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Geeky and Freaky Thoughts On My Mind

by Spyrick on April 1, 2006 Comments

To those of you reading my blog from Gamespot.com or MP3.com, please go to My profile at TV.com for a better view.

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A Geeky Thought Yes I've gone from Snagglepuss to Freak and Geek. A 20-sided dice or what I used to call a 'hit-die' now replaces the cartoon cat. I know what the die is, because I used to play Dungeons and Dragons when I was a young teen. But I've never ever completed any of the quests. My character, whom I always named 'Spyrick' always got killed. As thief, cleric or bard, I was always the first to die. Often times, it was on purpose, I never had the time to complete a single quest, and my treasures were often divided among my uncompassionate companions. I wonder now about my time here at TV.com, will I stay here for long, or will my gains again be divided among the others. I've also noticed those emblems that TV.com have been giving out, emblems I know I will never get. I'm simply not available for live chats in the morning. It's simply not possible.

A Picture I'll Always Remember

Goodbye to a talented man who will be sorely missed. Your work will forever be ecthed in my mind. Thank you for saving the memories for us.

Freaky Thought On My Mind It’s no secret that I do not like advertisements, commercials and even marketing. I tend to tune them out of my mind and my eyes have the ability to even filter out the large ads. But still, it’s a never ending war between me and them. The things they’ve tried so far to grab my attention are to raise the decibels for their ads on my TV, run a string of ads below and above the show I'm watching, increased the frequency of the ads, post me letters, etc. And now I’m beginning to think that these marketing people actually think I like to see their ads. Why would I think that? Well months ago, a voice announcement was made on my television telling me to stay tune right after my show in order to catch the new movie preview of a coming attraction. Were they kidding me? An advertisement telling me to stay tune for another advertisement to come on!!? What were they thinking? Is it possible that one day we’ll have advertisements telling us to watch for previews of an advertisement that will be accompanied by an advertisement sponsoring that advert?! I pray that that will never ever happen.

Last week's riddle was a disappointment to me. Standard of my riddles have dropped because I haven't had time to ponder over them. I've had too many things on my mind. And apart from thoughts of other matters, I had thought about starting a 'Murder Mystery Theater' game on my blog. However, I've changed my mind about organising the game as I believe no one will be interested in it. In the mean time, here's this weeks riddle.
Riddle#37: Locating the ab ent is the r pri ary vi ion. The answers to the cryptic riddles are titles to television shows. If you know the answer to any of the cryptic riddles, PM me. Please do not leave the answer in the comment box. There are also emblems to be awarded to those who manage to solve a certain number of riddles correctly. See here for details: The Emblems

And if you're looking for the rest of my cryptic television riddles,

Interesting links:

Blog of cool and not so cool links Exercising your Music Muscle Sleuth Noir
Links to other uninteresting profiles of me: My Gamespot.com My mp3.com My TVRage.com

So you had a bad day...

by Spyrick on March 24, 2006 Comments

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Update for my Week Well I got another editorship, not one I would like to really talk about (It's a horrible show). So please don't congratulate me. Oh and don't forget to check out the new emblem I made for 'TV Super Sleuth', awarded to those who have solved 35 or more of my riddles. Sigh...I think I'm in a foul mood.

What a Bad Week Had a bad day? Perhaps you'll like to hear about the bad week I had. The television broke down a few days ago. Attempts to repair it ended in failure...so a new one was bought. With the World Cup just a few months away, I had no choice but to get a BIG tv set. And to cut things short, I ended up carrying an incredibly heavy television set up several flights of stairs (I'm not paying for delivery!). As I huffed and puffed, I was thinking that perhaps the 'Samsung' flat screen television set wasn't that expensive afterall. When I finally got the television up and running, I was all tired and my arms were aching, it was like basic military training all over again. I thought that was my worse day for the week, I was wrong. A few days later, the handle for the kitchen tap broke off. My attempt to change the tap also ended in failure as I realised I did not have that one proper tool needed to remove the tap. I was left with no choice but to call a plumber. Now plumbers have a very long history of overcharging for their work (in my case anyway), I was very well aware of that, and I was ready to 'negotiate' with them man-to-man. So when the plumber came a few minutes later, I was delighted to find that he was a short be-spectacled little man. He had eyes that said "Please don't hurt me". My face turned completely white however when I saw who he had brought with him, his wife! Now from my own experience, there are women who are masters of wet-market haggling, these women take great delight in making me pay full price for market goods that I do not want. But the woman I was looking at looked like she was a 4-star general for the 'Department of Threats and Haggling'. She was the bane of all butchers, fish-mongers and grocerers. "You want simple stainless steel tap? No no...you need gold-plated diamond encrusted tap." She says. And just as I suspected, the bill was incredibly marked-up. But against her, I was nothing more than a toothless puppy. I caved. As I watched them leave, I was so ashamed of myself. I could only imagined that they were gonna stop by at the nearby restauant for some champange and lobster to celebrate their victory.

It's been a busy week for me so I haven't got a new riddle for anyone...just kidding. Here's riddle #36.
Riddle#36: One man's slaughter of the music slaughterers. The answers to the cryptic riddles are titles to television shows. If you know the answer to any of the cryptic riddles, PM me. Please do not leave the answer in the comment box. There are also emblems to be awarded to those who manage to solve a certain number of riddles correctly. See here for details: The Emblems

And if you're looking for the rest of my cryptic television riddles,

Interesting links:

Blog of cool and not so cool links Exercising your Music Muscle Sleuth Noir
Links to other uninteresting profiles of me: My Gamespot.com My mp3.com My TVRage.com

One blog do not make 3!

by Spyrick on March 17, 2006 Comments

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One blog do not make 3! Well they did it, they took my one blog from one place and brought it to three different places. Kinda like printing a "Dear Playboy" letter at "Newsweek" and "Reader's Digest". I'm sorry I haven't been visiting any of the friend's blogs this week. If you haven't noticed, I recently received editorship for Monster. It's the first non-documentary guide I ever got, and it's the first animation guide I ever had. And that guide needs alot of attention. Furthermore, I've been neglecting my guides. And I have hundreds of episodes that need to be submitted. I've also recently got involved in an on-line, text-based game called Sleuth . If you love mysteries like I do, you'll like this game.

Codes for my Emblems I've awarded many emblems for people who have solved my riddles or taken part in my contest, but some have had trouble displaying the emblems properly. So here's the codes to help those who need them.

For the "Heart of a Romantic" Emblem, the code is: <a href="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a374/Spyrick/Romance/ca0ca512.jpg" target="_blank"> <img src="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a374/Spyrick/Romance/e31cdb37.jpg" hspace="5" alt="Heart of a Romantic" /> </a>

For the "Born Romantic" Emblem, the code is: <a href="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a374/Spyrick/Romance/3528fe0e.jpg" target="_blank"> <img src="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a374/Spyrick/Romance/8f8f7271.jpg" hspace="5" alt="Born Romantic" /> </a>

For the "The TV Thinker" Emblem, the code is: <a href="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a374/Spyrick/Puzzle/TVThinkerLarge.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a374/Spyrick/Puzzle/42692b8c.jpg" alt="The TV Thinker" hspace="5" /> </a>

For the "The TV Brainiac" Emblem, the code is: <a href="http://photobucket.com/albums/a374/Spyrick/Puzzle/th_coollogo_com_12394125468.jpg" target="_blank"> <img src="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a374/Spyrick/Puzzle/38eea882.jpg" alt="The TV Brainiac" hspace=5 /> </a>

For the "The TV Sleuth" Emblem, the code is: <a href="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a374/Spyrick/Puzzle/TVSleuth.jpg" target="_blank"> <img src="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a374/Spyrick/Puzzle/TVSleuthemblem.jpg" alt="The TV Sleuth" hspace=5 /> </a>

A new riddle? Where's my notebook, darn! Can't read my handwritting :P Okay, here's this weeks riddle. Wow! I've written 35 riddles already.
Riddle#35:

Need to dial to get through? That's so Ancient and original. The answers to the cryptic riddles are titles to television shows. If you know the answer to any of the cryptic riddles, PM me. Please do not leave the answer in the comment box. There are also emblems to be awarded to those who manage to solve a certain number of riddles correctly. See here for details: The Emblems And if you're looking for the rest of my cryptic television riddles,

Interesting links:

Blog of cool and not so cool links Exercising your Music Muscle Sleuth Noir
Links to other uninteresting profiles of me: My Gamespot.com My mp3.com My TVRage.com

The weekend already?

by Spyrick on March 11, 2006 Comments

Click here to learn about Font Faces. Click here to check out the New less time consuming boxie. Click here to go to straight to New Riddle.

Afenla had this boxie that I wanted to try out once for myself:


 20 @ 90% ( +09% )  


 644(+5)   36(+01)  21 (--)

   701 ( +04 )

I also wanted to joke about America's Vice President's hunting accident when I first heard about it on the news, but decided to wait until after the Academy Awards. Here's my speculations about next years nominations for the Academy Awards, they are: Best Picture: 1. When Harry met Cheney 2. The Hunt For Red-faced February 3. In The Line Of Cheney's Fire Best Theme Song: 1. I Shot The Lawyer by Blink 2. Cheney's Got A Gun by Velvet Revolver 3. Missed Me by Mocking Birds Best Director: 1. Steven Spielbird

Font Faces Some of you probably noticed the unique text that I used on my comments and blogs, and some of you probably do not know how I did them. So here's a list of my favourite safe text fonts for you to try out: 1. ALGERIAN Code is: Your text here 2. AMAZE Code is: Your text here 3. BART Code is: Your text here 4. COMIC SANS MS Code is: Your text here 5. BRAGGADOCIO Code is: Your text here 6. BOOKMAN OLD STYLE Code is: Your text here 7. BRUSH SCRIPT MT Code is: Your text here 8. CENTURY GOTHIC Code is: Your text here 9. CENTURY SCHOOLBOOK Code is: Your text here 10. CHASM Code is: Your text here 11. COURIER Code is: Your text here 12. CURSIVE Code is: Your text here 13. DESDEMONA Code is: Your text here 14. FANTASY Code is: Your text here 15. FLAT BRUSH Code is: Your text here 16. GAZE Code is: Your text here 17. IMPACT Code is: Your text here 18. JESTER Code is: Your text here 19. MATISSE ITC Code is: Your text here 20. PLAYBILL Code is: Your text here 21. SHORT HAND Code is: Your text here 22. SIMPSON Code is: Your text here 23. SURFER Code is: Your text here 24. TIMES Code is: Your text here

Quicker Boxie Someone mentioned that they would like a boxie that was would cater to the time constraint user, so here it is: My Stats: <center> <img src="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a374/Spyrick/Lines%20and%20Bars/Patterntop419x23.jpg"> <img src="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a374/Spyrick/League/LoRDs350x20.jpg" alt="Join the League of Riddle Decipherers"/> Join the LoRDs: It's the better Answer! <img src="" hspace=2 height=40> <img src="" hspace=2 height=40> <img src=" " hspace=2 height=40> <img src=" " hspace=2 height=40> <img src=" " hspace=2 height=40> <img src=" " hspace=2 height=40> <img src=" " hspace=2 height=40> </center> <pre>

      Rank       : Cow Bell     Level      :   00 (+0)  
 <br/>      Percentage : 000% (+00%)  Forum Posts: 0000 (+00)   
 <br/>      <u>Submissions</u> <br/>        Accepted   : 0000 (+00)   Denied     : 0000 (-00)  
 <br/>      Pending    : 0000 (-00)  </font> </pre>

<center> <img src="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a374/Spyrick/Lines%20and%20Bars/Patternbottom419x23.jpg"> </center>
Copy and paste the above code to get this: My Stats:

Join the LoRDs: It's the better Answer!

         Rank       : Cow Bell     Level      :   00 (+0) 
      Percentage : 000% (+00%)  Forum Posts: 0000 (+00)  
      Submissions 
      Accepted   : 0000 (+00)   Denied     : 0000 (-00) 
      Pending    : 0000 (-00)

Darn! I haven't even come up with a riddle for this week, oh well, erm...oh wait, here's one!
Riddle#34:
Criterias for the wooing from a father-missed. The answers to the cryptic riddles are titles to television shows. If you know the answer to any of the cryptic riddles, PM me. Please do not leave the answer in the comment box. There are also emblems to be awarded to those who manage to solve a certain number of riddles correctly. See here for details: The Emblems And if you're looking for the rest of my cryptic television riddles,

Interesting links:

Blog of cool and not so cool links Exercising your Music Muscle
Links to other uninteresting profiles of me: My Gamespot.com My mp3.com My TVRage.com

Perhaps you like this better?

by Spyrick on March 10, 2006 Comments

Since the previous boxies did not really work well, perhaps users will prefer a simpler version like the one below:

My Stats: <center> <img src="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a374/Spyrick/Lines%20and%20Bars/Patterntop420x12.jpg"> <img src="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a374/Spyrick/League/LoRDs350x20.jpg" alt="Join the League of Riddle Decipherers"/> Join the LoRDs: It's the better Answer! <img src="" hspace=2 height=40> <img src="" hspace=2 height=40> <img src=" " hspace=2 height=40> <img src=" " hspace=2 height=40> <img src=" " hspace=2 height=40> <img src=" " hspace=2 height=40> <img src=" " hspace=2 height=40> </center> <pre>

      Rank       : Cow Bell     Level      :   00 (+0)  
 <br/>      Percentage : 000% (+00%)  Forum Posts: 0000 (+00)   
 <br/>      <u>Submissions</u>               <u>Reviews</u><br/>        Accepted   : 0000 (+00)   Shows      : 0000 (+00)  
 <br/>      Pending    : 0000 (-00)   Episodes   : 0000 (+00)  
 <br/>      Denied     : 0000 (-00)   People     : 0000 (+00)  
 <br/>      Total      : 0000 (+00)   Total      : 0000 (+00)     
 <br/>      <u>Edited Guides</u>             <u>Trusted User</u>  <br/>      Shows      : 0000 (+00)   Shows      : 0000 (+00)  
<br/>      People     : 0000 (+00)   People     : 0000 (+00)  <br/>      Blogs      :  000 </font> </pre>

The above code will give you this: My Stats:

Join the LoRDs: It's the better Answer!

      Rank       : Cow Bell     Level      :   00 (+0) 
      Percentage : 000% (+00%)  Forum Posts: 0000 (+00)  
      Submissions               Reviews
      Accepted   : 0000 (+00)   Shows      : 0000 (+00) 
      Pending    : 0000 (-00)   Episodes   : 0000 (+00) 
      Denied     : 0000 (-00)   People     : 0000 (+00) 
      Total      : 0000 (+00)   Total      : 0000 (+00)  
      Edited Guides             Trusted User
      Shows      : 0000 (+00)   Shows      : 0000 (+00)
      People     : 0000 (+00)   People     : 0000 (+00)
      Blogs      :  000

It doesn't look like a boxie, but it still looks better than the horizontal line.

By the way, Afenla has his own version of the boxie that I find to be quite good. Take a look here.

Testing Standard version boxie for LoRDs

by Spyrick on March 8, 2006 Comments

This is the standard size boxie for use by members of LoRDs. Simply need to copy and paste for own use.

My Stats: <img src="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a374/Spyrick/Lines%20and%20Bars/LoRDsBoxieL45x345.jpg" align=left> <img src="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a374/Spyrick/Lines%20and%20Bars/LoRDsBoxieR45x345.jpg" align=right> <hr size=4 align=center color=#003300> <center> <img src="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a374/Spyrick/League/LoRDs350x20.jpg" alt="Join the League of Riddle Decipherers"/> Join the LoRDs: It's the better Answer! </center> <img src="" hspace=2 height=40> <img src="" hspace=2 height=40> <img src=" " hspace=2 height=40> <img src=" " hspace=2 height=40> <img src=" " hspace=2 height=40> <img src=" " hspace=2 height=40> <img src=" " hspace=2 height=40> <pre>

Rank       : Cow Bell     Level      :   00 (+0)  
<br/>Percentage : 000% (+00%)  Forum Posts: 0000 (+00)   
 <br/><u>Submissions</u>               <u>Reviews</u><br/>  Accepted   : 0000 (+00)   Shows      : 0000 (+00)  
<br/>Pending    : 0000 (-00)   Episodes   : 0000 (+00)  
<br/>Denied     : 0000 (-00)   People     : 0000 (+00)  
<br/>Total      : 0000 (+00)   Total      : 0000 (+00)     
 <br/><u>Edited Guides</u>             <u>Trusted User</u>  <br/>Shows      : 0000 (+00)   Shows      : 0000 (+00)  
<br/>People     : 0000 (+00)   People     : 0000 (+00)  <br/>Blogs      :  000 </font> </pre>

Members of LoRDs, Can someone test this?

by Spyrick on March 6, 2006 Comments

Can one of you test this HTML code on your blog to see if it works? It's a expended version of the stats boxie. I'm trying to work on a copy and paste version for our use.

My Stats: <img src="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a374/Spyrick/Lines%20and%20Bars/LoRDsBoxieL45x445.jpg" align=left> <img src="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a374/Spyrick/Lines%20and%20Bars/LoRDsBoxieR45x445.jpg" align=right> <hr size=4 align=center color=#003300> <center> <img src="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a374/Spyrick/League/LoRDs350x20.jpg" alt="Join the League of Riddle Decipherers"/> Join the LoRDs: It's the better Answer! </center> <img src="" hspace=2 height=40> <img src="" hspace=2 height=40> <img src="" hspace=2 height=40> <img src="" hspace=2 height=40> <img src="" hspace=2 height=40> <img src=" " hspace=2 height=40> <img src=" " hspace=2 height=40> <img src=" " hspace=2 height=40> <img src=" " hspace=2 height=40> <img src=" " hspace=2 height=40> <pre>Rank : Cow Bell

Level      :   00  
<br/>Percentage :  000%        Forum Posts: 0000  
<br/>Increase   :  000%        Increase   :  000   
<br/> <br/><u>Submissions</u>               <u>Reviews</u><br/>  Accepted   :  000 (+00)   Shows      :  000 (+00)  
<br/>Pending    :  000 (-00)   Episodes   :  000 (+00)  
<br/>Denied     :  000 (-00)   People     :  000 (+00)  
<br/>Total      :  000 (+00)   Total      :  000 (+00)     
<br/> <br/><u>Edited Guides</u>             <u>Trusted User</u>  <br/>Shows      :  000 (+00)   Shows      :   00 (+00)  
<br/>People     :   00 (+00)   People     :   00 (+00)

Blogs : 000 </pre> <hr size=4 align=center color=#003300>

This weeks Riddle

by Spyrick on March 4, 2006 Comments

Join the LoRDs: It's the better Answer! Thinkers, Brainiacs and Sleuths, here's the HTML code for our League's sig and slogan: <center> <img src="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a374/Spyrick/League/LoRDs350x20.jpg" alt="Join the League of Riddle Decipherers"/> Join the LoRDs: It's the better Answer! </center>
Use it proudly and wisely.

LoRDs and not, here's the riddle for this week.
Riddle#33:
Excellent, field with spring for the four fingered. The answers to the cryptic riddles are titles to television shows. If you know the answer to any of the cryptic riddles, PM me. Please do not leave the answer in the comment box. There are also emblems to be awarded to those who manage to solve a certain number of riddles correctly. See here for details: The Emblems And if you're looking for the rest of my cryptic television riddles,

Interesting links:

Blog of cool and not so cool links Exercising your Music Muscle
Links to other uninteresting profiles of me: My Gamespot.com My mp3.com My TVRage.com

Testing League's very own boxie!

by Spyrick on March 4, 2006 Comments

Join the LoRDs: It's the better Answer! Thinkers, Brainiacs and Sleuths, I am currently working on our very own boxie for our membership use. What do you think of it? Spyrick's Stats:

Rank       : Cow Bell  Level      :   20  Percentage :   81%        Forum Posts:  960   Increase   :   ??%        Increase   :    ?  Submissions               Reviews
  Accepted   :  639 (+?)    Shows      :    9 (+00)  Pending    :   37 (-?)    Episodes   :    0 (+00)  Denied     :   21 (-?)    People     :    0 (+00)  Total      :  697 (+?)    Total      :    9 (+00)  Blogs      :   89

Note: This does not mean that I have joined the CoBB, it just means that the 'League of Riddle Decipherers' are cult friendly.

Congratulations to Awerlwas

by Spyrick on March 3, 2006 Comments

It my pleasure and honour to present the Certificate for the February 2006 'Most Romantic Blog' Award to Awerlwas for winning the 'Most Romantic Blog contest. Congratulations, Awerlwas.

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