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I am too stupid to locate the actual animated content on Purple Pussy, except for the music video, and it implies there's more than that, but, again, I am dumb, so.

The comic is sometimes very funny. ("And that is how I defeated the sea.") Even today, where I haven't drawn what you could legally call a cartoon in two years or so, seeing a regular webcomic of any quality makes a long-forgotten part of me seethe with jealousy. I trust myself that if I'm meant to get back into that field someday, I will do so, and I will do so to conquer. Neener.

It has occurred to me that I might like to commission an artist to fashion an icon for "BrainDump". I have a good idea for an icon: a book or notebook that's lying open and looks horrible, with dog-eared pages, text underlined and highlighted, margins scrawled and doodled in, and bookmarks of all colors and materials sticking out every which way.

The thing about Mac OS X is that little, cartoony icons look out of place, now; you're expected to have big ol' things that look like real objects. I can't do this by myself. Googling for Mac OS X icon artists who take commissions gave me only one solid hit (which I can't find now and apparently didn't bookmark... foo.) Then again, any Photoshop-savvy arteest should be able to produce an attractive icon image, once said arteest knows what other Mac OS X icons look like. So maybe my search is too narrow.

There's also things like The Icon Factory, which I haven't browsed through yet. I like the idea of hiring an artist, though; I'd feel all self-important n stuff. I'M A PATRON

Cute Slashdot quote OTD (from an article noting that some cheapo hard drives now sell for one dollar per gigabyte):

1957, the first hard drive was introduced as a component of IBM's RAMAC 350. It required 50 24-inch disks to store five megabytes (million bytes, abbreviated MB) of data and cost roughly $35,000 a year to lease - or $7,000 per megabyte per year.

Man, I knew I should have waited a little while longer before buying one of these.

It always happens. You buy the hottest/fastest toy out, and just 46 years later they're releasing something seven million times better.