tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58071632024-03-07T00:37:49.985-05:00Misplaced commas, Getcha misplaced commas hee-ah!The inside of my head in convenient html form.Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.comBlogger268125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-60080321897516266222008-04-25T17:32:00.001-04:002008-04-25T13:45:14.511-04:00How does a company redeem itself for one of the strangest gadget designs of our modern era? This video/game/novelty is a darn good start. It's amazing what designers will think of when they're given the freedom to explore.Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-73720600309175897472008-04-22T17:12:00.002-04:002008-04-22T17:15:50.742-04:00Hey, a new web 2.0 toy in the right column. I'm a bit late to the party on this one, but I got Twitter so I could follow a few of my favorite comic writers. Fun facts on Twitter- Barack Obama is way at the top according to twitterholic. Hilary Clinton is on the top 100, but Warren Ellis, a comic book author, ranks above her. Geeks know what's up.Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-68990103549772208982008-04-17T17:10:00.000-04:002008-04-17T16:59:50.107-04:00LinkThat's my job in a nutshell, especially this past month or so. Most of the work I do really does resonate with me, but now and then I do something for someone that makes me wonder who would ever find it appealing. Those are the jobs I get overridden on, the vanity pieces and fixations of people with no design sense and an overwhelming sense of self-importance. It's been nice to work on fundLoyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-8955250259162375532008-03-17T13:01:00.003-04:002008-03-17T18:03:53.480-04:00Picture a room full of sweaty, mostly-drunk rock fans and punks of varying stripe clamoring for the headline act of the night during a sound check that includes a banjo and an accordion at full volume from massive Marshall stacks. To those unfamiliar with the Dropkick Murphys this may seem like a strange juxtaposition. Hell, I've been a fan of the band for nearly ten years and I thought it Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-67453494449679591592008-02-27T17:41:00.002-05:002008-02-27T17:44:29.754-05:00How to Build a Better Flu ShotI had the flu last week, despite having gotten a flu shot in November. My illness coincided with several news reports of the vaccine being ineffective. Given enough time on my hands, I came up with this list of models and methods for producing a more effective vaccine. It seems the first one in the list, the Sony, was used this year.The Sony model of influenza Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-70754045812041424892007-12-30T21:30:00.000-05:002008-01-01T16:10:51.151-05:00Edinburgh, Scotland is an absurdly beautiful city in which you are never more than two hundred feet from equally epic history, coffee, and beer. I spent a week wandering the streets with various combinations of my brother, his girlfriend, and my parents. The former two are currently legal residents, and she was good enough to secure me a place to stay in the room of one of her flatmates who hadLoyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-69364726255220173142007-10-02T15:06:00.000-04:002007-10-02T17:05:13.725-04:00"And you will know them by the ticking of their biological clocks." I loosely paraphrase Stephen Crane here based on conversations I've had recently about post-collegiate women in Indiana. It seems that at a certain age, salary is blood in the water. So I'm told. Details are sketchy, but apparently I'm a blip on the radar as an available 20-something. I really only know what Chris Rock has Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-37165177215482066202007-09-21T11:37:00.000-04:002007-09-21T17:09:22.606-04:00The first rays of sunlight filter through my blinds, beatifically contouring the form of my sheets as I confidently sit up in bed to stretch and greet the day. For I am into "fitness" now, and I can't be bothered by anything. My blood is vicodin puree. Zen from stem to stern. I only eat food from packages with trendy sans-serif organic labels and only off of plates designed by Swedish art Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-65621723039260714902007-08-03T16:05:00.000-04:002007-08-03T16:41:18.545-04:00I feel I would be remiss if I did not mention the Crossroads guitar festival concert I attended last weekend, but it's taken me this long to mention it because this is the end of the second week in a row without a real break. I flew out of Indy last Friday, spent all Saturday at the show, and flew home Sunday morning. The concert was really great. It was like five years of concerts in one day- Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-86663551191682411412007-07-17T13:16:00.001-04:002007-07-17T14:32:58.280-04:00My life is not entirely dissimilar from a cosmonaut living on the International Space Station in that I now rely on scheduled deliveries of items formerly available within thirty miles of my front door. In fact, this may be the first time I've lived in a town lacking both a comic shop and a music store. No small wonder everyone's married here; there are no geek vices to keep them celibate.My Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-42837699303401610512007-07-09T17:30:00.000-04:002007-07-09T17:14:59.193-04:00(spoilers ahead for anyone who has never seen a summer blockbuster)This past weekend was my first chance to sit and relax after a week of moving, work, and unpacking. Not that I actually relaxed, but I had the chance. I saw Transformers on Saturday, which would seem like a leisure activity, though it ended up being wildly confusing. Once you get past all the giant robot action, it turns out toLoyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-59801794182776336802007-07-05T07:45:00.000-04:002007-07-05T10:32:04.841-04:00This song would have fit right in on Machina II, matching the "what the hell is this frantic fuzzy noise that I must hear over and over again?" vibe. This new Tarantula video reminds me of the Cherub Rock video- lots of filters and nonsense going on but fifteen years later. The Cherub Rock video was shot on film in the woods, then deliberately processed wrong, bleached, and thrown down the Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-72455783498299235642007-07-03T13:49:00.000-04:002007-07-03T16:14:05.407-04:00My new apartment is a mess of boxes and bags, but I'm adjusting pretty well to this new town and new job. My office is smallish, but nice, with a window with a nice view of a tree and an old church. This week is going o be slow for me while I get acclimated. I'm waiting for the HR office to process my paperwork so I can get my new e-mail address and parking pass.My new machine is an iMac (Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-88443321222046684282007-06-27T22:45:00.000-04:002007-06-27T23:31:30.469-04:00My new comic shop:Giant Silver Surfer. I don't really care about the rest of the movie, but this is cool.I canceled my pull file at the shop I've used for years here in Fort Wayne. I can't say I'm sorry, really, even though I was pretty much only keeping it for the sake of supporting the shop that got me started as a comic geek lo those many years ago. They had a habit of leaving books out of Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-78316880838955803722007-06-20T23:50:00.000-04:002007-06-22T14:32:52.618-04:00You believe it was... Muur-der?!(edit- click to play the video)Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-56673840656189579742007-06-19T23:52:00.000-04:002007-06-20T01:08:29.156-04:00The new design is a result of Blogger telling me about lots of cool new features, then telling me my old template wouldn't work with the new stuff. They added the ability to add RSS feeds to the sidebar, something I've been eager to do with my Netflix queue. Technically, this works. The problem is that the feed doesn't update right. Netflix updates the feed automatically and the list stays Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-34098764223726375302007-06-15T23:17:00.000-04:002007-06-16T00:14:51.002-04:00The following is true:I got a job at DePauw* University as a multimedia guru for alumni relations. Moving shall commence in the coming weeks. New clothing has been purchased to make me presentable. More on this as it develops.I will probably still graduate, to answer the many who have asked about this. I don't know when or even how exactly, but the consensus seems to be that I should finish Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-89569951709804765722007-02-11T23:16:00.000-05:002007-01-15T04:50:17.055-05:00It's about time. The new album comes out July 7, hopefully followed by a US tour. They're playing a few dates in Europe in June, so hopefully someone will record the concerts.Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-27186700960044065642007-01-10T20:03:00.000-05:002007-01-10T23:46:57.597-05:00I took a few notes while watching Armed and Famous tonight. What insight about Muncie can be gained from reality TV? Here's what I learned:They came in the back way through the arse-end of townWee-Man is serious. Seriously.Latoya has the Jackson family nose.Eric Estrada looks good for his age.Jack Osbourne has not seen the Mythbusters episode that shows how cars are not bulletproof.Wee-Man canLoyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-66382921052880542632007-01-09T15:43:00.000-05:002007-01-09T16:18:45.482-05:00The start of my "me" semester has been, essentially, two additional days of finals week. I worked for about twelve hours total yesterday finishing my animation for the Terri Dreams, currently rendering behind this window. I also went to the IDMAA meeting to get feedback on a grant proposal I wrote last month for their double-secret project. The forthcoming revision should look great, and if the Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-78680833816464338942007-01-01T00:39:00.000-05:002007-01-01T02:08:06.606-05:00The long, arduous process of sorting through my stuff, packing boxes, and driving back and forth between cities is finally complete. I'm no longer a Muncie resident, so it's back to Fort Wayne to finish my projects and my degree. No more Heorot, Fickle Peach, Moe's, Motini's, Scotty's, Pita Pit, or Greek's. I suppose I'm alright without these establishments, but what really hurt was closing myLoyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-1165606537408407652006-12-08T14:35:00.000-05:002006-12-08T15:51:48.763-05:00John Battelle has some interesting insight on "conversational media." This is a better term than "user-created content." The simple explanation is that conversational media is any sort of media published on the internet that isn't expressly for commercial purposes. My current favorite example:Singing skeleton marionetteAdblockHee hee, he dances and so does the pair of legs behind him. This Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-1165267841428823782006-12-04T13:14:00.000-05:002006-12-05T14:02:37.706-05:00It got cold here in a hurry this year, after a pleasantly warm Thanksgiving week. I think we're fighting nature's population cap by living here at this time of year, but until we get satellite powered ubiquitous wireless internet, we're not leaving our northern population centers for warmer weather. I have the heater in my apartment blowing full-blast whenever I'm there and awake, though the Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-1164743411047384882006-11-28T14:50:00.001-05:002006-11-28T14:53:49.913-05:00Tom Waits was on Letterman last night. If you're interested in turkey vultures, watch the first video. Otherwise, the song is in the second video.Tom Waits on David Letterman - Pt1AdblockTom Waits on David Letterman - Pt2AdblockLoyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-1163801141185701712006-11-17T14:57:00.000-05:002006-11-20T19:23:34.710-05:00I'm getting back to normal now, not missing the bus and getting used to the food here again. I never noticed how used to the food I was, that everything tasted the same to me after two years of eating the same four meal combinations in rotation. The Terri Dreams project is coming along nicely. My segment director made a rough mockup video with the storyboards timed to the music for reference.Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com0