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Some of you may remember Obey Fojar from back in the day, my rather blatant knock-off of the propaganda stylings of Obey Giant. That site isn’t even online anymore, and although I have it archived, I’m not going to restore it because, wow, that’s some bad stuff. Take photo, run posterize photoshop filter, convert colors [...]
I was going to write a review, but instead I’m going to quote from an email Miles sent me, because he puts it better than I ever could: “It cracks me up how schizophrenic it is between apocalyptic horror and tongue-in-cheek wish fulfillment. On the one hand: Alien slavers colonize the earth! They’re sterilizing humanity, [...]
Years ago, Miles described to me a game that he wanted to make where your character avoided combat in favor of setting elaborate traps for your enemies. Bioshock is that game. Yes, it’s a shooter, and you can grab your guns and slug it out with the bad guys — but the really interesting bits [...]
Here’s a badly pasted-together panorama of Shinjuku, the world-reknowned “Demon City” of Tokyo. It’s from high up so you can’t see the freaky stuff . . . I’m not going to go take pictures of Kabuki-cho with this camera. It’s big and obvious and the flash doesn’t always stay off.
Some pics of Nakadai, the neighborhood where I live, and the inhabitants of Mickey House, the “Gaijin House” where I reside. the Hood. I live just off this street. Anybody want a playstation? Do not drink with this German. origami Neighborhood shrine. People leave cans of tea and mugs of coffee. The noble Yayoi, self-named [...]
Whew. Come back from the Scott’s, throw some laundry in the washer, it’s 4 AM. Jump on my bike to get some Chi Kung liniment from Quenton, who lives about 3 miles away. Get back to the house at 5 AM. Throw the clothes in the dryer and start packing. Get stuff packed except for [...]
Recently, Annie decided that she wanted to sign up for this car-sharing program she’d heard of. They’re called FlexCar, and the basic idea is that you pay a monthly fee, and then you gain access to a pool of cars that you share with other members. I wasn’t that impressed with the idea, but Annie [...]
Hahahahaha… Oh man. I found this while looking to see if Miles had updated Isometric. The link was labeled Disclaimer For Potential Employers. Great stuff, Miles. I think all of our sites should carry disclaimers which insult the reader!
“I know of no other strip that quotes Milton and Ruby in successive panels.” – random reader of Isometric Hee, hee. Best. Fan mail. ever. Must gloat! Also, I had one of those Horrible Revelations I live for: Isometric only has one kind of joke. It’s simple exaggeration, blowing things up to giant size. For [...]
We’re going to get a DSL connection here at my parent’s house. This will enable me to do work for my new job (did I mention that it’s a telecommuting position?) without having to put up with the 30-second lag time that I sometimes get when working in a telnet window. Hopefully, it will be [...]
YOSH Parody of Hammerspace is up at Isometric.sixsided.org CUBE LOVES YOU
HA HA! FIRST BLOOD IS MINE. Go to hammerspace and check out my parody of isometric.
Scott, maybe I phrased my last “come-on” a bit too weakly. I CHALLENGE you to a comics DUEL, you pixel-doubling, cut-n-pasting, final-fantasy-character abusing, limp-wristed Deus Ex junkie! Let’s GO! I will upload my vicious, below-the-belt satire of Hammerspace within the week, and I expect you to reply in kind with a spiteful mockery of Isometric [...]
Nervousness. Still trying to get ahold of Steve’s boss to find out if I have a shot at a job. I’ve also got three applications in with the state of Oregon, one of which is a web designer job, but it’s in Salem, which means I’d have to move. That would suck, but the job [...]
“I think you’d make a good religious fanatic.” – KT, to Miles
“In the absence of sobriety, everything is epic!” – Miles
Oh man, we just got back from seeing the re-release of Once Upon A Time In China, a film that helped Jet Li hit the big time. I recognized the name of his character in the movie, and Miles helped me remember where I had seen it. Wong Fei Hung is the main character of [...]
The REAL reason Miles hasn’t told us about his apparent upcoming trip to Japan!
I just got back from Jill and Eric’s house. Under pressure from me, with backup from Annie and Corey, they agreed to watch Pi. Needless to say, I came home ready to do cutting-edge things with my computer (though I will probably settle for posting here and making a new hammerspace). Jill and Eric didn’t [...]
Earlier this week, we set up some new user accounts for people. We did this for a variety of reasons, but the main ones are that people have asked for accounts, and we wanted to try something new. Now, for another variety of reasons, we have shut down some of those accounts. I was never [...]
Oh man. City life rules. Ha! I was walking home from Chi Kung tonight, imagining what I would tell my future Japanese students about life in the United States, when this dude shuffled up behind me and asked for a cigarette. I didn’t have one, I don’t smoke. The shuffling got very fast all of [...]
You know, there’s a feeling you get when you know all a program’s features — including hot keys — that I think few people have experienced lately. SuperPaint. A one-meg program from 1993. I know by muscle memory everything it can do. Vector graphics. Bitmap graphics. Transparency and fill-modes on both. All palettes accessible via [...]
Friends, I have seen the light! After carefully reading a pamphlet given to me by a man at the bus station, I have been born again, and I am making changes in my life. I have renounced my wicked ways, and I have taken a vow of celibacy to atone for my former sins. And [...]
You know, the sheer frustration of having George Bush Jr. as a president is mitigated only in being dwarfed by the knowledge that our economy is slowly and surely headed back into the toilet bowl of the 80s and thence into the sewer of the Great Depression, and that the fear which this generates will [...]
Miles Visits and Scott Angers His Coworkers
Time: 3:48am (press return). Miles has just left my house. Around 9pm tonight (yesterday) Annie checked out a car, and we picked up Miles and Zach (and KT) at KT’s house. On the way to Gustav’s, Miles started telling a story about his housemates which he was only able to finish by the time we [...]
6 Comments. Posted by Scott on Friday, November 9, 2001 at 4:06 am.
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