Evolution of a Mind

Aptera from above

Memes have a survival of the fittest of their own: only the best memes survive. I’m hoping this particular meme does. Breakerslion tagged me (shh!) to post the evolution of my blog via significant posts. Here goes: First Post. In…

Advice for First-Time Parents

Aptera from above

2: I think I’m getting my hearing back, how about you? 1: What? 2: WHAT?? In order to not spoil your child, pay equal amounts of attention to something else. We recommend drugs or alcohol. The sooner you start feeding…

Why being attacked by zombies might rock

Aptera from above

I suppose you won’t bother with a corresponding Pros list, though for completeness’ sake – you really should. – Radioactive Jam said on Thursday, 4 October, 2007 Sudden food and electronics binge to die for. Never a dull day again.…

Why being attacked by zombies might suck

There’s probably some drawbacks to the world being overtaken by zombies I’m not seeing. – Me, after seeing Resident: Evil; Extinction/ Constant body odor Odds are most of the beautiful women would keep their promises and die before they slept…

October 2, 2007

I now hate the following states: Hawaii, Iowa, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, Arkansas and Regular Kansas on the count that I don’t have any fans from there… Except for tess coonce, who just found my blog…

Things that you can be geeky about without being a geekº

‘Manly’ sports Wine Art Drugs¹ History Sex The Simpsons² Things that people think belong on the first list, but are still pretty lame Indie/emo/metal/rap music Anything to do with technology Pornography All other sports Cars Politics Religion Cartoons Movies Your…

September 2007 Report Card

Evaluation of Merit Pixel Q. Styx, certified blog writer Insight: 9.5 Originality: 10 Hilarity: 7 Reliability: 6.5 Language: 9.5 Spelling: 9.5 Social Science: 9.5 Art: 4 Cooperation: 0 Courtesy: 10 Self Reliance: 9 Conduct: 10 Attention: 9 Workmanship: 8 Effort:…

Remember that Ode I did to Bluehost?

Remember that ode I did to Bluehost? Yeah, I take that back… My blog has been down for two days because their server accidentally erased every index file…. yeah, thanks.

Ignorance is Unpatriotic

The better the citizenry as a whole are educated, the wider and more sensible public participation, debate and social mobility will be…Highly sophisticated Élites are the easiest and least original thing a society can produce. The most difficult and the…

Jamal Tucker Must Die

Do I know myself? Well, yeah. I mean, I’d recognize myself if I saw me in a line up. – That’s just me talking to myself I think I know why the minority always dies in movies. It’s not hidden…

The opposite of apathy is anger

Question: “You’re not going to vote for Hillary or Obama, are you? Because if you are, I’m going to have to hit you.” Response: Okay. Say I have no idea who they are. Why does your hitting me make sense?…

Oh, and I Need a Punny Title, Too

A Pixelated Novel

NaNoWriMo is coming up… And for the first time eve, I’m going to take part. Starting November 1, I will be frantically writing a story in the hopes of reaching 50,000 words by December. This means that in November, I…

An Audience of Two

A Pixelated Novel

Sometimes the people I write silly letters to are foolish enough to respond to me. They do this for a variety of reasons including being ‘nice,’ finding me ‘interesting,’ and writing ‘cease and desist’ letters. That’s usually the part I…

September 24, 2007

A Pixelated Novel

Ignoring how much it would suck for everyone, is there any reason why schooling is not year round? #

September 23, 2007

A Pixelated Novel

I’m writing a novel! Let me know if you wanna be in it. Though everyone who lives is taken… and so are most of the non-embarrassing deaths # …You know, I think 140 characters really is more than enough for…

An Audience of One

A Pixelated Novel

I write what I like to read. This is bad for my readers but good for me. To be fair, I mostly write menial things: “can I borrow some superglue, a horse and your stamp collection?” Still more often, I…

September 22, 2007

A Pixelated Novel

Man, you had to call during the ONE hour a day I get to spend on the toilet! #

Ode to Bluehost

A Pixelated Novel

Like an abused wife defending her husband, I defended Yahoo! for over a year before their lack of support for a higher level of MySQL (geek stuff) made upgrading my blog impossible. So I switched to WordPress’ recommended host: Bluehost.…

September 21, 2007

A Pixelated Novel

My blog is still there! It’s still there! I messed with the database and my blog is still there! I could write a something-spangled banner! #

Express Written Consent

Pixel Inc. and its subsidiary “A Pixelated Mind” also known as “pixcapacitor.com” (hereafter known as THE MAN) does hereby give you or your company (hereafter known as the AGENT) the following permissions: naming a building after Pixel copying and pasting…

Memory lane is a dead end

“When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.” Apparently an Author Unknown Today I ran into an old friend from middle and…

I don’t like my name in English.

I don’t like my name in English. It sounds like a pirate “arr…” at least in Spanish it’s “ARR!” … which sounds like a sexy pirate.

I don’t like my name in English

I don’t like my name in English. It sounds like a pirate “arr…” at least in Spanish it’s “ARR!” … which sounds like a sexy pirate.

The Brain is a Muscle

Where does it say ’star inset?’

As all other muscles get flabby from lack of exercise, so too does the brain. I never realized this before, but it makes so much sense. I’d always wondered why some people catch on to new ideas quickly and some…

Interesting Web site: zoominfo.com

Where does it say ’star inset?’

Interesting Web site: zoominfo.com. Brilliant concept. I found myself on it, but there’s no way I’m claiming my profile. It’s lame in a bad way.

Signs you might grow up to be just like me

Where does it say ’star inset?’

Strong Interest Inventory for Pixel Q., age 13: Investigative: Average Interest (54 percent) Artistic: Average Interest (43 percent) Conventional: Average Interest (46 percent) Enterprising: Average Interest (40 percent) Realistic: Little Interest (45 percent Social: Very Little Interest (34 percent) Apparently,…