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Older Brother's Records - Big Beat and Trip Hop
2007-09-28 13:13:00 Two more radio shows from the archives today. Both shows are hosted by my computer friend, Electronic Filler and the Big Beat show has lots of fun cutting and shenanigans. Off to Nukecon. Get the Older Brother 's Records Big Beat Show HERE. Get the Older Brother's Records Trip Hop Show HERE.Soon, I'll be all out of old shows and have to make new ones. More About: Trip-Hop , Trip hop
Gamecon Bizcards
2007-09-27 20:18:00 Since we're going to Nukecon on Friday, I thought up some all purpose cards to use while playing games. The best one is for a bathroom break. There's only two. There would have been more, but the site I used to make them crashed. They print out like business cards.Get them HERE.
Technical Difficulties
2007-09-26 20:17:00 Due to technical difficulties, there will be no Thing for Bryan on Wednesday and Shelly on Tuesday. More About: Technical
Last Night on Earth Scenario
2007-09-25 19:53:00 Shelly and I picked up a new game this weekend to get ready for Nukecon, plus the game is one I've been looking forward to for a while, Last Night On Earth . It's a zombie game where one player plays the heros and the other side are zombies. There's a real cinematic feel to the game and you can play a game in two hours or so. Monday's game even had the full plot of a B grade zombie movie. The four heros arrive to town find the bio canisters that are causing the undead out break. The drifter was lucky early on finding the first canister in the hospital and getting to the truck. As the others spread out, farm girl Jenny held off the zombies in the cornfield and the sheriff came along as back up. Track star Billy was the real early hero finding the other canister, but on the way to the truck he was killed and turned into a super zombie. The zombies swarmed around the remaining canister. The Drifter, trapped, died in the hospital. The only female, Jenny, got to the canister as the S... More About: Scenario
TV Big Shot
2007-09-25 06:32:00 It's game week at TTOTD.But, today's little Thing is a pointer to TV Big Shot ---it's like Fantasy Football for TV Nerds. You buy shows, create a mini network and see how they do in the ratings. (BTW, I'm doing really well in the Fantasy Football league I was coerced into joining, who knew?) So, I bought some shows. I balanced cheap shows like Kitchen Confidential and Reaper which may pay off benefits in moderate ratings for a low price (Isn't that the modern TV programmers modis operandi? That explains the glut of reality shows.) with high profile shows like Private Practice and Ugly Betty. We'll see how it goes.One show I picked is a drama I screened a few months ago, Dirty Sexy Money. I think this show might be big and have at least one big season. It's a big old-time soap with an okay mystery at the center, a great cast, fast pacing, clever writing and more edge-pushing than most soaps. There's really only one likable character, Peter Krause as the family lawyer, Nick Geo...
Game Week!!
2007-09-25 03:23:00 Next weekend we are going to a gaming convention!! All I can think about is games. Check out my cool badge from BoardGame Geek!! More About: Week
Wallhanging Collage
2007-09-22 06:57:00 Third of three in a set of collages. The Wallhanging Collage .
Bad Mod Art
2007-09-21 20:23:00 I made this bad modern art using The Digital Post Modernist Modern Generator and Comic Life.
Personal DNA
2007-09-21 06:36:00 Another web test. Click here to see all of my results and try it yourself.P.S. Three months from today is my birthday!! More About: Personal
Moral Orals
2007-09-20 20:32:00 Today's Thing is a set of morality tests. I took them all. It took about an hour and a half to take all of them, but you can take the main ones in a short period of time. The problem is squaring your self-image, either up or down, with your actions and practical thoughts. I have a hard time with absolutes as well.Try it yourself. More About: Moral
Happy TLAPPD!
2007-09-20 03:49:00 That's "Talk Like A Pirate Penguin Day!"Art created with Tux Paint, an awesome art program for kids. (I think my friend CC would love this!!) More About: Happy
Thingor
2007-09-18 20:23:00 Thingor is a Giant Dragon that kidnaps Blonde Women, has a Toughened Steel Skeleton, is in League with Dark Forces, and can Regenerate.Strength: 7 Agility: 7 Intelligence: 9To see if your Giant Battle Monster candefeat Thingor, enter your name and choose an attack: fights Thingor using Strength Agility IntelligenceI'm working on a longer comedy piece this week, so some entries may be light.
The Comic Strip For Babies
2007-09-18 06:19:00 Another nonsensical comic strip can be found at The TTOTD Strip Generator Site. As always, apologies in advance for the blue material. More About: Comic , Babies
Watercolor Pencil Sketch
2007-09-18 00:01:00 Playing around with some watercolor pencils. More About: Pencil , Watercolor , Sketch
Braided Wire Bracelet
2007-09-15 06:24:00 Braided Bracelet made from wire. With loop and hook closure. More About: Wire
Generic Beat Show 2
2007-09-13 20:01:00 Show Number 2 of 5 from the archives.HERE. More About: Show , Beat , Generic
Lemon Curry Sauce
2007-09-13 04:29:00 Mmmmmm.......Click here for recipe. More About: Lemon , Curry , Sauce
Dreams of Evil Clowns
2007-09-12 20:26:00 I have a bad cold and when I close my eyes I see only evil clowns.The slow Thing week continues with evil clowns, as if any other kind exists. More About: Dreams , Evil , Clowns
"I'm on Break" Collage
2007-09-12 01:14:00 Would you believe the second in a series? More About: Break , Collage
Readymech
2007-09-11 21:07:00 There's plenty more cool paper creature designs at Readymech. And I'm sure you can put them together better than me.
TTOTD facebook
2007-09-11 06:23:00 Kind of a slow week this week, Today's Thing continues the endless stream of TOTTD hollow promotions, I signed up for facebook. I created an entry for myself. Then created a group for this website and put it in the sidebar. I like facebook way better than myspace---better layout, easier to find people, impossible to remember the URL. However, there is a bit of a stalker-y vibe to the whole site. I know the just-outta-college girls and the creepier just-outta-college boys at work sit around eating up company time cross-referencing all their comments and semi-connections to each other and every other just-outta-college kid on the planet. It's a rabbit hole of endless, pointless info.The amount of cross-referencing of groups, ID's, locations, work and everything else is tasty tempting catnip to even the laziest of looky-loos. It's almost im-pos-i-ble not to click down the chain.Anyway, I still think cell phones can be blamed for all this self-absorbed constant blather. Not a new ... More About: Facebook
Tablet Sketch
2007-09-10 14:03:00 I found a good sketch program I can use my Wacom tablet with: Tablet Draw. Just for fun, I did a similar sketch as the real pencil sketch I did Friday. I like how this program feels, but it appears to only sketch, no airbrush or chalk brushes, but I still like it. More About: Sketch
Sketch
2007-09-08 05:01:00 A page full of doodles. Remembering how much I love colored pencils. More About: Sketch
The Thing Radio 7
2007-09-07 09:08:00 This week's show is all new music except for Old 97's. That's All.Get the CD Jewel Inset HERE.Get the deluxe AAC version HERE.Get the crappy MP3 version HERE.Subscribe in itunes and visit the TTOTD Radio Page. The Songs 1. Bruce Springsteen -- Radio Nowhere from Magic . Pre-release. Direct Download.2. Harlem Shakes -- Sickos from Burning Birthdays EP. Direct Download.3. They Might Be Giants -- Take Out The Trash from The Else. Direct Download.4. They Might Be Giants -- Careful What You Pack from The Else. Direct Download.5. Brazilian Girls -- Crosseyed and Painless from Brazilian Girls Remix EP. Talking Heads cover. Direct Download.6. Supermayer -- The Art of Letting Go from Save The World. Direct Download.7. New Young Pony Club -- The Bomb from Fantastic Playroom. Direct Download.8. Michelle Shocked -- The Quality of Mercy from ToHeavenURide. Direct Download.9. Over The Rhine -- Entertaining Thoughts from The Trumpet Child. Direct Download.10. Deer Tick -- Art Isn't Real (City... More About: Thing
Welcome Collage
2007-09-07 01:08:00 The first in a series of collages.More on This Thing More About: Collage
The Cashington Roach
2007-09-06 06:55:00 In June, I contacted Bully Pulpit Games about posting an audio recording of the rules to The Shab-Al-Hiri Roach . They were very nice about it. At Gencon, Roach creator Jason Morningstar premiered an add-on to the Roach called The Roach Returns. The expansions details two new settings for Roach-y mayhem to take place. I had an idea for a new setting and that's today's Thing. Today's Thing actually took a few days. The Roach always struck me as an evil, evil soap, so why not expand on that idea. It's Dallas meets American Psycho. The Cashingtons are not just merely rich, but unholy rich. And like most large rich families, the siblings are at each other's throats. You play a spoiled sibling out to harm your other siblings. This is BEFORE The Roach arrives. Greed is great, but bedlam is better. The four-page PDF features character sheets, events, business interests and obsessions, descriptions, dice charts and play rules, plus a new rules page add-on to encourage deep, dark secret...
See Shell's Recipes
More articles from this author:2007-09-06 06:55:00 A few people have asked for the meatloaf cake recipe, and that has prompted me to finish an overhaul project that I've been working on. This is yet another blog of mine, one that I used to keep up regularly, just on food, recipes, and cooking. I've revamped the format to make searching for recipes easier, and deleted a bunch of unnessessary posts. Click here to go check it out. More About: Recipes , Shell 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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