What can I say? I'm lazy. That and the Mbari Hogun thing has really hung me up for a while.

Anyways, Heapkings has recieved it long overdue update. The flatting process has been over hauled, posing new problems, and resolving old ones. I think this way looks better though.

[Edit: My grammar is exceptionally poor in this one, I know. I'm also missing pronouns. Whatever.]

Whew. That's a long drive. Anyways, had a really good time in Quebec. There was the fun of revisiting places we went in grade 7, and of finding out where my memories diverged from reality. In general, I remembered quite well, but the locations of certain things were badly skewed. Additionally, had a good night out with a group of people staying on the seventh floor of our hotel. That was cool, but I've no clue how some of these people knew eachother. This one guy didn't speak either French or English fluently, and his name was Orving or something weird like that. Anyways, good times. Had to get the museum aspect into the trip too, if only to fulfill rather hamfisted estimates, and therefore, went to the "Museum of Civilization", which is a misnomer. Unlike it's Ottawa counterpart, this is actually a museum of the Humanities, or of Sociology, displaying predominately temporary, multimedia exhibits, often culled from commissions on the subject. Ranging from innocuous museum material such as Gaul v. Rome and Memory, to the pretensious and ineffable Sand and Blue, I found it to be very original and interesting, and would certainly appreciate one here, where I can read more of the signs.

Speaking of that, I think my French has improved somewhat, at least in reading. There was little call to converse in French, and therefore, I remain as functionally illiterate as ever.

So, off to Quebec tomorrow, until Friday. I will leave you with a song.

      Ash Hash. The song VSmack was talking about that Moxy Fruvous did on Just for Hacks. They didn't write it, but comandeered it, vessel like, from Bob Snider. I'm going from memory here, so gimme a break if I'm not exact.

If all this ash used to be hash, what the heck time is it now?
Last thing I remember I was looking at my stash just before the late late show,
then we threw a couple movies in the VCR, and I remember driving buddy home in my car,
well, we got no gas so we couldn't have gone far.
What the heck time is it now.

*Howling, crazy noises*

First thing in the morning, I'm giving myself a break.
You've got to get an early warning when your fingernails and eyelids ache.
Well, it might be closer to the afternoon, but the big point is I'm going to do it soon,
there ain't nothing underneath this moon will ever make me toke another take.

But what's that on the table? Why it looks like a little chunk.
I bet old Petey dropped that there, he always was a drunk.
Well, it looks so good just sitting there that I believe what I need is a bite of the hair.
The doggone stuff is like a breath of fresh air, I think I'm going to sell the farm.
I think I'm going to sell the farm.

And on the way out, here's that questionaire. Go ahead an comment; I'll read 'em when I get back. OUT.

1. Who are you?
2. Are we friends?
3. When and how did we meet?
4. Do you have a crush on me?
5. Would you kiss me?
6. Describe me in one word.
7. What was your first impression?
8. Do you still think that way about me now?
9. What is the best thing I've ever done for you?
10. The worst?
11. If you could give me anything what would it be?
12. How well do you know me?
13. When's the last time you saw me?
14. Ever wanted to tell me something but couldn't?
15. Are you going to put this on your blog and see what I say about you?

Okay, so I didn't update promptly. Sorry. Good time at wndrlnd and Alan's house. What the hizzle happened to Victor C.? If you're alive, tell me what happened? Where were you?

Sometimes I think the world can't be real. I was just doing some coding, and I noticed that one referrence wasn't working, so I checked the file name, and there was an "r" in there where there shouldn't be. I change the reference tag and it worked. Somehow, that really struck me.

Additionally, I was doing it on a computer which blows my mind in normal circumstances. Think about it.

Huh. I found a Calvin and Hobbes strip wherein Calvin demands reform in the funny pages. The content is quite different, but that is quite a coincidence.

Here it is, with a freshly misappropriated one besides: (Wait a day or so for the pics to clear remote linking.)

I returned the stylus today. It worked excellently, but it just didn't help with line art, so I decided to save $90.

It appears that those lines are from a film called "Freaks", and from what I've seen, it looks like a good one. I think I may have to rent it, if possible. Apparently the DVD is coming out next year.

Also, it looks like I'm going to be going to Quebec anyways, though the itinerary is undecided. My folks thought it would be a good place for a short vacation (we haven't had one in years), so that is the destination for 4 days. Should be good, but of course, not nearly as it could have been.

In any event, Wonderland is still happening, as you know. I haven't been able to get a hold of Ash, Lulu or Pyle though. If you happen to read this and feel like trying them for me, I'd appreciate it.

COMMENTS:
Sorry, Katy. I didn't know you were moving when it was scheduled. You will be in our hearts and minds. *aww*.

Additionally, although I returned the stylus, I guess I'll post a little about my line art.
It was some model of Epson stylus, 1024 pressure settings, and some crappy crappy software bundled with it. All in all, a fairly good one, although I don't know the model number. The way I'm doing line art now is in black pen, overlaid with felt-tip, to get that thick, dark line you need. After scanning, I run it through Adobe Streamline to smooth it out. So, the lines are pretty sweet now. The problem is that when it rasterizes in Streamline, certain sections, especially curves, don't convert properly, and I end up with messy breaks I have to patch in Photoshop. And yeah, the shrinking thing works very nicely, but when I'm doing series for GIFs or something, my drawings are too small for that too work. Any suggestions?

Panel 1: I'm fed up with newspaper comics. They're stale, unimaginative and unfunny.

Panel 2: Incessant character based gags drag them down to mere observations based on presupposed familiarity with the comic. I demand growth! I demand realistic and thoughtful dialogue!

Panel 3: If comics aren't going to be enlivening or enriching, what's the point? Why do they bother printing what they surely must recognize to be trash?

POTENTIAL panel 4: What ever happened to Dick Tracy?

Open Water. Have you seen the advertisement? It's billed as being 'diabolically clever', but, even metaphorically, I can't quite see Satan scheming up a movie which really looks like "The Blair Witch Project", except it's in water, and they don't move much at all. It's also like "Phone Booth", in that ways, which also sucked. Producers should be more careful with their money.

I went to Futureshop today to buy a tablet. Got quite a good one, but I may return it. Functional and useful as it may be, it doesn't really help with the one thing I really need it for: lineart. Drawing and scanning produces too many inconsistancies, especially with a high resolution scanner, but the tablet isn't turning out to be a practical solution. Well, we'll see.

Additionally, I was surprised to find Anoraknophobia at Futureshop. I bought it, of course. What movie is the whole 'one of us, gooble-gobble thing' from in "Separated Out"? I think I've seen it, and I've certainly heard it before, but what is it?