| British packaged foods, ca. 1984 |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|01:11 am] |
What are the British equivalents of Cheez Whiz, Knorr, and Ramen noodles, ca. 1984? Really well-known staple processed foods, not too fancy.
I already know Bovril, Marmite and Smash. |
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| get me off this freaking moor |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|03:24 pm] |
Anne why are you writing books about how alcoholic losers ruin people's lives? Don't you see that romanticizing douchey behavior is the proper literary convention in this family! Honestly. |
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| Stuff! Also, impending absence. |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|02:59 pm] |
So I have been meaning to update for days! As is my usual. Accordingly, here is a list of the stuff I have been meaning to write about. (I actually wrote this post a day or two ago, but I got the settings wrong so I'm pretty sure it didn't actually show up on anyone's friendslists. Oops. Reposting ahoy!
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[Jul. 10th, 2009|11:09 am] |
Today's comic is a page no one's seen before, slightly expanding the antagonists' dialogue and menace.
I'm trying hard to stop checking viewing stats on my uploads, and I've been successful so far. Mostly because there is not and will not be much to look at for some time. In the mean time I'm really trying to develop my drawing and take the writing the next step. It's already better, but that's not hard to achieve at this point. Not that I'm trying to underrate myself. It is early in the game, that's all. |
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| Girl troubles |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|06:24 am] |
Somebody call the waaaaahmbulance.
My bra straps have all become pokey-feeling and annoying. I don't have a sunburn. They're not held on with barbed wire. What gives?
My tan biking shoes don't match my black biking outfit. Wah!
The chain on my chainsaw broke. At least I wasn't using it at the time.
I'm going to go help serve food to Tent City tonight, and once again, I have no food to bring. The one time i have the time to make the food! Waaah!
Wait- i have a friend's oven at my disposal this afternoon! ...how much is a box of brownies? What do you have to add to the mix? How long do they take to cool? *contemplate contemplate* |
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| RIP CRT |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|08:56 pm] |
When I moved to Toronto I took a computer monitor with me, and it was an CRT that I'd already had for a few years already. This was this was the monitor I used when I applied to grad school and the monitor I used when starting Dinosaur Comics.
This monitor had served me well, but the past year or so it was clearly dying. The display would get fuzzy, and then snap back. Now I use three monitors and this was on the screen I used mainly for status stuff, so it was okay. I could still read the text when I needed to!
It was getting old though, and this morning I actually thought I was watching it finally die: the screen slowly faded to black, over the course of about 30 seconds, like a movie would fade to black over a particularly dramatic coda. These were my thoughts as I watched my windows fade away. Even the little green power light on the front of the monitor faded with everything else. My old monitor faded to black I watched it die. Goodbye, faithful hardware!
BUT THEN it faded back! You guys, it faded back just as it had faded out. It was a death-bed deke, and I was totally taken in. The monitor did this cycle a few more times, but I was wise to it now. I wasn't going to be taken in again. Eventually the monitor stopped fading out entirely, and we both got back to what we were working on before.
That was this morning. Just now, it faded to black and hasn't recovered. The power light has died with the screen too, but its switch is still in the "on" position. Okay, so just now I turned the power off and on again and the monitor recovered perfectly fine. MAN I GOT DEKED AGAIN.
Okay, so clearly this monitor is sick but doesn't want to die; it wants a peek at its obituary before it goes. Well here you go, monitor, I've moved this window over to you and I'm writing this on you and this is your obituary. If you do anything awesome after I post this I'll update it appropriately, but I think this is where our two paths diverge. You have been a good and faithful monitor and I will probably not forgot many of the things I saw through you.
You were a good monitor! |
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| Cucumber recipes? |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|08:57 pm] |
That aren't pickles? I just picked fifteen cucumbers from my garden, and right now, I have about 25 in my fridge, some smaller, some larger. I know you can cook with cucumbers, but I've never tried anything like that. Suggestions?
(Crossposted a bit.) |
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| Edwardian Insults? |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|10:21 pm] |
Setting: Post-Edwardian England, around 1912 or so.
Basically I need a word that my character could use to refer to the thugs that beat up his friend. Something roughly equivalent to today's 'bastard' or 'git'. He's from a well-off background, public school educated (as in an Eton-type place), currently at University (Cambridge, to be specific). Mainly, I've found very American words that I can't imagine him using, he being painfully British, of the 'I say, let's jolly well play cricket!' type.
I've seen PG Wodehouse use 'son of unmarried parents', but that sounds far too much like a comic euphemism, though it does suggest that 'bastard' was being used as an insult.
Research: I've looked in the archives here and googled various combinations of 'Edwardian slang' , 'Jazz Age insults', 'public school [and Eton] insults', but no banana.
I'd love a good list of British Edwardian (or thereabouts) slang, so if anyone knows any ...
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| Hungarian universities |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|11:09 am] |
When: early 1980s
Where: Hungary
Searched: Wikipedia ("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_in_Hungary") and links from there, including
various institutions home pages.
It's 1981-ish and I'm teenage Hungarian, fresh out of gymnasium with above-average grades and well-above-average test scores. Where do I go to get (the closest equivalent of) a college liberal arts education?
Of the places I've looked into, all either a) were founded after 1990, or b) specialize in a particular discipline (medicine, law, management/business, performing arts, etc.).
I understand Hungary's a small country ( roughly ten million), so there won't be the number of institutions available in western Europe, much less the United States. But it's hard to believe there wasn't someplace that trained the mathematicians and engineers and schoolteachers. |
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| It almost feels like cheating. |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|09:56 pm] |
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/basicinst/~3/bsv7LYYubWI/ http://basicinstructions.net/?p=1129 Several readers have asked how it would even occur to me that one could hold a dog’s hind legs like a wheelbarrow and kick it in the genitalia. Sadly, this concept was drawn, to some small extent, from my life.
I was at work, in an area we Disney cast members would refer to as “backstage.” I was doing my job while two cast members from a different department were talking. I wasn’t listening to them, but one of them said the following, and this is a direct quote:
“So, I grab the pit bull by its hind legs like a wheelbarrow, and I’m kicking it in the nuts as hard as I can. Just kicking and kicking.”
Next time I need to get someone’s attention, I plan to just say that. I think it’d be impossible to ignore.
Anyway, the full story is that he was at a park (let me clarify this point. It was a public park, NOT a Disney park) and there was a goose wandering around. Apparently, someone’s pit bull got loose and started attempting to kill and eat the goose right there in the park, “with kids watching.”
That’s when my co-worker sprang into action. The children in attendance learned many lasting lessons about life that day.
So when I decided to make a strip out of the story, I changed “pit bull” to “Doberman” because vicious pit bulls seemed like a lazy cliché (yes, reality is prone to lazy clichés just like everyone else). I made the dog he was defending a smaller dog because a goose just raised questions. I replaced “nuts” with “junk” because junk is funnier.
For those interested in my phone situation, I wrote this post on my T-Mobile G1, running the Google Android operating system, and I LOVE IT! If any of you have been considering an Android phone and want to ask a question of someone who’s been using one for a few weeks, drop me a line.
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| From The Very Start |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|05:25 pm] |
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| | Down With Zelda | ] |
I would be happy if every music video I ever made looked exactly like this one:
In other news, I keep getting responses to my comments on that horrifying Wakker Dier video... like this one:
kewari2000(2 minutes ago)
oh come on, dont be such a feminist!! Jezus, its really this hardball reactions that make me sick. Its about fish, animals and the film is meant ironically. Im reading all the reactions here, just dont understand all the misplaced anger about 'violence against women" (and for the record, I am a woman too)..
Stop the Planet of the Apes, I want to get off! |
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