People ask me all the time...*

You and Tim seem so much alike.  Are you sure you're not the same person?

Yes, Tim and I do have a lot in common.  For instance, people have trouble deciding if we have brown hair or blonde hair.  (For the record, I have brown hair and Tim has blonde hair, although sometimes in the summer mine becomes lighter than his).  Also, we are both introverts, spend too much time in front of the computer, and we have the same address.  And last name.

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So, we had a bit of snow last night.  And its bitter cold outside.

Did I build a fire in the fireplace?
No.
Why not?
The zippo was out of fuel, and I didn't know how to re-fill it, and all the matches were in the garage and I didn't want to trek out there and get them.

That's the story of my day.  Oh yeah, I also worked from home and got a TON done.  It was wonderful.

Now...Back to Steph

I hope you all enjoyed Tim's month of memes.  I got some serious giggles out of it, because each evening as he was writing them (right about the time of day that I start to get sleepy and punchy) he would call upon me to help him narrow down the examples to post.  I still chuckle when I think about them.

Meme Day 29: Socially Awkward Penguin

Why don't we take all of the awkward things that people do, and project them on to a penguin.  Brilliant!

Meme Day 28: Bill Gates/Steve Jobs

Apparently Bill Gates and Steve Jobs actually did some sort of talk together, and there were some good screen grabs from it.  Of course people made sport of it, and funnies ensue.

Meme Day 27: Technologically Impaired Duck

This may hit close to home for some, but consider it a Public Service Announcement.  That's all I'll say.  Besides my apparently not optional explanations (Stephanie made me).

Remember way back when with dial up?

Meme Day 26: Aliens

So there was this guy one time on the History channel (maybe more than one time, not really sure), and he's a big alien believer.  He also has some really strange hair.  Anywho, he talks about aliens all the time and has all sorts of strange theories.

Obviously the only real explanation is aliens did it, right?

Meme Day 25: Chubby Bubbles Girl

Don't worry, February is almost over, which means I'm almost done with my meme posts.

Until then, here's another meme.  What started as this image of an unknown girl from an unknown source:

...got the Photoshop treatment onto all sorts of other images.  Think of Disaster Girl, just with a girl running with bubbles.  Since there's no end to the creativity pool on the interwebs, you get all sorts of images if you extract just the girl with bubbles.  Some images keep the bubbles, others substitute the bubbles for something else.

Meme Day 24: Baby Godfather

Take a stereotypical mob boss and mix it with a baby, and whaddya get?  This:

Yes, I'm making you click a link to see the rest.  It's much nicer looking, and keeps you from an overloaded blog look.  You may or may not thank me one day...

Meme Day 23: Seems Legit

If you saw something that looked like it was plausible, what would you say?  "Seems legit," right?  Yeah, that's what this is about.  Like this:

Completely and totally legit.  Nothing wrong with that at all.

Meme Day 22: Yo Dawg

Yo Dawg is similar to Inception in the sense that it's things inside of things.

Like a pool table inside of a pool inside of a pool.  It's called "Yo Dawg" because of that guy in the bottom corner - Xzibit, some rapper and also the guy on Pimp My Ride.  He's good at putting strange things in cars, and I guess it kind of came out of that.  I'm not really sure how it made that leap, but it did somehow.  Anywho, it started off with captions like, "Yo dawg, I herd you like (thing), so I put an (thing) in your (thing) so you can (do something) while you (do something)."  Yes, "heard" is spelled "herd" on purpose.  That might be a little confusing, so here's an example of the original form:

Most are just references back to this original form - you fill in the recursion yourself.

Meme Day 21: Inception

Hopefully you've either seen the movie Inception or at least know what it's about.  If not, it's a movie about dreams within dreams...and even dreams within those dreams within a dream.  From what you've learned so far this month, it should be no surprise that an idea like this would be parodied across the web of the wide world.  This meme kind of took two forms.  One was just using the sample panes to have a mock conversation and come up with words ending in -tion, like Inception.  Others just used the theme of "going deeper" or things inside of things.  Some used combos of both.  Ok I'll quit talking before your brain blows up just like it did when you watched Inception (you did see the movie, right?).

Meme Day 20: Nokia phones

Anyone remember Nokia?  Remember those phones that everyone had and were practically indestructible?  Yeah, they turned into a meme because they're practically bulletproof.

So there's your preview.  We've gone pro now (ok I wish), so click on the title link or the "Read more" to see the rest!  (Edit ALL the previous posts!)  BTW, the technical term for this is a "jump break."  Something I didn't really know before - I thought it's just what people tended to call it.  It's called a jump break because it's a break in the post, and you have to jump to another page to see the rest.  There, you learned something for today and can go to bed now.

Meme Day 19: Close Enough

Close Enough is evoked when you try to do something and it doesn't quite turn out as expected, but close enough for rock & roll (or CEFR² as Richard Bugg would say).  Many of these examples deal with recipes found online and the results of people trying them.  Others are just pure hilarity.  See for yourself.

Jump past the break to see the rest!

Meme Day 18: Joseph Ducreux

Joseph Ducreux was a French painter in the 1700's.  One of his more famous self-portraits, Portrait de l'artiste sous les traits d'un moqueur, is pictured below.

This painting, for whatever reason, has been the subject of taking common phrases from either song lyrics or sayings (mostly common to the Internet) and re-wording them using old English language.  See if you can figure out what they are.

See more?

Meme Day 17: Chemistry Cat

Chemistry Cat is comprised of an image of a cat in a lab and a whitty joke based on some form of chemistry.  Most are either a play on words or use the Periodic Table of the Elements, the elemental names, and elemental symbols to make the joke.  It's a meme that us nerds appreciate :)  I'll try to explain these...

Light is made up of photons that travel through space

More past the break!

Meme Day 16: Strutting Leo

Strutting Leo comes from a picture taken from the set of Inception.  It's a picture of Leonardo DiCaprio merrily strutting on his way somewhere.

He has been Photoshopped out of the image and on to many, many other pictures, mostly scenes from other movies and scenes of the Disaster Girl type - wherever his jolly strut and face seem to somewhat fit, albeit ironic in some pictures (kinda the point).

Jump past the break for more.

Meme Day 15: Challenge Accepted

If I were to present you with a challenge, would you accept it?  Challenge Accepted guy sure would, no matter what the challenge!  If you have a challenge, he'll accept it - no challenge is too daring or ludicrous for him to accept.

Visit the rest after the break.

Meme Day 14: Conspiracy Keanu

Conspiracy Keanu consists of a picture of Keanu Reeves (from "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure," of course) and various conspiracy theories.  Most are contrived around Internet themes or other memes, and are usually more absurd than serious conspiracy theories (I would hope...).

More past the break.

Meme Day 13: Business Cat

Business Cat is a cat that's all business in a cat sort of way.  They pretty much all use the same picture, and they all have some sort of cat theme to them (hence the name).  Things like strings, laser pointers, sleeping, and kitty litter are common threads (pun intended).