2006

I’ve done New Year’s Resolutions every year now since I was 16. And I usually go through with them. The secret is in my method. My resolutions aren’t like other people’s (lose weight, be happy, smite non-believers). My resolutions are…

WTF 3, NY 6, Pixel Nothing

The latest installment of hilarious quips is up at Spoiled Honey. So go there and vote for me.  Also, happy new year.  Had I calling cards enough, I’d call each and every one of you… … to ask for money.

Random Intelligence II

The term “dramedy” first came into use in the mid-1980s to describe a new wave of similarly genre-blurring series such as Moonlighting, The Wonder Years, and Hooperman. It appears in an early Usenet post [1] in January 1990. The first…

Poop

Poop may refer to: poop deck and poop cabin (back) of a ship Feces Scatology and toilet humour the act of defecation Puppis, an astronomical constellation, Latin name slang for inside information “Give me the poop.” In fiction: a soft…

Phone Transcripts I

Pixel: Hello. Anita: Hello. (thirty second pause) Pixel: Hi. Anita: Hello. (thirty second pause) Pixel: Who is this? Anita: Anita. Pixel: Oh. (forty-five second pause) Pixel: Do I know you? Anita: It’s Anita. Pixel: Who are you trying to reach?…

Remember that time…

I enjoy saying sentences that contain entire stories within so as to entice people into asking about them… then refusing to say anything. Often times people become angry, but this also works when people know the story I’m referring to…

Ooopsie!!! I forgot to call for submissions. My bad.

The deadline for the next WTF! Carnival is now, now, NOW!! Send your submissions to submissions(at)pixcapacitor(dot)com with “WTF Carnival” in the subject line and I shall forward them to Seth. Alternatively, you could simply send them to Seth and cut…

Maturity Creeps

I remember when I turned 14… I was a sophomore in high school, I had just finished starring in my Drama club play. I was about to write my first viewspaper and have my first girlfriend (had I known how…

Know Comment III

Blogging etiquette. Some helpful tips for the aspiring blogger: Don’t …steal posts or post ideas unless you can add to them in a significant way. …hold anything back. If you have people in the ‘real world’ reading your blog, tough.…

Character Profile: Frankie Styx Jr.

Birth Name: Francisco Mariscal Gonzalez (México) / Francisco Mariscal Jr. (USA) Born: 18 March, 1982 Height: 1.81 meters Weight: 88 kilos Known Powers: Superhuman ability to summon Pixel, ability to say the exact wrong thing at the worst moment and…

Know Comment II

In a previous post, I talked about the various types of comments. Now let’s discuss the various types of responses to comments. Now, there aren’t that many new options, but there are oodles of combinations, so watch carefully: Technical Options.…

“You know what you should do?”

Once, I was the boy everyone asked for advice. Girls would call me and ask me for help with their boyfriends, guys would talk about the girls in their lives. The works. I realized I had a problem when my…

The Gift of Love

I’m at Barnes & Noble and I see a book on Philosophy that I know my mate Frank would love. I just know it. I grab it off the shelf and proceed to the cash register… only to stop half-way…

Character Profile: Grandpa

Birth Name: Genaro Mariscal Marrufo Born: 2 March, 1931 Height: 1.62 meters Weight: 55 kilos Super Powers: Wisdom, super ability to entertain youngsters, charisma, ineffable luck. Biography: Grandpa was born the sixth of 13 children, but only ever met about…

Chasing a thought…

There’s been a thought running through my head all week now. It doesn’t let me sleep, it doesn’t let me wake up, it doesn’t let me enjoy life. I’m happy, but it’s an intellectual happiness. There’s something amiss. Will go…