BULLETIN!
Saturday, December 1st, 2007We interrupt this return to not posting on the weekends to bring you this important TJ Was Right Message:
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November: OVER
Friday, November 30th, 2007So, the little NaBloPoMo experiment ends today. 30 days, with a post at least once a day. I don’t know what you all thought of it, both the people who participated and the people who read it all, but personally I feel like I started out well, had a big spot of icky in the middle of the month, and the end has been picking back up. I don’t know if I can keep posting every day. Posting on the weekends was pretty tough.
Out of 17 of us, 6 of us made it, provided they don’t have a seizure and miss today, which would be heartbreaking.
Ratshag – An orcly post, every day, for an entire month. He entertained gnomes, dealt with major guild drama, risked life and limb so you don’t have to, and took a nice, relaxing vacation to someplace warm.
Bremm – 30 straight days and he ain’t gonna do it no more. He’s given out tons of info this month, such s a raiding checklist, a list of what you can do to your head and where, and the cranberry salad recipe which I think must be a rare drop ’cause I haven’t found it.
Renoobed – Managed to make 30 days of content out of harassing me and Arms&Fury, blew off friends for AV, gave plenty of descriptions of the… interesting people he spends his time with, and seems to think I’ve cursed him. Oh psh. Put some Windex on it.
Big Bear Butt – Seemed to find 30 days to be no challenge at all. I’ve continued to enjoy his raid songs,
Things I found for you.
Wednesday, November 14th, 20071. Birds are gross.
2. My favorite kind of humor (I find the phrase “what the shit” to be very nearly unbearably hysterical).
3. Goes with 2.
4. Things that can cause the universe to explode.
5. I really have trouble with this and can rarely bring myself to care.
6. Again with the stuff that cracks me up. Maybe the common thread is the use of the word “shit?”
7. OMG. HA!
8. Ain’t no way that’s gonna hit ‘im… -Mitch Hedberg
9. This just gets funnier as you go. Unless you’ve never listened to anything but NPR. Ever.
10. Doom still thinks ninjas are better.
11. I know Fio loves him some good Engrish humor.
12. Also hysterical. Seriously, watch that video and TRY to be too mature to laugh.
13. I’ll take 7.
14. I will also have 7 of these.
15. Le sigh.
Non-Interesting stuff.
Friday, October 19th, 2007Interesting stuff to come later.
I have some invitations to both Pownce and Wixi.
I’ve been playing with Wixi for awhile and I REALLY like it, so I definitely want some people to get a chance to try that out. Pownce, I just got my invitation last night, and I like the look of it, especially since I have so much to say that never makes it here, but I need friends to play with it, so I want to give out the invitations to that. They’re definitely not for everyone, but if you’re someone, like me, who likes to screw around with all the new Web 2.0 stuff that seems to be coming out in landslides these days, and you think you’ll give it a chance and play with it some and not let the invite go to waste, which it will if you guys don’t take them because my actual friends are total lamers, definitely get in on it.
If you’d like an invitation to one or both of them, send me an email with the email address you’d like to use. There’s no comments on this post, so send it directly to me through email, it’s on the contact page that you can get to on the upper right of this page.
I don’t have a billion invites, I think six for Wixi and six for Pownce, but hopefully, if more people than that want in, if I give you an invite, you’d be cool with using the invites YOU’D get for the overflow, because you’re nice people like that and want to spread the web 2.0 cool shit love around, and then ALL my jackals can come play.
I’m especially interested in Pownce, Wixi is just more of a fun thing I screw around with when I’m bored. And I’ve played more with Wixi so I can definitely recommend it, but Pownce is more of a social utility that, if I get a chance to play around with it enough, I can definitely see using in conjunction with this page. I could also use Wixi with this page, and embed my media files and such but — ok, look, I don’t have to explain myself to you people, I want to play with them and I want you to come play with me!
So – send me an email with your email, and if you DO get an invite from me, don’t give away all YOUR invites ’cause if I get too many requests, then maybe you can share too.
Ooooh!
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007See, I don’t make this stuff up.
I was reading AFK Gamer this morning, this article in particular, and of course it caught my attention since I’d covered a similar topic so recently.
Specifically, the quote Foton pulled out:
In retrospect, she literally destroyed the guild I had been in for almost 2 years. The funny thing is, though, is that I hadn
Me, fail English?
Thursday, October 11th, 2007Hey, have you guys ever read Oroonoko?
So, there’s this black prince in Africa or something. His name is Oroonoko. He’s out fighting this war, and this old general takes an arrow for him and dies. This general has a beautiful daughter name Imoinda, and Oroonoko totally falls in love with her and marries her, but has to run off to fight some more before they can do the sex.
So, Oroonoko’s grandfather, the king, who is unfortunately old and totally can’t get it up anymore, hears about this and gets mad that someone would marry such a high caliber woman without his permission. So he sends her this thing called the royal veil, which means she has to go live in his harem. It’s not cool for him to do this, but he’s a dick so he does it anyway. He tries and tries to get it up, but he never does.
So, Oroonoko hears about this and wants her back, but it’s totally taboo for him to take his grandfather’s woman. And he can’t wait for him to die, ’cause it’s super taboo after that. So, Oroonoko gets this friend of his and they go visit his grandfather, and he’s like ‘haha, grandpa, good one, you got me, oh well.’ And hangs out there. while they’re hanging out, his friend totally takes one for the team and hooks up with this old lady, who gets them in to see Imoinda, and she and Oroonoko make it. But they get caught.
The king sells Imoinda into slavery which is like the worst thing someone can do EVER, but tells Oroonoko he killed her. And Oroonoko is sad. And he goes out and fights his wars and such and one day he comes back from a particularly good war and meets this ship captain, who seems super cool. and the captain is like, yo Oroonoko, bring your guys, let’s party on the ship. But he tricks him and sells him into slavery, too.
Oroonoko’s new owner is called Trefry, and is a good guy, and likes Oroonoko, and knows he’s a prince, and really doesn’t make him do any work. One day, he and Trefry are out walking and Trefry talks about this hot chick who everyone loves and you guessed it, it’s Imoinda. She and Oroonoko are happily reunited. And they live on the plantation and everyone loves them ’cause they’re royal and all. Even though Trefry is a good guy, he can’t free them, because he needs permission from the lord governor, who is just no where to be found right now.
So Oroonoko and Imoinda hang out, be in love, all that happy stuff. Oroonoko kills tigers and helps fight the Indians and is generally just a good guy. But then Imoinda gets pregnant, and they worry about their child being born into slavery, so Oroonoko gathers up all the slaves and decides to lead a revolt. They’re gonna run away and make their own colony.
So they’re going off through the woods, and they have to burn a path for themselves, so the English follow them really easily. So Oroonoko and gang turn around and start fighting, but the English whip them right in the eyes. All the slaves’ wives start yeling for them to give up and eventually everyone surrenders except for Oroonoko, Imoinda, and this guy T.
So Oroonoko talks to the english and they’re like, look, give in, we’ll pardon you and all. So they do, and they go back to the plantation, but then they bind up T and Oroonoko and whip them and whip them. Even the slaves who ran with him turn against him and whip them too.
This makes Oroonoko SUPER mad and he decides he’s going to get revenge. Because that was so not cool, telling him he was all good and then whipping him. So, when he’s better but still a little weak after all of his whippings, he takes Imoinda for a walk in the woods and tells her his plan. He’s going to kill her, because he’s going to go take revenge and he is afraid of what might happen to her. She’s toally for it, because in their culture, it is a totally honorable death, and she’s seriously all about being killed by the guy she loves. So, he slits her throat and cuts off her head.
Then he gets really upset and throws himself on the ground by her body for like 8 days. Eventually, people come looking for him and find him by the smelly body. And he’s like, don’t come near me! And kills a guy who tries to. Then he cuts himself open and starts pulling out all of his insides, because he knows he’s too weak now to take his revenge. Then T appears and is like no! I’m going to help you. And Oroonoko stabs T in the arm but he’s ok, and they carry him off to home.
They sew him back up and spend all this time making him all better. All this time, Trefry, his owner, is still a good guy and they’re all waiting on the lord governor and all.
Then one day, Trefry gets sent up the river on some made up business and this crazy Irishman comes and is like we’re gonna kill you now Oroonoko.
And he’s like ha fine kill me I want to die! And they stand him by this stake and a big fire and he asks for a pipe to smoke. So he stands and smokes his pipe, and they cut off his boy parts and throw them in the fire. He doesn’t make a sound and keeps smoking. Then they cut off his ears and nose and he still keeps smoking. Then one of his arms and STILL he was smoking, then his other arm. That’s when he stopped smoking and gave up, but he still didn’t make any sounds. Then they cut him up into four pieces and sent him away to other plantations as a warning to slaves.
And that’s the story of oroonoko, as told by me.
You can read that actual Oroonoko, by Aphra Behn, here.
I suggest you do.
