Today, my friend Jenn will be getting married. Between my friends and I, we will have four video cameras, probably half a dozen point and shoots, and one super-swank SLR. Expect a massive amount of goofy stuff to be posted on Monday.

Also, I think I’m gonna start carrying my super-sexy Flip Mino camera with me wherever I go… as I was talking to my friend Kraft, we decided enough weird crap happens to us that we could probably get a whole crapton of awesome video, a lot of which will be posted here as well.

Finally, over at m’boy Brandon’s blog, Class Conflict, I will be writing a weekly technology column in the spirit of David Pogue, except not as funny, most likely.

That’s about it for now… I’ll keep you updated on other fun crap coming down the pike as soon as I know about it.

I just got a press release from Marvel Comics that announces what could be the lamest team-up ever that will occur in Amazing Spider-Man #573:

Art from AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #573

From the press release:

Marvel is proud to reveal that Spider-Man and acclaimed television personality Stephen Colbert will join forces in an all new eight-page story featured in the extra-sized Amazing Spider-Man #573! Acclaimed writer Mark Waid and fan favorite artist Patrick Olliffe present Stephen Colbert, a candidate for the US Presidency in the Marvel Universe, teaming up with Marvel’s most iconic crime fighter. What could bring these two together? And what will it mean for both their futures? This issue also features a special Colbert variant by Marvel EiC and industry superstar Joe Quesada!

Don’t miss out on Stephen Colbert’s first full Marvel Universe appearance—in continuity!—and the team up that’ll have everyone buzzing! It’s the extra-sized Amazing Spider-Man #573—and no comic book fan can afford to miss it!

This has ’seriously bad idea’ written all over it, creatively. Financially? Marvel can start printing the money now, I figure.

According to this article from WPTZ, the Plattsburgh NBC affiliate, PeTA is encouraging Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream Company to quit using milk from cows to make their delicious wares, and start using milk from humans.

Seriously.

Their thinking is that cow milk is for cow babies, ergo we are starving baby cows. Human milk is for human babies, ergo we should be using that instead. Pay no attention to the logic that cows can make more milk, and the thought of eating ice cream with some human lactation in it makes me wanna throw up… those thoughts mean nothing to PeTA.

I am shocked, however, that they didn’t just suggest switching to soy-based milk instead; I mean, it’d be more socially acceptable and not as freakin’ moronic. Maybe they’re starting to come around to the PeTV movement, too? ‘Cause if we don’t worry about the feelings of fruits and vegetables, who will?

So, if you’ve tried coming to this site in the past three days, you were met with a wonderfully blank page that said ‘It Works!’ with nothing else going on, clearly indicating that things were not, in fact, working. I’m still waiting on a response to my support ticket with DreamHost, the guys who provide storage for this site, but here’s what I have pieced together so far.

Sometime on Friday, DreamHost decided that my original server, Jalapa, wasn’t good enough for me, so they were going to move me to some new server. Maybe I needed a server that wasn’t slow as molasses on a cold winter’s day, maybe they just didn’t like the name ‘Jalapa,’ whatever.

Problem is, they seemingly switched my server without (a) telling me, so I could back up my files, or (b) moving the files over themselves, thus breaking everything. I sent them a support ticket a little over a day ago, which I was told (by a very friendly robot!) was moved into the ’severe priority’ queue, which means I’d have to wait more than the usual 24 hours. How a ’severe’ request is going to take longer to even respond to than a ‘normal’ request is beyond me, but that doesn’t matter. I deal with actually ignored service escalations every day at work, one that I’m told is gonna take longer is nothing.

So, without my files, I’m kinda screwed. There’s one or two things that I don’t have backed up (like the blockquote background), a few dozen things I didn’t feel like re-uploading (all my photo galleries), and a few things I don’t think I can find again (a few plug-ins that aren’t published anymore). What’s a guy to do?

Well, I figured that if my stuff was still on the server, my username and password should still work, too. After a few minutes of trying to remember my password, I finally got in, and tried to download my stuff. The issues started to arise when I started getting kicked off the server, or my FTP client crashed, but both seem to be going well at this point.

My problem, deep down, is that DreamHost just tossed me from one server to another without warning, and didn’t even transfer my stuff first. Hopefully, once they respond to the ticket, I’ll be able to get them to move my stuff for me, since this getting kicked off every fifteen minutes is driving me nuts.

But, seriously, what the hell, DreamHost?

UPDATED: DreamHost finally got back to me, and what I assumed to be the case was; server switch, slight mismanagement of the switch, and delay in people figuring out stuff was askew. They were super-nice about it, and are moving all my files back over.

To be clear, I’ve used these guys for hosting for two years now, and this is the first problem I’ve ever had with them. As a bonus, the few times where other bills got in the way of me paying them, they were understanding and willing to let things slide for 60 days, something you’d never get elsewhere. So the one bad experience I’ve had with them is well outweighed by the varied awesome experiences I’ve had, so don’t let this turn you off to them. In fact, go sign up right now using this link so I get some money for it.

According to the New York Times, Jerry Seinfeld isn’t gonna do any more commercials for Microsoft other than what they have already filmed.

Lame.

Nothing. But if anything would come close, it’s this second bit in the Ballad of Seinfeld and Gates. While I found the first one mildly amusing, this one actually made me chuckle. Out loud. Waking the dog, who then barked at me for disturbing her slumber.

Anyway, check it out:

Greenpeace, who have called Apple to task for a wide variety of anti-environmental practices (from mercury in their LCDs to the depletion of the Ozone Layer due to flatulance from El Jobso after he has a bean burrito), actually said something nice about the Cupertino maker of shiny expensive things.

Well, technically, they said that they did a good job pressuring Apple into becoming more environmentally friendly, and also said that they were disappointed Apple still hasn’t done more, but you gotta take your victories where you can, I suppose.

According to SuperHeroHype.com, Warner Brothers will re-release The Dark Knight in January to build Oscar hype.

I also suppose a wide re-release would help possibly boost the movie past the $513 million domestic box office take, which could push it past Titanic as the top grossing movie ever. Which would be nice, since I hate that movie, and the sappy, moronic love song that goes with the thing.

El Jobso announced a new feature on the iPod Nano called ‘Shake To Shuffle’, which will (you guessed it!) shuffle your songs if you shake your iPod. As I mentioned in the dead blog, I am wondering how this would work when someone is exercising, like running or, even worse, jumping rope; are your songs going to keep shuffling on you, driving you to a homicidal rage?

Well, if I was a good blogger, I’d buy a Nano and test it out myself, but I’m not. (Nor am I inclined to perform any physical activity besides typing.) So, I put the call out to you, denizens of teh interwebz: if you pick up a new Nano, and perform any exercise whatsoever, let me know how that works out for you.