http://www.gibberish.com Occasional low-end punditry by Mike Sugarbaker Sat, 03 May 2008 18:49:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As long as I'm bloggin' it up: for those of you who missed, or irritatedly switched off, my flood of live tweets from this past weekend's unstructured talk by Understanding Comics author Scott McCloud at Stumptown Comics Fest, well, here you go. These are my paraphrases of McCloud's comments as they ... http://www.gibberish.com/archives/2008/05/03/scott-mccloud-talk-at-stumptown-comics-fest-2008/ Through no fault of my own (note: lies), I have spent a humongous amount of time on web forums in the last year. And really, they've always been a part of my web diet, but only in rarefied varieties - the run-of-the-mill phpBB-style forums have never been to my taste. ... http://www.gibberish.com/archives/2008/05/03/forums-must-play/ This is a repost, retitled for the sake of our robot brothers (read: search engines), of an original, my-own-damn-words summary of the most important political writing for anyone on the American left to read today - the first chapter of Don't Think Of An Elephant!. It's as relevant now as ... http://www.gibberish.com/archives/2008/05/01/summary-of-chapter-1-of-george-lakoffs-dont-think-of-an-elephant/ I'm not sure what it is about AppJet. Did it really make it more possible for me to say, truthfully, unto you on this day that I made a web application yesterday? Or does it just make it feel more possible, and I could have done it just as easily ... http://www.gibberish.com/archives/2008/01/28/ive-been-busy-being-a-nerd/ Enso is now freeware. If you run Windows (and there have been allegations of a forthcoming Mac version, although Quicksilver is very good), you need to give this a try. You'll never know how much time and attention you are wasting in your Start menu if you don't. And don't ... http://www.gibberish.com/archives/2008/01/16/we-had-to-destroy-the-caps-lock-key-to-save-it/ Remember Fictionsuit? Yeah, me neither. Well, now you can make your own projects! Enjoy! And do not ask me for new features. http://www.gibberish.com/archives/2007/10/16/amuse-me-you-little-bastards/ A friend asks me, not judgmentally but apropos of nothing, "What kind of parents will World of WarCraft players be?" Besides absent, you mean? Well. There are those people who seem to feel that having a child is the ultimate in avatarism - that is, that same impulse that keeps people ... http://www.gibberish.com/archives/2007/09/10/in-which-i-actually-do-think-of-the-children/ Those of you in my Extreme Fan Club may already have noted that my site indexcards.com is no more. It was difficult to turn down an okay sum of cash for something I hadn't used in 18 months, just to preserve my first shot at fulfilling a dream I no ... http://www.gibberish.com/archives/2007/08/12/i-fought-the-office-supplies-and-the-office-supplies-won/ So here's what I've been doing while I've been very busy not updating this site: A lot of game design work, lately as part of a workshop/support group/collectivey thing I helped start. I think I'm actually cooling off on this a bit lately, or possibly heading in a more digital direction ... http://www.gibberish.com/archives/2007/07/14/dispatch-from-a-point-of-high-inertia/ Hi. Nope, not dead. A while ago I finally had occasion to visit the new De Young Museum in San Francisco. I remember being excited when the final design was approved; the sketches depicted a big brown carapace of a building, brutal and shapely, not as accepting and inclusive of us ... http://www.gibberish.com/archives/2007/03/19/more-posts-about-songs-buildings-and-food/