Miscellany – Page 26 of 31
I write about daily life, creativity, making comics and things of interest. Miscellany is a collection of ideas, stories, art process, illustrations, and the weird stuff I found between the couch cushions.
Tom Waits on responsibility, maybe?
November 13, 2012 | Miscellany
I have no authority to give advice on accountability or moral obligation, but we could do far worse than listening to Tom Waits.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
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.
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.
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
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.