Remember how I said I’m going to go to those bi-weekly comic jam things?

The deal is you get a limited amount of time to draw a panel, then you hand the page over to the person next to you then they draw the next panel, and so on down the line until you have a barely cohesive page of comic mayhem.

Apparently they scan them and put them online. The really good looking/funny stuff is Rob’s and the poorly drawn pencil crap is mine and the rest, isn’t.

jam.

-dean

[thumb:569:r]Dear Wing’s Food Products Limited,

I received In my box of Wing’s Fortune Cookies (individually wrapped)
a most (coincidentally enough) fortuitous message ensconced in my
confectionary treat.

It reads:
“Remember three months from
this date. Good things are in
store for you.”

Seeing as we are in the midst of the Chinese Lunar new year, I
couldn’t help but wonder if these prophetic papers follow the Lunar
calendar, or if in fact they follow the more commonly observed
Gregorian Calendar?

I would be most appreciative if you, custserv, were able to shed some
of the forthcoming lantern festival’s light on the subject at hand.
Fewer things are more UNfortunate than missing out on a windfall due
to a misunderstanding in scheduling.

Yours Truly,
Dean Welsh

[thumb:569:l]My Wing’s Chinese Fortune Cookie (Made in edmonton incidentally. See: wing’s) informs me that I should remember this date, as three months from now, good things will happen to me.

Conf(used)cius say: I wonder if they mean 3 months Gregorian or 3 months Lunar Yin?

-dean

I love marble slab ice cream. So do a lot of other people evidently, considering how fast franchises pop up everywhere. If you’ve never been there, basically they take your standard ice cream baskin robbins type flavours and then you tell them the additive you want (sprinkles, gummie bears, scor bar crumbs.) and they mash it all together on a big slab so that your “topping”(as it would be at another icecream establishment.) is evenly distributed throughout the entirety of the ice cream.

The funny thing I find about marble slab icecream’s popularity, is that aside from the added toppings, basically they just turn the overly hard crappy ice cream that everyone’s used to, into the more traditional hand churned consistency, by mechanically softening it up as they mash it. I’ve been doing this for years in my own ice cream bowls by just chopping and stirring determinedly with my spoon. (I’m sure one or two of you has stumbled onto this little secret as well). But, It usually elicits puzzled looks and queries of “what the hell are you doing?” from other folks in the room. If only they knew…

well… really… I should say… If only I had the business acumen to realize the goldmine habit I was sitting on.

-dean

I was talking to someone about how much they like mouse gestures, (that’s where you draw a little hieroglyph with the mouse and it executes a command depending on what program you’re using. IE. you’re in your web browser and you want to go back, you scribble a quick a backwards arrow, or close the window you draw an x.)

I’ve tried out mouse gestures before but could never get into them. It always seemed really inefficient compared to my normal way of doing things.

Then I realized in the middle of talking to him, that I dropped my mouse on the floor about 10 hours ago and haven’t bothered to pick it up yet. Because, I haven’t really needed it. I rely so heavily on keyboard shortcuts that I rarely even touch the mouse anymore. So I guess it’s not so much that mouse gestures are inefficient, because theoretically they’re faster than mousing up to a close box or a pulldown menu. It’s that moving my hands away from the keyboard is where the slowdown occurs.

-dean

http://www.happyharborcomics.com/events/ComicJams/page_event_comicjam.html

Just thought I’d give you the heads up if any of my art buddies want to start going.

-dean

I am saving my money now…
Assuming they’ll let you drive it in canada considering it’s a trike.
http://www.flytheroad.com/

Guess I’ll need a motorcycle license. I wonder if I’ll need a helmet?

It’s pretty much the perfect vehicle.

Watch the videos.

-dean

(un?)Interesting trivia.
YAHOO (as in yahoo.com)is an acronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle” The founders wanted to play on the “Yet Another” thing (for those who aren’t aware “yet another” is the standard cop out name for when you’re building a program that’s been done before “Yet Another Music Player” “yet another web browser”) and they started looking up “YA” words in the dictionary. They liked the definition of a yahoo as being a person who is “rude, unsophisticated, uncouth”.

Is there a word for acronyms where they have the word first and then the do some verbal gymnastics to make the words fit?
ie. U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. act (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001)

After-the-factronyms?

I’m sleepy and now I just want to rattle off some interesting REAL acronyms that I can think of off the top of my head [fact check for me here cause i'm not going to google this till tomorrow]. They’re all going to be nerdy I warn you.
SCUBA (Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus)
SCSI (pronounced Scuzzy. Small computer systems Interface)
AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph)

TWAIN (Technology Without an Interesting Name)-actually it’s not. TWAIN is a scanner connection software standard and the name comes from Rudyard Kipling (spelling?) “East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet” but both are fun. Actually that would make that a different class of after-the-factronym. One where it wasn’t artificially engineered beforehand. it was like… reverse acronymized. heh… acronymized.

I AM THE ACRONYMIZER! (pronounced ah-kraw-nihm-eye-zer) Awesomely Cool Robot On No Yeti Meat In Zanzibar Eternally Rad.<-pfft didn't even pause as I typed out that awesome acronym off the top of my head.

Wow.... posting right before bed is always a good idea.

incidentally... Robot= from the czech root of the words robota(compulsory labour) and robotnik(the person who owes that labour) So... you know... if it comes up... you don't want to be a robot.

K. I'm out.

-dean

health: faboo.

It has come to my attention that not everyone is aware of this story.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/01/boston.bombscare/index.html

So Cartoon network hires a couple guys to do some underground marketing for thier show “Aqua Teen Hunger Force”. (Generally this sort of viral marketing means getting permission to paint graffiti at some sites and then hiring some talented skater kids to tag up some walls with the focus of the art being whatever you’re hocking. Sony had PSP sprayed all over the place.) So the firm decided to do some LED magnetic signs of the mooninites flipping the bird. (picture the worst graphics an ATARI can throw at you and that’s a mooninite.) So, they stuck up a bunch of these things all around the states. (9 cities from what I read) No problem. But then someone in Boston goes “Holy crap it’s a bomb!” after seeing this thing which is essentially a lightbright with magnets. The Police are called in. And the bomb squad. Several of them are remotely detonated by bomb robots. Traffic is stopped. Tens of thousands of dollars are wasted dealing with this “Threat.”

The two guys who put up the signs are arrested. Now they’re facing charges… not minor vandalism charges as you could possibly argue thier signs were vandalism (even though they’re just magnets that you can easily take down) But charges as though they actually called in a bomb threat. I like these guys. Their lawyer advised them not to speak to anyone about the details of the case, so when they spoke to the media they said “We will answer any questions you have as long as they relate to seventies hair cuts.” hopefully things will work out for them.

hence… this movie.