Theme Week, Part Ekakimon

Jeremy Is In The Office Proudly Presents:
Dr. Seuss Character or Pokemon Week!
Day 5:  Poliwhirl 


Alas, Theme Weeks go by so quickly.  Today marks the final entry in our quiz celebrating both the Pokemon universe and the weird and wonderful creatures in the world of Dr. Seuss.  


It's always sad to see Theme Week come to an end, like all good things.  But, we will move on next week to all new Statuses.

In the meantime, we can review yesterday's character Joat. 

Joat is an animal in Dr. Seuss's book "If I Ran The Zoo."  The Joat is a strange hybrid creature, with the hooves of a cow, the coat of a squirrel, and the voice of a goat, yet exhibit dog-like behavior, especially when sitting.  They also apparently have long necks and horns.  They also apparently like to use their goat voices to sing, but the timbre becomes rather unappealing in their upper registers. 

So finally, we'll leave you with "Poliwhirl."  Is Poliwhirl another Dr. Seuss creation, or a first-generation Pokemon?  We'll post the answer on monday! 

Theme Week, Part Dokugumon

Jeremy Is In The Office Proudly Presents:
Dr. Seuss Character or Pokemon Week!
Dr. Seuss or Pokemon Week!  Day 4:  Joat


Here we go...headlong into Day 4 of Theme Week!  All this week, we're asking you to identify the subject as a Dr. Seuss Character, or a first-generation Pokemon.  Exciting stuff.  


Right you are.  Yesterday, we introduced you to Tentacool.

Tentacool, of course, is a water-based Pokemon first introduced in 1997.  It looks a lot like a blue translucent jellyfish with red crystals adorning it's head.  The Tentacool uses sunlight as its primary weapon, storing and refracting it using the water in its body in order to generate an energy beam.  It also has the ability to mentally control other Pokemon by touching them with its two tentacles. 

As Theme Week moves right along, we examine Joat.  Is Joat a fellow Pokemon, or one of the mythical creatures from the pages of Dr. Seuss's books? 

Theme Week, Part Cerberumon

Jeremy Is In The Office Proudly Presents:
Dr. Seuss Character or Pokemon Week!  
Day 3:  Tentacool


We've reached the halfway point of Theme Week here at Jeremy Is In The Office, and look to you to decide if today's entry is a Dr. Seuss character or a first-generation Pokemon.  


That's right!  Theme Week keeps chugging right along, as yesterday we asked about Biffer-Baum.

Biffer-Baum, of course, are birds from "Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book" who toil endless nights trying to make a bed out of bricks and rope.  We never do find out if they ever finish it without making a colossal mess. 

Today, we look at Tentacool.  Is Tentacool a figment of Dr. Seuss's imagination, or a figment of Pokemon Ltd's imagination? 

Theme Week, Part Babydmon

Jeremy Is In The Office Proudly Presents:
Dr. Seuss Character or Pokemon Week! 
Day 2:  Biffer-Baum 


We continue with Theme Week today, as we explore the fictional universes of Dr. Seuss and the Pokemon.  It's up to you!


Yesterday, we introduced this latest Theme Week with a simple question.  Is the character presented one of the hundreds of Pokemon, or one of the seemingly endless colorful characters in a Dr. Seuss book?

The first day of Theme Week kicked off with "Kweet."


It sounds like a Pokemon, but is clearly from the world of Dr. Seuss!  


Right you are.  The Kweet is a large bird first introduced in the 1953 book "Scrambled Eggs Super!"  It is portrayed as a bird from which the eggs come from.  The eggs are improved by the fact that bugs eat the blossoms from Basalnut trees.  The bugs are then eaten by the wogs, which are eaten by the trout, which are ultimately consumed by the Kweet.  The resulting chain results in high quality, sweet eggs.

Today, we move on to Biffer-Baum.  Dr. Seuss Character, or Pokemon?   

Theme Week, Part Aegiomon

Jeremy Is In The Office Proudly Presents:
Dr. Seuss Character or Pokemon Week!  
Day 1:  Kweet  


It's Theme Week once again here at Jeremy Is In The Office, and we're celebrating by quizzing you, our loyal readers in your knowledge of two very specific groups of fictional characters.  


That's right!  Each day this week, we will offer up a figment of somebody's imagination and leave it to you to decide if that character is the work of one Theodor Seuss Geisel, or any of the many corporate automatons responsible for inventing the 802 known Pokemon.

Yes, this whole thing was thought up not long ago when I got slightly mixed up between The Lorax and the Snorlax in a conversation I remember almost nothing about.  It made me wonder just how close some of the Pokemon names are to some of the crazy mythical creatures thought up by Dr. Seuss. 

Here are some fun examples!

Dr. Seuss brought us the Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz, The Sneetches and Zanzibar Buck Buck McFate. 

Some Pokemon are the Butterfree (Which I always get confused with Fluttershy the Pony...don't ask me why), Magikarp, Pikachu, and of course, Jigglypuff. 

While all pretty fun examples of the literary genius of each, they're also pretty easy to distinguish.  The test ones used for this week's Theme Week may not be so easy.  We'll see.  I've actually already forgotten today's, but that's beside the point...I have the answer key.  Anyway, to make things a little easier, we're sticking to First Generation Pokemon, of which there are only 151.  Of course, that 151 apparently doesn't include evolutions, but I don't know if that means they evolved during first generation, or if they evolved once the second generation started...I don't know or care that much about Pokemon.  That also means the 802 number I quoted above is probably wrong, because the chart I'm looking at gives the same NDex number for two different evolutions of the same Pokemon and I seriously don't give a crap anymore.  I'll show you the link to the thing at the end of the week, since I don't want anybody cheating, but trust me, there are many many webpages devoted to this stuff.  It's a little scary. 

Regardless, today we'll be focusing on Kweet.  Is Kweet a Pokemon, or a character from a Dr. Seuss book?  You decide! 

People vs. Jeremy

Can a Star Trek transporter be used as a legal defense?  

In order to restore balance to the nerdiness, Jeremy is following up yesterday's Star Wars themed Status with a Star Trek themed Status.  Very inclusive of you, Jeremy.  

Thank you.  

So, I recently "read" an audio book that started with a bit of a thought experiment.  It goes basically thus:  

You own an axe.  You use it for a while and the blade breaks.  So, you go to the local hardware store, buy a new blade, attach it to the handle, and you have a functional axe again.  Later on, after further use, the handle breaks.  So, you go to the local hardware store, buy a new handle, attach it to the blade, and you have a functional axe again.  The question is, do you have the same axe you started with?  

It's interesting, because as much as you have entirely new components to your axe, you could make the case that since the entire thing was never replaced at once, and there is constant continuity between your existing axe and the original axe that you never replaced your axe.  

The same question applies to people.  

See, Star Trek transporters work on the very simple scientific fact that matter and energy are interchangeable.  The idea is that the transporter takes an image of every atom and subatomic particle in your body (compensating for the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle by using the brilliant "Heisenberg Compensator"), and converts all of it to energy.  At this point in time, you no longer exist, which is part of why Dr. McCoy always hated the transporter.  The energy is then "beamed" down to the surface of the planet and the original image is rebuilt in its new location, atom by atom.  The resulting person is quite genuinely not the original person, but a presumably perfect reproduction of the person on the spaceship.  

So, can this be used as a legal defense?  "I didn't shoot that person with the phaser.  The person I was before I transported did it!  I'm just a recreation."  To my knowledge, this important legal concept has never been broached in the episodes of Star Trek I've watched.  It's important because...you know...it could happen some day...presumably around 46 years from April 5. 

Give or take.

Is King Getting Royalties?

Did we seriously just turn The Running Man into a real TV show?  

Well, it was already a crappy dance craze from the late 1980's.  Janet Jackson started it, I think...

Well, specifically, I'm referring to the Stephen King Richard Bachman novel "The Running Man" which was later loosely used to create the Arnold Schwarzenegger film of the same name.  

So, the general idea is that people are living in a dystopian future (Ironically 2017 in the film) where vast swaths of people are part of an extremely poor underclass, desperate to do anything for money.  There is a prime time reality game show where people are offered prizes of vast wealth (In the book, it's one billion dollars...I forget what it was in the movie), if they make it to the end of the game.  The catch is that the way to make it to the end of the game is to survive for 30 days while a team of professional Hunters (or "Stalkers") tries to find and kill them.  Sort of an all-or-nothing proposition.  

I won't post any spoilers here, but if you think The Governator made it through the movie without saying "I'll be back," I feel sorry for you.  

So, here we are in actual 2017.  Some may say that we're living in a dystopian time (your mileage may vary), and one of the major TV networks is set to debut a new prime time reality game show.  The general idea of the show is that people are offered prizes of vast wealth ($250,000), if they make it to the end of the game.  The catch is that the way to make it to the end of the game is to survive for 30 28 days while a team of professional Hunters (or "Stalkers") tries to find and kill capture them.  

Are you kidding me? 

Everyone Loves This One

What’s green and has wheels?  Grass.  I lied about the wheels  

Never speak to me again.  

So, I recently heard a great new joke.  It's...well...it's written up above, so it won't do too much good to repeat it here, but you get the idea.  It's an amazing joke, and I will be telling it to people for the foreseeable future.  

I know what you're thinking...

You have no idea what I'm thinking

You're thinking, "alright, Jeremy.  The joke's pretty solid, but it's not quite The Skeleton Joke, now is it?"

And you're right.  Nothing quite stacks up to The Skeleton Joke, but that doesn't mean I can't appreciate and share another joke that's on quality comedy footing, even if it's not quite on par.  That's what we're dealing with here.  I hope this helps your weekend by allowing you to share this bit of joviality with others.  See you monday!