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This cartoon is from the currently suspended (for several years) strip ‘User Friendly’. It was about the workers in a Canadian Internet provider. It ran from 1997 to 2010, the last year and a half of that run was intermittent. Due to the age, some of the jokes are quite dated. However! This strip givesContinue reading “Boxers or Briefs?”

I put a new profile picture up on Facebook. However, it is very pixely. If that’s the way an iPhone takes a picture, then I don’t want one. ;-). The photo was sent to me via messenger, so that might have goofed up the resolution. I’ll have to talk to the photographer. I really didn’tContinue reading “New Raven Picture”

Sometimes when you make the expedient choice, it turns out pretty good. For example, in Doctor Who, the psychic paper was created because they wanted to advance the action quicker. In the old series, the Doctor was particularly persuasive but this resulted in a long section of dialogue that was frequently boring. My example: InContinue reading “Trivia from Raven: Mirabelle”

I was on the road for my day job this past week and spent four days on the Florida panhandle in the area, which I just found out, is called the Emerald Coast. We went down by the beach one evening and got a good view of why it was called that. The water atContinue reading “The Emerald Coast”

I think writers are more adept about taking various things and combining them into a new and strange configuration. Of course, writer’s experiences generally come out all over the place in their writing. I was thinking about this because I remembered an incident from the first Raven of Iskandar book: Raven: The Call from Central.Continue reading “Sources of Inspiration”