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?
Thursday, April 20, 2017
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
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?
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?
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
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?
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?
Monday, April 17, 2017
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!
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!
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Those Things Can Be Expensive
I would like to know how somebody lost a boot in a snow pile
Seems pretty obvious. Somebody stepped in snow, and their boot got stuck. What's the problem here?
So, Spring has officially sprung in the Greater Jeremy Area, and you know what that means!
Hayfever!
Well...that too. It means that the giant piles of snow that have collected in plow areas and at the end of my driveway are in their final throes, leaving behind strange little piles of whatever debris that came along with the snow to its pile.
Unrelated to anything, I recently learned that according to maritime law, there are four different and legally distinct types of debris. Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan, and Derelict. Comparing and contrasting those four is left as an exercise for the reader.
Anyway, one of these giant piles of snow is at the entrance to the parking lot at work. The pile was probably around 12 feet tall in its prime, owing largely to the late-winter blizzard that happened around here not all that long ago. It's no longer enough to build a decent snowman, but the pile of crap that surrounds it is quite impressive. Lots of little pebbles and more substantial pieces of parking lot that got scooped up with the snow by the giant plows that maintain the lot, some plastic bags, a few aluminum cans, and a single boot.
Yes...a boot.
It's a pretty decent boot, too. One of those tan pretty tough-looking leather work boots.
Presumably left by somebody who, unlike Jeremy, works for a living.
I have no idea who left their boot out in the parking lot, or why. I would think that people who wear work boots would notice rather quickly if one were missing, especially if it were to be lost in the dead of winter. That person should notice either the immediate cold, or the fact that they're now walking on wet pavement instead of the rugged comfort of a decent work boot.
Either way, if you're out there and lost a work boot somewhere in the Greater Jeremy Area at some point over the winter, I know where it is. Let me know.
Seems pretty obvious. Somebody stepped in snow, and their boot got stuck. What's the problem here?
So, Spring has officially sprung in the Greater Jeremy Area, and you know what that means!
Hayfever!
Well...that too. It means that the giant piles of snow that have collected in plow areas and at the end of my driveway are in their final throes, leaving behind strange little piles of whatever debris that came along with the snow to its pile.
Unrelated to anything, I recently learned that according to maritime law, there are four different and legally distinct types of debris. Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan, and Derelict. Comparing and contrasting those four is left as an exercise for the reader.
Anyway, one of these giant piles of snow is at the entrance to the parking lot at work. The pile was probably around 12 feet tall in its prime, owing largely to the late-winter blizzard that happened around here not all that long ago. It's no longer enough to build a decent snowman, but the pile of crap that surrounds it is quite impressive. Lots of little pebbles and more substantial pieces of parking lot that got scooped up with the snow by the giant plows that maintain the lot, some plastic bags, a few aluminum cans, and a single boot.
Yes...a boot.
It's a pretty decent boot, too. One of those tan pretty tough-looking leather work boots.
Presumably left by somebody who, unlike Jeremy, works for a living.
I have no idea who left their boot out in the parking lot, or why. I would think that people who wear work boots would notice rather quickly if one were missing, especially if it were to be lost in the dead of winter. That person should notice either the immediate cold, or the fact that they're now walking on wet pavement instead of the rugged comfort of a decent work boot.
Either way, if you're out there and lost a work boot somewhere in the Greater Jeremy Area at some point over the winter, I know where it is. Let me know.
Monday, April 10, 2017
They're Round, So Can't Be Boxes, Apparently
Interestingly enough, tins are made of plastic now
I don't even know when tins stopped being made out of tin. Is there a history lesson somewhere?
Locating the full manufacturing history of containers dubbed to be "tins" is left as an exercise for the reader.
Cheap cop out, Jeremy. I like it!
Not long ago, I realized that I was running low on mints at work. I keep them in my desk drawer for after lunch and times that my breath just generally needs to be mintier. In fact, in the middle of typing that last sentence, I decided to be mintier, so I grabbed a mint. I go through them fairly quickly, but I'm okay with that. It makes me more pleasant to have a conversation with.
At least physically. Mentally, having a conversation with you is just as mind-numbing.
Most normal people would go to a grocery store or to a large chain box store where they have large displays of candy and mints right next to the cash registers in order to buy mints. They also tend to have a larger candy-themed aisle dedicated to this sort of thing. I am not most people. I buy my mints online from a large retailer which, for strictly Blag purposes, we'll call Nile.com.
I do this for several reasons.
Liar.
I do this for one reason. It's ludicrously cheaper. The exact same container of mints that I can buy at the grocery store for around $2.75, I can buy a case of on Nile.com fora shade under $2 each. Of course, they come in a box of 8 containers, so I'm buying in bulk for the savings, but I'm okay with that. Want to know why? Because they're mints! They won't go bad. They'll just sit in a box in my office desk until I need them, at which time, I pull out a new container, open it up, and I'm good to be minty fresh. I can do this 8 times before I need to think about it again...and I've saved six bucks. Twelve if you count the fact that I bought two of them, but that's not important right now.
Regardless of all of this, I noticed that the box my new mints came in specifically says that it contains eight "1.5oz (42 g) TINS." They actually call the containers of mints "Tins." One would think that the tins are made of...you know...tin, or at the very least some form of metal. I mean, people still use the name "tin foil" to describe aluminum foil (or Aluminium, for our European readers), and that's generally considered acceptable. But in this case, my mints are housed in containers entirely made up of plastic. There is no metal, tin or otherwise, involved in my mint containers. I feel I've been lied to.
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
It's Only Polite
If an email tells me not to reply, you better believe I’m replying
What exactly do you say to a non-functioning email address?
That's the beauty of it. I can say whatever I want!
So, if you've ever been on the internet, you've probably gotten an email or two from a service email address. It's one of these automated things which emails you to let you know that your online order has shipped, or your dentist appointment is next week, or your lawn is due for feeding...you know...worthless crap like that. If you've never been on the internet, you haven't gotten one of these emails, and I would wonder how you're reading a Blag, but that's not important right now.
Most of these emails don't bother informing you that they come from a computer which doesn't bother to check incoming messages. I can't imagine anybody replying to the lawn feeding email, saying "hey, thanks for the heads up, Lawn Food Company. You really saved my grass's bacon." Any normal person would look at this email and either add lawn food to their shopping list, or tell themselves to remember to feed the lawn before promptly forgetting to ever feed the lawn and sentence themselves to another summer of weeds in the front yard.
What bugs me is when the email subject, or worse, the sender field, tells you in giant all-capital letters, "DO NOT REPLY." Such was the case for a recent online purchase I made. Their automated system sent me no fewer than five emails informing me that my order was received, my payment was authorized, my payment has been made, my order has been shipped, and they created an invoice for me. All of this for 10 bucks worth of laser pointers. The sender for these emails was "DO NOT REPLY." Not the company's name, or "Email Notifier," or anything...their name was "DO NOT REPLY."
I replied.
All I said was "Thank you," but I made a very concerted effort to reply. I thought it was the polite thing to do. I keep waiting for a court order or something to get me to stop harassing the company, or for my email to be suspended due to abuse since I very clearly replied to an email that told me not to reply, but I've suffered no repercussions thus far. The email didn't even bounce or anything. I just haven't gotten a response. It would be nice of somebody at "DO NOT REPLY" to send a "You're welcome." It wouldn't kill them.
What exactly do you say to a non-functioning email address?
That's the beauty of it. I can say whatever I want!
So, if you've ever been on the internet, you've probably gotten an email or two from a service email address. It's one of these automated things which emails you to let you know that your online order has shipped, or your dentist appointment is next week, or your lawn is due for feeding...you know...worthless crap like that. If you've never been on the internet, you haven't gotten one of these emails, and I would wonder how you're reading a Blag, but that's not important right now.
Most of these emails don't bother informing you that they come from a computer which doesn't bother to check incoming messages. I can't imagine anybody replying to the lawn feeding email, saying "hey, thanks for the heads up, Lawn Food Company. You really saved my grass's bacon." Any normal person would look at this email and either add lawn food to their shopping list, or tell themselves to remember to feed the lawn before promptly forgetting to ever feed the lawn and sentence themselves to another summer of weeds in the front yard.
What bugs me is when the email subject, or worse, the sender field, tells you in giant all-capital letters, "DO NOT REPLY." Such was the case for a recent online purchase I made. Their automated system sent me no fewer than five emails informing me that my order was received, my payment was authorized, my payment has been made, my order has been shipped, and they created an invoice for me. All of this for 10 bucks worth of laser pointers. The sender for these emails was "DO NOT REPLY." Not the company's name, or "Email Notifier," or anything...their name was "DO NOT REPLY."
I replied.
All I said was "Thank you," but I made a very concerted effort to reply. I thought it was the polite thing to do. I keep waiting for a court order or something to get me to stop harassing the company, or for my email to be suspended due to abuse since I very clearly replied to an email that told me not to reply, but I've suffered no repercussions thus far. The email didn't even bounce or anything. I just haven't gotten a response. It would be nice of somebody at "DO NOT REPLY" to send a "You're welcome." It wouldn't kill them.
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