A few years ago, T-Rex was having a hard time writing his autobiography. Today, he discovers that plot alone is not romantic.
P.S. Not sure if “flush” is a joke or a typo in panel 5. Am I picky or just humor impaired? Ryan fixed it.
Links:
- Dinosaur Comics: “Autobiography still not working out”
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) is holding its seventh annual festival this weekend – June 7 and 8, 2008 – at 594 Broadway (Suite 401), just below Houston.
Attendance will probably be around 6,000 compared to the over 60,000 at New York’s ComicCon. I’m sure the gigantic cons are fun if you crave teeming hordes and lots of movie and movie-star promotion. But if you don’t like getting dirty looks for holding up the line by having a tiny conversation with the artist or writer, then check this one out.
If you go, be sure to mark your schedule for Rebecca Donner (2:30-3:30pm on Saturday) and Alex Robinson (12:10-1:20pm on Sunday), one of my favorite graphic novelists (loved Box Office Poison, can’t wait for Too Cool to be Forgotten).
Links:
- MoCCA Art Festival 2008
- Rebecca Donner
- Alex Robinson
Don’t know Flash? Don’t want to buy it? Can’t even draw? But you can picture it in your mind – your own squiggly cartoon running across the page. Then try Animation-ish.
Okay, it’s geared toward kids, but don’t fool yourself that you’re any better at learning new software.
Besides, if you want/need more advanced features, this app includes vector-based lines, pressure-sensitive drawing and tweening, and projects can be exported to a number of formats (e.g., swf, mov, avi). Best of all: compared to Flash, which will hammer your budget for a hefty $350, Animation-ish will only slap it for $59.95.
Link:
- Animation-ish
Are you waiting for the Singularity (i.e., the Rapture for geeks)? If you haven’t heard of it, the Singularity is the rise of the machine, kind of like Terminator: one day machines will achieve consciousness and be exponentially smarter than human beings. At which point, the best option for us meat sacks will be to upload our minds into the machine, thus achieving immortality (except we saw how this turned out in The Matrix). In case you think this is all silly, there are some very intelligent people, such as Ray Kurzweil, who ardently believe in the Singularity.
Alas, I am not a believer. So as IEEE’s Spectrum magazine devoted an entire issue to the Singularity (pro and con), I was chuckling at this letter by a clever Wired reader:
My IQ is probably lower than Ray Kurzweil’s (“Stayin’ Alive,” issue 16.04). Maybe that’s why I can’t follow his reasoning on achieving immortality. He seems to be saying that once a computer can cycle quickly enough, it will stop being an adding machine and become a sentient being. Does Kurzweil also believe that once a knitting machine makes enough mittens , it will turn into his grandmother? [Peter K. Sampson, Portland, Maine]
Hope I won’t be eating my yarn, uh, words, in 2025.
LINKS:
- IEEE Spectrum: Special Report: The Singularity
- Ray Kurzweil: The Singularity Is Near
- Wired Magazine: Issue 16.06
Note: The beautiful woman above is my grandmother, Barbara, on her 95th birthday.
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