iPotato--I Mean, "I, Potato"

I've become mildly addicted to ABC's program i-CAUGHT. It presents Internet phenomena and news in a format that is both mundane-friendly and intelligent--and quite entertaining.

The latest episode had segments about consumer complaints, on-line comedy video, and how Tom Green puts together his new show from his home.

But what interested me most were the pieces on Second Life, and on Ryan vrs. Dorkman. The Ryan vrs. Dorkman idea reminded me of the things my brother and I used to do when we were younger. I mean, we frequently dueled with yardsticks and acted out and such. This unfortunately was before camcorders came along. Mom had inherited Grampa Homer's Super-8 film equipment, but we never learned how to use it...and now that's three generations of technology too far gone.

Anyway, there's a part of me with serious creativity envy. I want to get a flyboy costume together and video insert myself in one of my airplane models and take myself for a cyber-sortie, but I don't have the equipment to do it, and can't put it online now if I did. I want to duel my brother again, perhaps with foam boffers which could be video morphed into more impressive weaponry. I want to do that car chase with model cars I mentioned before.

I want to do SOMETHING. ACTION. Grr.

Return of the Forty-Year-Old Boy Wonder

Remember when Dad bought me a diecast Batmobile?

Well, he just took delivery of a batch of mail-order stuff he bought and this was for me:



I think this shot me up about five or ten Nerd points.

FP