tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63039442024-03-13T23:05:07.609-07:00EOTAOFAGreetings and salutations interneteers! This is your best friend's best friend, Ed. I'm not above making a weblog, though I am above using "OMG," "LOL," and/or "WTF" in my posts. If I have to mention outrageous monkey gymnastics, Louisiana's only library, or the world's tastiest fries, well, I'll just type the whole thing out, thank you very much.Ed Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604873043143045313noreply@blogger.comBlogger1157125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303944.post-91573894926208947232008-01-24T01:13:00.001-08:002008-01-24T01:13:34.648-08:00Big announcement tomorrow. So just... hold out until then.Ed Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604873043143045313noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303944.post-43242610447912587442008-01-23T00:07:00.000-08:002008-01-23T00:21:16.510-08:00JUST READ YESTERDAY'S POST AGAIN!For serious, I'm half tempted to totally write today's post off. Especially because today wasn't great shakes compared to yesterday... I was dehydrated and grumpy. I mean, I had a really deeeeeeeelightful hamburger, but on the grand scale of things, yesterday is still winning the living crap out of my life. So, um. There. Just read yesterday's again.
Okay, fine, I won't leave it at that. I'm Ed Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604873043143045313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303944.post-12736547208140236002008-01-21T21:23:00.000-08:002008-01-21T22:32:20.176-08:00A picture is worth ALL THE WORDS IN THE WORLD OMGWTFPDA.So, here's the story. I had a meeting for my tutoring dudes, and it was held at a Panera Bread at a strip mall, because we don't actually have an office here. That was alright. It was next to a Jelly Belly store, which was pretty awesome, because they had free jelly bean tastings. I tried some of their most recent flavors: pomegranite, dark chocolate, bacon, and soap... all of which were accurateEd Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604873043143045313noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303944.post-81476816808635449532008-01-21T03:02:00.000-08:002008-01-21T03:39:06.674-08:00THIS IS A THING YOU ALL SHOULD BE INFORMED ABOUT..So, RiffTrax, eh? Yeah, RiffTrax. From the dudes who brought you MST3K (or at least, the dudes who brought you it for the last half of the shows run, and did the talking, and... whatever), it's sound files that you play at the same time as movies, to approximate the awesomeness of Mystery Science Theater for movies that would be too expensive to buy the rights to dub over! It's literally the bestEd Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604873043143045313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303944.post-24736704180288926532008-01-20T01:23:00.000-08:002008-01-20T02:01:23.547-08:00Writing. It's not a thing that I do... it's what I do. (And minor rant on language).So I had an Idea. And Idea which may lead to a Project, one helmed by myself and Ford. It's one of those things which may seem lamer by the light of day, or prove entirely beyond the capacities of two clever dudes who are nonetheless unexceptional programmers.
In other news, after a goodly time of being an uncreative, unexciting gadfly of a dude, I do believe that things are beginning to come up Ed Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604873043143045313noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303944.post-6457261485921680742008-01-18T22:58:00.000-08:002008-01-18T23:03:03.464-08:00The strangest bit.Dudes, I'm making this quick, because an emergency is in the process of arising. I know, lame, right?
So, the frabtabulous.com domain is going to lapse this month, and I am indecisive. I could renew it for a mere eight-spot, of course, but on the other hand, I could let it die, and point everyone over to TheStrangestBit.org as my default web presence. It's my shiny, pretty, semi-pro site I'm Ed Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604873043143045313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303944.post-89431222429870311392008-01-17T23:04:00.000-08:002008-01-17T23:14:55.573-08:00To-day, I hung about. Work is supposed to begin soonish, and as I know for a fact I actually have a job this time (as opposed to those fakeouts from before), I'm getting slightly anxious. I'm also supposed to finish a stupid-ass questionnaire before next Friday, so I'll get paid for training, which I am putting off like nobody's business. And, I keep tapping out at 'Tesla's Immortals', but I'm inEd Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604873043143045313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303944.post-40828305556468197542008-01-17T01:26:00.000-08:002008-01-17T01:33:27.717-08:00All right, dudes is excited about additional Hammertime. That's pretty cool. Pretty awesome-cool, really. 'Cause I'm excited about further opportunities to be genteel and put-upon and the like. Oh, and the title, currently, is "Tesla's Immortals", so take that at face value as need be.
Mine was an uneventful day, the most interesting bit being breakfast at Weinershnitzel, which is some sort of Ed Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604873043143045313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303944.post-26912914509905469492008-01-16T01:12:00.000-08:002008-01-16T01:16:30.791-08:00You just can't keep me away.Late this afternoon, I sat my self down in front of my computer and started typing out the idea which had been kicking around in my head all day. It's nothing like done, nor will it be for a good long while, but I feel I must share the beginning, because it makes me excited.
It was the twenty-fourth of March, 1900, when I was roused from my private experimentation in my basement by a pounding onEd Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604873043143045313noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303944.post-25700764886925255232008-01-14T21:41:00.001-08:002008-01-14T21:46:24.672-08:00Zzzzz.Long-ass day. Long-ass day that ends with me feeling fairly unpleasant, for no real reason except... it's been a long-ass day. Up at seven to assist Amber in taking her car to the shop, after having slept fairly poorly. I think I've reached that point in weariness where tiny, minor things become incredibly annoying... like, unacceptably so. The angle of my keyboard is seriously pissing me off Ed Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604873043143045313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303944.post-86390934619400448632008-01-14T00:22:00.000-08:002008-01-14T00:31:50.828-08:00BAH!Well, I lost. Amber's comment can attest.
If it makes my case any better, I didn't lose because of anything so prosaic as ACTUALLY feeling bad for any reason, rather I lost because I hit her, and sarcastically apologized as I insisted that it was necessary for me to attain the leverage required to stand up. So yeah... I certainly hope unnecessary violence against someone half my size casts me in Ed Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604873043143045313noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303944.post-85716477194798495042008-01-13T00:53:00.001-08:002008-01-13T01:29:29.314-08:00Also, I went on a fantastic adventure (NOT DESCRIBED HEREIN),So, I've been challenged. Perhaps even Challenged. Amberella and I have made an informal wager that I cannot go One Day without apologizing.
... I seriously don't think I can win this one.
Obviously there are special dispensations in the event that I accidentally elbow someone in the face, which is not unheard of for someone like me, but this is a fight against my normal state of neurotic apologyEd Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604873043143045313noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303944.post-39314961901486770922008-01-12T01:02:00.000-08:002008-01-12T01:29:13.211-08:00Not Track Five, Not Chain Saw Juggling (also Not Ed)Dear Internet,Unfortunately, you will not be receiving your scheduled dose of Ed tonight. Ed went on a voyage today, that involved a train ride, the appropriation of Jarod, my mother's car and breaking into a family friend's house to secure accommodations for the night. He was considering hijacking a bi-plane to fill out the transportation set, but remembered he is terrified of Ed Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604873043143045313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303944.post-74023595873174261722008-01-10T23:31:00.000-08:002008-01-10T23:44:29.489-08:00LIFE OF CRIME!To-day, I got fingerprinted. Part of the background check process for my forthcoming employment. I've never been fingerprinted before, but I had a vague idea that it involved ink pads and such, the pressing of thumbs into them and then applying said thumbs to bits of paper seems de rigeur for the sort of police procedural I have a vague awareness of (due mainly to the American Cultural Ed Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604873043143045313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303944.post-50949985566797102802008-01-10T00:47:00.000-08:002008-01-10T00:48:29.846-08:00Second draft, same as the faft!Pre-Emptive Strike again. MUCH improved, it doesn't read like something I finished at two in the morning. Inasmuch as I finished it just before one in the morning.Ed Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604873043143045313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303944.post-47680118283686766602008-01-09T02:25:00.000-08:002008-01-09T02:48:43.749-08:00Pomegranates don't come in green or red.Pomegranates come in purple, and don't you forget it.
So here's the deal, this Saturn's Day I have to be four hours away at nine in the AM to be trained for a tutoring gig. Not Princeton Review, who I'm going to go ahead and say have booched me over a bit, but ExtremeLearn, which is a silly name for dudes which essentially provide computers and homework help to underprivileged youths. Anyway, theEd Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604873043143045313noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303944.post-52331803929921478342008-01-08T01:07:00.000-08:002008-01-08T01:19:33.744-08:00I got a hat!
Granted, one of those isn't ACTUALLY me in my new hat. Because I don't DO finger-guns, as we all know. That being said, I think I look rather dapper in my slightly overlarge new bowler... I opted for the slightly overlarge version for two reasons.
The alternative was a slightly underlarge bowler, which looked good but was a tad tight, the sort of thing which would irritate my head during longEd Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604873043143045313noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303944.post-40087060745341564782008-01-06T23:20:00.000-08:002008-01-06T23:25:48.933-08:00I have a lot of titles in the vein of "bleugh", don't I?Ugh. I eated too many pie.
Or, more accurately, I ate too much Mexican food at the big parent's/Amber/Amber's father dinnertime bash. I should have forgone the dessert, but the banana chimichangas called to me, and besides, everyone else was getting them. Also, they were delicious, which would seem to make it all worthwhile. But you know, I still got that 'too many pie' feeling. The sort which Ed Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604873043143045313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303944.post-7687209281816601342008-01-06T00:56:00.000-08:002008-01-06T01:09:58.734-08:00Bonus Christmas!So, my parents are in town for Bonus Christmas! That's the Christmas that happens in January! You know, around January fifth or so.
No, not Epiphany... Bonus Christmas! And not Orthodox Christmas either... it's a decidedly unorthodox thing, is Bonus Christmas. Don't you dare tell me you haven't heard of Bonus Christmas! Don't you dare. And no, you don't need to put the exclamation mark every Ed Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604873043143045313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303944.post-15524007712878548922008-01-05T03:03:00.000-08:002008-01-05T03:05:02.295-08:00Finally, escaped those Aztecs.Pre-emptive strike.
Just finished it. Haven't even proofed it yet, but I'm damn sleepy, and figure I shouldn't leave this place totally blank. I'll fix it up to make it awesome next week, but you may observe now, if you wish.Ed Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604873043143045313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303944.post-66559472560809579742008-01-04T00:10:00.001-08:002008-01-04T10:01:12.786-08:00Greetings from the Ancient Aztec Under-Volcano Slave Pits!It's gonna be a busy few days. Bear with me.Ed Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604873043143045313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303944.post-30248727786680226812008-01-03T02:09:00.000-08:002008-01-03T02:17:28.329-08:00Filler.So, I've been writing. A little bit. Back on the saddle after an overlong absence. And also, my parents are coming out this weekend, so I have to do some preparations. So, I'm busy; if all goes according to plan, I'll have a story for you tomorrow. If all doesn't go according to plan, I'll be kidnapped by a lost tribe of Aztecs and thrown into a volcano tomorrow. There may be some sort of middle Ed Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604873043143045313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303944.post-25995650080119105742008-01-02T00:00:00.000-08:002008-01-02T00:06:52.555-08:00New Year!So, it seems like a new year is upon us. Traditionally, this is a time for one to look back on the year previous, analyze his successes and failures and make a list of resolutions so as to be be a better person in the year to come.
I, on the other hand, believe in being a shallow sort of disappointment, so I spent the day Googling up pictures of naked celebrities and am going to go pass out in Ed Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604873043143045313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303944.post-89663274623452768862008-01-01T00:17:00.000-08:002008-01-01T00:24:58.316-08:00What a lovely day!Oh man, so awesome! For one thing, Ambs and I picked up another MST3K box set and have been wending our way through it, which is always awesome. It's got a mix of Joel, Mike, Dr. Forrester and Pearl, so everybody's happy. It also features movies that make No God Damn Sense, which makes for comedy a-go-go.
But even more awesome, we rented the Metal Slug collection for the Wii. Not only is this a Ed Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604873043143045313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303944.post-80514745232421096112007-12-31T03:07:00.000-08:002007-12-31T03:13:17.959-08:00nom nom nom nom nomFrench! Onion! Soup! I totally made some today. I totally put some together in a totally a-dult fashion. Somewhere Amber acquired this vegetarian cookbook, and through Amber's mother we acquired this crock pot, so much of this soup required putting onions in a crockpot and waiting ten hours. The other part of the French onion soup process involved watching Alton Brown make French onion soup. Ed Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604873043143045313noreply@blogger.com0