http://krisstraub.com humor scientist Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:56:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Kris and Scott (Scott and Kris) launch their own gaming news show. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/JK9UNNrVeWVyT52UA4XD87NOBZs/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/JK9UNNrVeWVyT52UA4XD87NOBZs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/JK9UNNrVeWVyT52UA4XD87NOBZs/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/JK9UNNrVeWVyT52UA4XD87NOBZs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/KrisStraubBlog/~4/pT9bhr75TdI" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/KrisStraubBlog/~3/pT9bhr75TdI/ http://krisstraub.com/2012/02/21/blamimation-episode-8-is-up/ Hey guys, maybe this is odd but I&#8217;m putting it out there. We have a betta in a 2.5 gallon tank with a filter that trickles water back into the tank. I&#8217;ve kept many of them before but not in a tank with moving water like this. I have noticed in the last couple days, &#8230;<p><a href="http://krisstraub.com/2012/02/20/betta-owners/" class="more-link">Read More</a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/fFs3bLYM4LlyQqIuP4k9xAruzYY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/fFs3bLYM4LlyQqIuP4k9xAruzYY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/fFs3bLYM4LlyQqIuP4k9xAruzYY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/fFs3bLYM4LlyQqIuP4k9xAruzYY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/KrisStraubBlog/~4/W_O1SmjfTuE" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/KrisStraubBlog/~3/W_O1SmjfTuE/ http://krisstraub.com/2012/02/20/betta-owners/ <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Un5_iJAAdErT6XGwPA4Gy9axxjI/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Un5_iJAAdErT6XGwPA4Gy9axxjI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Un5_iJAAdErT6XGwPA4Gy9axxjI/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Un5_iJAAdErT6XGwPA4Gy9axxjI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/KrisStraubBlog/~4/vDbJt6VO1vs" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/KrisStraubBlog/~3/vDbJt6VO1vs/ http://krisstraub.com/2012/02/20/on-memes/ You who never arrived in my arms, Beloved, who were lost from the start, I don&#8217;t even know what songs would please you. I have given up trying to recognize you in the surging wave of the next moment. All the immense images in me &#8212; the far-off, deeply-felt landscape, cities, towers, and bridges, and &#8230;<p><a href="http://krisstraub.com/2012/02/17/you-who-never-arrived/" class="more-link">Read More</a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/WEPyQfJ6H7evajjabzanWQbc6n8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/WEPyQfJ6H7evajjabzanWQbc6n8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/WEPyQfJ6H7evajjabzanWQbc6n8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/WEPyQfJ6H7evajjabzanWQbc6n8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/KrisStraubBlog/~4/39q_4mAujjA" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/KrisStraubBlog/~3/39q_4mAujjA/ http://krisstraub.com/2012/02/17/you-who-never-arrived/ I&#8217;m getting over a very mild ear infection or something that simulated a flu for a little while. Man, it&#8217;s so hard to get motivated after you&#8217;ve been laying around! I have ten big tasks before Australia in April and I have to start first thing in the morning. I have this issue with guilt &#8230;<p><a href="http://krisstraub.com/2012/02/15/not-the-news-you-want/" class="more-link">Read More</a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/witeMtUWS7V9EKS4QscEE3J55pc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/witeMtUWS7V9EKS4QscEE3J55pc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/witeMtUWS7V9EKS4QscEE3J55pc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/witeMtUWS7V9EKS4QscEE3J55pc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/KrisStraubBlog/~4/gpLJJcPpZwc" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/KrisStraubBlog/~3/gpLJJcPpZwc/ http://krisstraub.com/2012/02/15/not-the-news-you-want/ As usual, some of it is NSFW <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/A3GJQhdv1b81RtaY0SikiSNPBVc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/A3GJQhdv1b81RtaY0SikiSNPBVc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/A3GJQhdv1b81RtaY0SikiSNPBVc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/A3GJQhdv1b81RtaY0SikiSNPBVc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/KrisStraubBlog/~4/1csWi3DbALs" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/KrisStraubBlog/~3/1csWi3DbALs/ http://krisstraub.com/2012/02/07/new-scott-and-kris-show-love/ Lately, Chrome has started giving me an error about Flash not responding, and if I would like to stop the script from running. This happens, as it would seem, on ads. I just switched back to Firefox. Not only are the Flash errors gone, but there&#8217;s zero connection problems. The internet is as fast as &#8230;<p><a href="http://krisstraub.com/2012/01/30/for-months-ive-had-connection-problems-with-google-chrome/" class="more-link">Read More</a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9G_gLfA-3wmn4UOR3nj9Y6-a3bA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9G_gLfA-3wmn4UOR3nj9Y6-a3bA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9G_gLfA-3wmn4UOR3nj9Y6-a3bA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9G_gLfA-3wmn4UOR3nj9Y6-a3bA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/KrisStraubBlog/~4/DomeGjub_I4" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/KrisStraubBlog/~3/DomeGjub_I4/ http://krisstraub.com/2012/01/30/for-months-ive-had-connection-problems-with-google-chrome/ A new episode! I converse with my brother, the honorable Dr. Kurtis Straub, on our shared sense of humor growing up together and where they diverged. We talk about scatological humor, specificity, observational humor versus joke construction, and more. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8fpeHnOM-exf3Vn1-XZWkmrdDGg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8fpeHnOM-exf3Vn1-XZWkmrdDGg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8fpeHnOM-exf3Vn1-XZWkmrdDGg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8fpeHnOM-exf3Vn1-XZWkmrdDGg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/KrisStraubBlog/~4/A_c18GTBbZE" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/KrisStraubBlog/~3/A_c18GTBbZE/ http://krisstraub.com/2012/01/16/humor-authority-episode-4-dr-kurtis-straub/ is this&#8230; is this possible?? tweetmeharder: SHOW 76: Truck Toilet Horn / 1hr 2min / January 11, 2012 Kris and David endorse cereals, hack the Twitter character set, explore euphemisms on television shows, speak the language of adulthood, and plumb the meanings of names. Download the MP3 @phogan The Olympic amateur caveat is actually a &#8230;<p><a href="http://krisstraub.com/2012/01/11/is-this-is-this-possible-tweetmeharder/" class="more-link">Read More</a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kEaWcFkwGIT4xy7sbV6rLR2CqXE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kEaWcFkwGIT4xy7sbV6rLR2CqXE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kEaWcFkwGIT4xy7sbV6rLR2CqXE/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kEaWcFkwGIT4xy7sbV6rLR2CqXE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/KrisStraubBlog/~4/tgHURXNAEmQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/KrisStraubBlog/~3/tgHURXNAEmQ/ http://krisstraub.com/2012/01/11/is-this-is-this-possible-tweetmeharder/ I&#8217;ve written about Chris Onstad once before, when he announced Achewood was stopping down. An interview with him just went up at Comic Alliance discussing his return to Achewood. He is an artist whose work I respect, but have increasing difficulty seeing eye-to-eye with. My understanding is that his readership is not the same as mine, &#8230;<p><a href="http://krisstraub.com/2012/01/09/concessions-to-commerce-and-the-starving-world-renowned/" class="more-link">Read More</a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/YUMqecXmBuqWcRPLZ0wrdxgUa7E/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/YUMqecXmBuqWcRPLZ0wrdxgUa7E/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/YUMqecXmBuqWcRPLZ0wrdxgUa7E/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/YUMqecXmBuqWcRPLZ0wrdxgUa7E/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/KrisStraubBlog/~4/VSYu9XhG-8E" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/KrisStraubBlog/~3/VSYu9XhG-8E/ http://krisstraub.com/2012/01/09/concessions-to-commerce-and-the-starving-world-renowned/