Oh, silly Japan...

Japan has apparently developed a Robot Teddy Bear nurse. Apparenly somebody decided there were too many old people in hospitals and not enough nurses to lift them. So they did the logial thing and created a bear robot to do it.

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I'm not dead! I promise!

...just incredibly busy. I've been putting a ton of my effort behind getting my webcomic ready to launch. But with a new webcomic on the way, new opportunities are arising to keep track of what I'm up to:

1) I've set up a twitter account. I'll be test driving that for the next couple weeks or so to see how I feel about it. You can follow that at: https://twitter.com/jathevan
2) The webcomic (upon launch) will ALSO have a blog attached. So I'll (hopefully) be posting there. That's coming soon. The webcomic itself should be pretty rad, too. If you enjoy my random posts about bears, you will likely also enjoy the webcomic. It's set to launch this weekend, barring any major problems.

Note that these are NOT going to replace YNTE. I'll continue to come in here and post random thoughts, news stories, poorly photoshopped images and embarassing things Tom said.

Also Matt, Steve and Tom all said they would start posting more. Haha! On-the-spotted!

Almost there...

As many of you know, I have a google alert set up for "bear is driving" so you can always get the cutting edge news about bears driving cars. In reality, I get a lot of wierd stories about a lot of things, rarely about bears driving cars. But this story comes close:

"A Bear man was jailed on drunken driving and other offenses after triggering a crash in Dewey Beach early Thursday, police said."

See? It's only a bear-man, so only half bear, half man. But he was not only driving, but drunk driving! So it counts.

Also, don't do a google images search for "bear man". The results are not pleasant.

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Evan gets sentimental

Evan: "That's how I roll. You scratch my back.... I tell people you scratched my back!"

Sounders Rule!

Today I got to see the Sounders play an open cup semifinal match versus Huston. We thought we had reserved second row seats, but get there and find out it's general admission seating. Jason and I were pretty pissed until we found our seats: front row, just to the right of the net. We were literally ten feet from the action.

33rd minute: Houston scores.

For most of the rest of the game, Sounders weren't looking great. They maintained possession for much of the game, and took a bunch of shots, but didn't score until...

88th Minute (of 90): sounders score, tying the game. Overtime!

4th minute of OT. Sounders score again to take the lead!

They manage to hold onto their lead and win the game.

To top it all off, the crowd we crazy! My favorite was whenever the opposing goalie took a goal kick, everyone yelled "You suck, asshole!" that was the one cheer that took off.

Anyway, crazy fun! Go sounders!

Overheard at Taco Bell (cont.)

...my car's fenders

Overheard at Taco Bell

Tom: "Oh man, Cody never helped me shave."