Last evening's muscle pull had stiffened up during the night, making it necessary to commute by express bus this morning, but everyone at work was very understanding and it was a pretty quiet day anyhow, so I worked through lunch and left early, as well as deciding to take tomorrow off to rest the leg and bum so I'll be okay for the trip to and from Mom's on Saturday. Finally caught up with email, where I found Rich Watson, a wonderfully twisted individual whom I'm proud to call my friend, recommending that I pass along word of a blog called Cake Wrecks. And so I have.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Silly Site o' the Day
Just home from working a bit late and getting my comics and dealing with the NYC subway and local bus system, and naturally I pulled a major gluteal muscle whilst getting a seat on the Bx7 bus, so -- as silly as it may sound -- sitting is a bit painful at the moment, and I'll keep this short. My latest ComicMix column is up, about how Robin is prepping for his new assignment; do click on the first link to see a swellerific interview with the series writer in which he sings Robin's praises. I was positively beaming! Will Robin ever hit any decent numbers on Wired's Celebrity Meter (via Augie)? Doubtful, since at present my number is only 14 and I'm a tad more active online than he is, even with my reduced activities. Then again, it only measures MySpace, Twitter and personal website URLs...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Silly Site o' the Day
Via Lis Riba, what if stop signs didn't exist and it fell to a modern corporation to invent them?
"No, we're targeting women... but we're also targeting men -- secondarily!" I love it.
"No, we're targeting women... but we're also targeting men -- secondarily!" I love it.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Silly Site o' the Day
Happy birthday to my friend Phil Proctor of The Firesign Theatre; go visit Planet Proctor today, why don't you?
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Silly Site o' the Day
Need to resist... regular craving for... conveyor belt sushi... oh no, it's the Sushi Go Round game (via Robyn at Serious Eats), now I'll never succeed!
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Silly Site o' the Day
Ooh, my new desk chair is so cushiony and comfy! Rob put them together today, whilst I took care of some errands and house-straightening. The room that needs it the most, this here computer room, didn't get done, but I took care of most everything else so I guess I'll tackle the last bit tomorrow. Plus, I slept today, which I really needed. Still not back to writing yet, but perhaps this character name generator from Generator Land will help...
Friday, July 25, 2008
Friday Cat Blogging (™ Kevin Drum)
Some days, Datsa reminds us, you just gotta stretch.
I think I'm going to stretch in bed now...
I think I'm going to stretch in bed now...
Silly Site o' the Day
Hope my comic book'y friends out west are having a great time in San Diego! It was an absolutely gorgeous day today in NYC, and I walked partly through the south side of Central Park on my way to the office. I hope I can do that a lot in the autumn! Be careful out there, con-goers, particularly when it comes to parties. You wouldn't want you should make up your own cocktail (via Gerard) or anything...
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Blogaround for Melanie
This is way, way overdue, I know. I don't think I've cleared my bookmarks since I became employed. And so much has happened, much of it a tad outdated, so bear with me 'cause it's still stuff I want to talk about:
• This post's title refers to the late Melanie Mattson, who used to run the blog Just A Bump in the Beltway. I sometimes felt like I was the only one commenting on her posts. Even though she was quite popular, she didn't seem to get a lot of participation; I think part of the reason (and I think I said this in comments) was that she often wholesale copied articles rather than linking to them and offering her own opinion. She blogged a lot, but her original content ratio was fairly low at first. It got better, and boy, she seemed to have a lot of areas of expertise! I don't know exactly what she died from, but my opinion is that not having decent health insurance had a lot to do with it. I found out about her death from Susie, who also cites Melanie's lack of health care as a possible contributing factor to her death. (There are also remembrances from, among many others, PSoTD, Kevin Hayden and Skippy, who has a nice roundup of other posts.) I implore Susie (who, alas, is newly unemployed once more and all of us hope that doesn't last long) and all my bloggy friends in the same boat as Melanie to please, please take care of yourself, particularly when you find yourself in adverse circumstances!
• So many people have left us, and the world is better off without a few and far worse off without others. Pam has an interesting wrapup of the life and times of Jesse Helms. Paul Krassner remembers George Carlin. The blogosphere salutes the late "world's oldest blogger" Olive Riley. And via Susie, Mary hits one out of the park with an illustration showing the over-the-top peer worship for Tim Russert, the leader of the kewl-kids pundit class. (Digby thinks NBC is changing for the better now that Russert is no more.)
• All the kewl kids, of course, are at Comic Con, at least those who can afford it. I can afford to read, for free, Alison Bechdel's recent four-pager from Entertainment Weekly, about being a reader. Meanwhile, Cecil Castellucci had a very nerdtastic day recently, which I'm sure is even now being topped by her experiences at Comic Con. Oh, and David Rees' Get Your War On is now being animated.
• Tony Bourdain's show this week (which I DVR'ed and plan on seeing this weekend) was filmed in Saudi Arabia. Tony points to the blog of producer Amy Teuteberg, who describes in fascinating detail how four women went about accomplishing this program in a country that doesn't even let women drive or appear in public without an abbaya. Every time I see a travel show in a fairly exotic place I inevitably wonder what it would be like to be female and trying to get around, given the anti-woman state of much of the world. I don't know how Marie Javins did it, and I'm in awe of how Teuteberg & co. did it.
• Speaking of food blogging, any word on what's happened with the Devo lawsuit against McDonald's?
• Nivair Gabriel at io9 is less than impressed with Steven Moffat's writing, particularly when it comes to women. Amy Ferris at Women in Hollywood is less than impressed with the movie Hancock, particularly when it comes to women. Patrick at the Hathor Legacy is less than impressed with the Dark Knight flick, particularly when it comes to women. Can one discern a pattern here? I wonder if any of this entertainment might have benefited from taking women more seriously as a critical audience, including having a greater ratio of female-to-male movie critics in the major newspapers. Naturally, Melissa Silverstein follows up, both new At The Movies hosts are male.
• Over in the world of politics, Tom Negrino isn't the only one saying "you were warned" to the Obama-bots who projected their own image onto the presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee rather than admitting, like many of us have been doing all along, that he's a political centrist who happens to give great speeches. Anyone who really considered him a liberal is learning a hard lesson now. Or as Bryan likes to say, "they are not your friends." Earl Ofari Hutchinson points out that the other major centrist who was in second-place for the Dem nomination did the right thing on FISA, and nobody seemed to care. (Melissa and Zuzu have help explain why, here and here. And Ann adds an interesting bit of trivia concerning how Clinton's campaign was apparently even sabotaged by Facebook.) And if you didn't see the Maddow/Turley chat on Countdown re the FISA cave-in, here's the transcript courtesy of Chief at Liberty Street (with whom I've struck up a lively-for-me email correspondence). Of course, Countdown's regular host can still get a bit infuriating, as the aforementioned Zuzu reminds us. (I'm so glad Maureen's outed her real name, which I think is wonderfully alliterative and suits her muchly.)
• By the way, for anyone making fun of McCain for not being web-savvy, apparently this non-internetedness runs to both sides of the political spectrum; Susan Sarandon's not familiar with how it works either.
• Scott at World o' Crap wonders why it took the Argentinian Museum of Cinema so long to find that lost Metropolis footage, anyway.
• I don't think Donna Fish quite gets it. If pricey restaurants start cutting portions in the interest of so-called health, their customers will feel ripped off. It's a value for money thing, particularly in this tanking economy.
• Ooh, I remember the Mermaid Parade (or, as we used to call it, "dress rehearsal for the Greenwich Village Hallowe'en Parade"); thanks for bringing back some happy memories, Truffle!
• Over at Feministe, the Girl Detective muses about being Jewish and white, like me; and Holly talks about reactions to a Fat Princess (like me, only not so much with the princess bit). And speaking of Jewish and white, years after Robin Tyler's signature comedy album Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Groom (which I think I have somewhere in my LP stack), she gets to be the groom.
• Oh Athenae, you really feel that way about the Beatles? I'm so tempted to do what I shouldn't do based on your post!
• Oh dear, PZ's flippancy went and got him in dutch with the douchebag who got Amanda and Melissa fired from the Edwards campaign. On the other hand, Michael has a point about PZ kinda going out of his way to be a bit dickish here. (and Keith calls for moderation a little late). It's hard not to, these hypocritical idiots make such tempting targets, but sometimes it's just not worth the aggro. Then again, I did find PZ's capsule history of the origin of transubstantiation fascinating.
• Eww, Curt Schilling shows us pictures of his operation! Fascinating stuff but not for the squeamish! Maybe he can become a switch pitcher -- yes, a switch pitcher, like this guy in the minors that tgirsch tells us about (complete with video).
• Kathy G. sings the praises of Kathy G -- Griffin, that is. And Dick Cavett does an amazing two-parter here and here on living with and through devastating bouts of depression. It's so well-written that he refrains from excessive namedropping until the second part.
• SweetMachine at Shapely Prose tells us all about spaghetti language. Hey, I think I have that too!
• Digby Says that the word of the day is "presumptuous."
• Lastly, welcome back to the blogosphere, Brooke Biggs!
And so, at last, to bed! Yes, I've still got it, albeit with less sleep ahead...
• This post's title refers to the late Melanie Mattson, who used to run the blog Just A Bump in the Beltway. I sometimes felt like I was the only one commenting on her posts. Even though she was quite popular, she didn't seem to get a lot of participation; I think part of the reason (and I think I said this in comments) was that she often wholesale copied articles rather than linking to them and offering her own opinion. She blogged a lot, but her original content ratio was fairly low at first. It got better, and boy, she seemed to have a lot of areas of expertise! I don't know exactly what she died from, but my opinion is that not having decent health insurance had a lot to do with it. I found out about her death from Susie, who also cites Melanie's lack of health care as a possible contributing factor to her death. (There are also remembrances from, among many others, PSoTD, Kevin Hayden and Skippy, who has a nice roundup of other posts.) I implore Susie (who, alas, is newly unemployed once more and all of us hope that doesn't last long) and all my bloggy friends in the same boat as Melanie to please, please take care of yourself, particularly when you find yourself in adverse circumstances!
• So many people have left us, and the world is better off without a few and far worse off without others. Pam has an interesting wrapup of the life and times of Jesse Helms. Paul Krassner remembers George Carlin. The blogosphere salutes the late "world's oldest blogger" Olive Riley. And via Susie, Mary hits one out of the park with an illustration showing the over-the-top peer worship for Tim Russert, the leader of the kewl-kids pundit class. (Digby thinks NBC is changing for the better now that Russert is no more.)
• All the kewl kids, of course, are at Comic Con, at least those who can afford it. I can afford to read, for free, Alison Bechdel's recent four-pager from Entertainment Weekly, about being a reader. Meanwhile, Cecil Castellucci had a very nerdtastic day recently, which I'm sure is even now being topped by her experiences at Comic Con. Oh, and David Rees' Get Your War On is now being animated.
• Tony Bourdain's show this week (which I DVR'ed and plan on seeing this weekend) was filmed in Saudi Arabia. Tony points to the blog of producer Amy Teuteberg, who describes in fascinating detail how four women went about accomplishing this program in a country that doesn't even let women drive or appear in public without an abbaya. Every time I see a travel show in a fairly exotic place I inevitably wonder what it would be like to be female and trying to get around, given the anti-woman state of much of the world. I don't know how Marie Javins did it, and I'm in awe of how Teuteberg & co. did it.
• Speaking of food blogging, any word on what's happened with the Devo lawsuit against McDonald's?
• Nivair Gabriel at io9 is less than impressed with Steven Moffat's writing, particularly when it comes to women. Amy Ferris at Women in Hollywood is less than impressed with the movie Hancock, particularly when it comes to women. Patrick at the Hathor Legacy is less than impressed with the Dark Knight flick, particularly when it comes to women. Can one discern a pattern here? I wonder if any of this entertainment might have benefited from taking women more seriously as a critical audience, including having a greater ratio of female-to-male movie critics in the major newspapers. Naturally, Melissa Silverstein follows up, both new At The Movies hosts are male.
• Over in the world of politics, Tom Negrino isn't the only one saying "you were warned" to the Obama-bots who projected their own image onto the presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee rather than admitting, like many of us have been doing all along, that he's a political centrist who happens to give great speeches. Anyone who really considered him a liberal is learning a hard lesson now. Or as Bryan likes to say, "they are not your friends." Earl Ofari Hutchinson points out that the other major centrist who was in second-place for the Dem nomination did the right thing on FISA, and nobody seemed to care. (Melissa and Zuzu have help explain why, here and here. And Ann adds an interesting bit of trivia concerning how Clinton's campaign was apparently even sabotaged by Facebook.) And if you didn't see the Maddow/Turley chat on Countdown re the FISA cave-in, here's the transcript courtesy of Chief at Liberty Street (with whom I've struck up a lively-for-me email correspondence). Of course, Countdown's regular host can still get a bit infuriating, as the aforementioned Zuzu reminds us. (I'm so glad Maureen's outed her real name, which I think is wonderfully alliterative and suits her muchly.)
• By the way, for anyone making fun of McCain for not being web-savvy, apparently this non-internetedness runs to both sides of the political spectrum; Susan Sarandon's not familiar with how it works either.
• Scott at World o' Crap wonders why it took the Argentinian Museum of Cinema so long to find that lost Metropolis footage, anyway.
• I don't think Donna Fish quite gets it. If pricey restaurants start cutting portions in the interest of so-called health, their customers will feel ripped off. It's a value for money thing, particularly in this tanking economy.
• Ooh, I remember the Mermaid Parade (or, as we used to call it, "dress rehearsal for the Greenwich Village Hallowe'en Parade"); thanks for bringing back some happy memories, Truffle!
• Over at Feministe, the Girl Detective muses about being Jewish and white, like me; and Holly talks about reactions to a Fat Princess (like me, only not so much with the princess bit). And speaking of Jewish and white, years after Robin Tyler's signature comedy album Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Groom (which I think I have somewhere in my LP stack), she gets to be the groom.
• Oh Athenae, you really feel that way about the Beatles? I'm so tempted to do what I shouldn't do based on your post!
• Oh dear, PZ's flippancy went and got him in dutch with the douchebag who got Amanda and Melissa fired from the Edwards campaign. On the other hand, Michael has a point about PZ kinda going out of his way to be a bit dickish here. (and Keith calls for moderation a little late). It's hard not to, these hypocritical idiots make such tempting targets, but sometimes it's just not worth the aggro. Then again, I did find PZ's capsule history of the origin of transubstantiation fascinating.
• Eww, Curt Schilling shows us pictures of his operation! Fascinating stuff but not for the squeamish! Maybe he can become a switch pitcher -- yes, a switch pitcher, like this guy in the minors that tgirsch tells us about (complete with video).
• Kathy G. sings the praises of Kathy G -- Griffin, that is. And Dick Cavett does an amazing two-parter here and here on living with and through devastating bouts of depression. It's so well-written that he refrains from excessive namedropping until the second part.
• SweetMachine at Shapely Prose tells us all about spaghetti language. Hey, I think I have that too!
• Digby Says that the word of the day is "presumptuous."
• Lastly, welcome back to the blogosphere, Brooke Biggs!
And so, at last, to bed! Yes, I've still got it, albeit with less sleep ahead...
Silly Site o' the Day
I'm on another Beatles kick. Okay, truth to tell I never get off my Beatles kick. Via Hanan Levin, here's your latest Meth Minute:
Separated by a common language, even in altered states...
Separated by a common language, even in altered states...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Silly Site o' the Day
Caught up with blog reading at last, but way too tired to post more than (1) my latest ComicMix column is up (don't faint, it's actually comics-related this week!) and (2) Baby's First Internet (via Robyn at Serious Eats) is the cutest thing I've seen in awhile. Must be the sudden thunderstorm making me so sleepy...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Silly Site o' the Day
Still not quite getting a handle on that time thing. God must hate slackers. Here's a list of other Stuff God Hates (via PZ).
Monday, July 21, 2008
Silly Site o' the Day
Seriously, there just aren't enough hours for me to accomplish everything any more. So tired. Here's your receipt (via Gerard).
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Silly Site o' the Day
Once again I let sleep get the better of me and the day slip by, thus tons of unread blogs and comics (and the chance of a blogaround grows slimmer qas the work week begins), but I'm about halfway through my next ComicMix column and Rob's spent the day streamlining his studio and I cooked two meals so I don't think the time's been wasted at all. In fact, according to this free slogan generator (via Gerard), "time makes you sexy"! So there!
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Silly Site o' the Day
Hooray, I can see again! My lenses with the corrected prescription were fitted into the frames this morning, and it was such a relief to be able to read road signs again! We celebrated by going to Ikea and buying new home-office chairs, which ought to help my back immensely while I'm sitting at my desk in our computer room. Of course, it's not going to help me catch up on blog reading, but I'm hoping to do that tomorrow, after which I can finally do a closing-bookmarks blogaround and perhaps even put up some photos from the All-Star Parade last Tuesday in Manhattan. But let's at least do a Silly Site for now; how about another Goldbergian contraption that makes a cocktail called a Falling Water (via Lis Riba who got it from BoingBoing)?
It actually sounds like an interesting drink...
It actually sounds like an interesting drink...
Friday, July 18, 2008
Friday Cat Blogging (™ Kevin Drum)
Amy took to the closet this evening...
Oh, so sorry to disturb! Back to the baseball games...
Oh, so sorry to disturb! Back to the baseball games...
Silly Site o' the Day
I'm a regular Mark Fiore reader, and found his cartoon this week ("Politishop") particularly amusing.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Silly Site o' the Day
The best thing about working a 10-hour day after a relatively sleepless night thanks to the worst 1 AM leg cramp I've had in years? How many coworkers complimented me on my newly-shorn hair and my earrings. Now, I'm not a real fashion plate, but it's a big deal to me to, you know, just be noticed like a normal person, because these little courtesies rarely occurred at my old job. Tomorrow I try the subway again; I couldn't do it today because of the leg pain. I shall not fail! Speaking of which, you need to check out FAIL Blog (via Val's Cool Aggregator). While I need to collapse.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Silly Site o' the Day
Will my blogging ever return from the wayside by which it's gone? I dunno, but I do know I've gotten my summer shearing, picked up this week's comics, had this week's ComicMix column published, and been shown a very cute mashup video by Robin:
Stairway to Heaven is fun most of the time anyway, and it's even cuter Beatle-fied. I wouldn't be surprised if Susie's already run this one...
Stairway to Heaven is fun most of the time anyway, and it's even cuter Beatle-fied. I wouldn't be surprised if Susie's already run this one...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Silly Site o' the Day
Took some photos at the All-Star Parade on Sixth Avenue this afternoon, but you don't care. You all just want to see the first webisode on Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, don't you?
Monday, July 14, 2008
Silly Site o' the Day
Well, I thought I was going to have time for a blogaround, but the day and evening seem to have slipped away from me. Ah well, maybe tomorrow. Everyone's talking about the New Yorker cover, about which I hope to have something to say (had I not been on deadline I might have thought to do my ComicMix column about it), but until then why not design your own Wired cover (via Gerard)?
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Silly Site o' the Day
Whew! Finally "finished the internet" (i.e., caught up on blog reading), only three weeks after my employment rendered me too busy or exhausted to pay much attention to blogs. Of course, since it's after 11 PM it's a bit late to do a blogaround, but I'm going to try one tomorrow evening, if I still remember how. Meanwhile, via Randi, it's The Imp TV show! Yet one more thing which I have no time to explore!
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Silly Site o' the Day
Between yesterday being a relatively quiet day at work and not having to get up at 6 AM today, I finally feel a bit rested. Also, it helps not to worry about my eyesight any more; ever since I got these new glasses my close-up and intermediate vision have been terrific but my distance vision, not so much. Went back to Sears for a re-check and, lo and behold, my prescription needs to be corrected. The frames needed adjusting and tightening as well, and I'm now seeing about 100% better with short distances (like the 10 feet to the living room TV) but it'll be great once I can see road signs again. Good thing I'm doing public transit to and from my job! Wanted to go to conveyor belt sushi again as long as I was out and about, but Rob's crashing after a deadline and not up to it, so for now I'll have to make do with these adorable sushi ornament heads on Playmobile bodies (via Adam at Serious Eats).
Friday, July 11, 2008
Friday Cat Blogging (™ Kevin Drum)
It being a Friday in the summertime, I got home early enough to pill Datsa; he's then supposed to wait 15 minutes before feeding, and we all know how that goes.
"Mommy? Mommy? Food? Food now? Mommy? Mommy?"
Meanwhile I hung up my dry cleaning on the bedroom closet door, as Amy discovered to her delight.
Cat and wrapped in plastic!
Don't worry, she wasn't actually in the plastic (at least I don't think so), just behind it.
"Mommy? Mommy? Food? Food now? Mommy? Mommy?"
Meanwhile I hung up my dry cleaning on the bedroom closet door, as Amy discovered to her delight.
Cat and wrapped in plastic!
Don't worry, she wasn't actually in the plastic (at least I don't think so), just behind it.
Silly Site o' the Day
Too tired to even look up Silly Sites, so I "cheated" last night and asked my Firesign chat pals. "Bunnyboy" recommends Silly Putty University. Thanks BB!
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Silly Site o' the Day
I forgot to mention that yesterday, as usual, my weekly ComicMix column posted. San Diego's getting closer, and of course we won't be going this year. I don't know if we'll ever go again; it's just gotten too big, too expensive, too impossible, and besides we have the NY Comic Con now. But a huge part of me wishes I could see the MST3K panel featuring the entire friggin' cast. (It's been awhile since I've plugged Satellite News anyway...)
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Silly Site o' the Day
Among the things I don't have time to do at present is browse creative Flickr sets, so I like when folks like David McCandless bring to our attention sites like Money Shots. I wish we could do this with American money!
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Silly Site o' the Day
Still too tired to do much about blogging. Looks like it'll take me longer than I thought to get back into a routine which will energize me. Maybe I need more pig products, like the revolutionary iHam 5Js (via Xeni at BoingBoing).
Monday, July 07, 2008
Silly Site o' the Day
I continue to have a great time at work (I still have trouble with that idea, after the past 10 years I never thought I'd say that again), feeling really useful and getting to know the ins and outs. Still not used to the commute exhaustion, but I'm sure that it'll be second nature a month or so from now and I won't even think about it any more. At that point I hope to gather up enough energy to blog and to write again; until then I'll be bringing you things like Datsa in Magnigraph:
Wow! Pretty creepy! Magnigraph maker via Gerard once again.
Wow! Pretty creepy! Magnigraph maker via Gerard once again.
Sunday, July 06, 2008
Silly Site o' the Day
Yeah, at one point I had delusions of a blogaround, or even catching up, but it's been slow going. My ComicMix column's about halfway written, so I'll wrap that up tomorrow when I get home from work. Bed now. By the way, via Mark Evanier, do you know the demographics in your neighborhood? Check them out with ZIP Skinny.
Saturday, July 05, 2008
Silly Site o' the Day
Slept all morning; I guess my body needed it. Of course, staying up until almost 1 AM trying to sit through 1776 because it was finally being shown on TCM on the correct date (albeit with an 11 PM start time), even though I also own and watch the DVD every year on Independence Day, probably didn't help. I could only last through "Cool Conservative Men," my favorite number, turning the TV off right after McNair's punch line "How'd you like to borrow a dollar from one of them?" because the poignant and wrenching song that follows, "Mama Look Sharp," is hard to take even when fully awake, but it still did the damage. So clothes-shopping plans are probably scuttled for today, although I may still attempt to do some food shopping if I wake up enough to trust myself behind the wheel. In the meantime, here's something for the Boba Fettishists among you:
Via Melissa at Shakespeare's Sister.
Via Melissa at Shakespeare's Sister.
Friday, July 04, 2008
Friday Cat Blogging (™ Kevin Drum)
Well, I'm getting the hang of this computer. It's nice to just be able to plug in the camera and upload any photos I happen to have; the old PC wouldn't even recognize my Canon.
Now if I could only get better photos of Datsa...
Now if I could only get better photos of Datsa...
Silly Site o' the Day
Today I declared independence from Robin, as I do every year, and we've each been doing our own electronic stuff for much of the day. But I couldn't resist a hat-tip to Merrie Olde with this site that Comedy Central's Ian Cooper passed along -- Comedy England. Needless to say, we're busy planning our next sojourn as we speak...
On the Other Shoe Not Dropping
The last few years have taught me to be extremely wary when things are going well, because you never know what's just around the corner. But neither are we privy to this knowledge when things are going badly, so it would seem past time for a new philosophy, to declare my independence (if you will) from that sort of mindset. From now on I'm going to endeavor to just be happy at every good turn that comes along in one's life, and hopeful that the happiness will continue as long as possible. Of course, having been raised Jewish I'm not sure this is genetically possible, but setting goals is a good thing.
So, here we go: Want. Oh, wait. Employed now. Have!
It's mostly for Robin, but he'll be networking it so I should be able to use it from my new PC as well. It was a steal at the price we paid for it, it replaces the little low-end fax machine we had which was rarely hooked up anyway (we're bringing it down to Mom's in case she ever needs to use one) as well as, we're hoping, Robin's old flatbed 11x17 scanner, which has more than served its purpose over the years. Plus the print quality on this Brother baby (baby brother?) is outstanding; the feeder won't take thicker Bristol board but it prints bluelines just fine on the other paper Robin tried. And since the artwork on Rob's future assignment will be submitted via email, the exact thickness of the original boards doesn't matter since he'll be keeping them.
Ah yes, Robin's new assignment. Not announced officially yet by any company solicitations or press releases, but confirmed by the writer in an interview at Wizard World Chicago, which has since been posted at Newsarama. Here's the interview; the mention of Robin comes in at about two minutes, 30 seconds. I can't tell you how excited Robin is about this project. It's the kind of thing he's wanted to do ever since he started his career -- which, come to think of it, is pretty much how I view my current job as well.
So we're both in a very happy place at present. Tired, but happy.
Now that the cat's quieted down, I'm going back to bed. But first: Want. Happy July 4 holiday weekend, my fellow Americans.
So, here we go: Want. Oh, wait. Employed now. Have!
It's mostly for Robin, but he'll be networking it so I should be able to use it from my new PC as well. It was a steal at the price we paid for it, it replaces the little low-end fax machine we had which was rarely hooked up anyway (we're bringing it down to Mom's in case she ever needs to use one) as well as, we're hoping, Robin's old flatbed 11x17 scanner, which has more than served its purpose over the years. Plus the print quality on this Brother baby (baby brother?) is outstanding; the feeder won't take thicker Bristol board but it prints bluelines just fine on the other paper Robin tried. And since the artwork on Rob's future assignment will be submitted via email, the exact thickness of the original boards doesn't matter since he'll be keeping them.
Ah yes, Robin's new assignment. Not announced officially yet by any company solicitations or press releases, but confirmed by the writer in an interview at Wizard World Chicago, which has since been posted at Newsarama. Here's the interview; the mention of Robin comes in at about two minutes, 30 seconds. I can't tell you how excited Robin is about this project. It's the kind of thing he's wanted to do ever since he started his career -- which, come to think of it, is pretty much how I view my current job as well.
So we're both in a very happy place at present. Tired, but happy.
Now that the cat's quieted down, I'm going back to bed. But first: Want. Happy July 4 holiday weekend, my fellow Americans.
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Silly Site o' the Day
Uh-oh, I'm beginning to run out of Silly Sites again! Quite possibly because I've fallen way, way behind in my blog reading. Lots of catch-up this weekend, I suspect. Y'all are just dying for a sonic finger, aren't you? Oh, I know, I can tell.
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Silly Site o' the Day
My latest ComicMix column is up, a bit late so it may have gotten buried a bit. It's all about my new commute; naturally, I tempted fate by mentioning how wonderful the NYC subway system is, and my morning train got stuck in a tunnel for 15-20 minutes so I wound up being about 5 minutes late to the office (I always have alternate "emergency" routes in my head, or I would have been a good deal later than that). The job continues to go very well, but I'm still pretty wiped when I get home. Ah well, it's a good kind of wiped. And I'm walking a lot. Here's a street sign generator (via Gerard) so you can always walk down your favorite street...
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Silly Site o' the Day
White Rabbits! The job to continues to chug merrily along, yesterday's commute home on the express bus was so swift I still can't believe it (I even complimented the driver; it was his first day on that route and he was absolutely perfect), but I'm still pretty exhausted. I'm sure I'll get used to this routine again any day now! Meanwhile, via Stefani at Slashfood, here's a whole blog dedicated to Cool Things In Random Places.
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