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22 November 2011

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First the results of the stickers drawing:

Since there were only six entrants for this drawing, I scared up two more stickers and everybody who entered this drawing will get one: ethylene, oneswellfoop, wimpdork, danostuporstar, mygothlaundry, and TrishaLynn. Congrats! :)

Y'all email me a mailing address where I can send your decal- I'll get those in the mail sometime next week.

Now, the drawing for a copy of the game Minecraft: I printed out all of the entrants' names, put them in a hat, shook them up, and let my partner draw one out. And the winner is:

ethylene!

Congrats, and welcome to your new videogame vice. :) I'll send you an email soon telling you how to get the game (you'll be downloading it yourself from Minecraft.net using a code). Thanks everyone who entered- this was fun.

post by: BoringPostcards at: 19:27 | 14 comments

Ohmigod. I just got back, hiking in the pouring rain. Excuse me while I unfreeze my ears.

I never win anything and I gotta wonder if I can even afford the time for it.
This is your chance, crazy jonesing Minecraft aspirantes.
Make your best appeal as to why you deserve it. Beg, boast, crawl, what have you.

posted by ethylene 22 November | 19:56

If you really don't want it, eth, I'll draw again. We still have the hat full of names right here.

posted by BoringPostcards 22 November | 19:58

I don't know. I wanna see what all the fuss and devotion is about but I gotta think someone wants/deserves/can make better use of it than I can.
Can I think about it for a sec?

posted by ethylene 22 November | 20:02

Of course. :)

posted by BoringPostcards 22 November | 20:05

I'm still soaking wet and recovering from being around some of the stupidest psych students known to man. I'm covered in idiot cooties, and some of them are seniors and older students, so there is no growing out of it. Gah.
I will be back.

posted by ethylene 22 November | 20:08

Congrats!!!!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 22 November | 20:09

WHOOO for ethylene! Thanks for doing this, BoringPostcards!

posted by Elsa 22 November | 20:19

(p.s. - If eth decides against it and you do end up re-drawing, please remove my name from the hat. I see that Minecraft has a downloadable demo of the classic game, which is probably plenty involved for my use. Thanks!)

posted by Elsa 22 November | 20:22

Ok, I've bathed and thought about it and checked out the site.
There is no way I will have time for podcasting and doing lectures if I actually let myself start building things in Minecraft, hell, I'm not really sure I have that time anyway, but I never win anything and I hate to look a gift horse in the mouth and be so ungrateful.

So, I pick the totally selfish, self-serving option of wanting to pick who gets it in my place.
And I pick deborah.

If anybody wants to cry foul and just call a redraw, then so be it, but I'd really like deborah to have it.

So there.

posted by ethylene 22 November | 22:17

Since you won it, eth, that's fine. Congrats, deborah! I'll email you the details tomorrow. :)

posted by BoringPostcards 22 November | 22:42

Yay! I hope Minecrack is a helpful escape, doll babies! Best of luck with all the assorted bother of life. Now join the drooling masses and regale us with mysterious tales of flaming castles and snow golems.

posted by ethylene 22 November | 22:57

Yay for stickers!

posted by TrishaLynn 23 November | 15:22

Whoa. Thanks, ethylene! I'm gonna be greedy and keep it. (Got the email, BP, thanks!)

But I think I now need to designate eth as my godmother or something. First she names my newest kitties (Mingo and Fanty) and now Minecraft. How cool is that?!

posted by deborah 23 November | 17:12

Yay. Thanks BP and mecha! (missed this thread)

posted by danostuporstar 03 December | 14:37

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