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Fatty McFatterson

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

If you've been reading this blog for more than four or five months, you're aware that in an effort to lose a significant amount of weight and to avoid dying by the age of 35, I underwent lap-band surgery in March 2009. For those of you who don't know, the lap band is a small band placed at the top of your stomach that allows you to eat about four ounces at a time and you should stay full for about four to five hours on only those four ounces.

Since February, when I started dieting in preparation for the surgery, I've lost almost 120 pounds. That's more than an Ali. It's almost a Britt. It's not close to a LeSombre.

The last two months, though, haven't been nearly as successful as the previous seven. My weight loss has slowed to a crawl. I've been under a great deal of stress, which causes me to eat more small meals during the day, not the three I should be eating. I also know of different ways to eat more, such as drinking water or liquids during my meals, eating liquids like ice cream, or eating really "slippery" foods like foods with a lot of Ranch or mayonnaise on them. I have not been working out, either. Combine these factors with the fact that my band is currently looser than normal (after an overtightening a month ago), and my weight loss has been almost zero.

In an effort to kickstart it again and continue on my quest to reach my goal weight of 225 pounds, the amazing and wonderful Karen Sugarpants and I are having a little competition (thanks to Matthew over at ChildsPlayX2 for the idea). We are going to see who can lose the highest percentage of weight by February 1. The winner gets the satisfaction of winning. The loser has to post a music video in which she dances to a song chosen by me. (Or, if by some amazing chance, Karen wins, I'll dance to a song chosen by her.)

With Thanksgiving this week and Christmas around the corner, replete with fudge, cookies, and lots of other temptation, this should be interesting, but hopefully not a portrait of abject failure. Wish us luck, and if you have any suggestions for what song Karen should dance to when she loses, leave them in the comments.

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Raffle winners announced!

Monday, September 28th, 2009

(cross-posted over at Avitable Halloween)

Thanks to everyone who bought raffle tickets, the proceeds of which go to support the Halloween party happening on October 24th here in Altamonte Springs.

We sold 110 tickets total before the raffle ended, and this allows us to draw four winners for the following prizes:

Each person who purchased a ticket was able to select the recipient of the prize – either themselves of someone specific. I put the name of each recipient into a list corresponding to the number of tickets in their name. (e.g., if someone bought 10 tickets for Joe Blow, I put the name Joe Blow on the list 10 times.) Then, I used the Random.org List Randomizer to randomize the list. Finally, I used the Integer Generator to randomly choose 10 different numbers between 1 and 110. I chose 10 numbers so that if there were any duplicated names, I could skip someone who already won.

Here are the numbers that were chosen in order, and I assigned them in that order to Third Prize, Second Prize, First Prize, and the Grand Prize, respectively:

Third Prize
108: Cissa Fireheart

Second Prize
84: Wayne Hall

First Prize
41: Ren

GRAND PRIZE
20: Sheila

Congratulations to the winners! I'll be sending each of you an email to confirm.

Thank you to everyone who contributed. It's only because of this raffle, the T-shirt sales, and the tickets that I'm able to throw such an amazing party and invite so many people. I truly appreciate your support!

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Winners and Boozers

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

First, an announcement about the Halloween party. We'll be disclosing the theme soon, and if you have any interest in attending (Saturday, October 24th in Altamonte Springs, FL), please submit your information below if you haven't already done so. I will be sending out emails about ticket sales, party updates, hotel and travel info, and more, and if you didn't submit your information, you'll miss out!

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Second, thanks to all of you who entered last week's contest. Here are the original questions and correct answers, and congratulations to Metalmom for being the only person to correctly guess all 15!

1. My roommate and I once:
Made an adult film.
Zack and Miri Make a Porno

2. Never before in my life have I:
Found someone else who shared my true nature, even if she was an evil pig.
True Blood

3. High school was:
My last chance to tell Amanda how I feel.
Can't Hardly Wait (not Some Kind of Wonderful – that was not about telling Amanda how he felt)

4. When I’m nervous:
I make things on Mars.
Watchmen (Dr. Manhattan was nervous, which is why he went to Mars)

5. My hair:
Looks perfect even when I ride my scooter, thanks to my new hair-met.
Scrubs

6. When I was 5:
I shot my father in the head by accident.
The Quick and the Dead

7. When I turn my head left:
I wish I could. I cannot turn left in any way!
Zoolander

8. I should be:
Wearing a hat signed by Tom Landry. It's designed for a guy like me. I'm a guy like me.
The Simpsons (Hank Scorpio episode)

9. By this time next year:
I will be just like Christiane Amanpour.
Gilmore Girls

10. My favorite aunt is:
Uncle Frank's wife, aunt Jack.
Mrs. Doubtfire

11. I have a hard time understanding:
Why people cry.
Terminator 2 OR Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

12. My ideal breakfast is:
Pancakes made with a snow shovel.
Uncle Buck

13. If you visit my home town:
Bring cacao beans – they'll treat you like royalty.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

14. The animal I would like to see flying besides birds:
An elephant, gliding along on its ears.
Dumbo

15. Last night I:
Got trapped in a building with people who had rabies.
Quarantine

I tallied each correct answer, which was a total of 217 entries from 29 of you. I put the list into the randomizer at Random.org, and then I used the random integer generator to pick a number at random. Out of 217 entries, it chose #47, belonging to Lynn from Been There Done That. Congratulations, Lynn! You win the iPod – email me at adam at avitable dot com with your address so I can send you your prize.

To the rest of you, thanks for playing and I'll do this again sometime soon, so stay tuned!

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Contest: Lazy Sunday is BACK!

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

Many of you may not remember my contests that I ran every Sunday for an entire year. Each contest challenged your intellect, your knowledge of entertainment trivia and your luck. It was fun doing it, but it was a lot of work, and I spent over $1000 on prizes that I gave away.

This is the one year anniversary of the final contest, so I thought I'd bring it back for one week only. The rules are simple. I will go through Facebook or the web and pick one of those survey bulletins and answer 15 of the questions. Every answer contains a reference to a movie or a television show. In the comments, guess as many references as you can – some will be laughably easy and some will be very difficult. Every correct answer is like a raffle ticket – you get one chance to win per correct answer. If you get 1 right, your name goes in the proverbial hat. If you get 10 right, your name goes in ten times. Et cetera.

The contest ends Tuesday at midnight EST. I'll give the correct answers and the winner on the following Sunday.

This week the winner will receive a 1 GB iPod Shuffle!

MB813

Good luck!

1. My roommate and I once:
Made an adult film.

2. Never before in my life have I:
Found someone else who shared my true nature, even if she was an evil pig.

3. High school was:
My last chance to tell Amanda how I feel.

4. When I’m nervous:
I make things on Mars.

5. My hair:
Looks perfect even when I ride my scooter, thanks to my new hair-met.

6. When I was 5:
I shot my father in the head by accident.

7. When I turn my head left:
I wish I could. I cannot turn left in any way!

8. I should be:
Wearing a hat signed by Tom Landry. It's designed for a guy like me. I'm a guy like me.

9. By this time next year:
I will be just like Christiane Amanpour.

10. My favorite aunt is:
Uncle Frank's wife, aunt Jack.

11. I have a hard time understanding:
Why people cry.

12. My ideal breakfast is:
Pancakes made with a snow shovel.

13. If you visit my home town:
Bring cacao beans – they'll treat you like royalty.

14. The animal I would like to see flying besides birds:
An elephant, gliding along on its ears.

15. Last night I:
Got trapped in a building with people who had rabies.

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If we always had Twitter

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

(If you're looking for the contest winner, scroll down!)

Twitter, for those of you with your heads lodged firmly up your geriatric keisters, is a microblogging site where people can tell the world what they're doing, reply to other people who are saying what they're doing, and enjoy a global nonstop conversation. It's been around for a little over two years, and there are politicians, corporations, and celebrities using it alongside us common folk.

But what if Twitter had been around for longer than two years?

FBIWaco About to search the Branch Davidians. Can't wait to see the look on @DavidKoresh's stupid face.
9:45 AM Feb 28th, 1993 from web

DavidKoresh @FBIWaco Fuck you, you'll never take us alive. I'm totally unfollowing you!
9:48 AM Feb 28th, 1993 from web in reply to @FBIWaco

Britney Oh my God, y'all! I totally forgot to wear panties today. Sometimes I'm so blonde! /giggles
9:01 PM Dec 4th, 2006 from web

PaparazziPhotog @Britney Just asking idly, but where are you going clubbing tonight and about what time?
9:33 PM Dec 4th, 2006 from web in reply to @Britney

NBrown Totally just had the best sex of my life with @RGoldman. He's so much better than my ex, who had a tiny little dick.
10:24 PM Jun 12th, 1994 from web

OJSimpson @NBrown WTF?!?
10:53 PM Jun 12th, 1994 from web in reply to @NBrown

PReubens Anyone know of a good adult theater in Sarasota? #porn
7:19 PM Jul 26th, 1991 from web

SarasotaPD @PReubens Try the one on the corner of Main and Valencia. The cops never check it.
8:00 PM Jul 26th, 1991 from web in reply to @PReubens

KCobain If I don't get one million followers by tonight I'm totally going to shoot myself in the face.
1:11 PM April 5, 1994 from web

CourtneyHole @KCobain, pfft, whatever, you pussy. You will not.
1:12 PM April 5, 1994 from web in reply to @KCobain

CaptMikeSmith I totally blanked on how to fly the shuttle. Do I press this red button? #Challenger
11:38 AM Jan 28, 1986 from BBS

AstronautRon @CaptMikeSmith N
11:39 AM Jan 28, 1986 from BBS in reply to @CaptMikeSmith

JackieO It's such a nice day today, I'm going to insist we drive with the top down.
8:04 AM Nov 22, 1963 from teletype

In other Avita-news, thanks to the few of you who stopped by on Thursday to wish me a happy 5 year blogging anniversary and enter my contest for a free iPod Touch.

I chose the winner very simply. I used Random.org to generate a random number between 1 and 447. I counted the comments in the order that they were left, which means that a reply comment to comment #1 would not be comment #2. It would be comment #whatever based on when it was left.

Random.org chose 282. And the 282nd comment was . . . me! So I had it choose another one. This time, it chose 7. And the 7th comment was by Bluepaintred, who won the last iPod Touch I gave away, and is thereby ineligible (but I'll give you a free T-shirt, so email me)! So I had it choose another one. The third time was a charm – the number chosen was 328. And the 328th comment on that post is by . . . drumroll please . . . Casey from Moosh in Indy! Now, Casey asked me in her comment to rig this, which now seems totally suspicious, but I'm going to have to chalk this up to her having good Mormon karma that her number was chosen. Congratulations to Casey on winning the iPod Touch! Email me to confirm your win so I can get it ordered and sent out to you.

Thanks to everyone else for entering!

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5 Years of Avitable and the World Hasn't Ended Yet.

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Today's post marks five years of blogging for me. 1,700 posts. 40,000 comments. One million visitors. When I first started blogging, Blog Explosion and Battle of the Blogs were two ways that people found out about new blogs to read. People rented out space on their sidebars for blogs to rent. You had to use Blogrolling to see which blogs were updated, or you could just click through to each blog in your blogroll each day to see if they wrote something new. Everybody still hated Dooce. And most of you weren't around. That first year was when I started reading some of you, although the exact dates are fuzzy.

I consider many people who I've only known online to be my friends. They've proven to be so by being there via email, phone, IM, or just through their comments, and the fact that I haven't met many of them in person in no way detracts from the quality of friend that they are. I've made many friends through my blog, and while not all of them have remained friends, I truly feel enriched through the sense of community that blogging creates, through the comments, the posts, and the feeling of belonging to a group. To something bigger.

Through TequilaCon, ConFab, the upcoming BlogHer, my Halloween parties (don't forget to sign up for the mailing list if you think you might want to come!), and random bloggers' visits to Orlando, I've had the chance to solidify the connections I've made online by seeing the three-dimensional person. The fully-fleshed personality behind the blogging voice. And I relish every opportunity to do so.

In the last six months, it seems like Twitter has been a crutch for lazy bloggers, which has led to less blogging and less commenting. It feels like it's led to shorter attention spans, post ideas boiled down to a tweet, and a transition from a small community to being lost in a huge crowded conversation. Yet, while I see the benefit of Twitter, blogging will always be what keeps me online.

Originally, I wanted to plan something huge for my fifth-year anniversary and have a week-long celebration, but I didn't have the time. So I have to compress all the awesomeness into one post. And what better way to do that than with a contest with an actual prize? This is to thank each and every one of you who took the time to comment, to email, to communicate with me in some way. For each of you who read the words that I write every day. For those of you who understand that this is just one aspect of my personality and of who I am. For anyone who has gotten to know me.

What's the prize?

An 8GB iPod touch!

What's the contest?

It's very simple. All you have to do is leave a comment and tell me one thing that you like about blogging. That's it. Oh, and wish me a happy anniversary of five years blogging!

The contest is open until Saturday, June 20th, at midnight EST. After that point, a random number will be drawn and the comment corresponding to that number will win the iPod Touch.

Good luck!

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America's Next Top Moob Contest

Monday, May 18th, 2009

A few nights ago, I posted this tweet on Twitter: "I'm bored. Who wants to talk to me? Or call me. Or send me pictures of their boobs."

While the response from my female followers was severely disappointing, the men came through in spades, sending several photos of their naked breasts. And while each picture was in and of itself erotic and I was able to furiously masturbate to each of them in turn, I couldn't decide which was my favorite.

So I've decided to have a contest. Let's hold a blogosphere-wide contest to vote for the best moobs on the Internet. Women, send pictures of your husbands' or boyfriends' manmaries. Men, shoot your own brosts. Send the pictures to me via email [adam (at) avitable (dot) com] by Friday, May 22nd. I'll post the photos and let you vote for your favorite. The owner of the moobs with the most votes will win the title of the 2009 Best Moobs on the Interweb and the following free T-shirt:

What are you waiting for? Men, let those puppies breathe and send a photo in today!

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Caption This

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

adam_swingset

Give me your best caption. The one I pick as the best wins a prize!

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Fun and prizes! Well, prizes at least.

Friday, February 6th, 2009

Today is the birthday of my good friend and proud fellow geek, Heather. She's 37, which means that she will soon be a decrepit gimpy old lady on her deathbed.

In her honor, I have written her a special message:

Scraro acworaaoacworc'c aoacahrcaoro-cwohowowhaoac roworarc rhwo rac rhoohuwhaoahwwhuan rac aoacwo wwanworac ahwh anooohrhraoaoara'c wwhurc.

Clearly, it's in some type of code.

The first person to correctly translate it in the comments wins a $25 Amazon gift card!

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Need to know basis

Friday, November 28th, 2008

Since I'm not sure how many people are even going to read this today, here are some things that those of you who do show up need to know!

The first thing is my huge giveaway. There are three ways to enter, which gives you three chances at winning the entire series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on DVD. Go here to read the rules and submit your entries. It's over Sunday at midnight, so don't miss out!

Secondly, some of those who are newer might not know of some of the other places where you can find me on this big old Internet.

You can:

Follow me on Twitter.
Be my friend on Facebook.
Favorite me on Technorati.
Subscribe to my Youtube videos.
View my Flickr photos.
Buy my Zazzle products.
Watch the amateur porn I made a few years ago.

How many of you clicked on that last link? Jesus, don't you know me? If I made a porn, I'd totally charge people to watch it – I wouldn't just give it away for free!

You can use the comments to whore yourself out – where can we find you on the internet?

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