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Miscellany – Page 25 of 30

Making comics, creating zines, daily life – Miscellany is odds and ends, curiosities, and the stuff between the cracks.

The problem with computers

The problem with computers

October 3, 2012 | Miscellany

The problem with computers is the lack of ferrules and Siberian weasel hair. If I have to tell you what these things are, you might be a computer.

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John Cleese on creativity

John Cleese on creativity

September 25, 2012 | Miscellany

John Cleese has some brilliant thoughts on creativity, including this gem: Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

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Cat of a different level

Cat of a different level

September 4, 2012 | Miscellany

I take back everything I’ve ever said about this cat. She’s clearly working on an entirely different level of rodent eradication.

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Breaker labels

Breaker labels

August 31, 2012 | Miscellany

A few days ago I traipsed around the house with a table lamp searching for the outlet end of a breaker labeled freezer. This is that story.

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Roger Sterling gives drinking advice

Roger Sterling gives drinking advice

August 29, 2012 | Miscellany

You don’t know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it’s good, because it feels better than […]

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Work language

Work language

August 10, 2012 | Miscellany

A brief but meaningful look at my love/hate relationship with Photoshop, profanity, and tea as a comfort animal.

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I just took my mind off the hook for a bit

I just took my mind off the hook for a bit

August 10, 2012 | Miscellany

I just took my mind off the hook for a bit. I reckoned that if the world wanted me badly enough it would call back. It did.

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I could use a Rain God

I could use a Rain God

July 25, 2012 | Miscellany

And as he drove on, the rain clouds dragged down the sky after him for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. […] – Douglas Adams

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Bunnies in the yard

Bunnies in the yard

May 25, 2012 | Miscellany

The garden and I have concerns that our silent agreement with the local predators might have been breached, and it’s the cat’s fault, naturally.

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Calm empowerment

Calm empowerment

April 5, 2012 | Miscellany

Last night I dreamt of the old farm. This morning I awoke with a feeling of calm empowerment. NICE WHILE IT LASTS.

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