Well, the World Series hasn’t been going as well as those of us in Denver were hoping. The Rockies are now down two games to the Red Socks Sox, and are in a travel day back to Denver. Game three is tomorrow night, four on Sunday, and hopefully game five on Monday. Unfortunately, I won’t be going to any of the games, after a major ticketing debacle earlier in the week. Tickets went on sale through the net on Monday, but the servers crashed, and they were forced to try again on Tuesday. I guess Tuesday was a little better, but it still took hours to sell all of the tickets, and there were still lots of hanging servers. I wasted hours and hours trying to get tickets, along with many others, including this guy who is venting his frustration via eBay. I feel his pain. Stupid Paciolan!

Today is yet another woot-off. I just bought an iRobot Roomba Discovery SE, the intelligent floorvac robotic vacuum. Kim and I are often too busy to clean the house thoroughly, plus we really hate cleaning, so hopefully this little device will help us out with the floors. We’ll see. There will definitely be a ton of other products on woot.com today, so keep your eyes on the site.

I’ve been streaming so much music lately that I finally decided to go public with a streaming player I created for oarsa.org. Essentially we had all of these songs available for download but no good way to play them all at once (unless you already downloaded them all). Enter the XSPF Web Music Player, which is a simple flash based player that takes an xspf playlist. Once I wrote the code to automatically generate and update the playlist, displaying the flash player was a piece of cake. I’m not sure how much bandwidth this is going to eat up, so check it out now or you may never be able to. Just follow the oarsa.org link above and click the link on the left menu.

Take this quiz to find out whether you speak like a northerner or a southerner. The higher the percentage of your score, the more southern you are. My results were 61% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score! I guess I still haven’t kicked my southern roots from spending ten years in Alabama. I must have a little bit of Ohio in me and I know that I answered a couple of questions like a Missourian. I don’t think I’ve had any impact from my short time in Colorado, but I think we’re just a mix of everything here. Post your own results in the comments.

I just Simpsonized myself:

Let’s see yours…

A guy that I’ve emailed with quite a few times started The Live Music Podcast a couple of weeks ago and I’m loving it! So far there are four different podcasts which each highlight a live recording of various bands and artists. So far the podcasts have showcased music from Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Jack Johnson, and the John Butler Trio. So needless to say, the content is right up my alley. The website also features a list of featured streams and now includes even more suggested downloads. I’m really digging this site and format and hopefully you will too.

I’m not a big gamer at all, especially when compared to some of the people I work with who will play World of Warcraft for hours at a time. But I’ve discovered an insanely addictive online game that is very simple graphically but so much fun to play called Desktop Tower Defense. I’m trying not to play it until work is over and it is very hard to do. I’m warning you, only click this link if you can spare quite a bit of your time because I’m betting that you will get sucked in too. If you do decided to play, let me know your scores. I’ve played the medium level and average around 2,000 points, I think.

The results of my friend’s project, A Minute In The Life, are pretty much complete and I must say that I am enjoying all of the pictures he received. As I mentioned earlier, I submitted a picture from Arapahoe Basin’s last weekend, which was the last ski resort in the area to close. The picture can be viewed here. I also saw that my mom submitted a picture of my dad and some friends of theirs out on the golf course. Did anyone else submit anything? Be sure to check out all of the photo galleries at aminuteinthelife.com. Thanks to Ronda’s comment for reminding me about this.

Hello from Salt Lake City. I’m working from a Hampton Inn while Kim is out doing her own work things. Later today we will head back up into the mountains for a couple of days and then over the weekend we will explore southern Utah. We drove out here last night cutting across the southern part of Wyoming, thus adding another state to my visited list. The drive was very scenic and fairly easy, minus the high winds for most of the trip. We took some pictures along the way, but I don’t have any way of getting them off the camera right now, so it will have to wait until we’re back in Denver.

While searching for things to do in Utah, I stumbled upon 43 Places, which I have been addicted to ever since. It is pretty easy to find the most popular destinations not only in each state, but also in different areas like cities, national parks, etc. Many of the things we have planned for this weekend came from this site. They also have cool maps you can add to your site, like this one below. Check it out…

Earlier this week Google launched Street View. They only have five cities available right now, but fortunately for me Denver is one of those. The scary thing is that the our house is only one block from the available streets. In fact, our house is directly behind this hardware store, which I actually visit regularly. If they have plans to expand the available streets, I’m sure ours will be in the next batch.

Apparently I’m not the only one who is addicted to this new feature. People all over the web are posting links to all sorts of funny things they have found. Here are the top 15 Google street view sightings according to mashable.com. There are a few other sites with link after link of funny things. Personally, I think this guy on Colfax Ave with a lightsaber is the best.