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9 Dec 2024
Tag: Fun
Armageddon Update
(Stick with it; he puts things together well, and the Armageddon part isn’t all of it.)
Happy Thanksgiving, However You May Observe It!
Protect your keyboard, and enjoy some Cover Snark!
Cover Snark: A Possible Bathroom Emergency
by Amanda · Nov 25, 2024 at 4:00 am · View all 18 comments
Welcome back to Cover Snark!
From Jen: Maybe it’s me but this head does not look natural on this body.
Sarah: Definitely not the head that body came with. Also, is that the dude from Downton Abbey?
Elyse: Looks like Sebastian Stan to me.
Maya: It looks like BBL Spaceman had one too many surgeries.
…
I think we need some input from all of you! Does this cover say:
- Stain-Crossed
- Stair-Crossed
- Stan-Crossed
- Other
Sneezy: Why is his left hand in a different plane of existence than the rest of everything? Are push-up bras in fashion again? Where did her legs go? Are those flying jellyfish? Inquiring minds want to know
Shana: I wish more covers incorporated flying jellyfish.
Sarah: I too am most curious about the glowy flying jellyfish! Like, are they buddies? Do they follow the Cursed One around like little night lights?
Shana: Something is wrong with their bodies but I can’t put my finger on what…
Elyse: They look like mannequins.
Sarah: The one on the right has a very very long sternum.
And the hand on the shoulder seems detached? Not touching anything?
Katee Roberts quoted someone when I interviewed her saying that looking for AI in a cover is like trying to see the fae.
That’s how this feels.
From Kareni: Here is a cover to consider for cover snark. Frankly, I have a difficult time figuring out what I am looking at.
Sarah: WHEEEEEEEE!
Elyse: Does he have to pee? Is that why he’s pulling on his pants?
(snip)
Enjoy!
Wichita’s turkey traffic enforcer causes fowl play at busy intersection
by FOX Kansas NewsTue, November 26th 2024 at 9:24 AM
(I saw this on the news last night and thought it would be fun for us here. It’s actually our local/Wichita ABC affiliate news, on the Simpsons’s channel here. If you click through, you can watch just this story, or our whole little nighttime newscast, if you like. I can’t find the link to embed the video, which I recommend. -A)
An unexpected but welcome visitor is getting a lot of attention at an east Wichita intersection, whether he’s stopping traffic or trying to attack cars.
In a world of too much distracted driving, all of the drivers and passengers near Central and Greenwhich are paying attention to G.G. the Eastside Turkey.
Nancy Withers owns Kitchen Wow, one of several places the famous Eastside Turkey likes to hang out. She says he’s been around for almost a year now.
FOX Kansas News reporter Jocelyn Schifferdecker has more on the road warrior in the video posted above.
Cover Snark: Yet Another Terrible Wolf Placement
by Amanda · Nov 11, 2024 at 3:00 am
Welcome back to Cover Snark!
Welcome back to Cover Snark!
From Mabry: This guy is suffering from sliding bicep syndrome, plus his forearm seems to be stolen from a 7 foot tall basketball player. And then there’s the nipple that’s trying to leave the scene altogether.
He also looks like one of the Property Brothers.
Sarah: Ok the proportions and perspective here are really weird to the point I feel like I should give everyone a warning. Like, uncanny valley vaguely nauseous proportions.
The ARM. the size of the head! his neck! I’m queasy now.
Lara: They must have used a funhouse mirror filter of some kind.
Sarah: Did he get stung by something?
From Jen: Awkward wolf placement. Is he a wolf shifter? Or is he banging this wolf? The wolf appears to be complaining about the dude behind him.
Lara: Oh that is some champion poor placement! Worst/best I’ve seen!
Sarah: Please stop making covers where it looks like some indifferent dude is about to hump an animal.
Amanda: Isn’t the saying, “In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes and bad animal placement on shifter romance covers”?
From Susan: Blow it up for best effect. Lots here to play with.
Sarah: Wood.
Elyse: WHAT COULD ALL THE WOOD REPRESENT.
Sarah: Honestly I have no idea. What could it be?
From lils: Well “something” is burning! Is it love or an effect of the mess hall?
Sarah: This is a visual representation of what some of my headaches feel like!
Amanda: What in the J.J. Abrams is with all the lens flare?
I am done and need a break.
All morning I did the three Sunday shows I watch. This Week, Meet the Press, and Face the Nation. Ranted while I wrote stuff to refute and talk about pushed by the republicans on the panels and interviewed as they crowed about how this was a clear mandate for them to take the country so far right the Puritans would be scared to come here. I stopped writing figuring I had recorded all of these shows. Then I spent an hour while listening to them trying to figure out how to record them from one computer to the other as I really need to change my desk configuration and have already ordered the ram to do drastically help one of my computers. Sadly my main computer is maxed out. I should have known better but it was on sale with great specs … so I bought it. Always. Yes always by a computer that is upwards expandable. I won’t make that mistake again. However even if I lose these recordings of the corporate media and on This Week Johnathan Carl was creaming his pants on the tRump win, so much for media impartiality, I need a break as Ron was telling me. So I am going to play Portal Two. It is a wonderful puzzle game using a portal gun to shoot an incoming portal and an outgoing portal. No shooting other players. This is a grand game for people not wanting to hurt others even in a game and for stretching the mind. If you don’t have a gaming console the game is also on PC, which is where I first played it. Hugs I am off to challenge my brain on more than politics. Hugs.
Have Some Friday Comics
Also, a question. On Kids Baking Championship, one of the items required is a chocolate-dipped item. One young baker decided to use butterscotch instead of chocolate. They tempered it, they dipped their item, and presented it. When asked about it, since it wasn’t chocolate, they stated that their technique was the same, and the item was dipped; also, that the butterscotch right there among the chocolate in the same area of the pantry.
So. While chocolate is not butterscotch and vice-versa, does this item count as a chocolate-dipped item? Discuss in comments.
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 08, 2024
https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2024/11/08
Frazz by Jef Mallett for November 08, 2024
https://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2024/11/08
FurBabies by Nancy Beiman for November 08, 2024
https://www.gocomics.com/furbabies/2024/11/08
Jim Benton Cartoons by Jim Benton for November 08, 2024
https://www.gocomics.com/jim-benton-cartoons/2024/11/08
Monty by Jim Meddick for November 08, 2024
https://www.gocomics.com/monty/2024/11/08
Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 08, 2024
“10 distractions, in case you need them for some reason”
In case you’re searching for things to take your mind off the immediate horrors of the real world for, you know, some reason, here are ten:
3D Workers Island is a horror story told in the form of late-nineties screenshots from forums, websites, and a mysterious screensaver.
Practical Betterments is a collection of very small one-off actions that improve your life continuously. Examples include putting a spoon in every container that needs a spoon or cutting your toothbrush in half. Gently unhinged.
Someone remixed a cover of Raffi’s Bananaphone with Ms. Rachel and it’s kind of a bop?
David Gilliver creates amazing light paintings — one of his latest was just shortlisted in the British Photography Awards. This article says he uses a lightsaber while dressed all in black; the pinnacle of Sith expression.
Witches on roller skates! Sure, Halloween’s over. But witches on roller skates!
That time Sir Terry Pratchett modded Oblivion is “the untold story of how Discworld author Terry Pratchett became an unexpected contributor to the world of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion,” even as his Alzheimer’s progressed. The video is based on this older article.
After having a stroke at 25, Eilish Briscoe created a typeface to show the process of learning to write again — and has created a series of typographic exhibitions centered around the idea that “expression is a luxury”.
Halfbakery is “a communal database of original, fictitious inventions, edited by its users”. For example, the beardaclava, which is “a carefully woven balaclava that hangs as a thick and luxurious seamless extension to your existing beard, perfectly matching its colour and hair quality”.
Godchecker is here for you if you need to check a god. “Our legendary mythology encyclopedia now includes nearly four thousand weird and wonderful Gods, Supreme Beings, Demons, Spirits and Fabulous Beasts from all over the world.” Comprehensive.
Wigmaker is a game about making wigs. And it’s open source!
https://werd.io/2024/10-distractions-in-case-you-need-them-for-some-reason
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Another One
Free Range by Bill Whitehead for November 05, 2024
https://www.gocomics.com/freerange/2024/11/05
I make it a point to look at only comics over breakfast on BP check days. Calvin always gives a good one, always. Most of the toons I read are funny and non-topical. It is unfortunate that I can’t help but see the one featured comment under the comics; I can report that even on GoComics, the entire world is watching the US today with bated breath.
So, I can’t get my diastolic under 70. I like 66-69. (I’d like a little lower, but I’m not 17 anymore!) Anyway, that’s the Election Day morning report from the Redford manse. I prescribe the best chocolate everyone can get, enjoyed in small bites allowed to melt before swallowing. Plenty of clear, non-carbonated fluids, too. It really, truly helps. Let’s all enjoy the day where we are-it’s exactly where we’re supposed to be.
Scottie's Playtime 