Monthly Archives: November 2005

Tres nifty

Over at Websnark, Eric Burns found a nifty tool by the creators of a bunch of online comics. It’s called Oh No! Robot!, and it’s a search engine for comics. More accurately, it’s a search engine with a distributed input network and author verification.

It’s really quite cool, and Eric Burns does a great job explaining it, so read his article if you want more information about what it is and how it works. If you just want to mess with it a bit, I’ve added it to the Evil Little Webcomic. We’ll how it works out!

Anniversary

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Two years! Whooot!
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Poems by Beulah, part the first

The first of the Poems by Beulah is up and listenable. Sadly, it’s not a terribly good listen. My voice doesn’t seem to do well with either mp3 or m4a compression, so I sound like I’m speaking through a can of gravel. I’ll have to play around with pre-compression equalization and upload a new version once I’ve got that fixed.

Meanwhile, enjoy the first poem: “Daddy’s Little Dog, Tuffy.”

So long, Myspace!

Well, I’ve gone and done it… I’ve eliminated a stack of folks who were indulging in image swiping.

I’ve mentioned it before. Basically, I don’t have a problem with people using the images I post here, so long as they give credit and don’t steal bandwidth. Unfortunately, some folks do neither. And the biggest offenders have been the folks over at myspace.com. To the tune of close to 30,000 hits from uncredited links this week.

That’s right. Thirty thousand. In seven days.

Even at less than 32k an image, that’s close to a gigabyte of stolen bandwidth so far this month. I just can’t afford to be a free image host for these guys.
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Oh hey! It’s Friday!

That means there’s a new comic in town. Or at least on the site.

Or in the extended entry, if you’d rather read it there.

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Yum!

Has it been almost two years since I last sang the praises of Nixanz software? How remiss of me.

For those of you with elephantine memories, that’s the company which made the software which made addressing tons of wedding invites so incredibly easy. They also make a really cool recipe book program called “Yum!
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Great feeling

You know what feels really good? Not having a tooth wobbling loose in the front of your mouth.

I’ve had some dental trauma in my life. One tooth was knocked out during a backyard hockey game in my early teens. A year or two later, another was yanked out by a clothesline while falling off of a friend’s porch roof. And yes, the porch belonged to the same friend whose hockey stick had taken out the first tooth. Then about twelve years ago a bike accident broke off both of the previously damaged teeth along with a third, previously uninvolved tooth. I wound up getting all three of them capped at the U of M Dental School.

And on Saturday, I noticed that one of the capped teeth felt a bit flexible.
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Request lines are closed

Despite many requests, I am not going to do a podcast of this guy’s stories. Bad poetry is one thing. Roy Orbison cling-film fan-fiction porn is another. I’ve got to draw the line somewhere.