What Team Are You On?
I think it is pretty cool that Twitter has made such a splash with the Color Wars… I keep finding news of it on the internets. The latest on SheGeeks has a summary of all the teams and how many members on each:
[Updated Thursday, March 20, 2008 @ 1:30 p.m. EST]
@veryGreenTeam - 774
@BlueTeam - 289
@OrangeTeam - 232
@Redteam - 159
@YellowTeam - 127
@FF1CAEteam - 164
@GoldTeam - 199
@Offwhiteteam - 95
@Plaidteam - 119
@Noteam - 176
@Fuchsia - 55
@TeamClear - 102
@PinkTeamgo - 27
@Whiteteam - 40
@Purple - 86
@StripeTeam - 35
@PuceTeam - 26
@rainbowteam - 101
@blackwatchteam - 59
@GammaRayTeam - 5
@ChartreuseTeam - 48
@greenredteam - 49
@BrownTeam - 19
@TeamTransparent - 53
@PussyPinkTeam - 145
@sepiateam - 16
@seethruteam - 6
@meatteam - 53
@Teamcoffee - 31
Don’t forget, dp.com is an official member and supporter of the @blueteam. So join me there!
Color Wars 2008
Are you on Twitter? If not, you should be. If so, I would like to invite you to follow us @blueteam. Why? I don’t know. I usually like red. But for this I totally went blue…
There’s this thing going on Twitter right now - and if you’re not a Twitter-head, this meme probably won’t make sense to you - it’s called color wars. I’m guessing it is coming from a bit of boredom on a slow news day, or perhaps it’s the result of everyone finally getting over their SXSW bug and still being a bit punchy from the anti-histamines… Apparently how this thing works is you go through the list of color teams that exist, decide which one you want to back, and then follow that color. You get to choose between red, green, yellow, blue, orange, pink, gold, off-white, plaid, fuscia, clear, white, purple, stripe, and puce (and Ze Frank is seemingly heavily supporting the green team).
Full Story.
Remember, go BLUE!
UPDATE: Zefrank explains Color Wars.
Who Is My Ideal TV Boyfriend?
I never really thought about it. Hmm…
Luckily we have the internet to answer these tough life-changing questions for us.
(via some
cool kids) Click it, take it, and comment with your tv bf yo…
UPDATE: This post was not very diverse was it? Here is a quiz for our readers not looking for an ideal TV boyfriend… Still comment with your results, please. These are life-changing questions here!
Holiday Meme
Our good friend Mike scoped this one out for us. There will be NO tagging. Don’t even worry. It does provide good blog fodder tho. FYI. Here we go:
Wrapping paper or gift bags?
Wrapping paper. Unless of course the gift is a bottle of wine, or of an odd size that can’t be boxed and wrapped properly.
Real tree or Artificial?
Come on.. You want all my secrets? Artificial and pre-lit. If I do a real tree the lighting process of wrapping each branch (OCD) with lights becomes such an ordeal. Not to mention removing them. Once I tossed the tree out lights and all. Artificial is just better for the sanity of all involved.
When do you put up the tree?
First week of December. The cards go out that week too. With my job if I wait it won’t get done.
When do you take the tree down?
Normally, December 26th. Although my mom and I had been known to do it Christmas day back when I lived at home… This year we have the post holiday gig, so it’ll be up an extra week. *cringe*
Do you like eggnog?
Only when thinned with booze.
Favorite gift received as a child?
My most favorite gift as a child was actually at Easter. I wanted baby chickens, and my parents found these fake ones that were so cute… As an adult it was my iPod. Heh. Both times.
Do you have a nativity scene?
Erm. No.
Hardest person to buy for?
We don’t really ‘do’ gifts. Richard and I do purchases for *us* yearly, like this year we bought the bedroom set. That was like all the gifts all year. We don’t buy a gift for anything. And with my folks, well, yeah. No gifts.
Easiest person to buy for?
See above.
Mail or email Christmas cards?
Mail. Hello! The dp.com card exchange is renowned on the internets.
Worst Christmas gift you ever received?
A slip of paper stating ‘this certificate good for _____ signed Santa.’ WTF?
Favorite Christmas Movie?
A Christmas Story. It just rocks. That leg lamp? OMG.
Least Favorite?
The Sound Of Music. Is that even Christmas? That thing gives me gas.
When do you start shopping for Christmas?
There’s no shopping.
Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?
You have to sometimes with the ‘hostess gifts’.
Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?
Booze.
Clear lights or colored on the tree?
Clear. Is this really a question?
Favorite Christmas song?
I find them all mind numbing. I work retail. I think *because* of that the new ones, the alternative artists are better for me.
Travel at Christmas or stay home?
Neither. Retail. Is ‘stay at work’ an option here?
Can you name all of Santa’s reindeer?
Fuck no. Is it January yet? Where’s my drink?
Angel on the tree top or a star?
Neither. See Flickr.
Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning?
My mom and I were on the side of Eve, back in the day. Now there are no gifts. Who cares?
Most annoying thing about this time of year?
The public and their selfish and self important attitudes.
Favorite ornament theme or color?
Red.
Favorite for Christmas dinner?
Is there a dinner? We were always brunch people.
Least Favorite?
Huh? Dinner? See above yo.
What do you want for Christmas this year?
Lottery winnings. Sadly tho, you have to play to win.
Oh Look! A Meme!
I’ve been betch-slapped with this meme. It’s the 7 (seven!) random things about me meme. This is totally and completely different from the 8 Things You Don’t Know or the 10 Random Things. Don’t even bring up the 5 Things, cause like that wasn’t even enough things, okay? I should save it for tomorrows post, but I am in a cocky mood. I can post multiple times in a day! Watch me now!
Anyhoo. Lemme see..
I hate washing my own car. I am not allowed to where I live tho, so it’s cool.
I love Mexican food. I would eat it every day if I could get Richard onboard.
I recently made my first non-magazine (remember magazines? waay back.) adult purchase. I felt naughty.
I hate feeling naughty.
They say smelling toast is a sign of a heart attack or something. I smell toast every day. I smell it right now. There is no toast here.
Sometimes I am glad of the language barrier at work. It gives me an excuse to not deal with the public.
Sometimes when the tortilla chip bag only has those little broken ones left I will pour them out into the salsa and stir it… then eat it with a spoon.
Technically I should tag someone with this. I don’t feel like it tho. So you are all off the hook. Or ON the hook if you need blog fodder, like if you were doing a daily posting challenge of some kind…
The Which Lolcat Are You? Test
Your Score: 7331 Cat
47% Affectionate, 63% Excitable, 73% Hungry
Lolzergs have nothing on you. You are swift and ruthless, cutting down whatever and whomever necessary in order to obtain the foodz. As one of the first lolcat known to man, your ancient skills in location-declaration and object-verbing have been passed down several generations, keeping the spirit of felinity alive.
To see all possible results, checka dis.
Sorry folks. Blame it on Richard. But take the test and comment back, yo!
The ‘8 Things’ Meme
Since I have been preparing for VACATION, I am a bit behind lately in a lot of things. Apparently my blog is one of them, as I was tagged by Lisa for the ‘8 Things’ meme a while ago. I suck. This should be done already! I think I may have subconsciously been putting it off. I mean really, 8 things you don’t know about me? Come on, I blog the opening of an envelope. I have to wrack my brain here!
Hrm. I need to just jump in, eh? We’ll see what comes to me.
1. I have a mole on my right arm. It has been there since birth. My mom has always said that it was how she felt sure that the hospital never switched babies on her. I hate that mole. It grows freaky hair.
2. I don’t eat fruit. Or nuts actually. Doesn’t that seem odd? Especially for a gay guy. No fruit or nuts Heh. Seriously though, I think it’s a ‘texture’ thing. Fruit grosses me out. Especially apples and oranges. Ew. And bananas are so slimy. Don’t get me started on watermelon. Vile. I am cool with legumes though. Peanuts rock my taste buds!
3. When I was growing up we moved a lot. My dad followed the work, and that meant a lot of schools for us. I never could fit in and hated going to school all my life. Kids are bastards.
4. I love video games, but rarely have the attention span to finish them. I am usually cool with ‘I almost finished that one’. There was one I played for weeks and weeks. It had a story line and was amazing. I loved it. At least until I got stuck in like level eighty five. I had it saved, but kept dying. So I’d start at the last save, and die over and over. After the 5th or 6th time I was done. I had ‘almost won’ and that was better than level eighty five… I have stopped buying games..
5. I am ticklish. Too ticklish in fact. It can hinder me in other activities sometimes.
6. As a kid, I used to pick on my cousin a lot. I don’t know why. She was fun to hang out with. I must have been mean to her cause the kids at school were mean to me. I don’t know. Anyway, her mother used to tell her to ignore me when I teased her. I took care of that one by inventing a disease. The ‘Ignories’. I would do a little song about how she had the Ignories and how awful it was. It brought her to tears every time. Heh. I was good. I mean, bad! That was mean of me!
7. I do not swim.
8. I chew my fingernails. Isn’t that gross? I try to limit it. I mean, I work with the public yo. No fingers in the mouth at work! But still. Clean finger nails or not, makes for ugly hands. Anyone ever stopped successfully? How’d ya do it?
There. Now that I look like a freak! Hahahah. That wasn’t so bad. Only took me 2 days to think of it all.. 
I won’t tag anyone other than Shel, the guest author. Heheh.
