From the Codex of Ancient Knowledge

My Four Favorite Robots:(sigh) Galspanic

I sigh because I feel like there were too many potential favorites. I'm a robot lovin' pigeon! I decided to keep personal creations out of this. Mainly because I'm not quite sure on Homeless Robot's personality, and personality was a big factor in my other decisions.

I almost went with Hakkaider as my lead off robot, but went with 1. 4-LOM first.

2.IG-88
Immediately follows 4-LOM because the personality thing I was talking about. I like these two robots because they aren't clearly evil. They might have bills to pay, or want to take their girlfriends out to a nice restaurant one of these days. they were in it for the money. Or the thrill of the hunt, or because they are good at what they do. It is unclear, and the lack of clarity excited me as a youth. Good robots were supposed to be the ones with personality, and the bad guys were supposed to be emotionless calculating engines of destruction.
If you were a soulless death automaton, would you risk everything on ten thousand Imperial creds? Hell no. You wouldn't be out for money. money is pointless to a "death to humans" type.(well maybe not pointless. I'm sure the "death to humans" types need to buy their death rays and stuff, but I can't imagine a "death to humans" type robot hanging out in a blaster store, trying to figure what gun will be their new "Ol' Blasty") These robots were gamblers. Risk takers. You know they were just dodging next month's installments on their spaceships. They make the universe a little greyer. Plus they look just nasty. Nasty robots are rad. Screw shiny and pristine. You got bolts and wires sticking out all over the place 'cause you are that awesome.

3.Braniac for the flip side of the coin. He is an evil and somewhat soulless engine of destruction. But he's clever, and something of a magpie. I like his tactical thinking. I can relate to his collector mentality. Plus his metallized DC superpowers Toy was bad ass and stuck with me all these years until the animated superman verison of Braniac came out. I still have the old toy's head somewhere.

4.Kobun
(introduced to me as Serv-bot in Mega man Legends) I love this guy because he thinks he is good and doing the right thing, despite the fact that he serves bad people. He is charming and nervous, and tries his best. he also has 30 sibling units. They ride in a giant air craft and go on missions. Sometimes they have to figure out what to serve each other for lunch. And that is rad.


I had so many runner-ups. SO many.

Drunk History

Sokeripupu just sent me Drunk history, which is funny. I especially like the one about Oney Judge.

Cute things falling asleep!

They are cute and they are falling asleep.

James is home!

James made it back to where he started, the band shell in Hyde Park, today. He beat the record for round-the-world cycling. He is fast!

I cycled with him the last little bit from Richmond Park, but my bike imploded 1/2 mile away from the bandstand and I missed the actual moment. I showed up a few minutes later covered in bike grease and saw him drinking champagne though so it was still pretty exciting.

tortle cam!!!

the museum of animal perspectives is quite the amazing assortment of things filmed from behind animals' heads!

here goes the armadillo! snufflesnufflesnuffle!

James in France!

Wow, James is almost home!

He's in France for the second time this trip, and he's supposed to be arriving back on Sunday to Hyde Park.

He's still beating Mark Beaumont's world record by about 3 weeks.

Al Franken Draws a Map of the U.S. from Memory

Hey, AI-BU9, your new Senator is a freak. Via @laughingsquid.

James in New York!

He made it...

I am resting. Its great. I had forgotten about sofas, they are so good at what they do.

James in Washington DC!

Supercharged James has just made it across America REALLY FAST with NO REST DAYS!

DC, went past pointy obelisk thing, missed White house, back on route after pleasant bike path. B'more next, red/green lights permitting!

He's getting ready to collapse in New York for a day soon though. Reno, is he staying with you?

James in Kansas!

Wow, James is fast!

Drawn Out @TCMHonolulu

This is was the Drawing thing at The Contemporary Museum Honolulu was like. About 30 artists at one table made drawings to sell for $20 per to benefit the museum's children's education programs.


All in all, it was pretty fun. There were some really talented people there, and lots of folks I enjoyed talking to, as well as a few old friends. My photographs are intentionally crappy to better protect the identities of everyone present, probably. The rest of the event looked like this.

My finest moment came when I found myself sitting across from Masami Teraoka while drawing a picture of fucking Rom, Spaceknight. I was so very the opposite of proud. I think the only thing I did that I thought really worked was this picture of Hydra Agents yelling.


The rest of the stuff I did (and photographed) is here.

Wasn't a totally wash, though. I snagged this sweet drawing by local artist Cade Roster.

Biggest Thing, entry #4

Draw the biggest thing Entry #3

The Biggest Thing!

Draw the biggest thing Entry #2

This is all of reality, turned inside out. The infinity of space that was inside the universe now instead extends outside of it, where there is more space for it to expand into. Infinitely more. This the the hugest thing, guys. Even though it is theoretical only, and not possible to do.

Big Things

New drawring contest: draw the biggest thing.

Submissions are rated on speed rather than accuracy.

James in L.A.!

My friend James is still beating the world record, and he's made it two-thirds of the way around the world! There was an article about him in the Independent yesterday.

Mike's drunk, I pictured him.

I really like the subject heading of this spam I just got. I know two people named Mike.

More of a good trauma game!

The Space Game 2 is out!

Firestorm is considering purchasing a Mazda