So I had this blog entry typed up about this being my last entry since my premier seems to be expiring, but I accidentally deleted the text twice. I'm not typing it up a third time. Oh, and as a celebration of a year of premier, gifted to me by that generous duck we know as Tekulo, I'm ending this off with an AMA! So, Ask Me Anything! Hurry! Before I delete all this text again! *cries for the loss of his write-up piece* oh, and here's my last AMA entry if you ever wanted to look at i
Many thanks to Bfahome for the free six-month Premiership as a result of his User Title Contest. What to do with this blog for the next six months... Well, I can post more thoughts about that giant Zelda Game I brainstormed a few posts ago... In a few days I'll be wishing everyone a Merry Christmas... and then a Happy New Year... Hmm.... Well, since I ended my year of Premier (granted by that kind duck known as Tekulo) with an AMA, how about I start off this next six months with an AMA?
Dear Roommate: I realize you wish I would drink less Sprite. But it feels very threatening to come home and find the ant poison sitting on top of my box of Sprite. That stuff's dangerous, yo. Sincerely, Your Roommate
I only have one problem with TBBT set passing the review board, and it doesn't have to do with me not liking the show anymore. In the words of my father, who is a fan of the show: "The Big Bang Theory is all about the Bang, and I don't mean the scientific one." LEGO rejected the Firefly Serenity set a while back based on concerns about the content of the IP, which has translated over to the people I know as "LEGO has a problem with Inara." The violence within the Firefly 'Verse likely wasn't
I was listening to a song, "Mend" by Jourdan Burks, and I was absent mindedly singing along when someone I was hanging out with on Skype (sometimes you just want company...even through VOIP) asked me what I was singing. I told her, and then tried to look up the lyrics to link... You know the artist you're listening to isn't well known when Google fails to find the lyrics for you. Even going on Bing (hissssssssssss....) failed to bring me results. I even tried her full name--Jourdan Burks Johns
Let me just say that I was up for fifteen minutes before this began, stomach churning, legs shaking, going over the multitude of factors that may keep me out.... It's happened guys!!! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! ! ! ! ! ! ! Thank God....
Figured I'd just make my own blog entry about this, since I was/am so involved in the project. Alas, the separation of G1 and G2 has been quite a talking point, and it's hard to represent both simply and efficiently (at least, we haven't had any good ideas on it). As the guy who actually did the leg-work of making the design: we wanted the Welcome, Notices, and Social Media to be at the top, Partners at the bottom, and we tried to get the Featured Specials relatively close together (you can see
Regarding concerns I talked about in a previous entry: I'm now more okay with Finn's initial arc from Stormtrooper to good guy, still iffy on Kylo Ren's backstory and how all that may have played out, and still think Rey should be dead by the end of the movie. But the movie is still pretty good. Still recommend it. With that said, what do I want for dinner tomorrow?
This happens only sometimes, and not in a consistent "this blog, not that one" or "this day, not another" pattern, but I will occasionally be using my iPad to view blogs and get redirected to another website. I used to assume that it was because I accidentally touched an ad and opened the link, but the. I hit the back button, scroll more carefully, and more than once I get sent back to the same page as soon as the loading circle thingy goes away. Sometime the redirection will happen multiple tim
I had a blog post. But then I exited my browser and restarted my computer, completely forgetting to submit it. In short: I made mediocre soup and should really learn to stick to recipes for a while before making something up, and also Win10 finally started giving me some problems. Start Menu vanished for some reason... we'll see if it happens again. Yes, my blog title and tagline are a riff on Fishers'. Yes, I find it hilarious.
A probie member of my choir made this joke after rehearsal: A famous orchestra conductor was going to give his final performance before he retired, and he chose Beethoven's 9th Symphony as the piece he wanted to go out on. But he couldn't count on the basses in the choir, because they all went out in the hours before the concert and got plastered But there was no helping it The concert went ahead as scheduled And for most of the performance the basses did fine It was okay It wa
This is extremely random, but about a week ago I went out and bought olive oil, a small bottle of balsamic vinegar, and put them together in a jar with some cinnamon, oregano, rosemary, thyme, red pepper, black pepper, salt, and maybe one or two other things. I then heated the mixture repeatedly by setting the jar in boiling water. At one point I put it in a food processor in order to break up the congealed cinnamon bark mass that formed at the bottom before heating it again. So now I have a sce
A dual, parallel storyline game where both Link and Zelda are out and about in the world. All/Most dungeons have to be conquered along two separate paths that sometimes cross each other, and the bosses take a two-person approach. If the gamer wants to play as Link, they select Link at the start and play through the Link campaign. If Zelda, the they choose Zelda. Whichever character they don't choose gets controlled by an AI that follows you around, assists in combat (preferably by fighting enemi
They turn what was meant to be one night at your ex-gf's parents' house into 3, and having to overhear on the morning after the third night your ex-gf's mother refer to you (on accident) to your ex-gf as "your boyfrien-- your friend..." Dagnabit, Freud!
Well, just got the email that said I was needing to either ante up for another six months, or allow my premiership to lapse. As is becoming usual with this blog, I'm going to allow it to lapse and wait until I can either win a contest or something to gain premier again. Been nice to post up my thoughts the past half-year. And as is also becoming tradition: I shall end off with an AMA. If anyone has any questions they'd like to ask about anything at all, fire away!
So, for people who apply through the Texas Medical and Dental School Application Service (TMDSAS), a process known as "match" begins this coming Monday. I don't know how other med school app services and processes work, but for TMDSAS, you rank the school you interview with online, and they rank you, and then you get matched to a med school based on both those ranks... sort of. No one is entirely sure of how it works except for those who run it. But it apparently works, and there are 4 days unti
Is it bad that I see all of these going on but instead of caring about them I'm this close *holds up fingers you can't see* to giggling with delight just at seeing old BS01-er's names showing up in the BS01 Recent Changes? It just makes me absurdly happy
I forgot that these images existed. This pair of screen-captures come from a time when I had my own custom/"hacked" skin going on with my User Pages on BS01. One day I notices what I thought to be a hilarious side effect of the black-out method I had employed. They are best prefaced with a question: do you feel as if something sinister, something evil, might be lurking in the sky over our fair city? On another note: I'm playing around with the old MP again. Better view of it here using the mon
I celebrated my 23rd birthday yesterday (the 11th) quietly. And by "quietly" I mean I hardly left my apartment, ate lentil soup and cornbread for dinner, played some Zelda, watched some YouTube, and generally didn't really do anything at all. I fielded some texts and a phone call wishing me happy birthday, washed some jeans so I could pack for the weekend, and drank rootbeer. Exciting. Do I get to have a little rant on my birthday? Caution: been having thoughts about stuff from back in college
So, my brother went into business for himself in the trucking line. He took a job where he left yesterday( or day before, I forget), got loaded, drove to the location, and was supposed to be unloaded this morning. He was told this morning, and the paperwork said this morning. Nope. He calls in to the lady dispatching him and says "Hey, they aren't unloading me." She is surprised he thinks so. According to her screen he's going to be unloaded Monday morning. Turns out, if the person writing o
So, my scumbag brain woke me up at 3:30ish this morning. Couldn't go back to sleep. So I wrote a bit in a journal I'm trying to start keeping for reasons. For related reasons, I'm writing this journal in an alphabet of my own creation, and while I was going along, slowly getting faster and complaining to myself about some of the more complex letter-forms I had two thoughts: 1. This writing system looks awesome when I use my fountain pen (my opinion, your mileage may vary). 2. I might be able
Here's a semi-coherent storyline that I shouldn't be thinking about, but am and need to get it out of my head. Open: Link and Zelda are far away from Hyrule in Labrynna for, diplomatic purposes. A dark force related to the ancient power of Veran has awoken in the land and the Mayor has asked for help from the Princess and the Hero. Just before they can meet with the Mayor, one of this epoch's Six Sages appears, gravely injured, to report that Ganondorf has (finally) given up on the idea of gat
So, I had the awesome privilege of attending Brick Universe Dallas. Got to meet Black-Six, xccj, Toaraga, Liopleurodon and others. It was weird, though, introducing myself using my real name. I have three names: the one my parents gave me, Zox Tomana (which has lots of variations), and E.R. Alwardby. I would respond to all of these things, because all of them are names of mine. I am ER Alwardby just as much as I am Zox Tomana (or Zox, or Tomana, or Tom, or Tommy-Gun, Zoxy, Foxy Zoxy, Zox the Fox
