the original young aboriginal

teedz @ 2009-01-06T15:06:00

2009-01-06T20:07:40Z

What?

You mean some of you are still using LiveJournal?

Why?

Ayden Daniel

2007-02-17T14:39:24Z

For those of you unaware, Ayden Daniel arrived kicking and screaming into the world on Feb. 11th, weighing in at 6 lb. 5 oz. and 18 1/2 in. long.

For more pics and stuff, click here.

Vote, Biatch.

2006-11-07T18:46:20Z

If you don't vote today, I will personally kidney punch you the next time we meet.

Free FFL.

2006-08-29T19:50:47Z

Looking for one, maybe two interested people in playing FFL at ESPN. ESPN is free now -- none of this $25.95/team stuff, or whatever.

You can respond to this post with your email, and I can send the invite. All responses are hidden so your email address won't be public.

teedz @ 2006-03-21T13:17:00

2006-03-21T18:17:32Z

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Teedz!

Teedz can remain conscious for fifteen to twenty seconds after being decapitated!
Most bottles and jars contain at least twenty-five percent recycled teedz.
The fingerprints of teedz are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene!
Teedz has often been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean!
Contrary to popular belief, teedz is not successful at sobering up a drunk person, and in many cases he may actually increase the adverse effects of alcohol.
Teedz was declared extinct in 1902.
More than one million stray dogs and half a million stray cats live in teedz.
To check whether teedz is safe to eat, drop him in a bowl of water; rotten teedz will sink, and fresh teedz will float.
If you drop teedz from the top of the Empire State Building, he will be falling fast enough to kill before reaching the ground.
If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and teedz would be as small as a pea.

moola whore that I am...

2005-12-30T00:52:55Z

...I have more invites again. Post a message here with your email address, and as usual, I won't reveal it.

Update: 3/6/06

this one bounced -- free to whomever uses it first. You may have to fix an email address though...

Update: 2/27/06

Two more. You know the rules.

Update: 2/22/06

All gone!

No you can't have the Moola Invite! Not Yours.

if more come my way, this may change

Moola Part II

2005-12-24T17:03:32Z

I have a few more invites to Moola.com... let me know if you want one. Same rules apply - first few people to give me their email addresses below get one. I'd imagine that people would stand an actual chance at getting one this time ;)

I won't have constant access to the intarweb this week, but I will send invites when I get the chance.

Update: I'm cleared out again. More to come, perhaps...

moola moola

2005-12-22T19:53:05Z

I have one invitation right now that is up for grabs for the early beta of moola.com. Their schtick is a series of simple games that you play in against others (although they only have one on right now). You start off "betting" as little as one penny, initially supplied to you by the game site, in efforts to win more, and move up the brackets in an exponential fashion if you so desire. This invite will allow you to get into the game before public release.

Looks like it's been up since about November. I'm not generally a kitschy webgame sorta person -- although this is pretty fun -- and don't usually jump into these sorts of things. The person who invited me, though has already made some nice pocket change. Doesn't cost anything, either, except time spent watching ads.

In any case -- like I said, one invite currently up for grabs to the first person interested in playing who responds to this post. Drop me a message below with your email address, after the beep; I've set the comments to "screen" so you don't have to give away your email address publicly if you don't want.

BEEEEEEEEEP

Update: Invite given away. If I get more, I will let you all know.

Old Meme

2005-10-28T16:14:58Z

Did this one in 2003. Can't believe it's still around. That's like, 95 in internet-years.

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
teedz goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as A Special Prosecutor.
academichussy gives you 1 purple banana-flavoured jawbreakers.
catfish gives you 5 yellow coconut-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
chulitatota tricks you! You get a piece of paper.
kewlnonutz tricks you! You lose 1 pieces of candy!
kldwriter gives you 14 mauve mint-flavoured gummy worms.
lazygarden gives you 11 pink coffee-flavoured nuggets.
redshoemotel tricks you! You lose 16 pieces of candy!
roastporkbun gives you 16 light yellow evil-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
theuglyvolvo tricks you! You get a scratched CD.
wrightbooks gives you 17 purple root beer-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
teedz ends up with 47 pieces of candy, a piece of paper, and a scratched CD.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

yeah, blab, man

2005-04-21T04:35:55Z

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teedz @ 2005-01-09T17:28:00

2005-01-09T22:43:29Z

So let's see:

* LJ's "cleaner-upper" script for HTML used to work on my old layout (apparently I had missed a quote mark in there or something), but now no longer catches the glitch.

* I no longer have a paid account, so guess what -- I can no longer go in and access the template changes that I'd made in the past.

So, rather than pay LJ x number of bucks for a paid acct, even for a month, in order to go in and fix it, I just chose a generic LJ layout, and am done with it. Maybe now that my friends page is readable again, I can go in and actually start reading it.

Of course, there's been so much going on lately, I don't know that I'll have as much time...

teedz @ 2004-12-12T12:10:00

2004-12-12T17:17:33Z

So what the heck did LJ do with my layout? It's not like I've changed anything in the past, oh, year or so....

teedz @ 2004-10-05T13:52:00

2004-10-05T17:55:28Z

It's a chilly day in DC today, and that's strange. One would think that between Paul Bremer's "there weren't enough troops -- I mean, we had plenty of troops" and Rumsfeld's "there's no Al Qaeda-Iraq connection -- I mean, there is a definite connection" that there'd be enough hot air and spinning going on to heat us all up.

In other news, so this is what free accounts are like these days, eh. Hm.

In even other news, everyone in my office is coughing their respective lungs up, and if I end up getting sick prior to the wedding, there will be hell to pay.

Old and Busted: MT New Hotness: WP

2004-05-26T20:45:03Z

I have moved from Movable Type as a weblogging software, to WordPress.

WordPress is much cooler. Unfortunately, it also broke my LJ feed. Since LJ isn't cool enough to allow anyone to change the feed information, I've just gone ahead and used up more of LJ's namespace to create yet another one.

Add this to your friends list: wp_teedz, and remove mt_teedz -- the latter will likely never be updated again.

PEAZ.

what-EVAH

2004-05-05T19:27:38Z

i can breathe in a small town.

2004-04-12T05:20:04Z

I've got family who lives in this little tiny suburb outside of Raleigh, NC called "Fuquay", or "Fuquay-Varina" if you associated Fuquay with its equally tiny sister town.

There are 77 LJs in Fuquay. That's kinda wild.

A most excellent brain teaser...

2004-02-20T05:51:49Z

See if you can solve this one (SWF only - larger, but slower).

I solved it... evidence below the LJ-Cut, as it may contain spoilers and/or hints.

Oh well, here's two hints.

* Things Aren't Always as They Seem
* More Points is Not Always a Good Thing

teedz @ 2004-02-19T01:04:00

2004-02-19T06:13:15Z


Iron Like a Lion in Zion

because a promise is a promise is a promise.

2004-01-28T01:28:30Z

Sorry, it is being LJ Cut because the colours clash terribly w/ my journal colours.

Who has a
crush on teedz?

Update: Oops. :/

Truckin' on...

2003-12-22T03:08:24Z

As it stands now, most of my posts will now be made on my Movable Type weblog, available here. I am not deleting this journal, but I will be using the Livejournal site mainly for "friends only" sorts of entries, or community posts, most likely, though.

Why did I switch over? MT gave me more powerful options for things I was looking to do. That's mostly it.

I set up an LJ syn feed for the weblog -- mt_teedz

Duh, duh, and double-duh

2003-12-21T05:57:33Z

Like a doctor with zero bedside manner, Ryan pretty quickly gets to the point: Since Neistat's iPod is past the year-long warranty, the cost of parts, labor and shipping will nearly equal the cost of a new machine, and so, Ryan suggests yet again, Neistat should probably just relax and buy a new iPod, which currently costs from $299 to $499, depending on the memory size.

When are people going to learn? When you join the Apple cult, sooner or later, you're gonna end up drinking the kool-aid. This is what Apple is all about, nailing you on proprietary hardware! Very similar things happened to me with my clamshell iBook -- about three months after the one-year warranty on it expired, what do you know, my CD-ROM died. Thus, I went to the local authorised Apple repair/sales shop. This was not an Apple store, mind you, but a shop authorised by Apple nonetheless and indeed, they had corporate and government contracts from around the US to do repair work.

So maybe you can imagine my surprise when they told me they couldn't fix my iBook, that "Apple won't let us even touch those things".

Well no wonder... I called up customer service, and Apple wanted $350 to replace and fix it.

Update: I hadn't even finished reading the article yet, when I wrote this. Funny that it uses the term "Kool-Aid" too, albeit in a slightly different context.

teedz @ 2003-12-16T00:24:00

2003-12-16T05:33:00Z

Rolling Stone's recent issue contained a list of their "Top 500 albums of all time". Now, while such a list is going to be controversial, and while doing such a thing is only going to lead to hordes of OMGWTFKTHX letters in the coming months, I gotta hand it to RS - they did a great job on the promo material. I can only guess how much advertisers spent to get in this issue.

The coolest part, however, is the RS500 Super Audio CD Sampler. The disc is dual layer SACD, meaning that those of us with SACD systems can hear the Dolby 5.1, while standard CD players can still read the redbook layer. While I guess you could call it propaganda, of sorts, seeing as the SACD proponents are at odds with those who are backing DVD-A as the next-generation of music mediums, in my mind, the consumer wins out here, because it is one fantastic selection of music on this disc.

On the disc:
Bob Dylan - "Simple Twist of Fate"
Pink Floyd - "Money"
The Who - "Pinball Wizard"
Herbie Hancock - "Watermelon Man"
Norah Jones - "Come Away With Me"
Elton John - "Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road"
Billy Joel - "Movin' Out"
Miles Davis - "Blue in Green"
Aerosmith - "Sweet Emotion"

While there are a few on this disc that, given the chance, I'd replace with something else, none of them are terrible; considering that SACD is relatively new and has something like fewer than 1000 titles remastered to its name, This isn't a bad collection at all.

teedz @ 2003-12-12T11:13:00

2003-12-12T16:17:56Z

catfish sent me this article. I like my headline better.

Baffled Brits bemused by busty breakfast babe's bye-bye

the wonders of syndication

2003-12-11T20:27:35Z

To all you readers of Jess' weblog, I have created a Livejournal Syndication Feed for it.

Add user apropos_jess to your friends list. Note that he won't get any comments you leave in those, but it's a start...

Update: I was going to create a syn feed for Chris' cool Covers Project website, but it seems there is one already!

coversproject

teedz @ 2003-12-10T09:31:00

2003-12-10T14:34:59Z

James Brown has been named, by Colin Powell, The Foreign Minister of Funk. Hopefully, his first task will be to crack down on music terrorists.

And no, I don't mean downloaders. I mean Lou Pearlman and his legion of teen pop stars.