December Tattoos from bruce gulick on Vimeo.

I had this picture on my desktop, and from the thumbnail I thought it was me.

I see it and go, "God damn you're getting shaggy, fat, and old...", but when I click it I realize it's Ernest Borgnine, playing a pirate.

Phew.

"Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies: it was a crushing impression."

-A. Einstein

Lies We Tell Kids

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War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, "I was just following orders."

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..if you had never heard Donovan, or Nick Drake.

Because they sound exactly like Donovan jamming with Nick Drake.

Except not nearly as good as that.

If you see them, tell them I said stop frontin'.

More Anime Studio progress. I'm getting a better feel for the software, and loving it more by the day. Hopefully my next step will be doing all the drawing right within AS Pro, rather than keep switching back and forth between it and Lineform, but who knows.

The slight variations in edge resolution caused by .png scaling gives it a slightly analog look, which I like. Drawing in AS is not as intuitive (yet) as Lineform is.

For anyone that's interested in this kind of thing, Smith-Micro is offering the basic version of Anime Studio for $20, which is 60% off the regular price, and a heck of a good deal!

"What is outrageous economically and is outrageous morally is that normally in times like this, people who are competent and who saw it coming and who kept their powder dry go and take over the assets from the incompetent," he said. "What's happening this time is that the government is taking the assets from the competent people and giving them to the incompetent people and saying, now you can compete with the competent people. It is horrible economics."

Oh, snap.

"Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence--those are the three pillars of Western prosperity." —Aldous Huxley