Comic for Thursday, January 6, 2005

Posted: 8:58 am, Thursday, January 6th, 2005

Re: the strip, Ron's earlier run-in with a fortune cookie of gloom can be seen way back here. Wow, my drawing of these guys has improved in the past three months (exception being Pete's head in the first panel - wtf?). That's nice to see. By the way, a running gag is a sure sign that I didn't have much time to think about a strip last night. This week's been kind of a drag what with getting acclimated to work again, and I haven't been on top of my game (such as it is). But I have a lot scripted for next week already, so, while they won't be world-beaters (they never are), the strips next week at least won't suck.

Speaking of getting readjusted to having to go to work, once at the office, I have to keep giving up my desk during my lunch hour so that the inept printer guys can try and fix the color printer, so sorry about the lame posts all week. You're not missing anything - the most interesting thing I've done all week is yell at the television because the wife-beater keeps advancing in the Amazing Race.

But, here are a few fun little links I've found.

Here are celebrities sans makeup - I have every faith that a few of them are faked (Christina Applegate's, in particular), and find it only fair to say that Yasmine Bleeth's photo is a mugshot from the depths of her coke addiction, but most of these I take a mean pleasure in seeing. Especially J. Lo's, what with having seen Gigli and all. (Looking at the rest of the site, it looks like this guy's a proud member of the tinfoil-hat brigade, but he's on my side of the tinfoil, so I guess I like him.)

What the hell? Evidently, in England, if you dress your laptop up to look like a pizza, it is safe from theft. I wish to God I could get the Flash on this site to work so that I could see a demonstration of this wonderful product. I actually think I'd rather steal the pizza than the laptop. I mean, no one's going to try and get me arrested for stealing a pepperoni-and-mushroom pie, and I get to eat it. With a computer, I just get to see what sort of porn that person is into.

Here that last one isin French.

It's good to know that we've helped out all the models involved in the tsunami, and have moved right along to adorable water mammals. Eventually, we'll get to the non-Christian poor folk.

Oh, speaking of the tsunami, in case anyone hasn't donated yet and is looking to, Lauren sent me this from one of the ACLU lawyers:

Having worked for Concern Worldwide, an Irish Relief and Development organization for two years, an organization that has a presence in the region, I can recommend them as an organization that has a great track record in this type of work. They also have very low overhead to provision of direct relief ratio.

They have a US Office which can be accessed through the organizations main site, http://www.concern.ie

Having worked alongside MSF, OXFAM and Save the Children I can vouch for them. UNICEF while one of the more effective UN agencies, is still part of the UN system and rather inefficient when compared to non-gvt. organizations. Also, UNICEF doesn't tend to engage in direct relief provision, rather works through partner non-governmental organizations. Giving direct to the latter thus cuts out the middle man.

World Vision, in my experience is a rather dubious evangelical Christian organization. I was involved in an assessment of a child school sponsorship program in Uganda with Concern and findings were mixed on the actual benefit accruing to the child sponsored. Also we found divisions caused in communities between those sponsored and those not.

So, I guess there that is, if you're interested.

Proving again that I'm completely out of touch, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes are playing Irving on Sunday, and I only found out yesterday. The show is, no surprise, sold out. Oh well.

I'm sure this won't surprise anyone: the woefully-underfunded Planned Parenthood supplies the lowest-rated condom in Consumer Report's recent review of rubbers. This article makes mention of Dumbfuck and his abstinence-only faith-based hooha. Because I'm sure Dumbfuck was a virgin when he married Laura. Not that that would come anywhere close to justifying abstinence-only education in this day and age. God, I hate him. Anyway, my favorite paragraph is the second-to-last one.

2.0's chum Ben got her this book, Among the Thugs, a sociological study of socipathic British football hooligans, for her birthday. I'm almost done reading it myself, and if there's ever been a book to make me despair in our friends across the pond, it's this one. But, still, it's a dark day when now we have Australian cricket hooligans. (Incidentally, I think the second review on that Amazon page is by an honest-to-God hooligan.)

MNP would like for me to take note that Notre Dame lost to Southern Cal by a mere 31 points. By comparison, then-#2 Oklahoma shat the bed Tuesday evening to a tune of 55-19, or 36 points. MNP states that, thanks to the mathematical law of transitivity (I don't know, either, I'm guessing that if p > q and q > k, then p > k), Notre Dame must be the #2 team in the country. Normally, I'd be all for this logic (ignoring that Oregon State thumped us and lost to SC, so we must only be #3), but Auburn and Utah went undefeated, and, also, the Irish were so objectively bad this year that they couldn't finish second in Interhall Football.

Hey, I guess I actually put together an OK post. Lookit me go.

bullfrog