It has been about 10 months since the last edition, and I think I can mostly blame that on the fact that I have a job. Free time just isn't as abundant as it once was, and weekends have been dedicated to completely entertaining endeavours (like playing Resident Evil 4 or watching all three Lord of the Rings films in one day).
So read on, fellow Dinkers, and see what this edition entails. Poll Comments? Massive Fruit Indulgences? Elephants?
Poll Comments
Um... it has been a while since the last poll comments, so this one is a doozy.Poll 33: Favorite Snack
4) Holy variety with angel's wings on the side
3) Is this the first Poll without Tal as an option? I vote for him!
2) Monkey brains wrapped in bananna peels mmm mmm good
1) Nothin like a big hunh of cow in you mouth.
Poll 34: Favorite Underappreciated Game Platform?
3) There was this game on Tal Pal called Sabrestabber. You should have tried it.
2) Dos is awsome. And I don't mean no fancy-smancy 6.x version, no! If you are a REAL gamer, you use 1.0
1) The etcha-skethc man tht thing rocks its totaly tripy with the way out silver and black monotones.
Poll 35: Favorite infrequent or dead article?
5) Well, you lay a little of this, medicine, in a little line, on this little piece of paper. Then roll, light, and enjoy!
4) Doing anything with dukie
3) Recondite/Ask Tal... I just LOVE all that stuff with the weird humor. Redink an Tal in tha house!! WOOHOOO!!
2) I love those scenes from the past.. the nostalgy + redink1 actually writes pretty good columns.
*kissass*1) I've never even heard of this one, I guess everyone already is complaining
Poll 36: How often do you visit The Dink Network?
4) I visit The Dink Network, more than I bathe
3) I've only visited once, and I've never left. Somebody save me.
2) every time tal calls me a wanker, which happens to be quite often
1) I visit every time I blink, and this has forced me into the curse of dry, dusty eyes.
Poll 37: How involved are you on our Message Board?
3) Post Often, if often is at least one post a day... Otherwise Occasionally. Please, be a bit clear when using "Often" or "Occasionally". It freaks the hell outta me!! Just kiddin' and I'm checkin how many characters fit in the comment
2) Whats a message board?
1) I remember I used to be there all the time at Medar's board. Those were the days when I had an evil impostor.... *ahh*
Poll 38: Coke or Pepsi - what's your preference?
5) Stop making Tal a choice, you losers! It's not even funny anymore, but I still pick him.
4) watching a girl drink pepsi actually turned me on..... ???
3) Tala Cola, better than WC Water!
2) Gandhi drank his own pee and he was a great guy, so why not give it a shot? Try it: You might just become Gandhi!
1) It always pisses me off when I see a can of Coke that says "Original Recipe", They lie! There's no coke in it anymore!!
Poll 39: The lack of files recently is due to:
5) Dmoding isnt as fun as touching your self
4) The network realized that the files sucked and it's better off without any files. Good riddance to that!
3) dang teh low-carb banana eating Tal and redink!!1111
2) I bet we have a fine 160 D-Mods just waiting for release, but Inky keeps them from us..
1) that that weirdo who made pilgrims quest is nuts and is trying to think of another rated R junk
Poll 40: The character Dink Smallwood is
3) He's horny as hell, oh yeah!
2) I love Dink Smallwood does anyone have the address where you can marry whomever you want to please!!
1) The character Dink Smallwood is... strangely attractive.
Poll 41: Why is redink1 resigning as webmaster in a few months?
7) he's having an extensive bananaectomy
6) Intimidated by Tal's ability to discern "it's" from "its"
5) ReDink1 is planning to be in a porn made by Simon Klaebe. (the aspiring porn D-Modder)
4) Because his brain-software is infected and out-of-date, but we may not notice this so he quits after he's done his final job and before his hardware gets a melt-down.
3) I saw his (WC's) photo, anyone would be scared to death...
2) Well, it's well known Tal wishes to take over the world, no? Small steps, baby, small steps.
1) He figured out how to make "that thing" work
Poll 42: Cow?
1) the guy who does this needs vacations
Poll 43: Life?
3) Life is like a box of bananas. It's funny!
2) Not enough "bedtime"
1) a thousand minature monkeys are controlling your brain giving uncontrollable urges for banannas
Generation 9, Miasma 3 status
For the past few months, I've done a lot of thinking about how I should create the next version of The Dink Network. I haven't had the motivation to actually do much work, though. While Miasma 3 will be designed for The Dink Network, I'm also trying to design it so it would work for other web sites.Right now it seems that there isn't much ... connection on other web sites. They download an off-the-shelf forum, news, and poll applications and nothing works together. People have a forum profile, comments aren't connected with the forum at all (or simply linked), and so on. Whereas Miasma 3 would allow someone to setup an entire community web site quickly and easily.
While that is still the goal, right now I'm sort of dropping that requirement. After I finish it for The Dink Network, I might go back and make it more functional for other types of web sites, but trying to do that now didn't work.
I started actually coding last weekend, just a few minor template tests. It seems like I'll be able to get it done in a few months if I had free time, but that doesn't look very likely.
So ... don't expect the next design (or my departure) any time soon.
The Trip
Over Christmas vacation, I flew down to visit Mr. Talmadge.Overall, things went rather splendidly. We spent quite a lot of time playing Gamecube at his place and playing Gamecube and X-Box at his friend Brian's place. The only real down-side over the entire week was going into Brian's kitchen... there were many roaches, and there was this smell that wasn't Uber-horrible, but it definitely wasn't very pleasing.
Another odd event was I could seemingly go forever without getting hungry. It seemed like I was just so... uneasy (being in a new place and all) that the connection from my stomach to my brain was cut off. Even as I grew more comfortable, my hunger level seemed much lower than normal.
Relating to food... my gastrointestinal tract was all messed up. Sometime in the middle of my stay, it felt like I had gas every minute for hours on end, for multiple days. It was only audible a couple times, but I think it was the cause of the strange hot-pocket smell in the living room (it was the only thing I ate the first day I arrived).
Lastly, I had (and will still probably have) some difficulty connecting Online Tal with Real Tal. I've always had a seperate 'voice' in my head for Online Tal, which was, of course, completely different from Real Tal. I would remember something that Tal had said online, remembering it in the Online Tal voice, and then trying to re-remember it in the Real Tal voice. My mind was very confused. I even had the urge to message Online Tal when I got home to tell him that I got an e-Reader at Wal-Mart, even though Real Tal was with me while my lucky hands nabbed it from the clearance shelf.
Dream
I had a strange dream a couple weeks ago.It started out with me in my room, and my roommate Brad showed up. I was complaining about not having much food, and he opened the middle drawer of my dresser in my closet, and there was tons of food inside. I was happy.
Then I was in a house that I haven't been in before... 'something' happened, I'm not quite sure what, like everything was wavy orange for a little bit. Then a woman (twenty-ish?) came in (with some odd yellow makeup stuff around her eyes) crying and hugging me. I wiped her tears away, smearing the weird yellow makeup, and she said that I lied to her and such. I was like, what the heck. Then she said that I was a descendant of one of 'those people' from the 1880's. I realized something was messed up; perhaps I went into a different dimension courtesy of wavy orange.
Next thing I can remember, there is a Giant Dan (like... 100x normal size) just standing around in the ocean outside the house. Me, normal-size Dan, said something about being sorry to the girl, and I flew up to fly in Giant Dan's nose or mouth or other facial orifice. I think Giant Dan and I were one-and-the-same, some collective mind thing, part of this mysterious group of people from the 1880's.
A group of people tried to strap me (normal-size Dan, I think) inside a rocket type thing in order shrink Giant Dan to normal size. I realize that makes no sense. It had been attempted multiple times before, but it never worked. Maybe that was why the woman was upset now, because I always thwarted their plans.
They had me strapped on an ambulance stretcher, and loaded me into the rocket. There were a couple other people there. I escape and start kicking their butts, and one of them (possibly a baby) is kicked out the door and is barely hanging on. The rocket is moving at this time. From inside the rocket the outside was obviously just a screen playing other footage, as if I was in a TV show.
Anyway, the one guy (definitely not a baby now) falls into the ocean (the rocket was taking off from a dock type area, and doesn't seem to have moved at all) and a glob of something hits the right side of his face, and he gets submerged in the water. When he gets up, everyone on the dock thinks that he's alright seeing the left-side of his face, but the entire right-side of his face is a skeleton, so he sort-of got turned into Two-Face from Batman.
And then I woke up.
