http://flipdingo.com John Poetzel vs. The Internet Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:47:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, what does it say about the town you live in that the cheapest, healthiest and most consistently good food can be found at a taco truck in the parking lot of a defunct gas station? http://flipdingo.com/2009/06/28/el-tapatio-our-neighborhood-taco-truck/ So, here's a test of a 3d-ish effect. What do you think? http://flipdingo.com/2009/04/04/the-forensic-morphology-annex/ So, I'm in the middle of populating my amazon.com storefront, and I decided to simultaneously revamp all my mosaic tile websites. Of course that means that the first one I did was bead barrel, because I'm all scatterbrained like that. http://flipdingo.com/2009/03/03/just-a-little-shout-out/ So, I'm in the middle of pushing my inventory onto amazon.com and I kind of decided to call the business there 'funkbarrel', but the stickers are shown to be manufactured by 'stickermatic'. I also have this website, which is just another silly name and I have poetzel.com among others that ... http://flipdingo.com/2009/02/04/personal-branding-efforts/ I was unlucky enough to sit through the most recent edition of Wife Swap, and got to watch the buffoonery (edited to that flavor, no doubt) of Stephen Fowler of San Francisco. All of his cutesy eco-shirts kind of got wasted by all the garbage coming out of his mouth. ... http://flipdingo.com/2009/02/01/stephen-fowler-wife-swap-victim/ “I’m kind of bummed that she wanted to buy back her vocal tracks, but it’s her decision. She said that you were going to be looking out for her interests, like I have something to worry about.” “That’s just something I told her to say. She was all worried that you’d ... http://flipdingo.com/2008/12/21/the-evil-empire/ “Where did you work before?” “I was a manager at a McDonald’s.” John closed his eyes and tried not to laugh. “That’s where I got my first job when I was fifteen!” “I hear that a lot. It got pretty hard to hire young teenagers by the time I was a manager. Most ... http://flipdingo.com/2008/12/12/whats-up/ So, I kept writing today. For some reason I always like it when there's an infodump at the end of the story and it makes it seems like everyone just goes on their merry way. It works as long as you don't need to make up some reason for a ... http://flipdingo.com/2008/11/30/is-it-the-end-or-just-the-beginning/ So, I uploaded my most recent novel into the verifier at nanowrimo.org and it says I'm a winner. I can now do a happy dance. I just wish I had some champagne! But I needed more than the 50,000 to get to the end, so I'm trying to get there ... http://flipdingo.com/2008/11/30/ive-been-declared-a-winner/ OK, so here I am, just on the threshold of actually writing out 50,000 semi-cohesive words. I'm at 48,349. “Hey, there’s the foot. Reset your trip odometer”, Ralph said, looking at the running shoe on the side of the road whiz by. By the time they got back to the paved road ... http://flipdingo.com/2008/11/29/i-think-the-sasquatch-will-die/