I have a five year old cousin. We call him “Lexus” on the count that his mother kept talking about how she was going to buy a Lexus before she got pregnant then never again afterwards. Lexus doesn’t have any…

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…

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.…

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…

Today is the Solstice. That means that for me it’s the shortest day of the year. It also means Yule is now, Festivus is in two days, Christmas and Capitalism Day are in four, Kwanzaa and Hanukkah start in five,…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

People love me. I don’t know why. I truly don’t. I’m funny, smart, amusing, unique, wise, I listen, and I care about people a hell of a lot, but I don’t do any of those things in any particular combination…

This is part of the “So you want to be a sociopath” series of pixelated gaming: “Mean juxtaposition:” Combine two extreme opposites in a list in the hopes that the person you’re talking to (preferrably on IM) will respond to…

Quoth the Sethular: “atheists produce better humor than theists” At some point in the not-too-distant past, I would say that I agreed with this. I argued that half of what is funny is irreverence towards what others deem to be…

Ouch. And I’m $6k in the hole again. Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:29:58 -0500 From: Samantha Gross To: pixelq@nmsu.edu Cc: Dawn Koban , Study Abroad Subject: PAST DUES ISEP DIRECT SM1 2005-2006 Dear Pixel, Please find attached the past…

2: I try to make people regret talking to me sometimes. 1: Yeah, I can tell. 2: Wait… I’ve never done that to you. Have you ever read something that was meant to be funny but wasn’t? 3: Have you…

I have decided to create a new game This one is called “Random Intelligence.” The point is for me to provide you with five to ten new (to me) facts, figures, or stories. These need not be particularly rare, important,…

Gabe the Gorgeous Beaver is finally done with his final exams. And now all I have to do is wait for the results that will tell me whether my beaver papillomavirus (BPV) is still malignant. Failed pick-up lines: “Quick! Let’s…

That’s it. I’m switching to Apple. My next lappy is either going to be an iBook or a PowerBook. 12.1″ most likely. I like the measurement because it’s familiar. And now… to comparison shop. Apparently I have the hook up…