I’ve been following Wimbledon on the internet the past couple of days and just noticed this graphic on top of ESPNs score tracker.
Tennis is X-TREME!
What are they trying to say, exactly? That tennis players are made of fire? Or that when they play too hard they will burst into flames, a la Buffy? Maybe it is just a sly advertisement for fire-resistant clothing. We may never know!
I could have made this twenty-some panels of me wasting time, but it would have gotten very depressing. Oddly, I haven’t yet wasted time on Wikipedia reading about internet addiction disorder or computer addiction, but I’m sure it’s only a matter of time.
You may not know this about me, but I am a man of many hobbies. Fantasy baseball, bike riding, ping pong, tennis, crossword puzzles, connect four, boggle, scrabble, innovative drinking games, the list goes on. One hobby I especially enjoy is collecting domain names. I think at the height of my craze I owned around 40. Why? I DON’T KNOW. Well another, related hobby I enjoy is letting those same domains expire. (13 in the past 9 months!) Sometimes in my frenzy I let one that I like slip through the cracks. Such is the case for oragainstus.com, which apparently had enough traffic to become a billboard for some girl with a backpack.
Not a site I made. I don't even know this girl!
Luckily I own the far superior youareagainstus.com, which should be up and working in the next day or so. In the meantime, if you’re seriously jones-ing for some wordless comics about fear and politics you can check them out at http://ytorf.com/oragainstus, which will always be there.
So update your bookmarks please!
Last week I ran in the James Joyce Ramble in Dedham, MA. It’s a 10K race with the twist that all along the course costumed actors read passages from Joyce’s various works. It was my first “race” since high school and the stars were not aligning for me: I had a severly tight hamstring and it was 90 degrees and sunny. Not fun running conditions. Regardless, I didn’t finish well, but I DID finish. (How slow was I going? I ran the same distance today 20 minutes faster. Wow!)
Anyway, road races are awesome because you sign up for like twenty bucks and you get a free t-shirt, some other swag with ads on it, free food and drink (and beer!). They also put this little timer on your shoe AND they take photos of everyone so that you can commemorate the event.
Look at me here! Proud, focused, graceful. Dropdead handsome.
Truly, an athlete in his element
And now look at me just a camera click later. Exhausted, defeated, on the verge of collapse.
Uh... did I mention it was 90? That's HOT
How is it possible that I look so different just moments apart? The magic of still photography, ladies and gentlemen!
Ever wonder what the difference is between a curve and a slider? How about a splitter and a change-up? Well wonder no more! Lokesh Dhakar explains it all for you. Now when you listen to Tim McCarver announce the Fox game of the week, you’ll still get infuriated, but for slightly more informed reasons.
Nerd baseball is a mix of really geeky baseball talk about WARP and such, and posting of really geeky looking baseball players. I mean, look at this guy:
Pretty much guaranteed that this guy heard of BALCO the same time you did
Can you believe that he was really a Major League Baseball player?
Anyway, I made their logo! They are great guys! Geek out and read their site!
Some of my favorite coins from around the world. Notice a theme? More on this later.
Mike Briggs and I have started a new comic about our friend K-Ya! We take turns drawing and then the other person tries to write something that goes with it. It is very fun. For us. Check it out!
Jason and I just made this kickass coffee table from stuff we found out for trash day. I’m totally enamored of it. We found the type drawers probably a year ago and just found the legs last night. Totally sweet!
Can you believe we found these awesome type drawers ON THE STREET?
Seriously, someone threw them out!
They must feel SO STUPID right now! Ha!
This is maybe the coolest thing of the year. Sorry everything to show up after February, you are superfluous. http://gamu-toys.info/sonota/sw/obama/obama.html
Samurai Obama
Jedi Obama