For a time now, I've been aiming to post about the websites of my friends and family. However, while browsing through surveys at my friend Brownie's site I rediscovered Reasonably Clever's wonderful Mini-Mizer. "Picture yourself in plastic" indeed, as you use The Mini-Mizer to fashion Lego likenesses of yourself, your friends and anyone else that you want to view in little, blocky glory. It is quite possibly the single best interent tool with which to discover and share your residual self-image--an artificial projection of yourself as popularized by The Matrix. Afterall, is there really anything more honest and expressive than a Lego face?

Speaking of Lego...

If you were to type bumbot into google, you would find Bumbot's Undersea Laboratory at the top of your search results. Now, I believe the mere fact that my friend Steve has managed to gain a high google ranking for a term such as bumbot is reason enough to visit his site. However, for those of you with attention spans that actually crave content--you types need to watch more sitcoms and read more semi-literate magazines like People--you can take a shot at The Last Survey You'll Ever Need! (beware though, for it is really a not-so-covert sociological experiment regarding how much you like to talk about yourself... I loved it). Steve's a Lego fanatic, beer afficiando and lovable geek as told through his severely abridged life story, avec photos (BTW, no cookies for figuring out who he's doing the baby-poopoo dance with). Best of all, I highly recommend his account of courting Jen, if only because it simply makes me happy.

Ann's the Man

Ann's Blog: rantings from she who would be King. Ann is a girl, yet from reading her concerns you may wonder about that. Whether you agree with her--what's wrong with you?--or not, I recommend you to answer her with comments, as the "post-post" discussion is often even more entertaining.
Perhaps more than the rest of us, Ann seems to be the best served by her tongue-in-cheek online self-image--when I asked if she had any ideas for how she would prefer to be introduced, she said "as a role model to women everywhere"... It took a few minutes before we both stopped laughing. Fact of the matter is that Ann is every bit the sentimental and caring girl that her rants may suggest her not to be.
That's probably nearly all I can describe to you about Ann without recommending you know her directly. What more can I say? There are no words that could convey to you how much I think of her.

Master of his Own Domain

Try not to let Ian's Lego likeness freak you out too much; I just couldn't think of anything else to put in his hand and the gun seemed appropriate somehow. He's actually a polite and friendly guy, but he certainly doesn't appreciate being told trite comments regarding his behaviour. Obviously, he doesn't expect to be called Sir for no reason.
He's about to become a proud father, so I suppose it's a good thing that he's begun to communicate his ethics in public and taken a fondness to dictionaries (while there I dare you to look up snail trail... and all responsibility shall be assumed by Ian). Oh, and I'd be remiss if I failed to mention that Ian "loves the hockey." Alright, he should be in enough trouble by now.

Prego

Misti's an American, but try not to hold that against her: she suffers enough trying to explain to co-workers and border guards that one can actually live in that Ice-Storm bound tundra to the north without an igloo. She and Ian are pregnant--well mostly her--with who we so far know is a girl to be middle-named Simone.
Baby D'Lima's lucky, she's being talked about and adored even before she's born. Her blog is mostly maintained by Mom, but her Dad gets a word in edge-wise once in awhile too. This is not to mention her small army of family spread across the continent that's rabidly excited about her every development and which try to make themselves heard as well. She's due around October and at this stage doesn't even resemble anymore what Ian and I first thought seemed like a break dancing lil' alien.
I truly can't think of much more exciting than following the progress of the first of our world's next generation of mini-me's.

Gollywog

I call this masterpiece to your left "The Ray". Yes ladies, this is no joke, he really is this cute in real life (tip: your chances are greatly enhanced if you're the laid-back type, especially if you can be that way with him in your SUV).
He currently has a blog that he pined for and then immediately lost interest with upon recieving it. The strange thing about that is that Ray does have thoughts he's more than willing to share and a corresponding entry in his blog would make quite a good read. Take for example his MSN nicknames: he orginated the "Pandora's a women... go nowhere near box!" phrase that we're all so fond of.
Hint, hint Ray: your public hungers for you... Tiger.

Good grief, just how geeky is he?

For a lark: what Kavin's residual self-image would look like in a Lego based Matrix.