And I'm just standing on the end of a pier

Carried out another week on my humor blog. You might be wondering, hey, did I give up on the ``March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing'' yet, since it's not March and the deliberately clumsy name wasn't as funny as it seemed it should be? No, I have not. I want to do at least 16 of these pairwise matchups before retiring the thing. Also I may retool it to something not March-themed because it turns out the format has been an enjoyable one to play with. Here's the roster of stuff published on my humor blog this past week. Yes, Mary Worth is being strange for some reason.

• MiSTed: What To Invent (part 2 of 3)


• March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Sycophants vs 24-bit Computing


• Statistics Saturday: Some April Holidays


• 60s Popeye: Olive Drab and the Seven Sweapeas (Seven! Count 'em! Because we lose one somewhere)


• Statistics March: How Much People Want Me To Explain Comic Strips To Them


• What's Going On In Mary Worth? What is this ‘school management' thing? January - April 2021


• March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Hegelian Synthesis vs the United States of America


• MiSTed: What To Invent (part 3 of 3)

Now to finish off Friday's pictures at Motor City Furry Con ...

bunny_hugger standing on the dance floor, with a ring around each of her heads.

Fellow in the background had color-changing lights in the suit, including a glowing ring in his chest.

Very blurry picture, but the best I could do. This dancer had a transparent plastic rabbit-face-and-mask, with LEDs to illuminate and refract through the whole, which gave it a wonderful science-fiction look.

And since that's not enough, here's the start of photos from Saturday at the con! Nothing of the breakfast buffet; we just get right to the fursuit parade prep.

Watching for the parade to start. Also, this is the couch area that ended up being the turnaround point for the parade.

The parade before the parade: people rushing off to get to the ballroom in time.

This was a memorable figure, a cherry-red fox with some cherry props.

Trivia: It is unknown how phosphorous causes ``phossy jaw'', the occupational hazard of those working with white phosphorous. White phosphorous is now banned and unused, modern workplace safety protocols make the contamination needed for it unlikely, and attempts at reproducing the disease in rats lead to no conclusions. Source: The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire, and Phosphorous, John Emsley. (Wikipedia cites a 2008 paper indicating a likely mechanism, and which postdates the writing of this book. I imagine it's likely not to be proven conclusively, though.)

Currently Reading: Miscellaneous comic books. I'd picked up a couple back in December, along the way to buying Christmas presents, and never got around to reading them. One of the Casper books has a great premise for a story: Santa's been replaced with some efficiency-minded business-management corporate strategist! ... Or has he just turned mean and arrogant and hostile and cheap? And part of the story is the Elves just don't know, and Casper doesn't know how he can find out because, like, spying on Santa Claus? Anyway, the premise of ``Santa might have been replaced'' is such a good one it deserves to be ripped off^W^W used to inspire new stories.

PS: Reading the Comics, April 2, 2022: Pi Day Extra Edition, which I forgot to mention yesterday. Sorry.