CAG@LOCS#17
Finishing off the liquor was definitely a good idea, but only because i had not yet been caffeinated today. It relaxed my withdrawal enough that i could stand still while talking with Dr. Tevelev and holding chalk. Coffee would definitely have been better. This excursion to The Loose Goose marks my first iced mocha of the Summer. It feels somewhat overdue, but this has indeed been the first hot day in Amherst.
I'm of the persuasion that all who can draw discernibly distinct people in different positions (and many who can't) are morally obligated to start a webcomic. If you can't write worth a lick and spit then you have several friends who would be entirely too eager to contribute, and several others who would be willing to take you (willingly or not) on enough adventures to provide an entertaining storyline. If i ever start a comic i'll incorporate the curious temporal pacing of k-tableaux, in which panels would progress downward and rightward with several (increasingly many as the number of distinct time units increases) occurring simultaneously. Seems an ideal (pun intended) format for telling "crowded" stories, with reading order among the temporal level sets left to the reader. If i get bored and can't get an academic job i'll take drawing lessons after i finish barista training.
If you steal this idea from me i will track you down and set fire to your genitalia.
Great media i've been exposed to lately:
I'm of the persuasion that all who can draw discernibly distinct people in different positions (and many who can't) are morally obligated to start a webcomic. If you can't write worth a lick and spit then you have several friends who would be entirely too eager to contribute, and several others who would be willing to take you (willingly or not) on enough adventures to provide an entertaining storyline. If i ever start a comic i'll incorporate the curious temporal pacing of k-tableaux, in which panels would progress downward and rightward with several (increasingly many as the number of distinct time units increases) occurring simultaneously. Seems an ideal (pun intended) format for telling "crowded" stories, with reading order among the temporal level sets left to the reader. If i get bored and can't get an academic job i'll take drawing lessons after i finish barista training.
If you steal this idea from me i will track you down and set fire to your genitalia.
Great media i've been exposed to lately:
- Heinlein's Stranger In a Strange Land. This one almost had me convinced. Jubal might be my favorite geezer in all of literature. (I never really liked Kurtz.)
- Polak's Out Of Poverty. I'm getting closer to the bridge between charity and reform.
- Paulos's A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper. This may be the quintessential mathematician's coffee shop book of the 90's. Now if i can just find that of the 00's before they're over, too.
- The Matthew Good Band's "Going All the Way". Reminds me that we in comfortable times long for desperation as much as the converse; it would save us the trouble of going out of our ways to discover people.