Was Thinking About Star Wars Again Today

From an Alien Perspective

     

     From an Alien Perspective by Jack Petersen.

     From an Alien Perspective is a fun little story about a group of crab-like aliens (Dejan) interacting with humans.  Iadog (the protagonist)  studies with Finnley (the human) in a galactic college.  Iadog was supposed to spy on the humans to learn what he could about their technology, physiology, weaknesses, etc.  But their species' value system is so different that Iadog can't even begin to fathom what is important, and what is not.

     When Iadog's superiors learn of his failure, they capture what they think is Finnley, but it ends up being an android.  They try to torture the human into submission, but their lack of understanding about basic human physiology, let alone not know that they had an android, leads them to more failure.  

     Finnley, for his part, is truly trying to educate the Dejan in hopes that they will leave their odd religious beliefs and join the interstellar community.

     This was a fun way to portray aliens.  We tend to want to portray them with human values and understanding, but Mr. Petersen does a good job at making them something completely different.  There are several short story with this download, but I could only review one, so I picked the first, and longest.

     I'd give it

Funny

Ready for school to start

What I got for Christmas

Ate way too much, lol.

Cat Jump Fails

I can't stop laughing.  Cats are so graceful, it's funny to see them biff it.

12 Days of Christmas

     Straight No Chaser is an incredible a capella group.  They have a great mix of humor and talented vocals.  Now that it's officially past Thanksgiving, I'll listen to Christmas music.  I get bored of the old, tired Christmas music, so I love when a group makes up a new Christmas song, or gives an old one a revitalized sound, but mostly I like funny remakes like this.

     This remake of the 12 Days of Christmas is great.  Give it a listen.

Writing Comics

Funny Dogs

Realistic Mario

This video made me laugh too much.  Pete Homes' stuff is funny, but some of it is crude, and there are swear words in a lot of his videos.  This one is clean though.

Kid History

These guys are one of the funniest guys on youtube.  They are safe for kids to watch, and still funny as heck.  My kids love their antics, and watch their skits and snippets again and again.  Their YouTube page is Bored Shorts TV