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The Process

Another xkcd today.  Personally, I think this is a no-brainer.

I’ve really kind of gotten into the whole webcomics culture lately.  The more I write Reclaimer, the more I like the whole notion and business of webcomics.  I like to write, I like to play around with visual graphics, and of course, I’m a total Web-head.  I’m actually thinking about starting to draw and write another webcomic in addition to Reclaimer.  That’s still a thought in the development process, though.

So, I came across something called Bitstrips today (thanks to a news post on Boing Boing).  I doubt very highly that I’ll ever choose to use Bitstrips as a final comic-making outlet – while being quite flexible, it’s still a bit more limited that what my imagination requires – but it is kind of fun to mess around with.  I made kind of a lamely comedic comic today, mostly just to run the thing through its paces:

Feel free to go check it out, and if you end up producing a comic with it, let me know!  I’m always looking for some new, quality comics to read.

This may be one of my favorited Indexed yet:

Today’s AHCS demonstrates exactly how Bungie’s upgraded melee system for Halo 3 works.  Wow – it all happens so fast.

Two of my favorite webcomics are xkcd and Irregular Webcomic.  I’ve got quite a few webcomics plugged into Google Reader, but these two stand head and shoulders above all the others.  The primary reason is because they are intelligent comics, relying on a brand of humor that appeals to the mind rather than relying on what I consider to be locker-room humor.  Nearly all the webcomics I read deal with geek humor in some fashion, but only xkcd and Irregular Webcomic rely pretty exclusively on ‘smart’ punchlines.  Comics like Ctrl-Alt-Del and Penny Arcade focus a lot on crude and crass topics and the main reason I keep them in my list is because of the occasional appearance of something truly witty.

Here are a couple of my favorite strips from the last couple of days:

xkcd:

Irregular Webcomic:

See?  Smart humor.  Funny without the crudity.  That’s my kind of funny.

Ok, so in my Real Analysis class, we’re finally getting down into the nitty-gritty of discussing mathematical grammar for proofs.  We’ve been discussing statements and their negations, converses, and contrapositives.  We began with two statements:

P: I eat it. Q: I see it.

Now, if we combine the two statements, so that P implies Q, we get:

If I see it, then I eat it.

or

I only eat it if I see it.

If we flip them so that Q implies P, we get:

I eat everything I see.

or

I only see it if I eat it.

Our professor called this his Lewis Carroll example.  I loved it.