The End

All right. Three years and 1,130 posts later, I think it's time to hang up the coat.

When I first started this blog, I posted 1) every day, and 2) a fact. For the last year or so, most of my posts have been links and pictures, and I never update on time anymore. The purpose of the blog is no longer being fulfilled and I'm clearly losing interest. The moment has come to bow out.

I might start writing another blog. If I do, I'll notify all the people I'm aware of who read this one. You are, in no particular order:

• Mandy
• Marina
• Lila
• Jim
• My parents
• Cherie
• Andy

If you'd like to be notified when I start a new writing "project," and your name isn't listed above, please post a comment at the bottom of this post or shoot me an email.

Thanks for reading!

2-22-09

Some guy shot a picture that's 100 meters long.

2-21-09

Hindu religious festivals often feature cow piss drinking.

2-20-09

About a year and a half ago I bought a GameCube and several games, which I proceeded to never play. I finally pulled out Resident Evil 4 the other day and, holy crap, it rocks. Notice to 360 owners: if you've got a friend to play it with, you must immediately download the Resident Evil 5 demo.

2-19-09

I'm employed!

My first day is March 9th.

2-18-09

Have you ever seen one of those drawings that spells a word, and when you turn it upside down it still spells the word? Turns out those things have a name -- ambigrams.

2-17-09

I was disappointed to learn that Christian Bale, one of my favorite actors, apparently has a slight temper problem.

2-16-09

Gleeking.

2-15-09

"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."

-- Norman Thomas, six-time presidential candidate for the socialist party

2-14-09

The ten-sided die (d10) is the only die used in Dungeons & Dragons that is not a Platonic solid.

2-13-09

Based on the current understanding of aerodynamics, bumblebees shouldn't be able to fly.

2-12-09

The platypus is the only poisonous mammal.

2-11-09

After scraping the bottom of the job hunting barrel for several months and still turning up nothing, I've decided that this sums up my feelings pretty much exactly.

2-10-09

2-9-09

Romans played with d20's.

2-8-09

I saw Coraline in 3d this evening. Despite being a cartoon, it's an amazingly good movie.

2-7-09

Credit to Andy for the YouTube find of the decade.

Update: those motherfucking bitches took the original video down. The link as it stands now is good, but not as good. Just pay careful attention around the 10 second mark.

2-6-09

The opposite of misogyny is misandry.

2-5-09

The job that I thought was going to last two months -- lasts six days.

Update: it's been canceled! Completely! God damn it!

2-4-09

You Have To Burn The Rope.

2-3-09

A guy robbed two 711's in Colorado with a Klingon sword.

2-2-09

U.S. soldiers in Vietnam called purple smoke grenades "Goofy Grape."

2-1-09

Grammar Nazis.

1-31-09

Something Positive. Man, I don't know how I missed this one before.

1-30-09

Check your kids' homework.

1-29-09

Thumb Wars.

1-28-09

Napoleon hogs history's spotlight, but his commanders were also interesting.

1-27-09

In certain types of forests, you can find north by looking at which side of the trees moss grows on.

1-26-09

GMAT essays are graded by a computer algorithm.

1-25-09

Poker parody.

1-24-09

Trebuchet toaster. Though as one poster noted on BoardGameGeek: "I imagine it is spring-powered rather than gravity-powered, making it a catapult and not a trebuchet."

1-23-09

A Texas high school basketball coach was fired after his team won a game 100-0.

1-22-09

1-21-09

Yesterday may have been the inaugural address, but today is the three year anniversary of this blog! Here's a quick rundown of the important events that have happened in the past year:

1) Jack shit.
2) ...
3) Yeah that about covers it.

Let's hope I'm employed at this time next year.

1-20-09

1-19-09

The term plushie denotes people who like to have sex with stuffed animals. This is different from furry, which denotes people who merely dress up as stuffed animals and then have sex with other people who are also dressed up as stuffed animals.

1-18-09

Sea kittens made an appearance on the Colbert Report. I beat him to it!

"Now they've launched a campaign to discourage people from eating fish by calling fish 'sea kittens' ... But more importantly, if I stop eating sea kittens, I believe I get to start eating what I like to call land fish [shows picture of cat]."

1-17-09

Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it).

1-16-09

Meat accoutrements.

1-15-09

Hockey players in the NHL didn't wear helmets until 1979.

1-14-09

Elf: "Whose legs are those?"
Richard: "Probably the guy waddling around on his torso."

-- Looking For Group

1-13-09

From the Museum of Bad Art. "The understated violence implicit in the scene speaks volumes on our own desensitization, our society's reflexive use of force, and the artist's inability to deal with the hindquarters of the animal."

1-12-09

Paradoxical undressing.

1-11-09

My first Writer's Group meeting was today. I have awesome friends!

1-10-09

Americans watch 5.5 hours of TV a day (on average). This means the average American spends nearly as much time watching TV as they do working.

1-9-09

PETA recently launched a campaign to raise sympathy for fish by rebranding them as "sea kittens."

"Would people think twice about ordering fish sticks if they were called sea kitten sticks?"

Guess what? I'm not joking.

1-8-09

H is the ninth most common letter in English.

1-7-09

I believe we have all learned something.

1-6-09

1-5-09

Forbes.com ranked Madison the #1 city for finding a job.

I'll believe that one the moment I find, y'know. A job.

1-4-09

"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."

-- Bernard Baruch

1-3-09

This apparently is what a badger looks like.

1-2-09

Tea stains ceramic.

1-1-09

4th edition D&D is pretty sweet. I hope somebody makes a computer game out of it.

12-31-08

I went to a new year's party that didn't feature board games of any kind! However, David and Sam invited me over to pregame in the afternoon. I got to try Nexus Ops, which was remarkably mediocre.

12-30-08

In case you missed the meme by about a year like I did: Dick in a Box.

12-29-08

The Slightly Uncomfortable Chair Collection.