Imagining the end of the universe is such a fun and guiltless exercise.  It’s an event that cannot really be taken seriously and inherently seems so unlikely that it can be readily laughed at, lightheartedly talked about and then effortlessly dismissed from our minds.  And if it does happen no one would be left to [Continue Reading...]

Hello, I am a golfer.  There should be support groups out there where these are the first words you say to introduce yourself to a collection of mentally devastated former hacks, duffers, slicers and chunkers.  As far as I know there isn’t one, as the generally accepted method of dealing with the emotional anguish of [Continue Reading...]

Well, I gave it the old college try, I joined Facebook…and I left Facebook.  It took about two months to figure out that I simply have no use for the site, and honestly do not feel like I belong on it anyway.  It is odd that I don’t seem to find the concept of making [Continue Reading...]

Reg: You cannot be serious. Neel: I assure you I am perfectly capable of many varying degrees of seriousness. Reg: No, I mean what you just said cannot be true. Neel: I’m not sure I follow the logic of your counter argument. Nutter: He was not trying to argue the point, he was simply pointing [Continue Reading...]

So the question I continually return to is what exactly is The World that we think of when we morbidly ponder its sudden and irreversible end?  At the heart of it is that I wonder if we’re talking about the physical planet we live on and all of the living things running around on its [Continue Reading...]

The World has gotten a lot bigger over the centuries. When the great doom dealing prophets of old spoke of the end of days, the end of all things, they meant it – All Things. This flat Earth we live on, that giant fireball in the sky and all those pretty twinkle lights that come out at night are done for. The World wasn’t this tiny little rock floating around one insignificant little star in a vast and perhaps limitless void filled with space, matter, energy and time. The World did not include the Andromeda Galaxy, the Horsehead Nebula and the Milky Way was probably just some particularly frothy stream in England somewhere. The World was small by today’s standards, and an easy target for any number of unsatisfied gods itching to wipe the slate clean and start over with Humanity 2.0.

Lt. Glitterpants: So if I built a time machine and jumped five minutes back in time and killed myself it would create a paradox that would unravel time and space and thus bring an end to the entire universe? Lt. Pickles: You would kill yourself before you entered the time machine, which would mean you [Continue Reading...]

It all starts with an easy enough premise, this world we live in can and probably will, someday, end.  Humanity is not forever, neither is this spec of space dust we call a planet.  Accepting that much as true, though it is an assumption since I cannot definitively prove the human race can “end” (perhaps [Continue Reading...]

December 21, 2012.  The End. At 12:01AM on 12/21/2012?  At lunchtime?  That day is a Friday so hopefully the universe will give us one last happy hour before pulling the plug on this the great Human experiment.  Though of course, as they say, it is “always happy hour somewhere in the world.” It seems I [Continue Reading...]

Kyr: Using magic to teleport people around should be banned, forbidden and generally frowned upon. Edrik: Why?  It’s the only way for most Wizards to get into the upper floors of their towers.  Not to mention it is the most energy efficient mode of travel around. Kyr: It completely screws up several of my best [Continue Reading...]

Phillip: I’m telling you, this is not ordinary coffee. Neel: Of course not, it’s office coffee, which everyone knows is heated dirty dishwater from the cafeteria. Phillip: No, they changed it a few weeks back, you can actually drink an entire cup without inflicting irreparable liver damage.  Its some brand name coffee, though I had [Continue Reading...]

Adventures of the SS CoffeeBreak Cpt. Spicytuna: “This mission is such a waste of time.” Cpt. Coldsoup: “Irregardless, orders are orders.” Cpt. Fragmuffin: “Irregardless?  So we should regard the fact that this mission is a waste of time?” Coldsoup: “What? No, it doesn’t matter.” Spicytuna: “Is that even a word?” Coldsoup:  ”Of course it is, [Continue Reading...]

First, to clarify, the order of the words in the title is what I intended, in case you are prone to wondering about such things, for this article has nothing to do with obesity data from some study of people who eat too many double quarter pounders with something that resembles cheese.  The intent here [Continue Reading...]

Our universe is poorly designed. It is just an observation.  I’m not saying I could build a better one, but honestly, I’m sure someone could. You see, Life, in all of its perculiar varieties, seems to have at least one theme that is perhaps common across the entire spectrum of species.  Everyone wants to intereact [Continue Reading...]

This is Phillip.  Part time underachiever, full time conspiracy theorist. This is Neel.  Non-productive lay about. Neel: Did you see this memo about the not exactly voluntary retirement fund plan business? Phillip: I decided not to invest time in reading it. Neel: The investment choices are: “The Environmentally Irresponsible Industrial Behemoths Fund”, “Bank on It [Continue Reading...]

I do not watch much television, as is evident by the fact that I actually refer to it as television instead of TV.  Though seriously, I don’t watch it much, but I did watch “Lost” and enjoyed pretty much every minute of it, including the ending.  I should probably be happy with my own satisfaction [Continue Reading...]

Edrik: So I was thinking… Kyr: Well that cannot be good… Edrik: What if magic could change the color of the sun?  To say shine purple instead of yellow? Kyr: Purple sunlight?  But how do you know what unintended effects that might have? Edrik: Such as unsightly purple sunburns? Kyr: Perhaps plants respond to the [Continue Reading...]

Adventures of the SS CoffeeBreak Glitterpants – Here is now what was the there we were trying to get to. Commander Literals – We were? When? Glitterpants – When were we here or when were we there instead of here now? Pickles – We are. Literals – And we’re here?  How can we be there [Continue Reading...]

Continuing with the new blog concept not so well thought out in the previous post, here is the first page from what would have been the Dark Purple UFOs comic.  I’ll be using these characters to create brief and entirely senseless dialogs to post up here giong forward.  I’ll probably make up a few other [Continue Reading...]

Adventures of the SS CoffeeBreak Pickles: “If existence has no meaning then how can anything that exists have any meaning within its existence?” Glittershorts: “To exist just means something is there, something is real, or something is on.  Like the snack machine in the break room, it exists, but its existence is not what, by [Continue Reading...]

In the previous post I mentioned a post from an older blog of mine that had attempted to cover the same topic, or at least begin to approach it.  As misfortune would have it the post was not lost after all, and so now here it is to be puzzled over and frowned at: _________________________________________________________________ [Continue Reading...]

Our bodies are objects in time and space but our minds are singularities that do not exist in either.  This thought, useless as it truly is, reminded me of a post I made on one of my previous blogs, now gone.  The title of that post was “Where is my Mind?”, which then set about [Continue Reading...]

Every so often I get the idea that I can be a freelance illustrator.  Actually I am quite certain that much can be a reality anytime I want it to be.  The part that is a little more of a challenge is getting the word Successful to feel at home in front of it.  At [Continue Reading...]

I’m not going to go off on a rant here regarding the astounding excess of marketing related specifications and statistics that are poured over everything you might ever want to consider buying like so much syrup and sugar. For example, an LCD TV I was considering not long ago included, among other tid bits, these [Continue Reading...]