So, every once in awhile, with Heavy Metal pounding in my ears, my fingers on the keyboard typing "JETPACK SHARK" for the millionth time, building the ridiculous (and now finished) first draft of the short (it's 19 pages, but my target is 15) intro issue for Jetpack Shark, I stop and think: holy crap, was that a tortured sentence or what ( Read more... )

Once again, the world has failed me. In May 2006 The Five Fists of Science was published. A graphic novel featuring Nikola Tesla and Mark Twain fighting Edison, Marconi, JP Morgan and Andrew Carnegie in a battle for world peace.

In other words, a story ripped from my imagination. And I'm only finding out about this now?

This is the funniest thing I've seen today:

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So, something I didn't know- there's a little stinger hidden in the title text on every XKCD comic. I spent some time tonight hitting the "random" button and learning what I've missed. But I was frustrated- so many of them got truncated by my browser. So I wrote a greasemonkey script to append the title text to the end of the page ( Read more... )

( SMBC strikes again )

And this is probably the best comic about the subject.Last night, as Minna and I returned from a fun little trek out to Kingston, I saw a possum on my front stoop. Living in the heart of downtown Albany, this was somewhat surprising. They tend to like things like trees, of which there's not many. When I saw one running around by the Geek House in ( Read more... )