Dr. Maximilian Tundra was heading home again for the holidays, dread clutching his heart like an iron fist. He’d managed to avoid Thanksgiving, but there was no escape from The Feast. The Feast, as it was known amongst Clan Tundra, was a toxic stew of carbs, fats, and pharmaceuticals that
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The Skwib: Space Lunchbox would be a great name for a band
Sad Spaceman contemplates lunch. Alltop would be a great name for a humor blog aggregator.
Continue readingThe Skwib: Top rejected final messages from David Bowman (spoilers)
1968- "2001" – astronaut David Bowman, a photo by x-ray delta one on Flickr. As you probably know, in the book version of 2001: A Space Odyssey, David Bowman’s final words recorded by mission control are: “My God, it’s full of stars!”. (This excellent line didn’t make it into the
Continue readingThe Skwib: Sad Spaceman worries about his tubes
More Sad Spaceman at the website. Alltop is the best humor aggregator on the intertubes.
Continue readingThe Skwib: Sad Spaceman needs to cut the cord
Alltop just watches youtube all day.
Continue readingThe Skwib: Sad Spaceman regrets breakfast
In case you’re wondering, I’ve started a new Tumblog called Sad Spaceman, and I am stealing things from it. You may get some textual funny later this week. Alltop wouldn’t know textual funny if it was hit in the face with the Oxfjord Dictionary of English Humor.
Continue readingThe Skwib: Sad Spaceman gets philosophical
Alltop is worried about having its files decompressed.
Continue readingThe Skwib: The Future Is Frenzied
Professor Albedo-9000 Frink (the Third) was justifiably proud of his invention. It had taken him nearly 300 years of his genetically enhanced life to construct the Frink Dojigger 12. (Experimental models 1-11 proved un-viable.) Using only the finest Moussorgsky rodent filaments and all the heavy element Poutinium available in the Liquid Fermentation Galaxy, he had […]
Continue readingThe Skwib: Squirrelly
It is the Season of the Doom. The days darken. Temperatures drop. And the Black Rodents of London are out for blood. Or nuts, at the very least. I remember reading once that the term “squirrelly” was coined during the pioneer days, and it was used to describe homesteaders who had been forced to live […]
Continue readingThe Skwib: And how would you like your Marcel Duchamp prepared sir?
Someday, thanks to science and human perversity, we will be able to eat people without suffering the pangs of guilt that we have contributed to someone’s murder. Sure, we’ll have all the frisson of the ultimate taboo to spice up our night out, but we will be able to do so without fear of prosecution, […]
Continue readingThe Skwib: SO glad it’s not just me
Alltop is worried it’s suffocating the funny.
Continue readingThe Skwib: Dog Threat Level Meter
Dog vocalizations interpreted. Condition Tail Wag Don’t be fooled by the cuteness of this puppy — it might mean trouble. I’ll growl at it just to let it know that I’m watching. Condition Woof Holy crap! A husky! My arch-nemesis, and about as close to a wolf as a dog gets. If it comes closer, […]
Continue readingThe Skwib: Gather round the radium fire
This is an illustration of what the future might have looked like, circa 1910: The artist has depicted a genteel scene: Claude and Sophie LaFlippé have invited a few friends over to enjoy their brand new radium fire. (It was to be all the rage in the year 2000, according to the deranged artist, Antoine […]
Continue readingThe Skwib: The Levels of Drinking Consciousness: A Unified Theory
Yesterday we looked at Larry Miller’s routine, “the five levels of drinking”, which while entertaining, does not look the levels systematically. He also really only discusses the first three levels in detail. My friends and I have developed a more systematic description of alcohol’s effect on human consciousness quite tirelessly over the years, beginning sometime […]
Continue readingThe Skwib: Waiting for the razor-blade singularity
We may need to check with Ray Kurzweil on this one, but it looks as though we might expect the technological singularity sooner than anyone expects, based on your razor. The Economist did an evaluation of the number of blades on razors, and discovered (with five data points) that there is a Moore’s Law for […]
Continue readingThe Skwib: The Device
When Charlie hired on to Doctor Machinica’s Traveling Hospital for Female Hysteria, he had no idea what he was getting himself into. He certainly didn’t know anything about The Device. The Doctor was a respectable-looking fellow, if a bit short of stature and brawn (except for his unnaturally thick right forearm, which looked like it […]
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