rholliday's Threadless Blog

Does travis76 still post here?

Tue, 12 May 2009 16:05:32 -0500

I saw some shirts of his on a big mailing list I'm on, and it doesn't look like he's been around of late.

DragonCon Pictures

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:07:21 -0500

Back from DragonCon 2008. Pictures here if anyone's interested, since I seem to recall a lot of people were last year.

Shameless Self Promotion.

Fri, 16 May 2008 11:24:43 -0500

This is about the extent of my internet interaction these days:

That ones amuses me every time, but I do really love to hear myself talk. More at http://youtube.com/dailywheel if you're so inclined.

You almost got me Threadless!

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:30:52 -0500

Nearly dragged me back into the shirt-buying fold. A sale, combined with some nice prints over the last few weeks? Sign me up!

Oh wait, you changed to that horrible, pseudo-AA shirt style and retired my beloved FotL. Alas, Threadless must go the way of the Oddica and the other all-AA shops, I can't abide the form-fitting, over-smooth feel. Shame that.

In other news, how's everyone doing? :)

Update: Okay fine, so you did get me. Next time Gadget!

Secret Valentine Stuff! [Update: Sent]

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:58:41 -0600

I received my SV package like over a week ago. I'm slow though, so I'm just now getting around to blogging it. I got a tasty bit o' lovin' from one Nicole aka squeege. She's already shown you some of her handywork, but in my joy I recaptured it:

Isn't that insanely awesome? I didn't decorate my box for good reason: no one deserves to get kindergarten quality stick figures in the mail.

The box contained some good stuff, too.

To wit:
One (1) handmade heart-shaped valentine
One (1) DVD "My Bloody Valentine"
One (1) Sesame Street "V is for Valentine" coloring book
One (1) baggie containing eight (8) medium-sized Caryola crayons
Two (2) boxes of Necco brand Sweethearts candies
One (1) custom music compilation consisting of two (2) CDs and two (2) track listings contained in two (2) handmade cases:

All together a pretty sweet haul. Those CD cases amuse me to no end. Thanks Nicole. :)

She left me a note in the coloring book!

I'll see what I can do about that. :)

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Speaking of Secret Valentines and my slowness, I mailed mine late last night. Here's a sample:

Could this questionably packaged box of joy be winging itself your way? If you're a domestic (no pun intended) female and you haven't yet received yours, watch this space.

Most. Annoying. Sale. Ever.

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:07:21 -0600

Yeah, I know it's mostly my fault, and I know there were all sorts of good reasons for the staggard releases, but I found this sale to be a lot less enjoyable than the standard "$10 for X amount of time" sale. First, I've been told that somehow shipping to me in Georgia is either more than or not a lot less than shipping to some people in England, which is kind of ridiculous, if accurate. This only furthered my disdain for ordering small batches of shirts. So when they released some shirts I wanted early on, I put them in my cart and waited. Slowly a handful more I wanted appeard, and they were carted as well. Now, Threadless has added a nice feature to warn you when stock of something in your cart is getting low. I got a few of those. Each time I thought, "Well, either they'll hold out or they won't. No sense rushing for one shirt I don't really want that bad." I actually got the warning a couple of times for some shirts, as I think they stumbled upon a few missing pieces. This encouraged me to wait.

Now we get to yesterday, the supposedly penultimate day of shirt releasing. Out of 12 shirts in the cart, we've lost 4 for sure. Acceptable attrition. Surely the last day will be replete with radiant releases to compensate my losses?

Nope. In fact, not only are there no new shirts, I lose another third of my cart (only one of which I heard about through email).

And to think if I'd've just given up I could've gotten most of what I wanted at the halfway mark. *sigh*

Okay, end of my whine (whinge?). You can go back to your regularly scheduled art theft and STP query blogs. :)

(Incidentally, Threadless has apparently removed the ability to use divs or spans in blogs, which pisses me right off, because I like using tooltips, dammit.)

You, too, can own this shirt! ($25 GC) (complete!)

Sat, 14 Oct 2006 07:41:16 -0500

Contest decided, see below.
Contest finished, see below below.
So BP finally got printed (by Threadless), and we're all excited. Some of us genuinely, some of us because it's now en vogue to like him instead of hate him, but all excited nonetheless. ;)

I acquired a gift certificate coupon from Mr. Phone awhile ago for services rendered over my great protests, as I am nowhere near broke at the moment. So the compromise was that I would give it to someone to buy this shirt when it was released. Ordinarily I guess there'd be a contest of sorts to determine the recipient, but 1. I suck at that sort of thing, and 2. there are already a few contests going on for Bananaphone stuff. So I'm open to suggestions for how to handle this (beyond "just give it to me lol romg!")

I've also yet to buy it myself, so I suppose STPs are floating about, as well.

Okay, so the contest has been decided … sort of. We will accept either photographic scavenger hunt results or fantastically carved pumpkins. I realize not everyone loves pumpkins as much as some people:
chelly on Oct 14 '06 at 2:51pm
Oh OH OH,

PUMPKIN CARVING!!!

(yes.)

chelly on Oct 14 '06 at 2:54pm
pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease.

chelly on Oct 14 '06 at 6:46pm
carved pumpkiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiins!

Hitchhiker on Oct 14 '06 at 7:04pm
I like chelly's idea of the pumpkin carving. How about the best bananaphone-esque pumpkin carving?

chelly on Oct 15 '06 at 5:08am
yes!

Which is why we're taking canstillremember and ladykat's idea, as well:
ladykat on Oct 14 '06 at 10:16am
you could have a photographic scavenger hunt in which each picture needs one item from the tee...

and also someone (human or animal) must be in the shot either wearing a real threadless tee or a fake threadless tee (like they draw on a tshirt something to represent a threadless tee) - just so people are forced to take their own pictures!

STPs for the meta-contest will be going (eventually) to canstillremember, ladykat, chelly, and Hitchhiker. My associate loserbeech may be contributing to this.

So in summation: a collection of photos with you and items related to the shirt, or a pumpkin carved in a manner befitting the shirt. Deadline is Sunday, October 22, at 11:30PM Threadless time (CST). The winner will be expected to purchase this shirt with their winnings and prove it, lest I be very sad. :'(
Please post your pictures in this manner:
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That way this blog doesn't get too ridiculously huge. :)

Our illustrious winner is chelly. May she enjoy her prize (currently valued at 2.5 shirts!) well. :)

(Don't forget about bananaphone's contest, as we definitely don't need to escalate to fist-shaking.)

Oh btw, this is me:

and this is staffell:

Any questions?

Okay, this is getting ridiculous ...

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:19:33 -0500

I got a set of STPs today, four sets last week, and one the week before that. I think I know where the most distant set comes from, but the others are a mystery. Or mysteries. Today is the first time in months I've made more than one comment a week, so it's not like I've had a lot of blog exposure of late. So I need these masked avengers to present themselves for proper accolades. This is not a mandatory registration process or anything, but I would kind of like to end my confusion. Also, I'm a gentleman and tend to return favors.

Survival Guide

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:52:12 -0500

Those of you that talk to me outside of Threadless know that I work on a few projects with my old roommate Robert. Actually, anyone that actually reads my profile over there knows it, too. Last week I finally finished the huge overhaul to the battle system I was whining to everybody about, and we seem to be doing okay. We've logged almost 600 battles, which isn't bad in a week with a couple hundred active players.

I was talking to Nate the other night about working on it and he surprised me by going and signing up (He's "Lay Ocean." How cute is that?). Now, he hasn't played since he signed up, but that's just because he's Nate. :) But it occurred to me that maybe some other people here might want to play it. Some of you seem to be gamers.

It's called "Survival Guide: Dust Settles." It used to be just "Survival Guide: The Game," as a kind of emergency name that lasted about a year … but since we've started working on a sequel of sorts we finally renamed it. It also sounds better. It's set in a post-apocalyptic world, after nuclear war has devastated the planet. It's a topic much loved in films but thus far hardly touched in games (Thank God for Fallout!). You've started a camp of refugees and need to do more than just survive, you need to prosper. It's basically turn-based strategy. You acquire turns over time and spend them building up your camp, exploring, and eventually attacking other camps, if you choose. There's a manual with more detailed information and a newbie guide with some basic starting info.

It's probably too late to win the round, but there will be others, and you don't always have to win to have fun. At least, I keep telling myself that …

Anyway, check it out if you want: Survival Guide: Dust Settles.

Secret Santa Spectacular!

Sat, 08 Jul 2006 04:20:39 -0500

So at long last I got my Secret Santa package! It's from a very hardworking Australian student with lovely penmanship. I'm not sure if it would be rude to reveal her username, but I don't know it anyway, so there.

On to what you really care about, sweet aussie swag.

A cute envelope whose instructions I clearly followed:

An interesting package …

… with interesting components:
   Goat (Photographs poorly):

   Skeleton (Inexplicably awesome):

   Dune (Hellz to the yeah!):

   Hellstrom's Hive (Herbert = Good):


H.P. Lovecraft to keep me up at night:

And a 2-CD mix tape ensemble that looks like it will rock:

There was also a lovely note which made me smile and/or laugh with great frequency. Hinted in the missive was a Project™ that would take time to concoct and would be sent later. I'm a-flutter in anticipation. :)

Thanks!!