Sickness and BEvERages

Bkarghfsxgjdsng. Being sick legitemately sucks. Also, even though the first month of the semester isn't over yet, midterm season has apparently started.

In far more awesome news, my professional engineering project is currently (more on that later) finding a way to keep a beer keg cool and distribute it to everyone better. As long as my professor doesn't decide that it isn't professional enough, no idea WHY he'd do that. :D
-Mysterious Penguin

Extra Extra

Read all about it! My first article has been published in the Plumbline, my universities engineering newspaper! Sure the entire thing is a satirical rag that people wouldn't wrap fish and chips in, but hey, front page! Without further ado, I present,

Save the Dutch!

My fellow engineers. Our brave dyke-building cousins, the Dutch, are in need of our assistance. A terrible new disease is sweeping through the Dutch people, like an ocean crashing through an improperly maintained dyke, spilling out onto the hamlets and villas below, crushing the villagers trying to run in their wooden clogs. This disease is ODADCD (Obsessive Doodling and Drinking Coffee Disorder), a mental disorder which causes the victim to doodle obsessively on everything they find, including windmills and stroopwaffels, and drink coffee constantly. The poor victim becomes like an addict, doing anything they can to try to get their fix of coffee and when without a pen, doodling with everything in arm's reach, from kroketten to peppernoten. When I asked an ODADCD victim recently how it affected her life she said, "Ask me when I'm less distracted", then went back to drawing oranges playing soccer. We here at the CNDCADWODADCD (The Centre for Non-Dutch Concerned About Dutch with Obsessive Doodling and Drinking Coffee Disorder) are begging you for any help you can give to help bring an end to this calamity. We are also accepting volunteers to donate their time to help spread the word about this cruel disorder, they would be well compensated with liquorice. You can reach us at 1-800-ODADCD or through our offices at Beverenstraat 61, Amsterdam, 020 4083013.

Enjoy!

-Mysterious Penguin

P.S. Don't call that number. I mean it. Really. Don't.

The secret to a successful webcomic

A lot of time has passed since my last blogpost, as seems to be the general pattern...but here I am, now in university, and two of my friends have started up a webcomic. This is a rather familiar process to me, since I have attempted to start up three so far. It is in fact so familar that I have come to see the inevitable pattern of these webcomics.
1. Make a website after considerable arguing over name/style of webcomic/pennames/who's doing what etc.
2. Ceremonial first post saying that you will be starting soon and hope your 'readers' stick around (this is around where most people fail and give up)
3. Make first comic
4. Delay second comic.
5. Give up.

My two friends however seem to have not heard of my wonderful 5 step plan. They instead followed their own plan, which consisted of
1. Make a website
2. Start drawing and posting webcomics
Despite the obvious shortcoming of only being 2 steps long, somehow they are not only continuing to update regularly, they are beginning to have people visit them.

Since I'm a sucker for pimpin' others peoples site, here you go.
Sure this blog has almost no readers (that I know of), but hey, you never know what might help :3

Well, I'll post again in a couple of years!

-Mysterious Penguin

P.S. I had to get the artist of the webcomic to help me come up with that pen name. Oh the irony. (It was Rah btw)