Well, that was a very productive first week back. Thank you, Halo: Reach and primetime television.
For laughs, I have a little game that I’ll play …with myself. Every time I decide to skip something that I said I’ll post, I’ll add a plus sign to the end of it. Publicly exposing my failure is bound to motive me to post something up eventually.
My Formspring box in right pane is now public, meaning you don’t have to log in to ask me a question. Fancy shmancy!
Something I forgot to mention last week about that Disqus comment box is that it’s practically just a one click log-in if you frequent Yahoo, Twitter, or OpenID. If you’re logged in to any of those three sites that are linked to your Disqus account, bam, you’re logged in. Good for lazy people like me.
Other than my OTM post, I made an astonishing one post and said something about happenings on the internet.
Now for a list of what I’ll probably fail at posting this week:
• On the Menu: Week of October 03, 2010 – Using that indie program called Microsoft Word
• Media Monday // 2010: The Rise and Fall of Great TV [+]
• Transit Tuesday // A True CTA “Ay” Story [+]
• Web Wednesday // TMoIB, Part II
• Wednesday Writing // “1441” #01 [+]
• Throwback Thursday // Grand Theft Auto IV [+]
• Free Friday // One of the Worst Weekends of My Life, Part I of I [++]
And that’s what’s supposed to happen this week. Tweet me @LeetAmerico, drop me a line on Formspring or in the Formspring box on the right pane if you need anything.
P.S. I’ve been using Microsoft Word from post number one of this blog, I just needed a title.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
TMoIB, Part I: Settlers of Catan, the Bed Intruder Song, Pokémon Movie!
Busy, BUSY day so this one is going up a little bit late… I’m going to spend a few weeks trying to catch up with all the interesting things I found around the internet that I’ve missed in the past two months during my hiatus WHILE continuing to share new things I’ve found.
I’m also trying to see if I can write this in 15 minutes. (I’m trying to refrain from breaking into the Pokémon theme song…)
Here we go! Two Months of Internet Business, Part I!
Surface Catan: Remember how I was talking about ideas for a Settlers of Catan movie a couple of months back? Sure you do. Well, a version of the game using a Microsoft Surface has been in development and should be ready for the public (that can afford to have a Surface) sometime soon! I really wanted a Microsoft Surface before, and I definitely want one now.
Hide your kids, hide your wife: This is oooooold now, but so was me waiting to post this up. It needs no introduction really. Ladies and gents, The Bed Intruder song:
I wanna be the best, like no one ever was: Dammit, I did it. I posted a line from the Pokémon theme song. I was soooo close to not doing it but before I knew it, I was already typing it. Oh well. A live action trailer to a fan-made Pokémon movie was posted onto YouTube on Monday of last week and honestly, as a fan of the first couple of Pokémon generations as a kid, I loved this trailer. I thought it was very loyal to the original story while taking a darker look at the world of Pokémon. Here’s an interview with the cast/crew if you get interested in the trailer.
Well, that took exactly 20 minutes. Not bad. Expect more old stuff with new stuff next Wednesday, along with “1441,” because I’m generous like that.
Two interesting things happened during the writing of this blog: 1) I added "Pokémon" to Microsoft Word's dictionary because that red squiggly line annoys me and 2) my friend found out I have a blog and asked if I have a hit list with him on it. Not yet, Bootl3g (or Bootles), but I'll create the tags just for you. :P
Other than that, you know the drill: Tweet me @LeetAmerico or drop a question for me in the Formspring box to the right.
I’m also trying to see if I can write this in 15 minutes. (I’m trying to refrain from breaking into the Pokémon theme song…)
Here we go! Two Months of Internet Business, Part I!
...
Surface Catan: Remember how I was talking about ideas for a Settlers of Catan movie a couple of months back? Sure you do. Well, a version of the game using a Microsoft Surface has been in development and should be ready for the public (that can afford to have a Surface) sometime soon! I really wanted a Microsoft Surface before, and I definitely want one now.
Hide your kids, hide your wife: This is oooooold now, but so was me waiting to post this up. It needs no introduction really. Ladies and gents, The Bed Intruder song:
I wanna be the best, like no one ever was: Dammit, I did it. I posted a line from the Pokémon theme song. I was soooo close to not doing it but before I knew it, I was already typing it. Oh well. A live action trailer to a fan-made Pokémon movie was posted onto YouTube on Monday of last week and honestly, as a fan of the first couple of Pokémon generations as a kid, I loved this trailer. I thought it was very loyal to the original story while taking a darker look at the world of Pokémon. Here’s an interview with the cast/crew if you get interested in the trailer.
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Well, that took exactly 20 minutes. Not bad. Expect more old stuff with new stuff next Wednesday, along with “1441,” because I’m generous like that.
Two interesting things happened during the writing of this blog: 1) I added "Pokémon" to Microsoft Word's dictionary because that red squiggly line annoys me and 2) my friend found out I have a blog and asked if I have a hit list with him on it. Not yet, Bootl3g (or Bootles), but I'll create the tags just for you. :P
Other than that, you know the drill: Tweet me @LeetAmerico or drop a question for me in the Formspring box to the right.
Monday, September 27, 2010
On the Menu: Week of September 26, 2010 – Disqus this Fall Blog Catalog!
lul, apparently I was planning to blog the week of August 8th (the week after my last CTA story), but we were having rolling blackouts as I was trying to post anything up so I ended up giving up. It’s a cute little post. I still have it lying around and I totally forgot about it. Good ol’ Chicago summer. Never disappoints … Oh, wait, it does. Maybe I’ll post it up someday so I don’t feel like it was written for nothing.
But, over time with a bit of trial and error, I managed to get us a Disqus comment box because, really, I love feedback. I like knowing how I’m doing (or not doing) with anything. So go ahead and use it, no registration for Disqus required, though it would be a perk for you because other websites around the internets (like Mashable) also use Disqus, and you’re able to share a single account to comment on them. What scares me is that you have a thumb down button to mindfuck me with. I feel like I opened Pandora’s Box with this addition. The huge perk is that I’ll be more able to keep track of your comments more efficiently instead of backtracking to each post one by one.
By the way, for the next 14 weeks there WILL be at least one blog post because I will be posting up a little something that I’m writing. “1441” will be posted up from October 6th to December 29th of this year. 13 weeks, 13 chapters, 3 complete months. I’m not at liberty to disclose the meaning of the number 1441, but you’re going to have to check it out 9 days from now if you want to know more about it.
And now what’s on the menu for the week:
• On the Menu: Week of September 26, 2010 – Disqus this Fall Blog Catalog!
• Transit Tuesday // A True CTA “Ay” Story
• Web Wednesday // Settlers of Catan, the Bed Intruder, Two Months of Internet Business
• Throwback Thursday // Grand Theft Auto IV
• Free Friday // One of the Worst Weekends of My Life, Part I of I
There you go. That’s what’s happening this week. Now let’s see how many of those I actually do end up posting. You’re free to make estimates in the Disqus comment section below. (Shyeah, I’m still pimping that awesome new Disqus box.)
As I’m posting this up, I just realized I hadn’t tagged my posts in a while. I’ll get on that… eventually.
But, over time with a bit of trial and error, I managed to get us a Disqus comment box because, really, I love feedback. I like knowing how I’m doing (or not doing) with anything. So go ahead and use it, no registration for Disqus required, though it would be a perk for you because other websites around the internets (like Mashable) also use Disqus, and you’re able to share a single account to comment on them. What scares me is that you have a thumb down button to mindfuck me with. I feel like I opened Pandora’s Box with this addition. The huge perk is that I’ll be more able to keep track of your comments more efficiently instead of backtracking to each post one by one.
By the way, for the next 14 weeks there WILL be at least one blog post because I will be posting up a little something that I’m writing. “1441” will be posted up from October 6th to December 29th of this year. 13 weeks, 13 chapters, 3 complete months. I’m not at liberty to disclose the meaning of the number 1441, but you’re going to have to check it out 9 days from now if you want to know more about it.
And now what’s on the menu for the week:
• On the Menu: Week of September 26, 2010 – Disqus this Fall Blog Catalog!
• Transit Tuesday // A True CTA “Ay” Story
• Web Wednesday // Settlers of Catan, the Bed Intruder, Two Months of Internet Business
• Throwback Thursday // Grand Theft Auto IV
• Free Friday // One of the Worst Weekends of My Life, Part I of I
There you go. That’s what’s happening this week. Now let’s see how many of those I actually do end up posting. You’re free to make estimates in the Disqus comment section below. (Shyeah, I’m still pimping that awesome new Disqus box.)
As I’m posting this up, I just realized I hadn’t tagged my posts in a while. I’ll get on that… eventually.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
CTA Story: The $2 Dolla Rida
Man, oh man. This only happened two weeks ago but it’s already one of my favorite CTA stories to tell. This particular day was nothing close to normal as it actually happens to take place during the first day of my upcoming “The Worst Weekend of My Life, Part I” post, but this occurrence deserved a post of its own accord.
For roughly five weeks, I’d pick up my nephew from summer school, Tuesdays-Thursdays and a couple of Mondays. After him hanging at my house for a bit, he’d leave to his house on the bus, either with me or without me if I wasn’t going to stay at his house that day.
We were standing at the bus stop and making comments to each other whenever one started a conversation to stop talking because it’s too hot to talk or listen, and that happened every day we were together. (What? Summer in Chicago brings out the worst in us, ‘specially during heat waves and when the CTA buses decide to run late.)
What appeared to be normal was a woman with her two children waiting for the bus along with us and they were hot from the blazing sun. She kept looking at me, and I’d look back whenever I had that feeling that I was being watched. From what I could tell, she was in her early twenties to mid-twenties.
The bus finally came rolling along and stopped to pick us up at our stop. My nephew got on first, and then I allowed the woman and her two children to get on before me as I always do. What happened next made me A) seriously give that look of astonishment and B) wish I had gotten on before her.
The lady paid only $2 and had the nerve to tell the bus driver while holding up a third dollar bill that she didn’t have a quarter to complete her fare. The bus driver looked at her from head to toe, then toe to head and told her that she also had to pay for one of her children that was over the age of seven. She then quickly inserted the last dollar into the fare box, told the bus driver, and I’m paraphrasing here, “Okay, but I don’t have more money so I’m gonna go sit down,” and she did just that.
That’s when my jaw dropped and I looked at her up and down. She was definitely attractive and well dressed for someone that didn’t have money. I was seriously just flabbergasted. There isn’t much out there that leaves me speechless, and this definitely just did it. What sealed the deal and made me shake my head was the fact that the bus driver just shrugged it off.
And you must also know that it’s serious business when I tweet about it.
I don’t know, people really get me when they think they deserve special treatment, especially when it comes to not paying the full fare on the CTA for their self and their children.
For roughly five weeks, I’d pick up my nephew from summer school, Tuesdays-Thursdays and a couple of Mondays. After him hanging at my house for a bit, he’d leave to his house on the bus, either with me or without me if I wasn’t going to stay at his house that day.
We were standing at the bus stop and making comments to each other whenever one started a conversation to stop talking because it’s too hot to talk or listen, and that happened every day we were together. (What? Summer in Chicago brings out the worst in us, ‘specially during heat waves and when the CTA buses decide to run late.)
What appeared to be normal was a woman with her two children waiting for the bus along with us and they were hot from the blazing sun. She kept looking at me, and I’d look back whenever I had that feeling that I was being watched. From what I could tell, she was in her early twenties to mid-twenties.
The bus finally came rolling along and stopped to pick us up at our stop. My nephew got on first, and then I allowed the woman and her two children to get on before me as I always do. What happened next made me A) seriously give that look of astonishment and B) wish I had gotten on before her.
The lady paid only $2 and had the nerve to tell the bus driver while holding up a third dollar bill that she didn’t have a quarter to complete her fare. The bus driver looked at her from head to toe, then toe to head and told her that she also had to pay for one of her children that was over the age of seven. She then quickly inserted the last dollar into the fare box, told the bus driver, and I’m paraphrasing here, “Okay, but I don’t have more money so I’m gonna go sit down,” and she did just that.
That’s when my jaw dropped and I looked at her up and down. She was definitely attractive and well dressed for someone that didn’t have money. I was seriously just flabbergasted. There isn’t much out there that leaves me speechless, and this definitely just did it. What sealed the deal and made me shake my head was the fact that the bus driver just shrugged it off.
And you must also know that it’s serious business when I tweet about it.
I don’t know, people really get me when they think they deserve special treatment, especially when it comes to not paying the full fare on the CTA for their self and their children.
On the Menu: Week of August 01, 2010 – Social Security Number Giveaway!
So because today is Tuesday, not the Monday that it feels like, that means you get a CTA Story! Well, not quite yet. First, here’s what’s planned for the week: a whopping 7 blog entries! I’m actually working on them all at once so I don’t get lazy and skip one. Here they are, general times of the day they’ll be up*, and my Social Security Number**!
• On the Menu: Week of August 01, 2010 – Social Security Number Giveaway! (You are here!)
• Transit Tuesday: The $2 Dolla Rida
• Web Wednesday: Settlers of Catan and the Bed Intruder
• Wednesday Writing: 1440, Chapter 1
• Throwback Thursday: Rock Band
• Free Friday***: One of the Worst Weekends of My Life, Part I: Thursday-Friday
• Free Friday: One of the Worst Weekends of My Life, Part II: Saturday-Sunday
* I’m trying this consistency thing that I keep hearing about.
** I’m seriously not giving my SSN. That would be mighty irresponsible.
*** I forgot to mention Free Fridays. Friday Finals seemed like a strange name considering the possibility of Saturday posts from me. Still, Free Fridays will be the same as Friday Finals, just a random collection of thoughts by yours truly.
• On the Menu: Week of August 01, 2010 – Social Security Number Giveaway! (You are here!)
• Transit Tuesday: The $2 Dolla Rida
• Web Wednesday: Settlers of Catan and the Bed Intruder
• Wednesday Writing: 1440, Chapter 1
• Throwback Thursday: Rock Band
• Free Friday***: One of the Worst Weekends of My Life, Part I: Thursday-Friday
• Free Friday: One of the Worst Weekends of My Life, Part II: Saturday-Sunday
* I’m trying this consistency thing that I keep hearing about.
** I’m seriously not giving my SSN. That would be mighty irresponsible.
*** I forgot to mention Free Fridays. Friday Finals seemed like a strange name considering the possibility of Saturday posts from me. Still, Free Fridays will be the same as Friday Finals, just a random collection of thoughts by yours truly.
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