XYDEXX'S PRONK-POWERED WEBPAGE! (Xydexx, The Pronkiest Pony!)

Mounting excitement! Watch for wacky Minecraft project management plans at Mount Kindrift. At night, the creeper goons come out and explode, the same way they freak out about Xydexx on the internets. Rumor has it there's an inflatable coyote hidden out there in the desert. Let's see if anyone notices.

November 7, 2010

Long time no update. Things have been quite busy around here. I've got a new and improved layout for this webpage. It was long overdue for one I think.

So I'm in the process of decluttering, and thinking I've got waaaay too many inflatables these days. I'm thinking of selling some of them off on eBay. One of them is a huge purple inflatable sea monster that was made by Sevylor. It's big enough for two people to ride on. I've modified it so there's no safety valve, so it's easy to inflate/deflate. -=)

September 16, 2010

So I've been thinking lately about my alleged internet "career", which seems to have been written up by people who are butthurt about the fact they can't argue their way out of a wet paper bag and need to make shit up about me to make themselves feel better. But let's have a look at some of their idiocy, so that we may know what kind of idiots they are:

Never forgive, never forget

In the early years, Xydexx spent most of his time on alt.fan.furry, making valuable contributions to the debate there, when the furry fandom was more innocent and esoteric. It was in his time on Usenet that the famous Xydexx modus operandi was developed, and the slogan by which he lives, "Don't take the Internet too seriously" would first be offered to those who might otherwise take a man who puts his penis in pooltoys seriously.

Actually, "Don't take the Internet too seriously" is the slogan by which the people who freak out about me all over the internet live by. It's a bit ironic when you think about it. For a bunch of folks who claim not to take the internet seriously, they sure do get bent out of shape over me at the drop of a hat...

Xydexx first came to the attention of the Internets at large when his Inflatable Animal Fetish Page was featured on Portal of Evil years ago and he flipped the fuck out to hilarious effect in this PoE thread (and dozens of others). He is still obsessed, almost a decade after that thread, with PoE and its editor Kthor, whose firm, well-packed butt he admires from afar and who he fervently believes hopes is a secret diaper freak.

I'm not sure what exactly constitutes "flipping out" about it. My first reaction to it was an exhausted sigh and an eyeroll, commenting how the inflatable zebra didn't even have an SPH and wondering what they were getting their panties in a twist for. Then I quietly moved the actual mailing list and webpage to a new location to buffer it from the low-quality and less-intelligent readership of PoE. I thought about making a PoE That Didn't Suck, but pulled a Xydexx and invested my time in being awesome instead. So it seems the only people flipping out about anything are the delusional people who imagine I'm lusting after Kthor.

And c'mon, seriously, being a diaper freak is more in line with Kindrift's interests. Just ask him about his Softpaw Magazine collection.

Xydexx vs. Goons

Back in January 2005, Xydexx hilariously suggested that those horrid Something Awful Goons be physically chastised to teach them not to mess with the furries in a sequence of inane LiveJournal commentsposted which he promptly deleted when the drugs wore off. Two years after the original lunacy, when everyone had forgotten about it, Xydexx resurrected that ancient thread to inform everyone he had created an absurd "rebuttal" of Squnq's "interpretation" of his deleted posts (or something) and basically suggested that Squnq made all that crazy shit up etcetera etcetera.

Since then, his butthurt has transformed into full-blown paranoia bordering on schizophrenia, in which anyone and everyone appears to be Triggur, another middle-aged furfag who is the subject of one of Xydexx's many psychotic obsessions. Currently, Xydexx is using his gaggle of sockpuppets to make weird and pathetic edits to related ED articles, fooling no one with his use of the the standard Xydexx catchphrase, "taking the Internet too seriously." One would be tempted to say that this was when the helium finally took over Xydexx's brain and he finally lost his mind, but Xydexx has been fucking balloons for so long that it's hard to decide when, exactly, he crossed the line from being a comically long-term lolcow to just being another Internet psycho.

This has alread been debunked elsewhere, but the TL;DR version is that this is a classic example of Something Awful Goons who purport to not take the internet seriously doing exactly that.

I mean, after Squnq admitted he was making shit up about me ("spin is everything on the internet", as he says), I didn't think it was necessary to continue the argument. For whatever reason Squnq decided it was some sort of Big Internet Victory, and as a result gullible and stupid folks like Triggur believed him. And that's okay, because people who believe half-baked rumors about me without bothering to check the facts aren't the kind of people I need in my circle of friends.

Internet Obsessions of the New Decade

In early 2010 X turned his bile on fellow furry Greenreaper, irate that his furry news site wasn't toeing the official Xydexx line, making bizarre blog posts and trolling comment threads on Flayrah. Following standard Squeakypony operating procedure, he quickly deleted the blog posts after attracting everyone's attention so that he could deny everything and go into a snit about people obsessing over him. And speaking of obessions, he currently seems to be developing a fixation on Kindrift, leading light of Vivisector, so watch this space!

Well, my ruminations on Greenreaper, Wikifur, and Flayrah have already been written up elsewhere (and if folks really want a laugh, they can just look at how WikiFur is run these days). Deleting the posts has more to do with my chronic disorganization than trying to hide anything, but you've gotta admit the fact that these guys are so obsessed with me that they're constantly reading everything I post trying to find something incriminating is pretty creepy.

Ultimately, what this means is that I'm apparently some sort of an internet celebrity. Think about it: I've got creepy obsessed fans and everything. I'm not sure what it is I did that was so egregious to deserve this, aside from voicing my opinions (like, y'know, everyone else on the internet). It's kinda ironic how these guys are always telling other people to grow a thicker skin, and yet they flip the fuck out to hilarious effect over me for just existing.

August 2, 2010

I recently learned that our local bike shop, Bicycle Outfitters, has an organized bike ride every Tuesday at 6pm. I should look into doing that, if I get out of work early enough. I've been pretty busy lately (and it's been pretty hot, let's face it) that I didn't do as much bike riding as I'd have liked. The hardest part about biking for me these days is actually deciding where to go. I've already been pretty much everywhere in the immediate area. I need to find new places to go!

I also want to, at some point, bike out to Mom's place in Winchester, or better yet, to Dad's place up in New York. This would require me to get some camping gear... a tent in particular. In the meantime, I've been wistfully checking Google Maps (they have a new option that shows bike paths) and plotting out what the best way to get to New York from here would be.

February 23, 2010

Not much going on. I baked some more pumpkin-raisin bread yesterday and then went to visit Mom and Renfield. I'm working from home today.

January 8, 2010

I baked another batch of nomnomnommy oatmeal raisin cookies last night. Made a total of 25 cookies (8 per sheet). I made them kinda of huge, and had just enough leftover on the last tray to make one more, so I tried to more the other cookies out of the way to fit nine on the last tray. They all got baked together and mutated. It's like the Island of Misfit Cookies!

I just got back from getting my H1N1 vaccination (free) at Loudoun County Department of Health. I don't usually get flu shots, but Rigel talked me into getting one, and hey, it's free.

January 5, 2010

I spent New Year's Eve over at Chez Turtle, then returned the next night for Game Night, and then Rigel and I went to Brunswick Games Day over in Maryland. All told, three days of gaming! It's like being at GenCon all over again!

December 28, 2009

So much time, so little to research. Ah, strike that, reverse it. Thanks to the holidays, I have new books to add to my collection of reference material on New York City. The latest is The Historical Atlas of New York City, which documents 400 years of New York City's history with plenty of maps to keep me happy and busy. It's handily divided into sections not only by time period, but also by function. For example, there's a page devoted entirely to bridges. Another for Fifth Avenue, another for Broadway. And there's another section with just timelines for reference.

December 19, 2009

We got more snow! It's been snowing since Friday night. We now have about two feet of snow in Leesburg, and according to Intellicast we'll be getting another 2-4 inches on top of that. I shoveled our walkway but my car is still buried. I needed to pick up some milk, so I hitched a ride to Target with my neighbor (who has a 4WD vehicle). Secretly shoveled his walk later on as a thank you. He stopped by later with freshly-baked coconut-oatmeal cookies. Awesomeness. For the most part, I'm staying indoors, drinking hot cocoa and wrapping presents for Yakmas.

December 14, 2009

I need to use up the remaining bananas I have Real Soon Now, so I'm going to bake some banana bread!

Preheat oven to 350^o F. Mix butter into the mashed bananas in a large mixing bowl. Mix in the sugar, egg, and vanilla. Add baking soda and salt and mix in. Add the flour last, mix. Pour mixture into a buttered 4x8" loaf pan. Bake for 1 hour. Cool on a rack. Remove from pan and slice to serve.

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Something About Something

I'm trying to get back into the habit of writing regularly since I totally blew off NaNoWriMo. So instead, I'm doing the 100 words thing. Unofficially, at least. Just ramblings of 100 words that I'm posting out onto the internets. Mostly that have nothing to do with nothing. Just my usual mundane activities. You'd be surprised at the people who are fascinated by this sort of minutiae of my life. I know I usually am. I've had people go nuts because I bought new sneakers.

June 11, 2011