Epic Swiss Fricking Glacier Goddam Goggles!!!! (now with pictures)

Today I received a very, very exciting package in the mail.

In this package was a tiny tin can.

Inside this tin can, was the most awesome thing I have ever owned.

Antique Swiss glacier goggles.

I am badass :D

-Mysterious Penguin

Life is a damn crazy thing.

So I've been holding up posting because of very exciting news. I have a place to live next year! Its a house of eight engineers, seven guys and one girl, in every year possible, and a wide variety of streams. In other words, a fucking crazy party house fun time! However, the very night I was supposed to sign the lease, my father got a call from the transplant office, telling him to come down to the hospital (he's been on the list for years, but now has finally gotten it).
So, instead of my dad and mom coming down to see the house, my sister came down to see it for them, and as we were winning our first gold medal on our own soil, my dad was getting admitted to surgery.
I'm happy to report that the surgery went AOK and he is now recovering nicely. But well, my plans for a fun-filled reading week have slightly evaporated, and I am exhausted.

-Mysterious Penguin

Ow. My head

I can't really remember last night. There was lots of toasting and cheering. And I think I found a house. While drunk. I'm going to go get some food now. MMMMMMMM

Steampunk Fireballs and Facebook Pictures

Holy shit on a stick, life has gotten crazy busy recently. Not only do I have a metric shit ton of work and midterms and assignments to do, I've been going to social after social. Most recently was Fireball, the engineering formal where everyone is at least 19, and you get three free drink tickets. Needless to say, that was a very, very good night. I also am going to a medieval reenactment society meeting thing (read being dragged along by a friend), and am anticipating the arrival of a pair of very nifty goggles soon, for the coolest project ever, a steampunk costume.
In terms of facebook, its kind of sad that I post so few pictures myself that my parents actually wonder whether or not there is something between me and whoever is posting the most pictures with me in at the time. (Yes Sharayah, they thought we were 'more then friends', and yes, this is about all I'm going to post about you. You need to give me stuff to post about next time :D).

-Mysterious Penguin

P.S. You know, you never see ragamuffin steampunk, its always high class victorian, never the underbelly. Sarah, get on that :P

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)