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Monday, June 18, 2012
Comics 1068-1070: Words For Terrible Comics
1069. I had no idea people gave a fuck about the order of the alphabet! Thanks for teaching me a new reason to hate the world, Randy. D-
146 comments:
Fourth: waiting for my Windows Updates to finish.ReplyDelete
Sixteenth: the last update just startedReplyDelete
Twenty-eighth: The last update just finishedReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 18, 2012 at 11:19 PM
Good night everybody!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 18, 2012 at 11:19 PM
*Good night, everybody!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 19, 2012 at 12:21 AM
You worthless piece of shit there's no way 1069 deserves a grading so much better than 1070's. Fuck you, fuck this blog, fuck everything.ReplyDeleteReplies
1069 had a joke. 1070 did not. 1069 didn't receive an F because it had the basic structure of a comic, even though it failed to meet all the other criteria of a good comicDelete
- AnonymousJune 19, 2012 at 12:37 AM
Bullshit that's a joke that's not a joke it doesn't even make sense. Or perhaps you think I have a martini just because I had a belt of of vermouth shortly after a couple of shots of gin? Oh God I am so mad right now I could simply puke.Delete
don't let me get in your wayDelete
- AnonymousJune 19, 2012 at 1:52 AM
Let's just cut to the part where we give weaselsoup advice about getting laid.ReplyDelete
Captcha: Pretty sure Google mistook a power point for a house number this time.Replies
- weaselsoupJune 19, 2012 at 3:15 AM
i support that suggestion. better advice this time plsDelete
- AnonymousJune 19, 2012 at 4:14 AM
all you got to do to get laid is to suck my dickDelete
- weaselsoupJune 19, 2012 at 6:02 AM
you must get lots, being so charming & allDelete
- Strapon Lover ZedJune 19, 2012 at 8:09 AM
Hey weaselsoup, how do *you* feel about strapons?Delete
- weaselsoupJune 19, 2012 at 8:19 AM
don't fancy the idea, really. looks way too much like hard workDelete
- Strapon Lover ZedJune 19, 2012 at 8:20 AM
Incidentally, something like 90 percent of women identify as more submissive than dominant, whereas only 70 percent of guys identify as more dominant than submissive, so you could give yourself a real edge with all those submissive guys who can't find dominant women by advertising yourself as a girl who likes being on top. Just sayin'.Delete
- weaselsoupJune 19, 2012 at 8:50 AM
that also, to be fair, sounds way too much like hard work. but cheers for the thoughtDelete
- AnonymousJune 20, 2012 at 2:45 AM
Sit alone at McDonalds with a lit candle in the middle of the table and a hopeful look in your eyes. That should get somebody in the mood.Delete
- weaselsoupJune 20, 2012 at 4:45 AM
but mcdonald's is no good for vegans & vegetariansDelete
- AnonymousJune 20, 2012 at 8:54 AM
"looks way too much like hard work"Delete
See, this is exactly the attitude that keeps you from getting laid.
- weaselsoupJune 20, 2012 at 8:56 AM
yeah, you're probably rightDelete
- AnonymousJune 20, 2012 at 9:10 AM
weaselsoup, you fat fuck, just reply with your address and someone will be round your house to fuck you. that's not too much effort, is it?Delete
and don't reply with "charming". if you want to get laid, just do it.
- weaselsoupJune 20, 2012 at 2:52 PM
they do say Johnny Depp is single againDelete
- AnonymousJune 20, 2012 at 4:26 PM
As usual, whores are the answer.Delete
- weaselsoupJune 20, 2012 at 10:06 PM
i tried posting my address but there's some fuckup with google & it got the numbers all wrongDelete
- AnonymousJune 19, 2012 at 3:17 AM
I like the way we're using grades now, as if we were making a proper nuanced judgement rather than just spraying lactation fetish LOLs and abuse everywhere.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 19, 2012 at 6:27 AM
Ron Paul 2012ReplyDelete
Although Ron Paul 2012.ReplyDelete
That being said, Ron Paul 2012ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 19, 2012 at 8:02 AM
How the heck does Randy get "Massachussetts Institute of America" on his phone? I mean, obviously the algorithm is screwy for not getting MIT, but I'm really curious how America ended up following Institute. There are Gemological, Archaelogical, Laser, Marble, Design-Build, Aikido and Roof Cleaning "Institutes of America." None of these sound like anything Randy has any interest in, and they are all pretty obscure in general. The best known Institute of America by far is the Culinary Insitute of America. But we know Randall can't cook.ReplyDeleteReplies
randy, being a true patriot, often types "I'm from the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" into his phone, and hence "of" is inextricably linked to "America" as far as the text shit thing is concerned.Delete
incidentally, "I'm from the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" also comprises 50% of j j mccullough's text messages
Randy's phone OF AMERICA is the real patriot, not Randy. The fact is, xkcd OF AMERICA is just a webcomic OF AMERICA posted for free on the Internet OF AMERICA, it has no intent of spreading nationalist propaganda OF AMERICA. It's only supposed to make humor OF AMERICA. Although OF AMERICA.Delete
Also, it's not true that Randall CAN'T cook. He can. He just doesn't because cooking is too un-quirky.Delete
- AnonymousJune 20, 2012 at 2:20 AM
Randall learnt to cook to bed the feminists, but now every man can cook so he's bitter about it.Delete
No, I lie, he's a man-child and probably cannot wipe his own bottom.
captcha: inglysor. inglysor from abusolanguag.
- Threw a big turd at a nigger todayJune 19, 2012 at 1:41 PM
I just couldn't take it anymore. Every day last week on my way home there was this obnoxious nigger bitch with a huge ass stuffed into tight jeans and a puffy jacket on a corner I pass. Every day she would start to waddle her simian ass across the street after the light turned green, then stare at traffic as she slowly mosey'ed across. Yesterday this bitch decided to to stop half way across, turn around, and start shouting something to this other cunt across the street with a triple baby stroller and three little nigs. I had had enough.ReplyDelete
Today I launched my plan. I got Sbarro pizza to go for lunch. This provided me with a cardboard 'to go' pizza box that I converted into a turd containment vehicle. I drank a huge starbucks venti house coffee in about fifty seconds, burning the shit out of my tounge doing so. The coffee had the intended shitogenic effect. I went into the bathroom with my sbarro box, squatted over it, and hatched a mean, stinky, mullato log dead center (covering one errant pepperoni). I also stole a spatula from the office kitchen, as I did not want to soil my hands with feces during my revenge.
I left work. I slunk through traffic like a lion in the amber grass, stalking my monkey prey. I planned to scoop up my log missle with the spatula and whip it with wrist action as fast as andre agassi's. Unfortunately, I am right handed, so I knew I would have to whip that motherfucker with my left hand out my driver's side window and hope for the best.
I spotted the bitch on the corner. She wasn't crossing, but she was eating. She had a plate of chicken wings....she was jamming one after another into her mouth, sucking off the meat, and throwing the chicken bone on the ground. It looked like a chicken sacrifice had taken place. She then licked her greasy fingers with her big negroid lips and yelled something to the negroes at the liquor store across the street, clearly her next destination.
I loaded up my spatula and put my window down. Everything slowed way down and I took on a zen like calmness as I cocked back the turd. I whipped it. As it flew through the air, I was heartbroken to see it split into two pieces...there must have been some weak point in my log. I posit that this was the interface between my steak and potato dinner shit and my toast and yogurt breakfast shit; they had simply formed a single log with very different turdodynamic properties.
To my amazement, both chunks of pewp hit their mark. I was at first concerned that I had damaged the fabric of space and time, as this chunk of shyte whipped off of my spatula only slightly slower than the speed of light. The smaller piece went directly into her open, yelling mouth; the second larger piece hit her hard, neanderthal head and pancaked into a massive shit explosion. As she dropped her plate of chicken wings and yelled, I saw her bite down on the turd in her mouth which resulted in shit being squeezed between the gaps in her carie-ridden, rotting teeth.
I hit the gas and flew by her. On the way past I gave her fat ass a good whack with my spatula. I was so thrilled I came home and opened a bottle of Dom Perignon to celebrate.
- AnonymousJune 19, 2012 at 3:01 PM
how much time do you put into these posts rob? seriously it takes you so long to update then all we get it "heh xkcd is stupid for these stupid reasons that I reiterate every update." why can't you put some effort into these and make a decent post, or at least give me a decent reason to see your view as to why xkcd truly sucks.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJune 19, 2012 at 3:15 PM
it's because he's fat lolDelete
- AnonymousJune 19, 2012 at 4:32 PM
it's no laughing matterDelete
so fat :(Delete
- AnonymousJune 19, 2012 at 6:02 PM
Anon@June 19, why don't YOU write a better review in the comment section following each of Rob's reviews. Since Rob's effort is abysmal, you'd have to be some sort of fucking retard not to be able to succeed at this, if a wonderful critique is your aim.Delete
- AnonymousJune 19, 2012 at 9:23 PM
Ha ha. This is all great, guys. A propos of shit, a friend of mine wrote some stuff which maybe some of you who used to like xkcd might like. The rest of you will *definitely* hate it. Anyway, shameless vicarious pride plug on vaguely maths material not taken seriously in an interesting way:Delete
P.S. blatant self plug. No foolin'
- AnonymousJune 19, 2012 at 11:30 PM
woohoo, another poster comic! i can't wait until i can buy it for twenty dollarsReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 20, 2012 at 1:19 AM
I don't have such a problem with 1071; I know it's terrible as a comic but I love astronomy so I was able to say 'yeah, ok'.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 20, 2012 at 1:20 AM
WOW, PEOPLE FOUND SOME SHIT THAT WILL HAVE NO EFFECT ON MY LIFE OR ANYONE ELSE'S... SURE IS AN EXITING TIME TO BE ALIVE!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 20, 2012 at 1:20 AM
THIS IS AN EXCITING TIMEReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 20, 2012 at 2:47 AM
Anybody else excited? Randall gets me pretty excited.ReplyDelete
- weaselsoupJune 20, 2012 at 3:10 AM
I love astronomy and this comic makes me hate it. and myself. and anyone who likes it. and everything else in the world. the beauty and wonder of the universe is a fucking vapid cluster of beige fucking blobs to him? fuck you, mr munroe. fuck you. you're a fucking vacuum. a drab black hole of insipidity sucking the interest out of everything you describe.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 20, 2012 at 3:11 AM
My absolute favorite thing about 1071 is that it has inadvertently removed 786 from the xkcd site, and, since that was one of the shittest comics ever, I approve.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 20, 2012 at 4:26 AM
1071: planets exist and have sizes. More planets exist outside our solar system than within.ReplyDelete
The only remarkable thing is the human arrogance which led us to assume that we inhabited the only planet... then the only solar system... then one of only a few solar systems. Surely the moment you look up in space and see stuff a bit like ours, you take the default position that you are *not* a unique and special snowflake, and the "exciting time" would only come if you have proof to the contrary.
Of course, that logic would mean that planetary scientists don't get as much funding, and we might have to spend more time taking notice of what's happening on Earth.
tl;dr There are lots of grains of sand. Most we have not yet even discovered, let alone examined.
Today's comic is aesthetically seizure-inducingly ugly. How can anyone manage to even LOOK at it without feeling physically sick? Man, in previous instances, at least Randall could make his poster-baits SOMEWHAT visually appealing.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 20, 2012 at 8:33 AM
Biologists discover thousands of new species a year. Does that make it an exciting time to be alive? Not really; most of the species are small, not very charismatic, and have small geographic ranges. Most people will never see them, and most of them will never be studied in detail. In fact, it's a pretty depressing time to be alive if you're a biologist; species are going extinct faster than they can be named. So Randall's into planets instead of species; that's cool. But while most people don't care much about either, I'd guess they'd find the species (which they actually could see if they put some effort into it) more exciting than planets (which they will never see).ReplyDelete
Moreover, I detect a strong whiff of Kurzweilian singularity bullshit in Randall's repeated exhortations that we live in a particularly exciting era. Major technological progress has been pretty stagnant the last 50 years. Yeah, computers keep getting faster, but really, if I time travelled back to 1960, I could have pretty much the same lifestyle I do now. Internet and personal computers are the only life changing inventions that have become ubiquitous in my life time. By the time my grandmother was my age (1944), radio, telephone, electric lights, automobiles, and powered flight, had all become widely adopted and were having major social effects. Television and pennicillin had been invented in that period, and were just beginning to impact society. The green revolution, atomic weapons and space flight were just around the corner. My grandmother saw far greater technologically driven social change in her first 35 years than I have.Replies
- weaselsoupJune 20, 2012 at 8:51 AM
that's what xkcd really is, isn't it? a lament for the stultification of human society, and the climate disasters we create that will probably ensure we never will go back into space. because he cannot cryonically (ffs) freeze himself to live to an age where exciting things might happen, he instead bitches about it & contributes only to what he sees as the increasing stupidity of the human race. by pretending to care about stuff but making it completely lame. he pretends to see himself as the white bereted cunt, going 'yay science! i am quirky!' but instead he is, and knows he is, and probably knows that we know he is, the black-hatted cunt, going 'fuck all of you, I will do as I please and I don't give a shit how irritating i am'Delete
- AnonymousJune 20, 2012 at 9:05 AM
Hell, if you traveled back to the 1970s, you could have a *better* lifestyle than you do now. Drugs, free love, a lack of the exceptionally shitty 90s/2000s pop culture... And no xkcd (but I repeat myself).Delete
- AnonymousJune 20, 2012 at 9:15 AM
Yeah the issue is that the neoconservative project appeared in the 1970s and hasn't been killed off yet.Delete
And, looking at Greece's recent stupid decision, it looks like it's sticking around.
Technology has gone far enough to solve all the West's serious problems. We could all be working 3 day weeks like Randy (moar like 3 minute weeks amirite) and none of us should have to worry about whether we can eat or obtain shelter or basic healthcare.
Instead tech is just being used to create new problems.
- AnonymousJune 21, 2012 at 11:28 PM
Hey, the 1970s called. They want their nostalgia back.Delete
- AnonymousJune 22, 2012 at 1:36 AM
Well, it was the '60s that called. And, yes, it was a wonderful decade. We were technologically and socially advancing like never before, and probably never again.Delete
- AnonymousJune 22, 2012 at 8:05 AM
If the '60s was such a wonderful decade, why would they be calling for nostalgia?Delete
- AnonymousJune 22, 2012 at 9:28 AM
Because a time-travelling telephone conversation incorporates time-sensitive translation, of course.Delete
- Eichmann DobbsJune 22, 2012 at 6:32 PM
the 60s: totalitarian post-war controls. the 70s: everyone was poor.Delete
selective collective memory much?
Captcha: kyoneys 120, the degrees of separation between kevin bacon and my dick.
- AnonymousJune 23, 2012 at 1:53 AM
Dobbs, you were likely brought up in a Western democracy, have had little confrontation with a government beyond having to pay your taxes, and have no fucking clue what "totalitarian" means.Delete
A couple of dollars also says you're a compsci student and a member of the Libertarian party.
captcha: bisoft. That too.
- AnonymousJune 20, 2012 at 8:58 AM
Nice try Randall, but I'm pretty sure that shirts with that pattern already exist.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 20, 2012 at 9:01 AM
I hope everyone here is doing their civic duty and feeding Google false numbers in the captchas.ReplyDelete
- Texas ArcaneJune 20, 2012 at 9:13 AM
The truth is that the L.A. Riots were the most extreme physical terror I have ever experienced. Watching the recent remake of DAWN OF THE DEAD last month brought it all back very sharply - the whole movie was just one giant flashback for me.ReplyDelete
I was working as a security guard at the very high class Rodeo Drive boulevard when the riots started. I knew the verdict was coming down that day on the Rodney King police trial and I had been trying to get ready the best way I knew how, by stocking up on food and buying ammunition. At that time, I was not a true survivalist, just a nascent embryonic paranoid. I knew enough of my American history to be able to predict what the blacks would do based on their previous behaviour the decades beforehand if they did not approve of the verdict. I will say that 99.999% of the people I told to watch themselves before the riots were exactly as lame and feeble as we have often accused them of being.
The average person just has no idea of what a thin veneer civilization is until it cracks underfoot. I have to say honestly - neither did I before the riots.
The thing rocked my world so violently that I have never really been the same person. I think my personality was altered as a result of the riots and I have kind of been on another plane of awareness ever since. I never really came down off the adrenalin and returned to my sleepy eyed sheeple state afterwards.
Anyway, I had been talking to the celebrity slut that day known as Pia Zadora, a second rate softporn star who was rumored to have had sex with nearly every male and most females in Hollywood. She was asking for assistance with the lift down to the parking garage, which wasn't working. I radioed my supervisor to ask why the lifts were keyed off and he came back over the radio sounding really weird and frightened. He said "We're shutting everything down. I need you to make your security check right now and lock everything up. When you've done that, you are released to go home for the day, we are being relieved by some heavily armed private police who are being shuttled over from Beverly Hills." I asked what the problem was. Pia Zadora was staring at me like she thought this was some elaborate prank. "Listen, Cleve, some really strange stuff is happening. There are apparently spontaneous riots breaking out all over because of the Simi Valley verdict. Lock everything up and get yourself home immediately." I showed Pia Zadora the stairwell access, walked her down to the car and then did my security checks as asked.Replies
- AnonymousJune 20, 2012 at 9:17 AM
The truth is that the latest xkcd strips were the most extreme psychological terror I have ever experienced. Watching the recent remake of SHAUN OF THE DEAD last month brought it all back very sharply - the whole movie was just one giant flashback for me.Delete
- AnonymousJune 21, 2012 at 2:57 AM
Worst copypasta ever. Can anyone come up with a better one?Delete
- Texas ArcaneJune 20, 2012 at 9:19 AM
I was supposed to meet my wife at Soup Plantation, a well known restaurant down the road. I couldn't get her on the mobile. When I got there and parked, there was a queasy air amidst all the shopping mall splendour and people had a frightened look in their eyes that I had never, ever seen before. The easy listening music in the restaurant was so mundane it was hard to reconcile with the outside windows, which had fire engines, police cars and people running on foot outside. I had planned to just eat quickly with my wife and go home, because I was having trouble absorbing the idea that this thing was possibly even worse than I might have imagined. I thought South Central was so far off, truth is it was about five minutes down the road.ReplyDelete
People in the restaurant were watching the television reports, which were growing increasingly more feverish and seemed to just show one new burning building every thirty seconds. I was trying to keep a calm demeanour and went to explain to my wife what was happening.
All of a sudden, a woman in the restaurant screamed. A guy dropped his tray and soup went everywhere. A man was standing in the doorway of Soup Plantation and wobbling on his feet. Blood was gushing out of his forehead which had a nasty gash running right down to his ear. He yelled "They're coming! They are next door in the mall!! They're tearing everything to pieces!"
You could have heard a pin drop. Then the restaurant exploded with activity and EVERYBODY was crawling over the women and children trying to get to their cars in the parking lot outside. I'm talking blind panic here, people smacking into each other like they could not give a fugg less about any human in the world outside of themselves. A guy floored his Subaru and tore the toll gate right off the booth. Everybody else was following him out, the attendant was gone. There was cars hitting each other like bumper buggies at the carnival, nobody seemed to care, everybody wanted to get out to the street.
When we made it out onto the highway, I got my first look at the skyline since I left Rodeo Drive. It looked like the fires of hell were consuming half of the city. My wife was crying, she thought it was the end of the world.
If you want me to continue, I will tell you what happened when we got home and what that night was like.
- AnonymousJune 20, 2012 at 9:53 PM
According to exoplanet.eu (the best reference site for this sort of thing), there are only 778 exoplanets discovered as of today. Of those, only ~250 have had their radii directly measured. So that's an awful lot of guessing on Randy's part. Also, all of the red and dark brown dots look to be the same size.ReplyDelete
And no, this isn't an exciting time. Discovering the first exoplanet 20 years ago was exciting. After 100 it was kinda neat, and now after 700+, it's routine.Replies
- AnonymousJune 21, 2012 at 2:23 AM
And the funny thing is, that huge money poster had even less scrutiny.Delete
You give a nerd a single fact and they'll argue over it all day. You give a nerd 700 facts and they'll treat you as a new authority.
No, this isn't an exciting time. The first interstellar voyage to an exoplanet in 200 years will be exciting. And now before the invention of neutrino-powered faster-than-light travel, it's far too speculative.Delete
- AnonymousJune 23, 2012 at 10:59 PM
BUNK! Neutrinos do not travel faster than light.Delete
- AnonymousJune 21, 2012 at 12:01 AM
Q: How do you know Randy needs more moneyReplyDelete
A: He makes another poster
- AnonymousJune 21, 2012 at 12:14 AM
At least this comic answered the question of what happens if Randy reuses a comic name. Turns out he overwrites the old comic by mistake! OOPSReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJune 21, 2012 at 2:29 AM
"Check your inputs" is in week one of any first course on anything to do with software engineering.Delete
Randy, as we know, isn't an engineer. He's an engineer-fan. The only sciency thing he hangs onto is "once I lucked out and got an internship at NASA". Well, when I was 9 I won a Continuation Scholarship and when I was 11 I was in the national final of some general knowledge competition. I did not mention either when I wrote my first university entrance application at 16, because it was already stale information and I'd achieved much more since. Randy has achieved /nothing/ since.
- AnonymousJune 21, 2012 at 6:49 AM
why does it look like a colorblindness test, anyway?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 22, 2012 at 12:26 AM
But is it an exciting time to have cancer?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 22, 2012 at 1:39 AM
- AnonymousJune 22, 2012 at 5:05 AM
Randall never copies one of his old strips to make the joke better. He always does it to make the joke worse. Shame, because I liked the original.Delete
- weaselsoupJune 22, 2012 at 5:23 AM
716 is the same as 567 is the same as 102 is practically the same as 875 is the same as this one is the same as god knows I can't be bothered to go past the first page on google, but that's plenty bad enough as it is.Delete
- AnonymousJune 22, 2012 at 4:27 AM
OK guys, quick poll: does your penis curve clockwise or counterclockwise?ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJune 22, 2012 at 8:02 AM
Depends on whether I'm in the northern or southern hemisphere.Delete
- AnonymousJune 25, 2012 at 12:19 PM
depends on your relative velocityDelete
- AnonymousJune 25, 2012 at 12:35 PM
depends which way im twisting it at the timeDelete
- AnonymousJune 22, 2012 at 6:00 AM
So the gag in 1072 is that telephones in the 1970s used rotary dials rather than buttons. Ugh.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJune 22, 2012 at 8:09 AM
What we've learned:Delete
a. Randall's stick figure people are apparently naked all the time. No surprise there.
b. Randall's stick figure people have peg legs and/or are satyrs. Seriously, it just looks bizarre when you add pants to a stick figure but not feet.
- AnonymousJune 22, 2012 at 9:51 AM
And again Randy can't get anything right. AT&T introduced the DTMF dialing system to the public in 1963. Even if bellbottom dude didn't have a touch tone phone, he'd know what was meant by "press 1".Delete
- AnonymousJune 22, 2012 at 3:05 PM
You can really see the rigour of the research Randall put into middle english grammar and spelling. It's this attention to detail which makes him the golden boy of academics everywhere.ReplyDelete
I presume they want to pinch his cheeks and ruffle his hair or something?
- AnonymousJune 22, 2012 at 5:40 PM
1072: i want to die. FReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJune 23, 2012 at 12:19 AM
A+ if Anonymous goes through with it.Delete
- AnonymousJune 23, 2012 at 7:15 AM
but YOU are anonymousDelete
- AnonymousJune 23, 2012 at 2:48 PM
No, you.Delete
- AnonymousJune 23, 2012 at 12:48 AM
1072: Randy ignores the fact that 99.99999% of cellphone answering machines just ASK you to leave a message and instead concocts a rubbish joke around a situation that doesn't ever actually happen.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 23, 2012 at 2:43 AM
Carl hates on xkcd.ReplyDelete
Carl grows up.
Rob hates on xkcd.
Rob grows up.Replies
*grows outDelete
- AnonymousJune 23, 2012 at 4:25 AM
*eats outDelete
No, wait, that's Randa... ah!
- AnonymousJune 23, 2012 at 11:40 AM
Do people really say 'several' for two things, or is that just Randall fudging things to make a 'joke'?ReplyDeleteReplies
well, apparently the dictionary definition of 'several' is 'Consisting of a number more than two or three but not very many' (Wiktionary). I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone using 'several' to mean 'two or more'.Delete
also, the others don't generally mean two, either. all of them imply that the number is somewhat indefinite in some way--and two is seldom an indefinite number. that is, if there's only two of something, people generally just say there's two of them. numbers like 'a few' and 'several' are used more often with three or more. 'there's several books on my desk' vs 'there's five books on my desk'--in most circumstances, the latter is providing unnecessary information.
this is probably why 'couple' has come to mean 'two or more,' actually. despite traditionally referring to two, it falls into the same category as several, few, etc: it just sounds indefinite. so if I say 'wait a couple of days' or 'I'll have a couple slices' it doesn't sound as definite as 'wait two days' or 'I will have two slices'.
in conclusion, yes, Randy is basically fudging things to make a 'joke.'
- AnonymousJune 23, 2012 at 5:56 PM
'I will have two slices' doesn't sound definite at all when it's you saying it.Delete
- AnonymousJune 23, 2012 at 7:13 PM
What i'm getting at here is that rob is fatDelete
- AnonymousJune 23, 2012 at 9:44 PM
actually I heard he lost a lot of weightDelete
what i'm getting at here is that you aren't being very supportive
- AnonymousJune 23, 2012 at 11:00 PM
weaselsoup is clearly not in a couple.Delete
Rob ate his other half.
And Randall no longer has a couple to suckle on.
Speaking of which, shout out to all my friends in Eng-er-land who haven't been able to access their money thanks to one of the largest banks in the country having financia^Wtechnical issues.
- weaselsoupJune 25, 2012 at 12:15 AM
i think we're all much too heartbroken by the football to careDelete
- AnonymousJune 25, 2012 at 12:21 AM
Not that I watch or understand football, but isn't "losing only on penalties" against Italy a good thing? Isn't that like having a race with God and only being pipped at the post?Delete
- weaselsoupJune 25, 2012 at 2:28 AM
well no, because a/ this has happened a lot, like, is this the sixth or seventh time it's happened to England in an international tournament since they introduced them 30 odd years ago - that's more than any other country I believe; b/ the very fact of it being 0-0 aet shows that they could have won it - Italy are by no means unbeatable at the momentDelete
- AnonymousJune 25, 2012 at 4:47 AM
I didn't expect you to know more about football than me, weaselsoup, but thank you for the info. I feel like Hislop now.Delete
- weaselsoupJune 25, 2012 at 9:44 AM
which one? Shaka?Delete
shaka shaka shaka shaka khanDelete
- AnonymousJune 24, 2012 at 10:40 PM
In his latest comic, Randall reveals how long it's been since he had a real job when he posits that an effective solution to the unwillingness of most people to end a period of rest and relaxation in order to begin working is to simply NEVER ALLOW THE PERIOD OF REST AND RELAXATION TO END. Tired of working? Just don't. In Randall's case, this means a shitty comic won't update, as opposed to the rest of us, who lose our livelihoods, the livelihoods of other people, and countless other valuable things besides.ReplyDeleteReplies
having a real job is a social contruct, you bigoted monsterDelete
- AnonymousJune 25, 2012 at 12:14 PM
being a bigoted monster is a social construct, you anti-intellectual turd captainDelete
Did you guys know that social conventions are not unbreakable laws of nature? It's like I've been led out of the cave to see for the first time the world as it truly is.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 25, 2012 at 4:55 PM
Become a vapid, uninspired, pandering webcomic drawer with a poster selling business and YOU TOO can live every day like it's Saturday!ReplyDelete
PS: Money is a social construct. Randy should give away his posters for free.
1069 was a joke about how hard English is to learn. It was the best of the three in my opinion.ReplyDelete


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We invited newcomer Ivo Jaternik in for a screentest, and paired him with the lovely Lukas Pribyl. Lukas conducts a brief interview with Ivo who seems very keen to try everything. He leans over and pulls Lukas' head towards him and kisses him. As he kisses Lukas Ivo drops a hand to his groin and begins rubbing himself. Lukas responds, as Ivo gets onto his knees, by kissing and licking his nipples. As they continue kissing and exploring each other's bodies the guys their hands find each other's crotches. Then, with Ivo naked and hard, laying back on the bed, Lukas goes down on that big cock and sucks it. As Lukas gorges himself on that dick Ivo gets onto his knees and leans over to spank some ass. He pulls Lukas off his cock and kisses him, before going down and sucking his cock as well. Lukas lifts his legs in the air to expose his hot little ass, playing with it a bit and then he grabs both cocks and wanks them. Ivo takes over wanking both those cocks and kisses Lukas some more. Then Lukas turns on his side and presents his hot ass for Ivo to slide his big hard cock into. That dick stretches Lukas's hot hole and starts to fuck it. His cock really slams into Lukas' ass. Lukas moves into missionary position so that he can wank himself as he is being fucked. His cock gets rock hard as he wanks and soon he shoots a lovely big load of cum all over himself. Ivo is loving that ass and continues fucking it. He turns Lukas over and really pounds his hole. Pulling out Ivo then squirts his huge load all over Lukas' back. Fully spent, Ivo leans over and kisses Lukas again to end a very good screentest.
Mirek Musil is aged 21 and lives in Rychvald. He is a student in Ostrava and enjoys fitness and snowboarding. As he stands and does his interview Mirek looks most appealing. He has a very handsome face and looks like his clothes are masking a good body. We will see very soon, as his hands begin to caress his body. Mirek starts to lift the tee-shirt and we see his abs, clearly defined. When the completely removes the tee-shirt he exposes a chest which is simply magnificent. What a great view we have as Mirek flexes his biceps and then the rest of his muscles. Turning around we see Mirek's back and he lowers the jeans so show off his ass, framed by tan lines. He bends forward and spreads the ass cheeks to show his tight little hole. Then he turns once more and we find that his cock is already rock hard and poking out. He does a series of further poses as his cock softens slightly, but maintains its lenght and girth. Facing straight on to the camera Mirek takes hold of his cock and begins to wank it, getting it nice and hard again. He drops down onto one arm, wanking with the other hand and moves his sexy ass up and down. He lays on the floor and lifts those thick, hairy, legs to reveal his ass hole again, as he wanks himself. Then Mirek concentrates on his ass again, spreading the cheeks so we can really close in on that hole. He turns on his side, cock neatly trapped between his hot thighs, and spreads the ass some more. He needs to cum so Mirek gets onto his knees and wanks himself until that beautiful cock explodes, releasing his pent up cum. Then he moves to the shower to clean up. What a stunner Mirek is, and he gave us a really great scene.
Today we start to present a fully remastered version of Kick Club, a great movie from a while back. This first scene features two very hot studs, Zdeno Reif and Richard Hrosik. We find the guys climbing into a barn. As the scramble their way through the barn they come across an old horse buggy. Stopping to examine it they take a seat, and enjoy some kissing. But they are really there for horse riding so they go off to find their horse. They lead the horse out of the barn and Zdeno mounts it. Richard then leads the horse and rider around the paddock. But they are remembering the kissing and it is not long before Zdeno has dismounted and is busy sucking on Richards, big, thick and very hard cock. He gorges on that cock until Richard needs some too and they change places. Zdeno leans through the fence as Richard sucks on his solid meat, taking it as ddep as he can. Then they move to a 69, so each can enjoy the other. Richard needs more though and they move so that he can sit his hot ass down on Zdeno's dick. He rides up and down on that throbbing pole, moaning as he does. Wanting it even deeper Richard moves them so that Zdeno can really pound his hole. His big cock is really stretching that ass. Remembering the buggy they decide to use it and move over to it. They climb on and Zdeno resumes his fucking of Richard's awesome ass. A final move sees the guys in missionary position whith Zdeno's dick slamming into that open hole. Richard takes it really well and soon the guys are ready to blow. Richard positions himself to catch Zdeno's creamy load in his hands as that cock explodes. Then Richard move above Zdeno and shoots a massive load all over his hot chest. Fully spent, the guys enjoy a final kiss at the end of a most enjoyable outing. What a joy to see this great scene again, with two of the very best models.
Ivo Jaternik is aged 24 and lives in Prague. He is a student who enjoys girls, Thai-boxing and football. ,We have already seen Ivo's Screentest where he performed very well indeed. Now we have his stills shoot. he is a lovely, clean cut looking guy, with a very ready smile. Ivo is also very comfortable in front of the camera, posing beautifully. As he removes his white tee-shirt we see that he has a very nice chest. Then the jeans are lowered and Ivo teases us a little, showing some balls and a flash of cock. Finally his hand moves and the cock is fully exposed. We then get to see a little of his ass as he turns around. The jeans then come off completely and we see Ivo in all his naked glory. He sits and starts to play with his cock, getting it good and hard for us before leaning back and lifting his legs to show a hot, sexy ass hole. We are then treated to a series of poses which beautifully show off all his assets. Ivo is a great looker who certainly knows how to present himself ot best effect. I will look forward to seeing his erotic video.

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Thursday, February 04, 2010
A Birthday Cake
Last Saturday our beautiful little daughter, Nora Adeele, turned one. Like every other parent, we are amazed how quickly time flies - it seems hard to believe that it's already been a year since she rushed into this world last January (see a post here). I've kept stories about her at minimum here at Nami-Nami, as I've been worried it'd turn into a mommy&baby blog in no time whatsoever :D But just to recap - she's been an excellent companion to us during the last year, and a healthy, curious and happy girl. She has a good appetite (we've been trying to follow the principles of baby-led weaning), but as she's also very active, she's a light one (just 8,5 kg this morning). Oh - and she's already been to Southern France (where she dined at two 3-Michelin-star restaurants :D) and to London, so she's a well-travelled little lady.
We celebrated this important milestone with a party and a cake. The party was attended by many of Nora's friend (she's very sociable and loves playing with other kids), and a delicious cake that was inspired by the famous Swedish Princess Cake - a sponge cake sandwiched with raspberries, whipped cream and curd cheese, and topped with marzipan. As you can see from the above picture, then Nora Adeele was thrilled about her first birthday cake :)
Here's another photo of Nora Adeele (and me), taken when she's about 6 month old.
Normal blogging will return as soon as I get over the shock that I'm a mother to a toddler already ;)
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Very sweet!
- 1:56 pm, February 04, 2010
Happy Birthday!!! I can assure you that the time flies faster and faster... It's hard to believe that mine Little Princess will be 13 this April... C'e la vie...
- 2:15 pm, February 04, 2010
- K and S said...
time sure flies! happy birthday!
- 3:03 pm, February 04, 2010
- ptasia said...
What an experienced young lady: 2 x three Michelin stars before the age of one, wow!
The second picture is beautiful.
- 3:05 pm, February 04, 2010
- Piret said...
Õnne printsessile!
- 3:19 pm, February 04, 2010
- ChichaJo said...
Oh Pille! She is beautiful!
Happy birthday little Nora! Hope you are enjoying your lovely cake :)
- 3:19 pm, February 04, 2010
- Alanna said...
Such a sweet girl! I'm loving watching her grow up!
- 5:20 pm, February 04, 2010
- kamalabhoopathy said...
Happy birth day to your little angel.
- 6:55 pm, February 04, 2010
- Mari-Liis said...
Palju-palju õnne veelkord pisikesele armsale tirtsule ja emmele-issile ka!
- 9:50 pm, February 04, 2010
- Giulia said...
Happy birthday to darling Nora!
- 12:01 am, February 05, 2010
- Veronica Khokhlova said...
She's adorable! Congratulations!!!
- 2:48 am, February 05, 2010
- Kalyn said...
She is just precious. I think if I had a child, I wouldn't want to feature them too prominently on my blog either, but I'm glad you are letting us see her once in a while.
- 6:11 am, February 05, 2010
- Kat said...
She's beautiful! Happy B-Day!
- 12:25 pm, February 05, 2010
- vitamins said...
this is my first come to your blog,and i read agood information that you put in here..good job i like it
keep going thanks.
- 7:40 pm, February 05, 2010
- natural selection said...
I'm a pile of mush right now.
- 1:38 am, February 06, 2010
- Kat said...
Tahtsingi just sulle öelda, et tegin Õhtulehte eestikeelsetest blogidest ülevaate ja panin sinu eestikeelse portaali ka side-bari, aga sa oled juba jõudnud näha :)
- 2:01 pm, February 06, 2010
- Klary Koopmans said...
wow one year already!! I like how she´s going for the marzipan roses ;) Congratulations!
- 5:46 pm, February 08, 2010
- Robert said...
Happy birthday Nora!
I hope you can meet Caroline sometime soon. She's getting used to snow!
- 11:26 pm, February 08, 2010
- Jeanne @ Cooksister! said...
Happy birthday, you gorgeous girl! Just look at those eyes!
- 8:12 pm, February 09, 2010
- Valentina said...
And isn't she gorgeous!!!
- 1:33 am, February 15, 2010
- karimakene said...
Kallis Pille ta on sul nii armsake onnitlused tagant jarele
- 3:48 pm, February 15, 2010
- Birthday Presents said...
Belated happy birthday to you Nora Adelle..
You're so cute.. :)
And I love your eyes..
- 2:34 am, March 15, 2010
- Hampers said...
Nice blog with nice picture of cutie. He is adorable. it was nice going through your blog.
- 9:55 am, July 12, 2010
- Hampers said...
Nice photos - that cake looks very tasty and the baby looks very cute.
- 10:18 am, October 20, 2010
Otsin sobivat kooki meie beebi sunnipaevaks. Pille, kas oleksid nous jagama selle kauni koogi retsepti?
Palju onne ka armsa tytre puhul!:-)
- 6:02 pm, September 30, 2011
- Pille said...
Piret, pane Nami-Nami.ee lehele otsingusse Printsessi - seal on retsept olemas!
- 11:43 am, October 03, 2011
Pille, suur aitah viite eest!
Selle retsepti puhul oled kasutanud valget koogipohja, aga synnipaeva fotol tundub pohi olevat tumedam. Kas lisasid sokolaadi voi kakaod voi midagi muud? Kas soovitad pigem no tumedat voi heledat pohja selle koogile? Mul pole erilisi kogemusi kupsetamisega, aga vaga tahaks ise teha seekord...
- 6:03 pm, October 03, 2011
- Pille said...
Piret, see oli ikka tavaline võibiskviitpõhi, nagu Printsessitordi retseptis kirjas (võid ka poest osta). Lihtsalt pealt on kergelt pruuniks küpsenud :)
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A urinary tract infection (UTI) is an infection in any part of the urinary system. Most UTIs start in the lower urinary tract in the bladder or urethra. The urethra is the tube that carries urine out of the body. A UTI can also include an infection in the upper urinary system, including the kidneys.
There are different names for infections in different parts of the urinary system, including:
- Uretheral infection—urethritis
- Bladder infection—cystitis
- Kidney infection—pyelonephritis
The infection may also occur in the tube connecting the bladder to the kidney (ureter). All of these infections are considered to be UTIs.
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UTIs are caused by bacteria that most often come from the digestive tract or rectal area. The bacteria cling to the opening of the urethra and begin to multiply. If the infection is not treated right away, bacteria may move up the urinary system to the kidneys.
Most infections are caused by a bacteria that normally lives in the colon. The bacteria may move from the rectal area to the urethra.
UTIs can also be sexually transmitted. This type of infection usually does not spread past the urethra. Both partners need to be treated.
Risk Factors
UTIs are more common in women because the rectum and urethra are close to each other, making infection more likely.
Other factors that may increase your chance of a UTI include:
- Being sexually active
- Using a diaphragm for birth control
- Menopause
- Diabetes
- Kidney stones
- Enlarged prostate
- Weak immune system
- Abnormalities of the urinary system, such as vesicoureteral reflux or polycystic kidneys
- Paraplegia or quadriplegia
- Sickle-cell anemia
- History of kidney transplant
- Bladder catheter in place, or recent device inserted into the urinary system
- Pregnancy
UTIs may cause:
- Frequent and urgent need to urinate
- Passing small amounts of urine
- Pain in the abdomen or pelvic area
- Burning sensation during urination
- Cloudy, bad-smelling urine
- Increased need to get up at night to urinate
- Leaking urine
- Fever and chills
- Nausea and poor appetite
An infection in the kidney can be more serious. Call your doctor right away if you have symptoms of a kidney infection, such as:
- Bloody urine
- Low back pain or pain along the side of the ribs
- High fever and chills
Your doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will also be done. A sample of your urine will be tested for blood, pus, and bacteria.
In general, children and men are less likely to get UTIs. Their infections are more likely to be caused by structural problems of the kidneys, bladder, or tubes. As a result, children and men may need more testing to determine the cause of a UTI.
UTIs are treated with antibiotics. Standard medical care for a UTI includes taking antibiotics for 3 days. You will probably start to feel better after 1-2 days. It is important that you continue to take the entire course of medication, even if you feel better.
You may have your urine checked after you finish taking the antibiotics. This is to make sure that the infection is truly gone. If you have recurrent infections, you may be referred to a specialist.
The infection may cause pain and spasms in the bladder. Your doctor may recommend a medication called phenazopyridine. It may turn your urine, and sometimes your sweat, an orange color.
Severe UTIs may need a strong initial dose of antibiotics. You may be given antibiotics through an IV or an injection.
To help keep bacteria out of your urinary tract:
- Drink plenty of fluids throughout the day. Cranberry juice is a good choice.
- Urinate when you feel the need and do not resist the urge.
- Empty your bladder completely and drink a full glass of water after having sex.
- If you are a woman, always wipe from the front to the back after having a bowel movement.
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MXNet is an ultra-scalable deep learning framework. This version uses CUDA-7.5.
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MXNet is a deep learning framework designed for both efficiency and flexibility. It allows you to mix the flavours of deep learning programs together to maximize the efficiency and your productivity.
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Once we aspiring musicians are able to move beyond just the fundamentals of making sounds, our lifelong journey begins to perfect the tone of our performances. It's not just the notes and chords that must speak what we feel, it's also that complex collection of pitch, intonation, harmonic detail, color, and nuance—or simply put, the shape and character of our sound that we craft ultimately to express ourselves. We aspire to own higher-quality instruments, amplifiers, and gear in an effort to create our signature sound. We covet those industry legend models the pros play because we identify with their style and tone. We make instrument choices based not only on what our budgets allow today, but also on how those instruments feel and sound, and whether they will grow with us over time and faithfully deliver our ever-evolving craft. But at the heart of that craft always lives our tone.
Once we emerge from our practice space, jam room, or small club (where our stage volume is all our audience will hear), we must then rely on other equipment to ensure our tone is faithfully transferred to the listener. That transfer, for the most part, begins with a microphone—and like any other instrument, not all microphones are the same. Sure, we can place any old microphone in front of our instrument, plug it into the PA or recording hardware, and if the microphone is working at all, we'll get sound on the other end. But is the delivered sound close to "our sound" that we have worked so hard to perfect?
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The RE320 is a purpose-built end-address microphone for voice and instruments that is equally at home in the studio and onstage. Don't let the implication of a "do-all" mic throw you, since some general-purpose mics do everything with questionable results; this microphone was designed to handle a wide variety of challenges very, very well. So let's take a look at what makes this microphone so special.
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Inside the RE320 is a hybrid of the enormous RE27N/D Variable-D® capsule structure driven by our newly engineered 320 low-mass diaphragm which creates vivid responsiveness within a neodymium magnetic field. In and of itself this means that the microphone will have ultrafast and dynamic transient response. It is that same transient response that creates such great detail across all frequencies to faithfully capture your tone. But the capsule does far more than accurately respond to incoming complex wave front information. Variable-D® is our exclusive technology that minimizes the proximity effect common to cardioid-type polar patterns, and is also found in our RE20 and RE27N/D microphones, industry standards in broadcast that were also used on thousands of classic recordings for bass and kick. As users, we experience proximity effect when we speak or sing into a microphone and notice that the bass content gets bigger and more pronounced the closer we get to the mic, thinning out as we move away. Not only does Variable-D® eliminate this phenomenon, but, because it tonally emulates how an omnidirectional microphone behaves close up, the tonality of the performance remains lively and very natural. Used in a stationary position, the RE320 captures incredible tone and detail, and if the sound source is moving around the mic, that tone and detail will remain consistent.
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RE320 incorporates a unique "Personality" switch that selects from two distinct performance characteristics. Choosing the right-hand switch position will engage components designed to capture voice, electric, and acoustic instruments with incredible clarity, definition, and tone. Vocals, guitar and bass cabinets, wind instruments, high and low percussion all sound remarkably spacious and lifelike with the RE320. Meanwhile, selecting the left hand switch position will call up a circuit designed exclusively for kick drums. We've dialed-in an "insta-kick" at the mic, so just put it in your kick drum and you're all set.
Regardless of the switch position you choose, the secret to the RE320's outstanding performance lies in its capsule's ability to respond to and translate every part of the incoming sound's dynamic content. Many mics on the market hear all incoming sound, but, due to their limited response time (transient response), they merely average much of the dynamic content, lending a fairly limited image of the performance. RE320's robust diaphragm/capsule configuration tracks and captures all of the dynamic shifts, and delivers remarkably clean, spacious, natural, and lifelike tone thanks to its Variable-D® and humbucking coil technologies.
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Now honestly with this comic I am not even sure I get what is supposed to be funny. Clearly it has to do with a robot you can have sex with, and apparently she thinks that welding a cherry stem (what would that even mean?) is an answer to the question of whether you can have sex with her, which it is not. Ha ha, silly robot! I guess then the "remove your pants" thing is supposed to mean "yes, this robot would like to have sex with you." So the cherry thing goes along with it.
I find this comic so unnerving in so many little ways. First off that its premise is "I don't have a human girlfriend so I got this robot, that's not weird." Then that the logical response would be "Ha ha, I just met your girlfriend so I'm going to ask about SEX with it/her!" I know Randall is really intent on this "incredibly open discussion of sex with casual acquaintances" but it's just stupid in practice. At least for a comic.
And then of course the "this is my girlfriend, and you asked an inappropriate question, and now she is trying to sex you up, why don't I just stand here silently." Just because that might be how you would act, randy, does not mean it makes sense.
Randall you have to draw better. You really do. You can't have your robots look exactly like people! You have to make them at least a little different. ok?
In short: This situation was all far too contrived to have any redeeming value.
What did I like about it: Honestly there were a lot of worse things Randall could have done and he wisely didn't. A "cherry" pun. Not having the character refuse robo-sex. Panel 3 shows he has put a little more effort into the art than usual.


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The joy that a pet can bring is unlike any other. However, there comes a time in everyone's life when having a pet is no longer a feasible option. Because of this, Haven Hospice has created a pet therapy program. Through this program, inpatients are still able to experience the joy that only a pet can bring.
"I love looking at the patients' faces when the dogs come in – just the way their faces light up," said Elizabeth Kirce, a Haven volunteer coordinator. "It's particularly great for those patients that have had dogs before and love dogs but can't have them anymore."
If a pet owner is interested in becoming involved with Haven's pet therapy program, he or she simply brings in the pet for evaluation. Both the pet and the owner then go through a special training process. Sandy Scott, a St. Augustine resident, has entered her dog, Pearl, into the program.
"Research shows that having pets around elderly people can be very beneficial and therapeutic," Scott said.
Scott and Pearl have been involved in the program since January. They now go into assisted living homes every week for about an hour or two. The patients then get to talk to and pet Pearl.
"In my professional life I was a counselor," Scott said. "So I know that pets can make a big difference in a person's life. As we walk around, people smile and get very happy. It's a very rewarding thing to see how people respond."
When Scott first introduced Pearl into the pet therapy program, Haven helped to throw a welcoming party for them. Pearl's first therapeutic visit was to Ameritis, an assisted living home in St. Augustine.
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This test tells how much 5-HIAA the body is producing.
Alternative Names
HIAA; 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid; Serotonin metabolite
How the test is performed
A 24-hour urine sample is needed.
- On day 1, urinate into the toilet when you get up in the morning.
- Afterwards, collect all urine in a special container for the next 24 hours.
- On day 2, urinate into the container when you get up in the morning.
Cap the container. Keep it in the refrigerator or a cool place during the collection period.
Label the container with your name, the date, the time of completion, and return it as instructed.
For an infant, thoroughly wash the area around the urethra. Open a urine collection bag (a plastic bag with an adhesive paper on one end), and place it on the infant. For males, place the entire penis in the bag and attach the adhesive to the skin. For females, place the bag over the labia. Diaper as usual over the secured bag.
This procedure may take a couple of attempts — lively infants can move the bag, causing the urine to be absorbed by the diaper. Check the infant frequently and change the bag after the infant has urinated into it. Drain the urine from the bag into the container provided by your health care provider.
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How to prepare for the test
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Drugs that can increase 5-HIAA measurements include acetaminophin (Tylenol), acetanilide, phenacetin, glyceryl guaiacolate (found in many cough syrups), methocarbamol, and reserpine.
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The good folks at Evenflo sent me the Triumph Advance Deluxe Car Seat to review and though it's been a few years since I've had any children in car seats there are a few good things I can recognize about this new model:
First, it's made to grow with your child starting at five pounds up to fifty pounds which means that you don't have to keep buying car seats to fit. That's a good thing.
Second, it has adjustable knobs on the side to tighten the belt tension easily (a bonus) and the harness slides up and down so you don't have to thread straps.
Finally, the padding can be removed for washing which is probably the best feature because if your child is going to use it for all those years it would get pretty darn dirty if you couldn't wash it properly.
So on with the giveaway! If you would like to try out the Evenflo Triumph Advance Deluxe Car Seat for yourself (or rather for your child--I doubt any of you would fit) see the details below to enter to win. It's still in its original box and is ready to go. Retail value? $150.
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Before 12 am Monday go to the giveaway entry form on this page and enter your name and email. I will pick one of the names at random, contact the winner via their email and publish the winner's first name and home town in next Tuesday's post. See the bottom of the entry form for more details.
I'm sorry but this giveaway is open to only U.S. readers--the shipping would kill me!
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Wait! Wait! Don't tell me! There's something different . . . you've done something with your hair?
Nope, but I've got me a new template! Like it? Jules from Everyday Mommy made the background graphic from a photo I took and I rather like the effect. And I'm official with my own logo now! Just like the big kids. Mugs, t-shirts and collector's buttons coming soon . . .
When Andrew and I married I didn't give a lot of thought to the marriage ceremony. I had some basic ideas about where it should be and who was going to be there, that I ought to have a white dress and that we ought to have a reception but I really wasn't into a lot of the details that brides typically get into.
And as for gifts, I didn't really care about matching dishes and towels, in fact I only registered for one item. One item because my Mom, thinking that her daughter should actually consider some of the details of setting up house, brought me some pictures of flatware patterns to see what my tastes were like. I saw the set of tableware pictured above from Dansk and fell head over heels for the sleek, contemporary look. What cinched the deal was that uber-cool knife that sits up on its edge like so. I'm a sucker for clever designs so that was the flatware for me.
In typical bride fashion I didn't consider the price, which turns out was not unsubstantial. Dansk is a quality name and each place setting cost more than my food bill for the month, but a long-time family friend (whom I think of every time I pull out the utensils) gave us settings for eight and the kindness and generosity of the gift touched me. Every time we've ever had anyone over for a meal we get comments on those knives because they're completely cool--if a woman can have a love affair with her flatware, this would be it.
Fast forward a dozen years to when I'm a mother of four wonderful children who need to learn independence and the value of work so what do I do? I assign Spencer to handle the job of doing the dinner dishes. As an 8 year-old boy is prone to do he hurries through his job like a hurricane until one day, rather by accident, I discover that one of my eight teaspoons is missing. Gone. Vanished.
I was upset but it wasn't the end of the world. After all, who knows what happened to it, even I could have accidentally lost it (yea, who am I kidding? Not likely). But it made me keep a close watch on my silverware and it wasn't too long before another one went AWOL. One by one the teaspoons disappeared until I was down to four. It was maddening. How were they disappearing? Why was it just the spoons? Who was responsible? It was as if someone were sneaking in the middle of the night and taking them one at a time just to see if they could tweak me over the edge of sanity.
I came down on Spencer, threatening him until he was afraid to do the dishes, convinced that he was being careless and throwing them away but on it went and I never found my spoons. I ended up replacing them to have a full set but wouldn't you know it was only another month before one disappeared. And then another. I replaced them but another vanished. I replaced it and it vanished again. It was like living with David Copperfield.
You're going to expect that I have a solution to the story, some big ending where I reveal how the spoons disappeared and that I now have all my spoons back in order but I didn't. Never figured it out and never solved the mystery. The saga settled down, I figured it was pointless to replace any more when they'd just go missing again. You might ask why we continued to use that set of flatware but I didn't want to buy a whole new set of junky stuff and use that for the rest of my life. Things like that are meant to be used so we use them. Or rather lose them.
Why didn't I put Spencer on another chore? Because my philosophy was that just because he's not good at a task doesn't mean he shouldn't have to learn how to do it properly. Stay there until you figure out how to do it right and all that. Besides, how did I know it's his fault?
Anyway, it has been about ten months since anything has disappeared and I've been breathing a sigh of relief that this nasty episode is past but wouldn't you know it, I happened to count the silverware last week only to discover that no, we haven't lost any more spoons, but a dessert fork is gone. WHAT?? Great, just great, we're starting Act II.
I'm thinking of installing a whole bunch of video cameras in the house just to solve the mystery because somewhere on this planet is a pile of my Dansk flatware. They're there and they're waiting for me. The truth is out there. Maybe my dishwasher contains a portal to another dimension, one that sucks Danish silverware from unsuspecting housewives. Maybe the Tooth Fairy is taking them, maybe they have an expiration date and after so many years spontaneously combust? Whatever it is, I'm doomed. I might as well just give it up and hand over the forks right now and save someone some effort at losing them.
Maybe I should just switch to plastic and call it good before this kills me.
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MANY PATHS BOOKSTORE AUGUST 9 at 7:30 PM
I almost forgot! Next week, I'll be doing a talk and book signing at the Many Paths Bookstore in North Hollywood. Just click on those discolored words in the previous sentence or on the title of this article for all the details.
Just cuz I don't have to pack to go to this one doesn't mean it's gonna be less of a show. I'll be wearing my trademark kabuki style make-up, 8-inch platform heels, I'll be spitting blood and breathing fire and playing all my hits like "God of the Tundra" and "I Wanna Chew on Blubber All Night and Hunt Seal Every Day" -- oh wait! That's for my appearance later in the all eskimo KISS tribute band. Um, this'll be a book signing. But it'll be a damned cool one!
And all you folks in Akron, mark your calendars. I'll be speaking at the Akron Public Library on November 7th. More details as this story develops...
Before that I'll be in New York City August 26-28 at the following locations:
• Sunday August 26, 2007- 7 PM at Bluestockings Radical Books on the Lower East Side
• August 27, 2007 at 7 PM at The Interdepedence Project at Lila Center 302 Bowery at Houston (this will be the most like a formal lecture among all the NYC appearances)
• August 28, 2007 at 7:30 PM Barnes & Noble in Greenwich Village
Then I'll be in Montreal on August 30, 2007 at 7 PM at McGill University's Education/Counselling Psychology Department 3700 Rue McTavish Room 233


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Live From Denver! It's The 12th Annual TWS Riders' Poll Awards Presented by New Era
The Riders' Poll roared! Travis Rice and the infamous GT took the stage in front of a stacked crowd in downtown Denver to host the 12th Annual TransWorld Snowboarding Riders' Poll on Friday night. The historic Fillmore Auditorium played host to eager fans, established pros, industry heads, and even a few lurking legends while snowboarding's brightest were acknowledged for their 2010 riding pursuits. And of course, everyone came to party, too.
Starting it off fresh, the highly competitive Men's Rookie Of The Year award went to overall B.C. badass Mark Sollors. While he's certainly no rookie up in the great white of Canada, Sollors and his stylish riding are now further recognized in the States. His parents made it all the way down from Kelowna, B.C., Canada, to support their boy.
From skate rat, to Baker loc' Mike Ranquet has contributed to the Northwest snowboard and skate scene for years and The Legend Award was much deserved. As a young buck with a plot of land and a vert ramp outside Seattle, Ranquet kept the skate scene burning in Washington before blasting big cliffs at Baker and tearing through the pro snowboard scene. Dave Lee presented Ranquet with the award saying, "After I saw him ride, I said 'f–k yeah, I want to do that.' I think snowboarding owes a lot to him." That led into a long ramble and tribute to skateboarding and it's roots in sliding sideways on snow with a quick bark that, "…skiing is f–king gay, seriously."
Mikey Leblanc's knees of steel landed him the Standout Of The Year award for his massive stairset ender in Videograss' Bon Voyage. Serioulsy, Mikey is still out there stomping it bigger than ever. "I've been riding for probably twice as long as these other nominees, which makes me feel good that I'm still in it. I couldn't have stomped that one on a reverse camber board, that's for sure."
It came down to the last few riders' votes to determine the close race for the Video Of The Year award, which went to TransWorld SNOWboarding's In Color. Rad soundtrack, versatile riding, sick crew–videographers Joe Carlino, Gary Milton and Hayden Rensch created the snowboard flick of the year and the pro riding community agreed.
One of Australia's finest exports, Torah Bright took home the Women's Rider Of The Year award. Torah absolutely killed it at the Vancouver Olympics and she's not stopping there. Word is she has some double dip tricks and has her eyes set on the 2014 Sochi, Russia games.
Our loyal readers made it known that Torstein Horgmo is and Jess Kimura were their Men's and Women's Reader's Choice presented by New Era selections for 2010. And with that award, Canadian Jess Kimura kicked off her sweep for the evening. Kimura stole the show for women's snowboarding and proved she's one of the hardest working, most talented female riders in the game by taking home the Women's Video Part Of The Year award for her standout opener in Think Thank's Left Brain Right Brain, too. After a heap of thanks Jess mentioned, "I want to thank f–king Jesse Burtner for giving me a chance." With a grip of magazine coverage and another banging video part in Peep Show's Let's Make Better Mistakes Tomorrow, this ambitious Canadian has been killing it.
While we're talking about cleaning up, the Eastern Sierra souljah John Jackson did it again. John J took home top honors of the evening including Men's Rider Of The Year and Men's Video Part Of The Year for his double song, double corked backcountry charge in Forum's F' IT. Two years in a row now, snowboarding's elite have labeled him the best rider with the best video part of the year. It truly is a massive honor to be handed both awards, back to back, in a time when the level of videos, tricks, and riding is exponentially expanding in snowboarding.
The awards closed with Travis Rice and the Brain Farm posse giving a glimpse of the new, next level movie The Art Of Flight before the partying commenced for the night. A giant thanks goes out to all the riders, readers, and industry that make this awards show possible. You all rule, seriously.
Keep your browser set on TWSnow.com for continuing coverage and videos from the Riders' Poll throughout the week.


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Wildcats went up against teams like San Luis Obispo
When the first meet rolls around there are sure to be some rough edges. That was the case for the Taft boys and girls track and field team last Saturday when they competed in the Bear Cat Relays at Paso Robles.
"The team did not perform very well this past Saturday," said Taft coach Eric Newton. "We are very, very out of shape. We have a long way to go before we will be able to compete and win league championships."
Taft competed against teams from San Luis Obispo, Righetti, Paso Robles, Nipomo, Templeton, Arroyo Grande and Mission Prep.
"The other schools had tremendous athletes that competed hard and I am hopeful our team learned something from that competitive nature they displayed," said Newton. "That's where we need to get to to have success this season."
Despite the rough start, Newton says there were several bright spots.
The boys shot put team finished sixth out of 13 teams while the girls long jump and boys 4x100 m relay team also placed sixth.
Freshman Zack Gable vaulted nine feet.
"We think we can get him to 11 feet by the end of the season," said Newton.
Taft returns to action this Thursday when they take travel to Cesar Chavez High School in Delano. The meet begins at 4 p.m.