Do you know the worst part about taking Friday off from work?
Thursday, that’s what.
While I wait for this workday, this dreary endless workday, this first day of Kidsgiving so everybody’s too wrapped up in that to bother me with anything at all day, to end… I give you a random webcomic. Click and laugh. I did.
I didn’t know about Acorn, but I know they have something I want. I mean, c’mon, how could I fail to love the idea of a tabletop catapult?
So, if any of you out there are stuck for what to buy this holiday season for your favorite little grey duck…
Thanks to the roomie, I’ve now come into contact with the most incredibly excessive extrapolation of a simple spoonerism the world has yet known. Go forth and be amazed, amused, appalled, or whatever other adjective starting with the letter “A” that you see fit.
This is what happens when (twisted) inspiration strikes during a pumpkin-carving party.
Via collision detection, where they had this to say:
One of my favorite parts of early, monster-infested first-person shooters was the names they’d give to the levels. Every time I reached a new level in Quake — “Dimension of the Doomed”, “House of Chthon”, “The Ebon Fortress” — I would quiver with laughter at the I’m-being-ironic-well-maybe-I’m-not aesthetic of John Romero.
I present you the First-Person Shooter Level Name Generator. It provided the title of this entry (because I hate having to do real work, donchaknow), as well as several minutes’ worth of amusement. Enjoy, won’t you?
I’m so glad I discovered Livescience.com.
Scientists figured they’d trap this foot-long varmint in no time. Eighteen weeks later, they finally trapped it with some fresh penguin bait. On another island.
Go read the whole thing, won’t you? It’s… amusing, if not also a bit disturbing…
