I skipped doing an Asteroid Belt last week because I was simply too busy doing other things. I’d apologize, but.. well, life comes before the blog, after all. Having said that…
The Zune sucks. Snippet:
The setup process stands among the very worst experiences I’ve ever had with digital music players. The installer app failed, and an hour into the ordeal, I found myself asking my office goldfish, “Has it really come to this? Am I really about to manually create and install a .dll file?”
But there it was, right on the Zune’s tech support page. Is this really what parents want to be doing at 4 a.m. on Christmas morning? The new Zune portable media player represents Microsoft Corp.’s effort to compete against Apple’s iPod will include wireless technology to let people share their favorite songs, playlists or pictures with other Zune users.
And then, the Microsoft response to the Apple iPod fell on its face. With that, the battle was over. That didn’t take long.
Tabitha Vevers paints pictures of women having sex with squid and other ocean creatures. I don’t know what else to say besides, what – the – frak? These are just bizarre. I don’t really know what else to say about them. Here’s a snippet of the explanation:
“My recent Cape paintings feature human and sea life in a metaphorical embrace where land meets sea. In Rapture (II.06a) the man-sized lobster suggests a thick-shelled, but passionate lover, while the giant squid in Embrace (VI.06a) embodies a seductive many-limbed partner.”
A metamorphical embrace where land meets sea? Come on. It’s women and squid getting it on. 
A couple brings in their lawyers to go over a sexual consent form before getting it on. This is hilarious. Not really safe for work, or for mixed company. No nudity or anything like that, but they are after all gabbing about sex.
An ancient tsunami ravaged the coastline of three continents; the tsunami was caused by 6.6 cubic miles of rock crashing into the water at a speed of 224 miles per hour. This makes some of the modern disaster movies look like kids’ play.
Kamigoroshi wrote a really cool post on growing up with your blog. Snippet:
The bottom line in all this is to grow up with your blog. Your blogs are a part of you, so whatever you pick up in life, you will put down online. If you picked nothing up, you have nothing to put down and that will show whether you give up on blogging or it all goes downhill from there. Live life, learn what you like, and otherwise appreciate it along with people who share their own appreciation for the matter. Blogging is no different from how you would conduct yourself in the real world. Whatever skills you pick up on either end would benefit the way you see yourself and the world for that matter.
Very nicely said, Kamigoroshi. 
In the past I tried to force my personal blog to be something it really wasn’t; I was trying to make it popular, to get people to read it, etc. Ironically, the harder I tried, the more seriously I took it all, the crappier my blog got; the less I enjoyed writing; and the less people read it! This time around I’ve been pretty casual about my blog, and I’m loving it. And, funny enough, now that I blog passionately but don’t take blogging seriously (if that makes sense), people actually read it.
I couldn’t find the octopus ones, I know someone who’d appreciate those pictures at least.
And I get what you said. There is a fine difference between passion and obsession. The less seriously you take something and instead focusing on the things you really like about it, the more you’ll be able to express yourself in what you do…which of course is what blogging is all about. Good on you.
Thanks Edrei. I’m glad you got what I was attempting to convey there; I wasn’t sure if how I said it was a good way to do so.