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<title><![CDATA[Exploremos entonces...]]></title>
<link>http://sinaptico.wordpress.com/?p=221</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>javiherrero</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Calvin &amp; Hobbes!]]></title>
<link>http://wynkenx.wordpress.com/?p=384</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>wynkenx</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[My all-time favorite comic strips! Downloaded the whole 1985-1995 archive from the Internet last nig]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My all-time favorite comic strips! Downloaded the whole 1985-1995 archive from the Internet last night. 10years worth of Calvin &#38; Hobbes! What could be better than this? Outrageously funny, I mean this could be the BEST comic strips in the world!</p>
<p>Randomly selected few strips here:</p>
[caption id="attachment_385" align="aligncenter" width="410" caption="Guess Kampar fellas will identify with this eh? Hehe.."]<img class="size-full wp-image-385 " src="http://wynkenx.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/ch860219.gif" alt="Guess Kampar fellas will identify with this eh? Hehe.." width="410" height="134" />[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_386" align="aligncenter" width="410" caption="Would you still love me, if I did something bad?"]<img class="size-full wp-image-386 " src="http://wynkenx.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/ch860317.gif" alt="Would you still love me, if I did something bad?" width="410" height="136" />[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_387" align="aligncenter" width="410" caption="Pwn&#39;d!"]<img class="size-full wp-image-387 " src="http://wynkenx.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/ch860611.gif" alt="Pwn'd!" width="410" height="129" />[/caption]
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[caption id="attachment_388" align="aligncenter" width="410" caption="You never let me do ANYTHING!"]<img class="size-full wp-image-388 " src="http://wynkenx.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/ch851126.gif" alt="You never let me do ANYTHING!" width="410" height="130" />[/caption]
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[caption id="attachment_389" align="aligncenter" width="410" caption="Lost.."]<img class="size-full wp-image-389 " src="http://wynkenx.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/ch851221.gif" alt="Lost.." width="410" height="128" />[/caption]
<div class="mceTemp mceIEcenter" style="text-align:left;">Am so glad to find this piece of treasure last night! Like it too? Pass me your pendrive in campus next Monday.. xD</div>
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<title><![CDATA[.:Un meme:.]]></title>
<link>http://linkey.wordpress.com/?p=1359</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Linkey</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[En una de las tantas conversaciones de pasillo, que he tenido, hablando sobre Internet surgió un d]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>En una de las tantas conversaciones de pasillo, que he tenido, hablando sobre Internet surgió un día la pregunta <em>"¿qué es un meme?"</em>. Tomando ventaja de mis conocimientos ñoños sobre el tema di una definición artesanal de lo que esto quiere decir.</p>
<p>Un meme se trata básicamente de un "elemento" que se hace famoso en Internet por medio de diferentes medios/servicios de audio y/o video. <a href="http://video.aol.com/">De</a> <a href="http://video.google.com/">esos</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/">que</a> <a href="http://www.metacafe.com/">abundan</a> <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/">hoy</a> <a href="http://blip.tv/">en</a> <a href="http://www.tu.tv/">día</a> y que permiten que "algo" se vuelva popular en cosa de horas. Para una definición más formal los invito a pasar por <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenómeno_de_Internet">aquí</a>.</p>
<p>Una vez aclarado el término, será pertinente dar algunos ejemplos para que mas menos se hagan una idea de lo que estamos hablando.</p>
<p><strong>.:Dance Baby:.</strong><br />
El primer meme que recuerdo haber visto, por allá por el año 1997, era un bebé bailando tal cual como se muestra en el siguiente video:</p>
<p align="center"><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/2W4EBoQmWPs'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/2W4EBoQmWPs&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>Claro que para aquel entonces servicios como Youtube aún no se inventaban por lo que este bebé bailando era básicamente un GIF animado en (si mi memoria no me falla) 12 frames.</p>
<p><strong>.:Hampster Dance:.</strong><br />
El segundo corresponde a "Hampster Dance" (1998), el cual era en sus inicios un <a href="http://www.webhamster.com/">fondo para páginas webs</a> proporcionado por Geocities.</p>
<p>Un día <em>Deidre LaCarte</em> diseño una página llamada "Hamsterdance" para su mascota, llamada <em>Hampton Hamster</em>, utilizando el fondo proporcionado por Geocities. </p>
<p>Tiempo después decide agregar un sonido (dedodedo.wav) a la página, el cual proviene de los créditos iniciales de la película "Whistle Stop" de Disney. Por problemas legales el sonido tuvo que ser retirado, pero antes de ello se registraban, en promedio, 4 visitas diarias a su página, sin embargo de manera inesperada, el número de visitas se disparó a 15.000 por día.</p>
<p>La melodía, junto a los hamsters, se hizo conocido gracias al correo electrónico y las primeras formas de blogs que existieron en aquellos años. A partir de ello nació el meme de Hampster Dance.</p>
<p>A continuación puedes revisar un video musical (si, ¡porque hasta un single sacó!) del fenómeno:</p>
<p align="center"><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/6eVK_hADxNQ'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/6eVK_hADxNQ&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
<p><strong>.:All your base are belong to us:.</strong><br />
Por otro lado, no puedo dejar de mencionar el meme de "All you base are belong to us". Uno de mis favoritos (¿por ser de videojuegos?) y que se trata de una mala traducción de una frase del japonés al inglés (Engrish). El origen de esta proviene del juego "Zero Wing" para Arcadia, PC y Sega Mega Drive.</p>
<p>El dialogo en cuestión es el siguiente:</p>
<p align="center"><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/h4AuN6pN1kY'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/h4AuN6pN1kY&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
<blockquote><p>In A.D. 2101<br />
War was beginning.<br />
Captain: What happen ?<br />
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.<br />
Operator: We get signal.<br />
Captain: What!<br />
Main screen turn on.<br />
Captain: It's you!!<br />
Cats: How are you gentlemen!!<br />
<strong>All your base are belong to us.</strong><br />
Cats: You are on the way to destruction.<br />
Captain: What you say!!<br />
Cats: You have no chance to survive.<br />
Cats: Make your time.<br />
Cats: Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha....</p></blockquote>
<p>La traducción de japonés a inglés provoca ciertos problemas al hacerlo de inglés a español:<br />
All you base are belong to us = Todas sus bases son pertenecen a nosotros.</p>
<p>Apróximaciones a la traducción sugieren que podría haber sido "We have taken over all of your bases" (Sus bases están totalmente bajo nuestro control).</p>
<p>Sin duda, la traducción no fue realizada de manera correcta y, para nos desviarnos del tema, esto provocó que se convirtiera en un fenómeno cultural en Estados Unidos. La frase ha originado merchandising que va desde <a href="http://www.blakespot.com/images/geekshirts/all_your_base_large.jpg">poleras</a> hasta <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Chapa_All_your_base_are_belong_to_us.jpg">chapitas</a>, si hasta hay <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/stealthdude/AYBABTU.gif">una parodia de Calvin &#38; Hobbes</a> que no tiene ningun desperdicio.</p>
<p>Y como era de esperarse, un video musical con el remix de la frase que consolido al equipo traductor detrás del juego:</p>
<p align="center"><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/qItugh-fFgg'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/qItugh-fFgg&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
<p><strong>.:Rick Roll:.</strong><br />
Para nuestro siguiente meme, es necesario ver el siguiente video de Rick Astley con su canción llamada "Never Gonna Give You Up", la cual muchos debe conocer:</p>
<p align="center"><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/eBGIQ7ZuuiU'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/eBGIQ7ZuuiU&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>Este meme nacio de una forma que resulta poco habitual a lo que estamos acostumbrado, muy diferente también a los mencionados anteriormente.</p>
<p>En primer lugar, en un foro o conversación por chat, ya sea por IRC o servicio de mensajería instantanea de turno puede haber un tema de discusión entre los participantes. Si es necesario se recurre a Internet para apoyar alguna idea que queda en el aire, y mostrarsela a los demás, pero que pasa si...</p>
<blockquote><p>A: ¿Acaso te parece mal?<br />
B: Yo creo que eso, no debería ser así.<br />
A: Creo que estás equivocado, mira la siguiente página y en la parte inferior te podrás dar cuenta a lo que me refiero.<br />
A: <a href="http://smouch.net/lol/">http://smouch.net/lol/</a><br />
B: Dejame ver.<br />
A: You've been Rick Rolled :P</p></blockquote>
<p>Situaciones como estas fueron las que llevaron a Rick Astley a convertirse en un meme. Fue tanto así que la palabra <em>"Rick Roll"</em> fue inventada y posteriormente asociada a su canción.</p>
<p>Y, al igual que los demas memes, varios videos de gente siendo <em>"Rick Rolleada"</em> aparecieron, entre ellos podemos mencionar al <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cNS-15blQI">Señor Burns de los Simpsons</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLAwSsGEsrA">Bender</a> de Futurama, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrrPiJbaEgs">una secundaria completa</a> en Estados Unidos, una persona <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4YvMVATFgA">que vende cosas por teléfono </a> (demoró bastanta en Rick Rollearla) o el mismo Youtube, cuando este año para el primero de Abril (April fools' Day), <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpPhnECPe2I">todos sus videos en portada se autodirigian al video de Rick Astley</a> (Epic Rick Roll!). Tampoco puedo dejar de mencionar una de mis favoritas que <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfkuvqIqPYk">corresponde a los Muppets</a> (la sincronización de las voces es casi perfecta)</p>
<p><strong>.:Caramelldansen:.</strong><br />
Ya para terminar con un meme más actual. Quiero mencionar a Caramelldansen, el cual comenzó a hacerse popular durante el segundo semestre del 2006. Este fenómeno tiene como protagonistas a dos personajes de la serie animada Popotan, más especificamente del juego para PC en donde podemos encontrar la siguiente secuencia:</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://linkey.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/caramelldansen.gif" border="1" alt="Caramelldansen" /></p>
<p>Dicha secuencia fue capturada en formato GIF y se le agregó la música de Caramelldansen, que corresponde a un grupo de nombre homónimo al tema. La canción original <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Caramelldansen.ogg">es la siguiente</a>. </p>
<p>No obstante para hacer más amena la animación, se utilizo el Speedycake Remix, el cual es  una versión más rápida de la canción original. El resultado fue el siguiente:</p>
<p align="center"><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/UX6e7sO1ss0'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/UX6e7sO1ss0&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>Después de que el flash se hiciera famoso por sitios como <a href="http://www.4chan.org/">4chan</a> y <a href="http://www.youtube.com/">Youtube</a>, se comenzó a asociar el término "Caramelldansen" a los personajes de Popotan con su particular baile, quienes se les conocía también como "Popotan Dance" o "Popotan Dansen". Después del 2008 su popularidad crecio de manera exponencial en Japón gracias al siguiente video:</p>
<p align="center"><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/SFwtumD9quI'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/SFwtumD9quI&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>Junto con ello diferentes versiones de Caramelldansen comenzaron a surgir en Youtube, como por ejemplo la de <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3JbM9TRaRI">Gundam 00</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr3esd05w-4">Resident Evil</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ajV5LOB9Zo">Super Smash Bros</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tghOuKhFxc">Persona 3</a>, entre otras.</p>
<p>Cabe destacar que el fenómeno no se limita a animaciones, sino que se extiende hasta el mundo real, con versiones como <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgzRRP2c9zY">esta</a> o la siguiente:</p>
<p align="center"><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/g0dIpYw75jA'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/g0dIpYw75jA&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span><br />
(Puede resultar pertubador ver a un Trooper bailando Caramelldansen :P )</p>
<p>Finalmente, para cerrar la entrada, cabe destacar que dejé muchos memes de lado, como <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWSjUe0FyxQ">"Leave Britney alone"</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5zWaTEVkI">"Ok Go"</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Blendtec">"Will it Blend" </a>con su juguera (querida por muchos, odiada por otros), "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60og9gwKh1o">Numa Numa"</a> y ¡muchos mas!. No obstante, <a href="http://www.dipity.com/user/tatercakes/timeline/Internet_Memes/embed_tl?fs=1">pueden revisar la siguiente página</a>, la cual contiene la mayoría de los memes que han existido en un atractivo diseño usando una linea del tiempo.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Adjacence]]></title>
<link>http://waltzinexile.wordpress.com/?p=99</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>waltzinexile</dc:creator>
<guid>http://waltzinexile.wordpress.com/?p=99</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Next to Godliness, my foot.  Next to insanity, more like it.  Get out the camera and the goats turn ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Next to Godliness, my foot.  Next to insanity, more like it.  Get out the camera and the goats turn into hams:<!--more--></p>
[caption id="attachment_112" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="Weird.  But clean!"]<a href="http://waltzinexile.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/yep_insanity.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-112" src="http://waltzinexile.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/yep_insanity.jpg" alt="But Clean!" width="420" height="309" /></a>[/caption]
<p>I just realized this picture doesn't have the greatest resolution.  Coupled with me not being the world's best photographer, and I'm surprised you can read so many of the bookshelf titles.  And someone in Atlanta ought to recognize one of those picture frames....</p>
<div class="mceTemp mceIEcenter" style="text-align:left;">Also, there's a pic of P2 on the shelf behind the goats (that I know you can't see very well, but trust me) in which he is making for that photo much the same face as this one.  Sometimes I feel like Calvin's mom (if she'd been cartoon-stupid enough to have another baby, anyway.)</div>
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<link>http://guidoq.wordpress.com/?p=63</link>
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<dc:creator>guidoq</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Leggete Calvin &amp; Hobbes!

Per esempio: Bill Watterson, L&#8217;attacco dei mostri di neve mutant]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Leggete <em><a href="http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/">Calvin &#38; Hobbes</a></em>!</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://guidoq.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/ch.pdf"></a><a href="http://guidoq.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/ch.gif"></a><a href="http://guidoq.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/ch.gif"></a><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-69" src="http://guidoq.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/ch1.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="284" /></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Per esempio: <em>Bill Watterson, </em>L'attacco dei mostri di neve mutanti (Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons)<em>, Comix (Franco Cosimo Panini Editore) 2005, traduzione di Nicoletta Pardi, 128 pagine, € 13.</em></p>
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<link>http://asmallx.wordpress.com/?p=9</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mike Goldense</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Much love to Bill Watterson. Click for full-size.
So, I have this weird aspect of my personality in ]]></description>
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<p>So, I have this weird aspect of my personality in regards to the way I live life: I'm always thinking about what'll be going through my mind as life flashes before my eyes when I lie dying.</p>
<p>Well, that sounds a bit morbid. I'm not ALWAYS thinking of that. For instance, when I make a sandwich, I'm not particularly debating the long-lasting importance of my actions. Instead, I'm debating what to put on it, and how much mustard I'd like on said sandwich.</p>
<p>But, I'm often thinking about what "will make better memories," to quote Calvin in the above strip.</p>
<p>In my last essay, I spoke about "busting cycles," and how I feel that is important to do from time-to-time. To me, busting cycles by spontaneously breaking your routine is to your day-to-day life as wedding photos are to snapshots.</p>
<p>You could have a beautiful wedding photo: everyone's dressed up nice, with their hair professionally done. You're in front of some very pretty natural background. You're posed for near-perfection.</p>
<p>But then there are snapshots: those pictures taken spontaneously when the subject had no idea it was coming. This could be the person you love laughing while eating Chinese food on your couch, or perhaps your brother telling you a joke at a barbecue with you, beer in hand, smiling as wide as you ever have.</p>
<p>These snapshots of our lives have always meant much more to me than posed photographs; and I know I'm not the first to say this, but I'd like to publically declare my love for snapshots. Snapshots are bright little bits of life that we can capture and keep in our hands, like fireflies. They show us as we really are. They make us smile because they were unexpected, but turned out wonderfully.</p>
<p>This is exactly my attitude on "busting cycles": unexpected, but wonderful. Life's like those wedding photos: it can be great, but it's planned. You get up, go to work, pay bills, see person X at Y o'clock, etc.</p>
<p>These captured bits of our spontaneous, yet lovely lives that we lead are, in the end, what we'll cherish most. Sure, that fancy, romantic dinner with your wife was a really good night, but wasn't there something beautiful about that night you and her couldn't catch a cab in New York City while the rain poured down on you? Her makeup was running, and both of you had drenched hair. Your clothes were soaking wet, and it was a bit uncomfortable. But you were laughing. Neither of you could help it.</p>
<p>You were laughing.</p>
<p>That sounds a lot more like something that I'd cherish and keep with me till the end of my days. Knowing I feel this way, I often think that these are the things that'll be flashing before my eyes as I pass on. I'll be imagining the moment I first kissed my wife, that time we were smiling and joking like little kids while we ate breakfast at midnight, the time my children had a snow-day, so I called out of work to play with them under the purifying white blanket the clouds were knitting for the soil.</p>
<p>In the end, you've gotta just be the best person you can be, and enjoy life as much as you can. There's things you have to do, but the things you <em>want</em> to do shouldn't have to be planned as much. Don't make everything a wedding photo. Take a snapshot every once in a while.</p>
<p>After all, what more can you ask for out of life than a life worth remembering?</p>
<p>Thanks again for reading. Keep the love alive, everyone.</p>
<p>- Mike</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Comic Genius of Calvinism]]></title>
<link>http://todayshistorylesson.wordpress.com/?p=253</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[The world would not have been right if I didn&#8217;t make a mention of Bill Watterson.  Born on]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The world would not have been right if I didn't make a mention of Bill Watterson.  Born on July 5, 1958, Watterson is another one of those guys that some of you might wonder about, at least until I mention his brain-child.  It's my favorite comic strip of all time...<em>Calvin and Hobbes</em>, which ran from November of 1985 until the last day of 1995.</p>
<p>I absolutely love <em>Calvin and Hobbes</em>.  I sit down and re-read the strips and laugh and laugh...and laugh some more.  Watterson drew on some of his own childhood experiences to create Calvin, a precocious little boy with a colossal imagination who terrorized his parents, his teacher Ms. Wormwood, his babysitter Rosalyn, and the little neighbor girl Susie Derkins.  His constant companion was Hobbes, a stuffed tiger that was alive only to Calvin.</p>
<p>Calvin often struggled with issues like death, the meaning of life, God, commercialism, and modern materialism, and Hobbes was usually there with some response that should have provided (but often didn't) perspective and resolution to Calvin.  The star of the strip possessed a huge vocabulary, but couldn't be bothered to do the simplest of homework assignments.  He spent most school-time hours day-dreaming that he was Spaceman Spiff, saving the galaxies in his spaceship, or Stupendous Man.</p>
<p>I think the comic strip was outrageously funny, and picking my favorites out of 10 years of material is pretty difficult.  He and Hobbes play this hysterical make-the-rules-as-you-go game called Calvinball.  His creation of a cardboard-box Transmogrifier was hilarious.  But I think my favorite strips involved Calvin eating bowls of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs and the time when he ordered a beanie with a little propreller that he thought would make him fly.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Watterson" target="_blank">Watterson</a> created a winner with <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes" target="_blank">Calvin and Hobbes</a></em>, and the numerous awards he won prove it.  He steadfastly refused to merchandize the characters, believing that slapping them on a lunchbox or a T-shirt or creating movies about them destroyed the purity of the strip.  So the comic strip is all we have.  But as far as I'm concerned, the comic strip is all we need.</p>
<p>Happy Birthday, Bill Watterson!!</p>
<p><em>Recommended Reading: Find any of the numerous Calvin and Hobbes comic strip books at your local bookstore.  Better yet, get the <a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Complete-Calvin-and-Hobbes/Bill-Watterson/e/9780740748479/?itm=6" target="_blank">complete anthology</a>...I received it as a gift and it's awesome.</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Asi es esto, hm!]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em><span style="color:#333333;"> Me sumerjo en la metáfora para que los demás entiendan lo evidente. Me envuelvo en palabras y apariencias esperando a que los otros descubran mi rostro. No tengo nada que esconder pero eludo la obviedad para que ésta aparezca limpiamente.</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="color:#333333;"> Me resisto a aceptar eso que llaman realidad como lo cierto y lo tangible.</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="color:#333333;"> Soy un neo soñador, un revolucionario adolorido, un amador irremediable, un grito en medio de este mar de sordos y me complazco al descubrir que no estoy solo en mis necedades. Siempre que me encuentre a alguien que piense y sienta en semejanza y sintonía con mi canción, lo invitare a subirse a un tren, a un barco, a un párrafo, a cruzar conmigo el mar a pie, que a fin de cuentas es lo mismo, para emprender una aventura imaginable.</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="color:#333333;"> Como sea, los demás ya nos llaman locos, y los que no... Nos miran como si estuviésemos en mente ya unidos.</span></em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Calvin and Hobbes - Story for Dad]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Calvin and Hobbes - Futility of War]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[spaceman spiff]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Calvin and Hobbes - Monopoly]]></title>
<link>http://sajwan.wordpress.com/?p=182</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Calvin and Hobbes - Combustion]]></title>
<link>http://sajwan.wordpress.com/?p=178</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Calvin and Hobbes - Bobsledge]]></title>
<link>http://sajwan.wordpress.com/?p=176</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Calvin and Hobbes - Clean Room]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Calvin and Hobbes - Bed Bugs]]></title>
<link>http://sajwan.wordpress.com/?p=165</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Calvin and Hobbes - Bread]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Calvin and Hobbes - Tyrannosaurus]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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