Featured Blog Posts – December 2011 Archive (29)

In which Hank shares his personal rules for tipping, discusses why we do it, and how it kills time lords...and then he says the word Poohster.

Hi! Remember me? I'm Senior Executive Ningmaster Tom. I'm supposed to be running this site. :D

In reality, I've been missing in action for a long time. I have hardly done anything ning-related in months, apart from occasionally banning a spammer, or responding to an e-mail. (And changing the banner. :þ)

But I should've been doing so. much. more. :|

(Including, but not limited to, essential tasks like…

In which John witnesses his parents' goats mating, including all of the weird foreplay that precedes goat sex, like the part where the male goat urinates on his own beard and then rubs it all over the female goat, and then the part where the goat humps in all the wrong places. A thoughts from places only with more goat intercourse than usual.

Our mom will be making…

Listen, Jena, I’ve really been enjoying the Nook I got for Christmas (thanks, Mam and Dad). Three dollars and five minutes got all Mark Twain’s books onto this little eReader. I love our apartment full of actual books, though, so I thought I should figure out whether or not eReaders are going to ruin books. Also I photographed my newly organized library. You married into this.

Maybe the internet crippled the music industry,…

SWANS A SWIMMING http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVDSU8H6QhM

STILL COPYRIGHTED http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWbApxiqUD0

In which Hank reveals which charities will be receiving over $14,000 each!

If you need something to read between now and TFiOS, I have written a few other books, including Looking for Alaska: http://dft.ba/-looking4alaska An Abundance of Katherines: http://dft.ba/-aokatherines and Paper Towns: http://dft.ba/-1h5U

In which…

In which Hank delves into the mystery of the Republican presidential hopefuls using the inescapably useful and magical tool of the anagram!

Donations are still being accepted at http://www.projectforawesome.com

Also, everyone seems to agree that Hank and Katherine play Super Mario Bros. Wii is like the best thing…

Listen, Jena, I know I’ve gone on about Charles Dickens a bit this month, but it’s Christmas time, and no writer helps us define and celebrate the season like Dickens. So here are six interesting facts about his miniature masterpiece, A Christmas Carol.

1. Dickens wrote the book in just two months (October and November, 1843).
2. The first printing of 6,000 copies sold out in days.
3. Within six weeks of its publication on December 19, 1843,…

Time is tight, but this community is tighter!

This is creepily good, though apparently done with a bad pencil. Nicely done! *shudders*…

As many of you guys will know, Nerdfighteria will soon be moving from the Ning Network onto a private domain. This gives us greater freedom on what we can do with Nerdfighters. Owing to this, we are looking to appoint new users to the roles of Ningmasters, or Admins as they will be known on the new system. We are looking for enthusiastic individuals who love the site as much as we do, to join us in helping transfer over and improving the place we love. So if you have a…

In which Hank continues the story of Savann Tabak, a village in Haiti where a bunch of cool people live. And the story, at this point, has a happy ending.

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Yes, I just read another J-Fic book.  I've read the first three Fablehaven books and quite enjoyed them, so naturally...

What I love most about this series is the creativity.  The writing is by no means brilliant, but every aspect of the story is incredibly imaginative.  The characters are deep and likeable, the plot is detailed and captivating... some of the events that take place, particularly in the fourth book, make me think perhaps it should be moved to the YA…

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In which Hank goes over the details of the Project for Awesome. His P4A video will go up tomorrow at noon!

Continue the game in comments by free associating with other nerdfighters! Oh, and you really CAN get great nerdfighter merch at http://www.dftba.com, although there are alas no disco golf balls. (....yet.) And don't forget to prepare for the PROJECT FOR AWESOME:…

For those of you that want ANOTHER (possibly even BETTER) chat to bother people with:

Holy sweet thing, batman!

Their website is also here

Its an IRC and if you don't know what that is then you're probably too young…

Listen, Jena, if you get around to reading this entry, it won’t be because the title pulled you in. It’ll be because you love me, for some reason. This got me thinking about writing and mortality, and made me wonder; who’s better suited to enjoy Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: his wife Catherine, or me?

Dickens dabbled in mesmerism. He was an actor, a philanthropist, a maker of amazing punch, and able to read his works aloud so effectively that women…

So, bad news...

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Cello Wars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgAlQuqzl8o

English Teacher Analyzes Alex Day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-EN8HGkjg4

Frezned…

We have an excellent selection today! I hope you enjoy them as much as I did. Do. Did. Whatever. Just read on.

Quite elegant!

A representative cross section of a small sample of bands called Chameleon…

I've heard today of an exciting opportunity for an aspiring writer with a passion for games and gaming, it's with a website called TVAfterDark and it would be a great first step for any up and coming games journalist!

The advert for the job is as follows:

TVAfterDarkOnline.com is looking or blogger/vblogger that are enthusiastic, die hard, opinionated video gamer that have controllers glued to their chest, just because they can't bare to leave your…

To be honest, I found this book kind of... disappointing, boring, dull, annoying... I don't know. I read the first two Midnight Twins books in the spring, and I know that they weren't fantastic, but I don't remember being annoyed by them.

There are two reasons mainly that I disliked this book, and they are the same two reasons that I usually have for disliking a book: a) the writing style, and b) the romance.

a) Sometimes I don't like a narrative style…