The Grumpy Room

I just recently learned about the web series The Legend of Neil. The Legend of Neil is a story about a guy who gets drunk one night and ends up trapped inside of the world of Hyrule from The Legend of Zelda. He finds himself playing the role of Link and begins his quest to [...]

I always knew our minds were capable of getting us into trouble, especially when dealing with money. On Cracked.com today there is an article discussing logical fallacies that cost us money (warning science involved). Our brains are dooming us in so many ways and we are powerless to stop them. It is an excellent (and [...]

This post is a bit overdue from the new year, but I finally remembered to post it. There is a group at Lake Superior State University that “banishes” a set of words every year. The 2010 list of banned words includes words like czar, tweet, teachable moment, and using friend as a verb. You can [...]

This is why I think people are stupid. My friend just sent me an article about people getting depressed after watching Avatar. I think it isn’t so much that people are depressed after the movie, but because they “have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty [...]

Have you ever wanted a site that would provide you a big long list of badasses and would give you another one every week? Well guess what, there IS such a site. You should check out Badass of the Week. It is a wondrous collection of badassery. Perhaps the most badass of all the badasses [...]

Since it is the beginning of the new year and many people are hopefully still striving to fulfill some sort of resolution, I decided to comment on something that is probably not part of anyone’s resolutions. A while ago while watching CBS Sunday Morning I saw a place called Heart Attack Grill. This place is [...]

I was checking out CNN today and I came across this article. So apparently in the interest of keeping up its standards, Beautiful People started kicking out various members who became “fatties” over the holidays. Maybe it is just me but such a site seems silly. Perhaps I am just jealous because I would have [...]

I was watching the Sugar Bowl last night, and while enjoying the thorough beat-down of Cincinnati by the Gators, I saw a commercial for the Motorola DROID. Now I have seen the DROID many times before, but for some reason (probably Dan’s massive TV) we noticed in the fine print the following statements: DROID is [...]

While I was in Florida someone, who shall remain nameless, forced me to listen to a song called Fireflies by Owl City. You can see the music video for the song here. You can tell they are super classy because they disabled embedding of their video. If you get this stuck in your head I [...]

The Oatmeal is another really hilarious website I keep an eye on created by Matthew Inman. Personally I think this should be required reading for all my students. I don’t claim to be perfect but is it really THAT HARD to write in English? Perhaps another one of my favorite comics from The Oatmeal is [...]