Miscellany – Page 27 of 30
Making comics, creating zines, and daily life – Miscellany is odds and ends, curiosities, and the stuff between the couch cushions.
Relief!
November 15, 2011 | Miscellany
In July Spare was screened as a very high risk for Trisomy 18. It’s been a rough month or so of appointments, but we finally got good news!
Mouse attack
November 12, 2011 | Miscellany
Nobody wants to be awoken at 4 am to the house cat chasing after a mouse in their bedroom. But that’s just the time of day this type of event tends to occur.
Macintosh rabbit icon
November 10, 2011 | Miscellany
During work on the original Macintosh, Steve jobs refused an icon of a rabbit (meant to indicate mouse speed) because the bunny looked too gay.
The Tragically Hip on design
November 10, 2011 | Miscellany
I was in a lifeboat designed for ten and ten only. Anything that systematic would get you hated. Nautical Disaster, The Tragically hip
Clifford the big red communist
November 9, 2011 | Miscellany
Clifford the Big Red Dog is a loosely veiled metaphor on communism and 1960’s America. Discuss amongst yourselves.
That’s my faith
November 8, 2011 | Miscellany
The sun will rise in the morning. I’m going to have a drink at six. That’s my faith. Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy), Page Eight
In a spiritual sense, of course
October 31, 2011 | Miscellany
If the ionization rate is constant for all ectoplasmic entities, we could really bust some heads! In a spiritual sense, of course. Ray Stantz, Ghostbusters
Team rewards
October 27, 2011 | Miscellany
A “team building dinner” as a reward for hard work is like being given Benedryl as a reward for taking Buckley’s.
Signs of future past
September 20, 2011 | Miscellany
Wording signs is hard, doubly so when temporal nonsense gets dragged into it. I’m bored at the Kingston General Hospital so if I have to read this so do you.
George Bernard Shaw on progress
September 9, 2011 | Miscellany
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. […]