Grogmobile Now on Grogmaster

My mobile blog is now off of Blog*Spot and available at http://mobile.grogmaster.com/, thanks to new Blogger’s latest feature, custom domains (and the resolution of a certain known issue).

Not much there, but some of it is good for a laugh.

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Bookworm Adventures on Intel Mac with Parallels

Cait and I had an enjoyable evening with Bookworm Adventures. Penny Arcade’s endorsement and related comic sum up our reactions pretty well (from Tycho’s point of view, of course). Top words so far have been “malevolent,” “whitehead,” and “battening.” The Mastermind-like minigame is great fun on its own; I hope I can find it or some variant separately, because you can only play it once per life in story mode.

PopCap doesn’t have a Mac version, but Bookworm Adventures runs just fine under Parallels (sans hardware acceleration), especially with the Coherence mode from the latest beta.

Miis of John Hodgman and Jonathan Coulton

After writing my last post, about John Hodgman’s The Areas of My Expertise available for free on iTunes, and listening to said audiobook, I got into the spirit and now offer John Hodgman and Jonathan Coulton in Mii form.

Shown in mobile phone pics of a CRT television, a.k.a. Krappy-o-rama-vision. Send me your Wii code to get ’em in your Mii Parade. Find my code at the end of my previous Mii-related post.

I suppose the next step is to get some of the hobos in there, too…

Areas of My Expertise for Free!

John Hodgman writes that iTunes Store is offering the audio version of his The Areas of My Expertise book for totally frees. There’s a direct link on his post. Download, listen, laugh.

To allay the fears of my Twittery friend Chris Sacca, the tables come across quite well. The first is presented in a conversation between Hodgman and Jonathan Coulton, which evokes the hilarious intros they did in the Little Gray Book Lectures podcast. Yes! That’s right! More free Hodgman-related audio hilarity! Get it on th’ Odeo.

Update: Also, I love Coulton’s theme song for the book.

On the new Blogger, yo

Tonight is early Christmas for Blogger team members who can finally switch, now that team blogs can move to the new version of Blogger.

So, frist p0st and all. Back to Scrubs.