I usually point the most uncomic oriented at Maus first, because it's not fantastical adolescent fantasies and it's well known and commented on and accepted. So Maus by Art Spiegelman.
After that, I go to Bendis' Torso, because it's so very different, but still a "true crime" story that few know about but it's easy to get into. It also starts people thinking about layout and how comics work, because like Torso or not, the art is very striking. That's by Brian Bendis who now writes Powers, Daredevil, Spider-man and Alias every month.
From there on the list gets long and I really have 2 different ones depending on reactions to the books (go more indy or go more mainstream)...
I don't pull the superhero stuff til pretty late in the game,because as I paraphrase mr.Ellis: imagine that 90% of all books that come out are romance novels about nurses. Occasionally there REALLY might be a great one in there, but at that point, who really wants to read about nurses?
Don't get me wrong. Tons of good superhero books, but you have to wade through tons of shit to get there.
how to get the norms
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Ask Warren Ellis
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So I've been reading comics for years. A big part of my reading is graphic literature. I've brought many people into the fold from many many walks of life. It is hard to convince people that it's not comics they hate, just superheros (as you wonderfully point out in COME IN ALONE).
Anyhow, I have generated a list that I use to get people into comics. The 5 or so graphic novels that I actually use to start people changes between people, but the rest of the list tends to remain the same. I have my list.
But someone approaches you. They've just read Kavalier and Klay or maybe they've read about Maus or read Gaiman's successful book in transition from Stephen King. Or even better, they see you reading Alias on the train and wonder what a comic book is doing saying, "Fuck." Where do YOU, Warren Ellis, point them to?
And don't say Watchmen, cause that's (fantastic) genre crud.
I keep thinking how Marshal McLuhan said that our new inventions change the way we view the world. This is 'obvious' now, but was quite a new idea when he thought of it. In the 40s and 50s you "needed" to get a (land line) phone, then it was cars, email, and now cell phones. What's next? Is it simply a matter of keeping up with the Joneses?
ALVY
I mean, d- He can give you - Do you hafta give it so loud? I mean, aren't you ashamed to pontificate like that? And - and the funny part of it is, M-Marshall McLuhan, you don't know anything about Marshall McLuhan's... work!
MAN IN LINE
[Overlapping] Wait a minute! Really? Really? I happen to teach a class at Columbia called "TV Media and Culture"! So I think that my insights into Mr. McLuhan - well, have a great deal of validity.
ALVY
Oh, do yuh?
MAN IN LINE
Yes.
ALVY
Well, that's funny, because I happen to have Mr. McLuhan right here. So... so, here, just let me - I mean, all right. Come over here... a second.
MCLUHAN
[To the man in line] I hear - I heard what you were saying. You - you know nothing of my work. You mean my whole fallacy is wrong. How you ever got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing.
ALVY
[To the camera] Boy, if life were only like this!
It's really simple: The Supreme Court rules over CONSTITUTIONALITY and not morality. If Congress passes a law that doesn't violate the Constitution, then the Supreme Court can do nothing about it.
Mr. Blume: What's the secret, Max? Max Fischer: The secret? Mr. Blume: Yeah, you seem to have it pretty figured out. Max Fischer: The secret, I don't know... I guess you've just gotta find something you love to do and then... do it for the rest of your life. For me, it's going to Rushmore.
It can be used well for RAID. In fact we're using them on a RAID device. See, 3ware makes a really cool 12-port IDE RAID card (ata 133). It's quite fast and good. But it IS limited at 12 drives for a single volume. For home use, that's MORE than fine (2.8TB is fine for most people in a 4U). But some of us need more and more than that, some of us need the ability to expand.
Enter the conversion.
Adaptec makes a pricey 4-port external SCSI card. That's a total of 14*4 usuable drives on a single bus. SCSI drives ARE expensive and when you have 40 of them, it's way more expensive, even with the converters. I see these converters as an ideal way to built multi-Terrabyte arrays at 3/4 or less of the cost of a SCSI array.
The Enclycolpedia Shatnerica states the following tale:
" Ron Asheton, the gutarist for punk rocker Iggy Pop, claims that, in the summer of 1975, Shatner made a pass at him in an L.A. bar.
Shatner supposedly approached him in the Hyatt House pub. "He wanted me to sit down, then he got kind of grabby," Asheton claims.
Horrified that Captain Kirk might be anything less than straight, he fled the scene. "Probably if I'd been drinking I would have sat down just for the weirdness of seeing what would happen," Asheton says.
(From "The Encyclopedia Shatnerica" by Robert E. Schnakenberg)"
Now, we know that both you and your alter-egos are straight, including your bizarre turn as a muderous hooker in Impulse. You have had beautiful wives.
Asheton himself has been the guitarist for a bisexual rock n roller. Yet HE denies any homosexuality. I've never heard your comments on it.
Answer, if you will, the truth behind this bizarre and probably untrue story: it's possible origins, and such. It's such a weird urban legend. I'd love to hear where it got started if you know.
dave
Good reading material for the superheros.
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Superhero Smackdown
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The four superheros mentioned recently have had a resurgence in both the skill of their writers and the depth of their stories. Here are, I think, the great books with these characters. All are still available at your local comic shop:
Superman: For All Seasons (Jeph Loeb)
Batman: Year One (Miller), Dark Knight Returns (Miller), The Killing Joke (Moore), Officer Down (Rucka), Bruce Wayne Fugitive:Murderer (Rucka).
Spider-Man: A Day in the Life (Jenkins), anything by J.Michael Strazinski (from Babylon5. yes, he writes spiderman).
Deadpool: The current Agent X storyline, The Circle Chase or any trade paperback you can find. This guy is harder to find.
And you know what? It's a blast. Find one in your area. I go in Boston. It might be the only place where punk girls are fairly attractive.
Re:My big problem with Jabber...:LINUX HA
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Programming Jabber
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Check out the linux High Availability project and most specifically their HEARTBEAT software. Basically, if any server running heartbeat goes down in a variety of different ways, a secondary or tertiary or n-ary machine takes over the tasks specified. It can work with any service that you place in/etc/rc.d so I don't see why Jabber wouldn't be part of that.
He was cuddled on my couch watching Sex and the City's bonus mini-4th season. Carrie was writing at Vogue! Taco claimed that Steve and Miranda would get back together but i disagreed. then we threw pillows at each other and ate cheesecake icecream!
you all think i'm kidding. but i'm not. Taco broke his Tivo and he had to chose between the PooperBowl and S&TC. Take a guess what won. and what would win everytime.
and Rob wore the cutest camisole! it was a girls night in!
If you utilize the java.io.serialization stuff right, you can create a lightweight persistence and should be able to freeze and resume processes on the same application if you handle threading right with it.
The Red Cross IT dept. is swamped with calls and email right now and I don't know if it's a great idea to just start sending stuff to them.
In the meantime, my company would LOVE to put some stuff together. We've already started helping a bit. rational software is putting together a van full of equipment and people to deliver. Please contact Ali Kaufman to see if you can help at all.
If you know of anyone else who can use computers or equipment in the NYC area in relation to this disaster, please tell her or me, dave, and we'll try to coordinate!! It's better than just sending a bunch a stuff and people down and saying, "TAKE IT!"
I was witness when Jeff Hemos Bates, the author of this text, bought a staff or some other shite for Diablo 2 at the San Jose LinuxWorld last year. The boy should neglect to mention it, of course...
Sorry, Jeff, you'd rather it come from me than Adrian.
Actually, VA no longer sells proprietary software after laying off their entire Services division.
However OSDN, the "unprofitable websites" are indeed profitable, as they are managed by a small, but very skilled, staff of people.
And, yes, I know this for a fact. I used to work at OSDN and I am still friends with the bloody lot of them.
Before you bash VA, do some research. They're not so bad.
Re:Minding each other's own business:you're wrong.
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Roasting Sacred Cows
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"If you want to get rid of child pornography, stop the _small_ number of people that create it not the _large_ number of people that host and view it. "
stop both. by getting it off the internet, it's just one more distribution channel destroyed. it doesn't SOLVE the problem, but it DOES slow the growth. that's important.
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I usually point the most uncomic oriented at Maus first, because it's not fantastical adolescent fantasies and it's well known and commented on and accepted. So Maus by Art Spiegelman.
After that, I go to Bendis' Torso, because it's so very different, but still a "true crime" story that few know about but it's easy to get into. It also starts people thinking about layout and how comics work, because like Torso or not, the art is very striking. That's by Brian Bendis who now writes Powers, Daredevil, Spider-man and Alias every month.
From there on the list gets long and I really have 2 different ones depending on reactions to the books (go more indy or go more mainstream)...
I don't pull the superhero stuff til pretty late in the game,because as I paraphrase mr.Ellis: imagine that 90% of all books that come out are romance novels about nurses. Occasionally there REALLY might be a great one in there, but at that point, who really wants to read about nurses?
Don't get me wrong. Tons of good superhero books, but you have to wade through tons of shit to get there.
Anyhow, I have generated a list that I use to get people into comics. The 5 or so graphic novels that I actually use to start people changes between people, but the rest of the list tends to remain the same. I have my list.
But someone approaches you. They've just read Kavalier and Klay or maybe they've read about Maus or read Gaiman's successful book in transition from Stephen King. Or even better, they see you reading Alias on the train and wonder what a comic book is doing saying, "Fuck." Where do YOU, Warren Ellis, point them to?
And don't say Watchmen, cause that's (fantastic) genre crud.
ALVY ... work!
I mean, d- He can give you - Do you hafta give it so loud? I mean, aren't you ashamed to pontificate like that? And - and the funny part of it is, M-Marshall McLuhan, you don't know anything about Marshall McLuhan's
MAN IN LINE
[Overlapping] Wait a minute! Really? Really? I happen to teach a class at Columbia called "TV Media and Culture"! So I think that my insights into Mr. McLuhan - well, have a great deal of validity.
ALVY
Oh, do yuh?
MAN IN LINE
Yes.
ALVY ... so, here, just let me - I mean, all right. Come over here ... a second.
Well, that's funny, because I happen to have Mr. McLuhan right here. So
MCLUHAN
[To the man in line] I hear - I heard what you were saying. You - you know nothing of my work. You mean my whole fallacy is wrong. How you ever got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing.
ALVY
[To the camera] Boy, if life were only like this!
It's really simple: The Supreme Court rules over CONSTITUTIONALITY and not morality. If Congress passes a law that doesn't violate the Constitution, then the Supreme Court can do nothing about it.
Mr. Blume: What's the secret, Max?
Max Fischer: The secret?
Mr. Blume: Yeah, you seem to have it pretty figured out.
Max Fischer: The secret, I don't know... I guess you've just gotta find something you love to do and then... do it for the rest of your life. For me, it's going to Rushmore.
But Adam could not eat of the Animals. That wasn't allowed til Noah.
Enter the conversion.
Adaptec makes a pricey 4-port external SCSI card. That's a total of 14*4 usuable drives on a single bus. SCSI drives ARE expensive and when you have 40 of them, it's way more expensive, even with the converters. I see these converters as an ideal way to built multi-Terrabyte arrays at 3/4 or less of the cost of a SCSI array.
The Enclycolpedia Shatnerica states the following tale:
" Ron Asheton, the gutarist for punk rocker Iggy Pop, claims that, in the summer of 1975, Shatner made a pass at him in an L.A. bar.
Shatner supposedly approached him in the Hyatt House pub. "He wanted me to sit down, then he got kind of grabby," Asheton claims.
Horrified that Captain Kirk might be anything less than straight, he fled the scene. "Probably if I'd been drinking I would have sat down just for the weirdness of seeing what would happen," Asheton says.
(From "The Encyclopedia Shatnerica" by Robert E. Schnakenberg)"
Now, we know that both you and your alter-egos are straight, including your bizarre turn as a muderous hooker in Impulse. You have had beautiful wives.
Asheton himself has been the guitarist for a bisexual rock n roller. Yet HE denies any homosexuality. I've never heard your comments on it.
Answer, if you will, the truth behind this bizarre and probably untrue story: it's possible origins, and such. It's such a weird urban legend. I'd love to hear where it got started if you know.
dave
The four superheros mentioned recently have had a resurgence in both the skill of their writers and the depth of their stories. Here are, I think, the great books with these characters. All are still available at your local comic shop:
Superman: For All Seasons (Jeph Loeb)
Batman: Year One (Miller), Dark Knight Returns (Miller), The Killing Joke (Moore), Officer Down (Rucka), Bruce Wayne Fugitive:Murderer (Rucka).
Spider-Man: A Day in the Life (Jenkins), anything by J.Michael Strazinski (from Babylon5. yes, he writes spiderman).
Deadpool: The current Agent X storyline, The Circle Chase or any trade paperback you can find. This guy is harder to find.
That would be cool. Interview henry, roblimo, interview henry.
The YF-23 had a sorta violin shape from underneath..and 10 years ago? 1992-1993, that'd be about the time it was being tested.
and no closeups. They all have bad skin
FRISTY POSTY!
I once had a boat and I named it "Unthinkable".
Punk Rock Aerobics
And you know what? It's a blast. Find one in your area. I go in Boston. It might be the only place where punk girls are fairly attractive.
Check out the linux High Availability project and most specifically their HEARTBEAT software. Basically, if any server running heartbeat goes down in a variety of different ways, a secondary or tertiary or n-ary machine takes over the tasks specified. It can work with any service that you place in /etc/rc.d so I don't see why Jabber wouldn't be part of that.
Alias/Wavefront Maya
Houdini
Oh? You mean FREE 3d programs. hm. i have no idea. try this, though, 3d linux programs
you all think i'm kidding. but i'm not. Taco broke his Tivo and he had to chose between the PooperBowl and S&TC. Take a guess what won. and what would win everytime.
and Rob wore the cutest camisole! it was a girls night in!
If you utilize the java.io.serialization stuff right, you can create a lightweight persistence and should be able to freeze and resume processes on the same application if you handle threading right with it.
it exists already, sweetie. check out the infiniband spec somewhere.
In the meantime, my company would LOVE to put some stuff together. We've already started helping a bit. rational software is putting together a van full of equipment and people to deliver. Please contact Ali Kaufman to see if you can help at all.
If you know of anyone else who can use computers or equipment in the NYC area in relation to this disaster, please tell her or me, dave, and we'll try to coordinate!! It's better than just sending a bunch a stuff and people down and saying, "TAKE IT!"
Dave
Sorry, Jeff, you'd rather it come from me than Adrian.
However OSDN, the "unprofitable websites" are indeed profitable, as they are managed by a small, but very skilled, staff of people.
And, yes, I know this for a fact. I used to work at OSDN and I am still friends with the bloody lot of them.
Before you bash VA, do some research. They're not so bad.
stop both. by getting it off the internet, it's just one more distribution channel destroyed. it doesn't SOLVE the problem, but it DOES slow the growth. that's important.
the childraping poet ginsburg dealt with it too.
check for more info on modern pedophiles.