I’m on a mailing list for a 
newsgroup, so I receive a digest of new postings a couple of times a day. I was skimming through the new messages in my Gmail inbox a few moments ago when some of the Google-placed ads and helpful links, which I usually ignore into invisibility, caught my eye. Check it out:
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I’m actually kind of amused by the listing. It’s one of those times where you really wish Google’s search API would actually take case-sensitivity into account. I think they got it closer to correct with the ‘More About…’ links, but still, I’m scared to click on anything since I don’t actually know where they go.
Tags: google, Humor, latex
If you thought that there was no enjoyment to be found in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, then you were wrong. Darths & Droids is a funny little webcomic created by a group of talented folks that restructures this movie tragedy into a table-top RPG with plenty of snark and humor. It’s a great little jaunt so far, and some of the screenshot captures they use have me cracking up. I highly recommend it.
The last few strips have poked fun at the character of Bibble and pointing out a number of oddities and continuity problems in the movie, all while keeping the rhythm of an RPG to add a little more geek humor to the mix (as if there wasn’t already enough of that to spare). It’s good stuff.
Tags: Darths & Droids, Humor, webcomics
This is pretty darn funny:
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Tags: Humor, memes
Ok, this is amusing. I just noticed on my Facebook news feed that someone joined a group called “I Secretly Want To Punch Slow Walking People In The Back Of The Head.” What’s amusing about this is that once you join a group, it shows up in your profile, where everyone can see it. HaHAH, sucka’. Not so secret now, is it?
Tags: facebook, Humor
Funny quote for today: “Staff said he was observed ‘handling truffles in a suspicious manner.’” (#)
Tags: Humor, news
Her: “Wow, that’s Angelina Jolie? That’s nothing like the way she looks in Grave Robber!”
Me: ”...you mean Tomb Raider.”
Her: “Um, yeah.”
Me: * laughter *
Her: “Well, there’s dead people – and robbing…!”
Tags: angelina-jolie, Humor, movies, tomb-raider
I got a kick out of this Venn diagram. The punchline for me was in Point D.
Tags: Humor, venn-diagrams
The crassness of the last frame aside, today’s Ctrl+Alt+Del actually makes me laugh because I can remember writing notes like that back when I was an insecure and outcast fifth grader. I’d recently transferred from a private Christian school into the public school system, and I was very naive about the way people outside Christian circles worked. Aside from one bully in the Christian school I’d previously attended, I’d really had no idea just how mean and cruel other children could be.
By the fifth grade, kids already have well-established social groups and cliques – and they don’t always take to outsiders and strangers very easily, especially ones that are self-righteous, introverted nerds like I was. I really didn’t have more than one or two real friends during the fifth and sixth grade years, but shortly after entering the fifth grade, I’d made what I realize now was a pretty lame attempt at getting some more friends.
During our free time one class day, I’d written up a bunch of notes for everyone in my class that was something to the effect of, “Will you be my friend? Yes or no.” I got a lot of yeses and just about as many nos, even though in the long-run, most of the yeses still didn’t really go out of their way to get to know me. It wasn’t terribly funny to me then, but fortunately I can laugh about it now, which is why this Ctrl+Alt+Del strip makes me laugh. It takes something I relate to intimately and pushes it to an extreme that I find highly amusing.
Oh, and circling the ‘or’ – yeah, that’s something I would do, just to be a smartass.
Tags: comics, ctrl+alt+del, Humor, life
Can you write your way out of a wet paper sack? It’s really a very important skill to have. (Source: serotoninrain)
Tags: Humor, Writing
Sometimes, this is exactly the way I feel.
Tags: absolute-truth, Humor, math
