| Swagmas! |
[Dec. 25th, 2009|05:53 pm] |
I got:
-a whole set of purple stuff: purple scarf, purple shirt, purple sweater, purple nightgown! LOVE IT
-Godiva dark chocolates
-Swiss hot chocolate cocoa drops
-bright green luggage tag (with a big 'P' on it!) for the trip to Iceland
-delicious-smelling watermelon and pumpkin soaps
-Gift cards: Borders, iTunes, Lane Bryant, Gamestop
-Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
-Taito Memories Vol. 2!!! NOW I CAN FINALLY PLAY BUBBLE SYMPHONY ON THE ~BIG SCREEN~ SO HAPPY
-a head massager, the kind that looks like a big metal spider. omgggg makes me melt
-robot head key covers
-a Ms. Pacman shirt, which matches my bf's Pacman shirt
-Probably a couple others I can't remember right now :B |
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| Holiday album art |
[Dec. 24th, 2009|08:09 pm] |
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| | Keep Christmas with you | ] |
Here are two holiday album covers I really like...
The soundtrack to the original Sesame Street Christmas special. It's one of my most favorites because it is both funny and also sad as heck (like all the best holiday specials!) You can Download the album here!
I used to love the Chipmunks as a kid. And I still love their old Christmas albums (especially the jazzy orchestrations) and the artwork style for the original Alvin show is still charming enough to make me ignore the new CGI Chipmunks. This image was the inspiration for the art I did for the Harry and the Potters Christmas Album
And on the subject of holiday music...you can still download my own holiday mix cd's in the Holiday Mix Archive.
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| Dang on. |
[Dec. 24th, 2009|01:48 am] |
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| | braveSaintSaturn - Binary | ] |
So, I haven't used this thing in over a year. Why is that? Oh yeah, because I said I wouldn't.
Well, screw that.
Tumblr is cool. But tumblr to me is more for posting stuff you find or do on the internet, and isn't so much for journally purposes. Maybe it is for journally purposes and I just want some excuse to use this again. Whatever, I'm going to use this again and you can't stop me. I'll still use Tumblr too, but just to post songs and contenty things I make. This will be for my emotional whinyness. :'D
So uh, yup.
No really though, I've just really needed an outlet to write some stuff lately. I just don't think tumblr's the right kind of audience for it. I hope you guys are down. |
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| MERRY CHRISTMAS |
[Dec. 24th, 2009|12:09 am] |
Every native in town
enjoyed Christmas a lot.
But the Priest,
Who lived in Mondo Nation,
Did NOT!
The Priest hated the natives and hated their kind.
Hated them nearly as much as all cancers, combined.
And what he enjoyed least was to see them have fun
In the whole Christmas season, when every last one
Gathered in the town square with their pipes and their flutes
With their flashing orange lights and their root-a-toot-toots.
So what could he do? He could stand there and yell,
Which he did very loudly and did very well.
But that wouldn't do anything, so the man
Stood there, glowering, thinking, and thought of a plan.
"I have its!" he declared, "what a great Grinchy trick!
With my guns and this bullet I'll do in St. Nick!"
View full size for a 1280 x 1024 wallpaper! Big thanks to Abner Cadaver for coming up with (basically) those last two lines. |
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| Not a frequent user, but felt this might need some attention. |
[Dec. 22nd, 2009|12:52 pm] |
www.nintendopower.com/npawards
Cave Story's been nominated in the Nintendo Power Awards for Best WiiWare Game, and subsequently, Best Overall Game. Overall is probably a stretch, but there's not too many competitors in the WiiWare category. Just thought I'd bring it up, and it only takes a minute to vote.
And yeah, I'm aware that NP is hardly the epitome of gaming journalism, but hey, some more exposure for Cave Story would be nice, no? |
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| hey guess who |
[Dec. 21st, 2009|07:00 pm] |
guess who did a rap about queer dicks and got on the mspa music team
because he loves mspaint adventures
MMM GUESS |
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| Onett Board Game! |
[Dec. 21st, 2009|01:25 pm] |
Well, here's a picture of the Onett board game that I made for my students to play in class! It's actually only a first edition. I've made improvements by adding in a lot of EarthBound characters hidden in all kinds of different spots so when the kids play, they can try to find all the Mr. Saturns, Possessors, Magic Butterflies, etc. But I don't have that version printed out yet.
The rules of the game are you have to go find food in all of the trash cans. The trash cans are numbered, so once you land on one, you go to where the teacher is and ask them if you can look in the trash can of the number you landed on. Then after you pull a food card out of the trash can (the cans are actually big flashcards on the board with food cards behind them). Then before you go back to your seat, you have to say the food in English to the teacher and the teacher will ask you something like "Do you like ____?" Then you have to answer "Yes, I do" or "No, I don't". During the game, if you run into another player, you can do "rock, scissors, paper" to try to steal one of their food cards. But if you lose, you have to give one of yours to them. The person with the most different kinds of food cards at the end wins.
I have another version of the game where the kids have to solve a crime. They are told that the crime took place at a certain place in Onett. I changed some of the places names to be better for English learning. The kids then are shown a list of possible suspects (EarthBound characters) and are told to find out who they think committed the crime. The kids then have to go around searching in trash cans for evidence that connects certain characters to certain places in Onett. I'm still working on it though.
You can also play the crime solving game version while practicing telling directions. That's why I have all the stop signs moved around in a more realistic fashion. This way, kids have to stop at the intersections. The kids will play in pairs and have to tell each other which way to go to the next place they want to search for evidence for.
The picture is only one version of the game, but I hope it gives a good idea of what it's like. Oh, and the blue blocks on the board are places you can't steal from other players. |
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| hey ya |
[Dec. 20th, 2009|07:50 pm] |
Hey, thanks for the turnout on that inspirational images post! I haven't made my way through all of them yet, but I'm planning on making at least one picture per person who responded.
Here's a thing.
( 2009 summary of art, cut for huge )
Name a fandom, and I'll give you the scoop on at least three of my unpopular opinions related to that fandom. |
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| Generation FFFFF |
[Dec. 18th, 2009|11:59 am] |
Colt picks up his computer and throws it across the room. Fuck the music industry, fuck the Internet, fuck everything. He stomps down the hall, puts on his boots, and goes out to the car without even locking the door behind him. Without a coat it's somewhat chilly, but it'll get warm enough in a minute. Drives over to the vinyl store. Gets out of the car and lights up the molotov he prepped earlier. Hurls a string of incoherent obscenities followed by the petrol-filled bottle, smoke trailing behind it like a busted jetliner. The flames take hold of the wooden cabinets immediately, the rising heat turning milk crates and records alike into formless blobs of useless plastic. A copy of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue turns kind of red. The Doors finally gets side 1's parting wish. Mad with images of pyramids and desert graveyards in his head, Colt shuts his eyes, clamps his hands over his ears, and runs headlong into the inferno.
Hidden deep inside Ferdinand's second and third garbage can are the pieces of Norrie, divided cleanly with a skilsaw at the elbows, knees, wrists, ankles, and neck. The first garbage can is occupied by, among other things, the box which contained the pizza he sprinkled her ground-up teeth onto for supper.
Tommy tumbles from the roof. Time does not slow down for the two seconds he is airborne, and he hits the ground with a dull thud.
Three hours later, all the stories are played on the six o'clock news. Kerry has already seen them twice, once at five and again at five-thirty. She still watches the CBC all day because she hasn't learned about the instantaneous up-to-the-minute updates available on modern computers. She lives in the 1970s and her hair is dangerously close to falling out even though she's only thirty-one. Her cats are adorable and she can't say she's ever been in love.
Bianca is somebody's ex-girlfriend and she does not like clocks. |
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| Holiday Mix 2009 |
[Dec. 17th, 2009|09:20 pm] |
I just uploaded a new Holiday Mix CD to share with friends and family!
DOWNLOAD: Yaytime for Christmas! 2009 Holiday Mix.
It includes nerdy stuff like a song from the Doctor Who Christmas special and classic Sesame Street.
You can also download my previous two holiday mix cd's in the Holiday Mix Archive.
I can't get enough Christmas music, so if you've got your mixes definitely send them my way! |
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| Writer's Block: Honesty is such a lonely word |
[Dec. 17th, 2009|09:47 am] |
OF COURSE IT IS I am all about honesty and open communication. Nothing gets solved if you don't acknowledge it, out in the open and by talking about it. And I just woke up and i dont want to write any more so THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT |
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| Googlenomics |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|06:39 pm] |
Google Ads is having me advertise Pen suppliers and Drupal website support on my website.
That's so cute. |
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| Yesteryear |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|11:25 am] |
First of all, listen to my podcast. Subscribe to my podcast. Yessssss, join me, become my thrall of insane fans. Right, got that out of the way. That was the good news.
The bad news is, my computer got infected with Heur and it's still not entirely clean, I still have to buy 90% of my christmas gifts, my job is relatively unfulfilling but I can't quit unless I have my number so I can sponge off someone else, I'm not getting enough sleep at night, and Douglas Coupland wrote another zeitgeist-capturing book while I wasn't looking.
But, you know, I can't complain.
On Thursday I move into my sister's apartment for the weekend. She's going to Montreal for her honeymoon and I'm taking care of her cat. I have every intention of putting between ten and twenty thousand words into a novel that sorely deserves to be finished.
Truth is, the good news outweighs the bad, and all of the news is transitional: this is only the second podcast and I'm proud of what we've accomplished, but I know we've got to keep doin' it until we get endorsements or whatever; likewise, viruses can be erased, gifts can be bought, jobs can be changed. The only thing I can't really do anything about is the Coupland problem. Well, what a problem to have. No, I can't stop him from continuing to garner praise for his sharpened belittlement of the modern consumer culture and garden variety boom-generation cynicism, but I could use his achievements as a measure for my own success, I suppose. There's a goal for the list: "become as critically acclaimed and/or notorious as the likes of Doug, or Neil, or even just Jimmy." (Which is to mean Neil Gaiman, a quite respectable guy, and James Frey, who for all his transgressions and omissions has nonetheless been on Oprah two more times than I have.)
Tingles of joy, tempered with knowledge of more to do and further joys to come. Is this really how it feels to get straight in the head? |
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