IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN!

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--- So Whatever you celebrate - I wish all the a Happy Festivity and the Best of luck for everything in the New Year!!

Well HI THERE, STRANGERS!!! Its been a while. Anyways, so I was actually thinking about this site, and how long its been since I've even posted a blog or posted on any forums! So I thought I'd come on and just give an update. This is also really interesting for me, because I've been thinking, I'm in YEAR 12 next year! I joined this site when I was in year 8, and I've since realised how much I have grown up since then. You know that teacher I was practically in LOVE with for the past three years? Well, this was his last year. He left three weeks ago, at the end of term. I think I'm okay, but I have been feeling kind of lonely and let down, knowing that I'm not going to see him again. But other than that, I'm okay.

My Grandad died in the end of October. There's so much that upsets me, especially knowing that Christmas is coming up, and my family is going to be really sad. There's a lot of sh!t that upsets me still, but I think I'm dealing with it okay.... I think.

GUESS WHAT! I was made editor of Pink! I was really excited, but luckily for me, nobody had tried to submit anything, because I haven't been on here in ages. But I'm going to try and come on a bit more often (TRY TO).

I think the reason I don't come on here so muchis because everyone that I used to talk to every single day has gone.... I think its the age thing. The older I got, the less I came on. All my friends on here have "moved on" I guess. I wish you guys came on more often, because you all helped me through a LOT of sh!t when I was younger. But I do understand why you don't come on more often.

Please let me know how you all are!

You know what really yanks my chain?

Lots of things, actually. But my big beef for 2009 is the number of neglected guides sitting under inactive editors. It seems that some people are keener on acquiring guides than they are on looking after them.

It's not a question of being MIA. Editors who simply stop visiting are eventually dismissed under the ReportMIAEditor protocol. Some editors are occasional visitors, not logging on often enough to meet their obligation to consider submissions within seven days, but often enough to avoid sanction. That means unseemly delays while we wait for the approval of submissions, but that's only really inconvenient when a show is currently airing.

Some editors, whether occasional or frequent visitors to the site, seem to have stopped submitting to guides they edit, often on the day they were awarded the editorship. That may be fair enough for guides to old shows that are substantially complete, but there are many guides to currently-airing or recently-ended shows that are in a very sorry state.

I do a lot of credit consolidation work and this prompts me to visit a number of guides each week. A surprising number of recently-added guides to recently-aired shows have no editors. Elsewhere, editors preside over guides to older shows that are no more than skeletons, despite the ready availability of the information needed to knock the guides into shape; guides to currently-airing shows that haven't had an episode guide added in months; plagiarised, mis-spelled and synopsis-free episode guides; guides for which no writer, director or cast have been added since the current editor took over. For good or ill, it has long been the case that the presence of an editor appears to act as a deterrent to potential contributors, many of whom apparently prefer to submit to editorless guides.

The activities of some editors has certainly put me off submitting to guides they edit. Those who reject valid submissions, post or approve plagiarised synopses, add episodes that don't meet the two out of three criterion, add "coming soon" summaries, add show stars but not guests, or just the odd guest, to episodes. I've been holding back from carrying out essential repair work on many of these guides in the hope that someday, TV.com staff would enforce the Problem Editor protocol. It seems that no amount of transgression merits any kind of sanction, however.

Happily, I've just completed the latest phase of work on guides that I edit. I've still to add some production credits to some, and to sort cast and crew lists for others, but I'm happy to let that duty take a back seat while I do grunt work on some of the neglected guides to British shows. Shows like... Can I mention them here? The editors in question know who they are, and which guides I mean. You'll see a lot more in the way of submissions from me from now. Enjoy!

... yes, I do still exist, I just don't blog anymore.

Once again, it has been a while Sorry about that, but I figure most people really aren't that interested in the minutia of my everyday life. Really, it's pretty boring - get up at o'dark hundred, shower, dress, pack lunch, make coffee, collect the bits for my bag'o'tricks, walk the dog, go to work, come home, walk the dog, have something resembling food (occasionally challenging, considering cooking for one it a bit of a pain), walk the dog at least once more, fall into bed, then wash, rinse and repeat for the rest of the week See? Pretty boring, no?

Having bored you to tears with the monotony of my days, I do have to admit that there have been some new and exciting things going on I got another cat!

His name is Milo, I was told he's about five years old (though my vet said that once a cat reaches maturity age is difficult to tell, but we stick with five years just for the sake of argument) and he's a rescue. He was found either abandoned or as a lost stray and was taken in by a shelter who cleaned him up and put him up for adoption. When I saw him, someone had already paid his fee in the hopes that he would be taken home by the end of the day Enter me He's a sweetie, he really is. He's been neutered and declawed, so someone at some point loved him, and his only issue was that he's seriously underweight. We're working on the weight issue with a combination of kitten food and regular kibble (Jakjak loves it! little pig that he is) and he's been eating regularly for a couple weeks now. There is something going on with him, he's developed an eye infection which is proving annoyingly tenacious, but hopefully we'll get that cured before I wind up owing the vet too much money.

Other than that, I suppose there hasn't been that much new and exciting. There are a few new shows I'm watching, though none have been entertaining enough to write a rant/review of them. I've even managed to get about 6 eps behind on Supernatural, though that was because I had missed the first ep and had to go find it. I have been recording all my shows in HD this season - figured since I'm paying for the HD pvr box I might as well get my money's worth, and boy, some of the shows are just so pretty, CSI:Miami in particular. I haven't noticed a particular colour theme in any of the eps so far, but the colours are all so pretty maybe I'm just missing it.

I got a new breadmaker yesterday.

I like bread, but I don't eat much of it and when I buy it it often ends up going mouldy, even when I keep it in the fridge. So, I hauled out my old breadmaker so I could make my bread on demand and it stuffed up two loaves in a row. Considering it was about 15 years old, I'm not really surprised that it wasn't working so well anymore. So, it just happened that my grocery store was having a clearance sale on a lot of the kitchen toys they stock, so I got this one (basically an updated version of the old one) for 25% off. I'm test driving it now, while I write this, so here's hoping it all works out well.

I've finished a couple of baby blankets for someone at work - one of our dispatchers had a little granddaughter, and the first blanket was made using mint green and white before she knew what flavour the baby was going to be, so she commissioned a second one in pink after Charleigh was born. Since I finished that last week I've pulled out a sweater that I started a few years ago. It was mostly done, I'd finished the knitting a long time ago, and sewn it together as well as weaving in all the ends. All that was left to do was to was the front border, but I'd misplaced first the yarn and then the pattern. It took a whole whopping two days to finish a sweater I'd had put away for about two years... sigh...

Anyway, that's about it for the excitement in my life - I know, it's not a lot, but for my loyal three, I hope that catches you up

^.^ it's a very themed blog title, well blog in genral. You'll find out why if you read on. If you're bored already, just have you're way with my comment box and go

Hey Sailors,

blogging again so soon I know, your brains just imploded right? Yeah it's pretty shocking. Truth is, I'm blogging solely for the purposes of procrastination. Avoiding the horrors that accompany the task of studying for Ancient History ---> exam on Monday. Shhh, but don't tell my profile eh? I don't want to hurt his poor profilic feelings by finding out that I'm using him. Yes, my profile is male, and yes that does make me strange. Lap it up, but let's get off that tangent; so exams: I've already done both English Advanced papers and Studies of Religion, so four more to go and then it's all television, all the time. FTB.

It's pretty sweet for my Extension English one exam, I get to use Kathy Reichs as a related text, so five hours of reading Deja Dead is constituted as study hehe.

I finished The X-Files! The finale was legendary, and I know the Truth now, so beware, I'm armed. My favourite parts of the two part episode was the shipper moments [of course]. And I loved having Mulder back. Some of his lines where hilarious.

Best Moments

Before anything else the absolutely best quote in this whole episode, maybe in the whole of season 8 and 9, it had me literally rolling on the floor:

MULDER: I smelled you coming, Clarice.

Some other pretty profound quotes were:

REYES: What is the point of all of this? To destroy a man who seeks the truth or to destroy the truth so no man can seek it? Either way, you lose.

And

SCULLY: You've always said that you want to believe. But believe in what Mulder? If this is the truth that you've been looking for then what is left to believe in?

MULDER: I want to believe that the dead are not lost to us. That they speak to us as part of something greater than us-- greater than any alien force. And if you and I are powerless now, I want to believe that if we listen to what's speaking, it can give us the power to save ourselves.

SCULLY: Then we believe the same thing.

Mulder pretending to blow off Scully

*fans self* squeeee

The Cigarette Smoking Man incinerated? THAT is some serious ironic bird feedage.

Pure genius to end in the beginning, they paralleled the first time MS bonded in the pilot for the final scene.

I've also been playing with icons from the finale, but because of the HSC I've only finished one good one. Not my usual, but nice.

And I found an awweeesome source of all things The X-Files that hooked me up with these frell-tastic gifs.

Oh and seeing as we're on the topic of finale's, I finished Kyle XY the other day too, talk about DUD. Completely hopeless ending. It's like they thought "let's just tack on a mandatory twist ending and fade to black." No closure, felt so ripped off. Very disappointed.

BOOONNNESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSss tomorrow ---->The Bond in the Boot, I'm soooo exicted. I spoilered myself about the plumbing scene, plus the ads have been showing it too. AND It's been confirmed that Zooey is going to be in the Christmas episode squeeeeeee. And And and there's is going to be a Bones episode titled 'The X in the File'. I'm in television heaven! I swear. Too bad you guys in the U.S have to wait a month for new Bones because of the baseball

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That's all for now, I really didn't have a point to this blog. btw updated my About Me.

MT O.o

Hey all,

As many of you have probably noticed, I've been away a while. I had some health issues that needed to be tended to and I was off tending to them. I'm okay now, feeling much better. I apologize to everyone for not getting back to them or letting anyone know ahead of time. It all happened kind of quickly. I'm back now and trying to catch up, so if you wouldn't mind taking it easy on me for a bit I would appreciate it. The rest of the staff has done a bang up job covering in my absence and I thank them sincerely. I'm looking forward to getting back into the swing of things quickly. Hope this finds everyone well. - Dan

We released an update to the GameSpot forum search today. The changes were made to provide more reliable search results and make the forums perform a bit better.

The searches are now running on the Sphinx search server. Sphinx is designed for full-text searches and is a perfect match for the forums. Because the searches are running on the Sphinx server they no longer cause general forum slowdowns when a large # of searches are done at once.

If you are interested, there are a few tips & tricks you can now do to get more specific search results.

The "|" character allows you to do an OR search. e.g., search for: mario | zelda

The "+" character allows you to require a word to be part of the search. e.g., search for: (mario | zelda) +time

If you surround your search term in quotes (") then it will search for that exact combined term. See the difference between: of legend and "of legend" You'll notice that The Legend of Zelda is not included in the second search.

Good luck & good searching!

It's weird.

I don't know why I'm blogging about it.

But I miss when I was active in TV.com.

Like, a new blog each week, a few probably.

A couple of editorships every week or fortnight

Tracking people, haven't done that in ages.

Being apart of a few forums.

Commenting on people's blogs.

And, the most important one, knowing a lot of the more active people on here.

Now, I only know a few people.

It kinda sucks to not be as involved in the site like I used to be

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Anyone else want to be more active in the site again?

i started going on this site called LOCKERZ.com and its totally free and its only invite only... its not a scam i promise, but you get points by inviting people so i wanted to invite u all :]

PM me your email if you're interested..

Rank            :      After School Special

Level           :      97
Percentage      :      92% 

My Butterfly's name is Breanna

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My of the Day. Can You Guess Who Does It?

Blades of Glory

I’m a lone wolf in a cage
Lost my partner to a lie
Like a bird with broken wings, yeah
It’s impossible to fly
I tried to live for two
But only trust in one
Is there nothing that we can do?
Are we truly done?
Every day we do or die
As we’re sailin’ across the sky
Now we’re comin’ home
On these blades of glory
Settin’ fire to the ice
Is the dream that keeps us alive
Now we’re comin’ home
On these blades of glory
Could this be the end
of our mythic story?
I don’t know what to say
I don’t know where to turn
All I know is if I stay
Ooh this ice it sure can burn
A man who’s scared of truth
Can only trust in lies
A boy who’s scared to dream
Can never touch the sky, oh yeah
Every day we do or die
As we’re sailin’ across the sky
Now we’re comin’ home
On these blades of glory
Settin’ fire to the ice
Is the dream that keeps us alive
Now we’re comin’ home
On these blades of glory
Today is the first chapter
Of our mythic story
We’ll never part
On these blades of glory
And we’ll cross our hearts
On these blades of glory
What do you say
Tonight we celebrate
By going out our way, yeah
O-oo-oh, let’s go all the way, yeah
It’s our calling
Every day we do or die
As we’re sailin’ across the sky
Now we’re comin’ home
On these blades of glory
Settin’ fire to the ice
Is the dream that keeps us alive
Now we’re comin’ home
On these blades of glory
Blades of glory
We’ll go all night
‘Til we finish the story
Now we’re comin’ home
On these blades of glory
The dream is alive
And we’ll never be sorry
Now we’re comin’ home
On these blades of glory

She was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene
I said don't mind, but what do you mean I am the one
Who will dance on the floor in the round
She said I am the one
Who will dance on the floor in the round

She told me her name was Billie Jean as she caused a scene
Then every head turned with eyes that dreamed of being the one
Who will dance on the floor in the round

People always told me be careful what you do
Don't go around breaking young girls' hearts
My mother always told me be careful who you love
Be careful what you do 'cause the lie becomes the truth, yeah

Billie Jean is not my lover
She is just a girl who claims that I am the one
But the kid is not my son
She says I am the one, but the kid is not my son

For forty days and for forty nights the law was on her side
But who can stand when she's in demand, her schemes and her plans
'cause we danced on the floor in the round
So take my strong advice
Just remember to always think twice
Do think twice

She told my baby we danced 'til three And she looked at me, and showed me a photo
My baby cried, his eyes where like mine
Can we dance on the floor in the round

People always told me be careful what you do
Don’t go around breaking young girls’ hearts
But she came and stood right by me
Just to smell her sweet perfume
This happened much too soon
She called me to her room

Billie Jean is not my lover
She is just a girl who claims that I am the one
But the kid is not my son
She says I am the one, but the kid is not my son
Not my son

Billie Jean is not my lover
She is just a girl who claims that I am the one
But the kid is not my son
She says I am the one, but the kid's not my son
Not my son

or [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUfbLtZHrog]to listen

This is all kinds of music that I am listening to mostly the 70's.

A man walks into a bar and asks the bartender, "If I show you a really good trick, will you give me a free drink?" The bartender considers it, then agrees. The man reaches into his pocket and pulls out a tiny rat. He reaches into his other pocket and pulls out a tiny piano. The rat stretches, cracks his knuckles, and proceeds to play the blues.

After the man finished his drink, he asked the bartender, "If I show you an even better trick, will you give me free drinks for the rest of the evening?" The bartender agrees, thinking that no trick could possibly be better than the first. The man reaches into his pocket and pulls out a tiny rat. He reaches into his other pocket and pulls out a tiny piano. The rat stretches, cracks his knuckles, and proceeds to play the blues. The man reaches into another pocket and pulls out a small bullfrog, who begins to sing along with the rat's music.

While the man is enjoying his beverages, a stranger confronts him and offers him $100,000.00 for the bullfrog. "Sorry," the man replies, "he's not for sale." The stranger increases the offer to $250,000.00 cash up front. "No," he insists, "he's not for sale." The stranger again increases the offer, this time to $500,000.00 cash. The man finally agrees, and turns the frog over to the stranger in exchange for the money.

"Are you insane?" the bartender demanded. "That frog could have been worth millions to you, and you let him go for a mere $500,000!" "Don't worry about it." the man answered. "The frog was really nothing special. You see, the rat's a ventriloquist."

Can you Tell Me what show this is from?

The winners yesterday were--- .

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Yesterdays show was

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Hi all. Long time no see. No I didn’t fall off the face of the earth or anything. I have been on Pogo. I have had a series of strokes, 5 or 6. I was mad at the world and TV.com. That includes Dave and Ang. I am now confined to the . Anyway, this is all gods will. I am lucky to be alive. Everybody is ok. , is great and the love of my life. I should make an appearance more often now but until next time here is my question do you always answer the when it rings?

Olive Garden's Pasta E Fajule Ingredients:

Cooking Directions:
-------- ------------ -------------------------------- 1 can northern beans - (16 oz) -- undrained 2 cans sliced-****stewed tomatoes - (14 oz ea) 1 jar Prego spaghetti sauce - (16 oz) 2 celery ribs -- sliced thin 1 small onion -- chopped 2 cups small spiral pasta -- uncooked Salt -- to taste Freshly-ground black pepper -- to taste Combine everything in Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Bring just to a boil; turn to low. Cover pan with lid and allow to cook gently 30 minutes or until pasta is tender.