ThisBoyIsToast V4

Back for Real, Soon to be Gone

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:15:54 -0500

the temporary site for HermitDave is where I said it would be months ago. Soon will come a decent and original Theme as well as a new domain. It's time to retire TBIT for real, for good. Maybe I will bring back archives maybe I will leave it to waybackmachine. It's time to clean house and dust my brain off.

tumbling & tweeting

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:29:18 -0500

p.s. still kinda blogging via tbit.tumblr.com and twitter.com/TBIT.

photoasting

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:34:38 -0500

I am PhoToasting for now...

closing down

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:26:26 -0500

OK, that didn't work out either. I am not much one for committing to quitting; usually i just walk away and hide. So that is what I am going to do. Don't expect any updates, anywhere with words that is, for quite some time.

hermitdave

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:21:35 -0500

psssst, over here for now.

still thinking

Tue, 20 May 2008 18:21:57 -0500

Still thinking about HD. Meanwhile, 7th Son is a serialized audiobook or piece of podcast fiction. Nice bit of bending the new media to your purposes.

displacer moose

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:37:51 -0500

Still not blogging. Still only thinking about building HD. In the meanwhile, I give you a Displacer Moose. Just cuz.

hermitdave

Sun, 11 May 2008 21:39:54 -0500

Purging. I have talked about it before. It's sort of like running away. Something new. Abandon your old stuff, thoughts, habits and patterns and start anew. But I have never been anyone to totally toss stuff aside. Sure, I can empty out the closet and dispose of a handful of candle holders from my candle days, but I still have the iron monsters Marmy gave me. I can finally dispose of odds and ends, toys and memorabilia that holds no value but I still have a few Glad bags full of postcards, business cards, note paper and stickers from the past two decades. I can take down my personal sections, box up the blogs of the past, put away the CD covers but I still have a site up and a couple of sub-domains. I can purge but at some point I feel like I am getting rid of me.

We will ignore the sub-topic of me really wanting to do that as of late.

So, I have decided. I was going to get a new domain, and I still might, but I am resurrecting Hermit Dave. HermitDave existed sometime around 1998-1999, Ottawa and/or Edmonton. He existed as a sub-section of my friend's site Ndroid. "Ask HermitDave" went by the phrase, "No job, no friends, no life. Addicted to Coca-Cola. Who better to ask for advice?" It was how I felt being in self-exile and obsessed with finding meaningful work. I am sort of feeling that way again, in self-exile, very isolated from people I know and especially "myself" -- whatever that means. The main thing is that I have the "Dad would be proud" job. Guys at 40 shouldn't be worrying what their Dad would say about their state of employment but I have invested over a decade in that feeling so it's not going away anytime soon. That combined with Marmy working weekends while I finally have them off along with the accumulated stress of the wasted last 5 or 6 years (ummm, how about 20 ?) has me deep deep inside my head. Thisboyistoast was supposed to be a light touch, an escapist blog of link-loving and pop culture references. The dark recesses inside HermitDave's head are not for the blog.

So, I will not shut down TBIT but just add the layer of HermitDave onto the site. Or, once the dust is settled, move the fucker over to his own domain. I also intend on using the clean slate, empty page or empty DIV tag as a chance to re-learn web & design skills. First up? CSS. Kind of like I enjoyed watching Ed do, I will play with CSS and re-do the site time after time after time until a real design emerges. But all with learning in mind. Sure, I have said this before but since this has nothing to do with learning a skill for work, it shouldn't have self-imposed procrastination. I don't do ANYTHING at work that has to do with webpages so it shouldn't interfere.

Part of the realization for this was not only the re-opening of the HermitDave mindset but the more practical return to open blogging, not all categorized and minimized. I don't want to reformat the existing structure of TBIT or exile the current ones to Archives, like I did the blogger days, but I don't want to use the current style. Simple, limited categories are my current idea. There will still be QuickLinks of a sort but no categorization of them. The main categories should be Personal, Movies, Comics, Gaming and some more not set in stone. Time to have a voice again.

When? As always.... soon.

poo

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:56:47 -0500

OK, it's time to poo or get off the pot. Either I continue updating this neglected blog (and update the look i have been working on for years) or just shut the frakker down.

vidiots

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:35:19 -0500

I am a fan of The Soup, or when i was first introduced to it by Ubergrande, Talk Soup. Yep, back in the days when it was hosted by Greg Kinnear. Were we watching tapes of that, Uber? It really couldn't have been 95 right? Wow, I am old.

Anywayz, The PopCrunch Show is sorta like that. It makes snarky humorous comments about people who it is politically correct to make fun of -- celebrities. Really, a part of me says that being mean to anyone is just not karmically good. But making pithy comments about Paris Hilton or Mylie Cyrus just makes me giggle. Maybe because it reminds me of Marmy, queen of pith in my world.

I really should add more vidcasts (does anyone call video podcasts that? no? they should. or maybe podvids) to my viewing habits. Maybe I could bookmark them on the Wii and watch on a daily basis that way.

everywhere girl

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:57:34 -0500

The internet seems to like noticing something it thinks nobody else has. It's good for that. Let's take a shelackazoid, or more precisely Everywhere Girl, a girl from a stock photo image. Why did they catch onto her? Because she is on so many sources? Probably just because someone thought she was hot.

What I would like to see is an article where 20 people you have seen in picture frames in Walmart and Blacks and any Umbra store, the aforementioned shelackazoid are interviewed.

hello cthulhu

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:04:43 -0500

OK, you have probably seen the scenes of horrible playgrounds going around but what is up with this childlike cthulhu?!? It's got to be some artists statue that they just posed the kid on.

D&D gradudate students

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:55:38 -0500

D&D dungeons don't make a lot of sense in even the stretchiest fantasy concepts -- only in D&D. How many multi-room, twisty-turny, packed with seemingly random monster labyrinths can there be? But imagine What Real-Life Dungeon Exploration Might Look Like, Graduate Students in Tow.

textism

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:43:21 -0500

Wow. Talk about a hiatus.

deziney goodness

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:17:08 -0500

I don't browse the inspirationals as much as I used to but MISPRINTED TYPE's Eduardo Recife has such nice work.