Archive for September, 2010

Google statistics can be fun. It is obvious by this that Ninjas beat Pirates. Sure people hate ninjas more, but isn’t it better to be feared than loved? But I’m simply disappointed that people love Michael Jackson more than boobs.

Google Trends (http://www.google.com/trends/) is also a fun tool. It shows that people search for pirates fourteen times more than ninjas and there are 8 times as many hits relating to pirates. Of course this is appropriate for ninjas. Under the radar. Interestingly enough the only country in the world which searches for ninjas more than pirates is Uruguay which has twice as many ninja searches as pirate searches. Must be something about those Uruguayan ninjas I don’t know.

Comic from Calamities of Nature

Because I find myself saying “whipper Snappers” does that mean I’m getting old. Because I constantly talk about “kids nowadays” does that make me closer to senility? I think so. But really.

Kids nowadays…

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Based on Chaos Theory, this might just be more effective.

Comic from Savage Chickens

Or maybe because saying “every centimeter of my love” sounds a bit humiliating and “every meter of my love” is just a li’l bit frightening. Or maybe it’s the rhythm of the lyrics, but that’d make too much sense.

What so often distinguishes a comic is the ability to take the everyday and make it stand out. This is true of stand-up, movies, or print. The best jokes are ones that are right before your eyes and you never realize the humor in them. A comic talent possesses keen powers of observation and the ability to put a twist on the ordinary and make it extraordinary.

I am not a comic talent, but I do have a keen enough sense of observation to realize that what I’m writing isn’t funny. So I’ll bid you adieu.

Today’s observant comic is from Calamities of Nature

P.S. If you’re writing a test and you must be careful if you make a question true or false. If you make a true statement or one that is unfalsifiable then I cannot be wrong by choosing ‘True’ even if it isn’t an exact recreation of the statement listed in your PowerPoint presentation and you THINK the answer should be ‘False.’ I’m looking at YOU education guy at work. Yes, you! I made a 94%, not an 88%. Multiple instances of your flawed test creating abilities in a single test. As an example, education guy, if you say, “This compartment contains Tool A and Tool B. True or False?” It is not false because the compartment contains Tool A, Tool B, and Tool C. It does, indeed contain Tool A and Tool B, meaning the statement is TRUE. Go… Go… educate someone else, education guy.

Rant completed.

Look, it’s great that your name is similar phonetically to a service worth purchasing, I really am, but have the common decency to not try to utilize that as a horrible marketing ploy.

And to all those reading, if you desire to start a business, leave the z’s out. I saw a car dealership called AUTOZ. What is going on here? Even a reputable and successful business, such as Zappo’s, could stand to lose the Z. Maybe it’s psychological. Because the letter Z is the very last letter in the English alphabet it is also the very last letter you want in anything.

No Z’s, and no Lock smith companies started by bald characters on LOST (did you get the reference?)

Comic by http://partiallyclips.com/