23 posts tagged “links”
If you've ever thought that a nice way of spending Christmas with the family would be gathering everyone together and taking turns playing that one Banjo Kazooie Christmas level on the N64 (and who hasn't?) then I've got some Christmas music to play while you're baking Metroid-shaped cookies.
Normally, I'm not a fan of Sleigh Ride, since it's one of those songs that gets played four or five times an hour on the Christmas music station. However, for some reason I can't get enough of this version, performed by the One-Ups. It reminds me of playing Animal Crossing on Christmas and finding the Jingle carpet, one of my fondest Christmas memories. That Jingle Carpet and I had a lot of good times.
However, if you'd prefer your video game Christmas music to sound a little more 1988, you may prefer this version of Let It Snow by BitShifter that sounds like it came directly out of Kickle Cubicle. Yes, that's right. I said Kickle Cubicle!
Have yourself a nerdy little Christmas!
I discovered recently that 75% of the marketing/creative team at work is left-handed. The general public rate for left-handers is about 10%. Clearly, this is an indication that left-handers are more creative, more business savvy, and better looking than their right handed counterparts. No, I'm just saying that because I'm left-handed and I'm trying to compensate for the fact that I have a shorter life expectancy because of it.
Now don't get me wrong. There are a number of famous left-handers out there. Alexander the Great! Leonardo Da Vinci! Charlemagne! Dave Barry! All the US presidents from the last 25 years except for George W! Lots of baseball players who are hired specifically because they're left handed! But the list of names provides little comfort in the face of the knowledge that sushi knives were not designed for the likes of me.
Like all left-handers, I'm convinced that there is a conspiracy out there to keep us down. To prevent us from ever living the kind of charmed lives you northpaws have always enjoyed. Just look at the words right and left in usage across the world. In English, you are either correct handed or you are whatever remains handed. In Latin, left is Sinister, which of course means evil. Right is Dexter, which is a hit Showtime program about a sinister dude. In French, left is gauche, or unrefined. In German, left is links, meaning "mountain lion". In Spanish, left is izquierda, which isn't even Spanish. It's stolen from the hated Portuguese! In Irish, left is Ciotog, or "first against the wall in the revolution".
And think of all the tools designed for your right handers. Gear shifts, handguns, scissors, industrial routers, guitars, crossbows, all the implements of destruction you righties no doubt intend to use against us when we least expect it. And we won't even be able to sign a surrender, because our handwriting is illegible. You may have noticed that left-handers often have troubled, worried expressions. This is because we know that you are just waiting to strike us all down, and also because we are having trouble with our computer mouse. We didn't ask to be put at this disadvantage, but you make our every day a little more dreary, you cruel right-handers.
At least, that's what my right hand thinks.
What do you think, left hand?
A few steadfast stewardesses reverberated a crabby abracadabra as watercraft were desegregated afterwards.
Typical.
In case you've forgotten about the game Grow, there's a new one up at eyemaze.com. (warning, contains sound) I just thought I'd share it in case you wanted to play.
Here's a quick rundown of the rules: Click the squares in the right sequence to get the good ending.
Today, I offer a website for your perusal. It is improveverywhere.com.
To do anything else would be too painful.
You know how you can park yourself in front of the computer and time just dribbles away, and when you finally step back, squinting into the rising sun, you've got absolutely nothing to show for your web surfing? You should be ashamed! Luckily, there's a solution. Stop by www.freerice.com and not only will you boost your word power, you'll help feed hungry people in the process. You get to insert words like abnogate and frigorific into your daily conversation, and someone, somewhere, can enjoy a risotto. Everyone wins, except the declamatory troglodytes who have flouted their erudite cohorts throughout sempiternity and who don't like it when you talk like that.
Is it time to think about temping? That's a question you hope never comes up during your job search. For one thing, temping means you have to do that test where you match the numbers to each other. It also means that someone else is getting money, a lot of money, for the work that you're doing just because they matched you with a client. And that sounds a little too close to another profession for comfort (that profession being acting). The other thing about temping is that it often comes up out of nowhere, with some stranger telling you to be in Tomah in half an hour to proofread a box of popsicles and that can make it very difficult to find child care in time. If there's one advantage, though, it's remembering that Chris Livingston has written extensively about temping, and reading about his despair always brings a little laughter to my heart. Because there's nothing so beautiful as a desparate Chris Livingston.
Also, he wrote some comic.
Today is Friday, July 20th. It's a great day! Here's why!
1. Mad Men premiered yesterday, and it was awesome! If you missed it, you can download it on iTunes for free!
2. Harry Friggin' Potter comes out tonight at midnight! How will it end?! (Don't tell me!) I've got goosebumps! Goosebumps, I tell you!
3. We are moving into our house tomorrow! We'll live in the home that we bought! We will have access to all of our stuff from the storage unit!
4. Wuollet pastries at work today! Mmmmm!
5. The Machine of Death website published their list of confirmed authors today and my name was on the list! I'm going to be a published author! Dinosaur Comics author Ryan North and I are now totally BFF!!
Whew!
Let's say someone tries to bring a little joy into your life. This someone can be found the same place, every single day, and without charging you a fee or expecting anything in return, they share a joke, or tell an exciting story, sometimes using characters that (if you visited them regularly) almost feel like part of the family. If that thought fills you with rage and disgust, you'll probably enjoy reading the Comics Curmudgeon, the internet guy who hates comics, but reads them every day.
Edit: Okay, there's more to say here. I agree with Josh that Liz could do better than Anthony. (Also, Liz could do better than Jon, but that's a different comic strip.) Sure, she and Anthony went out for a while before she went to Mtigwakiki, but that doesn't mean they were right for each other. Elizabeth is (was?) dating a helicopter pilot, and you know how much respect I have for that profession. She had this whole plan about being a teacher and helping people, and seeing her leaving her safe neighborhood and become successful was a big development in a medium that honestly doesn't take a lot of risks. Then she suddenly gave up on it all. Going back to Anthony now seems like taking a step backward instead of continuing to grow. She should stick to helicopter man, and let Anthony sort out his own life in whatever way Anthony wants to do that.
Also, they should get rid of Fred Basset.
It may interest you to know that Nick Jr. has a video section where you can watch two full episodes of Dora the Explorer and Go, Diego, Go and three full episodes of Wonder Pets and Blue's Clues (among others). I'm really getting a kick out of the Wonder Pets right now because Aaron tries so hard to recite the theme song.
I know when we were waiting for a delayed plane last November, we had to squeeze a lot of mileage out of the one Dora episode on Jenna's iPod. Ten episodes of toddler/preschool shows seems almost excessive!
What was the most embarrassing hobby you've ever had?
Submitted by Billie Fable.
I don't think I've ever had a hobby that wasn't embarrassing.
I collect hippos. Ridiculous hippos. I walk through the infant section at Target and get excited over bubble bath dispensers. Some of the prize hippos in my collection include a Barbie doll with a hippo head, a team of plastic Kinder Egg hippos dressed as classic Star Wars characters, and a Russian nesting nano-doll.
I believe at one point I owned every Quantum Leap novel ever published. Every one. Do you know how low that puts me on the Geek Hierarchy? I brought one to read at work once. Yes I did. What's the fun of having an embarrassing hobby if you don't have people who see you every day remind you what a loser you are for having that hobby. I don't think any of Sam and Al's adventures survived the move, so some other lucky soul will have the chance to read those great bodies of work. Was it great 20th century literature, or great literature...from the future?
I have a collection of Star Wars Lego minifigs. Also, Star Wars Micro Machines. I like very tiny Star Wars toys, all right? My motto is: A Wookie should also be a choking hazard.
I once spent a year trying to make a working merry-go-round out of paper. I never finished.
I enjoy solving cryptic crossword puzzles.
I'm an anagrammer.
I applique.
And to make matters worse, I blog, so now everyone knows.
