For folks with a tablet or other kind of e-reader, the public library is a bit different. For one thing, it’s mainly in cyberspace and browsing the virtual shelves takes more than a little getting used to. On the plus side, it’s open 24/7 and if a title is available for lending, you can be perusing it within moments of making your selection.
I’ll admit that the virtual library has other differences from the public library – for instance, most of the titles have a shorter loan period and if you place an item on hold, it is extremely likely that it will be made available to you when you simply have no time for it. But browsing the shelves is a bit easier as you can use the tools of cyberspace to narrow your search to exactly what you want. I managed to download and read 4 books in a week’s time.
So if you have a tablet or similar device, I suggest you go online and discover your library again. After all, that’s what it’s there for.
Admit it. Even if you’ve never done it, you’ve wanted to do it. For one reason or another, some video games overwhelm the frustration threshold of their users. And pity the poor, unassuming delivery device of that game when the user loses his or her temper.
Case in point. I finally managed to get my Settlers of Catan fix with the new game for the Nintendo DS. Overall, it’s not a bad game and does a fairly nice job of replicating the fun of playing the game with real people. However, there is one very annoying aspect of the code. In a real game of Catan, when someone rolls a 7, they weigh several factors before determining who should be hit with the robber. Who is in the lead? Who is close to winning? How many resources can one steal from them?
In this game, only factor is considered – which player is the human? The computer always picks on the human, even when it means that they may lose the game to one of the other computer opponents or that they will get zero resources from the action. It’s like playing a game with Bender, the sociopathic robot from Futurama – “Hey baby, wanna kill all humans?”
Well, if they’re going to cheat, I’m going to cheat too. As they say, save early, save often.
Timing is everything in comedy and when a
celestial event hasn’t occurred in 18 years, it’s best to take advantage of it. I hope you’ll agree.
I do not know where the dog picked up this annoying habit, but miss her feeding time by a fraction of a second and suddenly she’s auditioning for a best actor award.
By the way, I used to draw these cartoons in Adobe Illustrator and colored them in Adobe Photoshop. This cartoon marks a departure in that everything is now being done in Illustrator. I expect big things. 🙂
Yep, we always seem to get out best ideas in our dreams. If only the suspension of logic and laws of physics that make them so practical there would work out here in the real world. See you next week.
What can I say? I’ve been busy. I don’t know how many times I’ve been in the position where I should have quit while I was ahead but felt a few more minutes wouldn’t hurt. How about you?
Having nearly 6 feet of snow that is in no hurry to go anywhere presents some unusual problems for getting around. When the snow was fresh and fluffy, it was too yielding to climb on. Now that it has melted and refrozen multiple times, it can easily bear the weight of an average sized animal. But not their owners. See you next week.
When I was working with John Zakour on the Working Daze comic strip, there would frequently be a nod to our geekiest readers by posting captions in hexadecimal. So this one’s for you, folks.
Once again, some over-exuberant updating and security features have wiped out my library of comics. The comics have been updated again, but all of the titles and commentary are gone. If someone can point me to a cache where the old comic data might be hiding, I could try and put them back in. Right now, I’m not sure if I have the strength.
Some of you might suggest that I use Comic Press to run my webcomic. However, it was a wordpress error that caused this, not the webcomic plugin. And comicpress would force me to change the names of the more than 250 files in my archive – something I’d rather not do. Shoot, if I knew anything about php or mysql, I might try to write something myself. But as I mentioned before, I just don’t have the strength.
So Happy Valentine’s Day. 😛
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