Weekend in western Virginia
Posting from the handheld, since the computer’s back in Virginia Beach. Rain’s off at Origins, and I’m got a kitty magnetically attached to my lap – she hasn’t seen me in two weeks, nor Rain for a couple days. Boy did she cuss me when I walked in.
Brought some card sets up for this evening. I’ll probably get cleaned up and leave for Blacksburg before long. More driving. Good thing my car’s comfy as they go.
It’s interesting trying to read webcomics on the screen of a handheld. I wonder if I could manage to save up for an nice eBay laptop by Xmas, one I can shoehorn OS X onto.
Kitty’s purring.
“http” = “ftp”?
That’s just weird. The link to Tom’s comics is displaying wrong in my journal. Every time I go to edit it, it reads “http”, but on my journal entries page, it reads “ftp”. There’s a glitch somewhere. The correct link, assuming this doesn’t glitch too, is Wiikii Paradise. Edit: It’s still glitching. Someone at LJ’s got a code issue somewhere. I swear I typed “http” both times.
Dinner with Captain Paisley
Saturday night I had dinner with Tom Monaghan and his wife, Donna. We had a good time catching up on stuff, seeing what the other’s been up to, trading trivia found on Slashdot, that sort of thing. Tom’s even posted some new Wiikii strips on his website, Wiikii Paradise. I think he (or maybe Wiikii) should get a LiveJournal.
Other than that, it’s been a slow week. All this week, I get home at 7, eat dinner, and just don’t feel like doing much besides reading. As soon as I get my next paycheck, I’m going to get some model supplies and build and review the Klingon ship model for Jerry. Of course, tomorrow night I’ll be back on I-64 / I-81 for the trip to Blacksburg (with stopovers in Salem both ways).
While I still believe that 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the most beautiful and realistic space movies ever made, I think I become more critical of its other aspects upon every viewing. I’m beginning to agree with the folk who say that Hal 9000 actually has far more personality than the two human astronauts on Discovery. Guys, you could be out-acted by Thunderbirds puppets – come on!
I should never have asked him to grow *those* plants
For the Final Fantasy XI players: what happens if you push your moogle too far.
MacHall (if you’re tuning in late, you want the Wed. June 16, 2004 issue)
Almost makes me wish I could play Morrowind.
Count Floyd
I read this comic and I thought of one of Rain’s co-workers… she’s all about the Silent Hill etc.
Me, I’ll stick to .Hack and Frequency for now 🙂
I’m in the mood to link
The previous post dates from Saturday… I started writing it about 1 am, and forgot about it; it was still in my journaling app this morning 🙂
Managed to wake up this morning not feeling like death warmed over, but in fact a little optimistic about the day. We’ll see how long it lasts, especially on a work Tuesday, but it’s a nice change.
Pulled out my new Xmas present sketch pad for the first time last night, and started drawing a character I’ve been thinking about for the last few weeks. I mainly managed to prove to myself how out of practice I’ve become, but I’m not giving up. Drawing and painting have been on my mind a lot lately, and there’s a piece I wanted to do for last year’s T-con that I’d love to have ready this year.
w00t_comic‘s been funny this week… a good “gaydar” joke in the previous comic, and a Harry Potter in-joke on a t-shirt in the most recent one. I think that joke has custom-button potential for the early-year cons.
Good Webcomics
I recommend all of these, but especially the first:
Fragile Gravity, Sluggy Freelance, Kevin & Kell, Freefall, Mac Hall, Rockwood, usr/bin/w00t, Queen of Wands, Sinfest
I don’t recommend trying to read them all from the beginning in a single day 🙂
My ongoing fame
I am now a star of stage, screen, and webcomic 🙂 Check out Fragile Gravity today (April 23rd comic). For those unsure, I’m third from the left in panel 4. Yep, that’s raininva next to me.
Thanks for the guest spot, guys!
Quiet yet diabolical laughter
Thanks to Fragile Gravity (April 18th comic), I believe I now have artwork for two of the characters at Rising Star’s run of Badge Wars.
Too bad I can’t run a game of that at Origins.
Internet perils
elfie.org has been off the web since Sunday morning… no e-mail for me… no way to feel the love. 🙁
On the other hand, I got a chuckle from this month’s Sabrina Online strips… only here can you have a porn star trying to explain sex to a 9″ tall Transformers robot.
I feel that I should post something a lot more deep and meaningful here, since I haven’t posted in days and days… but nothing’s coming to me just now.
