Wed 5 Dec 2007
It’s been a while since I actually wrote anything here that remotely engaged you, dear lurker, so today I shall kill two birds with one stone, by asking you for input out of pure laziness.
I need a three-line bio by tomorrow. I am, of course, far too amazing to be contained in such a wee paragraph, so I’m just going to have to make some crap up.
What kind of crap would you make up about me in three lines?
There may be a prize.
December 5th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
What is wrong with your usual one-line bio? Also, what is it for?
Humor or no humor (i.e. more professional)?
Off the top of my head:
- rocket scientist
- vlogging
- grad student
- Atlanta
- politics
Add it some adjectives, your name and a few quirky prepositional phrases and you’ve got yourself a bio! ;)
Would need more info as to the bio’s audience in order to actually write it for ya kid.
December 5th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Put loosely, I suppose the audience is going to be a bunch of fellow citizen journalist / vlogger types. But I was mostly expecting this kind of blog post to give my college roommate a chance to bring up telephones, passing out in chairs, and flying cases of beer; and if anyone else felt like bringing the wp-comment function back to life, the more the merrier. It’s just been so quiet around here lately what with all the video.
December 5th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
The third sentence should be some statement about where you’re going!
Ok, so I have a masochistic streak. ;)
What’s this for?
December 5th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
He’s a swinger, baby!
December 5th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Born as yet another entitled white guy, Shelby has become an engineering grad student, vlogger/blogger, politics junkie, and, worst of all, a democrat. He has found the internet to be a rich source of fodder for avoiding his dissertation, and ultimately hopes to make a career out of this current hobby. Give him lots of caffeine and a stool at the bar if you know what’s good for you.
December 5th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
Actually, you don’t need us. One of your YouTube viewers said it best with only one sentence, “Drama-queen/male-cheerleader wannabe with constipation-like facial expressions and silly annunciations, [he] could be more to the point and people might comprehend wtf [he] is talking about.”
December 6th, 2007 at 10:16 am
Crack growing, long suffering, neverending dissertation writing, Atlanta politicking, Joe Biden loving, videoblogging, hyperactive Georgia Tech grad student?
That about sum it up?
December 6th, 2007 at 11:27 am
Ooh, I very much like Kristin’s proposed bio, comment #5. That is most excellent!
Although I might add one small edit: “give him a bar stool” rather than “give him a stool at the bar.” As I was reading it I thought, “give him a stool”? And I initially read it as the other kind of stool. Not the bar kind. But that’s because I’m twelve years old.
December 6th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
As I pace around the living room throwing out ideas, I’ve been told I’m too grumpy-old-man. Really?
“Shelby was around when video killed the radio star and remembers that MTV actually played music videos. He hopes some people will be too busy watching Tila Tequila to remember to go out and vote. Shelby wants you kids to stay off his lawn.”
December 6th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Hee. My next door neighbor growing up was a grumpy old lady with blue hair who insisted that we stay off the lawn. Why do old people care so much about kids being on the lawn?
December 8th, 2007 at 1:22 am
“Shelby once tried to use a political agenda in the form of social activism and a campaign pen to pick up on a chick at a pizza place. When he found out she was only 14 years old, he asked for the pen back. And it’s a good thing too, because he’s using it to write his book about rocket science.”
December 10th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Shelby: a grad student and pretty good guy, even if he is too serious to race office furniture, chug pineapple Fanta, or wager on the Saskatoon Curling Club.