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I haven’t seen the new Smurfs movie, nor do I intend to see it. Some reviews say it’s okay, some say it’s bad, but I don’t know of anyone who thinks it’s a great movie. Maybe if you have a couple hours to kill and some money to burn… But even then I could think of a lot of other things to do instead.

Regardless of what you think of the movie, you might be interested to know that I was talking with Gargamel and got an old family recipe from him. In the spirit of sharingness, here it is.

Recipe for Smorfs

1 graham cracker
1/2 chocolate bar
1 Smurf

Roast the Smurf lightly over an open flame, being careful not to let him catch on fire. Break the graham cracker in half. Place the chocolate on one piece of the graham cracker. Then place the Smurf on the chocolate. Finally, cover the Smurf with the remaining piece of graham cracker. Enjoy with a glass of milk.

My wife’s laptop is slow and sometimes uncooperative. Somewhat like a toddler. It’s time for it to be replaced. The laptop, that is, not the toddler.

And the laptop is a little heavier than the current technology, so I got her one of them fancy notebooks
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A few days ago I posted something about the warning of “Do not break this seal”. It had to do with software agreements and EULAs and such.

The warning, however, was written in English. I have taken the liberty of updating the warning to be understood by today’s international users / global marketplace / illiterate population.

Here is my contribution: an easy-to-understand warning to not break the seal. Feel free to use it in all your software documentation. I estimate this will be good for about 1.5 more years, at which point no one will be releasing software on CDs anymore.

And, as Ricky pointed out, zoos might be able to put this image to good use also.

These corporate sponsorships are getting out of hand.

I would have thought that Machu Picchu was safe, being on all the historical preservation lists. But apparently they are running short on money and had to resort to taking advertising. Nintendo, through their Pokemon brand, stepped up and helped fund the landmark archaeological site.

In return, the government of Peru allowed them to place one billboard next to the ruins. Unfortunately, they did not restrict the size of the billboard:

There is one college football program against which I always root.
The coach of that team has an interesting name.
Not that his name is particularly unique – rather, each name sounds like another noun.

I’m going to have some fun with that today.

First off, here is a picture of a gymnasium:

And here is a train trestle:

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This won’t be as much in the forefront of people’s minds as it would have been a few years ago when the medications were just being introduced, but some of you might still get the joke.

(Click on the image for a slightly larger view)

Transcript:

A: What’s your problem?
E: You’re so annoying.
I: Just go away!
O: Would you stop that?
U: I can’t take any more of this!
Y: Sometimes, I wish you would leave me alone.

Irritable Vowel Syndrome

For this one, I used one of my favorite fonts: Caricature font.

I’ve been trying to figure out how to work the term “consonant” into this post, but I give up. I’ll leave that as an exercise for the reader.

This is somewhat related to last week’s comic.

Transcript:
cherubim
serifim
sans-serifim

I’m pretty sure the sans-serifim were the one-third that fell with Lucifer.