This also makes me laugh

Who knew that it would take so little work to give a new theme to an iconic comic strip?



--Ryan

Grammatical ambiguities make me laugh

This week, it seems as though you can divide everybody's thoughts up into one of three categories.

1) "I can't believe all these leftovers we've got!"
2) "SHOPSHOPSHOPSHOPSHOP!"
3) "Wait, is Pakistan on our side?"

I, on the other hand - having no leftovers, no appetite to shop, and a relatively strong grasp of world affairs (at least, the ones our media deem important), prefer to take solace in the world of amusing grammatical errors.

For example, this headline - "Worms infect more poor Americans than thought". While it is true that, anecdotally, I'm sure there are many Americans - not necessarily poor - who are not infected by thought, I don't think worms have already surpassed thought in the average American.

--Ryan

(I wasn't planning on blogging, but I couldn't let that go by without comment.)

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Notice my title is one character shorter then the expected minimum number of characters to express the topic. I like to think in those terms, 'cause in the nineties, abbreviations were the wave of the future. Now it is the future, and we don't need to save space in hex Unicode characters or whatever; external hard drives are only fifty cents per gig! But it's not futuristic if it isn't shorter then necessary!


First off, may I be the first to say Happy New Year 2008! (I may very well be the first to say it... I am, after all, nearly a week early.

I'll keep this brief. Here's my New Year's Resolutions:

1. Every day, I will go out of my way to do at least one thing that makes me physically stronger.
2. Every day, I will learn something that makes me mentally and morally stronger.
3. Every week, I will have something creative constructed to show for my efforts throughout that week.
4. Every month, I will eat something I believe to be allergic to - just to see if I really am or not.
   

Sound good? Maybe I'll specify some clearer guidlines. (For example, I must go out of my way to be physically stronger. i.e., I must do something I otherwise would not have done!)

Well, we'll see how this plays out.

I can only expect, awesomely?

--
Dan

Three random thoughts; see how they run

1) The gift-giving aspect of Christmas was very good to me this year (the religious aspect loses a little bit of power when you're stuck in a room next to the chapel, listening to the service over a PA system). In addition a few good books and a ridiculous amount of boxer shorts (on the plus side, I can probably put off laundry another week) I was given the board game Apples to Apples (pictured on the right).

I asked for the game solely because I remember playing it once in high school, and really liking it. The mechanics are fairly straightforward - the cards in your hands each contain different nouns, you pick one to go with a given adjective, the dealer picks the one of those they like best, that player keeps the adjective card, your goal is to get as many of those as possible. It's a great party game, and I've already learned that it transcends generational boundaries (having played this with people anywhere from pre-teen to mid-forties).

2) The...well, whoever it is that makes these decisions, have chosen this year's Super Bowl halftime act - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. I really, really, like this choice - mainly because I really, really, like Tom Petty's music. I read a comment from somebody that "everybody likes at least one Tom Petty song...they just don't always realize it's his." While that's obviously an overexaggeration, it's probably not too far off the truth. I now have a reason to watch the Super Bowl.

3) Since I added a hit counter to the page, we've gotten exactly 300 hits. I find this astounding, especially considering that I keep explicitly telling people *not* to read this. However, because it's 300, I think I'm supposed to say something along the lines of "THIS IS SPARTAAAAAAAAA?" or one of the other quotes from the movie 300 that populated the Internet when the movie first came out? Apologies for not having a better grasp of this joke, I haven't seen a real movie in a theatre in over a year.

--Ryan

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

As I'm busy with Christmas-related events, and Dan is busy with whatever it is he does, this blog hasn't been updated in nearly a week. I've got a couple ideas for things I'd like to put up, but there's no guarantees I'll have the time until at least mid-week.

So until then, accept this placeholder and have a merry Christmas.

--Ryan

What's your sense of humour?

I don't usually pay much attention to online quizzes, but this one seems to actually work.

The 3-Variable Funny Test - it asks you a bunch of questions about what you find funny, and then gives you some results. Here's mine, if you're interested...

Your Score: the Prankster(33% dark, 34% spontaneous, 10% vulgar)


your humor style:
CLEAN | COMPLEX | LIGHT


Your humor has an intellectual, even conceptual slant to it. You're not pretentious, but you're not into what some would call 'low humor' either. You'll laugh at a good dirty joke, but you definitely prefer something clever to something moist.

You probably like well-thought-out pranks and/or spoofs and it's highly likely you've tried one of these things yourself. In a lot of ways, yours is the most entertaining type of humor because it's smart without being mean-spirited.

PEOPLE LIKE YOU: Conan O'Brian - Ashton Kutcher

Nice time-waster for the post-exam period, anyhow.

--Ryan

You've blown it again, dumb-dumb!

Well, I tried my hand at comic-tearing again. Unfortunately, my comic came out in tears.

I've tried stick-men before, but never have I scanned them in. In the end, it just ended up too busy. Judge for yourself:



The only thing good about this comic is the joke... Yep, I'm damned proud of the humour in that.

(Ryan came up with it.)


--
Dan