After more than a year of inactivity, a few days of agonizing and a couple more days of tinkering… my newest web project is alive and kicking.

Allow me to present… GreyDuck’s Anime Site. (If you have a better name suggestion, I’m all ears.) For the time being it’ll be mostly reviews and opinions, but eventually I’ll be posting such tidbits as my AMVs and any anime-related desktop wallpapers I may come up with. (You can find my Washuu wallpaper on my DeviantArt page, by the way.)

In other words, it’s just another geeky anime fanboy page. Enjoy, if you’re into that sort of thing.

Found via ORblogs, sublethal.net suggests new mottos for our beloved City Of Roses. For instance:

“Portland: Ideal for people who can’t handle the fast-paced hustle and bustle of Seattle”

The other nine are even better…
sublethal.net: Portland spleen

Remember that coast trip I wrote about yesterday? Here’s what it looked like.

Don’t you wish you’d gone with, now?

Oh yeah, I keep forgetting to post this:

I don’t know about you, but I find the concept absolutely hilarious…
Gallery – Natural Beauty

Just when you think you’ve got a pretty crappy, messed-up life, you find a friend who’s going through something that would reduce you to an incoherent mess if you were in their place.

Nothing I can say can match the eloquence, the depth of feeling that Jack has shown this past week. Please go let him know that we’re all pulling for him, for Susan and for Eric.

Thank you.
People’s Republic of Seabrook

Hearken back to the days of yore, when the folks who brought us “You Don’t Know Jack” unleashed upon the ‘net the outrageous competitive acronym-creation game called “Acrophobia.” I remember it well, long hours spent wracking my feeble brain for an outstanding acronym to suit random letter combinations. On a couple of occasions there’d be half a dozen of us who would camp out at work, gang up on a room, turn on our speakerphones and cheat the system like a band of pirates.

Oh wait, maybe I wasn’t supposed to tell you that last bit. Ah well.

Every now and then I look for someone to resurrect the game I loved, and I’ve always been disappointed… until now.

First I discovered Acro2, free but still in beta.

Then I found AcroChallenge, free but advertising-encumbered.

Finally I stumbled across the fansite called Acrophobia Flashback which directed me to the legitimate holders of the Acro name, Uproar.com.

I shall try them, and I shall hold forth about the blessings and shortcomings of each, in the days to come. Oh yes, I most certainly will. (Correction, I’ll probably try out Acro2 and AcroChallenge, and I may try out the official version at Uproar if they don’t want my money or permission to fill my inbox with spam.) Stay tuned, duck fans…