Kris Straub is the April Foolmaster, so much so that he can get away with doing his prank on March 31. Go look at Checkerboard Nightmare right now!
Category: Connections
For some reason (most likely NewsBruiser’s ping of weblogs.com), NFD got listed at Blogweb.org. Sensing an opportunity for aggrandizement, I helpfully updated the listing, placing myself correctly in the elite category of XBOX/YANNI. Now I’ll just sit back and watch the hits pour in!
You will live in Mansion.
You will drive a Dark Blue Hummer.
You will marry Janeane Garofalo and have 3 kids.
You will be a Dad in Mountain View.
Now you, too, can Play MASH Online, magically removing its barely-scandalous social purpose entirely. Reduce your childhood pleasures to solved problems! Next: Candy Land, or possibly War.
Searching for references a little bit ago, I google imaged for “raccoon” and noticed a really cool little character sketch near the bottom of the first page. The link turned out to be a Painter sketch directory at Tourniquet, art repository of Vera Brosgol, of whose I’ve been a big fan for years. It’s a pretty neat directory. My favorites are “couple” and “purple shirt.”
Anyway, I thought the validation of my, um, liking her art (even when I didn’t know it was hers) was neat. I actually already own an original, and I’d like very much to get her to sketch something this summer at Calicomicon.
I think Atom is stupid, and Blogger is stupid for using it. But now, feed on feeds supports Atom! Which doesn’t make it less stupid, but does mean I finally get to read Blogger blogs via aggregator.
Future plans for my aggregator include somehow fusing it with my cell phone, or giving it lasers. I may also paint flames on the sides (we all know what that does). Plus, someday, it will babysit my kids.
It’s only March
My notes are mostly doodles now, but I can’t claim the same kind of downhill slide as Amy, because they were mostly doodles to begin with. I think the first page of last semester’s notebook was all doodles.
What it gets down to is that I don’t pay much attention in class, which is bad. But the professor for whom I have two of my classes hands out hard copies of his PowerPoint presentations every day, which is good. But I’m still not doing well in two of my classes, which is bad. But I get a lot of writing and drawing done, which is good. But I’m still not drawing comics and I haven’t gotten around to publishing my writing project yet, which is bad.
Grad school is proving very useful to me, in that I’m a much better programmer than I was six months ago, and also now I understand frequencies. It may well be, though, that it proves more useful as a way of forcing me to create via an acute and growing distaste for computer science. If I actually had a way to make a living writing, I know perfectly well that I would instead play Dynasty Warriors and never write anything, until I ran out of food and starved. But being stuck in a quiet room with lots of math and Web Serwices[1] is a pretty efficient way to turn my desire for escape into a very exacting word count.
Amy’s blog is pretty great, by the way.
To: xorph@xorph.com From: support@xorph.com Subject: Notify about your e-mail account utilization. Dear user of Xorph.com, Your e-mail account has been temporary disabled because of unauthorized access. Advanced details can be found in attached file. Best wishes, The Xorph.com team http://www.xorph.com
And then of course the attachment is a pif file. Wow. One of the better social engineerings I’ve gotten in a while–it certainly beats the hell out of MyDoom. As always, of course, it’s not entirely bad English-free, and then there’s the fact that I am the Xorph.com team.
I still maintain that if anybody ever manages to use all the right words, spelled correctly, in an email virus, that virus will rule the world. Fortunately that won’t happen, thanks to the deep and powerful stupidity of all virus writers. It’s almost like a paradox.