Badly Drawn Monsters
A site of nerdery, life, geekism, and monsters
not the kind with christopher walken
Nov 16th
You might or might not know (or might or might not care) that I live in Wisconsin. Â Every year, when the weather gets colder and all the leaves blow off the trees after being pretty and all “fall” for about 72 hours, the deer hunters pull out their blaze orange and go sit in trees.
For those unfamiliar with that means, here is blaze orange:Hunter’s wear this because apparently deer are color- and fashion- blind, but it will keep you from getting your ass shot off by other hunters who can confuse a two-legged human with a four-legged dear with antlers. More >
v1.3 will be cyborgs
Nov 11th
As I’ve gotten older, my ideas about God and the universe and what makes humans special has changed. Â ”What is a soul?” is a heck of a question for a kid to tackle, and quite frankly I still don’t really have a bearing on that particular one. Â However, I think I’ve figured out who God is. Â Try to follow my reasoning…
1. Â The world is an imperfect place. Â Natural disasters, disease, extinction, teen idols… these are all examples of things that in a perfect world just wouldn’t happen. Â If the Creator of the Universe is all-powerful, this means that either these More >
up up down down left right left right
Oct 28th
So I’m a huge nerd. Obviously. Â You don’t get this body without putting in some serious hours in front of a monitor. Â Body by Xbox, baby. Â The only muscle tone I have is in my thumbs, which doesn’t come in handy as much as you’d think. Â If there’s a coin flipping emergency though, I can swoop into action. Â ”LET ME FLIP THAT FOR YOU!” Â ”Oh my, oooh my! Â Look at how high that went! Â Thank you Thumbman!”
“I can’t help but notice your thumbs, have you been working out?”
“Oh you mean these bad boys….”
I try to work out though, but you More >
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.â€
Sep 8th
I’m going to take a break from the regular kind of writing I do on here to talk about something that has been bothering me for awhile. Â I made mention of it a couple posts ago, but since this won’t go away and now that there’s some some people in Florida who are setting a new low to idiocy and intolerance I just need to put my two cents into the world.
For the most part, I’m a live and let live type of person. Â I tend to come down on the side of individual freedoms, but I there are some More >
my phone owns the rights to my life
Sep 1st
I believe the research that says cell phones cause problems with your brain. Â I don’t think it’s because of radiation, I just think it’s because cell phones are making me dumber. Â I can still remember the phone number of my best friends from when I was five years old, but I can’t tell you the actual digits that make up any of my family or friend’s phone numbers. Â When I need to call them, the phone just has it memorized for me, so I don’t need to waste brain space with that. Â I dropped my phone in water a couple More >
next stop, thirty
Aug 31st
Wife and I went to Home Depot to look at things for the house, because we’re addicted to home improvements.
We got kicked out of the store when they closed at 8pm, but there is a Lowe’s right next door to it, so we went to Lowe’s.
We got kicked out of Lowe’s when they closed at 9pm, but that’s OK because there is a Menard’s right next to that, so we went to Mendard’s.
We got kicked out of Mendard’s when they closed at 10pm. Â That was not OK because there are no more home improvement stores.
On the way to the car, More >
look what just popped up in google reader
Aug 24th
So you might be wondering, what the heck happened to Jeff? Â Did someone finally show up at his house and say, “You know that blog thing you’re doing? Â Just…stop. Â Seriously man, you suck.” Â Actually, you’re probably not wondering that, but you’re probably nodding along with this fictional, sarcastic hero for English majors.
Unfortunately for those offended by my run-on sentences and lack of “proper” punctuation and nonsensical parenthetical comments (just like that time I thought I could eat two donuts with sprinkles) the reason for my absence is far more mundane and ordinary.
I got a new job which doesn’t require me to talk More >
wife tells a story, part 1
Jul 6th
As you may or may not know, Wife is was a teacher for the city’s largest school district. Â They recently laid off just short of 500 teachers for the upcoming year, and my wife didn’t have the seniority to remain employed.
Putting aside the issues such as:
- moral imperatives to teach our children
- employment and income
- unions vs. employers
- governments running things into the ground
(bitter much? me? never!) this will also cause a serious crimp in the flow of stories from school.
In “honor” of this occasion, Wife herself has written the following stories from the last couple weeks of her school year. Please to enjoy the More >
tour de cure! i made it!
Jun 29th
I know this is a week late, but real life and things have gotten in the way. Â To make up for my absence, I’ll even throw in some PICTURES! How about that!
First off, let me thank all of the people who donated and pledged for this ride. Â The American Diabetes Association, myself, and Wilford Brimley thank you for your generosity.
That's how he says "thank you"
First off, all those who pledged did in fact make it onto my jersey.
My camera stinks, sue me.
The one on the top is for my mom and mother in law.
Below that, we have Travis, Coffey, Ducksauce, More >
saturday saturday saturday
Jun 15th
I know I’ve bugged you all about this before, and I promise that the race is this Saturday, so very soon you won’t have to see me beg you for money any more.
But since I have limited time left, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE donate!
Click here, click the Tour de Cure on the nav bar above, click the meter over on the left, click just about anywhere on this page. Â They all take you to the same place, which is the page where you can use your credit card to donate online (fancy, I know).
You all have been freaking fantastic in helping More >
