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Happy Holiday Season
Tuesday, November 27, 07:08 AM By
Team
The Thing Of The Day will be taking a
holiday break starting now.
We don't know at this time when we will be back in full force, or if we will change the format a bit when we come back.
Have a great Holiday Season!
We don't know at this time when we will be back in full force, or if we will change the format a bit when we come back.
Have a great Holiday Season!
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Fantasy Football
Wednesday, August 29, 03:30 AM By
Bryan
Today's Thing was supposed to be a Alberto Gonzales cartoon. I had the master panel and titles done, but didn't like the jokes. Although, did you know that Gee-Dub's nickname for Gonzales was "Fredo?" So, that means either a.) Bush thinks Alberto is the weak son link in his mafia (uh, so, yea, he must also see himself as operating the gub-ment as a mafia business. Yep. Uh-huh.) or b.) he really likes spaghetti sauce.
So, I had to come up with something else. The guys at work have been bugging me to join their fantasy football league. Bugging me like carnival barkers, bugging me like jackals. They know a mark when they see one. But, hey, it is a new Thing. I can learn about it, see what the buzz is (That buzz is about what 10 years old?). I'm not a sports guy, I'd rather watch a movie. I'd rather play a board game than watch a game.
But Jiminy Christmas, fantasy football is the nerdiest circle jerk I've ever run across. On the nerd scale, fantasy football guys make the Star Wars dorks at Comicon look like Hugh freekin' Hefner. Obsessed with minutia to an OCD extent, the blowing up of ghost legends and lore to sycophantic heights, the pointless debates, the tiny-dicked bragging, the twitch twitch twitch at the websites worse than a porn-obssessed meth addict, all that sound and fury signifying nada.
Sports nerds are the nerdiest nerds in nerdville. Most other kinds of nerds I've met have some humorous detachment from their obsessions, but not hardcore fantasy football nerds. Fantasy football nerds are like the mainstream religion of nerdom. Enough people do it, so no one can question it's wackiness. It's serious 'effin business.
So, anyway, I decided to embrace the nerd half of FANTASY football. It's all abstract BS numbers and luck anyway. A weird stat-based game minus the cool, nifty bits. So, I whipped the graphics in this post because every team needs a logo and signed up. Hey, new weird software. I can't think of a better name for my team than The Turf Nerds, but I do like the first fantasy football pic.
Looks like I'll be losing 20 bucks on a stupid game. It's happened before.
Team Pass for Good Reason!
Friday, July 06, 05:58 PM By
Team
Due to spending time with all sorts of
out of state family the last week, we are taking a team pass for
today. I had family come from North Carolina, New Hampshire (and I
finally can point that state out on a map), and Virginia, and Bryan
had family from Texas. We love you all, thanks so much for
visiting!
Stay tuned, future Things could include photos of you, or subjects we talked about.
Stay tuned, future Things could include photos of you, or subjects we talked about.
Team Project for Holiday!
Monday, May 28, 08:31 PM By
Team
(Shelly here): We
decided to do a Team Thing, since today was a bonus day, me having
the day off (Bryan always has Monday's off--must be nice!) So I
looked through the archives at MAKE to find something we
could do together.
What we decided on was some paper crafts Make featured brought to you by Cannon. Check out all their free paper crafts to download, print and put together, there are tons of cool ones, and they are free!!
We decided to do some from their craftown series, because they might be able to work into or become a game.
Here's our police station, convenience store, and people to go with. It was fun to do a project together!
(Shelly did the super hard police station and police car; Bryan did the easier convenience store and some people.)
(Bryan here): As you can see from this scene, the employees and manager have decided to take a day off from menial labor and pay tribute to their favorite movie, Clerks. After about a half hour of some of the most righteous roof hockey you'll ever see, the Fuzz show up on a noise complaint. But it's cool. Lady cop buys her weed from Raoul, the night clerk who's also her booty call on the overnight. But Lady Cop doesn't know Raoul is also tapping her best friend, Amy. Not that she'd care much, she just knows where Amy's been. Oh, and Sampson, the manager, has the largest collection of inappropriately edited video of customer hijinks from the surveillance camera. He'll show it to you if you ask.
And that's just a few of the stories in the torrid history of the Craftown Convenience Store. Sorry no Jay and Silent Bob, they're a just an urban legend.
What we decided on was some paper crafts Make featured brought to you by Cannon. Check out all their free paper crafts to download, print and put together, there are tons of cool ones, and they are free!!
We decided to do some from their craftown series, because they might be able to work into or become a game.
Here's our police station, convenience store, and people to go with. It was fun to do a project together!
(Shelly did the super hard police station and police car; Bryan did the easier convenience store and some people.)
(Bryan here): As you can see from this scene, the employees and manager have decided to take a day off from menial labor and pay tribute to their favorite movie, Clerks. After about a half hour of some of the most righteous roof hockey you'll ever see, the Fuzz show up on a noise complaint. But it's cool. Lady cop buys her weed from Raoul, the night clerk who's also her booty call on the overnight. But Lady Cop doesn't know Raoul is also tapping her best friend, Amy. Not that she'd care much, she just knows where Amy's been. Oh, and Sampson, the manager, has the largest collection of inappropriately edited video of customer hijinks from the surveillance camera. He'll show it to you if you ask.
And that's just a few of the stories in the torrid history of the Craftown Convenience Store. Sorry no Jay and Silent Bob, they're a just an urban legend.
