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Want to know when the is the next Eagles Game Day?

It occured to me last week, right before the first game of the season, that I didn't know offhand what time the game was going to be played.  I thought to myself, I need a little widget kind of like that election widget I made a few years ago, but one that counts down to all the Eagles games this season.

When I sat down to do the work, I realized that it wasn't that simple.  I needed the entire framework that makes that program function.  In short, I needed to duplicate the entire project.  And so I did.

I spent some 2 days making a version of that program all about the Eagles. 

The nice thing is, it's scaleable.  

I could add in every team in the NFL and let people choose which team the timer will follow.  The only thing stopping me from doing that is the sheer amount of time it would take to assemble all those graphics and put in all that data.  There are 32 teams in the NFL!  I just don't have that kind of time.

If someone contracts me one day and says, "We'd like to see all 32 teams, here is a stack of hundreds.", then I would be happy to take the time to do it.  Until that happens, I hope you like the Eagles.  Because that's all this does.  I'm an Eagles fan, and I wrote this utility for myself.  If you happen to be a person that has a spare stack of hundreds you'd like to get rid of, contact me.  Because I really would love to have all 32 teams here.  That would make this project really complete.

My second book is published!

Totally Fake News Here:  A Collection of Satirical News Stories

Update 2025-04-08:  I finally got around to creating some videos for readthroughs of this book.  I'm going to read the entire book as a series of shorts on YouTube.

Click here for the playlist. 

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I had so much fun writing my first book that I decided to write another one.  In this case, I went to the old Totally Fake News Here website, and chose 60 some-odd stories, with the criteria being that they be funny.  No political rants.

Kindle Download:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DWKGK58D

Paperback version is published!
 

My first book is published!

My first book Echoes of Isolation is available on Amazon as an E-Book!

The Print version is ALSO now available for $22.50.

This book details what life was like during the COVID-19 pandamic lockdown.  It is a journal of how things went day to day.  

Everyone lived through it, and everyone had their own experience.  This is my experience.

The Golden Sneaker NFT Marketplace is open for business.

Please have a look.  Please make some purchases.  Rather than giving your money to a convicted felon, you could give it to someone who really needs it.  And you will actually get something for it.

Wertle Word Game

This page has been getting a lot of traffic lately.  So I've ramped up my efforts to make it ready for prime time.

I'm sure by now you heard of the Wordle game from the New York Times.

As a challenge to myself, I wanted to see if I could write a playable version of the game.  So I did.  Also, I wanted a version that I could play whenever I wanted rather than just once a day.  So, here is my version.

I know it is not a perfect clone.  It's not like I'm trying to sell this thing to the NYT or anything.  But it is certainly a passable version of the game.

Widget open for use

This thing has been around for a while.  But I finally decided to make it available for others to use.

This project has always been kinda around but not in very wide use.  Maybe this will help bring a little more attention to it.

If you would like to use this on your own site or blog, simply copy the code from this page, and paste it wherever you want this to appear.

New version of my blog

I have more or less sunsetted my old COVID-19 blog.  It didn't seem appropriate to keep posting there because nothing I have to say is really related to that anymore.  It's not really a thing anymore.

So I made a new version of my personal blog, and put it on the old OLD domain that I really only use as a landing page now.

It's now a subsection of the original durbnpoisn.com.  That is https://durbnpoisn.com/blog/.

On a side note, it still uses the same software as the original blog.  This version is updated with some cool new features.