Comic for Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Posted: 6:40 am, Tuesday, July 8th

Where the fuck was I last year when they solved checkers? How did I never hear about this? Where were you guys? I mean, hell, I wasn't even frantically trying to learn how to teach last July when this went down. And they've evidently kind-of solved gimped versions of Go and Othello. Go, of course, cannot be solved, because, you know,the Ancient Japanese considered the Go board to be a microcosm of the universe. Although when it is empty it appears to be simple and ordered, in fact, the possibilities of gameplay are endless. They say that no two Go games have ever been alike. Just like snowflakes. So, the Go board actually represents an extremely complex and chaotic universe.

Sweet Mercury picture.

RAW and I discussed the possibility of the 50 Cent game sequel being a very elaborate April Fool's Joke, but now I'm starting to wonder if maybe 50 isn't just some sort of postironic mastermind of satire.

Still not as awesome as the first trailer, though.

Two reasons I'm looking forward to August:

1. Fellows training will be over and I can go play softball again.
2. Presumably by August the assfaced tools launching fireworks off of the roof of our building every night will either run out of fireworks or blow their digits off.

I totally stole the bit about the Go board from IMDB's quote page on Pi, in case anyone was wondering about that.

bullfrog

51 -- Tuesday, July 8 2008, 09:40 am

Jen's a troublemaker these days! I'm likin' it. She doesn't seem to be very good at it, though.

Regarding fireworks, I completely sympathize.

When I complained to my mouthbreathing white trash neighbors about their celebration causing flaming debris to rain down on my roof and would they please stop, they behaved as if I had a problem. Their solution was to move to their front yard.

I have this to look forward to every 4th of July from now on, I'm sure.

I'm surprised there's no firework ban in NYC. You would think in a Post 9/11 world, there would be more fireworks bans, or at the very least a requirement for a permit to shoot off fireworks.

Also, because of firework plant explosions, earthquakes, floods, and the Olympics (all in China), fireworks cost 25% this year than last year. Next year, fireworks are expected to cost 25-50% more than this year, because of the same thing.

The shortage was so bad, one radio station here lost about 1/3 of their listeners because there was no boom with their Red, White, and Boom annual show.

I'm guessing Jen and Pete will be walking back to NYC.

Oh, no, fireworks are completely illegal in New York State, for sale and possession. In Giuliani's New York, I'm sure these guys would all have been shot by now. I'm willing to make the trade, but a few more nights of this and I'm going up there with my softball bat.

Giuliani's New York ought to be the name of a Broadway play for Grand Theft Auto IV.

Oh please! You're not going anywhere with the softball bat! Plus...it's probably the terrace of our upstairs neighbors, not the roof. The roof is locked, remember.

I must have slept through last evening's celebration.

More annoying sound coming from upstairs neighbors: fireworks or very loud buttsex?

Ew, Miyaa.

I just LOLd twice today: first at the band being tossed, then at Miyaa's query.

I think the buttsex is more annoying if it happens on a consistent basis, but once or twice is just funny.

This, uh, got weird. I can't speak for the intercourse, but the kids with their fireworks annoys me more than our incredibly deaf night-owl upstairs neighbor who puts the TV so loud that I can hear it perfectly.

And I'm glad the band being tossed did it for you, Pat. Telly and the Mundos actually do kind of really suck. (In the strip - to my knowledge, there is no band called Telly and the Mundos. Nor is there a band with the other band name I thought up the other day - Sylvia Plath Was Not Fat.)