Far be it from me to jump on something before it proves itself to be really re-established,* but it would appear that the Incompetent Attorney lives again!
* I have done this dozens of times. It’s starting to look like a curse.
Category: Plugs
I love constrained writing, and I checked Constrained today and got reminded why.
While I recognize that neither of the two stories I’m about to link is particularly original, I admire them because they are brilliant exercises in form (some people use that term as a pejorative; I don’t). You can read them very quickly, and I recommend them to you with this note: read the stories before you click to see which challenges inspired them.
“Tuna Casserole
Ingredients: 1 large casserole dish
Place the casserole dish in a cold oven. Place a chair facing the oven and sit in it forever. Think about how hungry you are. When night falls, do not turn on the light.”
Jean-Paul Sartre attempts to write a cookbook. Found via the Interconnected mini-links, which is great in direct proportion to your dorkiness. I think it’s awesome.
You know, Java is great until you have to design a user interface with it. Then again, I could say that about pretty much any language that isn’t PHP (which just delegates UI to HTML).
I plan on never designing a non-HTML UI, so it’s a good thing I know a fancy boy UI programmer already. I assume he works for pudding.
Oh, sure, Cody Powell may have a cool devlog and I don’t, but I know what it’s like to double-wield Covenant plasma rifles. Does he? Well, probably by later today he will. I’ve got nothing! My life is ruined!
What’s it’s like, incidentally, is that somebody thought up a way to make Covenant weapons useful.
Neat things!
- JEDI COPS! I’d join this if I had any writing resources left. Maybe you should join, and tell me how it goes. The diceless RPG system they use, called the Karmic Cycle, sounds suspiciously like the luck-based system Ben came up with for Cosmos, last year.
- Stephen has started a pending lawsuit. Oh, I meant “advice column.”
- It’s unfortunate that the comic is apparently updated about as often as Xorph, but Pihakwa is so pretty I want to buy it, all of it, or somehow mark it with my scent. The gallery is sweet, too.
So far I haven’t used, and don’t plan on using, the Kleimo Random Name Generator for Anacrusis. I much prefer being able to come up with my own names for every character (at least two hundred by now, I think). But man, it’s tempting.
The comic story Stephen wrote and I drew for HONOR, the 2004 Fake Middle Names Collective comics anthology, is finally on the interweb! Please enjoy A Modest Proposal, and share it with your friends and legal acquaintances.
I’ve been listening to my Frou Frou CD a lot. So much, in fact, that if it were a record the needle would probably have damaged it badly by now. The lows would be warmer, but the quality of sound would be degrading, and little peels of vinyl would be poking up like splinters on a fuzz stick, the worst method ever invented to start a fire.