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Saturday, September 3, 2011

24HBD #6: A Look at Yourself Through The Eyes of Your Pet

PET ME PET ME PET ME PET ME

PET ME PET ME PET ME PET ME PET ME PET ME PET ME PET ME PET ME PET ME PET ME PET ME

LET ME IN LET ME IN LET ME IN

LET ME IN LET ME IN LET ME IN LET ME IN LET ME IN LET ME IN LET ME IN LET ME IN LET ME IN

24HBD #5: Write a Blog From The Perspective of Your Favorite Fictional Character

Lord Clancey III
Penfold Manor
#6 Charleton Way
London, England

To the Respectable Lord Clancey,

Having received your correspondence regarding the care and use of the Common South Wales Pixie, I can only respond with speculation, as the capture and subsequent care of these creatures is something I have had as of yet no personal experience with.

Your question, however, reminds me of a particularly intricate spell written down in Percifold Hargrave’s Of The Tameing of Magickle Creatures and the Dangers Therein in which he describes in great detail the methods with which to hypnotize the much rarer Red Pixie, which unfortunately have not been seen or written about in any capacity since the late twelfth century. Though hypnotization was not, I surmise, your original intent, I do believe his methods could be adapted to fit your particular situation.

Unfortunately, I am afraid this is the entirety of the assistance I am able to provide at the moment, however I will research the matter further and alert you if I find anything worth conveying. It would, in addition, do you well to find a copy of Hargrave and thoroughly study it, though obtaining texts of magick has been quite difficult in recent times.

I do hope this letter has found you well, and I look forward to future correspondence with your lordship.

Respectfully yours,

Jonathan Strange

24HBD #4: What The World Would Be Like If People Had Gills/Wings

I mean… it would probably have a bunch of people flying around, or swimming a lot. I imagine there’d be a lot of clothing specially made to accommodate the fabric requirements of a lifestyle full of free-flying or free-swimming. Parkour would not be as impressive, but there would probably be more impressive forms of it around.

Sharks would be deadlier. So would flocks of pigeons.

Video games would be lame.

24HBD #3: What My Life Would Be Like Without Computers

The majority of my time is spent on my computer. I’m quite proud of my computer. It’s one of my most prized possessions (along with my new watch, gumball machine, Charlotte the Cat, my wife, and the sweet shoes I got at the mall a couple of weeks ago).

On an extremely related note, the pictures I have of my computer when I first put it together and turned it on make me realize how dusty my house is, and how much of that dust has worked its way into my computer. It used to be so clean!

Anyway, I am going to approach this topic as if, by “without computers” it means “I am suddenly unable to use them”. The other way to go about it would be to assume that I live in an age without computers, in which case I would assume that my life would be very pastoral. Boring, even.

If I was suddenly unable to computer, I would have to come up with innovative mechanical solutions to everyday niceties. I would probably be always bugging my wife (one of my prized possessions, remember) to check my email for me. It would be kind of like that one time I didn’t have a cell phone until I was a sophomore in college, except back then I still at least had a computer, so I could be at least up to date on things on a day-to-day basis.

Communication would be more difficult. I wouldn’t be able to Facebook or Plussy-do Google thing, or listen to things on 8tracks.com. Look at all that promo!

I would have to play TF2 in real life. Changing classes would be more difficult, because I’d have to get into a new costume each time, and waiting until I died to do so would take forever – unless I was super brave all the time. But I might get reincarnated as a bug or something, and even if I come back as a human I would still have to wait about 20 years before respawning.

Who am I kidding? I’d just be scout every time. Clearly the best.

Probably the biggest downer I’d have from not being able to computer would be not being able to tell people how awesome my computer is. Seriously. Look at it. Bask.

24HBD #2: Your Favorite Make-Believe Game

I’d like to talk to you today about Lava Tag.

In progress! So dandy!

What’s lava tag? Well, I’m glad you asked. Lava tag is like regular tag, except THE GROUND IS LAVA. Obviously it would be incredibly convenient to play lava tag in the gaping maw of an active volcano, but for the average tag connoisseur, this is simply not possible.

Why yes, Bartholomew, that's a point for me! Tag!

Lava tag in the olden days.

Lava tag is the direct opposite of freeze tag, in which tagged players TURN TO ICE.

I bet it was Arnold.

Sorry, 90’s-type superhero businessman!

The best game of lava tag – in the best possible location for lava tag (besides the gaping maw of a volcano) – happened (as referenced here) at a place called Fort La Play Porte in La Porte, Indiana with Mary and her brother Elijah. Here’s a stunning visual:

Stunning! Top-down! Bird’s eye! RTS!

You can pretty much walk around the entire park without touching the sandy, fiery, Mordor-esque ground. I’m not sure why they would make the ground of a playground for children (and childish adults!) so dangerous, but it makes for good lava tag!

24HBD2 #1: How To Make The Food You Eat The Most

All right! Off to a good start with a recipe. My kind of blog.

I had to think for a bit to pick the thing that I eat the most often. I eat chili fairly regularly – in the fall/winter, but not other parts of the year. I do eat Ramen noodles a lot, but that would be boring.

Then I realized that I eat pretty much the exact same thing for lunch every day: a turkey wrap.

So here’s how to make my favorite lunch item: a pepper turkey wrap.

Sorry about the pictures – some of them are slightly blurry. I was in a hurry. I only had an hour!

YOU WILL NEED:

1 whole wheat sandwich wrap (I like FlatOut)
2 slices muenster cheese
deli pepper turkey – as much as you want to eat in one sitting
a nice mix of lettuce – I like the “spring herbs” mix from the grocery store. It has arugula, baby spinach, mustard greens, cilantro, and a few other types of lettuce and herbs.
Miracle Whip
spicy brown mustard
horseradish

YOU WILL NEED TO:

Lay out the wrap – spread on some miracle whip, and lay down the two slices of cheese.
Spread some horseradish on the cheese.
Now comes your turkey!
Now add as much lettuce as you can fit on the thing. Don’t be shy – this makes the wrap! (well, the horseradish and mustard make the wrap for me, but this makes the wrap appropriately healthy.)
Add the mustard, then roll it up! I use a knife to smash the lettuce and things down into the wrap as I roll – otherwise it’s kind of unwieldy.
To take this to school, I wrap it up in wax paper, then in plastic wrap so it doesn’t unroll. My coworkers make fun of me at lunch, but they’re just jealous.

So there you have it! The thing I eat the most, and how to make it so it can become the thing you eat the most. EAT IT THE MOST.

24 Hour Blog Day (again)! 9/3/11

So, the same friends and I decided that, since our last 24 hour blog day was so successful, we should have another one!

Here’s how it works:

Everyone (or everyone who wants to) contributes a topic. They all get written down and put into a hat (the hat in this case being a small wooden box).

Each hour, we draw a topic and blog about it!

Previous 24HBD posts can be found in the projects page. You should check them out!

Here are my current 24HBD blogs:

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