One way to pass a bit of the time during the Blogathon is to feed, play with, and earn money for your Neopet.

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Stay tuned next half-hour for another silly tidbit of random geekery!

Okay, maybe not Robosport. I miss that game, though. I don’t suppose anyone has a copy? Hmm? No? Ah well.

I’ve picked my next mini-project. It’s another album review complete with promo clip. And it’s a lesser-known album, but this time from a very well-known band. Here’s a hint: It’s not one of their earlier efforts.

Let’s see how quickly I can crank this one out, shall we?

The mandatory webring code that’s supposed to let us Blogathonners easily visit our fellow lunatics and is, we were told, mandatory for participation… seems to be missing from a few sites. That makes it a bit difficult to follow the ring all the way ‘round, doesn’t it?

Gah. C’mon, people.

In other news, I have tea brewing right this very minute. I still don’t know what my next “big” entry will entail, but I’ll have something tasty to drink while I think about it. (Thank you, Dawn, for the copious amounts of yummy tea!)

Correction: Turns out that the “missing links” are LiveJournal bloggers, who (apparently) have to put their webring code on their profile/about page. Oops. Sorry ‘bout that. I’m still finding LJ’ers who aren’t compliant, but… yeah.

Putting together these promos is, among other things, hugely bolstering my already significant respect for people like Bob Brooks (you’ll recognize him as the voice behind most of the Bowflex commercials) who can do audio editing professionally. This stuff’s hard, man!

Okay. So I’m not having that tough of a time, but I also know that my piddly little efforts can’t hold a candle to what serious professionals are capable of.

The promo is about 3/4 done now, so hopefully I’ll have a review up at the top of the hour.

Hey, did you know that you can still sign up to be a sponsor? See this post for the how-to. I’m at just under $100 total (official) sponsorships, so maybe you can be the one who pushes it over into triple-digit territory. C’mon, you know you wanna.

In other news, the promo is 3/4 complete. If all goes well, I should have it uploaded by the next posting.

In other other news, there’s enough light outside that I was able to turn off my indoor lights and thus give the webcam slightly better lighting to work with. Yay, and stuff.

Part of my geeky little plan to do “album promos” involves installing some text-to-speech software. (What? You didn’t think I was going to use my own voice for this, did you?) I selected Sayz Me for my first trial. (If you want to try this at home, you’ll want to use this page for the “download text-to-speech components” part, ‘cause Sayz Me’s copy of the speech API and of the synthetic voices are hosted on the slowest server I’ve ever had the displeasure of trying to download from.)

So far so good, though I’m experiencing major flashbacks to good old SAM back in the Apple II & Commodore 64 days…