The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

So, I'm starting to work on my presentation for HighEdWeb in October. My topic is the lessons we've learned in our redesign process. I'd like the presentation to be humorous but of real value. What keeps coming to me is that there has been a lot of good things, some bad things, and some really ugly things (can you say 'furloughs'?) throughout our process.

Last year, I brought the LOLs at HighEdWeb when I brought the LOLcats in my presentation. And of course, I want to continue the tradition, but maybe add to it. I started off with the idea of making demotivational type posters for my slides.

But I kept coming back to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (which by the way if you didn't know is the best movie ever made in any genre of all time with the possible exception of Terminator 2 which if I used that for my presentation would probably get me terminated. Just sayin'.).

Anyway... so I started thinking about maybe doing LOLcats and demotivational posters based on the movie. Sounds weird, right? I mean really weird.

So, I'm asking for your input here. I'm going to toss out a few examples that I threw together and I want you to let me know if it works or not. I also need to know if you'd get sick of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly LOLcats and posters after 45 minutes.

Here they are. Be honest! Funny? Not funny? Too wierd?

Leave comments on your opinion!

A Minion's Vacation

I can't say that none of this happened, because most of it did. I perhaps over-dramatized the things that my minion didn't do before he left. Perhaps.

However, if anything I under-dramatized what we did to his desk while he was gone. Seriously. Check it out:

Check out all the photos here.

Eight rolls of aluminum foil. Eight. Thank God it's cheap! We even foiled the inside of the drawers. I sure hope that I don't get in trouble for this. We'll recycle the aluminum, we promise!!

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We Lost

Congratulations, .eduGuru! You deserved to win!

Technical Difficulties

Like everything else in TFRL, this just happened.

I made the cartoons bigger and better, but when I uploaded them to Blogger, it shrunk them back down. I'm going to have to host the images elsewhere if I want them to be bigger. PITA.

So, while I figure out what to do about that, "please stand by". Feel free to sit if it's more comfortable. We will return to our regularly scheduled program shortly. Your call is important to us. Please remain on the line and the next available operator will take your call.

Oh, and if I hear 'do more with less' one more time, There. Will. Be. Cartoons.

Road to Nowhere

I was going to write a post about how fickle you folks are when it comes to commenting on this blog. But I figured that would sound needy, so I'll save that post with it's bar chart and stats for another day.

I hope you're not bored with budget woes, because I got a million cartoons about that. This one hasn't happened yet, but it will. When it does I'm sure I'll get in trouble in retrospect.



But what a long second it is...

I Don't Like Where This is Going

So... this probably isn't all that funny if you don't work in California, and it isn't funny in any way whatsoever if you do work in California, but it's our reality (and trust me, it'll be coming to a reality near you soon enough).

The first three panels are actually verbatim quotes from emails that our union has sent out concerning furloughs and layoffs over the past few weeks. The change in tone regarding layoffs did not escaped my attention.

The last panel is where this is all inexorably going.

I have 47 union seniority points. Just sayin'.