Sunday, November 30th, 2008
I’d never received such an enthusiastic response to anything on the blog as I did when I revealed Blinky the Robot. Clearly, he was my most popular guest of all time. I decided to capitalize on that popularity (i.e., saturate the market with low-cost products competitors can’t match, drive them out of business, then jack [...]
Sunday, November 30th, 2008
In second grade, I was a skinny lad, with shockingly blond hair, wearing my trademark sweatpants with American flag patches on both knees. We were learning about the difference between facts and opinions. Mrs. Hunter would present a sentence like, “Johnny is walking to the store,” and we would identify it as a statement of [...]
Friday, November 28th, 2008
Time for more. REACTION: The use of skulls as a design element seems pretty tired. Unless you’re a designer of skeletons. You know what I’m saying? Skulls are supposed to be all badass, then a few years ago they started trying to make them cute (I assume to take advantage of the untapped female bone-loving [...]
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
My senior year in high school, in my Literature class, we had a unit on poetry. We had to write a bunch of poems to be turned in, at the end of the unit, in a unique and creative way (i.e., not stapled together in a report cover). I think some of my classmates wrote [...]