The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.

Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

AshburnerX said:
It wasn't even a financial failure. They killed it prematurely because it had a high female audience and their merch line wasn't prepared to accommodate that demographic.
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Shit really? Same as Young Justice damn. Sooner or later DC entertainment needs to realize that the female sex exists, and a good chunk of them like their products. I assume ten years before they realize.
 
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Oh good, you changed the subject. Can't have Yoshi bringing down the conversation with those non-primetime shows, apparently!
 
Dave

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Just went to the DMV and got my license renewed, a car licensed, and my wife's license renewed. Because we went early it wasn't that bad but we still had to wait around about an hour. I also renewed my voter registration card. No affiliation wins again!
 
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Man Boston had the best DMV setup. You could make an internet appointment even 10 years ago when I first moved there. You show up, and go right on in. It was awesome.
 
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Yeah can only do that every other time here in TX. Which means every other other time, you're sitting in the DMV.
 
GasBandit

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So our HR director's kid is here running around being a general nuisance. He finds a quarter on my desk, and it's a Missouri quarter so it has the arch and the Louis and Clark expedition embossing on the back instead of the standard eagle, and he's fascinated by it. So I tell him he can have it. He thanks me and takes it to the mail room, makes a photocopy of it, and brings me back the photocopy saying "Here's a picture of the money so you can remember when you had it."

And I'm thinking "man, that would be a sick ass burn to do to people when they pay for things/you take their money."
 
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Thanks for reminding me how much scarier Umbridge was in the books than she was in the movies.[DOUBLEPOST=1414186610,1414186222][/DOUBLEPOST]I've been watching too much anime. My wife texted me to bring her her "laptop no charger", so I just grabbed the charger at first. ("No" is basically apostrophe-s in Japanese.)
 
Chad Sexington

Chad Sexington

GasBandit said:
So our HR director's kid is here running around being a general nuisance. He finds a quarter on my desk, and it's a Missouri quarter so it has the arch and the Louis and Clark expedition embossing on the back instead of the standard eagle, and he's fascinated by it. So I tell him he can have it. He thanks me and takes it to the mail room, makes a photocopy of it, and brings me back the photocopy saying "Here's a picture of the money so you can remember when you had it."

And I'm thinking "man, that would be a sick ass burn to do to people when they pay for things/you take their money."
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Oh my god yes
 
PatrThom

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stienman said:
We have a station in Ann Arbor that does that. Midnight November 1st through midnight January 1st.
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That's pretty much what every "Xmas station" does now. They used to wait until Black Friday to start, but now they've rewound all the way to 11/1. Good thing we have Hallowe'en sitting there at 10/31 to firewall the rest of the year.

--Patrick
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

Went to the Locust Moon fest yesterday, great fest with some great panels.

Also I've learned yesterday that Cats love my back-pack for some reason, its like a major chill spot for them. The comic shop has two cats walking around, as do most independent book stores.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

My girlfriend wants to give me a custom made Dill plushie for Christmas. She told me because the plushie artist needs a reference to work from. But even though I've had a few artists try their luck at drawing Dill, they've never really got him totally how I imagined him. Even the cover artist to my first book. There are bits and pieces from each sketch that I like, but never fully.

Anyway, I asked if an artist friend of mine could make a side and front profile of Dill for the plushie artist. She agreed.

I just sent her the description. It was strange because I'd never really tried writing him out THIS detailed before. I'm worried this much detail will be overwhelming for her, honestly. It feels like an awful lot, even if I break it down.

Either way, it turned into a good little writing exercise for me, personally. And I just posted the whole description to my blog, if anyone's interested:

http://nickpiers.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/the-joys-of-writing-a-description-of-dilbert-pinkerton/
 
DarkAudit

DarkAudit

ThatNickGuy said:
My girlfriend wants to give me a custom made Dill plushie for Christmas. She told me because the plushie artist needs a reference to work from. But even though I've had a few artists try their luck at drawing Dill, they've never really got him totally how I imagined him. Even the cover artist to my first book. There are bits and pieces from each sketch that I like, but never fully.

Anyway, I asked if an artist friend of mine could make a side and front profile of Dill for the plushie artist. She agreed.

I just sent her the description. It was strange because I'd never really tried writing him out THIS detailed before. I'm worried this much detail will be overwhelming for her, honestly. It feels like an awful lot, even if I break it down.

Either way, it turned into a good little writing exercise for me, personally. And I just posted the whole description to my blog, if anyone's interested:

http://nickpiers.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/the-joys-of-writing-a-description-of-dilbert-pinkerton/
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Is it wrong that I see an armadillo version of Columbo? :)
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Then again, Dill's a lot more violent and less brilliant than Columbo. But mannerisms, dishevelled dress, and maybe style of speech? Yeah, I can totally see that.
 
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My wife and daughter just left to go see a dead opossum a few streets over. I wonder if they'll beat Keifer Sutherland there.
 
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