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Shameless Nepotism
A few of you have met my father, Bryce, who's kind of like me except better at building stuff. When he's not climbing windmill towers or hauling granaries around on hay wagons, he writes songs, at which he is much better than me.
I'm pleased to announce that Bryce and his longtime collaborator Yata have just released their first album, and it's ( Read more... ) -
Less ambiguous?
Many of you seemed unconvinced by my representation of bouldering in yesterday's post. I guess I was wrong about bouldering walls being easy to draw.
Fine, then. Here's what I was really doing during the time indicated in yesterday's panel 4:
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Scene from today
(In the style of Unphotographable.)
This is a photo I did not take of a family eating dinner in the Reed College dining hall, the parents two old hippies-alums from the 60s?-slouching comfortably in their worn-out sweatshirts, their frizzy grey hair flying in all directions, while their two preteen daughters sat carefully upright with straight ( Read more... ) -
Spring-fall '07
Speaking of procrastination, I edited and sorted these photos way back in December, and they've been sitting around ever since waiting for me to tag them and upload them (which is the easy part). Might as well finish what I start.
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Procrastination vs. triage
I have supposedly been writing a thesis introduction for the last month. Its current form consists of a couple incomplete outline versions, a stack of rumpled papers with notes I can no longer decipher, and dozens of text files filled with notes that I can decipher but that don't make any sense (that's the magic of typesetting, folks). I've written ( Read more... ) -
Many problems, few solutions
Right. So I'm supposed to be doing all these things for school (pronounced "writing a thesis"), and I'm behind schedule and getting just a wee bit stressed out. My usual system for dealing with stress is to procrastinate a lot like always, but to do it while using what I like to think of as my "I'm not actually here right now" userpic:
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