Up the Tree

Author: Funtime Ben

  • Gravatars? What the hell are Gravatars?

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    If you choose to comment on this site, you’ll notice a little icon next to your name. That little icon is a “Gravatar” – it’s an avatar for every website that runs WordPress and hopefully more websites in the future. But unless you have a Gravatar you won’t have your own icon and instead I’ll…

  • Barack the Frack Up

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    Feels good to vote, although I am totally nervous about the outcome. C’mon America, don’t be dumb. These kids were too young to vote, but decided to take their beliefs to the streets, urging people to vote because they couldn’t.

  • The Turtle Puppet & The Particle Collider

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    So occasionally, someone in my improv group LD & The Scientist gets an idea and we make a video. Dave, the voice behind the puppet, literally said “I have a puppet idea about a particle accelerator.” Everything from the particle accelerator information to my horrible German accent was improvised on the spot — the only…

  • Going Old School

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    So a few of you have commented that the site is now in the default WordPress theme Kubrick. You are right. I noticed the other day that the site, now 6 years old, was loading the homepage in 30 seconds. I wasn’t sure what was making the site slow, so I went back to the…

  • Let’s Get Serious for A Moment

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    As many of you know, I have been taking classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and performing comedy in New York for the last two years. I’ve stayed mostly quiet about this because, well, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with comedy. You guys all know me as the funnier half of…