The Times They Are a-Changin’

It’s absolutely amazing how much can change in such a little time; but whilst your experiencing the time you can hardly notice the changes. When you take a step back, and take a look at the last few months of your life, you realize how things have changed. Some of these changes for the better; others for the negative; all in all though – changes.

Six Months ago I was about to go on an outback to Central Australia. Six Months ago tomorrow was Toby Wrights 16th birthday. Six Months ago, things were looking crazy-awesome positive! I had larger reserves of money; I had been working at Image Direct for a mere 3 months; I had 10 days of outback, 14 days of school holidays, then 24 days in China, all within 2 months! School could go suck it in my opinion.

Although; Six months ago, I was lonely. Six months ago, I didn’t have a PS3, a 40′ tv, a Mac. Six months ago, I was in Year 10 at Baby Kurnai. Six months ago, I had quit football, deserting my team/coach and turning my back on Captaincy responsibilities. Six months ago I was 15, and unable to drive a car (with supervision).

Today I have a consolidated group of best friends. These people are my rock; they keep me stable, keep me going day to day. I rely on them a lot, more then any of us can understand. I was originally scared that our paths would fork with the transition to the GEP; but that was far from the truth – I’d say we’re all better friends now then we’ve ever been.

Bradleigh Holcombe, Jason Rendell, Toby Wright and myself (The original crew); have picked up long time SUPER BEST FRIENDS Michelle Prezioso and Suzie Moss as new members of the Crew; and also have long time friend, and recently turned Crew member, Breanna Downes-Smith; and the still-to-be-initiated Lauren Peters as the final addition to the Crew.

These are the people you’ll find me hanging out with at school; chilling in classes with; hanging over at KFC with; going to the movies with; going to parties with; hanging after school with; conversing with; EXISTING WITH; loving with; fighting with. If i’m ever doing something, the safest bet in existence is to put your money on these people being involved.

Being a RIDGEY DIDGE AUSSIE BLOKE, I don’t always tell Brad, Jason and Toby how much they mean to me. As gay as it sounds, I would feel lost and incomplete with the Crew, members new and old.

Time is constant. It doesn’t slow, it doesn’t speed up (unless you have a fully sick spaceship or something). Live every moment to the full, and never let someone undermine what you love doing – if you love doing it, it is always worth going the extra mile for. Don’t complain that you wan’t to be older, younger, smarter, prettier, skinnier, taller; work with what you have, improve on what you can improve, and live life in the now.

Stop worrying about the future/past and start worrying about the present. You can’t change the past as it’s already happened, and your future depends on the actions you take in the present.

You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone; don’t let the things you love get away.

Pithdog is back in business, and it’s a fucking fantastic feeling. <3 xx

Sandwiches, Softporn and Sealed Air Bags

Today, many things occurred. Originally it was just the one occurence, and I contemplated blogging about it. I was hesitant, but then all these other things happened and I felt obliged.

Thing number one, me and Pither encountered the devil; at least the form he takes on when in the physical plane. It was something you never wish to see or become part of, but sadly I am giving you no choice. You will be told.

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‘Twas the beginning of lunch and me and Ryan were fast becoming ravenous, so I altruistically opted to buy all of the lunches (all of them) because Ryan didn’t have tangible cash on him.

This was the first of many grave mistakes.

We each chose a “Chilli Chicken Wrap”. A frightening abomination, hidden behind the deceptive facade of such a tantalising name. We gently scooped up these seemingly wholesome snacks from the lukewarm bain-marie they sat so provocatively in. It only took one deft scoop to realise something was amiss: these repasts were unusually dense.

I reasoned with myself that this was due to a gratuitous amount of succulent chicken nestled deep within the heart of the meal. I was wrong, and soon I would pay for my ignorance.

We mastered the checkout, pausing only momentarily to see if they had overcharged us. They had, but comparatively this superfluous charge was a mere misdemeanour.

Ryan and I seated ourselves at a distant table, preparing ourselves for what we assumed was a delicious Chilli Chicken Roll. I became aware of something that had only then became apparent: the rolls were wrapped in a thin cocoon of plastic wrap. I thought it was general knowledge that hot food sweats when wrapped air tight!

I worriedly peeled back this erroneous entanglement, discovering the truth behind the absurd weightiness of the snack: it was…

Damp.

What was once a delicassy, had become deluged with dampness.

I wept a single tear, adding to the already gratuitous amount of moisture that could be found pooling at the bottom of this ruined repast.

I was determined to press on, and bravely slid my fingers through the pool of malice, nestling them safety against the underbelly of this eelish grub.

I gave my mouth all necessary prepatations for engulfing this amphibious morsel, but was not prepared for what came next. My mouth began to fill with a searing liquid, heat eminating from it that could rival the sun itself.

I couldn’t commit the social faux pas of regurgitating the food from my mouth, and as such I was forced to swallow.

Agony.

Agony, manifested as a tomato slid at a snails pace down my throat. I was speechless. Nothing could prepare somebody for the gauntlet this once harmless nourishment presented to me and Ryan that day.

My mortal body was taxed out, reaching it’s limit of pain and endurance. It would have only taken the slightest of pushes to tip me over the edge. With an implied smirk, the Beast provided exactly that. With the next bite, pain no longer blinded me. I could see, moreover taste, this snack for what it truly was. And with that bite, I tasted only egg.

I hate egg! It’s yucky! [sic]

With this crushing blow, my entirety reached it’s threshhold. No amount of satisfaction could justify the completion of this catastrophic encounter.

I refolded the plastic that has contributed to the spawning of this hellwrought entity. I once more scooped it up within my feeble grasp. I walked the walk of shame and concession.

With one sluggish movement, I dumped the flaccid snack where it belonged, in the trash receptacle.

It sneered at me as I walked back to the table; hands over the side of my head.

Ryan patted my back when I returned, consoling me from the withered state I had entered.

It was a day I won’t soon forget.

Exeunt.

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Sorry I couldn’t get any photos of that disgusto thing, my hands were like COVERED in egg water. It was the grossest stuff, but I guess you already heard all about it. Ryan ended up being guilted into eating the whole thing because I paid for it. Honestly, that thing was so rank I would’ve paid for him not to finish it. I’m not even sure if he’s still alive :/

Okay so up there, I mentioned that there were numerous things, and I’m a man who doesn’t lie about how many things I say occur. The exclusion to this rule is when I use the hyperbole “all the things” in which case I am suggesting at an inquantifiably large number of things that is in no way infinite.

I think people would pay for me to stop writing right now.

Well those guys can invest that cash in my middle finger ’cause I got SHIT to rant about!

Over at the Fort Unlimited, chief blog writer Iseeyou discovered an asburd art book, entitled “Draw Furries”.

I was in a bookstore today, checking out the art section for some cool graphic design books. Instead I found a book that is simultaneously the best and worst thing. It’s awesome, but I really can’t imagine how family appropriate it could be without ruining the awesomeness of it. I mean, not that I’m voyeuristic or anything.

:0

I’ll just show you the picture then :C

What a wonderful book.

I REALLY hope this is a flipbook.

Sorry about the quality of both this and any other ensuing photos in this post. Not only am I using my shitty phone camera, but also lately my hands have been shaking a bit for some reason. It can’t be coffee because I actually haven’t had that in a while. I think it might be something to do with nutrition or something.
My next news piece involves a package I received in the SNAIL MAIL. I was expecting it to be kind of small, but it turned out to be like, bigger than a backpack. About the same size as my computer tower, and it’s a brute of a thing (in all aspects except performance (the important one :/)).
There isn’t really much to say about it, so here’s a barrage of images:

Hey check out my huge package.

My needs are "URGENT" people, attend to them or face the WRATH.

Instead of bubble wrap or packaging peanuts, I got sealed air bags. They are the best, when you clap them behind people, they burst and EVERYONE IS SHOCKED.

Moving the pen, cord, and air bags aside I looked at the main item. It's my new tablet! Yaaaaaaay!

Here is my new tablet, the Wacom Intuos4 Medium. It is SO much larger than my old tablet.

By way of comparison, here is old v. new. Also some assorted junk near my bed :/

Well, that’s all the things that happened today, but it was all within one day so it was pretty exciting. Also, I think this is a contender for longest blogpost.
I look forward to seeing if Pithdog can “top dis shit” [sic].
Well, catch you all on the flipside, it was nice having something to blog about for once :D

Jackass 3D, Long Weekends and Websites

Cutest, furry little bastards, EVARRR!!!! Bitch.

I just saw the trailer to the best thing ever. Ever. Like seriously EVAR! JACKASS 3D! Three-Fucking-D. Just releasing Jackass 3 would’ve been enough excitement, but the fact that its in 3D hopefully makes it better. Although it also could be quite scary; an enraged bull running through the screen at you, a dildo flying straight past you before it becomes lodged in Bam’s ass. I don’t know if I want that sort of trauma. But anyway, I think its going to be a kick-ass movie, and I’ve been waiting for it to come out since I watched Jackass 2 (I re-acquired and watched it today). Here’s the fully sick trailer for all to see!

NOTE: I recommend clicking on the YouTube clip below and going to the actual page, and then watching it in HD. Its a way better experience in HD.

So now, following the awesomeness of that piece of news, IS THE NEWS THAT THIS WEEKEND, YES, THIS WEEKEND, IS A LONG WEEKEND! Well, for public high school students in our area at least. This is absolutely fantastic, and amazingly awesome that it coincided with the launch of TPTArcade, described more below. I’m going to get so much work done on all my websites*.

*(NOTE: More then likely I’ll get distracted, and I’ll end up spending the rest of the weekend playing CoD4. But thats productive, right?)

Alright now on to the most important topic ever. Yeah, I know I say ‘ever’ a lot, whatcha gonna do ’bout it… Punk-ass motherfucker. Anywho, I talked briefly about this on Friday, but really didn’t go into any depth at all. So what happened is, my 1 year payment for the domain, www.foreverfreegames.com, ran out on like July 20th or something like that. I let it run out because I wanted to transfer it from my registrar at the time, to my current registrar. I wanted to have all my domains at the one registrar, and also because Crazy Domains sucks. But once my 1 year period expired, the domain went into some sort of limbo and the horrible tech support at Crazy Domains couldn’t help me – helped partly by the poor english of the person I was emailing, and partly because every reply took 4 days to procure.
So I went, fuck it, I don’t want foreverfreegames.com anymore, you can keep it. The next day at school, I described the predicament to Brad and asked for any suggestions on a new domain name. I suggested, ‘TPTGames’, to get the ball rolling, but Brad pointed out that it would suggest we made the games. So after much deliberation he suggested, ‘TPTArcade’, a online flash-game arcade affiliated with the TPT brand name, and TPTComics. It sounded really awesome in my head, and that night, I believe, I registered the domain name and bought a new Arcade Script, AV Arcade.

Wow that was a big block of text. Anyway, the next step involves me moving the default template around, adding my little unique bits here and there; and Brad will be designing the look of the website, and has in fact already made the current header image. So check it out!.

iPhone 4 UPDATE: I still haven’t received it, and the anger brewing inside me is growing greater. I think The Crew is getting scared :P

Here’s The Keys, Take ‘er For a Whirl

For the love of god, do NOT edit my posts.

"I'm going to be away so here's the keys to my blog, do NOT break anything."

Oh whoops sorry Pithdog looks as if I have already broken everything! Somehow I managed to convert all of your lovely blogposts into some manner of hideous shrieking sine! Here is an example of one of them:

Pithdog Audio File

This is in fact not shrieking sine, but instead a lame audio rendition of Pithdog's blogposts (voiced by Takorii) click picture for a rad .mp3

So basically I got bored and I thought it might be a funny idea to record Pithdog’s blogs in silly voices. If you enjoyed that sample one, you can download the full 6-piece feed from right here, no viruses I promise! It’s just me voicing out a couple of Pithdog’s more recent blog posts.

Oh man when Pithdog said to make a blogpost I didn’t realise how much of a hard undertaking it would be. I feel I have succinctly made my point, and yet I am struggling to match Pithdog’s word count. This isn’t like TPTComics where I can just throw images and links at you, I have to think of news. Hmmm, news.

Well as you may have noticed, I am not Pithdog(!) Pithdog is escorting some foreign exchange students from China around Victoria, or some such. Having not received his iPhone yesterday (contrary to what any paperwork he received might have said) he is unable to be blogging whilst “on the go”. He apparently won’t be getting that iPhone for like a week, it’s funny how mad he is at Optus.

I just made an exciting revelation. Despite what I said earlier, throwing images may be the key to captivating your attention! Watch, as a pixelated image of a future TPT strip is hurled in your direction.

Who ARE these people?

Who ARE these people? Is this even a comic?

Ha ha! Take that! I have successfully created something interesting to read without the use of Pithdog’s fancy “words” and “anecdotes”. Psshaw who need th-

Wait you’re saying you don’t care? Damn I really should just stop talking.

Two weeks from now I should be two things: a.) at Mt. Baw Baw on a fun skiing adventure, and b.) the proud owner of an iPhone 4. Connecting these two dots together one might realise that fascinating tales of the aforementioned adventures are imminent. Expect photos, expect text, yadda yadda Takorii GTFO.

Cryptic message: The only awesome somebody that yells. Sorry but I was requested to put that in here :C

Well guys hope you liked the change of pace, catch you all on the flippy-flop(s).

Images Galore??!!!

I’M GOING TO HIT YOU WITH A SACK FULL OF IMAGES!!!11112#$$%^^

Well. Maybe not a sack full. Oooo I know. Maybe, just maybe, now now, here me out. Instead of a sack full of images, right. I create a BLOG POST FILLED WITH IMAGES. I think thats a subtle and unnoticeable difference.

Anywho, I was looking around on the net today and guess what I found. No, it wasn’t that. Uhh, no it wasn’t that. Or that. STOP SAYING DIFFERENT TYPES OF P0RN. P0rn covers the entire spectrum, and whilst there IS alot of p0rn on the internet (some could say that the internet is for p0rn); what I found wasn’t in fact p0rn. I found a picture of the Churchill Cougar boys, including me, at the inter-league carnival. EVERYONE IS SUSPICIOUSLY THE SAME HEIGHT, YET IN REAL LIFE ARE ALL DIFFERENT HEIGHTS. Enjoy.

Churchill Interleague Boys 2010

From left to right: Rodney Croft, Harley Lowrie, Matt Bradford, Gene Iorangi, Ryan Pither

In iPhone news, today I ordered a case for the iPhone I ordered on Friday. This case is pretty freaking awesome, and I was discussing it with Takorii the other day. Its 0.5mm thick, transparent glass thats been hardened like a windshield. Now the beauty of this is, as its transparent, I’ll be able to show off the awesome design of the iPhone 4, whilst protecting it AND fixing the antenna problem. YAY! If you want to check out the site where I bought it from, GO HERE.

iPhone Zero 5 Case

OMG ITS SUPER DUPER THIN AND SEE THROUGH *JIZZ JIZZ*

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE. There is a much greater chance that Brad will also be getting a iPhone 4. Fortunately for him, he has a relative who works for Telstra, so he should be getting some SUPER AWESOME deal. It will also help Mumma Brad say yes to his iPhone cravings.

iPhone 4 Retina Display

iPhone 4 Retina Display yo!

O and btw, here’s my CoD 4 signature thingey.

Love you all <3