It's a few weeks into the school year. I'm in a new apartment, with new roommates.  Today I go into the bathroom and sitting on the cistern of the toilet is a "SmartWater" bottle, half-full with pee.

What.

Turns out nobody else in the apartment knows where it came from, either.  I'm guessing it was some kind of prank, somebody snuck in and left it there and then left.  In any other university neighborhood I'd be more suspicious, but here?  Most of the the crime here is just dumb.

You skipped 98 and 2000.

The pattern still holds for 98:

Windows 95: pretty alright
Windows 98: burning trash
Windows 98 SE: pretty alright
Windows ME: burning trash
Windows XP: pretty alright
Windows Vista: burning trash
Windows 7: pretty alright
Windows 8: burning trash

The release of 98 was so bad that Microsoft had to release a "Second Edition" version to get people to actually buy it.  I remember having to buy the 98 SE upgrade to use on our Win98 machine so that the thing wouldn't crash so much.

The fact that you have to paste all the frames into one image in Photoshop to make the animation is kind of annoying, though,

From a photoshop perspective that is a good thing. They aren't attempting to lure in animators to photoshop with their gif production capabilities, they are providing gif production capabilities to people who already use photoshop already. I've had to in the past create animations in photoshop and then use the images in another program to create the gif file, so what they have done actually works very well.

Yeah, I had just wished there was some way to automate the copy-pasting, or a way to paste the frames without having to add junk in the corners so that it pastes in the right place (Photoshop has no way of pasting transparent images in the same coordinates they were copied from...), but I also forgot I could have just brought the frames into After Effects and export it with that.

It would be even better if Adobe got off their butts and actually did anything with the GIF export in Flash, but that's really expecting too much out of them.

I know it isn't all uguu kawaii little girls and crap, but here's a decent anime that I came across recently:


It reminded me a lot of Porco Rosso at first, but reading the credits made it pretty obvious why.

I learned how to use Photoshop's animation features, since Flash's GIF export is terrible. 


The fact that you have to paste all the frames into one image in Photoshop to make the animation is kind of annoying, though,

LALALALALALALA

I think most political cartoonists, no matter what side they're on, are completely insane.  Or maybe this is a warning from the G-Man, that political cartoonists are combine operatives working to distract us from things going on at CERN, and we should be stocking up on crowbars immediately.

Got my new wireless router today.  It was defective.  Witchcraft and astrology are more reliable "sciences" than wireless networking.

It's a few weeks into the school year. I'm in a new apartment, with new roommates.  Today I go into the bathroom and sitting on the cistern of the toilet is a "SmartWater" bottle, half-full with pee.

What.

The premiere episode for "Revolution" is on Hulu.  We just can't make a decent science-fiction TV show anymore, can we?

Her spine is intact.  Her left leg is just horribly dislocated from her pelvis.

I don't know much about wireless networking since I've always had the ability for a reliable, wired connection in the apartments I've lived in, but now I'm forced to use wireless in my current apartment since they never installed lines like other apartments around here have done.  The problem is that the connection between my, as well as my roommate's, computers and the wireless router is completely unreliable.  The indicator on the task bar usually won't show anything, but the internet will slow down and often drop entirely.

The router is currently set up as b/g/n, set for a channel that other networks nearby aren't using, has a constant signal strength of 80%, and has updated firmware.  I am running a constant ping on the router's IP, which usually ranges from 4-50ms, though when the internet stops working right, usually in the evening, pings will range anywhere from 100ms to 4000ms, or time out or return a "general failure."

Are there any obvious solutions that I don't know about (I've tried using Google), or is the router actually going bad?  I've looked up other routers by different companies, but from the reviews, it seems that every wireless router ever made is a piece of crap that fails within months.

When updating the firmware for the wireless router raises your internet speed from 3.5mbps to over 14mbps.

I don't know why people bother putting "Disclaimer: I don't own this!" on the YouTube things they upload.  It's like getting on a bus, and the first thing the driver tells you is "Disclaimer: I stole this bus!"

rip off another webcomic's gimmick

MSPaintAdventures was not the first choose-your-own-adventure-style comic or the first viewer-input-influenced comic.

There are so many puns that could be said about this.

Kickstarter for actual woodblock prints of video games had they been made in the era of woodblock printing.

A bunch of people at school and I are working on a comic anthology. So far I've got a story, and now I'm working on designing the characters and trying to figure out the look I want to go for.

I can say little, I see quite well.

This is the best! 

<3

Thanks guys. ♥

A desktop wallpaper version of this would be really cool.