[713] you might get hurt

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< Piro >

"con recovery"

Tuesday - May 17, 2005

[still a little behind this week, but i've been posting a bit here and there on my fredart blog - latest blog entry is today (thursday) at around 1pm. I think i need a little widget here that links the latest fredart blog update, to supplement the mt rantage. Ok, back to work on the comic... -- piro]

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I suppose there is little getting around the fact that when you take 4 solid days out of my normal schedule, delays are gonna happen, and they did with a vengeance last week. :)

Acen was a good show, and i have a writeup in progress, but... i think i'm going to switch over to working on the comic. I'd like to have that done in some semblance of a reasonable time tonight.

That said, if you took and decent pics of us or of MT related stuffs at the con, please send them to me (or better, links to them :P) The sketch above is as close as i got to the Piro and Seraphim comic i tried to do for friday. It's an amusing image, if nothing else. :P

I did want to toss out a few quick links, as they are related to Acen - as i said, i wasn't able to make it to the webcomics roundtable on saturday, and still need to find out how it went, but i'd like to quickly link two other webcomics that took part in it, just for your casual parusal.

I actually have a Ghost Girl Kimiko t-shirt that i got a year or so ago (i'm not sure how! I don't remember them giving it to me :). It's a nice shirt, actually, i still wear it :P Nice stuff, check it out. And no, this isn't Nanasawa moonlighting in another webcomic... :P (EDIT: okies, nice to see the GGK back up, and moved to new hosting. Heh, sorry about that guys :)

The other link to check to day would be for Paradigm Shift. It's a beautifully drawn comic, and a good read too. Also, I have a lot of respect for a site that has a working Character guide AND Story Synopsis :P

I did not get a chance to meet either Bob or Dirk at Acen, and that bums me out a bit - i was able to get 20 min to wander into the artist alley and that was it on Sunday. Relaxing and visiting other creators is part of the fun of going to cons... or it used to be (sniff) I sneak it in sometimes. :)

Ok, back to work on my pathetic excuse for a webcomic... :)

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< Dom >

"From the floor"

Friday - May 20, 2005

[Dom] - 12:00:00 - [link here]

A quick update from the Intel-sponsored internet area at E3, strictly by the numbers.

Number of questions on the Jeopardy test on Wednesday: 50

Number of questions I guessed on: 7

Number of people who were chosen to be put in Jeopardy's files: 6

Number of people who were chosen to be put in Jeopardy's files who were not me: 5

Number of miles on the odometer so far: 480

Number of hours it has taken to rack up that many miles: 10

Number of hours if you take out the 60 total miles of commute to the LA Convention Center: 6

Minutes late I was to appointments yesterday, cumulative: 30

Number of interviews conducted: 2

Number of Japanese developers included in the interviews: 7

Number of Japanese developers who did a spit take after a joke I made: 3

Age of a child I saw in the "Into the Pixel" exhibit: 5

Game the "pretty picture" he was admiring was from: Zero 2 (AKA Fatal Frame 2)

Amusement value at his mother talking about the pretty butterflies: High

Approximate caloric value of my lunch today: 300

Number of calories in one liter of Slice: 300

Number of City of Villains beta tickets given out: 300

Number of City of Villains beta tickets given out to people other than me: 299

Amusing things seen on Namco's katamari: 1 inflatable astronaut, 2 tennis racquets, 1 teddy bear, 1 lawn chair, 1 lamp shade.

Number of people I played We Love Katamari with co-op: 2 (total).

Total loot count: 2 capes, 4 T-shirts, 3 Katamari mouse pads, Harada art prints, 2 cans of Capcom-branded iced coffee, 1 metric assload of press kits.

Complaints: Zero

Time I'll spend bitching to friends about the complaints I don't voice in public: approximately 2 hours