cartoon life

Courtesy of Comics Curmudgeon, Nova Scotian, Kate Beaton. I am happy to be on the same planet with her.

After millions of years of evolution you would think a cat would have evolved that understood feet. Human feet. Like, how not to get in the way of peoples feet. But the problem is, we spay those ones. They can’t pass on the skills. The wild ones who are never near our feet are the ones that breed. 

A cat that understood how to get out of the way of people’s feet; that would be intelligent design.

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here iI am on the corner of Wortley and Askin fingertipingfingertyping on my ipodiPod touch  pverover an  open network the responiveness leaves a bitto is a bit slpeslow bit this is the gutierfuture ismtisn’t  it? cantcan’t get the cursor to edit my finger typing typos oh and  iI didntdidn’t mention the 

Update:Thursday; June 5, 2008 1:29 PM: at home on the Mac, editing the post:

Here I am on the corner of Wortley and Askin fingertyping on my iPod touch over an open network. The responsiveness is a bit slow but this is the future isn’t it? Can’t get the cursor to edit my finger typing typos oh and I didntdidn’t mention the Black Walnut Café.

I was sitting on the bench outside the Black Walnut, and thought, what the heck… try it… So I was tapping directly into the composition box here at this compose page at WordPress. Response was very fudgy, and I couldn’t see the cursor, nor could I manipulate it on the Touch. Still I was able to call up Wikipedia and solve a dispute over whether a coconut was a fruit or a nut. Welcome to the future.

an excellent cartoon swiped from http://bgtroll.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/wellcome/

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Pete Seeger: Garbage From The Chawed Rosin. Pete sings about garbage…

… in light of Toronto trash trucks crashing up the highways. Read the rest of this entry »

FrameByFrame is a cool little app that will allow you to make stop-motion animation’s with any connected webcam, and it’s free.

Boinx iStopMotion will do time lapse. They offer a free five day demo, and it does lots of very useful things with all kinds of different settings. It’s also $50.00 US

FrameByFrame isn’t scriptable, though iStopMotion is. 

Apple’s Automator is a great little wrapper for a lot of system functions. The Loop action affects only the connected action, not the whole workflow, and the Watch Me Do is tediously slow.  I didn’t bust a nut trying to get a very simple workflow working which was supposed to launch FrameByFrame, click the Capture menu item, pause and repeat. This shouldn’t be this hard. Read the rest of this entry »

The Forest City Lovers are a Toronto based band consisting of four friends, two rats and eight arms who don’t have a play date in London, The Creative City, The Forest City!

The bands MySpace page.

Strap on the wings and fly. From Scientific American Video.

“A Swiss man stuns onlookers by flying a jet propelled wing for nearly ten minutes at a peak speed of 300 km/h (186 mph).”

Longer story at Yahoo.