I just had to share this with you guys, because Scott Ramsoomair is a genius.
Monthly Archive for April, 2007
Think back to when you were in high school. This time left you a lot of fond memories. The sports games, the friends, the food, the smell of the dissections, that one time in health class with the STD pictures. Hopefully though, you had the experience of having a class with a teacher who went above and beyond. Someone who did more than just trying to get everyone ready for the state administered final. Someone who went about changing the way you thought about a particular subject, and made you break the mental boundaries you thought you had. If this was an experience that you were lucky enough to have, hold onto it. This memory is that of a great teacher.
That’s right, you’re looking at a new theme and custom header by yours truly. I do like to wear socks with crocs occasionally. It only makes a very comfortable shoe even more comfortable.
There are those who say that no matter how comfortable they are, crocs still make you look like a dumbass. I just want to turn that statement around. Even if they make me look like even more of a dumbass, they’re that much more comfortable. If you’re too self-conscious to try it yourself, then that’s your own problem and I won’t try to argue it any farther.
You can only wear them with socks every once in a while and for not too long or the socks will get all nasty and ruin the magic. It’s one of those ‘too much of a good thing’ situations.
What else do you do every day to end up looking stupid for the sake of comfort?
Apparently there’s these strange billboards around New York with just these bits of text on them:
THE ALGORITHM CONSTANTLY FINDS JESUS
THE ALGORITHM KILLED JEEVES
THE ALGORITHM IS BANNED IN CHINA
THE ALGORITHM IS FROM JERSEY
Supposedly it is some kind of viral marketing campaign for a search engine, most likely Ask.com, but they seemed to not take into account the fact that it’s so cryptic, for anyone to figure out what it’s about, they would have to turn to the internet to find it. If you google any of them, the most things that come up are just other bloggers talking about it, so the ads really aren’t getting them anywhere. Instead a coalition of xkcd readers band together to blog the one-liners and link them to xkcd in an effort to drive it to the top of google results, because anyone curious enough to remember it, take it to a computer, and google any of these is probably the type to like xkcd anyway.
Or maybe xkcd could even end up with the credit for it in the end. Who knows?
What started earlier this semester as a comic strip itself, has now become a serious discussion of turning the hilarity of our nerdy conversations into a webcomic. With others supplying mad MS paint skills and myself taking over the webmaster position, this could really happen. Whether it will be worth a laugh or not is another thing entirely. We’re still throwing ideas around as to how to get it drawn and what to call it. So far it’s easy to tell that it will be drawing a lot of influence from XKCD as well as VG Cats and possibly Ctrl+Alt+Del. We’re thinking about, since each of us will be a character in the comic, having each of us draw ourselves whenever we happen to make an appearance in a strip, keeping the art unpredictable and inconsistent, but it’s new, and you know the internet is all about new, so we might just try it. It seems like the most likely place to have it hosted for the moment will be here on Wordpress, since it’s easy to set up, cheap (free for now), and is easy to move to a dot com later if such a thing were to be desired.
