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dinosaur comics

hey everyone. luke here. recent discovery: dinosaur comics. they are the new sensation. they are hilarious in a weird way perhaps i only understand (that was self-deprecating and not elitist). (have you realized that if there was a computer that was intelligent enough to keep building better versions of itself as it grew in intelligence, it could also be considered self-deprecating?)

behold:
click for preview. check the rest out at this site.

also, the guy who writes these makes great t-shirts. such as these:

The Infamous bearmon

So, once upon a time a group of coworkers listened to iTunes. They would share each others play lists and critique different genres and styles. One day, a play list showed up that no one had seen before. They looked at the music and found thousands of songs that fit everyone's style of music. The only problem was that there were two of each song...someone needed to consolidate their playlist.

"Who's bearmon?" One coworker asked. No one knew. We had our suspicions of course, I mean, whenever Ben was not here....neither was bearmon. But we didn't have sufficient evidence to convict Ben, so we just kept quiet and waited for the mysterious bearmon to unveil his identity.

Weeks passed, and bearmon became the office scapegoat. When the power went out, bearmon had done it. When certain files couldn't be found, Bearmon had eaten them. Off the computer. Don't ask how he did it, he just did.

We even went as far as to put a "most wanted" ad for bearmon up on the whiteboard. One day Michael brought up the fact that bearmon had yet to be found. That's when we snapped....we couldn't take the anticipation anymore. Rash accusations had been passed over who was bearmon the last few weeks, but we had to know. Right then. So we googled "bearmon" only to find that he was a Digimon teddy bear, and a ferocious one at that...seriously, this thing has skills in the grappling arts (whatever that means). Check it out: http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Bearmon

Anyway, we knew that it had to be someone here at BYU, so I (Danielle) pulled up the BYU directory and typed "bearmon" in the last name search. One name popped up. Tyson Thomas.

Michael jumped up and ran to the CTL "Who works here" picture board and came back with a plaque. Yes indeed, Tyson Thomas worked at the CTL. Tim then proceeded to search the BYU login names and found that Tyson Thomas had the id name bearmon. So, Tyson Thomas was bearmon, and he worked here in the CTL...the question was, where? So I went up to our wonderful receptionist Maggie and asked where good ol Tyson worked...and she directed us to his desk in the back of the CTL, and we all went, like a pack/herd/flock/pride of lionesses, to find bearmon...but he had moved....so after we asked a few random people in the back of the CTL and gave off the "total stalker" vibe to everyone back there, we found his desk complete with nametag.

Since then bearmon has left the CTL, and we mourn the loss of his playlist....even though he never knew we appreciated it.

Oh, and if bearmon ever tries to log into the Learning Outcomes site, a unicorn will appear on his homepage.

Moral of this story boys and girls?

Never raise the curiosity of 16 computer nerds....you will be found.

Stick it to the Blog

We here at the CTL have a misleading job description. Pretty much, we all work with computers.

But our job is a lot more than that....we also are professional stalkers, foodies, and quote critics...among other things.

So, when something epic happens (which is quite often actually) we stick it to the blog...sharing moments with the universe that are just too good to keep to ourselves.