System Reboot Week 2011: Day 2
Hunger can be pretty distracting. I guess this is why "they" are always stressing the importance of good nutrition in educational success for children. Works the same for adults.
System Reboot Week 2011: Day 1
I had a doughnut yesterday. It was one of those old-fashioned donuts from Starbucks, all cake-y and cinnamon-y and terrifically accompanying my iced decaf soy mocha. But it was still a doughnut, a 400-calorie, fat-and-cholesterol-rich pastry that I've held up as the antithesis of healthy living for almost three years.
The Two-Penny Review: X-Men First Class
I don't often write about other media, but occasionally, I consume a movie, book or comic on which I just have to comment, and hence we have today's quasi-review on X-Men First Class, which debuted in movie theaters this weekend to the tune of $55 million.
Inner Square
An unexpected UPS package arrived on my doorstep this morning (or, more likely, yesterday, and I just didn’t see it). It was from Square, the company that provides smart phone-based credit card processing software/hardware for micro-business people such as me.
48 Hours
I've formed a team to create a short film for this year's 48 Hour Film Project, which kicks off Friday, April 8 and is due Sunday, April 10. Yes. 48 hours. Basically, we get a genre, a line of dialog, a character and a prop at 7 p.m. on Friday and have to turn in a finished film of less than seven minutes by 7 p.m. Sunday.
Facebooking
After much thinking and consulting with friends and associates on the subject, I finally went and created a public Facebook "fan" page for myself on Facebook.
The kindness of strangers
I'm hoping you can help me raise a little bit of cash for a couple of super-nice internet pals who are facing down potential homelessness on March 1 if they don't come up with a security deposit to move into a new home.
Dwayne McDuffie
It's not overstatement to say the comics world was taken completely unaware today with news that legendary (and very active) writer Dwayne McDuffie died yesterday of complications from surgery.
Desktop snapshot, 2/18/11
You guys know I use these “desktop snapshot” posts just as an excuse to blog, right? Right. I’ve been mostly... Continue reading →
Desktop snapshot, 2/11/11
I'm still kind of in radio silence, but just wanted to drop in to kind-of share what I'm working on currently. I've been hired to produce a comic book-style set of illustrations for a psychological study being conducted by some very cool researchers at UNLV.