Bryan Burke
Humor Editor
Class of 2025
bburke10@u.rochester.edu

Articles by Bryan

Pesto is sus

This guy is twice as large as any of his siblings and even larger than his parents. He is anything but a little guy. His stature is … actually a little bit suspicious.

Dietary liberation

If you are a more food-safe person than myself, you may see the obvious issue with adding raw meat to a cooked dish. In theory, this should be fine, assuming you wait for the meat to cook through.

Flying without wings: the box kite dilemma

Have you ever seen a box kite? Box is a bit of a misnomer, as the “boxes” in question are just rings of fabric stretched over a square frame.

Flying without wings: the box kite dilemma

Welcome to a dimension where logic bends, equations fail, Bernoulli rolls in his grave, and the impossible dances on the breeze.

Dam Funny: A Review of “Hundreds of Beavers” – North America’s Largest Rodent Takes Center Stage

Our protagonist awakes in shoulder-deep snow. He is alone, without any worldly possessions. His applejack business is as good as gone.

Rust, Rude Remarks, and Waterlogged Trunks: The Northwest Auto Mall Nightmare

At no point did he utter the phrase “New York State Inspection,” and the vehicle failed to display an inspection sticker.

System.out.println(“Coding on paper.”);

I enjoy the occasional coding problem, as the differently-colored special words scratch a certain itch deep, deep down in my monkey brain.

Sports! A layman’s perspective

7:19: They warm up? Music was cut, and now they're just playing. The puck is very small, and I cannot see anything.

The basement of Carlson Library is literally the backrooms

No one comes here to hang out. Only to come close to a mental breakdown and hammer out the worst problem set known to man. 

Her Name Was Rosemary! She Was an “It”-Girl!

What have we gained from this? I ask this genuinely, because I do not know. If we are Sisyphus, Party School is our rock.