wurp

08:17 pm: New blog (again)
It should be the last time.  Point your feed reader, or your bookmark, at http://blog.bobbymartin.name.  I own the domain (of course) and I installed Wordpress so I can have more control over it.

If I ever decide to move it again, I'll just set up a redirect on my webserver so you don't have to update your bookmark or feedreader again.

I expect to be posting more often, and on more topics, since now you can set up feedreaders just for the topics you're interested in.  I tried to keep this one focused on things I thought lots of people would find interesting, not just people who know me, or super-nerds.

Tags: new location

02:59 pm: Another Thing I Did

^^ Sample video from our iPhone app^^

I'm back to my old blog for a bit... My up-to-date blog is still at http://wurp.blogspot.com, but I cross post when it's important. Like a way for you to send me money.

So, here's Another Thing I Did:

Pharce is novelty software that lets iPhone users create mocking, cute, or funny videos from pictures in their iPhoto Library. Such pictures can come from photos the user takes with the iPhone, photographs they "synced" with the iPhone from their computer, or images saved from the web.

Check out the list of videos people have posted to YouTube using the app.

Once the user has selected a picture from their iPhoto Library, they draw a mouth on it and record a soundtrack. Then a blocky Monty Python-esque jaw moves along with the sound to create a movie. The user can add sound effects (including the ubiquitous iPhone fart), animations, and props.

Users can send their videos to non-iphone users, or post it on YouTube!

Use it to have your picture of little Johnny say something cute, make your dog talk, or mock your boss.

Buy it so I can be rich!

BTW, I didn't come up with the original idea or do the art. Thank Frank Jones and Frank Corrieri for that. I did write the damn thing.

Tags: humor, iphone, send me money, waste of time, youtube

08:21 pm: Track your stuff; bum your friends' stuff
I finally have a first fully working version of my new site online. It's MoochMuch, and it helps you find & bum cool stuff from your friends, track which friend has what, and reminds you & your friends to return stuff.

Sign up, list some stuff, and tell some of your mooching friends so you can make sure you get your crap back. I've already found five or six things I forgot I had loaned out since I told my friends about it, and now I don't have to remember who has what.

Tags: friends, mooching, social networking

11:17 pm: If you haven't moved on to the new blog yet...
I've put some stuff up on the new blog.  You really should update your RSS feed / bookmark for my blog to http://wurp.blogspot.com/rss.xml / http://wurp.blogspot.com/ (respectively).

Some of the stuff

• 3.2 million firecrackers
• Plasma fun
• Heavenly coffee
• Gigantic ruthless hands

Syndication is at http://syndicated.livejournal.com/wurp_blogspot/

Tags: new location

12:44 am: Blog moving
The blog is moving to http://wurp.blogspot.com/

Reasons for the move:

• This really is a blog, not a personal journal
• I have more freedom to define the format of the blog
• I can put innocuous google ads on it and make a buck or two (but probably no more than that...)

You'll find the new posts there!  (There's nothing there as of this minute...)

The new RSS URL is http://wurp.blogspot.com/rss.xml

Syndication is at http://syndicated.livejournal.com/wurp_blogspot/ (thanks, Josh!)

Tags: new location

11:43 pm: Little Giant Girl
I highly recommend listening to the soundtrack while you view her.

I'm not sure if the video is enchanting or disturbing, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Electric Pig produced the video and has a few more interesting ones under the "show reels" and "motion" menus.

Tags: giant puppet, little girl

11:05 pm: What happens when you throw a half gallon of liquid nitrogen into a pool?


This

Tags: college craziness, liquid nitrogen, science experiments

10:53 pm: Hippie retro camping trip
Get your LSD and your portable phonograph, and limber up, 'cause we're going on a hippie retro camping trip!

Some dude invented this bicycle camper in the '30s. If I were single, I would want one today.

Tags: bicycle, camper, retro

10:46 pm: Cousin It gets freaky
Actually, it's some kind of weird electrostatically charged pulsing ceramic ball.

Don't ask me, I just blog the stuff.

Tags: cousin it, static electricity, wtf

10:24 am: Things you would rather a customer service rep not know...
More funnies from teh Bash:

Hekili_Manu: Ok. So I called my bank's fraud dept about that hotels.com letter I got since I apparently used them twice with two different cards. I forgot completely that when I signed up you can assign your own security question online.

Hekili_Manu: So when I called and spoke to the guy they use the same security question and he asked me "Ok, I just need to verify one thing. How big is your c**k?"

Tags: bash, funnies