A matter of design
Wild and Bad has gotten bigger; about 200 pixels bigger. I widened the design to increase the content width. I also increased the font size a bit. Why? Becuase I was tired of the cramped-looking deisgn on my larger-than-average monitors.
It does mean that those of you with smaller-than-average monitors (in this case less than 1024 x 768) will be suffering. With my itty-bitty traffic numbers I don't have to care.
Heather's Comic Debut
Heather's "Farpoint 2010 Charity Strip Off" comic from Farpoint 2010 was featured at the Interrobang website. Check it out!
Artwork was provided by Sarah Martinez and Heather did the script and colors. I may have helped some ... but my comic didn't get featured.
RIP Joe Stack (1956-2010)
I find it hard to imagine what drives someone like Joe Stack, an obviously successful man with a wife and son to burn down his home and take his own life in an act of mass-destruction - and what I would call terrorism - if he had not left an extended note explaining his position. You can read it at The Smoking Gun. But there's moreWasting no time, I see, Mr Weatherman
My annual annurism is arriving early this year I see. Snow is expected tonight - aroun 3-6 inches of it. And only just two weeks until my birthday. We shall see another snow again before my birthday arrives I am certain of it.Toast To The Immortal Memory 2010
Robert Burn's popularity has been keenly felt in the US since the 18th century. It has shaped our literary, societal and musical perceptions for over 200 years.
Previous year's "Toasts to the immortal memory" are also here.
But there's moreWords to Live By
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." - Robert Heinlein
Vote for my minimum opus (opi?)
Two of my entries were selected from the first round. This pleases me greatly becasue it tells me I might have a future in this "writing" thing. As long as I don't have to write anything longer than 140 characters.
You can vote for your favorite Tweet Me a Story story, and I'd appreciate it if you would consider voting for mine. While you are there, C A. Bridges has two story entries in group 15, so give him a check if you would.
My stories chosen were:
A cage is not a trap, the raccoon mused, only the end result. He also mused that he was still stuck. He never could resist peanut butter.
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Trap your errors, my programming instructor had said. I remembered the lesson with irony because who guessed that a rogue AI was an error.
And you can vote here. Vote early and vote often!
I like my coffee like I like my ____________. Free, postage paid and dependant on me to tell others.
