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08:31 pm
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No Updates
So I haven't updated in a while. That's because I intend to start posting my comics on a different site, and write comments about them here. I am slowly accumulating material to put on the new site, and will try to adhere to some type of regular schedule, most likely a mon/wed/fri schedule. Until then, all my stuff stays on my desktop.
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08:05 pm
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GIMP Success
Hell yeah. I chose to draw a cupcake because they seem popular among the one off web comic crowd. Natalie Dee has done them before, I believe, and I wouldn't be surprised if it looked a lot like this. I'm very proud of myself, I learned how to draw lines, circles, and curves in The GIMP. It may look more like a muffin, but I don't care. It looks good. And it's hot.
Current Location: Home
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04:28 pm
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More from the concert
Yeah, I saw a girl with this tattoo on her back. But I recognized it right away, skipping the need to talk to her. She was otherwise attractive. So sad. I know you're reading this Dennis, so let me say again that you missed how tight my outfit was yesterday, and unless Bobby or Eric tell you, you'll have to wait a while to see just how tight it was. Not really much to blog about. I saw X3, it was good.
Current Location: Home
Current Music: The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
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12:47 pm
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Frickity Fresh
So this happened to me last summer, but of course I had not yet seen the Juggernaut video, so this was not my response. It should have been. How some CC mothafucka gonna run up on me and think I don't know about root mean squared? He then had the nerve to ask if I knew what root mean squared meant. I told that bitch, "I invented root mean squared." He knew who his daddy was.
So this happened to me yesterday, well kind of, I saw it happen to someone else. But the joke is better if you tell it in the first person, see? This is also my first drawing done entirely in this new program I got called The Gimp. It's great, except I don't really know how to draw lines, rectangles, or circles. That would help a lot. The previous and following pictures were colored using The Gimp as well.
I saw In Flames at Club Revolution in Ft. Lauderdale last night. Despite the fact that they played mostly new songs that aren't their best, it was very good. The lead singer dressed like the punks in high school dressed, which is to say, mind bogglingly. Anyways, I got there and stood in line for about 5 minutes when these two girls walk by wearing super skank tops and skirts, and yes, one of them had a skirt so small, she had to chose between showing the top of her ass or the bottom of her ass. She chose the top, sometimes called the "coin slot". It was amusing, and she was more or less hot, so I enjoyed it. Great decision making all around.
Current Location: Home
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10:51 am
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Last Day at School
So it's Saturday and my flight leaves Newark Airport at 3:47. This will be my last Princeton blog until September. I don't have a comic ready, but there will be one soon if the scanner in my house is still there and still works. It recounts a tale of a beaver I saw in Quad's backyard. Anyway, for the first time, leaving Princeton for the summer is not completely a one sided positive event. I made actual friends this year, had actual fun with them, and will actually miss more than one person I know here. The party last night was a good opportunity to say goodbyes, and luckily the two ladies I wanted to say goodbye to showed up. I don't think either of them realizes how much their friendship improved my college experience this semester. It's a shame I didn't get to know them much earlier, like last year or something.
It's time to look forward to the summer. A job, friends, the gym, there's huge potential. Let's do this right.
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09:37 pm
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Funniest Movie Ever
Yesterday, with the help of a little bit of serendipity, I was fortunate enough to see the R. Kelly movie Trapped in the Closet Ch.1-12. You may have heard of this movie, as it's been made fun of a bunch by different people. If you've seen it, you probably have some opinion of it, good for you. If you haven't seen it, you need to see it. Now. I'm serious. There are maybe only a few situations in my life I can think of where I wouldn't have been better off dropping what I was doing and going to see this movie. It's one of those anomalies that years from now, no one in the world will be able to explain. There are more people around who understand General Relativity than the thought process behind making this movie. I won't spoil the impact of it by trying to describe it, and honestly, I don't think I could. See it.
Also, I believe this is my first math related comic. http://www.xkcd.com this a huge influence here, as you can see.
Current Location: QSL, again
Current Music: Led Zeppelin I
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01:20 am
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Quality? What's that?
Yeah, so these kinda look like crap. Even in comparison to my other cartoons. I drew them on paper without preprinted boxes, and they are smaller than usual. I had to do a bunch of work in post production, which isn't fun when you don't have a mouse. If they're as bad as I suspect, they may require some explanation.
Don't Cha: Yeah, the guy in a hat is the guy, and the bearded girl is the girl. Except that she's a guy, cause she's not female. Hence, shouldn't the hat guy wish his girlfriend was a woman, like the actual woman on the right. In the case that you don't know, there is a popular song called "Don't Cha" with several lines of the form "Don't you wish your girlfriend was ____ like me." It's kind of dumb, so I'm making fun of it in what seems to be a fairly ineffective way.
Pandora's Box: Yah see there's this Greek myth about Pandora and her box. It was an actual box. It contained all the bad things in the world that didn't exist before she decided to open it, against the advice of somebody. Then badness escaped and made the world bad. And she takes the blame. I first thought of Pandora's Box in a pornographic way a few weeks ago, and I've been struggling to come up with a good implementation of the concept. This isn't that good. I kind of just wanted to draw a comic tonight, so I took that idea and threw it down as I saw fit. Oh well, I reserve editing powers if I think of a better formulation.
Once again I am blogging from the QSL. I like this space, in my 2 days of experience it's usually comfortable, not very occupied, and is in a good location. Not a game of Halo can go down in the game room next door without me knowing about it. Taking my laptop to Quad with me has been a good experience, too. No more jockeying for a cluster computer and having to log in and out every time I come back. Didn't watch any TV today, but seeing the season finale of The OC (Marissa died, holy shit!) while IMing the alpha male in the comfort of the multilevel cushioned seating yesterday was hot.
http://www.xkcd.com is what I'm trying and desperately failing to emulate. If I'm really cool I'll actually develop my own style at some point and not have to steal someone else's. Awesome.
Current Location: QSL
Current Music: Mr. Bungle - California
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06:49 pm
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No Cartoon
I apologize for updating with just words, and I further apologize for not having a new comic to display. It's finals week and a half, and I have tons of stuff to do. As we speak I am in the Quad Small Library studying for my Logic exam tomorrow. Earlier today I finished up a group presentation that will be given tomorrow at 9 effing AM. "You can't be serious! This mothafucka talkin' 'bout me?" That's early like whoa, I will be hurting. I get Saturday off, if you count having to study for a Sunday (!?!?!?) morning oral final exam being "off". I may miss the last party of the year. Boo-hoo. Then comes the huge Monday afternoon presentation for which my team is almost certainly the least prepared. Oh, and it's more or less our entire grade. And the rest of next week? Just the final exam for the hardest math class I've ever taken. It's fun to make things sound really bad. The truth is I have less work than most people. Less than a week and a half until I go home. Let's see if this summer can be as great as I think it can.
Current Location: QSL
Current Mood:  okay
Current Music: Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti (Disc 2)
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11:13 pm
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Back
So it's been a while since I posted. Houseparties was last weekend, and it was crazy, fun, and uber exhausting. I slept 13 hours Sunday night. With as little to do this week as I had, I should have done about four of these, but I only did one. In my defense this was done a couple days ago, but not scanned until now.
I go home in two weeks. This summer has the potential to be very good. I hope it is.
http://www.xkcd.com created the format. Check out the Jurassic Park comic in the archives, it may be my favorite.
Current Music: "This Entire Fucking Battlefield" - Weakling
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11:14 am
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I'm not a misogynist
A little Windows XP humor. And no, that's not me in the picture. If I ever want to make a social, political or economic statement with my cartoons, I will explain it explicitly in the journal entry. I just thought this was funny. I think women working is great. My goal in life is to be a house husband, except for the cooking part. I guess I can learn. This would have been up yesterday but the scanner was unavailable.
Visit http://www.xkcd.com if you think I'm original.
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11:11 am
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MAE 222
One of the more enjoyable engineering classes I've taken is Fluid Mechanics. The professor was Australian, and as excited about fluids as Steve Irwin is about reptiles. This is a quote from class, towards the end of the semester. For whatever reason, it has stuck in my mind, an icon.
Ooh, and it's my birthday.
The mold: http://www.xkcd.com
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06:43 pm
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The enemy's gate is down
This one was fun. I suspect the one guy who reads this won't get it (shout out to my homie in Lantana). I have two more ideas that are ready to be drawn, which is better off by two than I was this time yesterday. Such a good time waster. I think I've spent more time making these than doing work.
You have already been given a hint.
http://www.xkcd.com, for the source of this style.
Current Music: Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I
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12:32 pm
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Sorry
Yes, another Juggernaut cartoon. I really have to get this out of my system. Having a roommate named Charles isn't exactly helping. I promise that I have several non-Juggernaut concepts in development for everyone to look forward to (can everyone say "Timecube"?). Everyone being me and the other person who has seen this page. For anyone (me) who can't get enough of the Juggernaut, there will be more of those as well. I think I could make up 100 more haikus in a few days if I wanted to. This shit is fun.
Again, style and some concepts shamelessly stolen from http://www.xkcd.com. Also, content inspired by http://www.wimp.com/juggernaut/.
If anyone had any suggestions for making these look cleaner, I'd love to hear them. Preferably a process that doesn't require painstakingly tedious effort.
Current Music: Mission UK - Children
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09:03 pm
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Birthday
I turn 21 on Thursday.
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08:57 pm
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My new hobby
Stick figure cartoons. I stole this style from http://www.xkcd.com. That guy is funnier than me, so check it out. More on hopefully a regular basis. The actual cartoon is based on the funniest video I've seen this year, http://www.wimp.com/juggernaut/.
Hope you like it.
Current Music: Faith No More - Angel Dust
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12:19 pm
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Settled Down
Not so angry anymore. More acceptance, really. And hope.
Current Music: Dio - Holy Diver
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07:51 pm
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Holy Fucking Shit
HOLY FUCKING SHIT. I'm mad. You know why. I really need to investigate ways to get rid of my anger. This is a borderline flip out and do something regretable level of angry. Mother fucking god dammit.
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10:59 pm
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Back on Track
One hundred percent confident. Forget the last post, I'm ready for anything and everything. I will succeed, I will accomplish, I will meet and surpass any expectations. My goals will be met, possibly better than expected. I really can't wait. That goes for the future as well.
Current Mood:  excited
Current Music: Faith No More
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12:48 pm
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Foreseen Catastrophe
Does this ever happen to you? You know something terrible is going to happen to you, but there is no way to avoid it. No way that doesn't cause something even worse to happen, anyway. It's kind of amazing, foreseeing your own doom. You ask yourself how you got into this position, and the answer always involves the best of intentions. Theoretically it could all work out well. Theoretically you could bat 1000, dominate the circumstances, and come that much closer to accomplishing some major goals. But early polls are in, and it ain't looking good. The Drudge Report has already announced your embarrassing and painful defeat hours before it's official (or even real). You tell yourself, if only I had mastery of particular skills and a library of particular knowledge, maybe I'd be able to fight the inevitable, overcome the impossible, do a good job. You could probably destroy the sun with enough resources and knowledge. Or enough pessimism.
Current Mood:  anxious
Current Music: Type O Negative
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12:35 am
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The Saturday Party
Wow, it was a full year ago when I described my experience at Quad initiations in this very blog. The theme then was Dante's Inferno. This year the theme was Quadelodeon, a throw back to the TV shows of our youth. I had absolutely nothing to do with it. I did, however, attend the after party.
After listening to about half an hour of pump up music (who knows what possessed me to do this) I headed out the door at 11:30. Weather.com claimed that it was 16 feels like 0 outside, and I can't really argue with that. I was darn cold, wearing an undershirt, short sleeve button up shirt, sweater, and semi heavy jacket as well as a knit cap to protect my ears. When I got there, the beirut tables were full, but the dance floor was empty like a toilet paper roll when you need it most. But the night was young, and I wasn't ready for dancing anyway. I role up to the bar, and no one is there. Naturally, I just pour my own beer, but I'm not the best tapper around, and the Beast wasn't being terribly cooperative. Tons of foam later, I mosey over to the beirut tables to watch some friends finish up the back half of a game. They finish, and good timing sees my usual partner walk in. After some initial confusion about cups and pitchers, we start the game. Things are going along as normal, slow and even, both teams getting to the rerack before anyone fell below 6 cups. We even doubled (a single double) to go from 3 cups to 1 in the end game. Sadly, the other team managed to hit two spaced cups before we could hit one, and we lost by one. No biggie.
So I go out to the dance floor with the remaining beer from the game, ignoring the encumbrance of the cup because of the song that's playing, "Gold Digga" by Kanye West. I think he's an idiot, but it's a great party song, second only in my mind to Snoop Dogg's "Drop it Like it's Hot" which wasn't played at the party. Anyway, I find some nice looking young ladies to dance near, and through my own stupid attempts to drink while dancing, I manage to swallow a whole bunch of beer all at once unexpectedly. It wasn't pleasant. My stomach's first reaction was to throw it back, but I wasn't havin that on the dance floor, and I managed to keep it down. I bailed, ran upstairs to the bathroom and leaned over the toilet, expecting it to come up, plus more. For whatever reason it didn't. I felt terrible for several more seconds, decided it was going to stay down, and went back downstairs. The good song was over, so I decided to watch some more beirut. One of my friends had just turned 21, so he was going to town. It was very amusing, and he was bringing a few girls along for the ride with him. They played and won several games like pros. Afterwords we went to the dance floor, more packed with people than I've ever seen it, and danced our inebriated hearts out. It was totally sweet, the best time I've had in a while, possibly ever at school. My legs are still sore from the dancing, however. Like I said to a certain friend this morning, "You do the crime, you do the time."
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