Today’s comic is a master of disguise.
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How big is your space station?
I’ve been reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Mars” books – I’m about 3/4 of the way through Blue Mars at this point – and I got to wondering about a theoretical space station. The idea I had is for an agricultural station. Something wheel shaped, rotating around a central axis to produce gravity on the inside surface of the drum, and angled so that the sun provides natural light for the inside of the wheel for half of the rotation. It’s a fairly standard Sci-Fi design, but the tricky part of this particular one is that I wanted the period of rotation to be 24 hours.
Tagged Personal Blather
Rich and Tasty
Today’s comic is the perfect breakfast food.
Spacious New Digs
Hello all. And welcome to the new home for Quirkblog, the Evil Little Webcomic, and all your other Quirk related needs. There’s a whole slew of reasons for moving here, some of which I’ll probably be posting about in the next few weeks.
For right now, I’m still sorting boxes, checking links, and enjoying the new server smell from the move.
Rewenge!
I dislike bandwidth thieves. Usually, I don’t bother doing anything about it – I don’t mind horribly if a couple pictures of mine wind up on MySpace – but if someone takes a photo of mine and hotlinks it into a tacky ad? Well…
Before….
After!
Tagged Art, Technical Notes
Entropy Tag
This week’s comic doesn’t play by normal rules.
Balance
I just finished doing the layout of an award certificate for a doctor whose name has the same number of letters as the degrees after it. Bin Hu, MD, PhD. It balances neatly on the comma in the middle.
Plus, I think it’s really cool that we’re giving an award to Doctor Hu.
Tagged Personal Blather
Happy little melody…
I did a little playing around with Garage Band and assembled a light little ditty for y’all. It’s from the Goth/Techno group AngstHämmer. It’s called “Punishment.”
Bad Medicine
This week’s new comic lights up and buzzes if you touch it wrong.