If you haven’t seen the creepy and hilarious garfield minus garfield you should. Someone’s meticulously removed Garfield from the eponymous comic strips resulting in a window into the tortured mind of John Arbuckle. I think would also work with Huey in Boondocks or to a lesser extent Tycho from Penny Arcade.
Month: March 2008
e-Tournament Trials
I had the idea of holding a tournament online to promote the obscure variant of Magic I greatly enjoy and this weekend I played my first sequence of matches and then decided to try recording another match with screen capture software. So I Skype’d Tom Folsom and began playing. Midway through his brother Ed decided to get in and the line was immediately dominated by the dumb Folsom twin who sounded like his microphone was instead a brass victrola horn. He said he wouldn’t say much until 20 minutes leader all I hear is “oh, God! Don’t throw up on my bed” followed by Tom yelling “No, don’t throw up on my shoes” followed by both lines going dead.
Apparently the Folsom’s recently got a new dog that they paid for (I don’t understand people who pay for pets) that has a penchant for throwing up. My dog was free and on the hole has stopped throwing up.  These are complications I didn’t plan for in doing an e-Tournament. I’m curious to see what round 2 holds. A cat having a seizure? A heroine-crazed Brian Dennehy punching you in the solarplexis? Who knows!
Can the Boy Scouts use this?
In a recent meeting where we nearly got a Sundae Bar, we were also told we needed to clean up the labs to be more “efficient”. Crazy Germans. Anyway, as the whole building was cleaning I was continually bombarded with the following: “Can the Boy Scouts use” followed by something of varying utility. Here’s a list of what I was offered:
- Array of plastic bins (taken)
- 200 foot roll of polyurethane foam (not taken, too big)
- Collection of bottles that clearly looked like they were meant to store bleach (water bottles!)
- High Pressure Liquid Chromatography set-up (not taken, I don’t care if Science can use it)
- 200 bottles of hypoallergenic hand cream (taken, I now have very smooth hands and so can you)
- Cardboard cores (taken, must find use for them)
- 8000 glass pipettes (not taken, 8000?)
There were a few others but I nearly unplugged my phone after I was offered 14 high stretch fistula straps which are essentially surgical sumo diapers.
Ron Burgundy Lolcat
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Thought you’d like to know.
It had to be peach…
I woke up this morning and could barely see straight. I wrote an email to my boss saying I wouldn’t be and nearly fell of my chair. This continued until about 45 minutes after my father returned from work. Apparently recovered I prepared dinner and during its course he asked if I hated the peach-scented aromatic diffusers my brother had installed as much as he did. I found one, sniffed it and immediately felt dizzy. Superman’s weakness is kryptonite, mine is a peach-scented Glade plug in knock off. Needless to say, the Robinson’s household garbage smells quite peachy. I look forward to return to work on Friday and trying to kill my brother in his sleep on Saturday.
It had to be peach…
I woke up this morning and could barely see straight. I wrote an email to my boss saying I wouldn’t be and nearly fell of my chair. This continued until about 45 minutes after my father returned from work. Apparently recovered I prepared dinner and during its course he asked if I hated the peach-scented aromatic diffusers my brother had installed as much as he did. I found one, sniffed it and immediately felt dizzy. Superman’s weakness is kryptonite, mine is a peach-scented Glade plug in knock off. Needless to say, the Robinson’s household garbage smells quite peachy. I look forward to return to work on Friday and trying to kill my brother in his sleep on Saturday.
Ready, Fire, Aim
The BA 4196 prof was out today so there was a substitute. We began reviewing the case that we’d submitted online before class and once I got over the fact that he kept saying “wolunteers” and “wolume” all was well. The review of the case was quite in depth and most of us felt we’d missed a few parts. At the end he remarked “that should help you in reviewing the case, when’s it due? Tomorrow?”
Our jaws dropped, apparently in every other section the instructor goes over the case before the study’s due rather than learning by failure as our prof. has been demanding. This certainly explained why he called us idiots compared to the grades out of other classes. In unrelated news, I’ve found I can get free shipping on garrotte wire through Amazon Prime.
Arthur C Clarke dies at 90
Arthur C Clarke, the predictor of satellite telecommunications, and guy who made people shit scared of sentient computers has died in his in Columbo, Sri Lanka. After losing Kurt Vonnegut last year we’re down to William Gibson and for emergencies JG Ballard.
If you’re lucky, you’ll get the ironic netflix ad on the AP site.
via AP
Handwriting Identification – Fail # 1
Variance of MLEs ->Variat-cat piss
Terry, the recycling hobo
Temple’s recently started recycling plastics and is promoting it with hideous plastic recycling bins. These bins as located no where near the garbage bins so I’ve taken to pulling outbottles on top and moving then to the proper can.Today, while doing this I was listening to Penny Arcade’s podcast and as I picked up a handful of bottles started giggling at the commentary I was hearing.I stopped giggling ad look down as a girl was giving me the scared (confused eyeball. Thinking about it, the fact that I hadn ‘t shaved in four days, wear shorts year round and was giggling while looking through a garbage can probably explained things.