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Ham and Wonder Sorry, no umlauts

It's doubtful Ham and Wonder is what you think.

In this sense, it is very personal.

Almost everyone calls me Joe.
I am about 25.5 years old.
I love fresh air and ellipses.
I love staying up late and parentheses.
I loathe laughter tracks.
My favorite online alias is
currently AnnotatedSnark.

This too is indicative.

As a lapsed linguist, I would
always take form over content.


If we've never spoken you are urged to email me.
May the Spam-filter Gods smile upon your phrasing...



Sid: "There's no reason to do anything...
Is there a reason to do nothing?"
 
Lasker:   "Rebellion."












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NEWS ARCHIVE

26.02.2010
Island vacation.

18.02.2010
Because assistants get things done.

13.02.2010
Thanks to Ryan North for instilling 'poop' instead of 'poo'.

05.02.2010
I'd like to think "et cetera!" can be used as "and then some!".

29.01.2010
Oh cool, this "adventure in garden pathing" got me mentioned by the good people at Language Log.

28.01.2010
In which those linguistics lessons come in handy.

24.01.2010
Phrases with two exclamation points sometimes seem... untrustworthy.

18.01.2010
Budding infallibility.

12.01.2010
You gotta have humor about these things.

07.01.2010
I'm still wondering what to make of this one.

04.01.2010
Not too bad but time will tell.

01.01.2010
Around midnight it was like a war zone out there...

04.12.2009
No good news till further notice.

30.11.2009
Bang. Boom. Cough. Another strip.

26.11.2009
..I blew three strips' budget on those sparklers.

23.11.2009
Careful what you wish for...

21.11.2009
I won't call them, they'll call me.

20.11.2009
Turns out the initials spell out "awesome"!

17.11.2009
omg venture bros s4 is already 5 eps long omg

15.11.2009
And I once went a walk paw-in-paw with an (army) interviewer.

14.11.2009
I might be doing this wrong, because I'm starting to like this interview guy...

12.11.2009
Your lesson for today.

11.11.2009
No fairy tales.

10.11.2009
The answers would be kinda private.

09.11.2009
I remember it as quite a long interview...

08.11.2009
Or have I hit upon a purist who only acknowledges the UK version??

07.11.2009
Lots of tag issues fixed. I'm as disappointed as you are (so probably not very).

05.11.2009
Moving along...

02.11.2009
On a lighter note, everyone who reads this strip is an honorary Globetrotter!

31.10.2009
I line 'em up, then knock 'em down!

27.10.2009
The advent of business-meaning speech bubbles? Arms?? Stay tuned!

22.09.2009
It's not all that funny, because it's true.

16.05.2009
If I were a train I'd be late, again.

24.12.2008
I'm on Paris time, wouldn't you know. Merry tocracy everyone, and a happy new year!

16.11.2008
The new favicon is just a fork (the non-pitch kind). For pursuing Snarks, I guess.

03.07.2008
Happy birthday, RNon!

25.03.2008
Change will come in April. Ah, good enough.

23.02.2008
A tribute to my favorite. Don't tell the others.

17.02.2008
It's about that time.

24.01.2008
A crowd-pleaser of sorts, this time.

05.01.2008
Oh, look! It's raining and it's 2008.

04.12.2007
This time, a quote: "The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy." - Steven Weinberg

21.11.2007
It's been a while, I won't argue with that. How are you?

04.10.2007
I've been contacted about having my Ham and Wonder update regimen used as a True Random Number Generator.

20.09.2007
The saga is complete. Or is it.

19.09.2007
It's a veritable torrent of strips. Drumroll please...

18.09.2007
Part four. Also, some design changes to the site.

17.09.2007
I know the speech bubble work here is sensuous and courageous, I made it.

16.09.2007
As promised. It's not even midnight!

15.09.2007
Quite unoriginally, it's what it is. New parts will be coming close and fast.

31.07.2007
Guess what? It's the latest strip.

19.07.2007
They call it number 51.

11.07.2007
Strip 50. This is... moving.

25.06.2007
I happen to know of at least one person who'd find this dream interesting...

18.06.2007
Still optimistic.

09.06.2007
I'm optimistic.

05.06.2007
Did you know that... tomorrow's Pushkin's birthday?

03.06.2007
Tag system added.

01.06.2007
For the 2nd time in its history, H&W was mentioned favorably on Oneg Shabat.
Feel welcome, fellow hedonists, but please be sure to first wipe your feet clean of rhino shit...

29.05.2007
The long awaited Regina Spektor poster, with a disclaimer.

23.05.2007
Added random strip link and textual search to About and Spotlight pages.

23.05.2007
Guide references come in twos. Or is it threes?

18.05.2007
My commitment is to quality... Not the other one.

10.05.2007
Irregular like clockwork. Personally, I recommend the RSS.

06.05.2007
I am come. It's my birthday tomorrow... and H&W gets its 40th strip. Coincidence?...

01.04.2007
Once a week for now. I'd hate to spoil ya...

24.03.2007
It's Pun City. My punacea. No, wait - Pun Central...

22.03.2007
Yet another delay in production, and for that, I am sorry.

17.03.2007
Irregardless [sic] of popular demand: yet another strip.

12.03.2007
*sniff*
Guess what.

08.03.2007
A little late, but I have a note. *cough* *sniff*

04.03.2007
Hope you have a fun Purim. Might not seem so from this strip, but I did.

01.03.2007
Rant on, gentlest Ham...

23.02.2007
Enjoy strip 31.

22.02.2007
The dawn of a new, pseudo-democratic age: I give you... The Rating System.

20.02.2007
Thirty (30!) strips... Wow. I wanna thank my mom and... yours.

17.02.2007
Non-climactic strip.

14.02.2007
There are some dragons who were built to have and hold...
Happy Valentine's,
One and all.

11.02.2007
A little late, but the new strip is here... *sweat drip*

08.02.2007
DOT COM BABY! Thanks to everyone who helped make this a reality.

07.02.2007
I won't deny that I'm quite proud of this one. Doubt is on the march?

04.02.2007
A strip with a laugh track this time. Dead people laughing, naturally.

01.02.2007
Second installment of our Famous Mugs series, "Mug Violence".

29.01.2007
The 90s were crazy... I think.

26.01.2007
Enjoy the strip, buy the shirt :) I get less than a dollar for a sale, so it's really there for you.

23.01.2007
Time was short and my mood was good for this strip.

20.01.2007
Another strip, some new graphix and RSS feed.

17.01.2007
H&W merchandize now available, and so is a double strip introducing it. Much rejoicing? Yes? No?..

13.01.2007
Your new strip awaits, madame/sir.

11.01.2007
Some BS strip for ya...

09.01.2007
"Poster" number 3, for your consideration.

06.01.2007
New strip up. I might wait a little longer before the next one... Might.

04.01.2007
New meta-strip. And now, the meta-news: the end of the last news rhymed.

01.01.2007
Edited version of the news: "I took too much. It's making me FEEL determinism, I have NO choice in what to say (write) here next. NO CHOICE. But this is a GOOD TRIP." Now enjoy the double strip.

31.12.2006
New year's tomorrow. You got a strip. Don't you feel special?

28.12.2006
The future is here, and so is the strip for the 29th. Enjoy.

27.12.2006
Strip the 10th.

24.12.2006
9th strip. Enjoy.

22.12.2006
Glorious 8th Strip of the People finally uploaded.

20.12.2006
Links, About and Mailing List sections added.

19.12.2006
H&W site goes online, with 7 strips.
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