Finally. I ended up having to format my PC a few weeks ago & finally started the process of installing everything about three days ago. I hope I never have to install XP sp1 & then update everything from there again. Then the wireless card wouldn’t connect. Then I couldn’t get the scanner to talk to the PC. Finally got it all up & working, just before crashing last night/this morning. And to celebrate, I finally scanned the line art for the next comic scanned! Here’s the first panel. When it starts with an elephant’s rear, you know there’s promise. ^_^
One more thing. I’m toying with dropping the color from the comic & going with screen tones. I may go back & forth, combine the use of both or even split off & do two comics, one in color & one in black & white. I’d love to hear opinions.
I’m going to be adding a place for me to post any short stories and game reviews that I write. We’ll see how that goes. I’m also playing around with WordPress to see if I can at least get a thumbnail of my most recent comic to stay at the top of the main page at all times while still showing my most recent blog posts below. I’m still only familiar with the most basic aspects of WordPress, so it’s currently a learning experience. If anyone out there happens to be an expert, feel free to contact me. ^_^
So I stayed up all night to watch the LCROSS impact. I didn’t expect Michael Bay’s explosive opus on the moon or anything. I’d have been happy with a little *poof*. Y’know, kinda like standing on the cliff & watching as Wile E. Coyote hits the ground with a little puff of dust. I’d have been happy with that. What did we get? In my case, I was watching a live feed from a telescope in Arizona as well as the view from NASA which came from the vehicle trailing Centaur. Know what I saw? Nothing. Nada.
The hour leading up to the impact was hosted by 3 guys around a table. It seemed that the the guy on the left was the expert & the other two were the hosts. After the whole “impact” event the camera went back to them. Even they were dumbstruck. This was supposed to be something that could be seen from Earth with a 9″ or 10″ telescope. There were people with 32″ telescopes who didn’t see anything!
Regardless of what anyone says officially, I’m fairly sure that I detected a bit of surprise & disappointment at the event even from pretty much everyone whose face was caught by a camera. Sure, some great science will likely come of it but as a publicity stunt, it fell flat. Maybe they’ll learn that that area of the moon is deep, soft & dusty sand & centaur simply went *schoompf!* leaving little or no trace at all. My theory is that NASA has just proved that the moon really is made of cheese. Velveeta.
