SpinnWebe

Helps if you have a product. NO RUSH.

I had a housemate who joined Mensa. My other housemate and I looked at their newsletter. Apparently they had a monthly movie night. The movie that month - Fellini? Bergman? Nope. "'Wayne's World' - a comedy." He didn't renew membership the next year.

One of the ways to meet local people is to take classes in something "you always wanted to do, but never got around to doing." Over the years I've made friends from private pilot ground school (and actually flying for that fact), ballroom dancing, acting, plays, comedy, and blues/rock band classes (I play guitar -- poorly). That's not to say you ... See Morecan't make friends from a social club like Mensa, but there's something about having common goals in a goal-oriented situation that brings people together.

Maybe that was your Mensa test. Next time!

Hmm... they didn't quite make it challenging enough. I found it on my first try. They should have embedded the links in the comic itself, hidden as one of the stalactites (or, whatever those things are in the third and fourth pane).

All you need now is a scanner with the automagic unsepianator option.

Oh, the sketchbook wasn't the problem. That other one was a bad photo I thought I'd have an easier time post-processing.

So much so that you'll be spelling it right in the future, I'd imagine.

I showed my sketchbook to my mom over Thanksgiving and she was reading through it. She got to that sketch and I said, "I like that one, that's going to be part of an answer for someone who uses the name 'fleeb'." And she said, "yeah, I think I recognize the name."

Just realized that leaves me open to UR MOM jokes, but what the hey. Thought you might like to know you're famous with my immediate family, apparently.

Wait... you draw Scribs? Well, damn, I have the wrong comic. I was thinking of Scribbs, the comic about the rat-pirate who regularly battles with scurvy.

(I was obviously so distracted that I had to add the extra 'b'.)

Either I've posted so many items to your (various) sites that your mom remembers my handle, or my handle really catches the eye/ear.... See More

But I'm betting it's the harassing phone calls I make to her every Sunday afternoon where I ask about the state of her refrigerator.

OK, when the Democrats lost big time, they then shifted to the right to try and gain voters. Only when they shifted back to the center and VERY slightly to the left of it did they win. When the Republicans lost big time, they're shifting MORE to the right - and it seems to be working for them!

Yah, well to be honest 1) never occurred to me, and 2) just assumed I'd be able to work out fixing it in Photoshop anyway.

If the PS skills stop where you suggest (and I'm compensating for example + humorous self-deprecation), you might check out Graphic Converter and Acorn. I've even got a legal copy of PS but still end up doing almost everything in those two. Anyway, after those steps (whichever you choose), it looks like a few minutes in the Levels dialog will be your friend.

"Veni, vidi, vici" I think.

Quisquis nidor is, ulterius. Which, more literally, translates to 'whoever smelled it, farted.'

But Veni, vidi, vici is more amusing.

I consider myself an artist, and the vast majority of my work is in photoshop. I've always kind of resented the "that's not real art" critique I get. My ability and technique in my chosen medium are as advanced as those of traditional artists, I believe. Maybe I can't draw a human figure as well as a professional illustrator, but I can do a hell of a better job than some schmoe off the street; not to mention I can 'shop like hell, given an empty 'canvas' or a photo to start from.

Yeah actually I should have qualified that as "my art".

THE Spinn of Spinnwebe... uh, fame

TF2 is team fortress 2. And yeah, I rate the occasional "oh, you're *that* guy?" Though Jason gets the sense of the (non)fame pretty well. It's less than my ego likes, but hell, I was able to defend my site's Wikipedia page from deletion, which is about as far as I'm gonna get, I imagine.