Also, Bagels - A Comic of Inept Redundancy

Vicarious perpetuation of delusion

by Blubford on February 19th, 2010

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I had a dream I was a rock star last year. Like a daydreaming-type dream, not a subconscious reality. So I went out and bought a guitar, then booked a meeting with record companies all across the country. All the deals fell through, they thought I was horrible. I thought I might keep practicing and eventually get good enough to try again, when I realized I had put the cart before the horse. What I SHOULD have done was sit in on other musicians live performances and heckle them into an emotional state of torment, that way competition for a record deal would drop drastically! Then I realized that no matter how horribly I treated other people, self esteem is not a comparative quality… making them feel worse wasn’t going to make me feel any better. Not ONLY did I refrain from treating other people badly, I had a Snickers© candy bar! That made me feel SO much better about myself! Almost as much as I did before I took my sleeplessness vow.

But now I’m fat. Thanks a lot, Snickers©. Thanks for your fat.

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Make the switch, for the head’s sake

by Brookes on February 10th, 2010

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I’m noticing that those who use Internet Explorer to view Also, Bagels (about 15% of the audience) are seeing the site much differently than those using browsers created this decade. Certain small pieces of borders are missing and, more prominently, the blog post avatars are squished beyond recognizability! This is not in any way my fault. You might not check Also, Bagels more than once a day, but if you’re still using Internet Explorer (the default browser installed on Windows computers) you are missing out on a lot more than a skewed display on a comic site. Allow me to point you toward the completely free and superior alternatives: Mozilla FireFox and the more recent not-as-popular Google Chrome.

Happy improved browsing, Windows users! And thanks so much for everyone’s continued support of Also, Bagels.

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Ignorance is my new best friend (or: How to make one thing plug into another thing in less than 9 hours)

by Bagels on February 2nd, 2010

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Despite the constant denial of my sister and the condescending attitudes of Phni and BU10ne, I would consider myself a sane, and additionally, tech-savvy person. So it should hopefully come to a surprise to those on my side how much difficulty I had attaching a secondary monitor to my laptop a few days ago. Sparing you the details, it shouldn’t have taken me 3 trips and 4 wrong components to realize which adapter I actually needed. To close this riveting tale, for gosh sake’s kids, don’t be as stupid as this time wasting courier/psychiatrist. I’ve got a reputation filled with sanity to keep up and I would hope that you do as well.

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This Month in Progress

by Phni on January 27th, 2010

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Maybe I worked on this. Maybe I didn’t. Maybe it’s currently installed in BU10ne’s HUD. Don’t worry about it, okay? An interesting display of technology here, utilizing both on-screen tracking as well as constant remeasuring techniques to physically find objects in 3D space. Augmented Reality is not a new concept, by any means, but something that could be used for practical, or, perhaps, more recreational virtual-reality purposes, such as shown at 1:20 into this video. Okay, MAYBE I take a little credit for it. Only because I dreamt about something like this a few years ago, and rival scientists potentially have access to dream stealing devices.