Just a picture post today. This shot of green raspberries is from the Father’s Day Cookout & Hanger Party last Sunday.
Tagged Art
Remember that weekly webcomic I mention every so often? Well, the folks over at the publishing arm of the People’s Glorious Revolutionary Shameless Commerce and Unbridled Capitalism Department (aka “Me”) have given the thumbs up for the public release of the printed Year One Collection of Quirk’s Evil Little Webcomic.
It’s a touch pricey – $14 plus shipping etc. for a 52 page comic book – but it looks very good. A lot of the comics really shine with high resolution art, and I’m quite pleased with the quality of the print and the paper.
Ok, it looks like it’s time for me to get serious about writing again. Weeks have gone by with nary a peep from my… fingers? Hm. Odd way of putting it, but then again this is typing and not speaking.
So. My non-peeping fingers have been lax in updating here. Lots of reasons why too, and I’ll try to go into them over the course of the week. Right now though, I’m going to go in search of coffee.
Tagged Personal Blather
This week’s Comic will ruin a song for you, possibly forever.
It’s a return to the land of mixed movie title posters.
I’ve been clicky clicking my fingers to the bone working on Smithee merchandise stores. So far, the tally is at four, but I hope to have even more of them in the next few weeks.
First off, the Smithee Stores:
http://www.cafepress.com/SmitheeAwards/
http://www.cafepress.com/SmitheeSLM/
The first one will get you to a store selling merchandise adorned with the shiny! new! Smithee Awards logo. The second will take you to the Smithee Stupidest Looking Monster shop, home of the best in SLM gear.
And, as a bonus, the Smithee Ninja Boutique!
http://www.cafepress.com/NinjaOnTheGrass/
http://www.cafepress.com/NinjaWireFu/
Just as a disclaimer, I do make a tiny bit of profit from these stores, as do the other members of the Smithee Executive Committee. Not a lot though. Probably just barely enough to offset a late-fee or two, or to buy a bottle of Sangria Soda.
Tagged Smithee
Today’s comic is available in both the dairy aisle and the butcher’s section of your local grocery store.
The big problem with doing astronomical photography is that if it’s too cloudy, you’re pretty much out of luck.
The other, not quite so big problem, is that an equatorial mount is a kind of arcane looking device. Lots of dials, lots of knobs and gauges. And if you’ve never used one before, it’s not an easy thing to figure out from scratch. Consider this a very basic primer.
Tagged Personal Blather
So! We’re up North and visiting the folks. There’s a couple tons of photos from the drive up that My Wife will be posting in time, and while we’re up here I’m going to be doing some experimentation with astronomical photography using tips from the Astronomy Magazine website. I’ve got the old Yashika J-7 SLR set up with a clock-drive equatorial mount to try doing long-exposure shots with minimal trails. We’ll have to see how that works out.
I’ve also got the old Ansco Karomat up here. It’s loaded with an ancient roll of high contrast Kodak Rapid Process Copy film. It seemed like an interesting experiment to mix a camera from the 1950’s with some film manufactured some time in the mid 70’s.
Tagged Personal Blather
Today’s comic isn’t much bigger than two meters.