Kevin Cornell and Matthew Sutter bring you The Superest, a illustrative battle characterized entirely by the one-up-manship of superheros, all in the hopest of finding the superest of the supers. I see your “The Unopposeinator” and raise you a “Someone”.
A couple weekends ago, Amy and I both had the day off and a free ticket, so we headed over to Seaworld for the day. She apparently has been there a number of times, but this was my first visit and a great visit it was. [Update: My sister informs me that I did once go in California. This doesn't affect the following in the slightest.] No one thing constituted enough for an actual story, which accounts for the delay, but I figured I would share with you, in no particular order, a few random notes and observations:
- Scottish people, or (if you prefer less stereotyping) one particular Scottish couple, have absolutely no sense of personal space when standing in line. Even when, in an effort to guard both my rearend and that of my girlfriend, I deployed the BufferFoot™ (a foot unnaturally place further behind me that the rest of my body) they particular individuals were capable of repeatedly bumping us. Incredibly, at one point, she shoved me with her general rotundnesses while having moved forward enough to be straddling the aforementioned BufferFoot™. There was almost a fight.
- Dolphin shows are unmeasurable more fun when sitting in the midst of a virtual smörgåsbord of international tourists taking advantage of the cheap dollar. German to the left. English to the right. Swiss in front. Spanish behind. General crowd noises should always be in 10 languages. We should see about making this happen.
- Clydesdale horses are tall.
- Little did I know, I am extremely fascinated by penguins. Despite the fact that pretty much all they do is stand around in the cold, I find that all I want to do is stand there watching them stand there. I really want someone to go plant a video camera in some arctic field and pipe the feed to TV station so I can have that be my default channel.
- The lovely walrus couple are in need of a privacy curtain.
- Amazingly, multiple signs, painted warning seats, and audible warnings are not enough to get it through to people that they are sitting in a splash zone, and that if they continue to be in a splash zone, perhaps with their newborn child in their lap, they are going to get wet, and that water will be both salty and dirty.
- Dolphins are born with floppy fins. Their mothers thank them.
- Trained animals impress me. Trained animals that respond correctly when things go wrong impress me so much more.
- Puffin, when bathing, look something like a bird whose swollen tushy is making it hard to swim with its head above the water. Amy is deeply concerned about birds with swollen tushies that make it hard for them to swim with their heads above the water: concerned enough to inform the nearest Seaworld worker. It was cute.
So I just ironed out some kinks in the system so that I can now send photos straight from my cellphone to the sidebar of this very page. Expect photos to begin coming in more along the lines of the twitter feed, wherein you get low quality/ high quantity snippets of what’s going on, but now they’ll be photographical.
from the I-totally-should-have-thought-of-this-first department, I present to you famous mathematical constants interpreted as a series of musical intervals. My favorite is, of course, this version of pi.
If you don’t know what the letters SotG mean, then you can safely completely ignore this. If, however, those letters represent the forum you are trying to find, but you are being sent here, then try clicking on this link for now. For some reason that I don’t understand, you are being sent to the wrong place.
since my “name those countries” was such a rousing success, now you can try naming all 50 states that make up our union. Alas a fell short by one. I never did like West Virginia.
Well I have officially moved to some new web hosting digs. I have been with phpwebhosting.com since I first joined the world of hosting roughly 60 internet years ago. At the time they were a great service, cheap with plenty of features. I actually wrote to them before I started hosting trying to figure out what the catch was. It was a great find. In the past couple of years though, they have started to lag behind other sites in features and the sites I hosted with them were down or very slow far more often that I liked. As of now, I have moved to hostgator.com. We will see how things go here, but for now it seems to be much more to my liking.
how well do you know your countries? See how many UN recognized states you can think of in 10 minutes and then tell me how you did in the comments. I personally got 53/192 plus another 10-15 that I couldn’t figure out the correct spelling for.