Collect all 15! (2003/08/31)
While at a local Pizza Hut, I spotted a vending machine selling stickers. One of the types of stickers on offer was symbols of the Zodiac. A bright sticker encouraged me to buy as many as I could – “Collect all 15!” Did they have duplicates? Three extra symbols not included in the normal Zodiac? Was the sticker lying?
[read more...]Hello, Little Swimmer. (2003/08/30)
There is a living creature, which will be like my friend Dave, and my friend Jordan, but it will not be either of them. This is strange to me. They call it “Little Swimmer”; it is expected to be a girl. The name is a placeholder; I’m sure they’ll think of a better name in the next couple of months. But, for now, it’s strangely appropriate.
[read more...]Hilarious stupidity (2003/08/24)
This is one of the funniest messages I’ve ever received. It was sent anonymously, by “sentinel79@hushmail.com”.
[read more...]Advance! (2003/08/18)
I got a check today. This check is interesting because it’s the first half of the advance on my forthcoming book, The Cranky User. It’s weird; it’s one thing to have signed a contract, and it’s another thing to have written a rough draft of a book, but it’s another thing entirely to actually get paid. It’s not that I don’t get paid for writing the rest of the time; indeed, it’s about all I get paid for recently. However, this is the advance on my first actual book. Not just a couple thousand words; an entire book.
[read more...]Breeder reactor (2003/08/18)
Jesse and I like to play word games, and one of my favorites was invented spontaneously at Perkins one night. It's a word-association game, called Breeder Reactor. Here's how to play. [read more...]
Metanoia got updated. (2003/07/28)
Well, it actually happened. metanoia survived through the first page update. That’s something. A lot of online comics don’t make it that far. :)
[read more...]METANOIA! (2003/07/22)
Well, it’s taken a while, but metanoia is officially live. There’s one small discontinuity; you can already get the cover for Issue #1, even though the Prologue isn’t all up yet.
[read more...]I do a cool scripty thing. (2003/07/16)
My spouse’s comic, Metanoia, is getting closer to being done. He designed a web page for it, which had the text “Here Peter does a cool scripty thing” on it. The idea is that I’m supposed to create the index pages the comic will use. So, I created a couple of scripts, and now, if his laptop hasn’t fallen asleep, I can read the comic. Well, the first five pages. A page of comic takes a long time to draw, ink, and shade. I think it’ll be a page or two a week… but it’s looking pretty cool, so far. In the first five pages, we have sodomy and at least one possible death. It’s sorta disturbing, but at least I don’t feel that the author is coddling me, or shielding me from the gritty realities of the setting.
[read more...]I guess it <em>is</em> genetic. (2003/07/08)
So, I’ve always wondered which of my many traits are hereditary, and which are learned. I got a chance to explore these boundaries a bit over the last week, because my mom was in town. A few curious points:
[read more...]It's good to be known. (2003/07/03)
So, one of the points a lot of people miss in evaluating or choosing presents is that the point of a present is largely to express awareness of who, or what, someone is. Any idiot can buy you something expensive; the hard part is buying you something that makes you happy because of who you are.
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