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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.

Working a lot on the same old ICCB project. Left a page of sample output in Dara's mailbox before going home. I'm at the fiddliest part now, trying to tune the output so that it matches what the researchers expect to see, and I have been discovering that their expectations are rather removed from the program's concept of reality, unfortunately.

Friday will be my six-month anniversary in the group. Without any projects done, I still feel like a newbie. Boss hints that I should feel grateful about working on a project with no set deadline or budget. Yeah, but.

This coming weekend has interesting bits in it... I'm allegedly going to stop blowing off

magid's coming over to teach me to cook things, and I'm seeing old friend jjohn again. He is a fine example of a friend whose friendship I've been rather delinquent in my end of the maintenance contract. A recent conversation with another friend has reminded me that the other people in my life are actually complex critters and not dancing automata who live in a state of suspended animation through the days, months or years since I last spoke with them.

Last weekend I went to Cthulhia's epiphany thing, and got a little crazy with the presents, as was previously implied. Everyone who got something from me got either a word game or a math book, except for the fellow who got an O'Reilly book. (I feel a little silly about the ORA book gift, since they give a fort-building amount of free books to anyone with any sort of relationship with them, more or less. Also I feel silly for feeling silly.) I think that I chose wisely all around.

I'm a fair ways into the Wiki-for-one project. Its working title is BrainDump, which is OK, but I've also been entertaining names which more emphasize its focus around hyperlinks, names like HyperNotes or LinkLetter. The latter I've been leaning towards in my musing, bizarrely.

C&M@ORA worked all day yesterday putting the QC2 edits to bed. There are no further edits after this, friends. I had all of four changes to make, two of them to my acknowledgments. I hope all the name-spelling corrections take.

I should be able to hold an actual copy in my hands before this month is over. We're just barely missing MacWorld, but attendees are getting a discount flier, and there are... many backorders, already.

I am starting to have nervous dreams about how the book will be received. But I am not nervous in my waking life, as I was when P&X was emerging.

I've already started to take notes for the second edition. Things sure do move quickly, don't they. I would imagine that updating a book is a hell of a lot easier than creating it from scratch, but I should probably talk to someone who's worked on updating one of their own books. Hmm: I know just the person.

I have been following my nose with the "wiki-for-one" idea, and have an idea for a Cocoa application that will likely preempt Duck (the DocBook editor) as my first public Mac OS X app. The idea is far simpler, and should teach me a lot about text-hacking with Cocoa, which I can then confidently apply to the more sophisticated tasks that Duck will require.

Vapor, vapor.

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That's awful high, Jason. That's awful high.

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