So, I had a hard time creating a gift for this community because, well I’ve never contributed to a fandom in a significant way before. From analyzing my HIMYM tweets I know that like myself, HI...
Well, the holidays are here, so you know what that means … Jingle the Reindeer is nearly here! Seeing Jingle and getting some awesome new sectional couches from him is the perfect way to culmi...
In 2013, two major changes happened on HIMYM that had the potential to cause a major fan uproar if they were received negatively. The long awaited reveal of The Mother took place at the end of la...
https://rummagethis.wordpress.com/2013/12/24/himym-fan-critics-in-2013/
For this blog, we do not simply write, we immerse ourselves in our community and integrate useful tools which together make up a textual ecology. By noting what I did throughout composing my rece...
https://rummagethis.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/textual-ecology-trails/
Back in October I wrote about How I Met Your Mother’s International Suit Up Day, a fan made holiday in favor of beloved suit upper Barney Stinson. Research for the post took me in several diffe...
https://rummagethis.wordpress.com/2013/12/22/story-worldwide-and-himym-2/
There is something I have to admit…and no, it is not fun admitting it. I have claimed to be a fan to numerous things that I truly did not know about. In every description of fandom I am reminde...
If you haven’t composed a blog post, you might not know about all of the hard work that goes into publishing to the web. If you do, you will understand my following presentation, which, thanks ...
https://rummagethis.wordpress.com/2013/12/21/textual-ecology-trail/
Most people remember that great scene in Office Space when Peter, Micheal, and Samir take their malfunctioning fax machine out to a deserted field and absolutely destroy it. With bats in hand and...
https://rummagethis.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/why-i-am-not-a-computer-science-major-my-gift/
this is a live retake of the 1977 movie Planet of the Dinosaurs. I have no claim on the film and I am not trying to make any money. I’m just trying to be funny. Blento, 170 miles from Earth. Th...
https://rummagethis.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/planet-of-the-dinosaurs/
In my podcast interview with David Graham, we discussed the rise of livestreaming in the video game community over the past five years or so, and the prevalence that the technology has achieved t...
https://rummagethis.wordpress.com/2013/12/13/upon-closer-inspection-livestreaming-is-really-hard/