How to Be An Early-Riser and How to Be An Early Riser II. Though
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ali_wildgoose forbids me from going polyphasic (and I only suggested it as a joke), I am going to try this. Here's a sound method from a guy who writes well. Thanks to tromboneborges for the blog-link.The Halo 3 trailer is up at Bungie's website. The hi-res is worth watching if you're into it. There is an entire post on Halo, Bungie, AI, ARGs, and storytelling coming up someday, but for now, I link to them and to The Story Page. Okay, I can't resist. There's a trailer with analysis on it, and even that doesn't point out one thing. What Cortana is saying in that trailer closely follows and is relatively story- and character-consistent with The Cortana Letters ... which were written in 1999. Wow.
Warren Robinett wrote some neat software that I barely remember using on the Apple ][ : Rocky's Boots. It taught about logic gates and basic (circuitboard) level programming. He went on to found The Learning Company, which has done (or bought out) a bunch of the games that have actually been successful as "educational software".
A friend said that Scharffen Berger was bought by Nestle or Hershey and was going to be closed down, but I can't find any evidence of anything like that. I'm glad. Any place that gives a detailed online and offline tour of their factory --and makes chocolate that good-- should stick around.
The list of Graphic Novels for People Who Hate Comics is good, but the comments round it out. I think there are some borderline works, ones that 'look like comics' but are more than what the author is callng 'comics'. The commenters sketch out the cases that I think the blogger shied away from recommending.
ETA: How could I forget Scott Pilgrim, which has been making me so happy! Well, it also prompted a fascinating but dangerous argument with ali about genres and classification, but ONLY BECAUSE IT IS SUPER AWESOME. Well, and because I cannot contain my enthusiasm for the series.
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I have been trying to get myself to the early-riser schedule that my body (once upon a time) seemed to prefer, and have been totally unsuccessful. Assuming that my dear sleeping neighbor does not kill me on the third day of trying this, I have higher hopes for this approach. I have certainly gotten better at noticing the point in the evening when I get sleepy, which he says is one of the trickier points.
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As for Scharffen Berger, lord I hope not. If you do hear that, I will be making a pilgramedge to the co-op to buy and freeze whatever they've got left. Scharffen Berger is one of my favorite things ever. Did we ever take you to the factory when we were out in Berkeley? I've never taken the tour, but even walking by the place is pretty fabulous.
As for Scharffen Berger, I don't think my chocolate-love had expressed itself except through fondue by the times I was visiting you all in Berkeley, so I never did go to the factory. Sad. I will need to remedy that.
I LOVE YOU, SCOTT PILGRIM!!!!!!!
but more importantly, he is not manga (i assume that's what the argument was about).
also, that guy's list is mistitled. it's actually a list of comics for people who don't like superhero comics. a list of comics for people who don't like comics would be almost entirely different and have a lot of crap that isn't actually comics.
I'm still not articulating this, but the argument was over exactly what in hell I meant by that, whether there are other examples or whether I'm making the whole thing up, and whether it's meaningful or useful even if I'm not crazy.