Posts from ‘August, 2007’

Okay, I thought I was doing well after the practice session with NietzscheBear but then when we tried it again… whewey. But after a half an hour of cursing, we got it!

Despite the fact that Chance and I are 3x years old, neither of us knows how to tie a tie.
I spent the day practicing with my able and ready volunteer NietzscheBear. We started with the Windsor knot, but decided that was too hard and went with the Four in Hand knot with several failed [...]

Either

You all are busy/bored of WTFW
You all took pity on me

Because

There were only four words (hippie, swimmies, cannonball, bolt).
The words were pretty easy (hippie, swimmies, cannonball, bolt).

However

I carried on and made a lovely robot having a lovely time.
I didn’t cry like I did after WTFW1 yielded one response (Big D is always there for MD).
I [...]

Put fingers down now please is five of the clock and time for stopping.
Robot volunteers:  there’s a special message for you here.  Only volunteers can click it.

I waited about six months for my Scrybe beta invitation and it finally arrived this weekend.  If you’re interested in trying it out, just let me know and I can send you an invite.
I haven’t had time to use it much since I’ve got a few other projects going on, but I think it’s got [...]

You complain - I listen.
You’ve complained about the early deadline - let’s move it to 5:00 pm eastern.  Is this good?
You know the rules.  If you forget, look up last Wednesday’s post.  Hit it, people!  We got a robot to make!

It warms the cockles of my heart that so many volunteers have volunteered to be volunteer artists. I greatly anticipate your greatness.
I think we have seven volunteers! (Gillian’s response was… confusing to me. Am waiting to hear back.)
Responses to your questions:

I’ll still do WTFW, so no worries there.
I’m just looking for one, maybe [...]

I’ll be taking on a journey of unfathomable distance in the upcoming month of September, and I would like to have GuestBots (to be wittily named later) featuring a robot drawn by… YOU! Yes! You!
Requirements:

Less talent than me (Schiebs, you must use your little toe)
Seriously less talent than me. I can’t have [...]

There has been a miscarriage of justice.
Crazed HoboBot was mistakenly attributed to Dan when in fact it was not Dan’s fault at all that this robot came to exist. All of the blame should be directed instead at Brian!
I said I had a lot of my mind, didn’t I?