Reflections
I recently bought a book on the comic art of Dan Piraro. I bookmarked the page with this quote on it…
Quoth he: “Each of us is a product of the total of our experiences, be they conscious decisions or not, wise actions or colossal mistakes, amazing good fortune or hideous bad luck. In the end, the “what if” fantasies are little more than a party game. I am extremely happy with who and where I am now, and I believe my life today is a direct result of the lessons I’ve learned from the mistakes I’ve made…”
Ryan will use those writing blurbs someday…. and the experience will not have been wasted.
Breaded? You people aren’t doing fish and chips right. It’s supposed to be battered.
That’d be my mistake. Gah… The shame.
All this talk of Fish and Chips is making me want to fly to London! Some how they taste best over there.
Meter maids. Why are they called ‘maids?’ Am occupation that’s main purpose is to ruin your day.
“Fiction is based on reality unless you’re a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you’re writing about before you alter it.” –Hunter S. Thompson
brig… For your trip to the 2012 Vegas Comic Emporium, just as with Ryan’s fish battery… What scurvy vile transpires in Vegas, may stay in Vegas, but it can be still be shared with the rest of us in altered form. Only, Facebook requires you to be a member to see stuff, so here please.
Jack… Why do “Meter Maids” that milk the meters (take out the coins in the old style) always seem to be guys? Otherwise, they milk the cars.
Denny, can I come? I love London.
Jack… spreaders of sunshine and happiness, they are.
stick… I love the quote.
Facebook is easy to post on… especially from an iphone. I can immediately add photos and post updates. There are a few extra steps involved in posting on the website here. As I will be leaving the computer at home and only using my iphone…. well, you can see the reasoning. But I will try.
ALSO… I hope those of you who are interested are working on your Kapu drink entries… Harold is most anxious to test them out!
ALSO ALSO… Tweaking continues on the website here… thank you for your patience! The store isn’t yet functional with a shopping cart yet… but rest assured… it’s coming. I’ve dropped prices significantly in the Squid Shoppe…. Make way for new & exciting…
Brig,
Made it to work. Barely.
Danielle Corsetto of: Girls With Slingshots, will be in Vegas too. This webcomic is NSFW about half the time, but it is well written and drawn.
I gotta say this–your new site is lovely, but the background gives me a screaming headache every time I try to see things. I know I’m in the minority–the hubs says it doesn’t bother him. Has anyone else said anything?
Sound advice from Piraro. Hear that, folks? Cartoonists can be happy with themselves!
I agree with Ryan. Our life experiences are useful…someday…some place…for some reason. P.S. Have fun in Vegas!!
The changes are coming along nicely, Brig, and I hope you have a blast in Vegas! Wish I could come visit, but schedule just won’t allow.
Joe: GWS is nsfw? Your HR department must be really uptight then, I read that one too and never had an issue that I can recall. Some of the dialogue, maybe, but if someone is standing that close, I think there’s other issues I’d be bringing up such as how can they be offended by what I am reading if they had to sit in my LAP to read it?!
GW,
My company doesn’t have to look over your shoulder. They can track URLs and webpages visited. I’m at home now, but at work, I would need my cel phone to do my private web browsing.
True, ours does that too. But in general they go by the philosophy that the whole purpose of the rules is to avoid offending someone who’s walking through (or working in) the office so they are more concerned about what can be seen from our desks.
As long as it doesn’t make someone’s eyes goggle or say “OMG!” at a glance … then they don’t worry about it unless someone lodges a specific complaint.
The only exceptions to that are sites like Facebook, Ebay and a couple others like that. All because some nimrod newbie was dumb enough to update their Facebook while on a call (doh! bad n00b! no cookie!) and was distracted from the customer. Worse was the guy who pulled himself form the queue so he could sit there and bid-snipe the last two minutes of an auction (thus ebay got added to our firewall block list).
Thanks, jerks, now those of us who don’t abuse the ability to websurf and do so ONLY when we aren’t on a call can’t use certain sites because you were an idiot and inconsiderate to a customer. Appreciate it, really. >.<