Web-comic thoughts

I am jealous of Barb and Chris’ upcoming cartoonist fame, so I went and found the old Artificial Intelligence strips Tom Monaghan and I collaborated on.

*sigh* It’s not that I’m not still proud of the work, it’s just that the jokes all seemed funnier back in 1987.

Spent today catching up on Mac Hall… that strip can be pretty dang funny sometimes. Even smiled at the Digimon porn. Bad Boys of Computer Science just didn’t do anything for me, though. By the way, if a hi-resolution version of “Bob’s Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots” was on a t-shirt, I’d own three of them.

The artist of Mac Hall did a total conversion, “Marathon: RED”, for Bungie Software’s Marathon Infinity shooter game – some of the best bitmapped art that game’s ever seen. I was hoping to get the Aleph One:SDL version working to show meiran, but the Windows port is still just too buggy. Maybe next time she’s close to a Macintosh.

While digging through my files, I also found the digital file of my game card… yes, I am a card in the Star Trek Collectible Card Game. The original artwork is by Chris Impink, and alert people can see where I got my default LJ user icon from.

Stuff

We got pizza for lunch, Humble Pie. But I accidentally ate a slice of the pepperoni pizza (’cause all the cheese was on top) and now my stomach’s badly unsettled.

The people who programmed the spell checker for this client weren’t real hackers… the spell checker doesn’t recognize the word “pepperoni”.

Someone is advertising miniature cattle in this week’s issue of the paper… I keep flashing back to the conversation about “raising albino lesbian micro-beefalo in a windowbox” that came up during kittykatya‘s Roanoke TFOS game from years ago. The beefalo weren’t part of the game, you understand, just part of our gaming conversation.

The Australian government, responding to the RIAA’s “we can hack your computer when we feel like it bill”, has said that such activity may make US executives criminals under Australian law, and expose them to charges and possible arrests if they enter the country. There’s more info here. Good for them! “Australia, Australia, Australia, we love you, amen!”

Hi to rubinpdf – say, do you think I could actually film the Commissioner Horton part this time?

Coolest… Dad… Ever.

Some kids get tree houses when they’re young. I always wanted one, but never got one.

What do this guy‘s kids get? A freakin’ BattleMech!

MadCat tree fort

I cannt tyype…

I meant to say that MiB 2 was not as good as the first one.

Also, I’m glad that I’ll finally get to play Voyager: Elite Force holomatch with Rain. Of course, she’ll find her groove in about a game and a half and start kicking my butt, but at least I can spawn a cube’s worth of Borg to help out if it starts getting too humiliating.

I am loved

raininva got me a very nice present today!

This is a preview package of the miniatures for the new BattleTech collectible figures game.

'Mech figure

Saldy, they aren’t playable in the actual game, but they are a nice preivew. The paint jobs are good, the figure scale is nice, and I’ve had a chance to mess with the game system, which I think will be even more accessible than the original BattleTech.

I also have a bigger picture of the package and the three miniatures.

Thank you, sweetie!

Darkness falls on Sanrio

Hey barb, after you’ve weaned Alex from Power Ranger checkers and Pokemon chess, you can teach him this game! (click here for a larger image)

Hello Kitty 40,000 AD

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