A Nameless Blog

Ah, love is in the air.  I mean that literally — the day after Valentine’s Day always has a distinct bleach aroma outside, if you catch my drift.  It’s like the atmosphere got laid yesterday.  World, you need to bask in that post-coital glow.  You deserve a blogpodge.

Do any of you read xkcd?  It’s a nerdy web comic that’s occasionally funny.  But do you know what’s even better?  xkcdexplained.  It’s a simple premise — three guys explain the jokes in the latest comic.  The execution is brilliant, though, as it’s clear that these guys find xkcd predictable, childish, and unfunny.  It’s become the most amazingly mean thing I’ve seen in a long time.  Instead of nerds versus jocks, we get intellectual nerds versus socially awkward nerd.  Reading both the comic and critique is win-win — if the comic is bad, the snarky explanation is that much better.

It’s also President’s Day.  We all pitched in to give Obama that tie, right?  I want to be sure that my name was on the tag.

My opinion of John Mayer is pretty much the same opinion I have of Justin Timberlake.  I can’t stand their music and I’m envious of their sexual resumes, but I find them both to be immensely talented people who seem to have good senses of humor, particularly about themselves.  Knowing that I’m okay with them as people makes me feel smugly enlightened and open-minded.  Anyone else feel similar?

The universe is big.  The universe is small.  Here’s a flash widget to help you put it in perspective.  It’s not as grand without Morgan Freeman and a gigantic screen, but it’ll do.

Internet, you’ve finally done it.  You’re in the process of creating a website entirely for me.  You see, people are starting to make charts and graphs about the greatest, most fascinating band of all time.  Check out the Flickr page if you like; my favorite addition is the analysis of the Beatles’ and Rolling Stones’ Americanized pronunciations of the letter R as their careers progressed.  Turns out they got more British as time passed.

Hot damn, it’s Lupercalia today, too.  All told, I have my American flag out front, pink hearts still hanging in the window, a Happy Birthday banner for my brother, and on top of all that, I have to sacrifice a goat and a dog?  This is just too much.

Remember Biff from Back to the Future?  His name is Tom Wilson and he’s tired of your questions.  So get off his back.

Hey, the Olympics are back!  My three favorite things about the Winter Olympics: hockey, hockey, and hockey.  What else do I love?  Short-track speed skating.  Elated Swiss people.  Dick Button’s name.  There are so many things to list, I might have to devote a full post to it in a week or so.  Until then, perhaps the Summer Games can tide you over.

I give up — everything I think is real is actually manufactured by computer programmers.  Here’s proof.  (Here’s the full version.)

I’ll leave you with some interactive animations.  They’re better left unexplained.  Just explore and enjoy.

-Darrell

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