Posted by Skrud at Tuesday, December 26th 2006 at 4:36pm
We are pleased to announce a new version of Skrud to come out in 2007. This new Skrud will be leaner, faster and stronger than the previous version. The upgrade process will consist of eating a healthy diet, working out regularly and lowering alcohol intake. The lack of which has, over time, contributed to Skrud’s current pathetic physical condition.
You can help! Follow these guidelines to ensure that your new Skrud is delivered sooner, rather than later:
- If you offer Skrud a drink and he refuses, please don’t continue to insist on it.
- If you are out eating with Skrud, inform him of potentially unhealthy foods – at least until we are able to install the Nutrition Information Module.
- You may still invite Skrud out for fun drinking events, but do not be insulted if he limits himself to a paltry single drink, or if he doesn’t drink at all – at least until he gets his body in a comfortable condition.
- Continue to love and support your Skrud. Tips and advice are always welcome. (If you are met with whiny resistance, slap Skrud upside the head and say “Pull yourself together, man!”. Not too hard, please. Don’t take it personally, he knows you’re only trying to help.)
- Remember, he is still the same Skrud. He’s just trying to improve the way he feels about himself. Even if he’s sober, we assure you that you can still have a good time with Skrud around.
Thank You.
- The SkrudTM Engineering Team.
Tags: health, introspection, life | 15 comments
Posted by Skrud at Monday, December 4th 2006 at 7:58am
I’m copying this meme from Heather:
IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?
- Open your music library
- Put it on shuffle
- Press play
- For every question, type the song that’s playing
- When you go to a new question, press the next button
(I have some 6384 songs on my iPod. It’s not as much as on my desktop computer but I think it’ll still make an effective demonstration)
- Opening Credits: Nyana by Tiesto
- Waking up: I Refuse by Falconer (how fitting)
- First Day at Highschool: Singers At The World’s Dawn by Ark
- Falling In Love: Beyond Salvation by Evergrey
- Fight Song: Hybrid Blues by Skyclad (something tells me this’ll be the fight scene where I go down in a blaze of getting my ass kicked, in the rain, and covered in mud)
- Breaking Up: Former Sisters by Terra Rosa (…wtf…)
- Prom: Ghost Love Score (Orchestra Version) by Nightwish. (So my prom is a giant epic period affair backed by a symphony).
- Life: Wishful Thinking by John Petrucci
- Mental Breakdown: Asteroid Dominion by Armageddon
- Driving: Cold Metal (Single Version) by Ambeon (“lying on my back on the railway / looking at the sky and its full moon / in the back of my head I feel the rolling wheels, shaking my memories” … eek)
- Flashback: Play Dead by HIM
- Getting Back Together: Savage by Cacophony (Hey, any relationship loaded with guitar solos is worth saving)
- Wedding: Into The Sun by Magnitude 9
- Birth of Child: Through the Ice Age by Kiuas (My kid is *so* battling vikings on the way out of the womb)
- Final Battle: Once in a Lifetime by Dragonforce (Fast. Triumphant. Rock on.)
- Death Scene: Suffocating Sight by Trivium
- Funeral Song: Forest of October by Opeth (It’ll be a long funeral)
- End Credits: Lake Bodom [live] by Children of Bodom (Best. End Credits. Ever.)
Tags: introspection, life, meme, music | 2 comments
Posted by Skrud at Friday, August 18th 2006 at 5:12pm
- Opening paragraph containing mundane phrases like “Lately I’ve noticed…” or “Recently…” or “Since a couple of weeks ago…” or “I’ve been thinking…”.
- Many sentences beginning with “I think”, “I feel”, or “it seems” and other such subjective verbs because I’m too timid to make an assertive statement. (It also gives me a coward’s exit should someone point out a flaw in my arguments in the comments section).
- Too many sentences that begin with the words “And”, “But”, “Also”, “So”, and other typical bad-words-to-start-sentences-with.
- Excessive use of English singular past perfect tense and use of the contraction “I’ve”
- Mention something esoterically geeky in an attempt to achieve dominant alpha-Geek status.
- Complain about one of the following topics:
- Make sure I don’t say anything mean about anyone else, because I never know who might by chance come across this blog. (I wish I had to guts to be as open and honest with my blog as Heather is with hers).
- Recount tales of un-Skrudly behaviour.
Did I miss something? Then leave a comment. :)
(And since I can’t think of anywhere else to mention this, if you want to have an avatar that appears in the comments next to your post, hit Gravatar and make an account using the same e-mail address you use when entering a comment.)
Tags: introspection, metablogging, random | 4 comments
