Some Housekeeping Jazz

Greetings and Salutations,


I have not yet come up with a solid topic for my next series, though I have thought of some smaller things that I could either do for a short while until I come up with a better topic, or possibly combine one or more of my ideas and do a series consisting of two combined shorter posts every week. I do not know how any of you feel about my posting style, whether you like my Saturday shorter post style or my Wednesday twice as long style. Or possibly you like different parts of both, I don't know because you have never seen fit to answer me when I ask you, so I doubt that you will now, so just to let you know I will continue how I have been doing it until I hear otherwise. 


The few ideas that I have will be detailed in the following sentences, I was going to just quick list them but after doing that it was confusing to understand, even for me, and I generally have an idea of what I am saying. My first idea is to do a short post each week on some famous internet memes, include with it the picture, phrase, or video that accompanies it, and that is an unending line so I would have plenty of stuff to talk about. My second idea is to do a short post each week about a webcomic, which I consider myself an expert of, as I have kept up to date on 42 of them so far, and that doesn't include the ones I have been trying to get up to date on. My third idea was to talk about various types of gaming: card, board, computer, online, console, desktop rpg, larp, etc. My fourth idea was to do a very short series, no more than three or four posts I believe, on various types of art: music, painting/drawing, sculpture, etc. And finally, I had an idea that perhaps one of you would have an idea for me, a lovely thought, but I am figuring that you will probably tell me to do one or a few of the above instead, but make sure to tell me, or I will pick them myself. 


And with that, I close. Thanks as usual for listening or not, comment if you desire, or not. Please remember to reply to the two above questions, it would make me very happy if you did. If you have any questions, please feel free to comment or email us at our new address. If you want to make accusations or have any general complaints or see any errors, whether small grammatical errors or large continuity ones, please feel free to let me know.


Farewell and Valedictions,
Eoin Anndra Davis

Play it Like You Feel Their Pain

Greetings and Salutations,


Today I present to you a song that I myself have played: the magnificent Aria Di Chiesa, written by Alessandro Stradella a long long time ago back in what we music nerds call the Baroque Period of music. The version I am giving to you is a musical arrangement minus the vocals, which if you wish to find are quite easy to discover on YouTube. The reason they include the word aria after removing the singing is because for one it is a part of the original name of the song, and two it gives you a big clue to what type of song it will be. There are a couple different types of arias, one of them being the aria in a minor key, which is always the type of song that is low, saddening, for example I have lists of arias in a minor key that take place in an opera directly after betrayal, death of a loved one, heartbreak, and more. Today I give to you my saddest song, please tell me how it makes you feel, because everybody goes through different circumstances and that predisposes them to be affected by different things.





Tom Bombadil Memorizer has done it again, using words when nobody else does and nobody else is paying attention seems to be his/her strong point, and even though s/he posted it outside of the blog which I would prefer not to happen though nobody else reads this so I suppose it's fine, she wins by using this phrase and going above and beyond the requirements: "It's actually quite simple: everyone decided to remain quiescent last week." Congratulations on your commentification skills and word using powers, and now I challenge you to use this next word:



Palliate
~alleviate without removing the problem


Don't forget to comment below and rate the word and or video, and I shall see you next Wednesday.


Farewells and Valedictions,
Eoin Anndra Davis

Internetiquette

Greetings and Salutations,

Here are the rules:

Rule 1 ~~~ Never use verbal abuse... ever.

Rule 2 ~~~ Calmly and passively tell someone "you know there is a better way to do 'X'" or "you know, I thought that you weren't supposed to do 'X'" or even "please don't do 'X'" and always follow these up with a 'because...' statement to provide a reason.

Rule 3 ~~~ Protect your friends, do your part, that is all.

Rule 4 ~~~ Take criticism and teaching and act on it.

Rule 5 ~~~ Don't be a noob, kill noobs if you get a chance, and protect newbs as you would your own friends/clan/guild etc.

Rule 6 ~~~ Don't be a troll. In anything, video games, chat rooms, forums, any medium for conversation, don't be a troll. Nobody loves you if you are a troll.

Rule 7 ~~~ Don't fight a troll, answer a troll once with a clearly defined thought pattern for why you believe what you do or sufficient proof, kindly, to the contrary, and if they still fight back then they truly are a troll, ignore them. Totally ignore them.  The moderators will take care of them or they will get bored. if you show that you are annoyed at them then they will never stop and yo will have defeated yourself.

Rule 8 ~~~  If it hurts anything, physically, emotionally, psychologically, socially, and spiritually... and any other thing that ends in ~ly that sounds right for this, then it should not be done.

Rule 9 ~~~ Once is usually enough, twice is making a point, thrice is proving it, the fourth time? nobody cares, seriously.

Rule 10 ~~~ Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Rule 11 ~~~ If you are not at least a partially mature patient individual who is not out to be a jerk, leave. Leave now, and never come back.

As I said in my last Wednesday post, I will give you the special rule derived from what would have been the "General Failing" post. This rule is a rule set in every set of rules, no matter how long the list is and how detailed it is. This rule I like to call Rule 0, though it is different from the Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) Dungeon Master (DM) Rule 0, which states that the DM is always right. Rule 0 states that to every rule, there is an exception to that rule, and thus this is where Rule 11 really comes into play, because you have to use a lot of maturity to be able to use Rule 0. Sadly, not many people follow rule 11, which is all the more the pity. The last thing I can say before I finish this topic once and for all is that it is impossible to truly set a group of rules for the internet, because the beauty of the internet, and simultaneously its downfall, is that it has no rules and is ruled by no person, corporation, or governing entity.

And with that, I close. Thanks as usual for listening or not, comment if you desire, or not. If I missed any of the rules, please notify me and I'll try to find it again. If you have any questions, please feel free to comment or email us at our Email address. If you want to make accusations or have any general complaints or see any errors, whether small grammatical errors or large continuity ones, please feel free to let me know.

Farewells and Valedictions, 

Eoin Anndra Davis

Now Bleed With Me....

Greetings and Salutations, 


Today's video is the Freedom theme from Braveheart, directed by Mel Gibson and music written by James Horner. During the movie, this song plays during the execution of the star of the show, William Wallace, who gives up his life saving Scotland, for the freedom of his people. Immediately afterwards is the finale of the movie, as the Scottish regain their freedom in Wallace's name. It heavily features the bagpipes, as they are Scottish in origin. Here's the movie and please tell me what particular emotion this song evokes in you, how good you think it is, and perhaps any other tidbits of information your brain produces.









I received no word usages over the past interval of time, fail. It was an easy word too, for example: Today I had a quiescent day. This week's word will be easier then:


Simple
 ~Easy, not difficult


Don't forget to comment below and rate the word and or video, and I shall see you next Wednesday.

Farewells and Valedictions,
Eoin Anndra Davis

A Deviation From Our Current Trajectory

Greetings and Salutatory Statements to one and all,


As my little wordy hint above in blue can show you, I will be changing my plans slightly. Looking back and pondering on the topics for today and next Wednesday post, I have noticed some discrepancies. After racking my brain in search of some way to make general failing relevant, which for the most part it isn't, I have come to the conclusion that only one rule can be drawn from it, and it in itself is very much a special case. In addition, looking at the case of the picture post which would have been today, I have come to the conclusion that a rule can be derived from it, but it would be too similar to rule 8 as it would say that if it scars someone then it should not be online, or if it is racist, etc. ~if it hurts anything, physically, emotionally, psychologically, socially, and spiritually... and any other thing that ends in -ly that sounds right for this, then it should not be done~. So basically there would be no positive necessity to posting these next few days. And then it occurred to me that you still deserved a post, especially after the lack of posts these past few weeks, but believe me, rule numero uno of writing anything is to not write about something that you are disinterested in, and I must apologize that for the past two Wednesday posts my interest has been waning. This is something important, and a list of good rules should exist online, but after however many posts, there should be a point where either someone else steps in to take up the mantle or it is put on hold for a while, and I confess that I am unable to come up with any new rules as of now. Thus, to spare you the misery of reading terrible writing I am stopping this line of posts immediately....


And starting another! Until I can come up with a theme, of course please feel free to email me any suggestions, but today I write about having your own domain, a nerd cave of sorts. Anyways, many times people will make a sort of "shrine" to their favorite topic or occupation. It becomes a matter of pride to the people, even if it is just having better items than others. Let me give you some examples of some shrines, in visual aid form:

For if you are unable to tell from the smallish pictures, from top left to bottom right you have the video game nerds dream: The largest known collection of video games ever, a beautifully handmade steampunk computer desk, a man cave complete with display cases full of collectible sports cards, and a hand modified Nintendo Entertainment System. Almost everybody has some collection or favorite item that they are proud of and more than happy to show off or perhaps even be miserly and hide it away. I myself have a rather large collection of games and consoles, as well as musical instruments, and not surprisingly that is what I do. Many times the people who collect baseball cards are the people who used to play or still play a lot of baseball, almost all the time the people who get the collections of video games play them regularly, people who love Firefly put little browncoats stickers on the backs of their cars and carry little plastic dinosaurs around, and people who have musical paraphernalia play music. The majority of the time this is reversible as well, for example I play music so I collect instruments, she likes to read so she has a large library she likes to show off, etc.

Write and tell me what kind of things you like and how you like to collect or get the best etc. for what you might enjoy, though it might not apply to some of you. You can even send in pictures and I'll feature them in a post. Don't forget about the word of the mont.....I guess it's supposed to be week isn't it, whoops. And with that, I close. Thanks as usual for listening or not, comment if you desire, or not. Next week I will give you the compiled rules and tell you about the one rule from general failing. If you have any questions, please feel free to comment or email us at our new address. If you want to make accusations or have any general complaints or see any errors, whether small grammatical errors or large continuity ones, please feel free to let me know.

(By the way check out TBCRH, someone just posted on it again, enjoy reading over there!)

Fairwells and Valedictions,

Eoin Anndra Davis