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The Muffin Joke

For the past week or so, my brother has been turning out tons of comics on his blog/webcomic ExclusiveBlend. I decided to challenge him to draw “The Muffin Joke”, which is a sort of family joke. It isn’t actually THAT funny, but my mother finds it extremely hilarious. I actually still chuckle when I hear the joke because I picture my mother laughing her head off. Here is the joke as my brother would tell it:

JAMES: “So there’s these two muffins in the oven. One muffin says to the other muffin, ‘Boy it’s hot in here’. The other muffin says, ‘WOAH! A talking muffin.'”

MOM: *laughing so hard she almost cries*

My brother took my advice, and the comic he turned out is quite something. The artwork and coloring job look amazing. Check it out here!

He also challenged me to try and draw it myself. This is what I came up with:

I decided to use GIMP (open-source alternative to Photoshop) to color it. It turned out rather brown/gray, but there isn’t much color about two muffins sitting in an oven. Hope you enjoy it!

2011
08/10
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Don’t have an idea? Pick your brain!

School has been pretty intense the last month or so since I have been stressing about finals a lot. So I apologize profusely for posting so little during this month. I sincerely hope that August will be much better. I have been storing up a bunch of good ideas in my brain, so I do have a lot to write about. But today I called up my brother in America, and he (and my sister-in-law) challenged me to draw a comic for the phrase “pick your brain”. My brother does a lot of his own comics over on this blog: ExclusiveBlend. He says that he is planning on drawing his own comic to this theme.

2011
07/17
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Wikipedia

 

 

Last week this comic was posted on xkcd.com. When you moved your mouse over the picture, the authors comment also appeared: ‘Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at “Philosopy”.’ Of course, I immediately tried this out with my favorite Wikipedia pages and found that it does indeed work.

But the author makes a very good point about Wikipedia (although I don’t believe that we are turned into complete idiots if the page crashes). Wikipedia allows the common man to learn general information about pretty much everything but become an expert in nothing. Still, I find that it is probably the greatest resource available when one wants to learn about something. Every time that my computer science professor repeats that “you can’t learn everything from Wikipedia”, I just want to laugh. The truth? You can learn almost everything from Wikipedia. Without Wikipedia, I probably would never be able to complete my math homework.

2011
05/31
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