Happy New Year (almost) from Boston! Lots to tell, when we get back.
Archive for December, 2003
Note: Penny-Arcade
on Wind Waker and Firefly. See you all in 2004!
28 Dec
2003
“But, like all creative minds, they must be slapped down.” — Joss Whedon, praising the CGI effects team for Firefly, on the commentary track accompanying…
≡ 11:11 pm
“But, like all creative minds, they must be slapped down.”
— Joss Whedon, praising the CGI effects team for Firefly,
on the commentary track accompanying the pilot (“Serenity”).
I haven’t done any drawing in weeks. Months, maybe. It’s just
that I’ve been so busy. Here, let me look at the last nonblank
page in my sketchbook … OK, in the 6″x9″ there’s a 12/19, but
that was for work; the last one before that is 11/15. And in the 6″x6″
— hell, I can’t even find it. Oh, here it is: 11/17.
So, there you go, more than a month since I sketched or drew or
colored anything. Suck.
25 Dec
2003
“Chestnuts roasting on an open hibachi…” It turns out that, despite not being Christians, the Japanese celebrate Christmas.
≡ 8:43 pm
“Chestnuts roasting on an open hibachi…” It turns out
that, despite not being Christians, the Japanese celebrate Christmas.
Weirdly.
More linkage over on a similar
MeFi thread.
Brian goes
home: “Mmmm. Good ‘ol Polish Pennsylvania Christmas Eve dinner. Fresh
salmon, pierogies, and Yuenglings for afterwards.”
What, no crépes?
24 Dec
2003
You already knew that your eyes are less sensitive to blue, overall, than red or green.
≡ 9:34 pm
You already knew that your eyes are less sensitive to blue, overall,
than red or green. But this demonstration
is impressive.
I love nice colophons:
The text of this book was set in a digitized version of a typeface named Perpetua, designed by the British artist Eric Gill (1882-1940) and cut by The Monotype Corporation, London, in 1928-1930. Perpetua is a contemporary letter of original design, without any direct historical antecedents. The shapes of the roman letters basically derive from stonecutting, a form of lettering in which Gill was eminent. The italic is essentially an inclined roman. The general effect of the typeface in reading sizes is one of lightness and grace. The larger display sizes of the type are extremely elegant and form what is probably the most distinguished series of inscriptional letters cut in the present century.
(From Jewish Cooking in America, by Joan Nathan, pub. 1998 by Knopf.)
I’m always running into abuses of precision in the service of weak assertions. People are easily seduced into “rounding” numeric values in their arguments, sometimes as much as half an order of magnitude, and then rounding the resulting value again. They apply this rule over and over to grossly exaggerate the figure. Recursive aggrandizement! Exemplar gratis:
“Our group has nearly 200 members. That’s practically 250, which is basically 300, which is so close to the threshold of 350 that it’s not even worth quibbling about!” [Hypothetical argument made to gain special treatment, reserved for groups of 350, to a group of, say, 185.]
[Also note this related exchange on bash.org.]
Wah. I had finally started to read Doonesbury and FoxTrot again, via
RSS, and now
this.
Rumor and speculation: Apple to
introduce $100 “mini-iPods”.
Guardian: The
best of British blogging.
