Yearly Archives: 2005

Yes, some of us do this for fun.

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If any of you are still in touch with your high school English teachers (or mine) it might be worthwhile to pass on a link to Websnark.com: The Podcast and the Examiner: on the nature of Webcomics Criticism.

I say that because, in English class through high school and even through college, I often heard people ask when they would possibly ever use the literary criticism skills they were stubbornly digesting at the time.

Well, if your interests lie in creation of things – art, fiction, comics, pretty much anything – you might find that literary skills come in handy sometime much later, when you’re participating in the creative community.

And no, I don’t expect my English teachers (or anyone else) to understand all of this comic criticism, this is more to say, “Look! I’m still using the skills you taught me! Thank you!”

Site redesign take two!

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It’s been, what? Six or seven months since a redesign? Anyway, hope you like it… I’m not happy with the comic navigation myself, but that’s because I’m fussy fussy fussy.

New features:

  • having your browser window too small shouldn’t cause a big empty white space at the top anymore.
  • the “links” list (fastest way to get to the forum) won’t spontaneously rearrange itself. the order you see is the order you get.
  • it just plain looks nicer than that boxy thing.
  • number of items in each category is posted in the category list
  • if you click the title of a given category, you can use “first / previous / next / current” links to navigate – this is especially handy for the comics, which are usually navigated that way everywhere else. (note: you’ll get all the comics – there’s no way to do this by subcategory yet… i’m still looking for one though.)
  • changed the RSS feed so you have to actually VISIT the site to view the comics. I miss your smiling faces!
  • code validates!

So, seeing as my stomach still hurts, sleeping’s going to be an interesting challenge, but i can’t miss work two days straight, so it’s off to bed I go.

Ugh.

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If asked two hours ago, I would have said that I much prefer getting sick to being nauseous, because at least something’s happening to resolve the issue.

I’ve changed my mind.

What a lousy way to start a week. I’m going back to bed and will try to reboot Monday later.

October

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amc is beating up on me tonight.

It’s partially my own fault. I decided tonight would be a good night for a rum and coke. It’s fair – I haven’t had a drink in a few weeks and sometime a girl’s gotta kick back a bit.

But had I known that they were going to play Field of Dreams followed by The Natural, I’d’ve made sure not to have a second.

Alcohol is a maginifying glass. It takes my love of baseball and magnifies it a hundredfold, making it impossible to keep an dry eye when Ray Kinsella shakes his father’s hand, or Moonlight Graham becomes the Doc, or Roy Hobbes asks Bobby to pick him out a winner. It’s multiplied even further by the White Sox win – a team I’d not care less about if the Phillies had made the playoffs, but since the Sox haven’t won the Series since 1917…

The dog’s snoring a few feet from me. Baseball means nothing to her, football neither. Both (along with hockey) are just a reason that people yell at the TV. She’ll never enjoy the smell of the leather or the spin of the ball. She seems to think that grass is for muching on. She’ll never understand that baseball is the most beautiful thing there is.

Adding weight to math classes everywhere

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sumo wrestling?!?

If you’d like to load sumo wrestling, or any other of hundreds of games, onto your calculator, ticalc.org is the place to go. They’re pretty damn cool. For example, here’s the full animated demo of Sumo Wrestling:

animated sumo

Just don’t play in English class. I know at least one of you has a teacher who’ll remember me if you say where you got the idea.