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Moebius
As I'm sure many of you will have heard, Jean Giraud, the French artist known as Moebius, passed away recently. A number of authors and designers have commented (for example Neil Gaiman's post here and Aaron Diaz's here) on his impact. I grew up going to comic book shops and seeing his art displayed prominently. He did a lot of covers for French ( Read more... ) -
Aw, come on!
I just got a call from Brainslie. She has hand, foot and mouth disease on top of strep throat! Add that to CelerySurprise's chicken pox and we are looking at a full-scale outbreak at casa del HardCormier. I have officially cancelled plans this evening to go home and disinfect every flat surface we own. It's so contagious that Brainslie asked me to ( Read more... ) -
Rrrrr
My office phone has been dead since yesterday. Today I just realised that I left my Blackberry at home. So I'm completely cut off from voice contact with the outside world. It's a surprisingly uncomfortable feeling. -
Small update
Happy Family Day to my Ontario friends. In Quebec we call this day "an ordinary Monday" unless you were lucky enough to have booked it off (like me)! According to my Dad, this day is known as "wood pellet day" in New Brunswick. Diversity!
Just wanted to post a small update on my post about the Order of the Stick reprint project at Kickstarter. Last ( Read more... ) -
Friday diversions
Some things I've come across on the web that you might like:
1. Musician Jonathan Coulton posts a very interesting post on online piracy. Fave quote:
"Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan."
2. Former Clerk of the Privy Council Alex Himelfarb blogs about austerity. Fave quote:
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The power of the people
Anyone who doubts the power of crowdsourcing should check out the Order of the Stick's page on Kickstarter. Scroll down to the bottom to get the story from the beginning. For those not in the know, The Order of the Stick is a long-running and popular webcomic and Kickstarter is a site that allows people to pledge money to fund creative projects. If ( Read more... ) -
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Why hello Livejournal, how's it going?
Things in Ottawa continue to be good. I am currently in competition number 2 for a policy position at Heritage. I just handed in my take-home exam and am trying not to keep thinking about it. The question was somewhat open ended and I'm not sure that I gave them what they were looking for. The problem with ( Read more... ) -
Hardcormier finally updates his blog! Also, same-sex marriage!
Holy crap it's been a long time since I've posted! I just restored from my last saved draft and it said "Happy September everybody!" Yikes. I have no excuse except to say that I have been crazy busy. I've hopped onto my friend page a few times to see how you all were doing but have been feeling very uninspired when it comes to posting.
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Best date night ever!
So last night Brainslie had a fantastic idea: "Let's put the computer monitor in front of the sliding door to the back deck and have our own drive-in movie experience!"
"But Brainslie," I replied. "That would mean dragging the entire computer across the room and untangling all the wires in the back to extend the speakers through the door. It's ( Read more... ) -
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I am on vacation! I took a week off and it's been a lovely staycation so far. All of our ambitious plans have come to naught and we've just ended up staying around the house and amusing the CelerySurprise.
Plans we have abandoned:- Go to Sudbury and Manitoulin Island
- Go to the cottage
- Go to Montreal
However we have managed to:- [Edit] Go to the Papinack ( Read more... )