My Blog Work is Never Done

And when it is done, YouTube will take down one of my favorite music videos, creating more work. The thing is, I ignore stuff like that until I'm missing about ten videos, then I have to revamp the song list.

Now, I'm trying to fix stuff on my Conservative Corner. The quote I have on Obama down there is from Opus #6 on this blog post. I'm putting it here 'cause I'm tired of putting it down there; the super-long link tends to muddle things up. So remember that.

Also, some of you may notice that I'm adding Liberal blogs to their own new special section. And I'm sure you're thinking, "But T.A.R.N.S., why are you keeping an eye on liberals?" That's exactly the point: I'm on keeping an eye on the liberals. I wan to know what those people are up to. Besides, some of these blogs I can compare and contrast with Conservative blogs, and that's pretty fun.

I have another blog in limbo in My Favorites since I'm waiting to see which side they come out on. I rather like how I can dump most of my important link on this blog and keep them here.

Well, it's time to get back to work.

So Yeah

Normal banner's back up. Yay!

I'd like to thank my newest follower. Thank You! As some people might see, I have added the followers do-hickey to my blog, and added a couple more links to the Conservative Corner. Now I'm having trouble with that too. But it seems to have passed.

Tonight I put up my pro-Israel poster. Now I need a great pro-Israel link to go with it. I wonder where I can get one. I saw a news story that cheered me up today? Remember how Obama was thumbing his nose to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while the PM was visiting? (Or maybe you saw my rant about it. Ranting is good for your blood pressure. Try it sometime. You'll feel better when you're done - especially if you write it out.) Well today I saw a blog post over on Gateway Pundit about how Americans are sending the PM about 10,000 yellow roses as a sign of friendship. It cheered me up immensely.

Here is the link to the Gateway Pundit story. And here is a link to the Jerusalem post article on it. i hope the flowers get delivered soon, though I admit it might take some time for a shipment of flowers that large to get delivered.

Then tonight I went back to Gateway Pundit and proceeded to about have a heart attack at this headline: "Netanyahu Cancels Trip to Nuclear Summit."

OBAMA'S HOLDING A NUCLEAR SUMMIT!?!? We are so SCREWED! Who elected this hippy?!?! "Come, my brothers, and we will all live in harmony in a nuke-free world."

Yeah. Right. listen to me veeerryy carefully. PEACE IS A TWO WAY STREET. You cannot have peace unless the other country wants peace. I have a bad feeling that is going to blow up in our face, spectacularly.

Kudos to Netanyahu for just saying no.

The news is bad for my mental health. But keeping one's head buried in the sand is how we got into this mess in the first place, so I'll keep pressing on.

I wish I had covered all my tracks completely

'Cause I'm so afraid

Is that the light at the far end of the tunnel,

Or just the train?

... I forget the last time I felt brave

I just recall uncertainty

'Cause it came down like a tidal wave,

and sorrow swept over me.

Depression please cut to the chase

And cut a long story short....

- Owl City, Tidal Wave

Thanks to whoever made the Star of David clip art that I used for both the banner and the poster. I appreciate it. Drawing a Star of David in MS Paint is pretty hard.

More Updates

When everything gets so complicated

Who do I choose to believe?

Religion can be so overrated

All I know is now I am free!

- Eleventyseven, "Love in Your Arms."

You know, in hindsight, perhaps posting my fancy new banner three days before it was time to put up my Easter banner was not my brightest idea. Oh well. I can always get the other one back out after Easter.

So, yeah. Banner's been changed. Lyrics in purple on it are from, well, you take a guess.

I wish I had more to talk about on here, but I really don't. I read through one of my old journals today. It was kind of cool. I had no idea that I'd recorded some of that stuff. Er, more accurately, I didn't remember that I recorded some of that stuff. It's really neat to go back and see some of that stuff. I wish I had started journaling a lot sooner.

I did keep a couple of diarys off and on when I was younger, but never like this. Ah well.

By the way, what's an eleventyseven, anyway?

I'm Back

So... you probably wonder where I've been. Well, for the first two weeks in March, I was on vacation in Michigan. It's hard to believe I've only been home for six days now. And I came home just in time to watch the catastrophe known as Obamacare really heat up. Lucky me. I'm starting to miss vacation.

So, back to normal life, or not-so-normal-life. It is nice to be home, though.

Updates

Well, I took down my Christmas/Winter banner today. Aww... I knew it would have to happen eventually, and I don't know why I call it my Christmas banner because it's not Christmassy in the least. It's just a cute little snowman and some snowflakes. But I'm back to my normal black and silver. I needed to get that done sometime before I had to put the Easter banner up.

So..yeah. That's done now. Look for a new post coming ... sometime when I have something to talk about. Other things to look for are the fact that I've added a one link to my 'What I do for fun' section and two new videos to the song list.

L8R.

It's Christmas Time!!

'Cause Christmas season kicks off on the day after Thanksgiving.

As you can see, I have decorated my blog for the season, as per last year. My winter/Christmas banner has been updated, as in the last one the snow and snowflakes were rather uneven. Also, this new version has special snowflakes dotting the I's in the blog name. Yay!

And all it took was about ten minutes of work in Microsoft paint and about the same amount of patience. Yes, I make all my own blog banners in MS paint. I start out with my basic template and then redesign as needed. A few bit of pointless trivia about the Dial R banners, if you're interested:

- The largest banner I've made thus far is the 9/11 banner.

- The 9/11 banner, along with the Easter banner, are the only two banners that don't have Dial R 4 Infinity anywhere on them. Technically, my election banners also don't have my blog name on them either, but since those banners are oneshot wonders, they don't really count.

I have also added my Christmas songs to the song list over there. If you haven't heard the Twelve Days of Christmas a la Relient K, you should go listen to it. You don't know what you're missing. That version of the Twelve Days of Christmas is amazing crazy but cool.

I do love decking this place out for Christmas. ^^ As much fun as decorating the house, not to mention a whole lot faster and easier to do.

Enjoy the music! Merry Christmas!!

Excuse the Dust, Please

If your computer is like mine, or I should say if your Internet browser is like mine, it lets you run more then Internet page off the same browser, opening new pages in tabs. If you've visited my blog this way, you may notice that it looks like my blog is taking forever to load.

This is not the case.

If you've visited before, you might remember the three videos I had embedded in my green sidebar. These will no longer load. Everything else will, but not those videos. I have been expecting this for some time now. You might have noticed that the blogger staff has been cleaning out many, many old gadgets. I knew something was up when I went looking to put a fourth video in the blue sidebar, but the gadget was gone. This is going to be quite a pain to fix, but personally I'm not surprised.

So when you see that the page isn't loading, and that the two videos I've been trying to fix don't fit in the sidebar, don't worry, I'm working on it. Everything loads except for the PreCure All Stars video, All About Us. This one will be the hardest to fix because it consists of video clips instead of a stationary image.

And if anyone out there knows how to fit a video into these sidebars, please leave a comment and tell me what you know. Thank You!

More Musings of a Numbers Symbol

TV Tropes

I was over TV Tropes today, which is where I go when I'm bored. Along the way, I stopped by the Injury Tropes, just out of curiosity, and read about Annoying Arrows. They said that bows and arrows went out of use because it's hard to learn a bow, and requires considerable strength to work. I wonder where the anime variations of a bow and arrow fit in. It is TV Tropes, after all.






About eight seconds into Cure Aqua's attack, if you look, it should seem like a bow. Incidentally, it's a lot easier to see in the movie previews. No, maybe it's not. That was an early preview; I see they didn't have Fresh Pretty Cure in that one.

Twilight

Let me see, what else can I ramble on about while I'm here? Oh yes. See this commercial for the Bing Search engine? You'll have to follow the link, the video is to wide for me to embed in my blog. That guy in the commercial is supposed to be a vampire. See how fast he's moving? Now, this really bother me, because I can't remember reading ANYWHERE in Dracula that vampires had the gift of superspeed. The only vampire story I've ever read that in is Twilight. And that really bothers me, because though I've decided that Twilight is an okay book series (Of course, I'm not counting Breaking Dawn when I say series,) I'm getting more and more annoying that that stupid book screwed up an entire genre of monsters!!!

- Unless I really, really missed something in Dracula, vampires don't have superspeed.

- Vampires don't sparkle in the sun. They die in the sun.

- Yes, in the book, the reason the Cullen family can't be out during the day is because they sparkle in sun, as opposed to dying. Are you freaking kidding me?

- My apologies. I just got back from TV Tropes (again), and they told me that in the book, Dracula could be out in the sun, he just couldn't use some of his powers. That's true. My bad. Either way, Twilight is still not excused.

- They're also immune to crosses, and probably (thought this hasn't been confirmed in the books yet, at least not that I've found) by extension, can't be repelled by garlic either, and can cast reflections in mirrors,which is in CLEAR CONTRADICTION to the greatest vampire of all times, DRACULA. Not. Edward. Cullen.

- Another thing thing that makes me very annoyed is this belief that vampires don't have to sleep, at any time, if you go by Twilight. So tell me, Edward, what did Dracula do in his coffin all day? Watch DVDs?

Now with all these other shows out there about or somehow involving vampires I have to wonder how many of them are taking their cues from Twilight. If a stupid commercial will take it from Twilight, well, I'm worried, about how everything else is doing vampires. I used to like Twilight, but I've read all but the last chapter of Eclipse, and anymore I'm just not impressed. That's okay. They tell me Breaking Dawn is worse. Some maybe I'll get a copy and see.

Winx Club

I've been watching Season 4, online because it hasn't been dubbed/mangled by 4Kids yet, and this season is nothing but sheer insanity. The girls get a new power up this season, which is to be expected; most magical girl shows do give their characters an upgrade when the new season starts. This season's model is called Believix, and is much better than the skimpy outfits of last season.

This has since descended into lunacy. The Believix comes with three different pairs of wings, interchangeable wings, at that. These are known as the Speedix, which is apparently supposed to give you a speed boost. Then there's Zoomix, which can let you teleport; never mind that Stella's scepter can do the same thing and we haven't seen that thing since Flora got her Enchantix in Season 3, and then there's Tracix, which is supposed to let you see into the past, or something stupid like that.

Well, as if all that wasn't enough, turns out, the girls actually get two more transformations this season. The first one, Sophix or Sophix or Solvix, no one's figured out the name yet, nearly put the Enchantix to shame for two of the girls, and the next one is actually an improvement, though it's still stupid, in my opinion. Way too many transformations. Oh well. At least their stripperiffic season 3 outfits are gone.

Comment Moderation

Why do I even have this turned on? It's not like I ever actually moderate any comments people leave for me. Then again, it'll be nice to have if I ever need it. I'll leave it for now, I guess.

Well, that's all for this round. Thanks for reading. Ciao!

The First of Octember

Do you like the color changes? I'm trying to get a Halloween color scheme in here. I'm not certain how well it's working, though. I wonder if having that sidebar in purple is a little overbearing. Maybe I'll change it. Either way, it's nice because thanks to the default button, when Halloween's over, I can set my blog back to normal. Anyway, we'll see how long I can deal with this new color scheme before I change things back to normal.

I do love Halloween. Then again, I love most holidays, so what do I know?

You have probably noticed by now that my Halloween banner is back up. I didn't even bother to fight with Picasa this time; I just re-uploaded the thing. Stupid Picasa. -_-

I haven't been around to much lately. I used to spend every moment I could spare on the Internet. But lately I've been busy working on my stories (no, not my fanfictions. Real stories that I might be able to sell someday if I ever get a publisher - or a decent second draft.) So that's what I've been doing lately.

Man, I really don't know if I like this new color scheme. Hmm. Maybe I need more of a fall focus and less of a Halloween focus.

But on the other hand, I have November for that, too. I guess I'll give it a few days and see what happens from there.

EDIT: I have now changed some of the color scheme. The purple sidebar is been replaced with orange, and the second sidebar is back to normal. I definitely think this color scheme is better.

9/11 Wrapup & Update

Well now, what next? The Project 2,996 poster will be up until I find a smaller one to replace it with; I think I'll keep a link to it on my blog for awhile longer. I'm working on a smaller poster, though.

Remember that song I linked to last year for 9/11 that I couldn't remember in time for this year? I remembered what it was:



The song being played in background is Hands by Jewel. There's an imstrumental version over there in my song list, and you might be able to find an actual version of the song on YouTube.

In related news, PMSNBC is whining about the effects of the attack on Muslims. Then again, this is PMSNBC; this is probably very in-character for them.

Extra special thanks to everyone who read and commented on my Project 2,996 tribute. It was the first time I'd ever done this, but I hope to do it again in the future.

Thanks for reading!

The First of September

Okay, so it's a little late for an update, but still, Here's what's been going on around Dial R.

People, what is the point of even having the stupid Picasa account if you can't link and insert the photos from your albums to your blog? Does anyone know a way around this, you know, other than finding a different image hoster? Changing banners has become a pain, and after the 9/11 one comes down, I have another for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.

Alas, enough of my ranting. Picasa is awful, but we'll have to do more on that later. I did finally get the 9/11 banner up ther, as you can see, and I put the finishing touches on my Project 2,996 tribute. I wish I didn't have to remember this...

It feels strange having that banner back out, but it'll have to do.

I don't have as many patriotic songs as I did last year. I couldn't find a decent copy of Toby Keith's 'Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue' and I skipped 'God Bless America' becuase I didn't think very much of the guy who sang it. Plus what I forgot what the fifth one was. -.-

Anyway, enjoy. As for me, I'm off to go do some house painting.

Musings of a Numbers Symbol...

I am revamping Cynical Book. I don't know quite yet what I'm going to do with it, but I get the feeling it will no longer simply be about global warming/climate change/ whatever. I'll keep pondering what to do with it for now.

I finally got around to adding RonMossad to my Conservative Corner... and since not every blog down there is Conservative specific, I changed a few things. Read his blog. He's good.

I have now signed up for Project 2,996, and am going to be doing my best to write a tribute for at least one of the victims of 9/11.

School started again today. This year I'm taking a Keyboarding class. This should be interesting. See, I logged onto FFN back in 2007, and I've been typing ever since. The truth is that now I'm actually learning to type, and it's kind of funny because despite, I guess not being to type 'properly,' I've logged nearly 70 stories and who knows how many forum posts on FanFiction.Net, then we have the fact that between DR4I and Cynical Book I've written well over 100 blog posts and I've left probably nearly 200 comments over at There's My Two Cents ... And all without ever knowing how to type.

Speaking of 9/11, it's almost time to break out the 9/11 banner again... I didn't realize September was so close.

I've nearly gotten done watching Loose Change. This is the only version I'll watch. It has a nice, through debunking of every last shred of "evidence" Dylan Avery found.

And that's all my musings for now. Ciao!

Updates...

After a bit of deliberation, I've decided to add a "What I do For Fun" section, which will host important links and links I use daily. (Except for links to my favorite Conservative blogs. Those will stay in the Conservative Corner.)

This occurred to me after I got back from vacation. While I was on vacation, I didn't have all of my visited sites stored on the computer. Indeed, I didn't even have Google toolbar, though I still had Google itself. To get to FFN, I went into my blogger profile, and followed the hyperlink to my FFN profile, and from there went around the site. But when I wanted to look something up, for example, it was rather annoying. None of my links were there.

So now I have the beginnings of a new link holder. Now if I could just get my stupid world clocks sorted out... pretty soon I'll take the Oregon one down anyway, because I think my friends are back from Oregon now. Anyway...

Oh, and there is no link to YouTube. Even though I use use YouTube for more than just music, every link in the song list is a link to YouTube. So I didn't think another link was necessary. More links may arrive later as needed.

Notice!!

I have recently learned that Alvin Earthworm does apparently not appreciate have Super Mario Bros Z embedded in blogs. Whether or not this is true, I can't say, but to save trouble (and having to post the other three episodes, I got rid of the videos. My apologies to anyone who enjoyed it.

Instead, I give you a link to Nintendodsg's YouTube profile, where you should be able find all the episodes.

Oh, and there's more here! Of course, you can always use the search function on YouTube.

Well, I have to get going. L8R!

Update (the Third)

Earlier post was deleted. I didn't mind it when I wasn't here, but I came back several time for links off the song list, and I finally decided to just scrap the dang thing.

Obama shouldn't have won. Someday people will figure that out. In the meantime, I'd like to take this opportunity to say that if the media keeps reporting on who Obama decides to put where, I may have to skip all news channels for the next 4 years.

Though the hype'll probably be over in a year and a half. Whatever.

After much fighting with Picasa, I managed to get my proper banner back up there. I don't know why Blogger can't read Picasa's URLs, the two of them were designed to work together!

And eventually I'll have to take my normal banner down and put my Thanksgiving banner up. Good Grief.

Anyway, I gotta get going. Ciao.

Teh Random, Volume 2

It's a shame I started my blog in a election year. I always have something new to gripe about. (Barack Obama and the extreme leftist media don't help with that either.) But discretion is the better part of valor, as they say, and I suppose that applies here. (besides, if I oughta keep my opinion of certain candidates to myself.

For now, that is.)

Anyway, I put up my new Halloween banner. I love Halloween. The clip art up at the top comes from some free clip art site; I forget which one.

The song list will need updating, I've got some new ones I'd like to add.

Eventually I'll have to come down here and practice embedding videos in my blog (so I can up my favorite Halloween music ;P)

But for now, I found a nice story over on FFN, so I'm gonna go do some reading.

L8R!

(Too short. It's always too short. But whatever. L8R!)

Update (again.)

The 9/11 banner has come down, and the song list has been changed.

Some things have been tossed out, and other things have been added. I'm just not sure whether or not I should remove those last three songs still up at the very top. I think that for now I'll keep 'em.

Anyway, that's it for this update. Have a nice day!

Back to Normal

Okay, so the blog isn't COMPLETELY back to normal yet... the only thing I did was some work on the song list, but it will be... eventually.

The banner, though, won't be down until later this month. And I may keep some of those patriotic songs on the list, too.

Come to think of it, the only other thing I changed was the banner....never mind.

That's all for now, folks. Have a nice Saturday!

-The All Real numbers Symbol

Update

The first week of school is over. I survived. Yay me.

Unfortunatly, I didn't get to see any meteors. I woke up at three a.m., and peeked out the window, but I didn't see anything. So I went to a window on the other side of the room and peeked out of that one, and I still couldn't see anything. So I decided to just go back to bed.

Oh well. There's always next year.

And I started a poll over here. Please vote in it, as I'm curious to see what people think.

L8R!

Latest Update

Okay...what has changed around here...let me see....

Song list. I've added numerous other songs, one of the more recent being 'Inside Out' by Eve 6. I'm rather happy because I've been trying to figure out the title and band for like the last three years or something. The only thing I could remember was the chorus:

"I would swallow my pride, I would choke on the rind, but the lack thereof would leave me empty inside..."

And so on and so forth. One of my other favorite lines is 'burn burn like a wicker cabinet". I love that line. XD

I took off Rihanna's song 'Umbrella' and replaced it with 'Fighter' by Christina Auguilara. Nothing personal, I just thought I needed a change.

Hopefully coming soon will be at LEAST two political posts. Hopefully, there'll only be two. The intention of this place was not to become a political blog, though I do like to debate politics. (I just can't stand watching Obama get in front of a TV camera and be stupid.)

And, that's all I got. For more ...um...updates... check out my profile over on FanFiction.Net.

L8R!