I won!

I actually had a lot of fun with the contest, and as such, I am turning it into a regular event here at YNTE. Next month, I, as the winner of this months contest, will create the rules (and provide the prize) for next month's contest. This pattern will continue all year until the end of the year, when the points will be tallied and a yearlong winner will win a super special prize provided by me.

I want you all to know that I accepted this award with humility and grace. Upon realizing I'd won, I contacted my opponents and congratulated them on a contest well run. I believe my exact words were:

SUCK FAILURE FREAK
I KICKED YOUR ASS UP DOWN AND SIDEWAYS

Though with Umi, I added a nice little bit on the end:

now you owe me a tasty prize

I'm a classy guy like that. I will see you in February with a new contest!

Evan paid me

Not pictured: Most of those bills.

It was really helpful at the LAN party we had, as I paid for a lot of the pizza. Like, 5 pizzas. Good stuff. In any case I've gotta get the rest of my posts in. It's been a busy month, so not a whole lot of buzzing going on around here.

Also we had our first ever chip-bag fight. That was interesting.

Also we didn't help Umi clean up. Sorry Umi! Maybe we'll help clean up next time. If you haven't banned us from your apartment already.

It's on! (And resolutions and so forth)

Alright, so Evan has his goals, for him and us. Sounds good.

But I think Tom and I should come up with our own resolutions as well. Here's what I've got so far:

1) I promise to publicly remember Evan's Birthday. (I'm also tempted to add older posts to make it look like I did)

2) I'll try to post at least one classic YNTE a month. Hell, maybe every Friday, I dunno. At least one a month though.

...yep, that's what I've got so far. I'll try to think of something involving getting admin privileges back or something.


Oh, by the way, what about Stevo?

Mission Accomplished / The Gauntlet

This blog is more often than not, pretty stupid. But for some wierd reason I love it. The times it almost died made me sad.

That's why, January 1st 2009, I swore that this year would not be the year the blog kicked the bucket for good. I resolved that every month would have at least 4 blog posts, even if I had to supply all 4 of them myself. And guess what? We did it. (mainly me).

But now 2010 is quickly approaching, and I don't want 2010 to be the year YNTE dies either! In fact, if possible, I would like 2010 to be EVEN RADDER than 2009. So here is the plan:

1) I personally resolve that every month of 2010 I will personally provide 5 content posts. Last year I only cared that there were 4 by the end, this year my resolution rests firmly on my own shoulders.

2) I challenge Matt and Tom to also post 5 content posts every month. And to up the ante, should they succeed in this task I will pay each of them fifty american dollars.

The gauntlet has been thrown down, Matt and Tom. Will you rise to the challenge?

And to the rest of you, loyal YNTE readers, thanks a bunch for a great 2009.

-Evan

The new hawtness

I am now the proud owner of one not-Crapolier. For anyone who intended to buy me a car for Christmas, you are too late. I'll take the cash equivalent instead, though.

If you break the window on this car, my pack of Mexican hunting weasels WILL find you and force you to listen to the Alvin and the Chipmunks Christmas special on repeat for all eternity. You have been warned.

And to anyone who was wondering, yes, I transferred the 2 litre of Squirt to this car before trading in the old one.

Check out my skills of an artist! Part 2!

Some of you may remember my photoshopped Ms. Marvel. Well, I have upped my game with the digital painting. Instead of modifying an existing photo, I started from scratch.


What started as a character design for an upcoming(a long time from now) character for Jimmy and the Hammer turned into a fairly realistic human. So I decided to share my results. What do you think?

Remember when Matt forgot to eat?

Hey, remember that time back in October when I was having stomach issues? Well, it happened again a few weeks ago. Except that time I had been eating.

So I went to the doctor again with this stomach pain, and they have the nerve to tell me that it's not my stomach. It was actually my appendix. Which was in the wrong spot.

Long story short, they cut that out, rendered me immobile for a few days, and gave me an excuse to get a handicap placard for my car. It's almost like a fast pass at Disneyland that's good through July. And hey, I don't need to follow any of this restricted diet crap! Although, my arse is still pretty numb from that hospital bed.



Reflecting back on this, I probably should have blogged about this while I was in the hospital, and gotten all of that pity and sympathy that you wouldn't care to give... But I thought it'd be funny to give Evan crap about it first on Facebook.

Webcomic Rising!

To any of you out there who haven't heard yet, I'm making a webcomic. Posts will start coming soon with more information as I get a bit closer to the grand premiere.

Some information to tide you over:
1) It'll be a comic book limited series. 4 issues, each issue with a cover and 22 pages of content. I'll be releasing them one page at a time, on a regular schedule (twice a week, most likely). Once an issue is available in its entirety online, print versions will be manufactured for sale!
2) The main characters will be a firefighter/private investigator with a mullet and a talking monkey with sunglasses. These characters are copyrighted by me! No stealing!
3) I know a lot more than I'm telling. I've got the whole series plotted out, some cool characters and some cool plot twists. A bit of a mystery, some action, and a lot of comedy. This is a story I'm really excited to tell. But rather than tell you the details now, I'll tell them to you in the strip.

So that's it in a nutshell. I'll definitely post again periodically with updates.

On an unrelated note: Matt, Steve and Tom. You all suck at posting far more than I do. If you guys posted every time you give me crap about not posting enough, the blog wouldn't have a content problem. Just saying. We'll wait and see if one of you can bust out a 4th post this month, but the smart money says I'll have to do it myself.

And now... THE GRAND REVELATION!

The moment you have all been waiting for is now here:

Tom, your free pdrepper expired February 28th! It is now March 1st! IN YOUR FACE!

The Dr didn't deliver after all, now did he?

I promise next time there is a grand revelation, it'll actually be something important. Or will it?

NaNoWriMo is upon us.

National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, is upon us once again in a few days. The idea is that everyday people undertake the insane task of trying to write an entire novel in a months time. Anyone who writes a 50,000+ word novel within the month of November "wins".

This year is great, since I just got cut back on hours. Now I have tons of free time to write my masterpiece, or if it's anything like last year, play video games and mumble to myself about how I should be writing.

I'm doing it, I think Jason is as well. Who else is with me?

More information can be found at: www.nanowrimo.org

Now THIS is happening!

Nobody but me has admin rights any more.

That's what happens when you abuse the laws of grammar.

Tom needs to eat

After trying to add me to this thing many times (possibly 40, which is terrible), Evan finally got me into eating. This half-creature/half-man explains just how my face brightened when I logged into my gmail and saw the invitation. You shall be seeing more of me, world. This will be the funnest mostest funner most fun (and you all are really swell. SUCK awesome horrible and much better lamer than Evan. STOP EDITING FIXING RUINING MY EDITS!) blog on the interweb.

Achievement Unlocked: As Easy As 1-2-3 (4-5?)

Been a while since I posted one of these, but my gamerscore just hit a nice round number again: 12345. A hearty portion of those recent points came from the game Lost: Via Domus, which is a video game based on the TV show, and to answer your question, yes, it is THAT bad. But I want to get all 100 of its easy gamerscore before I trade it in. I'm about to go back to playing it now, so it's likely I'll have passed 12500 by the time you read this. So I'm essentially 1/4 of the way to my second 10k. Will I hit 20k before Matt hits 10k? Only time will tell, but the race is on.
My gamertag on XBox Live is ShovelMage. Be friends with me!