So, what has been keeping me busy?  Well, earlier this year I finished my new “food blog” which I talked about here.  It’s really great… I’m spending 90% of my time over there, so please go check it out:

Food Geekery: Real Food. Real Geek.

I even gave it its own Facebook fan page (go be a fan… I’d appreciate it):

Food Geekery on Facebook

So what does this mean for FlishFun.com?  Nothing.  Don’t worry, I’ll still be around to postmy randomness… more updates will be on the food side of things (as it is my new hobby), but I still need a place to put my political, technical and other random posts, so don’t you worry.  Just be sure to head over to Food Geekery and look around the place! 

“Welcome to the SD Card Menu! Here, you can launch channels saved on SD Cards by temporarily utilizing the Wii System Memory.” CONFIRMED. That’s right, launch from SD.

If your system memory is full, you still have to delete stuff, but there’s now a streamlined, automated process to do that from this new SD Card Menu. It will even choose stuff for you, if you want.

Update: The new Wii system update also adds support for SDHC cards up to 32 GB — that’s alotta Virtual Console games folks!

Read more here:  Wii System Menu 4.0 and here: Wii Shop Channel’s SD Card Menu

Now all we need is a DVD Channel and I’ll be set for life… well, that and perhaps a new WiiHD or some such.  Excellent news!  Tonight I shall be doing some needed spring cleaning of my System Memory.

• I went to Florida to visit my family for 2 weeks.
• I started studying for my next certification (if all goes well, I’ll take the Security+ exam this month).
• I’ve suddenly been swamped with outside contracting work so I’m out of the house more.
• I’ve joined a gym (holy crap!  Who’d have thought I’d ever do that?!).
• I’ve begun cooking even more than before, so I may need to put a PC in the kitchen here soon.

See, so I have plenty of excuses to not have posted anything for awhile.  Oh yeah, did I mention we officially have a new President?  Man… last time I posted we still had Ol’ Whatshisface in office.   As I mentioned, I have started cooking a lot more than before, so as I spoke about in my last post, I am working on a new “food blog” for me to share recipes, review shows/foods/restaurants and all those type things as I continue down this new path I seem to making towards becoming a true “foodie” (scary, I know).  Once this goes live I’ll both mention it here and most likely cross-post when things intersect (as I’m sure they will).

Well, that’s all for now… Valentine’s Day is coming up, so between that and my exam I may be kind of silent again, but I hope to be back blogging away here soon!  Oh yeah, and since I failed to mention it before, I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane” (Final), and it works just awesomely!

I don’t think it’s that bad for a start.  My goal is to launch it in early January and see where it goes from there.  Also, on that same note, I think I’ll update this site design a little bit.  I liked it at first, but I really am thinking it needs a slight overhaul.  We’ll see if/when I find the time to do that.  Busy, busy, busy!

Oh, and on a completely different subject, this blog is now running WordPress 2.7 RC1!  There are some slight visual changes between the beta and the release candidate, but I like ‘em!  Go check it out for yourself!!

You can download the Beta here:

WordPress 2.7 Beta 3

Here is some info about it (new features, at least):

• XMLRPC Comments API (Ticket 7446)
• Keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation (Ticket 7643)
• Sticky Posts (Ticket 7457)
• Theme update api, like we do for plugins (Ticket 7519)
• Dashboard and write box rearranging (write box in trunk)
• One-click plugin installs (Ticket 6015)
• Reply to comments from admin (Ticket 7435)
• Core updating (Ticket 5560)
• Frame-like method for moderating ping/trackbacks
• Plugin browser embedded (Ticket 6015)
• PHPXref hosted on WordPress.org
• Separate Large and Full image sizes, related improvements (Ticket 7151)
• Comment threading (Ticket 7635)
• Comment paging
• Batch and inline editing (Ticket 6815)
• HTTPOnly cookies
• Column hiding for all management pages
• Post box hiding for all edit pages
• Upgrades and install over SFTP
• Template Tag wp_page_menu wrapper for wp_list_pages and support for Home page (Ticket 7698)

So far I don’t seem to be having any issues, so, fingers crossed!!

Karate Kid: The Remake, starring Will Smith’s son (and produced by Will Smith)?  Do we really need this?  Was there something wrong with the ones made 20 years ago?  If that wasn’t bad enough, Hollywood has now decided to make board games into movies.  Yes, board games.  Monopoly the movie, by Ridley Scott.  From the article:

The Hasbro-Universal collaboration “Monopoly” is jumping a large number of spaces up the board.

The feature project has brought on Pamela Pettler to write the screenplay; She penned Tim Burton’s “Corpse Bride,” Gil Kenan’s “Monster House” and the upcoming animated adventure “9,” produced by Burton and Timur Bekmambetov.

And Ridley Scott, who has been attached as a producer on “Monopoly” and has been mentioned as a possible director, is now officially attached to helm the project, with an eye toward giving it a futuristic sheen along the lines of his iconic “Blade Runner.“

Oh yeah, why not, right?  If that didn’t wet your whistle, how about Battleship the movie?  Maybe Ouija Board the movie is a bit better?  I mean, did the studios learn nothing from the mess that was Clue the movie?

Sadly, I didn’t even realize how bad movies had gotten until this last weekend when Jess and I decided that we hadn’t seen anything in awhile and went out to rent one.  It took us close to an hour to even find one thing we wanted to watch (Jess was a fan of The Other Boleyn Girl), and she actually ended up having me fast forward through the movie because it was completely different from the book.

It’s just upsetting that in the day and age of High Definition televisions and Blu-ray discs, there is almost nothing good to watch.  C’mon Hollywood… wow us!  You used to do it, and I believe that if you really try, you can do it again.

So with all that said… do you have any good movie suggestions?

Military members and retirees, paid typically on the 1st and 15th of each month, are dealing with increased pricing of products and no pay raises, increasing family sizes and unscrupulous business practices. In military towns such as Killeen, Texas where the Army base Fort Hood is located, simply driving down the main streets show the extent of how this town has turned against the military not because service members are rich, but simply because they have a steady income and tend to have the same cash flow issues month after month. Cash advance shops advertising specifically towards military unable to make it from one payday to the next, pawn shops stating they’ll offer the highest price possible for those in the service and “easy loans here” signs are easy to spot in this town. Offering quick cash with extraordinary high interest rates allow these military members and retirees to feed their families but stay in debt for possibly years to come.

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The future isn’t written, but I will say, I am proud to be alive at this moment in history, for it is a very proud day for Americans everywhere.  While racism hasn’t been defeated, it has been dealt a large blow.

Now then, I must finally get to sleep!  Good night all… may tomorrow bring even more good tidings!

EDIT – Now that it’s official, enjoy (from Patrick Moberg):

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Pollster.com (Obama: 291 | McCain: 142 | Tie: 105)

Electoral-Vote.com (Obama: 353 | McCain: 174 | Tie: 11)

Real Clear Politics (Obama: 278 | McCain: 132 | Tie: 128)

And even Karl Rove himself (Obama: 338 | McCain: 200 | Tie: 0)

So we only have a few hours to go… who will be right (if you note, all are very similar)?!  What are your predictions?  Do you think they’re right, or do you feel that McCain still has a chance to pull off the win?