My favorite webcomic is over, if not necessarily done. I am sad anyway.
Category: Digital Neighbors
Just when I think Hitherby Dragons has spun off into total incomprehensibility, back it comes with stuff like this. Awesome.
I thought I had a neat time-travel story idea over the weekend, then Kristofer Straub went and broke spacetime.
It’s Plug Starshift Crisis Day!
Now I feel like I have to follow that title with a Girlsareprettyesque story about how your family life is weird and conclusions are disappointing.
Read Starshift Crisis! Seriously, why aren’t you reading it? You have the choice to read Kristofer Straub’s punchlines on a daily basis and you’re not! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!
My guest strip is up at Checkerboard Nightmare!
YAAAAAY!
Crystal’s Adventures is pretty amazing. She’s in Asia on a grant this summer (she’s in grad school at Tulane, although I don’t know her degree program); in May she wrote for an adolescent health website in Bangkok, after which she and two friends traveled overland through Laos to Hanoi, where she’s working on a sustainable community development grant proposal.
This sounded a little scary and exciting to me, as somebody whose only knowledge of Laos and Hanoi comes from old Doonesbury comics. Crystal’s account–which is well-written, clear and reasonable–makes it evident that this is a batshit loonball psycho death trip. Also that she is an action hero. Check out the part where she watches a cargo truck flip off a mountain, almost has her own bus do the same, stays in a house that uses old bombshells for dishes and scares a biker gang into carrying her down the mountain for three bucks. Man!
I found Crystal’s blog through her domain-co-resident and fiancee, Clinton Roosevelt Nixon, a name very familiar to indie RPG geeks who don’t read this. My Nobilis ballers may recognize him as the guy who wrote The Shadow of Yesterday (and, ergo, invented Keys).
Wanna know what’s been on my mind for the last eight months or so? Hint: It’s the big one.
I’d always thought that the route I ran–when I ran–was about three miles: my average plod is about 6mph, and I ran for roughly half an hour. Also it kind of… felt three-milesish.
This morning Leonard delicioused the GMaps Pedometer, which allowed me to discover that my route was… 3.0165352158455165 miles!
At least I know that for a while, I was still in reasonable shape to run a 5k (for which half an hour is a hideous time).
Go ahead. Sign up for Urban Dead. I dare you!
I’m gonna eat your brains.