One thing I've noticed in my perambulations around the local office parks is that every third building or so has a single basketball hoop standing forlornly above a stretch of bare concrete.  And I have to wonder why ( Read more... )

1. The is the big one. DON'T use an anime/manga style as an excuse to not learn how to draw. It won't work. This isn't a slam on the anime/manga style: I read a number of strips where the artist has integrated those stylistic elements into their own style. But, they learned how to draw FIRST.

2: The above also goes for American Comic Book styles.

3: ( Read more... )

I have to wonder, is it a bad sign that when  see an advertisement that says:


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 I bumped into a LJ commentator who was taking various net personalities to task over their reactions to the "Boobs for Nerds" controversy.  Out of the kindness of my heart, I had to come in and gently remind him how that controversy is SO last month- it is completely played out as far as interest level goes.

But again, out of the goodness of my ( Read more... )

One of the problems I've had with Intelligent Design is that if you look at our actual anatomy, there's some serious problems with believing anybody actually intelligent had anything to do with it. I mean, what creator that had any clue about what he was doing would give octopi better designed eyes then we have? Or would mix the breathing and ( Read more... )

I was going to do a post about my results on the "What kind of transhumanist are You?" test that I happened across today...however, there seems to be some flaw in the test that sends people way up into the right upper corner, meaning they end up as transhumanist-biotech lovers, even if they'd rather end up as a sentient computer program stored on a ( Read more... )

From the techsupport community. A techie friend that I read this to actually screamed in pain when I reached a certain point of this story.

From: $user who for whatever reason came in on Monday when no one else was in the building.
To: IT Dept.
Re: A/C constantly running.

Today i've decided to take a page out of our administration's playbook, and congratulate the American soccer team for their brilliant victory over Chad in the World Cup ( Read more... )

From a discussion on rec.arts.sf.written, came this realization: never mind the wonky physics and costumes, what's really unbelievable in comic books are the politics.

I mean, consider the following incidents, comic book events, translated into real-world terms:

1. The dictator of, lets say Bulgaria, repeatedly comes to the US heavily armed, to ( Read more... )