So, as you can see, today was pretty much all dedicated to the comic. I drew a bunch o’ crap and put it all up… I really should have saved some of it, so I could get a daily strip thing going, but well… I’m impatient. 😉

Holy Wars – Damn that’s a bad drawing of James.

Poor Impulse Control – Why is tyler’s head so big?

There’s a little bleed through in the images of the page behind it… blah.

Three new strips:

billboardgirl.jpg – Note the DefCon badge…

mooo-nique.jpg – That’s a reference to monique from sinfest

nose.jpg – Comic strip humor…

It’s hard drawing the eyebrows of a guy with no eyebrows…

I need to learn to draw women… I just can’t do it.

I have two more comics ready to be scanned, but my mom is in the office with the scanner right now, so it’ll have to wait.

I’m also having trouble with lettering in these new comics, at least… I’ll have to work on that. Maybe I’ll follow the crowd and do my lettering in a graphics prog like Sluggy or UF.

James’ sister sent him a letter telling him that he’s a bright guy and he shouldn’t be gay or do drugs. I told him she just didn’t want to compete with him for guys…

I fixed some mail problems on shiva. It hadn’t been much of a priority since roto-router is my mail server, but now I can do some nifty contact forms and stuff… Also, the survey I posted a while back, from my bobism page, will work now.

So, I just got this insight from amazon.com… I think I’m afraid.

“Customers who bought Xenocide also bought: GB Electrical GTP-607 Electrical Tape”

Oh god help us… There is a Sims expansion pack with such new career tracks as “Slacker” and “Hacker”… Oh man… That’s too cool… evil!

So, at lunch James mentioned that he’d spent half an hour looking for the place on the amazon.com site where you can search for wish lists. I told him to give me five minutes and I’d find it. James came back at me with the comment that in that five minutes I could probably check out twice as many pages as he could in 30 minutes (he’s feeling a bit impotent with his dialup connection).

So I told him give me 3 minutes. 😉

Well, I got home from donuts and figured I’d give it a shot… Opened up my clock in windows and checked the time, 3:22:18. I hit the amazon site, checked the front page, then went for the help… There was help on creating a wish list that took me to the wish list FAQ. The wish list FAQ mentioned the search, but contained no link… However the wish list FAQ had a title suggesting that it was a child of a “wish list” page… I hit that, and there was the search.

This wasn’t good enough, though. I knew the page I was looking for, but there had to be an easier way to reach it. There wasn’t anything obvious on the amazon main page, except that link that says “Directory” looked promising. I hit that, and found another link to “Wish list”. Bingo!

Checked the time, 3:23:36… 1 minute, 18 seconds!

So, I did what any good sport would do… I paged james to gloat. ;D

Last night I saw Laura Wilkinson working with a reporter who wanted to know about diving from the 10m platform. Six months ago, Laura couldn’t walk. She had broken three bones in her right foot during a dry land diving practice session. She couldn’t practice for months, so she spent her time going over her dives in her mind… She got out of her cast two months before the olympic trials and scored a perfect 10 on one of her dives.

She came into tonight’s competition in 8th place, but she put up a hell of a performance. Great dives, near perfect. While the competition around her was falling by the wayside due to nervous dives and huge splashes, she kept up her performance and brought home the gold. Awesome.

If you ask me, Laura Wilkinson is one of the great stories of this olympics. She played the games with a positive attitude, she did her best, and she got what she deserved. Congratulations Laura.