I AM BETTER

I have recovered from my extreme illness, and successfully completed an exam this morning. I hope you enjoy the comic, seeing that Shawn is mostly responsible for its content.

I AM SICK *cough*

So being sick is awesome. Actually, I don't quite feel that way at all. I feel bad, but I'm getting better. I hope everyone enjoyed the comic for today. I apologize that it was later than Shawn whimsically promised. 6pm yesterday? I was waiting for my car at the Take All of Your Money Auto Repair Shop for 2 hours after their regular operating hours.

I got my car back and my driver door was stuck. I have to take it back later this week so that they can fix it. I have to lunge into the door to get it open and lift and heave to shut it. My car still drives though.

Jared did something rather peculiar last night. He had left the sensor bar to his Nintendo Wii at home, but he wanted to play Metroid. What did he do? Build a new sensor bar. He built one with some LEDs and his breadboard circuit-thing. It worked - better than Nintendo's sensor bar. Pretty interesting.

Avast! Gut your orange melons! Fall is upon us!

The Way I See It # 102,410,327

Let's have a revolution. Like a love revolution, know what I'm saying? People these days, they got no clue. They say we have an obesity epidemic; friends, I say we gotta raise our youngsters on the food pyramid of brother/sisterhood.

So I went to Starbucks today and drank some tea out of a cup similarly labeled. But the above one is actually mine. So if you see it while sipping some joe some day, recall; it is Shawn's.

Portal

Kathy bought me The Orange Box as an early birthday present, and one thing you should note about this game is just how orange the box is. It is a vibrant neon tangerine color that I have never before seen on a retail product. The games inside are also great.

The fan on my 6600GT has literally fallen off, as noticed when installing another hard drive. I called BFG Tech and it sounded like they were going to replace the card, as it has become useless, and I am now operating with Jared's old FX5500. I have a card of the same class, but when I put it in the fan started whirring louder and higher pitched. I pulled out my FX5500, and have yet to decide whether or not I take apart the fan compartment to see if it's fixable. Needless to say, I can't run Portal or Team Fortress 2 terrifically well, so I'm going to hold off on Half-Life: Episode 2 until I can get my 6600 replaced.

Team Fortress 2 looks really neat and plays well, but will take some time to get decent at.

Portal is awesome. Kathy and I haven't finished it yet, but it's really quite fun. Looking forward to seeing what else is produced now that this idea has been put forth on the table.

The game begs to be played on 1680x1050.

Sketch Dump!

The viking sketch at the top of the Toad is a work in progress, and the rest are things I've drawn over the past week. I haven't updated the Sunday Sketch in a while (I apologize, I'll get back in the habit of that), so I thought I'd compile and upload several things in the works. That silhouette drawing at the bottom I've actually made my desktop. If anyone else is interested in it for a desktop or whatnot, let me know and I'd be happy to arrange that for you.

The new website is under construction, and we can assure you that it will summon oohs and ahhhs from within you.

From my tower, lofty and tall.

Friday we couldn't produce a comic. That's inaccurate. We could, but we didn't, because we felt we shouldn't, as there were extenuating couldn't's, and since we wouldn't, the world needn't worry about abhorrent killer-zombie mutants to which we were effective deterrents.

That mostly rhymed.

"If I were the size of a mouse so small,
Do you think I would amount to much at all?
Or if I sang with the voice of an ugly toad,
Would I ever be honored in a poet's ode?

If I always grimaced like I ate too many lemons,
Would my friends laugh at me like a band of gibbons?
Or if my laugh sounded like a crude hyena,
Would I be captured and exported to Argentina?

The answer to all inquiries above is YES!
Because I know.

I tried, my best.

For the first stanza. The answer to the second is actually no.”

With that, I sign out.

-Arrivederci!