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Just in case anyone was considering it. Story here!

I AM DRAWING SO MUCH, WHY AREN'T I DRAWING THE RIGHT THINGS? WHY IS IT TAKING SO LONG TO UPDATE SPLIT POISON AUGH.

( Click here to view my new pics [yes, that's the two of hearts next to the mossy asphalt]... )

More to come from a recent excursion around some ice. Comments and critiques are always welcome and asked for! Nikon D200 ~Dustin Eppers of  "Dustin Eppers Photography"

GUESS WHO'S UPDATING FROM THEIR NEW HAND-ME-DOWN PHONE?! AWWWWWW YEEEAAAAHHH. Finally a phone that can have customized ringtones. *-* that's how far back I was.

anyway it turns out using this thing is kind of a bitch so I think i'll give up now.

gosh good thing I have a laptop, otherwise I might never stay almost constantly connected with this pretend world!



by the way I lost everyone's numbers, but i'll ask for those when I figure out how to add a contact from a text.

Things That Make One's Heart Beat Faster

Sparrows feeding their young. To pass a place where babies are playing. To sleep in a room where some fine incense has been burnt. To notice that one's elegant Chinese mirror has become a little cloudy. To see a gentleman stop his carriage before one's gate and instruct his attendants to announce his arrival. To wash one's hair, make one's toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still produce an inner pleasure.
It is night, and one is expecting a visitor. Suddenly one is startled by the sound of rain-drops, which the wind blows against the shutters.

清少納言 - 枕草子 (Sei Shōnagon - The Pillow Book)

so I got a formspring. I'm going to do my best to be really honest with it (but no promises lol).

also I am just in love with this woman's photos.

lol my life.

am planning to spend today with hot chocolate, lots of blankets, the last episode of Dexter S3, and Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book (which I got last night for $5, awwwww yeah Powell's). whee.

I have some wild rice. The instructions on it say to boil some water in a saucepan, stir in the rice, cover, reduce heat to a simmer, and wait a while. When I stir the rice into the boiling water, I also stir in some butter and a spice mix (sugar, powdered soy sauce, onion, sesame seeds, garlic, and some other stuff). I mix everything thoroughly, cover it (so I can't see what happens), reduce the heat, and wait.

When the rice is done, I uncover it, and all the sesame seeds are in a ring around the edge of the pan. The ring is maybe an inch thick; the pan is about 8 inches in diameter. The butter and sugar are mixed throughout and not clustered in any place, but the other spices, like the sesame seeds, seem to be in higher concentrations in the ring and lower concentrations in the center of the pan. I have a gas-powered stove, if that makes a difference.

Why does this happen?

when I saw this I literally went "hoooooooly shiiiiiiiit DO WANT." they would look gorgeous with this pair of back seam tights that have disappeared off MC :[ something like this except more pink, which made them look more sweet than trashy, if that makes sense. seeing shit like this makes me want to lose weight (and yet I spent all day today eating fudge, damn you holiday baking season!). but apparently mom got the ~special version of Wii Fit or something, so I know what I'll be doing over the break lol.

somebody brought up today that this is our last winter break (as high schoolers)—I keep getting these little reminders that I'm not going to be here next year, and it's a really bizarre feeling. I can't wait to get out of high school but I'm also so apprehensive about college, especially given how behind I am in everything.... but I guess we'll see what happens.

and Zhou Mi is so elegant. he's got a really (aristocratic? is that the word I'm looking for?) profile and legs for daaaaaaaaaaaays omg I am such a sucker for long legs ;;

it's really depressing to realize someone doesn't like/trust you nearly as much as you do them.

Bug powder causes male bedbugs to stab each other to death with their penises

Male bedbugs will schtup anything, and when they do, their stabby little penises can do great damage to one another. Female bedbugs have some "down there" armor that absorbs the punishing blows of the bedbug's love-spear, but males lack this protection. A pheromone discovered by a Swedish researcher can cause male bedbugs to kill each other with their penises through uncontrolled shagging.

Previous torture phalluses.

Eighth Graders In Oral Plea

A pair of Georgia eighth graders this week copped to public indecency charges after they engaged in oral sex while a substitute teacher was helping other students at the front of the classroom. [...] As part of the plea, sodomy charges against both students were dropped, and a probation violation count leveled against the boy was dismissed. After being held at a youth detention facility, the girl was released to her parents's custody. The boy, however, remains locked up, according to a law enforcement official.

Does... anyone know anyone that would want 2 Yu-Gi-Oh wallscrolls? Or a Saiyuki? :| It's embarrassing to own these things, and even more embarrassing that I want to keep one of the Yu-Gi-Oh ones... you can defriend me now if you want.

ANYWAY I'LL SHIP THEM IF ANYONE WANTS THEM OR KNOWS SOMEONE THAT WANTS THEM. The only money I'd ask for is shipping, if it's more than like... $10. I don't want to just throw them out because there was a time I loved them. ;_;

( here's what these embarrassments look like )

The health care thing is really freaking me out. As an artist who is frequently sick in one way or another, I'm on tenderhooks about the public option, but the allotment of coverage is really really scaring me. Especially because while the rights and money for women's care (including abortions and birth control) are being disappeared, meanwhile this health care bill will totally cover Viagra!
Aaaaugh.

Speaking of insane ladymedicine things, yesterday I received the single most disturbing piece of mail to ever cross my hands.
What list am I on that I get this kind of thing?

Every winter, my internet service gets cranky in the cold, so I finally got my service back this morning after almost a week. To fill my need to stare at screens while I was internetless, I watched movies. I doodled my way through Harry Potter 6-- You can see my silly drawings here: Harry Potter Doodles

I have a neat interview up over on the Hideous Energy Comics Blog. We talk music, books, all kinds of stuff!

Doodling. The eternal struggle continues!

EDIT:

I saw that in the latest PS3 OS update, they added Facebook integration. Now, there's one and exactly one thing that could possibly be useful for, right? You've already thought of it in the time it took you to read that sentence. The one useful thing would be to unify your friends lists, so that your PS3 can automatically know which of your Facebook friends are online without you having to search for and then manually enter all of their Playstaion Network IDs.

Guess what, it doesn't do that. All it does is make it so that the PS3 can spam your Facebook Status every time you buy a game, and every time you upload a trophy. Who would ever, ever want it to do either of these things?

I'll bet a "Social Media Consultant" was involved.

I just cannot get over this gif. way to be subtle, Sungmin. (although to be fair I'm pretty sure that is everyone's reaction.)

Fortunately the utility belt that was provided for him contained shark repellant.

A civilian passenger in an air force display plane accidentally activated the ejector seat while reaching for something to steady himself during a mid-air manoeuvre. It is thought he activated the ejector seat after lurching forward during an aerobatic manoeuvre and accidentally pulling on the black and yellow emergency handle between his legs.

songs with an environmental message, go (except you, Christin)

oh god I am so fucked for everything.



also I realized last night that maybe the reason I've been so exhausted so early lately is because I haven't eaten dinner in I-don't-know-how-long :/

http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=304

2009-12-17 02:29:45 i'm closing book orders for december at the end of today (thursday). one of the fellows from a lesson is learned has started a new comic. if i don't make a comic around christmastime just read this one. i'll be doing a signing at lonestar comics in dallas on dec. 23rd from 3-7pm

Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones

Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations.

Senior defense and intelligence officials said Iranian-backed insurgents intercepted the video feeds by taking advantage of an unprotected communications link in some of the remotely flown planes' systems. Shiite fighters in Iraq used software programs such as SkyGrabber -- available for as little as $25.95 on the Internet -- to regularly capture drone video feeds, according to a person familiar with reports on the matter.

The potential drone vulnerability lies in an unencrypted downlink between the unmanned craft and ground control. The U.S. government has known about the flaw since the U.S. campaign in Bosnia in the 1990s, current and former officials said. But the Pentagon assumed local adversaries wouldn't know how to exploit it, the officials said.

Today, the Air Force is buying hundreds of Reaper drones, a newer model, whose video feeds could be intercepted in much the same way as with the Predators, according to people familiar with the matter. A Reaper costs between $10 million and $12 million each and is faster and better armed than the Predator. General Atomics expects the Air Force to buy as many as 375 Reapers.

So, I pretty much don't use this anymore. I'll still use it occasionally, but don't expect frequent entries from me, 'kay?

So, my soul is slowly being consumed. Hi, IB. AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

Also, what's up with people dying lately. It's not okay. D:

I drew this comic on scott kurtzes's cintiq. it was my first time really sitting down and using one, so it was kind of neat!



You can actually watch me draw it on this recorded ustream where scott, kris, and others talk about kickstarter. I mostly laugh a lot and draw the comic. I act like Glenn from the Tom Green Show, basically.

After the comic was done, I just sketched a bunch so here is all those damn sketches (scott came in and sketched too, SEE IF YOU CAN FIND HIS!)

( big sketches underneath the cut!! )

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