the sidebar, you can separate all the comics posts or all the photography posts. It's a boring Thing, but a nice addition to the site.

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Another simple site addition. If you're new to TTOTD, please sign our guest book. You can also view our guest book.

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My folks brought some pictures this weekend that they had made digital from slides. There were some cute shots of me and my younger brother that I don't ever remember seeing before. The new photos prompted me to make a new ScrapBlog page.



Cross Post

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To help have fun exercising your Creative muscles, I've compiled a page full of links that are online art projects, games that make you think, and stuff that is just plain fun!
Warning! You may spend more time playing than you intend to.
Creative Toys

Cross Post

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This weekend I sent the following letter to all of the 'family and friends' I could find in our address book, in two e-mails, one from The G, one from me, depending on how you know us. (I know one of my aunties won't even open an e-mail if she doesn't recognize the name) One thing I learned is that our address book is terribly un-updated, so forgive me if I left you off, I'll be working on updating our address book! The other thing that I learned is Murphey's law as it applies to e-mail: as soon as you hit send, you'll remember what you forgot to write! What I left out of the e-mail was inviting you-all again to the forums page, and asking you to please send our site address, or the whole e-mail, to anyone you think might find it interesting. Thanks.


Dear Family and Friends:



Bryan and I have taken on a new presence on the interweb.
 The Thing Of The Day is a blog website with a contest. Every week day Bryan and I will each post a 'thing', photography, comics, crafts, whatever. (Shelly's definition and Bryan's pdf definition)  We'll see who can stick it out the longest, a contest of endurance. Here's the 'official' rules. (Weren't we cute as babies! And if you can't figure out who is who, my kids have informed me that my photo is in black and white because I'm older!)
Please check it out. While you're at it, check out the disclaimer page. We know that we don't all share the same opinions or sense of humor, so please decide what is appropriate for you &/or your kids. 
Feel free to leave us comments. All comments left in April will be entered into a random drawing.
luvs,
shell



If you comment on this post that you received our letter, I'll put you in the April drawing twice! Read More...

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I've been working on this photo page since we started this blog. No, really! All of the flickr photos I publish on this site, and a few extras, will be on this new site. You could bookmark it separately if you like, or we will add a link on the sidebar later for you.

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After Shelly's excellent flickr review, I'm coasting by this Friday and starting my own flickr page.

Next week is humor week.

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