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superfunadventuretime: when your life turns into a text-based adventure game

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Ryan Coons (yellowhatguy) over at SuperFunAdventureTime relates a story about the night he was out after an Atheist Alliance meeting and was the victim of a drive-by BB gun shooting. Quite hilarious, and I just totally laughed out loud when I got to this part:

I’ve always maintained that when living properly, snippets of your life could serve as the basis for text-based adventure games for the VIC-20. This could be one of them.

“YOU are in a small BATHROOM. It is 3 AM. YOU have been shot by the people in a BLUE CAR. YOU don’t know where they went. YOU have had four beers. There may be a BULLET lodged in your LEG. YOU should GOTO a HOSPITAL. YOUR PANTS and UNDERPANTS are pulled down. YOU are holding a CAMERA-PHONE and eating a DONUT. There is a DOOR facing WEST. COMMAND?”

 

Nuclear Gastronomy

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My Aussie friend, David Morgen-Mar writes a daily web comic using photographed Lego layouts called Irregular Webcomic. He is an incorrigible punster and the many converging and diverging story lines are wonderful to behold.

I must have missed this one back in March, but DMM has coined a new term: “Nuclear Gastronomy” (he was riffing on molecular gastronomy, but claims to be the originator on this one).

Here’s a sample of what nuclear gastronomy involves:

Chocolate Chip Gold Vein Cookies

Cream 1 cup of sugar with 250 grams of butter. Add 2 eggs and a teaspoon of baking soda. Add a splash of vanilla extract and a drop of mercury-196. Mix in 2 cups of flour to form a soft dough, and a cup of chocolate chips. Bake in a slow neutron source for at least 8 hours to convert all the mercury into gold. The gold will appear as attractive shiny flecks through the cookies, and since it is inert these will be safely edible. Warning: Do not use other isotopes of mercury, as they will produce unstable gold isotopes which can decay into highly toxic thallium!

via Irregular Webcomic! #2961.

Oh, any by the way, the comic strip is really funny, too!

Silly Booth cartoon from the New Yorker

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Booth is one of the funniest cartoonest the New Yorker has ever had. This one appeared recently and just tickled me silly.

booth cartoon: The Queen is somewhere in the snuggery!

booth cartoon: The Queen is somewhere in the snuggery!

 

Booth cartoons are always the best, always a treat. He has recurring themes, like mangy dogs and cats, silly ordinary everyday people doing grandiose things to make their lives seem more important and exciting.