The Cheezburger Network

If you aren't familiar with the "Cheezburger" network, I suggest you familiarize yourself with it now. The Cheezburger network is a group of websites that started with ICanHasCheezburger.com.

While this was a blatant rip off of Lolcats, ICHC took the idea, organized it and has since become a monumentally better website than the actual lolcats.com. They eventually expanded with IHasAHotdog.com (the dog equivalent) and other sites for different categories of captioned pictures. My personal favorite is of course Failblog.org. Now failblog is not always as kid-friendly as ICHC or IHH, but is by far the funniest. I also recommend ROFLrazzi and PunditKitchen. All of these can be reached by the tabs at the top of each site, which is another reason this site far surpassed lolcats.com. The different sites are integrated and look simply like different pages on the same site. Bravo cheezburger network.

Anyway I saw a post on Failblog about a new project under development called "emails from crazy people" and decided to check it out. It's not tabbed into the rest of the network yet because it's still under development but from the first post I read, I'm sure this one will be a classic soon.

Here are some guidelines if you decide to check these sites out for the first time:

ICHC - scroll down to the bottom and click "last" so that you start at the beginning. Otherwise you will probably be in the dark about certain jokes. This one and the dog one have their own language that you will have to familiarize yourself with. Things are intentionally mispelled, etc. Basement cat is kitty Satan and ceiling cat is a reference to God. also if you don't know what LOL and ROFL mean you're gonna be way behind.

Hotdog - pretty similar to ICHC. I would suggest starting with ICHC to get a feel for the language and typical jokes and then moving over to IHH.

Roflrazzi - Keep up with pop culture references.

Pundit Kitchen - Keep up with political and news references. Don't get offended, nobody is attacking your moral grounds. Some people just have it coming.

GraphJam - charts and graphs. Gets old kinda fast because the jokes are recycled too often.

Once Upon a Win - "Hey remember this? It was neat!". that's it

Failblog - this one is easy. just laugh at dumb people.

Engrish Funny - funny mistranslations. It gets a B+ in my book, because it's not as good as engrish.com, which it totally rippped off.

Forums - Just don't. Seriously. The cheezburger and hotdog forums are full of people talking like they are animals and it gets obnoxiously preschooly. PK is people who are offended about the picture and often ends up in a debate about gays or abortion or the war in the middle east. Failblog is often funny to read but if you write something on there and don't triple spellcheck it and double fact check they WILL throw you under the bus and whatever point you were trying to make will be completely ignored. So my advice is to avoid writing on the comments/forums.

There you have it. The Cheezburger Network and there new project Emails from Crazy People.

Enjoy

Background

New background is up. Because...you know...you obviously didn't see it or whatever.

Anyway...

Thanks to:

Photoshop CS2
My wife
CBB

I've been reading up on how to write html. It's not terribly difficult but sometimes it's hard to find where in the blogger template I'm supposed to put what I've learned. So thanks to CBB for explaining it. Now that I've gotten a background I think I'll work on a cool header and we'll see what follows. Stay tuned!

Give Me Something To Do

Alright I've started this blog for several reasons, but mostly I was bored at work. I'm not slacking off, there's just actually nothing to do and it's driving me crazy. Unfortunately until I find a real job I gotta come in and do nothing so we can pay the bills. I'm going to use this to talk about my momentary fixations, whether it's projects I'm working on, things I'd like to do someday, or something I just want to know more about. I think this will be something where I ask a lot of questions and will hopefully get helpful comments. Thanks for reading and enjoy.


ps - my first project will be to make this thing not so boring without the use of templates or somebody else's layouts.