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Another weekend gone
Spent the weekend programming, drawing comics, and taking apart a laptop to see if it could be repaired. Tuesday’s comic is between 1/3 and 1/2 complete, with all the requisite bits accounted for, just not assembled. I got five hours of sleep last night. I have to work tomorrow. The dog’s sleeping with her head stuffed under the blankets and the rest of her out. We’re supposed to get more thunderstorms. I think we’re out of soap. This is getting a bit too random, even for me – going to bed now.
And today, a nude!
Well, technically, the dogs are pretty much always nude in the summer. In the winter, Daisy and Nugget each have coats, teeshirts, sweaters… they’re small dogs, and small dogs need small clothes.
Bonus goofiness
So I’m in a training class for Visio today… I’ve learned a lot, but any time you’re learning computer stuff as a group, it’s a slow process. Which means lots of down-time, mostly in 30-second intervals.
So that means I’ve been hanging out on the forum, of course, and Jzimbert dared me to make a comic in Visio while I was at it… which of course I had to do.
Now the king of shape-based art IMHO is Paul Gadzikowski, who draws Arthur, King of Time and Space (in the much more challenging-to-use MS Paint, no less) where the comic character King Arthur draws his own comic, which is shape-based.
So you can count this as a tribute to AKOTAS as well as a “Ha! I can do that!” to the forum crowd ;)
Bonus Thursday Comic: Netscape Scariness
So since production of the primary plot has been so sporadic and low quality lately, I thought I’d give you a bonus comic. Because, hey, if I’m going to produce sporadic and low-quality work, I should at least do it on a regular basis.
Besides, these little idiocy-comic characters are starting to grow on me. I have to be careful or I might just *gasp* name them!
a poem
subpar, but i’m out of practice.
fun house
I’m an engineer now-
capable of conversing extemporaneous
on the relative merits of
agile development, refactoring,
and whether we really should
clean up the bad smells in that code.
I, who embraced an unholy fear of offending,
convince total strangers that they made mistakes
and get paid to do so.
I spend my free time programming,
or watching science-geek shows on cable
with my husband and my dog and my computer.
I eat too much for my already round frame, and
I work out.
I, who cannot draw, publish online comics.
I, who fear the world, publish my journal.
I haven’t read a book since December,
I haven’t written a poem since 2003.
sometimes, even I don’t recognize myself.
August 10, 2005
Cheesecake!
it occurred to me about two hours ago that there’s no way I’m making tonight’s deadline, so in the tradition of great sequential artists everywhere, I offer cheesecake instead.
The classic definition of cheesecake involves pin-up girls, but I’m right out. What I do have is pictures of the best looking man I know, and the inspiration for Cole, Lila’s husband, who’s actually going to appear in an upcoming strip after a long hiatus. So today, the cheesecake is for the ladies.
So that I can get a bit of a head start on the buffer again, we’ll see more cheesecake shortly…. but probably not of Cole.
Update: Jzimbert informs me (rather awkwardly, I might add) that the technical term for male cheesecake is beefcake. But that sounds too much like meatloaf to me, so I’m sticking with “male cheesecake” for now.