Newsarama: Could Kindle Kill Comics?
God I hope so.
Dispite my love of the medium I rarely read a comic more than once. If I could spend half as much for the electronic version and spend nothing on storage? Yeah, that would be the poop. I think it’d take a really good full color e-reader to finally kill the monthly pamphlet.
Then I wouldn’t have to wait for the trade.
2009/02/26
Die you four color monstrosity!
2009/02/23
Birthday Scavenger Hunt 2009
- TM stands for Team Member, a member of your team, not one of the other teams.
- “Stranger” is a non-player. You can’t use the same stranger more than once. Ex-boyfriends are not strangers.
- The values of items listed {in curly brackets} will be judged by me.
- For items listed “in quotes” I’m looking for that specific text, usually on a sign but not always.
- One item per picture.
- Teams can only get credit of items once per item and require a clear depiction of a TM in every shot.
- The Boobies picture is an exception
- The picture of another team taking a picture is also an exception
- If another team takes a picture of you taking a picture you lose 30 points. Every team can get you once so you can lose hundreds of points if you’re not careful.
- If you’re taking a picture inside a place of business, be discrete. The Cow is OK but The Black and Galactic Comics are not.
- “the less appropriate the better” means the less sense the object makes in context the more points you’ll get. A lot of people have had problems with this concept.
- If you’re the only teem to find an item it’s worth triple score.
- 10 – TM making love to the camera
- 25 – TM with “38”
- {10, 20, 30} – TM as the Cupcake Dog. Must involve food
- {5,10,15} – TM furious at an inanimate object, the less appropriate the better
- 20 – Stranger with both hands on the butt of a TM
- 15 – TM doing Warrior Three
- 10 – TM giving an invisible boombox serenade
- 5x – TM getting the finger from a stranger (5 points per stranger)
- 20 – TM in an invisible sword fight with a stranger
- 30 – TM breaking into Bank of America’s safe. (hint: it’s not at the Bank of America)
- {5,10,15} – TM really, really excited to see an inanimate object, the less appropriate the better
- 20 – TM with “Welcome to the Jungle”
- 20 – TM with “This is my boomstick”
- 25 – TM with Ganesh
- 25 – TM with “The good life” [triple score!]
- 20 – TM giving a dollar to a stranger
- 30 – TM pointing to the flag of Sweden (This was a dud. The hostel took the flag down last week)
- 10 – TM being attacked by the cameraman
- 20 – TM with “VFW Post 1392”
- 15 – TM at the Cow with a CD that I own
- 10 – TM climbing a palm tree
- {5X or 10x) – Boobies (5 points for every girl in her bra, 10 points for every girl out of her bra) Each boob counts once no limit to number of boobies. [flickr friends only]
- 30 – Another team taking a picture (other team loses 30 points. You can only get another team once but every team can get you once)
- 30 – What can your camera do? A lot of digital cameras have special effects built into them. Apply one or more to a picture of a TM artistically
- 20 – TM petting a dog.
- 30 – TM stealing something from Starbucks
- 20 – TM giving a stranger a piggy back ride
- 20 – TM crying while a stranger laughs
- 30 – TM touching the elusive Major Meteor
- 30 – TMs caught in a compromising position with each other. Real life couples are disqualified.
- 20 – TM as the Dramatic Chipmonk.
- 15 – TM with the Freemason crest [triple score!]
- 665 – Red Jelly Green Jam
- 595 – Team Venture
- 580 – Chicken Heads
- 570 – Team Eye Trama
- 480 – Pterrribly Pterrifying Pterrorists
- 445 – Massage Fuckers
- 430 – Cable 57
- 410 – Team Go Fuck Yourself
- 210 – Smarmy Marmoset
Congratulations April and Kirsten!
I’m taking Boobies out of the game. I have the power to get twelve women to lift their shirts and with great power comes great responsibility. Besides it doesn’t work for game play. Any team that didn’t get in on the Great Boob Picture of ’09 didn’t stand a chance of winning.
Great game everyone! I can’t wait to do it again next year!
2009/02/18
Serendipity in Reading
Yesterday afternoon I read chapter two of The White Goddess about the The Battle of the Trees.
Yesterday evening I read chapter ten of The Drawing of the Dark which referenced The Battle of the Trees.
I love it when that happens.
2009/02/13
In these troubled economic times I put my money in Tajikistani goats.
Kiva is a site that allows those of us in the first world to directly invest in business ventures in the third world. Because if we can take banks out of the process we’re all better off.
So far I’ve invested $200 in seven different enterprises all over the world. Poultry farms in Togo and Uganda, a wood crafter in Ukraine, a cafe in Azerbaijan, stuff like that.
It feels good, having a savings account that actually does some good. And it feels really, really good to play God with these people’s lives.
2009/02/08
I unleash the creative power of not being able to sleep!
The 32 oz. of coffee I drank twelve hours ago are going to keep me up all night.
That’s some very tenacious coffee.
Well one night of insomnia is a small price to pay for finally finishing that new first chapter.
2009/02/04
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