http://blog.earnmydegree.com Discussing online education, career advancement, and a wide range of tidbits. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:28:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (start tape) Boba Fett: …the Middle East is a land of sand, and sure, you see some tank battles. But fighting in desert is very different from fighting in Naboo jungle. EarnMyDegree Blog: Uh-huh. BF: I mean, Nelvaan was a foot soldier's war whereas, uh, this thing should’ve been be a freaking cakewalk. ... http://blog.earnmydegree.com/%e2%80%9cim-not-going-to-kill-anybody-else%e2%80%9d-an-interview-with-boba-fett/ passiveaggressivenotes.com offers a tremendous look at just how flawed this whole thing called life really is. Sometimes leaving a note is simply the only thing to be done. Some other times, leaving a note is the thing you choose to do because you have, like, issues with confrontation. At that ... http://blog.earnmydegree.com/the-lesson-as-always/ In my day, grandpa might say, things were different. We knew what we were about. Good was good, bad was bad. Okay, Gramps, you salty old bastard, but it's not like it was all black and white, nazis and nuns. Things are always simpler when they've already happened, when they're ... http://blog.earnmydegree.com/whats-worse-superheroes-pt-4-the-deadliest-pets-on-earth/ Invisible Man v Hawkman This is the classic match-up. First conceived and told by John Hodgman on the Superpowers episode of This American Life (#178, thought by many, including this blog, to be perhaps the best episode ever), the question posited there is: Which is better: The power of flight or the ... http://blog.earnmydegree.com/whats-worse-the-deadliest-jobs-on-earth-superheroes-pt-3/ For a second time, we're drawing on the gold mine that is Gone & Forgotten (seriously, there's so much there; it's an epic collection of comic book recounts and interpretations). In terms of career path, longevity, benefits, etc, today's pairing draws from two very different skill sets and overal ambitions: Skateman ... http://blog.earnmydegree.com/whats-worse-the-deadliest-jobs-on-earth-superheroes-pt-2/ The inspiration for today's What's Worse? entry comes from a marvelous website called Gone & Forgotten. The site details, in turn, a collection of obscure/failed/bad comic book series, and is edited by the unbelievably knowledgeable and sarcastic Calamity John. A forthcoming What's Worse? will examine the question of superpowers; but today, ... http://blog.earnmydegree.com/whats-worse-the-deadliest-jobs-on-earth-superheroes-pt-1/ It's made the internet rounds pretty comprehensively over the past few days, but the 9-minute video of Tom Cruise promoting Scientology has been taken down in a lot of places -- likely due to accusations of copyright infringement. [Hence, rather than embed the video here, the link above will take ... http://blog.earnmydegree.com/i-got-your-pts-right-here-check-it-peace-ksw-4-life/ Clown v Astronaut As with Part 4, today's central question--what's worse, being a clown or being an astronaut--is broken up into a series of smaller questions, all of which turn on the matter of deadly or deadliest. The answers are personal, relative to your own likes and (especially) fears; nonetheless, visuals ... http://blog.earnmydegree.com/whats-worse-the-deadliest-jobs-on-earth-pt-5/ Trash Collector v Private Investigator This seems like a fun, sarcastic pairing, at first. But, for the purposes of What’s Worse? the Deadliest Jobs on Earth, right away there are problems. Deadliest? How deadliest is the private investigatorial profession? Barely, it turns out. And garbage men? Not so fatal. When you look ... http://blog.earnmydegree.com/whats-worse-the-deadliest-jobs-on-earth-pt-4/ Every year, the Onion’s AV Club puts out a collection of the Worst Band Names the staff encountered over the course of the year, and this annum’s list is really, really funny. The bands are categorized under headers, eg, Just Plain Bad - Dyslexic Speedreaders Funk - Hubble Funk-o-Scope Wookies? - Legowookie These are band names ... http://blog.earnmydegree.com/the-hobbits-of-the-shire-vs-pistol-whipping-party-penguins/