Saturday, January 17, 2009
Oohs & Aahs
I don't know exactly what kind of blogging time I'll have tonight, so here's a quick safety blog for now. What I do know is that I'm madly in love with the new Say Hi to Your Mom song, "November Was White, December Was Grey." Only forty more days until I get to hear this song live.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Owwwww!
My smiling muscles hurt. Watch:
There probably is an ad that's more adorably bad than this, but I can't think of it. In other news, Microsoft may layoff up to 15,000 employees this week. Also, Bill Gates was seriously hitting on my mom in a dream I had a few nights ago. That may not be quite as relevant.
I hate to default to a YouTube post this early in the game. In fact, I started writing more, but it's becoming a bit more involved than I'd planned, so I'll save it for tomorrow.
Don't get too excited. I assure you, it's nothing you care about.
Hellooooooooo, Jake's mom!
There probably is an ad that's more adorably bad than this, but I can't think of it. In other news, Microsoft may layoff up to 15,000 employees this week. Also, Bill Gates was seriously hitting on my mom in a dream I had a few nights ago. That may not be quite as relevant.
I hate to default to a YouTube post this early in the game. In fact, I started writing more, but it's becoming a bit more involved than I'd planned, so I'll save it for tomorrow.
Don't get too excited. I assure you, it's nothing you care about.
Hellooooooooo, Jake's mom!Thursday, January 15, 2009
The Shiny Buttons Blog-Off!
This is... I dunno. I... think I like it. I would've expected me to go with some sort of pun-based title, but I think I prefer the elegant, meaningless simplicity of Shiny Buttons. It's not just about me, though; not at all. We should pick a title that we can all agree to love. No one wants to be stuck in a poorly-named blog challenge. This was derived from one challenger's suggestion, so I don't feel I'm being too dictatorial in my naming.
If you're unhappy, throw out a new name within the next week. After that, I'm making a logo or something.
I was going to talk about other stuff (non-Shiny Buttons Blog-Off stuff), but, man, I have things to do tonight, and plenty of writing to do in the coming months, so I'm taking the lazy way out this time. Dudes, have you seen my blog? I've written, like, six entries since that last challenge ended. I gots ta ease myself back into this daily habit, ya dig?
Tonight's homework: Invent an original game using two six-sided dice and one ten-sided die. Whoooooo!
If you're unhappy, throw out a new name within the next week. After that, I'm making a logo or something.
I was going to talk about other stuff (non-Shiny Buttons Blog-Off stuff), but, man, I have things to do tonight, and plenty of writing to do in the coming months, so I'm taking the lazy way out this time. Dudes, have you seen my blog? I've written, like, six entries since that last challenge ended. I gots ta ease myself back into this daily habit, ya dig?
Tonight's homework: Invent an original game using two six-sided dice and one ten-sided die. Whoooooo!
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
The Rules
1. Blog everyday
It doesn't matter what you write - a single word, a single character, a single image, a 400-page virtual tome - you must make a new entry containing anything at least once per day. That means you have until midnight each day. Rather than learning each of your time zones and committing myself to checking your blogs at that time, I will trust all of you to be cool, and just do a round each morning. No cheating, no changing timestamps.
2. One Mulligan
That is, you can miss one - and no more than one - day of blogging. Miss one day, and I'll put your name in italics on the master blogs list. Miss two, and you're outta there. Cool kids names' stand straight and tall.
3. The Challenge ends on June 30th
I took this date from last year's challenge. Too long? Too short? Make your requests for changes now.
3. Have fun, gang!
Alright, let's all put our hands in here, and I want to see a lot of spirit! That's it, everybody! Now let's give it our all!
Oh, and the challenge's name? It's a secret. Tune in tomorrow to find out!
It doesn't matter what you write - a single word, a single character, a single image, a 400-page virtual tome - you must make a new entry containing anything at least once per day. That means you have until midnight each day. Rather than learning each of your time zones and committing myself to checking your blogs at that time, I will trust all of you to be cool, and just do a round each morning. No cheating, no changing timestamps.
2. One Mulligan
That is, you can miss one - and no more than one - day of blogging. Miss one day, and I'll put your name in italics on the master blogs list. Miss two, and you're outta there. Cool kids names' stand straight and tall.
3. The Challenge ends on June 30th
I took this date from last year's challenge. Too long? Too short? Make your requests for changes now.
3. Have fun, gang!
Alright, let's all put our hands in here, and I want to see a lot of spirit! That's it, everybody! Now let's give it our all!
Oh, and the challenge's name? It's a secret. Tune in tomorrow to find out!
So I Says, "That's No Blog Challenge - That's My Wife!"
Well, some Blog Challenge host I turned out to be - this thing starts tomorrow and I still haven't announced any firm details. I'll try to get it all written out today, but thanks to a fine combination of classes and homework, it might take a while, and I want to make sure I have a list of all our challengers.
The Year's Bloggers
(In Order of Acceptance of the Challenge)
Jake ♥ Nora ♥ Nicole
Phil ♥ Joanna ♥ Taylor
Jaime ♥ Vera
(In Order of Acceptance of the Challenge)
Jake ♥ Nora ♥ Nicole
Phil ♥ Joanna ♥ Taylor
Jaime ♥ Vera
Did I miss anyone? Did I link the wrong blog? Would you rather have me separate your names with ♥ than ☼? Official rules will be up soon and blogging begins in less than 24 hours - if you have any requests, make 'em now!
Update: Hearts won! Also: Jaime added. And Vera added.
Update: Hearts won! Also: Jaime added. And Vera added.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Friday, December 5, 2008
It Won't Long Be Long, Yeah! (Yeah!) 'Til I Buh-log to You
Disappointed by the recent absence of blogging up in herre? Fear not - a new blogging challenge is now in the works. No real details yet, but it will be heavily inspired by Chris Semp's Everyone Gets a Hamburger at the End: A Blog Challenge, which is to say that it will likely run for a similar length of time (I think it was something like six months), and completion of the challenge will require all competitors to blog something - anything - every single day, allowing only a single mulligan.
Interested? Leave a comment. I'm going to tentatively schedule the beginning of the thing for January 15. If that's not going to work for you, let me know as soon as possible. Worried you'll forget about all of this before then? Sign up now and I'll be sure to remind you to begin blogging as we approach the starting date. I'll continue accepting new contestants until the day we begin.
By the way, I'll be spending Christmas with the family, so this blog will be even more dead than usual over the next month. That doesn't mean you shouldn't continue to hopefully refresh this page every hour, and don't forget that it's always a good time to re-read the JakeyPen archives.
So that I might properly prepare for the sort of impersonal, detached blogging that comes as a result of doing this every day for a half a year, here's a link to something funny that someone else wrote [thanks, Dubious Quality!].
Interested? Leave a comment. I'm going to tentatively schedule the beginning of the thing for January 15. If that's not going to work for you, let me know as soon as possible. Worried you'll forget about all of this before then? Sign up now and I'll be sure to remind you to begin blogging as we approach the starting date. I'll continue accepting new contestants until the day we begin.
By the way, I'll be spending Christmas with the family, so this blog will be even more dead than usual over the next month. That doesn't mean you shouldn't continue to hopefully refresh this page every hour, and don't forget that it's always a good time to re-read the JakeyPen archives.
So that I might properly prepare for the sort of impersonal, detached blogging that comes as a result of doing this every day for a half a year, here's a link to something funny that someone else wrote [thanks, Dubious Quality!].
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