Tim Writes Stuff: ALF Colorforms

Over at saturdaymorningdeathgrip.com, to help bolster our street cred, we are adding occasional articles that should be tangentially connected to Saturday morning cartoons. And what says "street cred" better than "ALF Colorforms"? Literally anything.

Head o'er to read.

Mummy Hall

A new episode of Saturday Morning Deathrgip, as ever, means new art. We watched Monster in my Pocket which was awful. One of the characters was a mummy and for whatever reason, the actor who voiced the mummy did a Woody Allen impression. So for the art for this episode I tried to recreate a moment during the opening monologue of Annie Hall. This is also the first one I've done for the podcast using paper and scanning it rather than doing it on my graphic tablet. How retro of me...

I feel like there's a chance for a series of these. Pick some movie monologues, change the actor to a classic movie monster. Maybe I'll get invited to an art show like Crazy4Cult or one of those booths at ComicCon. I am available...

Saturday Morning Deathgrip Episode 2 "Pryde of the X-men"

Episode 2 of Saturday Morning Deathrgip is now available.  The associated artwork is a take on the Crocodile Dundee movie poster (by Drew Struzan, the last great poster artist.) Why Crocodile Dundee? Wolverine is Australian, for some reason. That's basically it...

Tim Writes Stuff: Nick Cafardo Remains an Idiot

I take down Nick Cafardo and his unending idiocy over at Stats in the Wild.

Tim Writes Stuff: The Pirates and Playoff Chances

With the Pirates enjoying first place and the best record in baseball I wrote up a little bit on how the Pirates and their playoff chances.

Photoshop trickery

Buzzfeed bothers me (though I find it occasionally enjoyable). Today it was this article "23 things we all do but none of us admit to. And yea, there's a ring of truth to some, but that is not my point. A lot of times, Buzzfeed has lists about ironic signs, many of which are photoshop so blatantly. So today's got me to stop at one entry and post to my handy blog that literally no one reads!

The offending item:

#5. Ignoring a text for days* and then saying “Omg I’m SO sorry, just noticed my reply didn’t go through!”

Accompanied by this picture:

LOL, amirite? Ugh. Now, it doesn't take a genius to see artifacts around the second "1" in 2011. I'm no photoshop genius (I'm lying. I am.) but look what I did in 20 seconds!

I mean, LOLz!

Additionally- iMessage debuted in October 2011 with the release of iOS5. The lower case first letters in "hey" and "i sent that..." also indicate that the messages were sent from Messages on a mac, and Messages on the computer came out as a beta in Summer 2011 but couldn't go to phones yet. 

I have now vented my spleen.

Tim writes stuff!

I occasionally write for a blog called "Stats in the Wild," which belongs to a friend of mine who holds a PhD in statistics. He did the stats for my resident research project. He's a good guy, you'd like him. The blog is basically items related to practical statistics (as in statistics one would encounter in everyday life). He invited me to write some stuff about baseball, which generally means I make fun of Nick Cafardo, but I have clandestinely added more to my plate.

I saw a Buzzfeed article,12 Extremely Disappointing Facts For Geeks, and was bothered by something that happens every day on every news site that uses statistics: improper context. They happen to use a bunch of logical fallacies too, but in the end it's mainly bad math and poor context.

So head on over to Stats in the Wild to read my brilliance and hang around for Greg's stuff too.