Caught In The Whirlwind
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QotD: It’s Like Riding A Bike
Jan 31st 2007
Who taught you how to ride a bike?
My parents, my Mom more specifically. I started with the whole training wheels thing, and then moved on to something without training wheels. I can’t remember when exactly, but I do know that It’s true about never forgetting how to ride a bike. We used to take the bikes up to the elementary school and ride around because they had a lot of open space.
A couple years ago I wanted to get a bike again for some excersie and went out and bought one. My mom did too, actually, but she ended up not using hers as much as I did with mine. But It had been a very long time since I last rode a bike and we took them both up to the high school and rode around a bit again to get used to it. Didn’t take that long.
Vox Hunt: That’s The Ticket
Jan 28th 2007
Photo: Show us a ticket.
Dream Theater Ticket
Here’s a ticket from 3 years ago when I want to see Dream Theater opening for Yes. Note the mispelled band name on the ticket. This was to be my first real rock concert, but then I went to see them 2 weeks earlier in Massachusetts when they announced a headlining show there.
QotD: Take Me Back
Jan 27th 2007
If you were told you could relive a moment in your life, which would you choose?
Submitted by Slight Diffusion.
At this point, it would probably be my High School graduation day in 2001. As much as I was bummed about parting from some of my friends and the people I knew (although, as it turns out, I’d see most of them at the community college I did my first two years of college at), graduation brought me a great feeling of accomplishment. Not just in the academic sense, although that was part of it as well, but also a feeling of accomplishment in developing as an individual.
Prior to high school, I was that kid that everybody made fun of. I had some rough times, ended up in the principal’s office more than I’d like to admit, as well as suspended from school for 5 days after a situation got out of hand (That might be a story for another day.) But going through my 4 years in high school, I really developed as an individual. I learned not to let stuff bother me as much, I learned that some of the kids in the more popular circles actually wanted to hang out with me (although I was never really “in” with them as much as some of their other friends). I got interested in sports for the first time. I did volunteer work with the Special Olympics in the area which was an extremely rewarding experience. I could really go on like this all day
I basically developed into the person I am today, all of which came into focus in the days leading up to graduation. At the time it felt like I was leaving one phase in live and moving on to something better. Which was sorta true, in a way, and sorta not true at the same time. Moving on, yes, but it’s scary out here in the adult world.
QotD: Take That, Writer’s Block!
Jan 25th 2007
How do you beat writer’s block?
Submitted by marvel is my pen name.
I uh…um…
er…
hmm…
Uh…I’ll get back to you on that…
Vox Hunt: Rocked My World
Jan 24th 2007
Audio: Show us cover art or share a track from the first band or solo artist you flipped for.
Submitted by Red Pen.
Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes From A Memory - Dream Theater
This was the first band I got into heavily. Scenes From a Memory was the first CD of theirs which I purchased as well. I heard track 5, Fatal Tragedy on an internet radio station wayyy back in the day (I ended up getting into them about 7 years ago, I believe) and it stuck.
And now I’m a fanatic. They were also my first concert in Worchester, MA on August 21st, 2004.
QotD: Send For Help! Or Not…
Jan 19th 2007
You’re trapped in a (temporarily) out of order elevator – who would you like to be trapped with?
Submitted by tbtissimus.
Easy. An elevator repair man.
Second choice would be a firefighter or somebody with similar rescue type experience.
I’m pretty sure that’s not quite what the question was going for, but if I was going to be trapped in an elevator, I’d like to get out please.
Vox Hunt: It Better Be Good
Jan 18th 2007
What’s the first image that comes up when you Google your name?
Full Name
I did my full name first, which came up with exactly one picture. This one was pretty disappointing to say the least. (It’s on the right). It looks to be some sort of a navigational image from some design companies web page. So I decided that I wasn’t going to stop there…I’d widen the search a little bit.
So using my first name only, I come up with this…
First Name Only Search
… Ooook. Moving on then.
Derango
At this point I decide to stop looking for my real first name, but instead look for the two nickname/handle things I tend to use when playing online games. First up, Derango (Don’t ask. Just…don’t. There’s no reason or explanation for it. No, I wasn’t even thinking of the car when I put it in. It sounded cool, sorta, so I went with it).
Apparently, Derango is some kind of a swedish psychedelic trance band and this is one of their album covers. Not bad. Not my kind of music really, but, there could be worse things.
Frost
So now I decide to look for “Frost”, the handle I use when I’m playing MMO type games. This one was pretty predictable.
Tada! Frost! The 4th result was a drawing of Marvel’s Emma Frost which I particularly liked, but I had to go with the first result, as per the guidelines set up by the question.
So there you have it. The first images that appear when searching for various names.
QotD: It Wasn’t Me. I Swear
Jan 15th 2007
Ever get away with saying somebody else did it?
Oh yeah, like I’m going to say that I actually did it after successfully passing it off on somebody else. Nice try buddy, but you’re going to have to come up with something else to trick me!
When I used to play City of Heroes more, I was the guy who said “It wasn’t me!” after doing something stupid which brought death and destruction down upon the team I was playing with. Usually nobody believed me.
But that’s all you’re getting out of me.
Vox Hunt: Game Time
Jan 13th 2007
Post a screenshot of the videogame you’ve been playing. Bonus points for capturing it yourself!
Submitted by przyklenk.
Suikoden V
Here’s a pretty bad shot of me playing Suikoden V, my current video game of choice. The bridge there is supposed to look horrible though, so that’s at least accurate.
QotD: I’m Working. Really
Jan 12th 2007
We know you never slack off at work, but if you did, what would you do?
Definitly not posting to this blog right now.
Nope.
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I, uh…gotta go.
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