I just now noticed that some people (six, to be precise) have rated my blog! Thanks to whoever you are, it's nice to know that my blog doesn't stink as badly as I sometimes think it does. Also, congrats to Boring Tumsy Aqueduct Man and the Saturns on winning the BotW. Zoom, boing, ellipses! Wait.. I think Turakii and the Saturns are conspiring against us.
Conspiracy theory!
Arpy
Question: Which element would you give to a lime-green-and-black Toa?
In MOCing news, my BBC Entry is now pining for the fjords. The concept was good, and I would've nailed either temperance or prudence, but making a Bionicle monk is a lot harder than I thought it'd be. Also, I have a Lego Broodspawn 90% of the way done. 'Tis scawy. Vewy.
Arpy
Well, yesterday I celebrated (in my own strange fashion) my five-year anniversary as a member of this great site. It's a strange feeling, having been around longer than 99.5% of the members here, including GregF, an admin or two, and most of the FLs and FAs.
Now, my personal BZP History didn't begin with my joining. I was aware of KanohiPower back in June '01, and relied on it heavily for news, finding it to be a much better source than Bionicle.com. I remember seeing a link in the corner le
Read.
I would totally participate in gathering ideas for such a website. I recently had an idea to steal the giant inflatable tire from one of the local car dealerships and use it to float across the Strait to Canada, and if I got caught by Coasties or something I'd pretend to be a Canuck trying to enter the USA. It's highly improbable, not to mention slightly illegal, but still an idea worthy of this hypothetical website.
Arpy
One of the risks of guest-starring in comedies is that you almost never know what the author will do with your character. For this reason, I haven't guest-starred since.. well.. never. However, I was recently compelled to jump on the Turakii bandwagon and submit my Matoran, Patuara, for a guest spot in the Romeo-and-Juliet-less production of Romeo and Juliet. Fortunately it turned out exremely well. I even got an awesome new title: The Bringer of Marshmallow-Flavored Salsa. Go check it out!
Wjee, first blog entry of 207! This entry is going to come out ecactly as it's typed, wit no corrections or rewritings whatsoever. I type fast and it's dark, so there'll be a whole lot ofd typos.
One thing I always try to do in the new year is stay up as late as possible. Right now I' trying ti break my record of staying up tilll 4:30som,ething am. I'll be providing you with running commentary as the night progresses. Gt ready for some seriously weird stuff.
1:51 am: I thought I should met
I was at Wal-Mart yesterday and lo and behold, there in the Lego aisle were Ehlek, Pridak, Nocturn, and a bunch of the '07 Star Wars sets. So, I bought Nocturn and ripped his box open and built him while still in the car, as custom dictates. He is, is a word, awesome. As if the glowing pieces and uber-cool color scheme weren't enough (which they are), he also has the four arms. I like them because they don't fit the usual bipedal humanoid Titan design, plus they're fun to pose. Nocturn has now r
(or) An excuse for Arpy to unload his list of Christmas-related gifts on the unsuspecting BZP populace
Kalmah (yay)
Vezon & Fenrakk (yay parts)
Lego Star Wars T-shirt (like the cover of the game)
Assorted candy and foodstuffs
Xenocide, by Orson Scott Card and The Silver Chalice, by Thomas B. Costain
Little handheld game player with like 10 different games
PotC II: Dead Man's Chest w/ bonus poster (yay)
Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
*draws a complete blank in regards to
In it, I was riding my bike through a weird dream version of our town (complete with American Southwest scenery) to either the library or my church. While walking my bike over a hill choked with strange plants, I was suddenly attacked by none other than a grizzly bear.
After temporarily repelling it with my bike (I still have no idea how I managed to swing the bike with one hand, or for that matter how I prevented a one-ton mammal from utterly squooshing me), I ran down the hill into an idyl
Yay! The title (yes, there is one) is appropriate, considering what will most likely happen. It is not quite was I was expecting, but maybe it's just the morbidity of it. Although I have no idea what "Deathly Hallows" are, they still sound cool. Let the speculating begin!
Arpy (who was never an H/Hr shipper and is darn proud of it)
I am in full agreement with this entry.
Also, speaking of agreements, does anyone agree that "Jinglebelljinglebelljinglebellrahk" would have been a great name for one of these contest entries?
Arpy
Ka mate!
Ka mate!
Ka ora!
Ka ora!
Tenei te tangata puhuruhuru nana i tiki mai whakawhiti te ra!
A hupane, kaupane a hupane kaupane whiti te ra!
HI!
Everyone who thought the entire content of this entry would be "...", say "Aye!"
Arpy
Original Date: 12/18/06
The Amazing Ant-Rabbit is currently vying for third place in Poll S. This is good, because it means that my skills have improved greatly since the second-to-last contest I entered.
Also, a couple of my friends and I were fortunate enough to be able to usher at the Irish Tenors Christmas concert yesterday. The second-best part (the best part was the concert itself) was that we got to see the whole thing for free, instead of having to pay however many dollars for tickets.
Arpy
You know, the license plates that don't have the usual number/letter mixture on them, the ones that say stuff like 4KDSNDG or WER2CWL, the ones that you take to mean something but you can never figure out exactly what that something is.
FORTY2
NCC1701
PATUARA
BZPOWER
HONK4ME
BYAAAH
BIONICL
(xmt)AREA-51
Post your own if you so desire, just remember, they have to be 7 symbols or less, any larger and they wouldn't fit on a real license plate.
Arpy
Original Date: 12/16/06
I mean my BZP username, of course. There's not much coolishness about my real name except for its odd spelling and the fact that it has two syllables and only three letters.
Formed from the letters R & P (see new content block). Okay, maybe not that cool. Can be rearranged to form the word "pray". Great for tacking prefixes and suffixes on, e.g. Arpyesque, Pre-Arpyist-Era, Arpyfication, etc....I should make a dictionary! Is short and easy to tack on the end of a post as a signature, unlik
I think I'm going to make up a new content block tomorrow, detailing my TRUE name change history, if only to set the record straight on one or two matters which I view as important.
Oh, and because I feel silly today:
And now I shall go to church.
Arpy
...Mainly because the one that just attacked me resulted in the loss of an eloquently written and quite informative blog entry which I am too lazy to type out again, so all you get now is this cat picture:
Curse you, Lord Survurlode!
Arpy
Did I mention that it snowed here? Of course I didn't. We went penguin sledding, had a snowball fight, and got six inches, though not necessarily in that order.
I would trust this guy over almost any tech support out there. Has anyone undergone what I will charitably term "the Dell experience"?
Arpy
As you may or may not know, this blog operates largely on the principle that my life is so boring that you'd prefer only to read about and see the weird, random &/or cool stuff that happens, as well as cat pictures. In accordance with this principle, I present a Lego comic by Megan Rothrock, The Gift (link leads to first panel). Also, I found a picture detailing how the Barraki squids work. Hooray for stretchiness!
Finally, it's Neo Kitty!
Arpy
Thank Bob for my 702 pc. MAK. Yes, I am a lucky little son of a Makuta, aren't I? 16 red ball joints, and a veritable plethora of red parts, available for my use.
In other news, I found an awesome website with loads of cat pictures, some funny, some just plain weird. I feel it to be my duty as a member of BZP's cultural enrichment program to bring these photos to you, one blog entry at a time:
Isn't cultural enrichment fun?
Arpy
I though I'd brag today, if only because it's something that happens so rarely in this blog.
My MOCs have been blogged seven different times, in four different Lego blogs!
Okay, shameless-self-promotion-time is over.
Arpy
Someone ran over a freakin' peacock! This is definitely not normal in the Pacific Northwest. Clearly, the peacock was going to talk and the Mafia wanted to keep him quiet so they ran him over with a big gangsta car.
Arpy
Picture this: You're standing in line for the opening of Casino Royale. Suddenly a black car drives up, the James Bond theme blaring from its speakers. A guy in a black tuxedo steps out, with two Bond girls on either side of him. As they walk past, you realize that the red hair on one of the Bond girls belongs to one of your friends. In fact, it is your friend. What do you do?
Arpy
(Note: The above scenario is purely hypothetical. Although my frend did indeed dress up as a Bond girl, I was
Ooh, big scary words.. Anyway, I went to the orthodontist today to get my wire changed, and while I was there they told me I had a loose bracket. It was removed and replaced, and then they did something to my tooth with this weird, flashing blue gun-type-of-thingy. The assistant told me it uses UV rays to harden the cement stuff on my teeth so the bracket doesn't fall off right away. This can only mean one thing: Instant Sunburn Guns!
Oh, and I'm claiming fourth place in the Great Being
