I had this idea and I hope no one else had it first. I am going to establish that people who pull all niters should eat a meal at 4am. Observe how it works out:
just for example
8am small Breakfast
12 pm big Lunch
4pm small snack
8pm big Dinner
12am small snack
4am big meal
I'm not sure what the meal should be called.
Monday, June 8, 2009
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Comics I like: Daisy Owl
Daisy Owl (by Ben Driscoll) is a really funny comic I discovered recently. I was hooked almost immediately. There's human kids raised by an owl and a bear raised by humans. I really like how Daisy and Cooper have a child's view of the world, but they are also possess nerdy science knowledge. And the friendship between an anthropomorphic polar bear and owl.
I give this comic 5 out of 5 owls.
I've been reading it for a while but I only recently noticed that almost all the strips have the same 6 panel layout. I like how at the top of the website there's a picture of the main characters and their names - it made it really easy to start reading the comic with no prior knowledge. Also, some of the polar bears are racist, apparently?
I give this comic 5 out of 5 owls.
I've been reading it for a while but I only recently noticed that almost all the strips have the same 6 panel layout. I like how at the top of the website there's a picture of the main characters and their names - it made it really easy to start reading the comic with no prior knowledge. Also, some of the polar bears are racist, apparently?
http://daisyowl.com/comic/2008-07-04 This is one of my favorite Daisy Owl strips
http://daisyowl.com/comic/2009-05-08 This comic is very similar to my experience every time I try to go into a comic book shop. I'm overwhelmed by the enormous selection, not to mention the ridiculous multiverse continuities...I just want some Superman, or maybe Spiderman stories, darnit!
Maybe I will, sidewalk chalk message. Maybe I will.
Time Travel
I found this on my digital camera. I guess I took this picture a few weeks ago.
My camera says this picture was taken in the twenty second century? All the other pictures have the correct date. This is a relief, now I don't have to worry about global warming, robot or zombie apocalypses occuring before March, 2108. I don't know how this is possible, but thank you, kodak time-stamps.
grafitti
Interesting grafitti I encountered while I was on my way to lunch. It seemed so random, I had to snap a picture. 
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Stand up 4/30
I performed at this place called Magooby's Joke House. Apparently they have onion rings. Anyways I wasn't at all expecting to perform. Literally, I had no idea that there was a possibilty that I could perform until ten minutes before the show started.
Earlier in the evening....I was expecting that I'd take a short bus-ride and watch 8 of my pals compete against some kids from Morgan State, Towson and UMBC, and have lots of fun. I didn't expect that most of the Off the Wall kids would travel by some other vehicle, and so I was stuck in a crowd of fifteen or twenty strangers and two pals...but I did meet a guy with glasses and a mohawk. The bus ride was awesome. Drawing comic strips at the back of a bus, I was struck with nostalgia/mild deja vu for a similar day in middle school.
I had stuck a scrap of paper with a list of jokes in my pocket ("burp, trees, Quidditch..." etc.) more to amuse myself on the bus ride than out of an actual expectation that I would perform. But we got there and no one from Morgan State showed up, because last time I checked, Morgan is not one of the fifty states of America, and so the college Morgan State DOES NOT EXIST. There were also less UMBC and Towson people than there were supposed to be? I sensed an opportunity for finagle-ing. I have this skill of sucking in my stomach and sneaking through a door just as it's closing.
Awesome Thing #780
Bam. I do it all the time in my dorm, it's really fun with the thick, heavy wooden doors. There was no metaphorical closing door in this situation. I have finagled my way into a performance before, but I don't really want to rely on this skill anymore, ever since that time I showed up unannounced and sang a 4 minute song instead of telling real jokes. But this skill did come in handy here. Thinking of my handily memorized Titanic/Hitler/grizzly bear routine, I asked if I could do a 3 minute performance at the very end of the night...and the Magooby's people let me!
There was a seemingly out-of-place Orthodox Jewish couple there. I may have offended them with a Hitler reference? Or maybe it was the smallpox reference, or maybe the zombie rhinoceros reference. The guy had an odd look on his face that I couldn't decipher.
Since I saw no warning light once I was done, I pulled that convenient scrap of paper out of my pocket and just told more jokes. I didn't even realize till maybe 20 minutes later...'apparently I'm not afraid of public speaking anymore? When did THAT happen?' If you told me even a year ago I'd be cool with public speaking there's no way I'd believe you.
Only hours later I realized, that wasn't the basement of a dorm room filled with thirty college kids, that was a real comedy club, with strangers...It sounds a lot more impressive on paper. At the time, I wasn't thinking, 'holy crap, this is legitimate, in front of strangers who are judging me, not just a dorm room basement,' I was just trying to remember my lines in the right order. This was a darn fine end to a semester filled with stand-up. I only do it for fun.
My only regret is I did not get to sing the Animaniacs theme song on the bus intercom.
Earlier in the evening....I was expecting that I'd take a short bus-ride and watch 8 of my pals compete against some kids from Morgan State, Towson and UMBC, and have lots of fun. I didn't expect that most of the Off the Wall kids would travel by some other vehicle, and so I was stuck in a crowd of fifteen or twenty strangers and two pals...but I did meet a guy with glasses and a mohawk. The bus ride was awesome. Drawing comic strips at the back of a bus, I was struck with nostalgia/mild deja vu for a similar day in middle school.
I had stuck a scrap of paper with a list of jokes in my pocket ("burp, trees, Quidditch..." etc.) more to amuse myself on the bus ride than out of an actual expectation that I would perform. But we got there and no one from Morgan State showed up, because last time I checked, Morgan is not one of the fifty states of America, and so the college Morgan State DOES NOT EXIST. There were also less UMBC and Towson people than there were supposed to be? I sensed an opportunity for finagle-ing. I have this skill of sucking in my stomach and sneaking through a door just as it's closing.
Awesome Thing #780
Bam. I do it all the time in my dorm, it's really fun with the thick, heavy wooden doors. There was no metaphorical closing door in this situation. I have finagled my way into a performance before, but I don't really want to rely on this skill anymore, ever since that time I showed up unannounced and sang a 4 minute song instead of telling real jokes. But this skill did come in handy here. Thinking of my handily memorized Titanic/Hitler/grizzly bear routine, I asked if I could do a 3 minute performance at the very end of the night...and the Magooby's people let me!
There was a seemingly out-of-place Orthodox Jewish couple there. I may have offended them with a Hitler reference? Or maybe it was the smallpox reference, or maybe the zombie rhinoceros reference. The guy had an odd look on his face that I couldn't decipher.
Since I saw no warning light once I was done, I pulled that convenient scrap of paper out of my pocket and just told more jokes. I didn't even realize till maybe 20 minutes later...'apparently I'm not afraid of public speaking anymore? When did THAT happen?' If you told me even a year ago I'd be cool with public speaking there's no way I'd believe you.
Only hours later I realized, that wasn't the basement of a dorm room filled with thirty college kids, that was a real comedy club, with strangers...It sounds a lot more impressive on paper. At the time, I wasn't thinking, 'holy crap, this is legitimate, in front of strangers who are judging me, not just a dorm room basement,' I was just trying to remember my lines in the right order. This was a darn fine end to a semester filled with stand-up. I only do it for fun.
My only regret is I did not get to sing the Animaniacs theme song on the bus intercom.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Fanboys
A while ago I complained that Fanboys was not getting a wide release. But now it's showing in the Hoff Theater on my campus. I was going to wait for the DVD release, but I have no more reason to complain. Hoff theater is cool!
EDIT: I missed my chance to see it in theaters...but my trusty Netflix account is there for me! Most likely it will not live up to my expectations, judging by the Rotten Tomatoes reviews. But it should still be fun.
EDIT: I missed my chance to see it in theaters...but my trusty Netflix account is there for me! Most likely it will not live up to my expectations, judging by the Rotten Tomatoes reviews. But it should still be fun.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Twitter is dumb
Eventually Twitter will come out with something called Wyrd or Word or something, and you'll have one word posts. What are you thinking about? Cats. Soda. Weather. Politics. You'll be able to see what everyone is thinking about, a giant sea of words out-of-context.
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