Drove on down through the rain and fog. No snow. Just rain and fog. Not much rain either, apart from some little spritzy misty stuff just barely on the rainy side of the line dividing rain from fog.
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Happy new year all! And a big “Hi” to the first reader of 2006, who came here via a Yahoo Video search looking for a 3D Hypnotic Spiral. And to the last visitor of 2005 who was reading about Speed Writing over at my Wife’s blog.
Log analysis can be fun sometimes…
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There’s a new comic up! This one is brought to you by the letters “Bruce” and “Lee” and the number “Vande”.
I’ve been working, semi-half assedly, on a cast page for the webcomic. It seems kind of silly to identify cast members for what is basically a gag-a-day non-story based strip, but there are some recurring characters.
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Went out to Thai House restruant tonight with the family and with Rob. He’s going to be translating some of our gifts for us – we have new treats to do JSFR of. Many of them are untainted by English labeling, so it’ll be a bit of a fun grab bag.
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Hello from the frozen wastelands… We made it fine, and we haven’t forgotten about you all. In fact, the December Challenge is still on, and we’ll be post-dating entries madly once we get all set up and ready to go. I’m just posting a bit to test the network…
It’s working.
Goodnight!
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I don’t know if it was ever an official “Rich Hall” Sniglet, but we were treated to a live example of evangelonging at my grandma’s home this morning. If you don’t know the word, it’s the practice of evangelists (especially on television) to emphasize a word by stretching out the middle (e.g. Ga-aaaaahhhhhh-d).
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A very cool little applescript:
If you have OmniGraffle, you can download and run the AppleScript below. It’ll trawl through your iTunes library, map out all the artists, hi-light the most popular, and connect it all so you can arrange it as you will. I’d say that qualifies as suitably neat yet pointless…
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I swear, Tetris has trained a generation of Americans to feel incredibly tense when they hear balalaika music. I wonder if was intentional on the part of the programmers… A way to give themselves an edge on their competition by subtly controlling mood through background music. All I know is that hearing a few bars of Russian folk music gets the adrenaline pumping for half my office mates.
It’s an almost Pavlovian response.
Hm….
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I kind of hope that today’s comic is the internet’s sole source of flying robot poop humor. Honestly though, I’m just afraid to do the Google search to find out for sure.