February 23, 2010
Rigel's right, I should spend more time doing awesome and less time arguing with idiots.
I've got this set as my desktop wallpaper now as a gentle reminder. From the original comic, here. (I don't really agree with the advice to stay off the internet. There's plenty of places to go that don't involve arguing with idiots. As I've said before, it's a big internet... must be hard to vacuum.)
Pn0y pr0n beats drama any day.
In conclusion, three cheers for cow tipping and ponysnuzzles for everyone. Well, everyone who deserves them, anyway. -:)
February 12, 2010
Not much new news except to say hooray for furries! Furries turn fail into win!
January 12, 2010
I check the local Wegman's, and it has Quady Elysium Black Muscat for $25. I saw it online for $17. I may just order direct from Quady. But that will have to wait until next month, due to my current schedule.
In other news, I've made some additional updates to my website: Anthrofurry Infocenter has been reintroduced as Furry Fandom Infocenter. I've also started a new area, the Xydexx Map Department, for historical maps and information. There's only a little information there right now, but in my Copious Free Time I'm going to be adding some of the old maps I've found. I certainly found a lot of historic maps online when I was creating the page.
January 6, 2010
I was browsing around online for reviews of good muscat to try (Quady Elysium Black Muscat is suggested served over vanilla ice cream), because Rigel tried muscat once and liked it. Barefoot Moscato also has good reviews, and I'm sure I can pick up a bottle of it at our local Wegman's.
While browsing around the Quady website, I stumbled across a wine called Purple a/k/a Professor Peabody's Purple Potion, which purportedly tastes like a "paragon of playful purpletude packed with a passel of perky, positively pleasing grape-popsicley flavor" like a grape Jolly Rancher. I'm on the lookout for some of it locally, although I may end up having to buy it online and have it shipped here.
January 5, 2010
Those noodlums need to get off my lawn. Bah.
December 31, 2009
In the interest of getting my website organized, I've created a sitemap using this handy sitemap generator. It seems pretty easy to use so far. Perhaps the next project will be to ensure my pages are W3C compliant. I know I'm probably missing a lot of the technical stuff that belongs in the header. That's gonna be a chore to add.
December 28, 2009
I found a nearby abandoned railroad grade I didn't know existed! I was browsing Maptech's historical map collection and noticed some railroad tracks leading out of Point Of Rocks I hadn't seen before. Curious, I checked Google Maps and saw the old property lines of the right-of-way. There's a slight hump on Route 28 where the grade crossing used to be. This was the Adamstown Cutoff. It was built in 1902, but abandoned 20-25 years later because the curves were a problem for coal trains. The tracks were torn up in 1952. A stone arch bridge survives from the old route, used as part of someone's driveway.
December 15, 2009
I baked cranana bread tonight. It came out okay, but I had to leave it in the over extra long. Maybe tomorrow I'll try baking some more cookies. The Washington Post had a section with 25 different cookie recipes in it the other day. I haven't been keeping up on my 100 words a day thing, but I've been trying as best I can.
On a lighter note, so many addicting little flash games by Ferry Halim. Just something I stumbled across somewhere recently. The Orphanage of Castoff Mascots is an oldie but a goody that also ended up in my bookmarks.
I don't know if that's 100 words for today, but I need to head off to bed.
December 3, 2009
100 words1. Seems easy enough, right?
As I didn't manage to finish NaNoWriMo, maybe I just need to start with something smaller. It's a clever idea. Plenty of other folks are doing it. The only problem is keeping up with it every day. And I know I'm not going to be able to do that, at least not this month when I'm traveling to New York. But that's nothing that couldn't be fixed with a laptop and a free wi-fi hotspot.
So there you have it. Maybe I'll write something interesting. At least I'll be writing. Onward to horse-powered victory!
December 2, 2009
Welcome to Xydexx's delightfully demented website, where I babble at the rate of 3,000 words per hour and there doesn't seem to be any stopping me. Don't worry, I'm harmless. I'm easily distracted by shiny objects and other items of infinite awesome or squeakiness. Here at the Department of Cute and Weird, I'm on a perpetual quest to seek out the awesome wherever I can find it. This probably makes no sense to you. No matter. I may be a freak, but at least I'm a happy freak.
So as a way of a general update of just what's been going on, the folks here at the Department of Cute and Weird, in collaboration with the very fine folks Consolidated Moosilidge, have just completed a comprehensive study on the Power Of Mooing (On The Internet). Because this is the sort of Important Research they do; indeed, it is Important Research which needs to be done. You'll understand someday. Future projects will include babelfishing and meme tracking, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. (With luck, we'll get to it in the next decade.)
We were fortunate to have survived Wild and Wonderful West Virginia (which will stick it in ya!) after attempting to locate the abandoned train orders station in Jerome, WV along the Western Maryland Railway right=of-way. All I can say is don't go there, the locals will shoot at you. There were plenty of abandoney houses to be seen otherwise. It's hard to believe nearby Magnolia, WV was a bustling hub of activity back in the day.
There's another abandoned house near me, only a cat's throw away on Sycolin Road. It was built sometime before World War II (I found a sash weight lying around in the ruins), and used to be a dairy farm judging by the collapsed barn further back on the property. I thought the property was in imminent danger of being developed, as the land was being cleared and construction equipment was perilously close to the ruined house. Upon further research, however, we learned that Dominion Power is just clearing some trees by the Route 15 Bypass/Sycolin Road intersection to make way for the power line route out to Purcellville. So it looks like the little ruin has gotten a stay of execution and can continue its slow disintegration into the woods in peace.
It's Wednesday and that means Hump Day. I guess I should go hump something. Yay!
February 17, 2009
After the obligatory decluttering and once-every-undetermined time period organization of my files (in the storage room downstairs), Xydexx has emerged victorious and slightly more organized. Actually, what prompted all this was a search for some sort of evidence of when I bought my LMT stock, as I sold it in 2008 (right before everything went South) and they need this information for tax purposes apparently. No matter. I fortunately don't throw things away that often.
I used my decluttering time to actually organize things for once, so now all my furry fandom information has been condensed down to a box and a half. This doesn't include the copious amount of files generated by my work with Anthrocon, the world's largest furry convention. I also have at least two boxes worth of paper from my old zine-publishing and mail art days, back when my friends and I would send weird things through the mail. Nowadays we have the internet, and there's more than enough weird things to go around for everyone.
Cabbage Fetish
Speaking of weird things, it always surprises me how many people do web searches for "cabbage fetish." I mean, I'm pretty kinky myself (and to my credit, I'm not one of those self-loathing perverts who thinks my fetish is okay and everyone else is a sick fuck) so I can only wonder if I've accidentally stumbled upon a fetish I didn't know about.
Sorry to disappoint anyone who was visiting this page hoping to find pictures of cabbage in sexy and incriminating positions. If I had more time I might have actually made a page like that. Best of luck in your search, though.
Xydexx Is Always Squeaky
Xydexx is squeaky. Xydexx has always been, and always will be, squeaky. Xydexx arrived on the scene back in the day when very few people had an inflatable animal for an avatar, and even the ones who did only did it part-time. Not Xydexx. Always been a 100% full-time inflatable unicorn, despite the flak from People Who Just Don't Get It.
Being a silly squeaky pony beats being a bitter old dinosaur any day.
Historical Information
Prompted by a message on my Modern Ruins Message Board expressing curiosity about an old building behind the Mohansic Golf Course, I recently launched into full-blown research mode and dug up any and all information I could find on the surrounding area. I was surprised to learn that Mohansic State Hospital did actually exist for a while, that someone had been murdered there, and that nearly all traces of it have been obliterated by FDR Park. The old railroad grade from the spur off the the Putnam Division is still clearly visible, and possibly the foundation of the cottage where the murder took place, but that's about it.
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