And the answer is...

But first, the question: How may hearts are there in the Cupid Pic below? The answer is fifty-three.

by sporeboy February 16, 2006 | Comments (0)

Contest!

How's this for a holiday time-waster? The first three folks who e-mail me the correct number of hearts in this pic will receive an actual, unretouched, mostly-clean sporeboy! T-shirt--moss green and any size you want, so long as you want XL. I'll even pay the post if you're in the states.

It wouldn't be a contest without rules and regs, so here are a few:

Polygonal and nested hearts count, implied hearts do not
One entry per person
Send e-mail to jim(at)sporeboy.com--or you can use the contact form on the sb site
If no one gets the exact heart total, the people with the closest three totals (without going over) win
Postage (USPS priority mail) will be free to winners in the contiguous 48 states
All T-shirts are moss green and XL--that's all I have left after the cat's recent hairball-induced seizure
If no one enters (a distinct possibility), the shirts go to the first three people I see in the Publix parking lot
In case of a tie, all entrants must send me a T-shirt
Contest ends February 15th
Sorry Mom, even though you're 97% of all my site traffic, you can't enter (I'd have to run out and *buy* your birthday present...)

You know, if this works out, maybe there would be other contests on the horizon--like "guess my favorite Smurf" or "how many licks does it really take to get to the center of a Tootsie-Pop"...

by sporeboy February 10, 2006 | Comments (0)

Colorstrology

Ever wonder why fate has made you such a loyal friend? headstrong and determined? itchy in all the wrong places? Well, forget the Zodiac--it's really your color sign!

That's right, there's "a personal color that corresponds to the real you"! It's Colorstrology, brought to you by the fine folks at Pantone. (Yes, the same guys who charge insane money for color chips and swatchbooks.) And you can find out all about yourself at www.colorstrology.com.

If you'd rather find out what kind of cheese you are, give this quiz a try!

by sporeboy February 08, 2006 | Comments (0)

Time Warp

The ole sporeboy! site is looking like an orphan these days. Except for consulting the sporacle on important business matters, I haven't so much as looked at it in months. The whole idea when I launched the re-design was I would update the site regularly; I made things a lot easier since the first sporeboy.com (by the way, the first site I ever built) deployed in 2000. But, at this point, the updates have pretty much stopped.

It's because of the time warp.

The time warp is sucking up all my spare hours and minutes--not to mention the hours and minutes I can't spare--and leaving me with a sleep-deprivation hangover and feeling of general loser-ness.

I have a lot of half-baked ideas for the site: new content, downloads and the like. But work and family take just about all my time right now--so what can wait does. And sometimes these things have to wait a while.

by sporeboy January 26, 2006 | Comments (0)