Goodie Grab Bag V

Oh, what the hell? Might as well go for gold. The following is made up on the spot (or as close to the spot as I can get) so as to not lose face to Seth, who threatens to steal…

Re: Adding Humour to Lachlan

Hey Gabe, Do you want to write a review of Conception Day 2005? Were you there? Circa. 400 words. Can’t promise to publish it – but if you are as good as you say you are – then I prob.…

Goodie Grab Bag IV

1: Have you ever seen Total Recall? 2: Yeah, but I can’t remember it. Oh my gosh! I need SPF 40, they have 60 Watt lightbulbs in there! Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, which is two…

Palinode to Phrases that should never be said

And now, an argument for why these phrases should be said. “You can trust me.” — Picture the following situation: Anson, Bill, and Count Chocula are fighting vampires that have cornered them into a treehouse from which there is no…

ToG – From Hack to Hate

Gabe the Recursive Beaver here with the question of the week: who would win in a hacky-sack match to the death between Spiderman and Daredevil? Think about that when you’re living your boring, boring life and doing you’re boring, boring…

And then, they all took two steps back…

Have you ever just wanted to be rude and yell at someone for no reason? I mean, they haven’t done anything to you, but that’s the problem. You want to rattle their cages, but you don’t really want them to…

“We Need to Talk”

As per my last post, I started thinking1. The reason that “we need to talk” creates such a sense of foreboding in the person listening is because it signifies a change in the conversation. Because, even if you’ve been talking…

Phrases that should never be said

“You can trust me.” — if you actually could trust them, you wouldn’t need to say that, now would you? “Can I kiss you?” — girls understand this a lot more than guys. Would that you could say it, but…

‘Matters of Consequence’

*suspiro* Moofruot, you’ve done me in. I’ve never read anything deeper or more insightful… “A sheep–if it eats little bushes, does it eat flowers, too?” “A sheep,” I answered, “eats anything it finds in its reach.” “Even flowers that have…

Word Verification Goes On, Word Verification Goes Off

Hmm… I’ve been getting an awful lot of SPAM-like commenting. So far, I’ve refused to go to any of the websites listed on the count that real people wouldn’t put their website addresses up unless they just wanted hits and…

Avast, ye maties!

Ah, September 19th. A day of special significance to everyone in the world, but especially to me. You see, September 19th is the International Talk Like a Pirate Day. A day in which everyone around the world puts down their…

The Aftereffects of the Afterparty

Yeah, long live conception day. So it turns out that, after hanging around people I didn’t want to talk to, meeting and chasing people I did, and being ignored or overly attended by everyone else, I finally finished Conception Day.…

What a Concept (ion day)!

Everything in Australia is named after Lachlan Macquarie (Lah-klan M-k-Worry). I emphasize this. There’s a Macquarie Park, a Macquarie Lake, a Macquarie University, a Macquarie Suburb, a Macquarie Island, and probably even an I Can’t Believe It’s Not Macquarie spread.…

Tao of Gabe: On Illusions

Tao of Gabe Gabe the Noumenal Beaver here to give you a lesson in coping. See, this semester I lost all government help for my education so I moved in with a trio of loveable, if flawed, human beings. Stop…

Psyche!!

Huzzah! I found two psychological textbooks yesterday: Social Psychology and Personality.I stress the Psychology part of Social Psychology. It’s not Sociology. Sociology sucks and you will never hear me say any different (unless I’m making up my own definition of…

The Dyslexic’s Worst Nightmare

So I’m coming up with my own language now. I finally grew tired of seeing all the stupid letter shapes we have to deal with (j, s, e, f, g, et cetera), and decided to design my own alphabet. Every…

This Means Administrative Business

So Seth pwned me. He’s at 5000 while I’m at a lowly 4100. You know what this means, don’t you? 1: Project? That’s right, Pinky, it’s time for Web Sweeps. The goal is to get up to 5000 hits by…

RE: Adding Humour to Lachlan

Thanks for the email Gabe, I’m reading bits of your website as I get the chance. Are you a Mac student? Word length for articles – full page 600 words – half page is half that. Karl.

Nerd Hecklers

snarkage: Here’s a concept I’d like to see more of: Nerd Hecklers. Imagine a motivational speaker going to a Uni and having nerds shout out random (or stastically inconsequential) comments like, “Your mom and I did the 1000101!” or “The…

The Unforgiving Outback

Wow. They finally reached Cooper’s Creek on April 21, only to find the camp abandoned. There was a message cut into a tree “DIG 3 FEET N.W.”. They did so, and found some supplies, and a letter explaining that the…

Nostalgia for Posts Past

Am I the only one that gets radical enjoyment out of going through my archives? I mean, I’ve written some pretty radical stuff. Never mind that the things I seem to prefer are always the things that get 0 to…

“Are you Trying not to get laid?”

Damn it. Sometimes I wish people would start rumours about my sexual orientation.When I first started college, my friends and I would always hang out together and poke fun at each other. Two of the common staples involved the hidden…

Adding Humor to Lachlan

I couldn’t help but overhear that you wanted to add some humour to your wonderful publication. Look no more! I, Gabe the advice-giving Beaver am here to help. Perhaps you’ve seen my work in Panther Tracks, Carver’s BT, the Pix…

Tao of Gabe: On Compliments

Tao of Gabe Gabe the Rhetorical Beaver here with a lesson in ‘Ninja Speak.’ The idea of ninja speak is to leave your opponent rubbing his proverbial bum from a verbal shellacking that he is reasonably sure came from your…

The Problem of Identity is not itself anymore

Okay, fine! I admit it, I’m not Pixel Q. Styx. I am an impostor! The real Pixel lost use of his facial hair in the Battle of Valmy. I was his best friend throughout the war because he always had…

Kant is such a Douche

Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Copernicus decide that we weren’t at the center of the Universe? Ptolomy was the one that believed that the Universe conformed to us. So when any random douche says he wants to instill…

Smitten by the hand of Zeus

So it turns out that I’m happy now. Yup, for the first time in a long time, my life is perfect. Quite naturally, I thought that this would carry over to the rest of the world. Yeah.. About that… On…

Tao of Gabe: On Mascots

Tao of Gabe Gabe the Inconspicuous Beaver here to try to quell the flames of hatred. It seems there has been a ‘controversy’ over the rumors of the proposed changing of NMSU’s mascot. Of course, if my information is wrong…

Goodie Grab Bag III

(in a debate between two candidates) Candidate #1: … and that is my plan. Any questions? Reporter: Yes, aren’t you a douche? Candidate: No, I am not. Reporter: Let me rephrase that, Is it not true that you are a…

Who the Hell is Pixel Q.???

Everywhere I go, I inspire people to wonder “Just who the hell is he?” or “Who the hell does he think he is??” I blame the middle initial. If I were Pixel A., nobody would take me seriously. “Pixel A.?…

Gabe wins

Gabe: You win the humor columnist competition (the other guy chickened out at the mere mention of competition). You get to write a humor colum for every Thursday issue of the paper. If you can have each one sent to…

Let’s make a dead philosopher cry

While doing research (clicking links) for my previous post, I ran across several pictures of René Descartes and laughed my ass off. I know, I know, I’m not one to talk, but still. In any case, since nothing I write…

I think, therefore I

So it turns out that of all the things René Descartes came up with (Cartesian geometry, dualism, several whopping good recipes), his most basic principle is also the most hotly contested. Cogito, ergo sum. which, roughly translated, is: I think,…

Submissions for Non-Paying Publications

Dear Editor-lady, Gabe the Deontological Beaver here with my jam-packed submission for your peanut butter-packed newspaper. Do with it what you will, though hopefully you will print it. Also, I assume you shall contact me if I do end up…

Suddenly Ayn Rand makes much more sense

I’m having a thought and it goes a little something like this: Good vision was once a genetically selectable trait. In other words, if you had bad vision, you died or had a greater chance of dying. People that had…

Numbering comes in quite handy

It turns out Roommate #4 objects to her name. Ha ha. It’s funny, really, because she’s the reason I started numbering them. She would never be around and I would be like, “hey, where’s the fourth roommate?” But she doesn’t…

Uni: The Game

As a Level Six Philosopher in a Level Ten Philosophy class (Immanuel Kant was a real pissant..) I realized how much like a Role Playing Game my life was. So much so, in fact, that I decided to make an…