Man, if there is one thing I'll need to learn for the webcomic (as well as some more HTML and drawing ability) it's patience. About ten seconds after I uploaded that sketch yesterday, I only then noticed a couple of things I really should have fixed (what is up with Ben's lopsided chin?) before inking. I'll leave it up since, in general, I'm taking a "Warts and all" approach to this site...I just hope it will serve as an appropriate lesson to myself to help me avoid repeating the series of events which lead to it.
1)I draw something
2)Not having done much drawing in the past, my threshold for becoming very pleased with myself is low. Thus, with a minimum of error checking, I decide that what I've done is pretty okay when in fact it contains a certain amount of crap - not unlike processed meat.
This may sound like I'm being a bit harsh on myself, but I'll want to be this watchful when I'm doing the comic since once it is up there it is up there. People won't feel inclined to come back later for a re-drawn version of a shoddy strip anymore than I'm going to want to go back and redraw it instead of doing a new one and progressing the story.
Meanwhile, I gather that there has been a bit of nonsense in Ontario regarding Facebook? Do any of you guys have anything to add?
I guess there are others than me who are less than fussed with this Hyper-Connected Generation bullshit. Reading that article, I actually found myself becoming a bit anxious before I reminded myself that I don't actually have to participate in the trend - well, any more than I currently am. Now I'm going to throw my non-existant hat into the jargon ring and coin a neo-hyper-dynamo-term(-o-fuck).
E-Hermit
Some desolate, wary soul who refuses to have a blog or a presence on MySpace, Facebook, Meebo, Bebo, Instant Messaging, Twitter, Technorati etc. Nor do they podcast or "Lifecast", publish wikipedia articles or have a Flickr or Photobucket account.
A month and change from my twenty-fifth birthday, when I generally stop being considered a "Youth" by numerous facets of British society, and I already am starting to feel an urge to sit on my lawn with a shotgun in my hands and a corncob pipe.
Addendum: Holy Crap Banksy Revealed!
Nabbing this from Roberto, I hearby present a link to another article where you can see the face of Banksy!
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I hadn't heard anything aboug the 'Facebook-kerfuffle' around here... I'm sorry, I think the whole thing is a bunch of bullshit. Perhaps I'm showing a bit of my political colour here, but I like to think that the Internet is supposed to be an entirely democratic, free-speech forum... government, commerce, etc. are the foreigners here... they've come into OUR space and now they're tell US how to use it... bull shit... utter bull shit.
Oh, and I don't give a shit about what Banksy looks like... does it REALLY matter? Come on, his work speaks for itself... and now that we know what he looks like, it doesn't mean he's going to start designing McDonald's cups, or anything... he still has his cred, as far as I'm concerned.
Okay, rant over :D Lol!
Oh for fuck's sake! That whole Facebook debacle is stupid. It's hardly a new phenomenona nd now a bunch of "crazy liberals" are going on about how the government is trying to hamper free speech.
This debate isn't about government employees using Facebook at home. It's about them using it AT WORK. The taxpayers aren't paying for government employees to procrastinate on Facebook, EBay, Zone.com (a games site), etc. Those other bans have been in place forever, and it's only now that a stink is being made, thanks to the Facebook ban.
There are two options here: 1) Check your Facebook AT HOME and not on paid time, or 2) find a work-related excuse to have it unbanned. I get to use it at work because I need to track down students for profiles. It's not that big a deal.
There a whackload of other questions surrounding employees on Facebook advertising their work info and their drinking pictures on the same profile...
Heh, I'm sure Banksy will be fine - it's just that some of the mystique is now gone! Ah but then Santa has been able to continue with his career since the Coca-Cola company captured him on camera having tea with Bigfoot back in 1923.
As for the Facebook thing, I do find it rather funny that any kind of a deal could be made. As you say Kate, we aren't paying for government workers to spend time looking up old girlfriends. Say what you will about it helping them "be in touch with the community", there is just too much possability for abuse.
Facebook is blocked at my work and somehow, SOMEHOW, both myself and Network Rail have managed to survive!
Heh, mostly I just hate the look on the guy in the second photograph of the article I linked. He looks like , at the precise moment of the the photo being taken, he has figured out that A) He has an erection and B)What it is for.
Oliver, where did you find that photo of the fat baby? Do you have any background for that photo? For instance, perhaps that baby is considered a god, and thus, gets to eat whatever he wants?
Hilarious!
Good old Google Image my man.
The father...the poor father! It doesn't look like they are in a particularly wealthy nation, so why has that kid been fed so damn much? I'd dig it up again, pursue some links...but that would most likely destroy my image of the child as a tiny prophet. Whenever he finishes a meal and then collapses into a brief coma, wherever his prostrate left arm is pointing is the direction in which a new road must be built!
Oh dear, I hope I didn't come off as an idiot... I agree that it is within the rights of organizations to limit what Web sites their employees access on employer hours. Though, it is sad when companies feel they cannot trust their employees to make sound judgements about when to visit Web sites unrelated to work, say, on their breaks and lunch hours.
I guess I just feel uncomfortable with the idea of policing the Internet, in any form. :S
I wouldn't worry Tania, you didn't sound like an idiot. Honestly, I'd appreciate it if we didn't have to put any restraints on anyone, ever.
But!
Even when I'm working on something I feel truly passionate about, it can be too easy to get distracted by things like websites. I'm actually kind of glad that Facebook and similar sites have been banned at my work, since I'd be rightly fired for blowing way too much time on them as I am certainly less than passionate about data entry!
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