[PD] flesh

Geekfest 2007

robot sketches

brush pen

first dry point

Burgess Shale print

dry point on plexiglass

[PD] rabbit

Kingdom of Loathing SDCC 2007 booth

Kingdom of Loathing SDCC 2007 booth, originally uploaded by milesopie.

photos from con

Comic-Con Smallville Bag Dress

Comic-Con Smallville Bag Dress, originally uploaded by LRG410.

i'll have to see if i can find a better picture.

SDCC 2007

I'm back from the comic con. Saw John Favaru walking around but didn't take his picture because he was with his kids. Also saw Brian Posen, Elvira, Jane Weiden, Lou Fergino. Got Ray Harryhausen's autograph. Made an exquisite corpse book by taking a band saw to a sketchbook. Got lots of drawings for it but need more. i'll take it to stumptown. should have gotten more indy artist, they have a sense of humor and get it right away. Shaenon Garrity, Jill Thompson, Mark Wheatly, John Allison, Ben Edlund, Tim Sale, Matt Wagner, Debbie Huey, Phil Foglio and a few more artist. I have to say that Garrity's drawing is my favorite. It's made me an instant fan. We only went for 2 of the 4 days and it wasn't enough to see everything. Kingdom of Loathing had a booth, but they had closed up before i could get anything. It turns out that Kinkos operates a shipping center from the lobby of the convention. Had i known that before, i would have bought allot more stuff. I did buy one page of Simon Bisley art from FAKK 2 and some indy comics. I wish i would have found a t-shirt to buy. I went to one panel, because to me, it's part of the con experience. I picked on one kid's comics but i'm afraid it wasn't that interesting. about 1/3 of the hour was taken up by people just saying what the first comics they read were. i did get some tips on some titles to check out. i'll have to see how they pan out. WB was hading out huge Smallville bags. I heard that someone had made one into a dress. I wish i had seen it. i'll have to see if i can find a picture.
Thanks to Ben for arranging all of this, i probably wouldn't have gone otherwise.
excuse all the spelling mistakes. i know allot of the names are wrong.

wrong trousers

Euros at Guardian

When: Sunday, July 1, 2007, 12:30 PM 20070701T193000Z

Where:

Guardian Games
315 SE 3rd Avenue
Portland , OR 97214

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20% Off BoardGames to all Attendees!

Laura Viers

Laura Viers was on Studio 360 this week.
She's playing in town next month.
June 9 - Aladdin Theater - Portland, OR

tv on demand

http://www.tv-links.co.uk/

thanks to brian

King Dork

i read King Dork, or rather i listened to the audio book. (Library) I liked the book but was a little disappointed by the ending since it seemed to come out of nowhere, but i might have been a little distracted as i listened to it at work. If i was actually reading it, i might have gone back over certain passages. The book is about a high school sophomore with a band and his battle with the "normals" and the cult of Catcher in the Rye. Its kinda like if John Hughes made the movie version of Freaks and Geeks except with the protagonist having some success. I could see the book being a MTV production, i totally seems like something they would make + it was written by the lead singer of the Mr T experience so there's a built in music hook.

new games

bought Treasures & Traps, Let's Kill! (atlas games) and Munchkin Cthulhu.
they all looked good, so i splurged.

dorkbotpdx

dorkbotpdx - about
people doing strange things with electricity (in portland)

the press club

Had lunch at the Press Club Sunday (Clinton and 26th, next doot to Green Noise Records). They have good crepes and an excellent selection of magazines to browse through you can also buy. I like the artist curently showing there, Ilya Zlotnikov.

TOP SHELF'S 10TH ANNIVERSARY MASSIVE $3 SALE!

Hey Comics Fans,

To celebrate Top Shelf's 10th Anniversary in publishing, and also to announce (and prepare for) our 2007-2008 publishing line, for the next ten days -- thru Wednesday, April 18th -- Top Shelf is having its biggest web sale ever. Below you'll find over 125 graphic novels and comics on sale, with fifty titles marked down to just $3 (!), twenty-five titles marked down to just $1 (!), and a slew of other key titles just slashed (including Lost Girls, From Hell, Blankets, and more)! All we ask is that you hit a $30 minimum on sale and/or non-sale items (before shipping). It's a great opportunity to load up on all those graphic novels you've wanted to try, but just never got around to picking up. Get 'em while supplies last!

Mr. Fancy Pants

Play Fancy Pants Adventure

because ben likes it

something i need

Friend's Video

also available in spanish!

Sam and Max

sam and max are back with new games. x-play rated them 4/5 stars. i might have to actually use my parallels software now. + there are new on-line comics. wish i had the old comics.

gaming update

won at auction:
$8 awful green things from outer space
$5 chez geek 1&3
$4 castle
$3 justice league heroes
$3 chez dork
4.5 Burn in Hell

Sold rail baron for $50 for which i bought:
trans america and lost cities.

comic boxes

hm, something cheaper than my idea.

collection.powweb.com

animal crossing for wii ?!

Nintendo Lists Major Wii Games for 2007
* Dairantou Smash Brothers X (Super Smash Bros. Brawl) * Disaster: Day of Crisis * Donkey Kong Taru Jet Race (DK Bongo Blast) * Doubutsu no Mori [Animal Crossing] * Forever Blue * Hoshi no Kirby (Kirby Adventure) * Mario Party 8 * Mario Strikers Charged * Metroid Prime 3: Corruption * Project H.A.M.M.E.R. * Super Mario Galaxy * Totsugeki Famicom Wars (Battalion Wars II) * Wii Health Pack * Wii Music
http://wii.ign.com/articles/766/766803p1.html

i've been shopping on line for a e-reader for animal crossing and was happy to see that nintendo still has series 1 and 4 e-reader packs. but maybe i should hold off if the game is coming to the wii.

oh, and it looks like i'm going to have to send my wii in. the optical drive is having problems and since i already downloaded a VC game (mario cart), they can't just exchange it for another unit.

work drawings

game auction

this sunday is rainy day games' yearly game auction.

correction: the auction is half yearly.

update: sold my copy of Rail Baron for $50.

Review: My super ex-girlfriend

terrible, terrible movie. i'm writing this to warn you to not waste your time on this movie, even if you get the chance to see it for free. you know how some trailers give away the best part of a movie? this one gives away the only joke in the movie. i rented it figuring it would be dumb and funny. it was just dumb. i can't see how Ivan Reitman didn't get his name removed from this movie.

amimal crossing (GC)

so i had played animal crossings years ago as a rental and recently decided to buy it since it was on sale and by buying it, you get a memory card with a NES game included. animal crossing is like the sims, with cute animals. you deliver packages, pay off your house, collect fossils, insects and fish and try to decorate your house with the proper feng shui principals. furthermore, it has a real time calendar aspect to the game. some animals only appear during certian months and holidays are celebrated in the game. i started my new town on the new card and then tried to visit my old town. so my old town is on a third party card i bought and it's been kinda flaky. it seems to only work on my gamecube and i can read it only on the second slot on the wii. unfortunately, animal crossing, like many games will only read the first slot and furthermore, it won't allow me to copy the data to a new card. well, when i tried to travel to my old town, the wii would no longer read the the card. i tried reinserting the card a few times, wiggling this way and that. it read it enough to start a trip and then failed. i reset the machine and tried again. this time it reported that the old town data was corrupt and surprise, as a result i lost all the items i had "on me" including the letter with the NES game and money.
I'm never buying third party hardware again.

PDX gaming

The Portland Boardgames Meetup Group

MST3K + Star Wars episode 1

Seems the people from MST3K are releasing commentary mp3s that you can play along with newer movies.

monsters

for those of you that might have missed the post on boingboing, the grasshut in portland has a show featuring art from the up coming fanagraphics book Beasts.

GRASSHUT 811 East Burnside, Portland OR 97214 / Thursday-Sunday 12-7pm / 503-445-9924

video games

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/
buy, buy, buy

BSG

find -> thepiratebay
download -> azureus
view -> VLC
view? -> WMV

new game

Went for my 3 month oil change and as always had lunch at Reo's Ribs and then stopped by Rainy Day Games. Bought a new game named Kings Blood. It says it's ages 6+ so i'll see if Miles will play.

Katee Sackhoff at KUFO

http://www.cortandfatboy.com/index.php?cat=Interviews

comics podcast links

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=108088514
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp4gmjlaAHo

http://comics.ign.com/articles/678/678769p1.html

cheap TPBs

www.instocktrades.com

wii home

Bought Lego Star Wars II for Miles only to have the Game Cube come to a slow death on Christmas. Got a Wii to replace it at Target today. Only had to wait after one person to get it.

the score?

Bowling:
1. Me 112
2. Miles 86
3. Ben 68

ghost

about wikipedia

Even Wales has been caught airbrushing his Wikipedia entry—eighteen times in the past year. He is particularly sensitive about references to the porn traffic on his Web portal. "Adult content" or "glamour photography" are the terms that he prefers, though, as one user pointed out on the site, they are perhaps not the most precise way to describe lesbian strip-poker threesomes.

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060731fa_fact

SHAREDROUTE.ORG

i don't know anything about this service, but it seems pretty cheap.

Northbound (to Seattle by 2:15)
Portland	10:30am
Olympia	12:45 pm

Southbound (to Portland by 6:00)
Seattle	2:30 pm
Olympia	4:00 pm

Buses run every Friday, Saturday & Sunday

Due to traffic conditions, the bus may arrive later than its scheduled departure time. Please feel free to contact us for updated arrival/departure times. 503.502.5750

wookie board

PS3 font

has anyone one else noticed that the PS3 font looks like the Spiderman movie font?

artistry sketch

[PD] tattoo

wireless video

I bought a wireless A/V transmitter for $100. now i can play video on my imac (after finding the right mini-dvi to composite video cable) and watch it on my tv.
It even includes a IR relay so that i can control any A/V device from where ever i'm watching. And, if i'm right, i won't have to worry about the restrictions of "authorized" content like i will with iTV($300)

boingboing.net

alright, i've given up on memepool, i'm reading boingboing.net from now on.

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/22/nerd_humor_about_kat.html

happy holloween

graphite on paper

today's waste of time

http://tmbw.net/wiki/index.php/Ana_Ng

net art

a link from ben: http://www.jacksonpollock.org/

band link from gretchin

http://www.3hive.com/2006/06/ss_cardiacs.php

block letters

i've added the individual letters to my flickr set.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/milesopie/sets/72057594055547250/

zazzle shirt

i've posted my t-shirt on zazzle. let's see if i get any hits.

skull and smokes
by
dr_xire

Get this custom t-shirt at Zazzle

[PD] can draw

SFO trip

[PD] pop top

favorite song

So this is my favorite song, Isolation by the Darling Buds. Don't worry, no else knows who they are either. It took me a while to even find the lyrics. There are about 3 fan sites for this band.
I love the breathy nature of her voice, the way it melds into the music. I can listen to this song over and over. (and i have a few times) I don't care for the little guitar bit in the middle. It seems a little dated, but this album came out in 92.

btw, did you know that google has a music search engine? use "music:" in google.

isolation

surrep, surreptitiously
steal a kiss or two or maybe three
suck me in
through your skin
through every pore

out to make me
out to make
me
precious mind

silence
does it ever get that good
does it
ever get that good
i don't know why you ask me
i don't know why you came
some things never change

out to make me
out to make me
out
to make me i'm in every vein
once i'm in i'm there to stay
i'm strong,
cool, infectious me and you

'cause see, see you gather
one as one
free as becoming isolation
isolation

surrep, surreptitiously
steal a kiss or two or maybe three
guilty
or innocent
in your
own words

out to make me
out to make me
out to make me i'm
inside your brain
silver running through your veins
hot and cool
creeping over you
breathe me in and out
taste me in your mouth
i
won't leave your bed
i won't leave you dead
i won't...
i'm in your
head

toy bliss

Toy Bliss in the pioneer place is closing. Everything is 50% off. (including lego and action figures)

command line fsck

Restart in "single user mode" by holding down Command-S while the Mac is starting up. In single user mode, you're dropped into a command line version of Mac OS X, without windows or a mouse pointer. Type "fsck -y" to check (and repair, if necessary) the boot disk, after which you restart the Mac by typing "reboot" (sans quotes for both commands). Disk Utility and fsck rely on the same engine, so running fsck in single user mode is exactly the same as running Disk Utility.
http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-707.html

a-z block proof

first proof.
I was hoping to hve this done by the end of last year. I'm going to make some more revisions. the overall composition needs balancing and i've missed a few details here and there.

mame

emulation.net (home of all mac emulators) seems to be down, but mac mame is still available here: www.macmame.org

more emulaors here: http://www.pure-mac.com/emu.html

t-shirts

I had some t-shirts printed. They cost me $5 each. I went around to different shops late saturday and found i had missed all of the buyers. The girls at Naked City seemed to be the most interested. One girl said she would buy one if i had one printed on a girl's shirt (i didn't) and told me to come back when the buyer came back. That was encouraging. It seems i should have gotten them printed on American Apparel shirts, which i could have at a higher cost. Red Light said they would take three and price them at $12 with a 50% consignment (2 smalls and 1 medium!).

hunt 102 quill tip

Dave Cooper draws with these. They require more control than i have.

workplace

This is the high tech workplace where all the magic happens. Notice the old, rusted car on the property next to where i work.

flickr favorite

Someone chose my Lego "L" as a flickr favorite!

cheap eats 2006

Willamette Week's annual Cheap Eats guide is out this week. My neighbor's place, Equinox, is on the list his year.

http://www.wweek.com/editorial/3221/7377/

Dave Cooper photo set

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davegraphics/113459528/in/set-72057594079631172/

another link from ben. thanks ben.

gapless itunes tracks

http://gapless.itunes.wanderingfocus.com/

Copy a CD (with live material, for example) to a single AAC file w/ embedded Track info for duplication with iTunes or listening truely gapless on a modern iPod.

Portland is Sin City?

From a recent Portland Tribune story:

There are three stories about Vincent Lee Wyatt that begin to separate him
from your average Multnomah County repeat offender. The one about
defecating in his pants toward the end of a resisting-arrest trial, which
brought him a mistrial. Another about breaking into his lawyer’s office at 3
a.m. to help himself to a bottle of Old Grand-Dad. And then the one about that
same lawyer —who is quite close to Wyatt and one of the few people he seems to
trust even a little — offering to buy him a one-way ticket to Alaska.

To top it off, there’s the rumor that Frank Miller’s “Sin City”
graphic-novel anti-hero Marv, especially the movie version, is based on
Wyatt.

http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id=34099

[PD] CEO

Once a year

I was trying to make a list of all the fatty foods i'd only eat once a year. I only came up with 66.

1. cheeseburger
2. cheesecake
3. ice cream
4. pizza
5. donut
6. fried chicken
7. ribs
8. danish
9. carrot cake
10. milk shake
11. apple pie
12. chili cheese fries
13. snickers
14. sundae
15. onion rings
16. bacon
17. pot pie
18. french fries
19. eggs benedict
20. lasagna
21. carbonara
22. shrimp scampi
23. tempura
24. potato chips
25. pork rinds
26. fish and chips
27. root beer float
28. chili dog
29. buffalo wings
30. caesar salad
31. corn dogs
32. funnel cake
33. meatloaf
34. chicken kiev
35. chocolate bunny
36. cordon bleu
37. chocolate chip cookies
38. ice cream sandwhich
39. BLT
40. tamale
41. quesedilla
42. scone
43. croissant
44. muffin
45. meatball sub
46. italian sub
47. taquitos
48. taco salad
49. nachos
50. cobb salad
51. tankatsu
52. grilled cheese
53. guacamole
54. biscuits and gravy
55.
56. grilled cheese
57. latke
58. hash browns
59. enchiladas
60. beef stroganoff
61. curry
62. PB & J
...
334. holloween candy
...
363. pumpkin pie
364. egg nog
365. birthday cake

Movie: the Butcher Boy

I found Kim Morgan's entry for the Butcher Boy. This is a dark, dark comedy. It's funny like American soldiers being dragged through the streets of Somalia. I'm not one for dark comedy either but i completely agree with Kim's review. Maybe it's the fact that the main character isn't completely despicable and disposable that makes this movie good. It's not like you can dismiss the whole movie as something hateful and shallow that's just going for cheap laughs. Watch it, be discussed, discuss and be forewarned, it's not a happy movie.
I like this movie enough that i used to have a video tape of it but it's been misplaced after lending it out too many times.

Lego + Katamari!

A link from val!

be pedantic

We all passed college level english? Right?
This isn't a quiz, but ithink i know most of these words.

If you want bad engrish, go here.

new imac

So i'm writting this on a shiny new duo core imac. Miguel wants a tower, so i'm giving him my G5. It's kinda of a lateral move for me. I transfered all the contents using the migration manager and drive mode on the old computer. The itunes library was on the second internal drive of the G5, so when i launched itunes, it still saw the files where it expected them to be so i just changed the music folder location to the new computer and consolidated the library. Itunes moved the files and i didn't have to rebuild my index. pretty slick. Also, i moved Amelia's account from the laptop to this computer so we'll all share the office. Now i just have to move the printer and scanner from the basement and find somewhere to place them.

Monsters

Beauty and the Geek 2

OK, there's a Beauty and the Geek2 marathon starting Sunday at 7 PM. Right now it's the only show i'm making an effort to watch. The basic premise is that they pair up archetypes of geeks (a DM, a chess champion etc) with bimbos (a waitress, a beer spokes model) and they have to cross train each other to win competitions so they learn from each other. The girls have to put a computer together, the guys have to decorate a room. Maybe i relate to the geeks a little, maybe i like to see girls that know something. Anyways, it's not a mean show and the people that try to make it competitive get kicked off the show by the other players.

[PD] Spaceman2

[PD] sketch

[PD] sketch

apple + intel = $%

So it seems that i get an apple discount now as an intel employee. I looked at the iMac and the prices were about the same as the student discount.

Product Line	Selected Examples	Discount
Third-party products	iPod accessories, mice, keyboards	4%
Consumer systems and hardware	iMac, iPod, iBook*, MacMini*	6%
Professional systems and hardware	MacBook Pro, PowerMac*, PowerBook*	8%
Service plans	AppleCare* Protection Plan	12%
Software	iLife*, iWork*	17%

Video for older ipods

It seems like the base is also an analog recorder for importing video and it has it's own battery.