Bevan

First, I don’t know. Honestly. I’ve thought about this a lot and I’ve got to believe there is more to it than just the standard descriptive terms (wet, refreshing, cool, etc.). I mean, we all have fun in water, but I’m literally drawn to water.

I love oceans and lakes and rivers and pools and waterfalls and puddles. I love getting in them, I like being next to them, I like looking at them. They calm me, they give me energy, they make me smile.

Luckily, I married a girl that also likes them about as much as I do. We take just about every opportunity we can to pack up the car and head to water.

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As my sister (crazyamy — yeah it’s one word) pointed out, my name “bevan” is listed in Google 3 million times (that means I’m awesome). What annoys me, however, is how bevan.net lost the top spot in Google since I rolled out this stupid lemming blog after having one of the sweetest websites of all time.

Now I, Bevan, am left having to post meaningless text about bevan in order to get this site back up to the top.

To help me get back to the top (where I deserve to be), please link back to this site with a simple link like this:
bevan

You may also append “is awesome”, “used to be hot 10 years ago”, and “will always be awesome though” to the linked text. Just so long as it has “bevan” in there.

Don’t you hate it when you get an moth in your caramel apple. I know I do. Thankfully there are pesticides that can take care of it — and you too.

Why I Don’t Live In California

Some time in each of our lives we are going to have the opportunity to be on the giving or receiving end of the letters p-w-n. For me, the first experience was back in grade school when I got slapped by a younger kid in front of about 10 other kids. But back then, the letter combination didn’t exist, and so for years I considered the experience simply “humiliating”. Today I look back and realize that I wasn’t just “humiliated”, I was “pwned”.

Until now, there has never been a word in the English language that best describes these types of experiences. But thanks to gamers that frequently dominate or are “owned” by others (and have no qualms about bragging openly), the term “pwn” was born. You pwn, you get pwned, he pwns others, we were pwning, and that’s some serious pwnage.

Let me illustrate the definition of this word with a few visual examples:

I don’t remember the first motivational poster I had to look at on the job. Needless to say, I’ve been forced to look at a lot of them.

With the exception of “Make it Happen” which always makes me laugh because of the history behind that phrase (more on that later), most “motivational posters” do nothing to motivate. I’d venture to state that in most cases, they probably demotivate — which is probably why the company Despair has been so successful selling their pessimistic posters.

These are probably my top 10 favorite demotivational posters:

Don’t agree? Think you’ve seen something funnier or more clever?