What does it mean to be smart?
Believe it or not, the clunky robot was a part of Delaware's public school system's gifted program when he was just a little robot. Yeah, yeah... Hard to believe I know, but gifted none the less. Gifted with what? Who knows, those terms are not determined by the state... But for the record, it does say:
GIFTED

Recently I was introduced to a card game called "Set."

Want to feel average? Try to play a card game that's sponsored by Mensa. You make sets of three cards, based on 2 of the objects on the cards having 3 things in common, unless they have none of the three things in common, then they are a set... Or not...
it's confusing, but the clunky robot's girlfriend really likes it. So that basically means that the clunky robot likes it too.

Abraham Lincoln not only wore the tallest hat of any president, he also invented thanksgiving, well maybe he didn't invent it, but he sure made it official. And since he gave us turkey day, then by proxy, he is also responsible for Black Friday. The day that all Americans wake from a trance-like slumber in the wee hours of the morning to decend on the shopping malls and specialty stores. Dollars gripped tightly in fist, they spend.

It is in honor of Black Friday that clunkyrobot.com officially announces our first 2 peices of merchandise. Step up to flavor:

> Team Clunky t-shirt
> Team Clunky Messanger Bag

don't buy them to support me, buy them to support Lincoln. (and me)
More to come soon.

From McSweeney's:

"The War on Mumm-Ra is the focal point of the War on Terror. Let's put partisan politics aside. Let's forget about the sex scandals. Let's fight terror.

Thank you and God bless. Thundercats Ho!

As per request from Koby, a new team clunky desktop with a less-stark background.

[desktop] Team Clunky brown BG @ 1024px

In the same vein as photoshop tennis, which was invented by these people. I have a new image up in my illustrator tennis match with Razooll on baseboard.

Assembled from a ragtag group of young space children.
Team Clunky live in an orbital space station in geo-synchronus stasis over Atlanta, GA. There, The Clunky Robot, Bindle, Anna, The x-23 Security Robot, and a former Nasa Space Monkey all live together and get in crazy mis-adventures. Like the Monkey's, but without the music, and Mike Nesmith. But they do love the movie Repo Man, and white out.

>[desktop] Team:CLUNKY:GO! @ 1024 pixels wide

After the untimely death of our previous car, a good friend of mine Matt, was kind enough to loan us his beloved 1986 Nissan Stanza.

This car... is awesome. Awesome in the way that Breakin's Turbo was awesome, or maybe STILL IS awesome, who am I to say? When you step into the "cab" (and I say cab because even though this car is tiny teeny small, you still sit way up high like on an elephant, or a truck, but mostly an elephant) you know immediately that you are about to have a very different car experience, more different than you will ever be ready for. The way it's labored little engine struggles to go up hills only endears it to your heart even more.

It is in honor of this car, and Matt's kindness, that I have produced this:
a desktop for your enjoyment at 1600 pixels wide.

Clips from Will Ferrell's new movie Anchorman are up on the dreamworks site. Looks funny, even with the poop jokes.

Imagine walking down the street, as per usual you, like me, are keeping your head down. You notice a crack in the street, as you move forward the crack deepens, becomes larger, quickly whole chunks of asphalt are falling away to reveal a giant burning pit reaching deep into the center of the earth. Oh, don't forget the souls clinging hopelessly to the crumbling rock.

Well, you are either damned, or you've seen the work of Kurt Wenner.

Kurt Wenner used to work for NASA as an advanced scientific space illustrator! Easily the coolest job in art ever, he spent time illustrating proposed space vehicles and conceptual astronomic observations. Now he paints on streets. If you'll look at his gallery, most of the works are of giant holes opening up and swallowing walkers by into the depths of hell.
That's an interesting switch.

The universe is curved;
by the weight of gravity

from all things that have ever existed

and

all things in the universe are falling towards a single point in space

when all those things finally meet;
you can see god

it's been compressed
to the size of an atom.

It is on this day, the 19th of November 2003 that we mark as an occassion of rememberance. Our beloved car, Strawberry Shortcake, threw a rod on Sat. and was pronounced D.O.A. at Intown Auto Care by their questionably qualified technicians. The clunky robot does not recommend them.

On a lighter note.
Street Fighter turns 15 bitch!
15 years of Hadoken celebrated with japanese "candy toys," check the line-up. (via C-dub)

I feel like an old timey burgler when looking at Timeless Tales. A collection of lost photos found on the street, at fleamarkets, in hidden drawers of old cabinets. When you look at them, do you feel like an emotional criminal? I do. (via metafilter)

The fine people at Space Devices, have put a mission tranfer vehicle (MTV) for sale on ebay. It carries payloads into space, and tranfers them to something in Earth Orbit, and it could be yours for.... at least $250,000, and that price hasn't even reached the reserve yet.

- also
stephen hawking is selling his hot air balloon basket.

The most destructive force in the universe resides squarely in the center of our own galaxy. In fact, they live at the center of most, if not all galaxies. And are thought to be the reason galaxies exist at all, as well as the reason they die. That's awesome, and inspiring, to that point, another grouping of words:

- 2+2=4

While watching the 3 part Nova special The Elegant Universe based on the best selling book by Brian Greene(he's the new rock-god of physics), I was inspired to write these words and draw this image:
- Being a Puncture
- Unified.0

c.a.childers at apeinfinitum.net was kind enough to help me piece together the movable type that powers this box of movable type. Marvel at his ability to write, feel small while viewing his stylish sheeting, C to his SSing.

other clunky/ape collaborations:
- my guest artistry on his comic strip
- an embarrassing personal conflict exposed to the internet

the internet is terrific

The online design forum baseboard.net, a community of mac based designers and enthusiasts, brings all designers together for a massive collection of blended individual images combined to form The Basewall, version 01. Now they've started Basewall 02, with the theme "sanctuary." Look for a clunky robot section, see group comments here.