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Apr

What’s in a Name – Birthday Contest Winner Revealed!

Posted by shiny  Published in blogging, getting old, List on the 3s, quiz, shiny, video

Wow! First and foremost — thank you all for your wonderful birthday wishes.  You all rock. Even Miss Britt who made a crack about me being old.  I can’t wait until I get a cane just so I can thank you properly… So — my original post sans hint was a bit… shall we say, […]

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Tags: 80s, birthday, brother, contest, music, quiz, tattoos

12 comments

21

Apr

1972-2009 — and a contest

Posted by shiny  Published in quiz, shiny

I’m officially going to be proactive about this: It’s my birthday today. So — yay! But this year I’m going to involve a bit of a twist: I have a contest in mind. You see — now that it is April 21, 2009, I can be called by a different name. In fact, I have […]

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Tags: birthday, contest

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1

Apr

Top 8 Random 80s Songs — Part II

Posted by shiny  Published in randomness

Apparently the audio daily double in yesterday’s post was a bit too challenging.  Some of you are wonderful 80s music experts like myself — that is, if you’re not listening to a three-second snippet of eight songs simultaneously. So — I’ve decided to be a bit more generous.  Instead of putting all of the songs […]

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Tags: 80s, contest, music

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24

Feb

Memenapped from the stars…

Posted by shiny  Published in randomness

All the cool kids seem to be doing one of those “Top 20 Albums which Changed Your Life” Meme.  Pretty straightforward: you put down a list of… well, 20 albums which changed your life.  Oh — and then you have to tag 128 of your friends and demand they do the same. I want to […]

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Tags: 20 albums, contest, lyrics, meme

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22

Jun

Lazy Sunday — Answers to last week…

Posted by shiny  Published in blatant plagiarism, blog reader appreciation week

Hi all — sorry for such a late post. I know that many of you are used to finding the answers to last week smack dab at 12:00am EDT.  My apologies for those of you who are going through 19+ hours of withdrawal. So — let’s hop to it! 1. What’s the correct spelling of […]

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Tags: blog reader appreciation week, contest, lazy sunday

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15

Jun

Lazy Sunday: “The Blog Reader Appreciation Week” Edition

Posted by shiny  Published in blog reader appreciation week, Uncategorized

Let the week begin! Your suggestions are my blog entries for the next seven days. See this post for more information… I’m an avid reader of Avitable‘s – a very clever and funny guy who always seems to make me laug with his blog entries and his comments on my blog. One of his weekly […]

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Tags: avitable, blog reader appreciation week, contest, lazy sunday

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28

May

The Handwriting game…

Posted by shiny  Published in blogging, randomness

Avi had a note in his cubby at preschool today. I’ve scanned it in for your consideration. I will bestow fame, fortune and recognition for the first person who can correctly identify exactly what it says. Ready? Set? Go! UPDATE: Kudos to bacon aficionado othurme for his almost entirely accurate guess! Read below to see […]

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Tags: avi, contest, randomness

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20

May

Shiny Stakeout — the results video!

Posted by shiny  Published in video

Would you believe that YouTube was being craptastic this evening — and it took me countless hours to successfully upload this video? Sheesh… Link to the YouTube page for all you snazzy RSS types…

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Tags: contest, shiny stakeout, video

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11

May

Shiny Stakeout — the Encore Presentation

Posted by shiny  Published in quiz

Why a repeat post? Well, I’ll be totally honest: since TequilaCon ’08, the traffic on my blog has gone through the roof. Thank you all for reading and commenting. And I apologize for taking a long time to get back to you all in the comments, but I assure you that I will continue to […]

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Tags: contest, meme, quiz

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