Okay, nothing new to post since, rather than coming up with anything interesting of my own, I’ve been looking at other people’s interesting things. I’ve added several new links to the fun places I’ve found. The one with possibly the greatest fun to looking ratio would be zefrank.com. I’ve only followed a couple of links, but wheeee! OH! I got two issues of ‘bear’ yesterday. More with the wheee! If you enjoy strange crap and aren’t put off by comics, check it out.
March, 2004
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hahahaha! I’m so damned lazy!
March 30, 2004 by Collin
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Half-Assed Comic #7 : When Bugs Fly
March 30, 2004 by Collin
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Half-Assed Comic #6 : Zombies! Why do I love them so?
March 24, 2004 by Collin
Wordy and time consuming. This one took two nights to finish (partly because I got halfway and then had writer’s block). I’m going to try something new with the next one. It *should* be done by the end of the week.
Edited 3/24: I just found out (via Boing Boing) that you can now legally download the entire ‘Night of the Living Dead’ film here at archive.org.
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Ah Children…
March 22, 2004 by Collin
…gotta love ‘em! My son, who recently celebrated his eleventh birthday, pointed out that one of the hairs that fell out of my slowly shedding head had a white root. It made me realize that I am now old enough that my own child is pointing out that I am old. This happened as we were getting in the car to head out on a whirlwind tour of stores in an attempt to gather the supplies he needs for his school science project that is due in two weeks.
He’s known about this project since the end of January. On the cover of the packet they gave him it says in bold letters “Work Hard! Don’t wait until the last minute!” That makes me chuckle. If my son has inherited anything from me, it’s my talent for procrastination (you’ll notice I don’t have a new comic for today). I’m sure part of that message is for the parents as well. Yeah, that’ll work. I should call them and say “Who do you think he got it from?”, but I’m too lazy to dial the phone.
So, here we are at near-zero hour. About a month ago I gave him an idea for a psychology experiment. It would have been pretty fun. But we totally ran out of time for that one. So the fallback experiment involves magnets, mineral oil and iron filings. It took some shopping to find some decent magnets, we still haven’t bought the mineral oil and no place we went to sold iron filings. So, on to plan two. Gather them ourselves.
I guess not too many people are aware of just how abundant iron filings are in dirt and sand. I say this based on how many people stopped beside us while we were running some of the spare magnets through the dirt to ask what we were doing. So, it’s abundant, but damned time consuming to collect this way. We spent about three hours on Sunday filtering through dirt. At the end of it all we had about 3 tbs of filings (and dirt…this is key). At about the two-hour point when I was feeling delirious from the heat (I had gotten sunburned the day before when we were out flying kites, and was STILL too stupid to put on sunblock) my son said “I’m glad we didn’t buy any filings because this is fun!” And I actually agreed.
It got me thinking back to my own childhood and my father. He wasn’t the kind of guy who would have spent three hours in the dirt helping me look for anything, much less ingredients for a school project that I had put off too long. I’m not meaning to imply that he didn’t love me. There have been times in my life where I don’t know what I would have done if he hadn’t been there for me. He just didn’t relate well to children. At all. So it was a good feeling that I was there to help out my son when he needed it.
After we got home at 5:30-ish, he collapsed in front of one of the game systems while I decided to try to separate the filings from the clinging dirt.
At first I just tried magnetism, but I could still see a fair amount of dirt mixed in. Then I tried water, which was a very good thing. It must have been a combination of sun stroke and fatigue, but I didn’t consider that after the filings are mixed in with the mineral oil you need to be able to see what’s happening in the jar when you apply the magnet. When I mixed in water it was like an instant mud cloud! So I spent another hour and a half filtering the filings through water in an attempt to get them clean. I pulled my son off his game to participate once I knew it wasn’t going to be a quick thing. He had fun with that too.
Even after multiple filterings the water was still murky and I was quite tired of the whole thing. Today I went to an education supply site that I had the link of at work and ordered a 1lb bag of filings and had them sent 2-day air. If we actually get them on time and he doesn’t wind up needing what we collected, I still won’t regret the time we spent together working on collecting the first batch. I just really enjoyed spending time with my son.
Even if he likes to remind me that I’m old.
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Half-Assed Card #3
March 19, 2004 by Collin
I’m not in a good mood. You can probably tell.
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Half-Assed Card #2
March 16, 2004 by Collin
Click on the above image for the printer ready version.
This is how I’ll be displaying the cards from now on. Makes it a bit easier to read.
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Missing, presumed lame.
March 15, 2004 by Collin
Okay, yes, I’m lame. Once again I have nothing new to post today. Other than to let people know I’m still alive and thinking.
One thing I thought of was opening a cafepress shop. So I did. Here’s the link, and it will be in my sidebar. Although at the moment there is nothing actually IN the shop to buy.
Also, my plan for the time being is that anything sold through the shop (once there’s stuff to buy) will be at cafepress’ cost. No mark-up for profit for me. That way if there’s anything there you want there you can get it at the lowest price that I can set. It will remain this way for the forseeable future. If I see a lot of stuff selling per month (hah), then I may increase the price a small amount and possibly earn a bit’o cash. For now though it’s not worth the tax hassle.
Also, due to some of the restrictions in their user agreement I won’t be able to offer up some of the things that I had been thinking of (half-assed cards for example). Although, I haven’t taken the time yet to find out what the other shops are offering to see just how much wiggle room there is, so who knows.
So, that’s what I’m doing. Half-Assed Comics are currently on hold while I think some things out.
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Half-Assed Cards #1
March 10, 2004 by Collin
I rushed this first one. Too much to do in one night.
You can get the full sized card to print by clicking on the preview image.
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Half-Assed Comic #5.01 : why does bobby smack billy – pt. 1
March 10, 2004 by Collin
Edit from the fuuuutuuuuurrrre: What happened? Where is the rest of this series? Damned if I know. Oh well.
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Goodbye Spalding Gray
March 9, 2004 by Collin
They
found his bodyyesterday.Edit from the fuuuutuuuuurrrrrre: The link to the article about Spalding Gray’s body being found after his suicide has been removed because it’s as dead as the man it was about.
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