Comix!!

• Scored good stuff on eBay last night.
  • Dan O'Neill's first Odd Bodkins comic-strip collection, Hear the Sound of My Feet Walking Drown the Sound of My Voice Talking. My second attempt to get it from eBay, and I definitely spent more money on it than I ever have on a single comic book, but no matter: I believe that this will complete my collection of all two Odd Bodkins books. I stumbled across the second one (The Collective Unconscious of Odd Bodkins) nine years ago at a used bookshop in Bangor, and it did a lot to drive my cartoonist dreams of the day.
  • Young Lust, a 1971 work by Bill Griffith (the "Zippy the Pinhead" guy). Half-expecting to be not really all that impressed by it, but it was worth five bucks just for bragging rights (bragging to whom, exactly? the jealous people in my head).
• Found explodingmikan's comic/thesis Making Rain in my mailbox upon arrival at work today! (I had forgotten that I gave her my work address instead of my home address.) Haven't opened the envelope yet; looking forward to it.

Weird, ugly signs

New signs have popped up along Oxford Street, perhaps in other parts of Cambridge as well. They look like this:

TOW ZONE

NO PARKING

DURING

SNOW

EMERGENCY

I'm not sure how to read these. To my mind's ear, it's something like:

"Tow zone. NO PARKING!! (...during...) SNOOOOOWWWWW!!! Emergency."

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Why yes, I am back at work today. And that's why I can tell you that Zag looks to be an excellent Java application for playing Glulx-compliant interactive fiction games. (Which is to say: modern text adventures that use multimedia effects.)

It runs great on Mac OS X, and you can play several recent IF works by folks like Adam Cadre and Emily Short right off the project's homepage if you have Java Web Start installed (which you do, if you're running Mac OS X). Cool!