Topic: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere. (Read 837376 times)

Patrick · « **on:** 26 Jan 2009, 03:18 »

Right. The boring bloggy dreck that would normally be posted in the Old Blog Thread has been spreading elsewhere on the boards. I've caught myself doing it more times than I'd like to admit. I'm not trying to be all high-horsey here, but man, it's like cementing shut the sewers of New York. The shit's gotta go somewhere. Why not a place where you can avoid it?

Like the last one, please be reasonable. Again, I know I'm not one to talk here, but we can try.

in b4 shitstorm

fatty · « **Reply #1 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 03:46 »

A thread title like this is not conducive to reasonable and interesting posting.

Jace · « **Reply #2 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 03:58 »

Dear OMG MY LIFE IS A BLACK ABYSS

I HAET EVRYTHING thread,

That just doesn't sound good at all.

How about Blog Thread 2: Killer Instinct?

Inlander · « **Reply #3 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 04:04 »

Blog Thread II: I Guess It Had To Happen.

jhocking · « **Reply #4 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 04:17 »

Personally I'm looking forward to Blog Thread 6: QC Does Hawaii

MadassAlex · « **Reply #5 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 04:21 »

Hi, Blog Thread IV: The Cromwell Initiative

I spent today playing guitar, and Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. It's the second time I've played it, and I forgot much of it. It's such an incredible game, it's major downside appears to be the fact that it's not OoT, and therefore has less nostalgia value. I guess it's less of a revolution, too.

Also!

I saw the second Narnia movie today. Prince Caspian. I thought it was really bad, something of an insult to the works of C.S. Lewis in my mind. And I'm not even a huge fan of his books. The pacing was all wrong, as it spent too much time on facial expressions and battles and such, with not enough time put into effectively setting up the circumstances involved. It was like "lol I'm runnin away nao I'm a prince lol" to "rofl look at mah army" in just a few minutes. Essentially, it didn't feel like a progression, a buildup.
It did a good job of showing Edmund's progression, however. He was genuinely beginning to become just and wise, while Peter and Caspian clashed egos all the time. All in all, I think the BBC adaptions were better. They didn't stray from the books so much, and doesn't need to cling to the norms of Hollywood moviemaking. Plus, those adaptions were simply charming and genuinely English, which lent them something genuine. Indeed, the current Narnia movies seem quite formulated.

Patrick · « **Reply #6 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 04:34 »

Quote from: fatty on 26 Jan 2009, 03:46

A thread title like this is not conducive to reasonable and interesting posting.

A bit of humor never killed anybody.

Spluff · « **Reply #7 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 04:39 »

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #8 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 05:05 »

I have started getting naked with a really awesome girl who is pretty much my girlfriend now.

fatty · « **Reply #9 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 05:11 »

Quote from: Patrick on 26 Jan 2009, 04:34

Quote from: fatty on 26 Jan 2009, 03:46
A thread title like this is not conducive to reasonable and interesting posting.

A bit of humor never killed anybody.

It's just that most people who want to post in a blog thread are not
a) whiney shits
b) posting to crack jokes

Inlander · « **Reply #10 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 05:38 »

So Patrick gave me permission to change the thread title, and oh, hey:

Quote from: Cartilage Head on 26 Jan 2009, 05:05

I have started getting naked with a really awesome girl

inspiration!

(By the way, see that "subject" box when you're making a post? You can change that, you know, and it gives your post its own little heading. So you can just make up your own thread title every time you post! If you want to.)

jhocking · « **Reply #11 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 05:40 »

Inlander · « **Reply #12 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 05:44 »

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Cartilage Head · « **Reply #13 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 05:46 »

Sorry dude. How edgy of me going on in graphic detail about what I have done with the girl. I mean "naked"? How scandalous.

jhocking · « **Reply #14 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 05:47 »

Liz · « **Reply #15 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 05:54 »

Someone had to say it.

Inlander · « **Reply #16 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 05:58 »

Quote from: Cartilage Head on 26 Jan 2009, 05:46

Sorry dude. How edgy of me going on in graphic detail about what I have done with the girl. I mean "naked"? How scandalous.

It's not about the choice of words or how graphic it is. It's about the fact that I really don't want to hear about anybody's sex life.

Actually I could do without hearing about sex at all for, oh, six months or so. I mean have you been out there? It's just sex, sex, sex, 24/7. How about we as a society talk about trees for a while instead. I like trees. Trees are nice and we don't pay them enough attention. I wonder if Pamela Anderson has an tips about pruning? I also find myself curious to know about how David Duchovny deals with Dutch Elm Disease, and about whether George Clooney prefers oaks or birches.

Gilead · « **Reply #17 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 06:05 »

Hey guys let me tell you about my intercourses.

My intercourses, let me tell you about them.

Gurkburk · « **Reply #18 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 06:06 »

Quote from: Inlander on 26 Jan 2009, 05:58

Darn kids, get off my lawn!

RedLion · « **Reply #19 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 06:17 »

Quote from: Inlander on 26 Jan 2009, 05:58

Trees are nice and we don't pay them enough attention.

You, sir, have never watched Bob Ross.

"And over on the mountainside we've got some happy little trees...oh look at those trees. They're so happy. See folks, we don't make mistakes when we're painting. We make happy little accidents."

evernew · « **Reply #20 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 06:42 »

For the first time in my life, I don't have to combine two EYEPIECES - the OMNIPRESENT EYEPIECE OF TRUE SIGHT and the SHADED EYEPIECE OF SOLAR PROTECTION - to be able to see in sunny conditions.

EVERNEW acquires WAYFARER'S SHADES OF EYE-CORRECTEDNESS AND WIN AND AWESOME!

And because I already made a retarded shoop about it, here it is.

tl;dr: I got a pair of Ray Ban Wayfarer I sunglasses with 85% brown tint and lenses in my prescription.
My days of putting big sunglasses over small regular glasses are over.
I'm a happy camper.

Ptommydski · « **Reply #21 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 07:05 »

Coming soon.

Jace · « **Reply #22 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 07:47 »

Quote from: RedLion on 26 Jan 2009, 06:17

Quote from: Inlander on 26 Jan 2009, 05:58
Trees are nice and we don't pay them enough attention.

You, sir, have never watched Bob Ross.

"And over on the mountainside we've got some happy little trees...oh look at those trees. They're so happy. See folks, we don't make mistakes when we're painting. We make happy little accidents."

People think he said that like every episode. It was much more subdued than that.
I have watched a lot of Bob Ross.
If every country could watch the Joy of Painting, there would be no war.

20 jazz funk greats · « **Reply #23 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 08:03 »

dear new blog thread,

today i found out i don't have mono. sweet!

love,
anna

Professor Snuggles · « **Reply #24 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 08:07 »

I wish I had a sex life.

evernew · « **Reply #25 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 08:20 »

Quote from: Animal Ghosts on 26 Jan 2009, 08:07

I wish I had a sex life.

You wish you were filthy rich and on Gossip Girl.

Ozymandias · « **Reply #26 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 08:39 »

Tommy, that looks like it will be excellent.

I support this initiative even though I don't support the reasoning behind it at all.

KvP · « **Reply #27 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 08:40 »

I would have gone with "Blog Thread 2: Electric Boogaloo" or "Blog Thread 2: The Secret of the Ooze" myself.

So I'm working at my new job. Yay IT work! But every time I've tried to begin my training something goes wrong. First we ended up installing a server on a burnt-out blade, then the servers couldn't connect to one another, and now we lack a version of 32 bit MS Server 2008. So I'm not learning much.

At first I really didn't like this job, because it's in the College of Business. The College of Business is, at its core, the beer bong that funnels out the sludge of any given university's fraternity / sorority population into the gaping, whooping maw of polite society. So it's all bros, all the time here. Thankfully, I am still allowed to surf the internets while on the clock. So it's not as bad as it could've been.

valley_parade · « **Reply #28 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 09:24 »

I'm sitting here at Academic Advising, hoping they can get to me in the next 40 minutes. I'm supposed to have a class at 1, once I register.

It's not looking promising. A few of them just went for lunch.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #29 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 10:32 »

i turned in my rental application for this sweet-ass house today! i hope i get it. it's pretty perfect: cheap, efficient, no neighbors, lots of woods and a creek, just as close to my job as my current house. yeah!!!

mostly i am looking forward to building a mini-ramp to skate, and being able to shoot guns off my back porch without people getting pissed.

YEEHAAH

yelley · « **Reply #30 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 11:00 »

tommy, it looks promising.

dear blog thread,

the house hunting thing has me stressed out, and now i am worried that maybe i made the wrong decision. why do i always have to second guess myself?

love,
yelley

Patrick · « **Reply #31 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 12:05 »

Dear blog thread,

I am probably going to buy a longboard skateboard after I move up to Alaska. I have been looking at Sector Nine boards and they seem pretty legit. But if there is something else I should consider, plz 2 let me know.

Love,
Me

P.S. I also want a new iMac, 'cause man, having heavily-abused secondhand shit break all the time really sucks.

Professor Snuggles · « **Reply #32 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 12:12 »

Quote from: evernew on 26 Jan 2009, 08:20

Quote from: Animal Ghosts on 26 Jan 2009, 08:07
I wish I had a sex life.

You wish you were filthy rich and on Gossip Girl.

Doesn't everyone?

Patrick, Sector Nine is jokes, like straight jokes. They make the bottom of the barrel entry level stuff, and really they aren't that good. I recommend Arbor if you want something pretty and classy that still looks like a classic longboard, and then there's this other company I can't remember the name of that makes amazing carving boards, they just look a little funky. I think the name starts with an E, but I could be wrong.

sean · « **Reply #33 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 12:30 »

Quote from: Patrick on 26 Jan 2009, 12:05

I am probably going to buy a longboard skateboard after I move up to Alaska. I have been looking at Sector Nine boards and they seem pretty legit. But if there is something else I should consider, plz 2 let me know.

All of my friends ride loaded and say they are good, so yeah.

evernew · « **Reply #34 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 12:41 »

On the topic of longboards:

Sector 9 - the first longboard I got was a 93 cm old-school-shaped Sector 9 CA Roots. It was okay to learn but it was still a skateboard at heart.
Then I got a Flexdex (very heavy fiberglass board) that lost most of its spring because the material albeit nearly indestructible just doesn't pop like good wood does.

Loaded boards are where it's at. Two of my best friends who also longboard have a Dervish and a Vanguard. I myself have a Loaded Pintail and they are good stuff.

Depending on where you are located, certain other brands and companies may be cheaper and more readily available. I've only had good experiences with Landyachtz, for example.
But they cost ricockulous money over here; you get them for cheap in Canada.

Professor Snuggles · « **Reply #35 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 12:51 »

Loaded! That is totally the company I was thinking of!

Loaded makes awesome shit.

Also, Never Summer.

Allybee · « **Reply #36 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 12:54 »

ah so something cool happened! I won a gold for a photo in a statewide juried art exhibition. this was my first time entering things and I've never had any recognition of my achievement in art so it feels really good. we went to boston during my art class (I uh missed french, too) to scope out the exhibit and see who won for individual submissions. still waiting to hear if my portfolio won anything.

this photo if anyone is curious.

:]

Elk · « **Reply #37 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 13:41 »

Dear blog thread,

Apartment shopping is a bitch.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #38 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 13:48 »

Dear blog thread,
What is the point of spending several hours editing the fairly badly written articles which were submitted five days late to the paper, only to find that the originals have been put into the paper without even a spell-check and you have to edit them all over again?

No, seriously. Why am I even wasting my time doing this?

mooface · « **Reply #39 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 14:39 »

breaking up sucks, everything feels so lame right now so here i am whining to the internet about it

maybe i should start answering r/l friends' calls and get out of the house. i am such a douche.

IronOxide · « **Reply #40 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 14:50 »

I just spent about 200 dollars on my books for one course.

Though I did save some cash because one of them is Watchmen, which I already have.

mberan42 · « **Reply #41 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 15:25 »

I don't get the pocket jury thing.

Dear Blog Thread -

After twitter, facebook and aurostion, also talking to a few coworkers, do I *really* need to blog about my normal life in this thread?

--Matt

SirJuggles · « **Reply #42 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 15:34 »

What class are you in that has Watchmen as required reading?

WestEnder67 · « **Reply #43 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 16:01 »

Dear blog thread,

I have reached day 3 of sitting on my lazy arse in a dressing gown and boxer shorts doing fuck all but browsing the bloody internet and listening to music, waiting for the new semester to start in two weeks.

Andy.

Patrick · « **Reply #44 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 16:10 »

Quote from: mooface on 26 Jan 2009, 14:39

words

I'm sorry, Mai

Emaline · « **Reply #45 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 16:34 »

Guys, I am trying to do my taxes, but TurboTax is down. Ultra sadface.

ViolentDove · « **Reply #46 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 16:41 »

TurboTax makes tax sound fun!

Runa · « **Reply #47 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 16:44 »

Dear blog thread,

Today is my birthday? Woo? Go me?
David is coming here tomorrow though. =]

Tom · « **Reply #48 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 16:49 »

It's the first day of term tomorrow

Professor Snuggles · « **Reply #49 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 16:54 »

Dear Blog Thread,

My life as it currently stands.

I have to live in Colorado for a full year, starting on sunday. Whether or not I have to stay in Colorado Springs, or can go to Denver or Boulder, is as yet undetermined.

I am going to be suspended from school. I am not aware of how long, yet, but it could be anywhere from a month and a half, to a full year. A month and a half would be survivable, a full year would be life shattering to a fair extent. I would be graduating at the age of 25 if this is the case, aside from having to spend a full year, completely sober, in a shitty town while banned from my college campus.

This means I need a job. I don't know what kind of work I want to do, part of me thinks this would be a good time to try something pretty bizarre for me(I could probably get a job at an investment banking company, advertising, etc) but part of me just wants to get something simple so I can go to rehab(have to do that, too) and still have time to climb, fish, ski, read, and actually live my life a little bit.

I have a crush on a girl, who I don't know if I can even justifiably flirt with, since she's a student and I wont be. The fact that I wont be able to attend any kind of school function, or, you know, go to her room, seems like a bit of an obstacle to me.

I have at least another week before I get any resolution to any of this, and it's fucking killing me. This feeling of uncertainty, having no way of knowing what comes next and no way to prepare for it, is really frustrating. At the least, I can start trying to find a place to live, but other than that I have literally no control over my future for, at minimum, another 7 days.

That is all.

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