The Evil Eyebrow

Category: Fun

  • Google Searches

    I need to spend more time doing Google searches like this:

    Xkcd Comic

  • Orc Mail

    I sent some Orcmail. Have you?

  • Super Mario Galaxies

    Due to my wiinjury, I’ve played a lot of Super Mario Galaxy in the past week. But before I get into that, some background.

    I haven’t owned a console game since the Atari 2600. I played various console games such as the Nintendo 64 when I was in high school, but since HS graduation it’s been PC games almost exclusively. That means I missed almost every incarnation of Zelda, Mario and Halo which were primarily intended for the console market.

    Which means that I was entirely shocked by the psychedelic craziness or drug-trippiness of Super Mario Galaxy.

    Some of the crazy shit that goes on during that game makes me think that either A) the developer was high or B) the developer thought I woudld be high or C) it was designed by the Japanese.

    I think it’s a cool game, though, and the way that the second controller can be used by another person to assist the primary player is way awesome. Courtney has been a good star-catcher and I had fun freezing the big death-rocks for Jenn while she was playing.

    However, I’ve been playing too much because, tetris-like, I’m seeing it everywhere. I may have to swear it off for the weekend. Besides, the back is getting better which means I have stuff to do.

  • Dragon*Con 2008!

    Dragon*Con is a little over a month away and I’m starting to get excited!

    Adam Baldwin, Anne McCaffrey, Harry Turtledove, Phil Plait, Brandon Sanderson, George Takei are all people I’m looking forward to seeing.

    Hayden Panettiere (Claire from Heroes) will also be there, yuck. Of course, there’s plenty of people on the guest list whom I really don’t give a crap about, but she in particular raises my ire. Nothing against her in particular but alas for her poor Heroes character.

    Bill with a Canon 70-200 f/2.8 L IS lensI just put in a reservation with my local neighborhood photographic supply shop to rent the monster lens that I had last year. Yay Canon glass!

    I’m stoked.

  • Desktop Tower Defense (1.5)

    I was recently introduced to Desktop Tower Defense Desktop Tower Defense, a wonderfully fun Flash game.

    If you liked Dune, or Total Annihilation, you’ll like this game.

  • Dr. Horrible


    Did you watch Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog?

    If not, you should have. It was quite good.

    It’s Joss Whedon’s descent into writing-strike lunacy, as described by the Master Plan.

    Too bad it’s not free anymore. I confess that I somewhat deliberately withheld posting about this until after the free watching stopped specifically to get back at Michael Steele who did not alert me to Firefly when it was being broadcast in the way-back-when. So, “HA!” Mike. (Did you see that? That was me being evil! ELE, here I come!)

    Not that most people reading my blog didn’t hear about this through other sources. Or at least, you should have, slackers!

  • I Used to Do This

    Excerpt from an XKCD Comic on Literary Deconstructionism

    When I was a lad of 27 or so, my wife (then fiancé) was a Ph.D. student. We would occasionally go to department parties where I was the S.O. and would wander around chatting with students and faculty. I would see lots of people including those who had no idea that I had no idea about what they did. However, I was also the editor of my wife’s papers and articles. This gave me a detailed knowledge of her jargon plus a layman’s command of some of her field’s esoterica. Thusly, I could take a visiting grad student, or newly minted Ph.D. student, and bullshit the hell out of them. Some never did figure out that I was just stringing words together, pulling things out of my butt.

    This caught me flack from Jenn.

    At least I don’t do it anymore. For one thing, there’s a huge difference between a graduate student’s S.O. screwing around with other grad students and a professor’s husband doing it. For another, I don’t know enough to successfully bullshit a professor. Alas.

  • Margaret Elizbeth Blanchard-Montgomery

    We attended the wedding of Margaret Elizabeth Blanchard, a.k.a. Meb, and Tim Montgomery over the weekend. Much fun was had by all, but an important question remains:

    How do you pronounce “Meb-m”? “Meb” is easy. Mebbum? Meb-Em’? Muh-BEM’? This is too confusing.

    Pictures to follow, after I’ve uploaded them to Flickr.

  • Candy Calamity

    When you design your candy, what is the first thing you think about? Taste? Texture? Color?

    How about, “How closely to a penis can I make this look?”

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    Good job on the post, Accordion Guy!

  • Speaking of Chess

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    This is a kick-ass chess set. The pieces are opaque until placed on the board. Righteous!