is a blog by Brendan
| Doctor Unheimlich has diagnosed me with Brendan’s Disorder |
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| Cause: | poor dental hygiene |
| Symptoms: | excessive hand numbness, vertigo, American accent, slightly squeaky voice |
| Cure: | drink more tea |
See, it’s funny because I actually have a casual acquaintance with Dr. Unheimlich, and (I assume) he knows I have an American accent. Darn you, Dr. Unheimlich!
“In March, Awards World magazine sponsored the inaugural ‘Awards Awards’ at London’s Dorchester Hotel, handing out awards to members of the British awards-presentation industry for the year’s best awards shows. Spokesperson Barbara Buchanan explained, ‘Everybody likes to win an award,’ even the people who give out awards (who staged ceremonies for about 1,000 major presentations in Britain last year). Although Buchanan called this year’s program a success, she said it is disqualified from receiving any awards at next year’s Awards Awards. [BBC News, 3-5-04]”
Good thing, too, or the whole system could go critical. Metacritical!
You will live in Mansion.
You will drive a Dark Blue Hummer.
You will marry Janeane Garofalo and have 3 kids.
You will be a Dad in Mountain View.
Now you, too, can Play MASH Online, magically removing its barely-scandalous social purpose entirely. Reduce your childhood pleasures to solved problems! Next: Candy Land, or possibly War.
Searching for references a little bit ago, I google imaged for “raccoon” and noticed a really cool little character sketch near the bottom of the first page. The link turned out to be a Painter sketch directory at Tourniquet, art repository of Vera Brosgol, of whose I’ve been a big fan for years. It’s a pretty neat directory. My favorites are “couple” and “purple shirt.”
Anyway, I thought the validation of my, um, liking her art (even when I didn’t know it was hers) was neat. I actually already own an original, and I’d like very much to get her to sketch something this summer at Calicomicon.
To: xorph@xorph.com From: support@xorph.com Subject: Notify about your e-mail account utilization. Dear user of Xorph.com, Your e-mail account has been temporary disabled because of unauthorized access. Advanced details can be found in attached file. Best wishes, The Xorph.com team http://www.xorph.com
And then of course the attachment is a pif file. Wow. One of the better social engineerings I’ve gotten in a while–it certainly beats the hell out of MyDoom. As always, of course, it’s not entirely bad English-free, and then there’s the fact that I am the Xorph.com team.
I still maintain that if anybody ever manages to use all the right words, spelled correctly, in an email virus, that virus will rule the world. Fortunately that won’t happen, thanks to the deep and powerful stupidity of all virus writers. It’s almost like a paradox.
I had the awesomest idea ever for a card/board game, but it’s kind of already taken. Bah! I guess I’ll just have to sell it via covert deals in alleyways, to avoid copyright suits. As usual.
Thanks to California, my World66 state map makes it appear as if I just started in the midwest and tried to explore as far as I could in each cardinal direction. I’m kind of surprised I’ve been to as many northeastern states as I have, and so few southern ones.
Post: Attack of the okay, you get it already.
Wikipedia has an interesting list of List of people known as The Great, or similar. There is a distinct lack of people named “The Mighty,” however. Since it is a wiki, I’m tempted to just open up the page and put myself and all my friends on it (“Jon the Fierce,” “Maria the Quotable,” “Yale the Cranky”), but I’m too moral (“Brendan the Moral?”). Wow, the wiki model really does work!
(Link via FTrain.)
