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NAAAAAAT!!! I FINALLY SAW YESTERDAY'S COMIC!!!





[okay, now imagine a pause of about two minutes]







...okay, and today's. *dies*

Okay, Sandra, you rock. *points to second frame* Look! Av and Sandra. Whoo!

erosion

According to this website, the age of consent for Victoria changed this year to 17 for M/F, M/M and F/F. (Nice to know us queers aren't being discriminated against...)

So. Yah. Well, I'm in a show, and therefore allowed to be permanently PMSing until we finish next Saturday (the 24th). I strongly suspect that most of the people heavily involved in this show now have a permanent state of PMS, even the guys.

Very, very tired. Have shift at 8am tomorrow.

Sandra's last two strips really made my night. So well done there...

I had something to say, but I've forgotten it. So here's some thinking music while we wait. Doo de doo doo doo de doo doo doo doo (Badabada ba) Special bonus points to those who can tell me what that song is...


My lightbox has been living under my desk since I cleaned my room. I miss it. I want to bring it out from hibernation, but that would involve me having the time to start to work on something. I haven't even got the time to work on Wackiness.

Sigh.

My new favourite acquisition is The Cambridge Australian English Style Guide, which is really interesting. I think that spelling leitmotif leitmotive is stupid, myself.

crash

Really not fucking impressed.

As a long-standing PC user who knows far less about the workings (both hardware and software) of a computer than I can really justify, I've always had a soft spot for Macs. In the same way that wannabe revheads might admire a car owned by the cool kid at school with a pompadour, I know that many of the people I admire and who are far better at this whole computer business than I use Macs. Douglas Adams used a Mac, and as Salmon of Doubt showed us, a more computer savvy layman would be hard to find.

However, something I do not enjoy at all are PowerMacs. These were the "good" computers in our Mac lab that MacRob had when I was in year 9. They forced us to learn (in my case re-learn) how to use computers on these artifacts of an early age. The majority of the Macs in that room were the ancient ones (II? Not sure what they were called) that were one rectangular (rather unattractive) blob.

Coming from a family when I've usually had reasonable (if not amazingly great) computers, working on very slow computers is frustrating. Particularly if, like me today, you want to have a Word Document open as well as several Netscape windows.

To me Macs are like the idea of Avalon to Geoffrey of Monmouth; it's the idea that something can be better than what you have at the moment. But right at the moment, Macs are seeming a bit insubstantial. At the moment all I can find is Glastonbury Abbey.

art, pornography, blasphemy, propaganda

I'm currently reading the Comics Code as a sideline of the analysis of The Kindly Ones I'm doing for Editing and Publishing, and some of the things enforced by it are ridiculous!

General Standards part A:
6) In every instance good shall triumph over evil and the criminal punished for his misdeeds.
This is simply boring storytelling, not to mention not even close to emulating real life. There's another clause that discourages writers from storylines in which the law enforcement official dies as a result of a villain's actions. I think that's an insult to all law enforcers everywhere.

General Standards part B:
4) Inclusion of stories dealing with evil shall be used or or shall be published only where the intent is to illustrate a moral issue and in no case shall evil be presented alluringly nor so as to injure the sensibilities of the reader.
I always thought that art was about taking risks, challenging the world view of the reader. I seem to be in a minority here...

General Standards part C:
1) Profanity, obscenity, smut, vulgarity, or words or symbols which have acquired undesirable meanings are forbidden. (My emphasis)
I think this is getting a little extreme...
3) Although slang and colloquialisms are acceptable, excessive use should be discouraged and wherever possible good grammar shall be employed.
Although commendable, again this doesn't really present an accurate portrayal of reality. There are many many people who think that a preposition is simply something you use to ask out someone at a club.

Marriage and Sex:
1) Divorce shall not be treated humorously nor shall be represented as desirable.
2) Illicit sex relations are neither to be hinted at or portrayed. Violent love scenes as well as sexual abnormalities are unacceptable.
3) Respect for parents, the moral code, and for honorable behavior shall be fostered. A sympathetic understanding of the problems of love is not a license for moral distortion.
4) The treatment of love-romance stories shall emphasize the value of the home and the sanctity of marriage.
5) Passion or romantic interest shall never be treated in such a way as to stimulate the lower and baser emotions.
6) Seduction and rape shall never be shown or suggested.
7) Sex perversion or any inference to same is strictly forbidden.
'Nuff said.