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Comic for Monday, January 10, 2005
Posted: 8:58 am, Monday, January 10th, 2005 Everyone have a good weekend? I'm writing this part of the update on Friday during my lunch break, so I can only hope that my weekend will be good. Short of being gutshot, I don't see any way it can be much worse than the week that proceeded it. I don't remember the office ever being this hellish right after the holidays before. Oh well. Mikey e-mailed me this about Starbucks - it sounds for all the world like they're marketing Hercule Poirot's chocolate. Which would be pretty cool, frankly.
2.0 were watching Scientific American the other night (I love Alan Alda - he's only gotten goofier with age). I guess it was an episode from a season ago, but it was about technology in everyday life, and a lot of it took place at MIT, where the dorkiest people on the planet seem to live. There was a long segment on people wearing their computers in which the MIT folks looked like the Borg (one of them nicknamed their project MIThral, and I know the fact that I even get that joke means I'm a dork, too, but, geez, I have a webcomic, of course I'm a dork), and another on this wild robot-building competition that the MIT folks get involved in. But the segment that is coolest was about symphonies with fake instruments. There was an awesome program featured in the segment called Hyperscore, which is free for download and looked pretty cool. Currently, it is available only for Windows. 2.0 just cursed aloud, I am sure. From Scientific American to the other end of the TV spectrum, it is with some anticipation that I am looking forward to the Bachelorette tonight. I'm not kidding. Why? Because this guy asked 2.0 to the prom and she shot him down (she already had a date). Surely violating some sort of nondisclosure agreement, word has reached us that he advances quite far, so far that they actually go on a date and he takes the bachelorette lady to 2.0's high school. I am unable to imagine an alternate universe in which going on a reality dating show seems like a good idea to me. From that alternate universe, we would require another alternate universe, one even less likely to occur, that would lead me down the path of taking a girl from a reality dating show to Berne-Knox-Westerlo Central High School. It just wouldn't happen. I hope this Jerry guy didn't think of this one on his own. Anyway. RAW sent me this one the other day and I forgot to ever link to it. The Perry Bible Fellowship is hilarious and beatifully drawn. Navigating the archives is kind of a haphazard affair, but the Happy Brothers is pretty funny. Also, Nice Try Zarflax - which I guess is techinically NSFW. Actually, yeah, if you're nervous about people over your shoulder, these are NSFW. There's some cartoon nudity. Nothing really dirty, and the file names are all clean for the most part, but, if you really want to be safe. And as long as we're doing exposure to new art, Hope Larson's site is nice. The art is largely kind of experiemental and quiet in a sort of Ghost World way. Some cartoon NSFWness on that one, too, but she labels 'em better that the Perry Bible Fellowship does. Wow, that Hope chick went to RIT. That's kind of funny. Watched a lot of movies this weekend - Anchorman, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, and Josie and the Pussycats. All three are recommended. I had already seen Josie and the Pussycats, but made 2.0 watch it. It's everything that Spice World should've been. You could probably write a term paper evaluating that last sentence, but I'll just move right along, instead. bullfrog |
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