Evan can't count

Evan, if you take a look at the December posts again, you'll see that I didn't actually fail. You seem to have missed the Christmas post and taken credit for it as your own. Even if my last post was questionable because I was drunk and trying to post from my phone on the last minute, and I was unable to enter any text whatsoever into the body of the message, I still got it in dammit.

Thus, you have made the "Matt Failed" statement in error.

Matt FAILED (edit: not really!)

I alluded to this last post, but Matt only had F O U R posts in December. As per my claim when I paid him in full as though he had made 5 posts, he now owes me 2 dollars or 2 pizzas.

I guess he and Tom were BOTH failures. TO AN EQUAL MAGNITUDE.

EDIT: I'm an idiot. I missed the Christmas post Matt made, and he caught my mistake before I did. Public shame is less fun when you shame yourself.

Matt you can still give me 2 dollars or two pizzas, but now it would be VOLUNTARY not mandatory.

Thanksgiving Pizza Shenanigans

So, it might turn out that I'm the only one who had leftovers from thanksgiving. Will Steve-O or Umi swoop in to save the day? Or will Tom, in a cunning move, rescind what he said in a previous comment and fabricate fake thanksgiving leftovers onto a pizza? Only time will tell.

In any case, I sorta cut corners on this. Instead of making the pizza, I bought a Little Caesar's pizza. And I only used a slice instead of the entire thing for these shenanigans.

So yeah, here's the slice I used, the biggest of the bunch. Lets add some turkey and ham.


And what would thanksgiving be without a little bit of stuffing?


Was out of potatoes, so this'll have to do... or will it? I've still got some gravy.


...and some cranberry sauce.


...aaaaaaaaaand a slice of pumpkin pie with whipped cream.


There, I think my masterpiece/monstrosity is complete. Lets try it out.


Nom nom. It actually tasted pretty good. The gravy and the stuffing made all the difference. Unfortunately, the pumpkin pie fell off shortly thereafter. But I continued to eat it.


Well, I guess I've punished my body enough today. Time to eat the rest of this pizza regular.

Happy Halloween!

This year to celebrate halloween, I grew my own pumpkin. But instead of me carving it, I decided I would commission the local wildlife to carve my pumpkin for me. So, I left it outside and let them do their work, and here is the end result:

Instead of the traditional "carve a face out" strategy, it appeared to be a "gnaw at the top to make a face with the stem being a nose" type of strategy. And it looks like there's a little more gnawing than that in completely unrelated areas of the pumpkin.

Unacceptable. I think next year I should commission some more artistic critters. Or, I dunno, maybe do it myself.

Matt is a Slacker

So at first I was like "damn, I don't have an idea for the last post of the month on YNTE."

Then I was like "damn, I didn't post pictures on any of my blog posts this month."

I'll make it up to you all with a corgi being adorable.

And then Evan's future wallet became slightly lighter.

YNTD!

Since most of us are probably of the drinking age, I thought it might be appropriate to do something beverage related. There's a site out there called the Drunken Moogle, which is devoted to video game inspired drinks and drinking shenanigans. It's got some really neat ones, such as the Metroid and The Drink is a Lie.

So it got me thinking... could I make a video game inspired drink? I went onto my favorite MMO and asked a few of my buddies on there. The conversation went like this:

Them: Ok so what alcohol do you have?

Me: Uhh... whiskey.

Them: Alright got any ice?

Me: I don't at the moment... but wait!

I looked in the freezer and I had... popsicles. So I present to you my drink--

The Whiskey Popsicle! It's uhh... whiskey + a popsicle. Inspired by my friends online, so -technically- it was video game inspired I guess? Overall I guess it was ok, I let the popsicle cool it down and mix with it for a new flavor... kinda...

...

Don't try this, it was kinda nasty.

Unofficial YNTE Movie Night: Mystery Team

So earlier I was subjected to this movie. Created by the Youtube group "Derrick Comedy" and given only a NY-area theatrical release, Mystery Team is what would happen if you took a team of 8 year olds solving mysteries... and fast forwarding about 10 years into the future and real world. The result is some out of touch high school seniors still trying to solve mysteries.

I will admit, it was a good movie. But I'm not sure if it's earned that on its own merits, or whether it's so bad it's good. Either way, give it a watch and you decide. I'm sure you'll at least get a kick out of it.

Brilliant!

Since everyone loves bacon, and since everyone is also collectively and also probably statistically significantly (and quite possibly enumerably) lazy, someone has invented the microwave bacon cooker. You drape the bacon over the top and the grease drips down the the bottom, and you have bacon in minutes.

I'll take eight!

Can I get that in Chinese?

So this week and next week, I am on phones duty at work, as well as performing odd jobs and moving furniture in and out of rooms and other things that the higher-ups don't want to do and delegated to us, as per usual.

Anyway, the phones area is in the helpdesk, where I normally work. But I wasn't doing helpdesk duties; instead, I overheard a wonderful customer come in.

"Can I get windows?" Simple enough. "Can I get it in Chinese?" Sure, we have a Chinese ISO for Windows 7. Yet, when the techs out there were trying to explain it to him, it was as if he didn't fully get what they were getting at.... every minute he would ask "Can I get it in Chinese? Will my keyboard work with that?" And other such things.

For an hour.

My coworker and I started off laughing at it, but about 20 minutes in we started feeling pity for the techs out front. They then proceeded to try to hide back where we were sitting, as it was a truly nerve-wracking experience. I feel their pain. It's almost like that time where I had the Indian lady having trouble installing the (obviously illegitimate) Office 2005 disk that was, as she said, "From my home country." It was actually office 2000, with a crack and the original torrent info. Trying to explain something like this to a customer can be... excruciatingly painful. After about the 50th "Can I get it in Chinese?" question, I think a little part of my coworkers died inside.

This one is destined to live up to "You Need to Eat," "adsjfhpiouczvn;alerth," and, "But will it run Crysis?"

Classic YNTE

Posting this because I have way too much stuff to do before the end of the month and I probably wouldn't have another chance to post.

Large Hadron Collider

So the LHC went through its first major experiment last night. There has been much outcry about it being powerful enough to destroy the world, so I'm sure that question is certainly on your mind: Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?

Answer here: http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

I think Tom hates money

It's just kinda gonna get wasted away, like the picture above. Except while in reality, it's just another $10 that will be staying in Evan's bank account... oh who're we kidding, it will get spent on a pizza.

Also, in searching for a good picture, I once again question Google's image search. I typed in "angry money" as the search, and could have gotten these as other possible results:

Oh my god Bear is angry. How can this be?

Shocking Discovery!

So I googled "you need to eat" because I was lacking inspiration, and also seeing how long it took for YNTE to show up. So I scrolled down the first page and...


...Wait what? Stevo, who usually posts even less than Tom (but this month they're neck and neck at zero apiece) appeared, linking him to one of the more recent posts made by me.

I'm surprised that Evan isn't up there first. Who'da thunk it? In conclusion, Stevo is somehow the king of YNTE.