Have you ever been walking down the street and had someone just come up to you and say “Hey, here’s $50″ and walk away? Neither have I. But I think I know what it might feel like.
In what is an incredibly unexpected turn of events, ShinyPlasticBag has been selected as one of five finalists for Best Canadian Weblog in the fourth annual Bloggies! I can’t believe it. Taylor nominated me, and he himself is a finalist for best non-weblog content of a weblog site. Kitta snuck in through best-designed weblog. I guess this makes our little clique something like the B-List Bloggers or something along those lines.
I actually noticed that I had made the cut in the most ridiculous of ways: I got bored and decided to check out the most recent stupid searches. The list was almost empty. So, I looked at the referers list and saw that the list was just flooded with refers from — you guessed it — the Bloggies.
Anyway, the winners will be announced on Monday, March 15th, at SXSW in Austin, Texas. I’m seriously considering attending, because I’ve wanted to for the past few years and never had the money. According to Expedia, a flight from Halifax to Austin and four nights in a hotel (SXSW is quite long; I couldn’t miss enough school to see the whole thing) is only about $950 or so. Is anyone else interested in attending? I’d hate to go by myself, but some company could make this into the best ShinyPlasticTrip ever. And a good time to rendezvous*
with certain people. Come on B-List Bloggers. Taylor’s ticket will be so cheap that he can help pay for yours, Kitta.
You may talk among yourselves.
Update: People really seem to be enamoured of those pictures composed entirely of CSS. I’m not all that impressed, but I whipped up a little program to do it automatically. Note that the files will be huge, and will probably crash your browser. I’d put the maximum safe image size at around 64×64. Anyway, here’s a picture of me, and here’s the program to do the translation. Just select an image file (JPEG, GIF, or BMP) in the first dialog box, and enter the output filename in the second. Easy. I’ll probably do a version optimized for 256 color images, since that will cut down file sizes significantly.
Enjoy.
Comments
nahun
Nahun said: congratulations!!!!!!!!!! I think your site deserves to be nominated, it is adictive and contagious… Two thums up…
Mark@Floor
Why, thank you.
Bonus for me.
Apollo
Congrats Mark. I done voted for you.
John
Go Markus! It might be nice to take a trip. Maybe I would go as well, who knows. Anyways, voted for you, Kitta and Taylor! go B-list! PRAESTANTIA PER COMMUNIS
John
Holy Crap Im bored!
Pugs
I also would go on said trip but i want to wear a cowboy hat.
Steve
I would go, but alas for my constant work schedule, hmm making TV is fun but come on going ot another country and bickering with my friends, while putting on the best fake canadian stereotypes to confuse the hell out of Taylor. Yeah good fun.
Kitta
Holy crap I’m up against simplebits.com!
I won’t be able to go, not only do I not have the money, but there is also a family holiday booked for around the time the awards are on.
That means I need someone to accept. Any takers?
Pugs
accept what?.
shaan
congrats on the nomination mate, i love ya site as well! i diddnt get a nomination, boo hoo for me, haha
Pugs
Would I have to pay extra for my ticket?.
Nathan
Mark >= *.internet
go shiny plastic bag!
and SXSW would be amazing to go to.
nahun
what is everyone doing? does anybody has any fun thing to talk about, I’m at work and bored as hell, thats the only thing that scares me about heaven, you know spending eternety having nothing to do, and will we have internet? ooh god I’m confused, but then again I’ll probably go somewhere else and not heaven LOL,,,
Janet from another planet@this planet
John if you are reading this you are att home and should call me i am the bored. i hate being bored.
nahun
what are you doing janet, shouldn’t you be in school or something?
John
thanks for waking me up Janet! arggg……
Pugs
Good Morning Everybody.
Castro
I don’t know why, but for some reason I always expected Pugs to sleep later than 1 pm.
nahun
So …. Are you going to texas Mark?
Pugs
I did. Note the time of the post.
Keddy@home
hummm. I will miss the shag carpet… I will miss it good…(so sad)
Keddy@home
I V O T E D F O R Y O U M A R K, T A Y L O R, A N D Y O U T O O K I T T A ! ! ! ! !
Steve
Okay I want to hit you now Ryan.
Janet@Marks
What should we do for Marks b day it is comming up soon. and yes steve we know it is your birthday too. any ideas?
Steve
I don’t want to suggest anything though I must make the suggestion that you all remember to tell me to come and where to go.
nahun
good night everyone…… Tony has left the building.
Kitta
Mark are you going to the bloggie awards ceremony? Tay said he wasn’t going to go last night, so I guess that leaves you and Pugs to pick up the awards.
That’s if you’re still going.
Mark@Floor
I would like to go, but no one else can go with me. Sucks.
Steve
Prattle.
KEddy@home
Not even Pugs?
Keddy@home
We are all Shiny Plastic people!
Keddy@home
Mark, Do you have an extra ethernet card i can possiably get from ya? and i will get the hub soemtime too, So i can have the internet in my rooooooom?
John
Mark I might be able to go, but I doubt it
Mark@Floor
We should start a "get Mark a trip partner, quick!" fund.
Keddy@home
Does anyone on here have an extra ethernet card they wanna part with?
Kitta
My site is down again, grrr. The server it’s on really doesn’t want to be nice!
nahun
i have an extra card but you would have to wait till it gets there…. Do you want it keddy by the way my name is tony I can mail it to you….
Steve
Ryan just buy a damn thing they’re cheap $13 at cellar!
nahun
they are like three bucks here I have like ten of them still in the box, but if you need it and don’t have the time to go get it I can mail it to you from my work place it would not cost me a dime
John
Whoa this guy just started talking to us and he is already willing to send us something… Janet was right. He stays Tony has to go!
Steve
Seriously though. Tony never gives us anything but grief.
nahun
thank you guys I apreciate it, but seriously if you need it just send me the adress @ nahun@mail.com or @ my silly website adress and I’ll send it to you
Kitta
I think he’s a keeper!
Taylor from another Planet
I heart unixmonkey.
Tony@changingStuff
I heart gtmcknight as well.
I hate the rest of you
I have ZILLIONS of Network Cards Keddy. I can give you one. I have a hub too. but you’ll need more than a hub if you want the net on 2+ comps, unless you buy another IP
Tony
Just send me an IM.
keddy@skool
pahhhhhhhhhhhhhh i will split it!
Castro
Hurray for boobies!
Pugs
Indeed
Castro
What.. ? No "good morning" .. ?
Pugs
Good morning.
Kitta
And good night for me.
Castro
That’s better, damnit.
John
why do we use Marks message board like and Instant message service…..
Tony
of course
Castro
John brings up a good point.
Steve
Well for one thing, We haven’t all bothered to get each others contacts, and for another, when we are online we don’t talk to each other.
Mark@School
Too true.
Steve
So I just bought my second book of the week, My first book was bought on Monday, yes I know its only Wensday. I bought Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. Mark can you lend me some books?
Taylor from another Planet
You should buy a dikshunary
Steve
Why?
Ja
Never, but that would be lovely. I’ve never been out long enough though to allow a situation like that to happen, I am a recluse, but then again, this is a blessing in disguise.
Jamie Leigh
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Never, but that would be lovely. I’ve never been out long enough though to allow a situation like that to happen, I am a recluse, but then again, this is a blessing in disguise.
MarkWannaBe
Yeah. HTML isnt enabled, yo.
Oh, and I have your usb dooey
Steve
Well i’m a touch confused now.
Castro
You actually bought The Art of War?
Did it cost you an arm and a leg?
Or was it suprisingly cheap?
Mark@Bed
My USB hard drive? I’ve been looking for that, damnit.
Man, there are a lot of comments here.
Kitta
WTF is jamie leigh going on about?
Steve
I have no idea what she’s going on about, I once again mention following the current trend in the conversation. The Art of War cost me about $8 and I just finished it err. The speed at which I read has increased.
Tony
Dont close this thread mark. its uuber long. Id like to see it hit 100 =D
Pugs
aww bloody hell.
Steve
You know I don’t think we’ve broken 100 yet I know we’ve hit 90+ but never 100. but correct me if i’m wrong
Kitta
We should try to hit 100. That would be cool.
Keddy@school
Yeah i wanna see this hit 100!
Steve
Then lets keep it up and hit 100
Tony
I think it should be a fair 100 though. Not people that just keep saying the same thing over and over. So lets get a conversation going! Woo 100!
Pugs
I hear that Micheal Jackson’s line of men’s clothing is doing really well.
Pugs
He says if it keeps up he’s going to try and get into boys pants.
Tony
Thats kind of an old joke. I heard it a while ago.
Keddy@skooooooooooooool
Well I think it could be a joke that is brought back. But only if you guys will tell me the story behing it! So come on tell me!
Taylor from another Planet
*bump
Keddy@home
Thanks nahun! but tony prichet said he gots one so i will drive to his house and pick it up but thanks for the offer!
Tony
Haha. He likes me more than you =P
hehe
Pugs
Um we still haven’t hit 100 yet guys.
Pugs
Don’t make me do this on my own.
Pugs
I’ll do it I swear.
Pugs
There once was a man from Nantucket.
Pugs
The stories about him were greatly exagerated.
Pugs
I kinda want a sandwhich.
Pugs
Never try to teach a pig to read.
Pugs
It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Pugs
I wonder if these will ever get read or if the reason peope stopped commenting was because it was farther down the page so no one checked it anymore.
Pugs
I think I need to find something to do with my time guys.
Pugs
Maybe I should try to write a book or something.
Pugs
Most of the greatest writers were drunks or insomniacs.
Pugs
I’ve got at least one of those qualtity’s.
Pugs
I’ll let you guys figure out which one.
Pugs
pssst… It’s insomina.
Pugs
Oops. Insomnia.
Pugs
You’d think I’d know how to spell that by now.
Pugs
And yet I don’t.
Pugs
I kinda want to keep going here.
Pugs
Did you ever wonder about whether or not stuff we belive is fictional works exists on other planets.
Pugs
I mean it’s technically possible that there are otherplanets were thigns we beleive are works of fiction exist.
Pugs
The odds are actually in favour of that being true.
Pugs
Wow I’m rambling here.
Pugs
I’m so not tired right now.
Kitta
You started to sound a bit crazy there Pugs.
keddy@home
we still like ya