Sunday, August 31, 2008

CCCLXXXVI: Curiosity

©Lani Kai
Lani Kai: I was setting the alarm on my cell phone and somehow it set to 1:90pm
Trypto: the intended setting being?
Lani Kai: 8:00am
Lani Kai: I was curious to see when it would ring but I also need to wake up tomorrow so I had to change it...
Lani Kai: and I am unable to make it display 1:90 again
Trypto: a glitch in the matrix

Friday, August 29, 2008

CCCLXXXV: In which there is Confusion

©Lani Kai
Trypto: I don't get it
Lani Kai: what don't you get
Trypto: it
Lani Kai: what is "it"?
Trypto: ti, backwards
Lani Kai: oh okay
Lani Kai: everything makes sense now

Thursday, August 28, 2008

CCCLXXXIV: Not a Joke, a Way of Life

© Trypto
Lani Kai: kind of blurry
Lani Kai: but that's probably because you were already drunk
Trypto: they were deliciously blurry, much like your mom
Lani Kai: I think we need to move on to a new joke
Trypto: that's what your mom thought, but I corrected her

CCCLXXXIII: On Foreign Cuisine

©Lani Kai
Trypto: what do you call a Japanese fish eye?
Trypto: sushi eye!
Lani Kai: no, that's silly
Lani Kai: if anything it should be sashimi eye
Lani Kai: why are you so ignorant?
Trypto: don't get sassy-shimi with me

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

CCCLXXXII: Lame

© Lani Kai
Trypto: ew, what is that?
Lani Kai: your mom
Trypto: I know you are but what am I
Lani Kai: ew
Trypto: I know you are but what am I
Trypto: I know you are but what am I know you are but what am I know you are but what am I

Monday, August 25, 2008

CCCLXXXI: Yum Foods

© Lani Kai
Trypto: yum
Lani Kai: I have a feeling they're not particularly tasty
Trypto: use more soy sauce

Thursday, August 21, 2008

CCCLXXX: Thinking Green

© Lani Kai
Trypto: I don't beleaf it
Lani Kai: why are you in disbeleaf
Trypto: I never thought you'd branch out like this
Trypto: it makes me green with envy

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

CCCLXXIX: Puddlicious

©Lani Kai
Trypto: ooh, the cup looks like it's made of water
Trypto: sloooowly ooozing a puddle onto the table
Lani Kai: oooooooooze
Trypto: puddddddle

Thursday, August 07, 2008

CCCLXXVIII: A Touch of Pastel

© Lani Kai
Trypto: the water looks like you applied the pastel filter in Photoshop
Lani Kai: that's what it actually looks like
Trypto: and it's so...blue
Trypto: is this in Okinawa?
Lani Kai: well, it's not Okinawa proper
Lani Kai: but within the Okinawa Prefecture

CCCLXXVII: That's Hot

© Trypto
Trypto: how was your voyage to the Orient?
Lani Kai: hot
Trypto: like Paris Hilton?
Lani Kai: Paris Hilton is hot?
Trypto: like OMG totally!!!

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

CCCLXXVI: Not An Elephant

© svelteDR
svelteDR: I took a cool picture in india
Trypto: is it an elephant?
svelteDR: it's this plant that blooms once a year
svelteDR: and it blooms for one night
svelteDR: and then all the flowers are dead the next day
Trypto: woah

Monday, July 21, 2008

CCCLXXV: Familiar

© Trypto
Lani Kai: kind of looks like a flower
Trypto: you've seen this before...

Saturday, July 12, 2008

CCCLXXIV: Ghostbuster

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© Lani Kai
Trypto: how long was the exposure?
Lani Kai: 15 seconds
Trypto: that explains the ghosts in the upper right corner
Lani Kai: yeah
Trypto: either that or its an eeeeeeeevil train track
Trypto: notice the emphasis on eeeeeeeevil
Lani Kai: actually there's a dust spot on this image....
Trypto: eeeeeeeeeeevil
Lani Kai: I'm going to swap it for something without ghosts and without a dust spot

CCCLXXIII: Dodge and Burn

© Lani Kai
Trypto: describe this picture in one word
Lani Kai: HDR
Lani Kai: I hope one initialism is okay
Trypto: that's not a word
Lani Kai: Photoshopped
Trypto: why don't you "Photoshop" it until it's actually a coherent composition
Trypto: burn!
Trypto: and besides, Photoshopped isn't a word either

Thursday, July 10, 2008

CCCLXXII: On Climacticity

©Lani Kai
Trypto: that's nice
Trypto: although, a little anticlimactic
Trypto: there should be something there at the end of the passage
Trypto: like a giant crucifix
Trypto: or a naked person
Lani Kai: you know what else is anticlimactic?
Trypto: ...
Lani Kai: ok yeah that was pretty anticlimactic...

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

CCCLXXI: Lack of Initiative

© Lani Kai
Trypto: why don't you learn how to surf?
Lani Kai: I dunno
Lani Kai: I guess I never got around to it

Sunday, July 06, 2008

CCCLXX: Carrot Head

© Lani Kai
Trypto: what is that?
Trypto: it looks like a giant puppet
Lani Kai: is that a social commentary about the nature of policemen?
Trypto: he doesn't appear to have legs
Trypto: and his helmet says carrot

Monday, June 30, 2008

CCCLXIX: Lamp.jpg

© Trypto
Lani Kai: the filename and the focal point do not coincide
Trypto: ouch
Trypto: I hope the filename coincides with your head the next time you visit

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

CCCLXVIII: Avant-Garde

© Lani Kai
Lani Kai: it's a light fixture from directly underneath
Trypto: they have a Russian Suprematist influence
Lani Kai: they do?
Trypto: yes
Lani Kai: like El Lissitzky?
Trypto: Lissitzky is more typographic
Trypto: I was thinking Kazimir Malevich
Trypto: my typography professor was obsessed with Lissitzky
Trypto: but she was dumb and thought his name was Eli Ssitzky

Monday, June 09, 2008

CCCLXVII: Allergies

© Lani Kai
Trypto: AAAAH!!!!!!!
Trypto: BOATSE
Trypto: MY EYES!!!
Lani Kai: what, you're allergic to boats now?
Trypto: it was an allusion
Lani Kai: to what?
Trypto: goatse.cx***
Lani Kai: this reminds me of your old blog post in which you mention how allusions are a double-edged sword

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