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Whoever came up with this is a comedic genius. Garfield minus Garfield… “the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life.”
Shout out to the ever-brilliant SaraJo for the heads-up, even though she’ll never read this, heh.
Haha, this is the first time I’ve legitimately laughed at Jim Davis in years.
Tags: Webcomics
So this news is like a week old, but today I just learned that Perry Bible Fellowship, that most sardonically named and wryly hilarious champion of webcomics, is entering semi-retirement. It’s too bad really, although I can commend Gurewitch’s creativity with not wanting to be stuck on the same project indefinitely. Over the past few years, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed PBF in all its morbid humour and sarcastic wit. I guess this newly-announced era of sporadic updates means I’ll just appreciate each new piece that much more.
Heh, it’s definitely not for everyone though…
Haha, when I get my own place that I’ll actually need to “decorate”, I’m totally going to pick up some prints for a wall or something.
Tags: Webcomics
Sometimes you just need to celebrate an alternate holiday to make everything better. Alis volat propriis!
So I’ve never actually had a “real” Valentine’s Day to celebrate. I wonder what percentage of the North American adult population can say the same? < 5%? I have no idea.
Not that it really matters. If romance is my Achilles’ heel, then at least I’m living the Iliad.
Hah, who am I kidding? Certainly not myself. Emotions are sometimes inexplicably obfuscated, at least for me. If in doubt, default back to zero. I don’t care what anybody says, it’s usually better to keep certain feelings inside.
Besides, I’m still (reasonably) confident that somewhere at the edge of the Bell curve is the girl for me…
Tags: RealLife
So I definitely think of writing a lot more blog posts than I actually do. I’d say my thought-of to actually-posted ratio is probably like 20:1. Usually this is because I’m too lazy to actually type it out, or the idea is only a twitter-ish couple sentences – and I’m still woefully unable to post in that style.
But anyhow, here goes some Sheridan-inspired rapid fire on my first month or so in Houston:
Houston is big. Like, really big. So it’s not NYC or Mexico City or anything like that, but it’s still a lot of people, and it shows. The whole highway system is massively complex compared to anything in like Calgary, and (to me at least) often very impressively so. If I had a nice camera (and a helicopter?) I’d take pics of some of the sweet interchanges with multiple flyovers stacked up and crisscrossing mid-air. Of course this also means the traffic can be really bad, but overall I’d say it’s not as bad as I was expecting, whatever that was. I quickly learned what times to leave for / come home from work, and – moreover – what times not to do so.
Like most things in the U.S. (and everywhere…), having more money means immediate reward. I finally got hooked up with an “EZ tag” that lets me take the tollway and it just scans the sticker on your windshield, instead of having to wait in a stupidly long line just to pay like a $1 toll. Although sometimes it’s actually faster not to take the tollway, and to stick to the “feeder” roads that run parallel to it, providing access to the on/off traffic.
Tags: Basketball, RapidFire, RealLife, Travel
So I was trying to figure out why my beloved FoxyTunes suddenly seemed to be mysteriously missing some songs I was checking… and, upon further investigation, seemed unable to find results on newer songs or albums.
Oh look, an unrelated announcement.
Stupid Yahoo!…. I hope Microsoft chews you up :P
Blah, time to break my “more” tag consistency and just post in one chunk. I liked the headline style of having everything split, plus it directed flow naturally to the comments section, but it’s a pain for RSS aggregators. After all, maybe you’d rather skim over my crap in Google Reader.