1. Launch Windows Update.
2. Prepare sacrificial animal in accordance with the EULA.
3. Open CD tray.
4. Allow some blood to drain into computer and close tray.
5. Smear remaining blood on monitor frame.
6. When install completes, reboot and enjoy the ritually clean goodness!
10 Let X=X.
20 You know, I could write a book.
30 And this book would be thick enough to stun an ox.
40 Cause I can see the future and it's a place - about 70 miles east of here.
50 Where it's lighter.
60 Linger on over here.
70 Got the time?
80 Let X=X.
"hopes to reduce fatigue-related accidents by encouraging drivers to stop more often." Bah... Increased driver fatigue and now they won't be able to get anyone to leave!
These stories are always interesting to me because I'm an artist working on a web comic that attempts to deal heavily with Quantum Mechanics. If anyone's got the time, I'd appreciate some pointers on making my sci-fi as scientifically tight as possible. The comic is here particlesphere.com. Specific info about the QM aspects can be found on the character and story pages.
...I like my sugar with coffee and cream!
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Death by Coffee?
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· Score: 2, Funny
Death by coffee? Bring it on... death by chocolate didn't work.
Did intranet development. Before the bankruptcy it was pretty cool. After the bankruptcy:
1. Everyone pretty much showed up when they wanted to... except managers. The better coder you were, the later you showed up. The guru usually got in about 11 AM, just in time for...
2. Lunch! Lunch started around 11 AM and usually spanned 2 or 3 hours. Typical noon-time activities included runs to the local comic book shop, eating at the sushi place or going over to someone's house to watch a movie or play Game Cube.
3. Around 2 or 2:30 PM we would start to wander back in to do things like work on projects that would eventually be canceled because of budget cuts/layoffs/political fall outs, maintain legacy code or juggle... juggling became pretty big... although I usually worked on my web comic, so I never really learned how to juggle.
"What's so bad about that?" you may be asking... well, I have never been so demoralized or depressed as when I knew each day was going to be pretty much a non-productive wash. Yeah the money was OK, but there was negative job satisfaction with the added morale booster of regularly getting to watch your friends get laid off... wondering if you would be next.
Now I'm web master for Hinds Community College, have my own office, a budget and actually got a raise by leaving the corporate world for academia (quite the opposite of the tech trends in the late '90s)... I didn't get laid off from WorldCom, so I got to leave them... and, boy, that felt great! ^_^
Come on, does American Greetings, Corp. really think attacking a legitimate parody really furthers its business goals as a company? Did the person(s) initiating this action have no knowledge of how an Internet based community would respond to such an assault on civil liberties? Did this action really protect and further your "Strawberry Shortcake" brand or simply generate much deserved hype around a web comic?
I would like to see you do the right thing as a company... retract your legal threats and allow Penny Arcade to repost that comic. Imagine the goodwill (and sales) you will generate from the Internet community.
Besides, I easily found the "forbidden" comic on an alternate web site (see attachment). Now this single panel will be seen by many, many more people simply because of your action. One second thought, thanks for all the free publicity for the web comic community! Keep up the great work!
By the way, I have a web comic (http://particlesphere.com/) whose main character is a redheaded female... sorta looks like Strawberry Whoever if you squint! Please threaten me with legal action... I really need the publicity!
I have been following comics all my life, and web comics for a few years now. Last year I decided to take up the challenge of doing a web based comic myself... almost a year later I put my first page online.
http://particlesphere.com/ is a full color, free web comic hosted by meta4ik media, a multimedia company I work with on the side. I put a years worth of work into it before I even put a site up... so even though my traffic isn't booming yet, I fully anticipate things to take off eventually.
What am I gonna do about bandwidth/hosting costs when it gets big? Get creative... dedicate myself to delivering high quality merchandise and content and rely on the friends I have made and will make in the process. Don't try to do it alone... it's a community that you're really trying to create. That's why megatokyo.com and others like it are becoming successful, they are dedicated to building the community around their comic and being loyal to the fans.
My friends and I have found the following skills essential for survival in the highly unstable world of corporate IT...
- endurance web browsing
- 150+ words-per-minute Instant Messaging
- juggling of various objects/equipment
- Photoshop (for fark.com's "Photoshop this image...")
- advanced buddy iconography design (for somethingleet.com
- Magic the Gathering (be able to play or discuss at length)
- random philosophical/political debate and discussion savvy (you should read enough about a subject to make jokes)
- master the yo-yo
- basic drawing skills (for those white board masterpieces)
- innovative "cube flair" collection and placement abilities (try Feng Shui for the basics, then develop your own "small-space" aesthetic philosophy)
Slashdot Mirror
It turns out that I was right about numbers 9 and 12.
Does it come with downloadable "smoke" tones like a cell phone has ring tones? That would be sweet!
Hey, that's the shuttle simulator I used at Space Camp back in 1987. ;) How'd it get out there?
I made this a few years ago: http://www.particlesphere.com/gallery/animeart/Lai n_Assemblage_1
Who needs the Daleks? I'm sure they can get Darph Nader from Hardware Wars at half the price.
"But Basketball is a peaceful planet!"
1. Launch Windows Update.
2. Prepare sacrificial animal in accordance with the EULA.
3. Open CD tray.
4. Allow some blood to drain into computer and close tray.
5. Smear remaining blood on monitor frame.
6. When install completes, reboot and enjoy the ritually clean goodness!
10 Let X=X.
20 You know, I could write a book.
30 And this book would be thick enough to stun an ox.
40 Cause I can see the future and it's a place - about 70 miles east of here.
50 Where it's lighter.
60 Linger on over here.
70 Got the time?
80 Let X=X.
( ^_~ Laurie Anderson, Big Science)
"hopes to reduce fatigue-related accidents by encouraging drivers to stop more often."
Bah... Increased driver fatigue and now they won't be able to get anyone to leave!
Sorry, got a little over excited, cause I've heard they were making a movie.
My bad... I had heard they were making a movie and got excited.
Star Wars when I was 6...
Space Camp in 9th grade...
Reading 4 book H2G2 trilogy straight through 2 times in a row in high school...
This movie better kick ass. ^_^;;
This is exactly the kind of shit that makes me glad I chose the HP-120 over an iPod. Currently convering all my CDs to Ogg. :)
These stories are always interesting to me because I'm an artist working on a web comic that attempts to deal heavily with Quantum Mechanics. If anyone's got the time, I'd appreciate some pointers on making my sci-fi as scientifically tight as possible. The comic is here particlesphere.com. Specific info about the QM aspects can be found on the character and story pages.
Death by coffee? Bring it on... death by chocolate didn't work.
Ah... webmastering in a technologial desert with 90% humidity... see, there is a logical reason we don't wear shoes down here.
Did intranet development. Before the bankruptcy it was pretty cool. After the bankruptcy:
1. Everyone pretty much showed up when they wanted to... except managers. The better coder you were, the later you showed up. The guru usually got in about 11 AM, just in time for...
2. Lunch! Lunch started around 11 AM and usually spanned 2 or 3 hours. Typical noon-time activities included runs to the local comic book shop, eating at the sushi place or going over to someone's house to watch a movie or play Game Cube.
3. Around 2 or 2:30 PM we would start to wander back in to do things like work on projects that would eventually be canceled because of budget cuts/layoffs/political fall outs, maintain legacy code or juggle... juggling became pretty big... although I usually worked on my web comic, so I never really learned how to juggle.
"What's so bad about that?" you may be asking... well, I have never been so demoralized or depressed as when I knew each day was going to be pretty much a non-productive wash. Yeah the money was OK, but there was negative job satisfaction with the added morale booster of regularly getting to watch your friends get laid off... wondering if you would be next.
Now I'm web master for Hinds Community College, have my own office, a budget and actually got a raise by leaving the corporate world for academia (quite the opposite of the tech trends in the late '90s)... I didn't get laid off from WorldCom, so I got to leave them... and, boy, that felt great! ^_^
Come on, does American Greetings, Corp. really think attacking a legitimate parody really furthers its business goals as a company? Did the person(s) initiating this action have no knowledge of how an Internet based community would respond to such an assault on civil liberties? Did this action really protect and further your "Strawberry Shortcake" brand or simply generate much deserved hype around a web comic?
I would like to see you do the right thing as a company... retract your legal threats and allow Penny Arcade to repost that comic. Imagine the goodwill (and sales) you will generate from the Internet community.
Besides, I easily found the "forbidden" comic on an alternate web site (see attachment). Now this single panel will be seen by many, many more people simply because of your action. One second thought, thanks for all the free publicity for the web comic community! Keep up the great work!
By the way, I have a web comic (http://particlesphere.com/) whose main character is a redheaded female... sorta looks like Strawberry Whoever if you squint! Please threaten me with legal action... I really need the publicity!
Thank you,
Will Jayroe
http://particlesphere.com/
I have been following comics all my life, and web comics for a few years now. Last year I decided to take up the challenge of doing a web based comic myself... almost a year later I put my first page online.
http://particlesphere.com/ is a full color, free web comic hosted by meta4ik media, a multimedia company I work with on the side. I put a years worth of work into it before I even put a site up... so even though my traffic isn't booming yet, I fully anticipate things to take off eventually.
What am I gonna do about bandwidth/hosting costs when it gets big? Get creative... dedicate myself to delivering high quality merchandise and content and rely on the friends I have made and will make in the process. Don't try to do it alone... it's a community that you're really trying to create. That's why megatokyo.com and others like it are becoming successful, they are dedicated to building the community around their comic and being loyal to the fans.
My friends and I have found the following skills essential for survival in the highly unstable world of corporate IT...
- endurance web browsing
- 150+ words-per-minute Instant Messaging
- juggling of various objects/equipment
- Photoshop (for fark.com's "Photoshop this image...")
- advanced buddy iconography design (for somethingleet.com
- Magic the Gathering (be able to play or discuss at length)
- random philosophical/political debate and discussion savvy (you should read enough about a subject to make jokes)
- master the yo-yo
- basic drawing skills (for those white board masterpieces)
- innovative "cube flair" collection and placement abilities (try Feng Shui for the basics, then develop your own "small-space" aesthetic philosophy)