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?
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!
I’ve put off actually posting about this because I’ve been considering what I’d actually say. But maybe the best way to figure out what I want to say is just to ramble about it like I did for my birthday, so here we go...
rambles follow
A couple weeks ago on April 21st, San Jacinto Day, Aggies all over the world celebrated Aggie Muster. Muster is widely considered the crowning tradition of A&M, and it is one that I personally hold close to my heart. On Muster Day, Aggies gather toget
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
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
BZP Muster------------------------------- Those of you who know me know that my interests lie in a few particular places: writing, reading, music, a select number of shows, and medicine. Hopefully by this time next year I will be entering into medical school. For the past few years I have volunteered as an EMT-Basic with the Texas A&M Emergency Care Team. In the BZPRPG I play as a medic. Medicine has been an enduring interest, and the people of medicine have had a lasting impact on my li
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!
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
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?
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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....
This past weekend I volunteered for the fourth time as a medic at the 27th, annual A-Kon anime convention in Dallas, Tx. It was stressful, exhausting, and a ton of fun. Already can't wait to go back next year. I arrived at the Hilton Anatole on Thursday, got checked in with the heads for Med Staff, got my badge, and immediately went to work. Probably one of the biggest things I was involved in was the setting-up and first-year execution of a dispatch position intended to help organize and keep
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
A long time ago, my dad told me a story from when he was a resident at a hospital in the DFW area. I forget the doctor's name, but Dad told us how this particular doc would have music going while he performed surgeries. One song that would play is
by Creedence Clearwater Revival, and the doctor would sing along until the chorus where he'd insert the wrong lyrics. Instead of "there's a bad moon on the rise" he'd sing "bathroom on the right." I find this hilarious. "Don't go around tonight. It'
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
I haven't really been finding interesting things to put on here lately.... So here's just a general update on life. 1. My nephew took his first steps a week ago :3 2. As I was driving down to College Station to meet up with a friend, with whom I would continue the trip to my hometown for said nephew's birthday, I was suddenly taken aback at all the lights appearing on my car's dashboard and a message on the little display saying "Check VSC System." I pull over and get out the manual and sear
