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Helping Kids Give Up Hope Early

Virus Comix brings you a guide to dealing with your mundane and disappointing life called Things They Don't Tell You (But They Should).

This should be required reading for all young people who think that they will grow up to be rich, famous or special.

The odds are you won't be.

If you are lucky you will have a decent job, make it to middle management and have enough money to pay your mortgage, contribute to your 401K (good-bye social security), and send your kids to community college.

I've included highlights of some of my favorites below:

Rich People's Rooftops

Hey, want to feel bad about yourself?

Check out this Flickr gallery of ridiculously pimped rooftops in NYC.

Seriously I'm thrilled to have a fire escape with some plants in a window box.

Why Oddcast is Amazing

If you aren't familiar with Oddcast it's a technology that allows consumers to create customized animated avatars by uploading a photo into an video environment.

We can thank Oddcast for this cool site which allows you to commit a friend to the Arkham Asylum, a promotion that was tied to the release of The Dark Knight.

For my money the most incredible use of Oddcast technology to date is this:





http://www.talkingpets.org/


Basically you take a photo of a pet, type in text and the pet then recites the text in a variety of voices.

Ummm this is more fun than it should be. I used the famous Sugar Bush (If you don't know who Sugar Bush is I suggest you go here immediately) and envisioned what Sugar Bush would say to her owner if she could talk:



Click here: Example A




Click here: Example B




Okay you now have my permission to waste time at work.

New Dangers of Junk Food or How I Almost Lost My Finger Getting Ice Cream

In an effort to boost morale, we had an ice cream party at work on Monday.



Since then, there has been a bonanza of left-over ice cream in the refrigerator at work.

This is a problem for me because I am trying to avoid growing another chin--but goddamn I can't resist a frosty treat.

Yesterday I had mint chocolate chip. Today cookies and cream.

Having only access to plastic spoons at the office, I was having a hell of a time getting the ice cream out.

Ah ha! I'll use this big kitchen knife to actually cut the ice cream out.




Genius!






FAIL!


I don't know how, but I managed to basically slice my finger open in three separate places. The worst part is it took me more than five minutes to realize that I was hurt because I was so focused on eating my ice cream.



I have a problem.

Tomorrow, vanilla heath bar crunch and perhaps a severed thumb.

Dirty Food: Oyster Herpes

Internets are abuzz today discussing the outbreak of Oyster Herpes in France.

A herpes virus is killing young oysters in France because they have spent too much energy developing their sexual organs rather than their natural defenses, an oyster crisis team has found.

So many things to note here.

1. There is an "oyster crisis team"
2. Are oyster herpes communicable? I didn't know mollusks had sex.
3. Is anyone else disturbed by the thought of overly developed genitalia on their seafood?



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