February 26, 2007
Webcomic Lovin’
In which I give props to certain web-comics (or things that are close enough) that you may not have heard about. Many of these are fairly new, some of them are just things I wasn’t aware of before.
Punch and Pie: A spin-off of Queen of Wands
Emma: Steampunkish Fantasy Goodness
Dreamland Chronicles: Holy smokes, a bi-weekly 3-D comic
Dresden Codak: Philosophy and Weird Science
Looking for Group: Typical Fantasy Comic; Atypical World of Warcraft Comic
The Perry Bible Fellowship: This thing keeps winning awards but I keep missing it, reminds me a lot of Bill Plympton, who was my favorite animator some time in the late eighties
Sure, I have serious, dreary comics in my mix, but they’ve been there a while, so it was time to punch it up with bright colors and puppies. Exploding puppies, perhaps, but puppies all the same.
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January 5, 2007
A Matter of Authentication
I’m turning anyone-comments off. This journal has become mainly a spam-trap and I don’t have the time yet to commit to solutions, so if you do want to say something you’ll need to get a TypeKey from SixApart. I apologize to the people who distrust any sort of tracking method.
Mainly people seem to come here for the post Academic Funding Frustration, a warning to people about agressive sales techniques during a vulnerable time.
In short, don’t let anybody push you around.
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December 27, 2006
Blue Christmas
This year we had a very blue Christmas. Water’s blue, right? We had a lot of that. It wasn’t the nice, soothing warm water of late autumn that we’ve had around here lately, but the hard, I-want-to-be-snow (or-at-least-sleet) water come spring. A gray, drizzly day is not the best way to greet the most familial day of the year, whether your family is connected by genetics or friendship.
Fortunately, I have nephews, and it’s great to be jumped on by a pair of excitable boys who want to drag you into their world of Christmas-time greed first thing in the morning (but not, thanks to efforts of their parents, at 6 am). So it rained, and rained, and rained some more, and I hoped that all that rain wouldn’t turn to ice in the evening, but it felt like Christmas and for that it could be as blue as it wanted outside.
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November 28, 2006
MacHeist: Falsities of Value
Recently I started paying attention to the Delicious Generation interactive advertisement, MacHeist, taking half an attempt to their puzzles and seeing which shareware apps are offered as prizes.
But not is all as it seems behind the vault…
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November 8, 2006
Lever, Button, Cookie
Yes, yes, I voted, stop hounding me! I voted so hard my state turned blue! Some people might not think voting yourself blue is something to be proud of, and might think of sending me a hand-creme or something so it doesn’t happen again, but it’s good to finally get that kind of release.
The tool I used to get myself raw with delight was not in fact made by the infamous Diebold but instead was made well-enough that other people (who were voting themselves either red or blue, since that seems to be the way of things these days) noticed that the machines were turning them the opposite color desired. I say: If you’re going to get raw on a machine, you’d better be sure it works.
So now I’m going to coddle my blue state until I’m over it.
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