My Nobbing Life

Kitchen

2005-09-22T09:05:00.000-05:00

Comic: Something very interesting about Nob is about to be revealed.
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Life: Yeah, going to be busy with the job finding bit here shortly.

Confusing

2005-09-21T08:39:00.000-05:00

Comic: This was a late nighter, maybe one of the days I did 2 comics in a day. It makes more sense if you realized Nob should be saying, this games takes...(ingreidients
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Life: Internship expires this week. I really need to get on the job searching.

Ceiling

2005-09-20T08:43:00.000-05:00

Comic: I do like Maku Yan's line. Maku Yan always ends up in the weirdest places. Inside hats, climbing walls, inside bottles, locked in a room, or stuck on the ceiling, his life just keeps getting odder.
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Life: Not much to say.

Nob

2005-09-12T14:11:00.000-05:00

Comic: Nob isn't mean, just oblivious. He really does think like that. Expect this to be an issue later on.
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Life: Internship is running out, thus I must find another job soon. Resume upadating time.

Boxen

2005-09-02T09:33:00.000-05:00

Comic: I must have been either tired or in a hurry because I forgot the word bubble behind Maku Yan's speech. I will fix it when I get home from work. He's saying "now Maku Yan has all the ingredients for his secret ninja bomb."
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Something Different

2005-08-29T11:32:00.000-05:00

Comic: I like the hat Nob has on today. It's a funny little thing. In other news, I'm cutting back on Nob. As of next weekend, Nob will run Mon- Fri because I want to have time for some other projects.
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Life: I have contacts now. Geez my eyes look huge.

Broke

2005-08-21T10:43:00.000-05:00

Comic: I know, I know. However there's not much I can do about it right now.

Stuff a sock in it.

2005-08-19T09:47:00.000-05:00

Comic: Amusing how resourceful characters can be when their comfort is threatened. That and there's more insulting goodness from Duel.
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Life: I saw something yesterday that scared me enough to make my heart skip a beat. Specifically a deer. Now you're thinking, what a pansy scared by a deer. I didn't just see it, it was about to jump out into the road in front of my car. Hence my horror. It didn't jump, but it came really freaking close to jumping.

Pink!

2005-08-17T09:39:00.000-05:00

Comic: Nice shade of pink there. It's brighter than I thought it was. Also this is the first time we've seen Xeris say anything.
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Life: Goes on.

Nobbism

2005-08-16T09:16:00.000-05:00

Comic: This is another good example of a Nobbism. Who cares if your room is getting trashed as long as you're having fun.
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Life: Contact session went okay. They should be here in 3-5 days, but you know how estimates like that run. Plus I think it's business days.

Shot Down

2005-08-15T08:34:00.000-05:00

Comic: As much as I like Dual, it's hard to be sad for someone who's so dual minded about stuff like this. Expect the whining like a little baby to continue for a bit.
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Life: Tomorrow I go get my eyes specced out for contacts. I don't know if I should be excited or just feel old because I don't have them yet.

Forgetting

2005-08-13T08:30:00.000-05:00

Comic: Nob isn't the only one who forgets stuff. Be prepared, this is the first of a series of story splits that is coming up. I don't know if I can manage all the threads that well.
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Life: CAR! My car is back from the auto shop. I'm happy to have it back, but it needed engine work so it was expensive.

Oops

2005-08-11T12:50:00.000-05:00

Comic: The comic not updating may have been my fault today.
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Life: AAAAAHHHHH! Cars can be so expensive!

Broken

2005-08-09T09:46:00.000-05:00

Comic: My host site is not scripting properly. If it's still down when I get home from work today, I'll put the comic here in the blog.
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Land Mine

2005-08-08T11:29:00.000-05:00

Comic: Some people write themselves into corners, I do the opposite. I write in such a way that I have 3, 4, even 5 different story threads going at one time. I'm lucky when I can keep the number of story threads down to two with the number of characters I have. So I make a comic every day, and still have lots to tell. I may have to work on telling more story in each comic.
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Life: Work, eat, sleep. And so it goes.

Now What?

2005-08-07T07:37:00.000-05:00

Comic: So they might have figured out how the junk heap got there. Which doesn't seem to make the natives too happy.
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Life: I have a car! A car of my very own. It's a fire engine red geo prizm. I like.

Song and dance

2005-08-03T10:40:00.000-05:00

Comic: Finally got the comic for the 30th of July fixed. Now some things will make more sense.
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Life: Linux install today, I'll see how it goes. Though the machince I'm installing it on sounds like a jet engine when it starts up, just a little quieter.

Out of order

2005-08-02T08:20:00.000-05:00

Comic: I'm not sure that that is the comic that is supposed to be there. It could just be that the week went by really fast and I didn't notice. Oh well I'll check it out when I get home.
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Life: Not as good as I'd like but mostly okay. I have to get Linux on a Sun machine using only floppy disks. This should be interesting.

Fixed

2005-07-31T07:50:00.000-05:00

Comic: The comic stuff is fixed. Go back and read yesterday's if you missed it.
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Life: Happens to be going well.

Site Down

2005-07-30T11:04:00.000-05:00

Comic: The auto script that updates the comic is down. I have a comic, siting there but you can't see it. Nor can I get at the place that will let me fix it. You may not see a new comic today.
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Life: Goes on.

Back

2005-07-26T22:19:00.000-05:00

Comic: I didn't really want to bring the flower basket back. But it ties things together so nicely. I may have to give it a spot on the character page. But first I'll have to update the character page to reflect recent additions. If you didn't know about the flower basket, go back and read the archives. The flower basket shows up early on, and dominates the story for a while.
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Life: Busy! Working 40 hours a week has left me at short ends for time. Hence the lack of story and even gag progress on the comic.

Sign Language

2005-07-23T08:59:00.000-05:00

Comic: I like this one. Smick is being sarcastic if you can't tell. Sadly it sounds better when you say it out loud. Sometimes I say punchlines out loud, but I probably shouldn't because some things are funnier when spoken.
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Life: Not much going on with me, just work. Though I'm in charge of systems for the next two weeks. Whoopdee do!

Junk

2005-07-22T08:47:00.000-05:00

Comic: Story stuff today. The junk heap is important, not just funny
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Life: Oblah dee Ohblah da, life goes on take a sad song and make it better.

Funny

2005-07-21T10:00:00.000-05:00

Comic: Today's comic is funny, ha ha. Yeah, I have nothing to say about it.
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Life: Last night, I played at the Basilica. No really, we weren't going anywhere on the parade at that point so we all faced left and played at the Basilica. Yeah, I like saying stuff like that. One other thing. You know you're walking slow when the guy with the tenor drums passes you. You know you're absolutely pokey when the tubas and bass line pass you.

It's back

2005-07-20T08:10:00.000-05:00

Comic: In case you didn't get it, it's the remove mouth spell again. Take Lord High Chief's comment in the last panel which ever way seems funniest to you.
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Life: Going to a parade tonight. Actually I'm going to be in a parade tonight. Just one of the perks of being a marching band alumni.

Tofu

2005-07-17T21:48:00.000-05:00

Comic: This comic is here because there wasn't enough Dual/Duel happening. As I said, telling a story with this many main characters gets a bit loopy. Did I tell you that I have a plan for them to get back? If not I'm telling you now. Now I just have to figure out how to get the story there.
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Life: Not much happening. Internship continues. 40 hour weeks annoy. We got a new board game here Risk 2210 A.D. It's been fun for the one whole game we played.

Gibberish

2005-07-17T13:04:00.000-05:00

Comic: Yes, the little red guy can talk. Sorta. I just realized that this makes a different joke I have coming look a little out of place. Continuity is not exactly my strong point.
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Life: Myself and Linda kidnapped Carolyn yesterday. We didn't go far enough to get lost, and I was driving and navigating. All in all a good time was had by all.

Confusion

2005-07-14T22:08:00.000-05:00

Comic: The punch line is a little vague in this one. Smick is wondering why he resolved Nob's dilemma for Nob because if Smick hadn't resolved the dilemma, Nob might have not been so leadership inclined. Hopefully you got that without the explanation.
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Life: I wish my life was exciting, at least a little bit. But it really isn't. Stupid 40 hour work week.

Disgusted

2005-07-13T21:59:00.000-05:00

Comic: Such is the life of the cartoonist who has too many characters. A brief Maku Yan interlude for you all. I don't know when he'll be back. I'm also having trouble giving face time to everyone who is on the quest for dishes. I do have a plan for how they're going to get back, but it might
take a while to get there.
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Life: Normal and boring. Parents came back today.

Questions and out late

2005-07-10T18:05:00.000-05:00

Comic: The football comics will continue in this vein for a bit.
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Life: So I've commented about kidnapping before. Last night there was a different sort of kidnapping, specifically I was the kidnapped one. Carolyn, Jenny, Anna, and Linda showed up at my house around 9:30 pm. So I grabbed my hat and we drove off eastward. After a bit of getting almost lost, we got to where they were trying to take me. But it was closed. We drove around a little more and stopped at a Perkins. We had a bit to eat then tried to get home. Unfortunately we let Anna navigate. We ended up going around in circles(large circles) for at least 40 minutes before we got back where we started. And we didn't get everyone home until about 12-12:30. We learned something important: Leave the kidnapping to professionals. Like me.

Getting home

2005-07-09T09:46:00.000-05:00

Comic: Guess what, I don't know how they're going to get home yet either.
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Life: Saw Fantastic Four last night. The naysayers are stupid. I'm sure they're find some silly little inaccuracy that "ruins" the movie, but I greatly enjoyed it.

Ignored

2005-07-07T22:22:00.000-05:00

Comic: Maku Yan is being ignored, as usual. The only problem with splitting everyone up like this is the flipping back and forth makes for weird bits in the continuity.
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Life: Class is done, now it's time for some kidnapping fun!

Alternating

2005-07-06T22:30:00.000-05:00

Comic: I didn't say this yesterday, but for a bit now there will be alternation between the quest party and the peeps back at the castle.
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Life: Class ends. Yar!

What the?

2005-07-05T13:41:00.000-05:00

Comic: The house had to take them somewhere didn't it? Later you'll see some old characters who haven't shown up for a while.
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Life: Who's a geek? I'm a geek. Today when I went to work in the server room, I left the lights off for a minute or two so I could watch the lights blink.

Quest

2005-07-03T22:28:00.000-05:00

Comic: Nob's in charge, so things will be weird. Something entirely different is coming shortly. Just you wait and see.
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Life: I'm going to be in a parade, along with my marching band friends. Parades are great fun, I should be in another one before the summer ends.

Lost

2005-07-02T07:17:00.000-05:00

Comic: With Nob leading, how long did you think it was going to take for them to get lost? The quest will go for a bit. Don't know how long yet, but over a week. Soon we'll run into my most annoying problem, the how do I get all the characters involved in the story when there's five of them on the quest and the rest are home at the castle.
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Life: Yar. It happens. And I'm almost done with my class, just have to take the last test. Then stress will be down and I'll have most of my week back. Huzzah!

Eyebrows

2005-06-29T22:14:00.000-05:00

Comic: And Nob has eyebrows. Did you really think Nob would take something as dishes that seriously? Parties maybe, but not dishes. Plus it's fun to use big words.
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Life: Not much, class is almost over. And I'm going to be in a parade on the 4th of July. I think it's a requirement that if you were in a marching band at some point in your life, you have to be in a parade on the 4th of July. Just my thought.

A keen sense

2005-06-27T22:21:00.000-05:00

Comic: Smick doesn't always know what Nob is planning, as we see today. I'm not sure he would like to know, even if he could. Expect the dishes quest to continue for a bit.
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Life: Back, catching up on sleep, and generally getting back into the swing of things. One more paper for my course. It looks like it will end earlier than I thought. Which would make up for it starting sooner.

Back

2005-06-26T18:52:00.000-05:00

Comic: I like this one, it's a total Nob comic. Hopefully I'll get more of these up in this storyliney thing.
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Life: Just got back from the weekend trip. We went to land of cheese, beer, and fireworks for a little rafting. For those who don't get it, I'm talking about Wisconsin. The drive was a pain both ways and we got lost on the getting there. The rafting was fun though. There was a bunch of floating along dully, and occasionally some rapids. On the first rapids Scott and I, I was sharing a raft with Scott, went down the wrong way. I mean there was this little side way that we got sucked into. after bouncing down some rapids from bank to bank, we rejoined the main river. There sure are a bunch of spiders sitting it trees along the river. Later on, our rafting took to a pattern in the rapids. We tended to hit them striaght on like you're supposed to, then get turned sideways for the last drop and have our boat fill with water. The we'd have to pull over and emtpy the boat.
I probably shouldn't have done the body rafting. That's where I got all my cuts and scrapes, and also where I lost one of my hats. It's okay, I have more hats like that. But I even made it down once body rafting without losing anything, it was the second time that did it. Oh well.
The last run was the funnest as it was the longest, and had the craziest drop at the end. Then we all went back to camp and dried off.
The end

The remodel

2005-06-22T22:49:00.000-05:00

Comic: They've done such lovely things with the basement. I was going to make a bigger deal about the slime, like have a whole comic where Smick keeps saying basement and Lord high chief keeps telling him it's slime, but that isn't happening. Instead tomorrow starts a new storyline of sorts that should be enjoyable.
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Life: I changed my mind, two extra comics in the buffer will be enough. So I am mostly prepared for the rafting trip. I am stressed. Not because work or class is hard, but because they take so much time. I don't have much unstructured "do whatever I want time" and that is stressing me out.

Moat

2005-06-21T22:57:00.000-05:00

Comic: Dual/Duel finished his chore, but as usual it didn't turn out as Smick wanted. I don' think anything ever does. On a production note, I almost have my little weekend shindig covered comics wise. Meaning I only have to do one more double comic day to keep my buffer at a week over the weekend.
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Life: Weekend rafting trip coming up. Lots of work and class, but I managed to finish my paper that's due wednesday. Too many things happening at once. Blargh!

Power Tools

2005-06-20T23:02:00.000-05:00

Comic: Yeah, I don't know where wizards got power tools. For those who care, Smick is talking to Symond. At least for the wizards you can tell by the color of the text. Red is Lord High Chief, black is Symond, and grey is all the other wizards. More on what they've done to the basement later.
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Life: Work 8 hours, then class 3 hours. Really long day. 'nuff said.

Seeing Double

2005-06-17T21:50:00.000-05:00

Comic: If you're confused about who's who, look at the text color. Text color is usually a good way to know who's talking as several characters have their own color. Morix, aka the resident genie, has yellow as his special text color.
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Life: And my old job is finished. On monday I start a new job working 40 hours a week instead of the 20 I was working. I have just realized I have a problem. Specifically that I'm going to be out of town next weekend, and have not prepared extra comics to sustain the buffer. I think this weekend may hurt a bit.

Regret

2005-06-16T22:43:00.000-05:00

Comic: It's always the little things in life we regret, like not learning enough from our teachers. At the rate the lower wizards are learning, Lord High Chief is going to have his job for a long time. Eventuall they will get something done, and eventually Smick will find them out.
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Life: Eh, take it or leave it. Though I have to say I'm not looking forward to the new Batman movie like some people are. Too boring for me, because I find dark movies boring. I am looking forward to the Fantastic Four movie.

Anticipation

2005-06-14T21:54:00.000-05:00

Comic: You knew things were going to go wrong from the minute Smick handed out the chore lists. The only question is, what? I hold it off because I'm at tad lazy and I was busy that night.
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Life: My class persists. And I'm finishing my last week at my old job. Why must there be no strategy games coming out this time of year. Oh yes, let's wait until it's almost Christmas. Really good way to get me to not buy any games at all because I won't want to buy any of your silly games when there's six of them all coming out at the same time.

Paintbrush

2005-06-14T08:08:00.000-05:00

Comic: An excellent "true Nob" comic. I like comics like these where it's just Nob being Nob. These are the comics that make me laugh as I write them.
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Life: I may make it through school yet! Finished a not to hard test yesterday. If it went as good as I thought, I'll make it out this summer. Unless all the hail gets me first. Stupid hail. In June for goodness sake! June!

2005-06-12T07:50:00.000-05:00

Comic: We've all got someone we know who does this.
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Life: Ever have one of those times when you get a groove. I got one last night while trying to play the piano. Makes it difficult to get to sleep.

Sweeping

2005-06-11T08:05:00.000-05:00

Comic: Just the image of unicorn trying to use a broom is funny to me. Over the next week or so there will probably be some lazy one panel days because I'm trying to catch up on a class that I missed part of.
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Life: So I missed part of a class, and showed up just in time for the first test. Study weekend!

Recovery

2005-06-07T21:59:00.000-05:00

Comic: Something's up. I didn't check which one it was.
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Life: So the trippy. Mostly uneventful drive down and up, though I did average about 70 mph while passing semis. Once down I checked into a motel and spent the night. The next day I went to the cookout. First off there was introductions. Best part of that was no one used their real names, everyone went by their forum handle. I did find out some of their names, but I think no one there found out my real name. heh. We barbecued, sat around, and talked a bit. While we did this we played some video games on a Cube that someone brought. After that we watched some anime. That brought us to early evening. Then we play a little bit of Shadowrun, a RPG. That took us to about 11:00pm. watched some more anime, then we all crashed. Next morning I got up, walked around a bit and surprised people by having changed clothes. Realizing what I wear, the hawaiian and the hats, it was a shocking change. Once everyone awakened, we went to lunch, then came home and burned a cd full of all the pictures and movies we took. After that a few of us hung around for a little bit before biding our hosts goodbye. Then I went back to the motel, spent the night a drove home. Much fun was had by all. The End

Back

2005-06-06T22:21:00.000-05:00

Life: I'm back from the little shindig I took this weekend. Tommorrow I'll tell you more about the traveling gazebo I saw on the way down.

Trippy

2005-06-03T07:49:00.000-05:00

Comic: Yeah
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Life: Leaving for a little cookout weekend with some other keenspacers in about 5 minutes. Will be back next monday, so don't expect a response to any of the emails you'll be sending me until then.

Ah, food.

2005-05-31T22:58:00.000-05:00

Comic: Mealtime, the great get together of families everywhere. Not because of the family, but because of the food. That's especially true in their castle where no one is truely family. Smick knows the others well, and uses it to his advantage.
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Life: You ever have one of those days. You know, the days when the bus doesn't stop where you want it too, even though it's supposed to. I would have been on time for work if it had stopped. Oh well, my boss isn't too harsh about being a minute or two late. In other news, I'll be away Friday thru Monday. As per usual this won't disrupt the comic, but if by some chance you happen to email me I won't get it until Monday. I'll say more about my trip as the day gets closer.

Life like art

2005-05-31T08:33:00.000-05:00

Life: Go figure the day I have a comic up about my characters getting woken up early, I get woken up early. One of my friends needed a ride to work, but it's still ridiculous.

Snack.

2005-05-28T23:10:00.000-05:00

Comic: In this comic, life intrudes. Specifically Nob's line, which was borrowed from my brother. My brother was trying to indicate that there wasn't a certain type of cereal in the cereal cupboard but he couldn't come up with the word.
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Life: Last night was a blast. Myself and Anna went and kidnapped another friend of ours. We drove up to the friend's house, waited until she came out, then tied her up, put duct tape over her mouth and threw her in the trunk of my car. Okay we didn't do any of that, but we didn't tell her where we were going until we got there. We went to the sculpture garden and ran around for a little while before we had to take our friend home. Then took Anna home, came home, wrote this, and crashed. The end.

Bada bing

2005-05-28T09:21:00.000-05:00

Comic: And Morix is staying. I was of two minds on how to play this comic. On one hand I thought that Morix would see doing chores as below him. On the other hand if you have godlike powers and no other obligations, doing chores would literally be a snap. You can see which one won out.
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Life: I may have a different job soon. I'll be getting an internship to learn about being a sys admin.

It never rains but it pours.

2005-05-26T16:57:00.000-05:00

Life: I was walking home from work today, when it started hailing. Out of the blue, sunny sky comes hail. On a 65 F day. It hailed for a bit, then went back to being sunny and 65. What a kooky weather pattern. I wasn't hurt because I had my Cat-in-the-hat hat on and it kept the hail off me. Though I did have to pick bits of ice out of it afterwards.

The hat

2005-05-24T08:03:00.000-05:00

Comic: I didn't really want to do this comic. I wanted to have more resolution on the hat chasing Maku Yan, however I kinda roped myself into a corner by progressing to this late in the comic day before doing anything with them. I think I'll do more with Maku Yan and the hat when they wake up.
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Life: Why do so many places want people with lots of experience? I mean where do they think these experienced people are going to come from if they're not offering jobs to people just out of college. I think they are deluded and believe in magic.

Not getting it.

2005-05-21T22:59:00.000-05:00

Comic: Nob still doesn't get Lily. Watch for craziness when he finally does. I don't know how much longer I'm going to streach it out.
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Life: Just got back from the club. The bands were better this week, much because they were actual bands, not just solo artists. We had someone there who had never been to a 'concert' before and they thought it was loud. It was somewhat loud, but the marching band is louder.

Planning ahead

2005-05-21T11:33:00.000-05:00

Comic: When you live with Nob, you're bound to need childproofing at some point. Smick justs plans ahead.
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Life: More Star Wars: The really nagging thing about episode III is the disconnect in Darth Vader. In episode IV he's really bad, like choke people because they disagree with him on really little things bad. In III he seems to be turning evil only because he thinks it's the only way to save Padme. This really doesn't jive with what Obi Wan says in IV about Vader being seduced by the easy power of the dark side. It would have been so much more conclusive if Vader in III was more arrogant about obtaining power, you know more like Palpatine is in III. As far as I can see Palpatine is the only tough as nails evil-because-I-like-it bad guy. Which is sad. Oh well, time to sit and wait for the Boba Fett books that explain what he was doing between II and V.

Breaking Things

2005-05-20T01:04:00.000-05:00

Comic: When I was going to make this comic I realized that we hadn't seen Dual/Duel in a while. That's the trouble with having a cast of so many main characters, you tend to forget if someone isn't showing up as much as they should.
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Life: Just got back from Star Wars Episode III. I'll say this: Dark. Also I was right about the PG-13 rating not coming from Lucas suddenly deciding that the Star Wars saga needed sex scenes.

Chase

2005-05-18T21:35:00.000-05:00

Comic: The chase is coming to a close. Also notice that it's getting dark out. You know what that means right? Yep, it's going to be bedtime for the castle soon.
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Life: The bus is full of crazy people. So I'm riding the bus to work as usual and at one of the stops there is a man in a wheelchair, no not the same one from before. This is not unusual either as the bus has special accomadations for people in wheelchairs. Small problem arises when he gets on the bus, there's a little elevator thing that comes out of the stairs if you're wondering, the wheel chair is facing the wrong way to get properly fastened down and it's one of those motorized buggy ones so it can't turn around in the aisle. The bus driver decides the best way to make turn around room is to flip up both sets of wheelchair seats so the man in the wheelchair has the entire width of the bus to turn around in. Then the annoying bit starts. Sitting in one of the wheelchair flip up seats is a lady with a walking cast. When the bus driver asks her to move so the wheelchair can turn around, she does stand up, but immediately begins complaining loudly about having to stand on her bad leg. She has also left her stuff on the seat the driver wants to flip up to let the wheelchair turn around. The wheelchair starts to turn around, all the while the lady with the cast is demanding that the wheelchair hurry up because she's standing on her bad leg. She didn't seem to understand that the bus driver needed to flip up both sets of seats becauase she went over to the other seats and tried to flip them down while the man in the wheelchair is trying to turn around and back into those same seats. All this time She is of course completely ignoring the open seats in the section reserved for disabled and elderly people where her cast would fit just fine. She's giving another chorus of "oh poor me, you horrible people are making me stand on my bad leg" the guy in the wheelchair looks at her and say, "Quit complaining, I've got two bad legs". She complained less after that. And in case you care, I never sit in the seats reserved for disabled and elderly. So one funny and annoying day on the bus.

Conquest

2005-05-17T21:03:00.000-05:00

Comic: Nob can be really nice, even while he's being silly.
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Life: As I was coming home on the bus, we got passed by a guy in a wheelchair. No really, we passed the guy, then when we got to the stoplight he passed us back. He was in one of those motorized chairs, but I still think it was funny.

Closet

2005-05-14T22:49:00.000-05:00

Comic: I was short on time and the sword swinging Nob is a nice pose, hence the comic.
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Life: Mostly a normal Saturday yesterday, except I went out to a club with Anna and Jenny. It was fun, but less amusing than I expected as all the bands at the club were solo acts. It's supposed to be better next week. Also I almost got in a car accident on the way home. Apparently some people can't read, because they were all about crossing the solid white line when the sign specifically said not to cross it.

Slip and slide

2005-05-13T10:04:00.000-05:00

Comic: The middle panels are from above and behind Nob's head. Yeah, a frying pan was the best I could come up with. Eventually I hope to draw an extended sequence that takes many more panels and lots more contraptions.
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Life: Less than a week until the new star wars movie. Yes I have some plans. I have started the lovely job search. Joy.

Hair

2005-05-11T15:59:00.000-05:00

Comic: Appearance issues are not restricted entirely to females. I've know a few vain males. In about a week the story should continue in a somewhat regular fashion. That means back to the three or more panels a day instead of one. You know what's odd? My comics come in several sizes, but not two panels. One, three, four, or six, but not two. At least not recently. Weird.
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Life: Finals are over, the job search begins. How depressing. Maybe I'll do something interesting this week. We'll see.

Bottle

2005-05-08T23:01:00.000-05:00

Comic: I like this comic, mostly because one of the first drawing I ever drew of Nob was a drawing of him stuck halfway into a bottle. The single panelers will continue for at least a week more because that's how big the buffer is right now.
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Life: Finals are here! Also I took the weekend off from blogging because I had a lot of being lazy to catch up on. I'm so close to getting done with this semester!

Hat Chase

2005-05-06T19:34:00.000-05:00

Comic: The hat chase continues. Maku Yan is using the same move he used to get away from Smick in an earlier comic, but the hat is a little more agile than Smick. The next few days will be single panels, hopefully I'll get back to story related stuff when finals finish.
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Life: Finals, studying, and one last paper I have to finish tommorrow. Also hung out with some friends on Thursday and talked movies. In addition to that I discovered that the Japanese write the opposite way we do. Confused the heck out of me when I tried to read the manga someone showed me.

Effects

2005-05-04T22:14:00.000-05:00

Comic: The effects are nice in this one, though I didn't make up any magic words for the trap detection spell. The idea for the comic isn't entirely new. It's still is funny that Smick is one step ahead of everybody, including Lord High Chief.
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Life: Homework, studying, finals. Almost there, but summer classes are not cooperating. If I don't get a credit or debit card soon, my little trip to Missouri to visit other Keenspacers might not go through. Don't worry though, I'm working on it as fast as I can.

Here again.

2005-05-03T09:17:00.000-05:00

Comic: Holy Geez! Is it time for this comic already. I thought I just made that comic a week ago. Oh wait, I did. This next week is definately getting a large share of entirely gag comics. Hopefully I'll have more time to get the story moving after finals are over next week.
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Life: I found out that obtaining a credit card is much like obtaining a girlfriend. They expect you to have had one for three months before you have sufficient history to get your first one. Unfortunately I didn't have the "get stupid lucky and obtain one back in high school bit" so now I'm pretty much locked out of getting either a credit card or a girlfriend. How depressing.

Wheels on the bus

2005-05-02T21:38:00.000-05:00

Life: Two new reactions to the hats.
Are you colorblind?
Don't you have a santa hat?
Apparently people are noticing me if they know what hats I have. For the record I haven't worn the santa hat in over a month now.

repeat

2005-05-02T07:48:00.001-05:00

Comic: The hat chasing wasn't entirely a set up for this comic, but it mostly was. Now I have to figure out how to end that little sequence. As I said before, expect too see a lot of thematic jokes until studying and finals are over. Just one more week.
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Life: Went to a Lost and Found concert. No really that's the name of the band. You should hear about their cds. Their first cd is "Speedwood". It has a really long explaination so I'm going to skip it. The next cd of note is called "This". The next one after that is called "Something". After that "Something Else" and their new one is going to be called "Pronto". Listening to them talk about their cds is funny. In between the songs they do comedy. Not like routines or anything, just funny observations and stories. Oh did I mention that they do requests. Admittedly they only do requests for their own songs, but how many bands take request from the audience at the concert? The dangerous part is that people ask them to play songs that they haven't played in over 5 years. That happened last night. Lots of fun!

repeat

2005-05-02T07:48:00.000-05:00

A little hitchhiking.

2005-04-30T09:12:00.000-05:00

Comic:I've lost the storyline. No really, these next few comics are more of gag comics than story progressing comics. I've been lazy recently. Well, either that or busy because of finals week.
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Life: Saw Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy twice yesterday. Once by myself and once with a crazy female friend of mine. I liked it. I'm sure there will be those who will complain that it wasn't accurate enough, or whine about differences. To them I will echo the words of Marvin "How depressing". Honestly if Douglas Adams was alive today I'm guessing he'd watch it and say "Close enough".

Hat

2005-04-29T11:01:00.000-05:00

Comic: Yes, I have a thing for hats. Hats almost take on a metaphysical ideal for me, so it shouldn't be a surprise that Smick's hat might be somewhat sentient. It also sets up an excellent joke reuse point. You'll see what I mean tommorrow if tommorrow's comic is the one I think it is. Don't look at me like that, I just load them into the queue and forget about them.
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Life: Have I mentioned that I use Google as a spellchecker. Useful, especially with a browser that can do tabs like FireFox. I recently learned that Google has a calculator built into it. Type and expression in and it evaluates it using standard syntax. In school life I have an excellent quote from a professor: "It's like practicing with a nail gun. I wonder if it hurts if I shoot myself in the foot." This was part of his argument about not using break and continue statements. I'm going to see Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy later today. More on that when I get back.

Nothing much

2005-04-28T17:05:00.000-05:00

Comic: Yeah, self explainitory.
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Life: Dump week begins. You know, the week where all the professors realize that the semseter is coming to an end and decide to give you one last assignment, assuming of course that no other professor is going to do the same thing. Voila! Lots of homework right before final! Sucky!

Music!

2005-04-27T21:11:00.000-05:00

Life: Ha Ha, music has been found. I lost some music a little while ago and then forgot I was looking for it. Having remembered to look for it today, I found it. Now time to practice!

Sound Travels

2005-04-27T07:22:00.000-05:00

Comic: I like this one. Sometimes magical occurances aren't so magical after all. Smick's threat is also a most excellent threat.
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Life: Low ceilings bite, especially when you have a large vertical like I do. Celebratory jumps hurt. In other news, nothing really happened yesterday except for homework, and finding out that Microsoft is the worst company ever. Not that I didn't know that, but it was succinctly reenforced yesterday. And the movie was Jackie Chan's Project A.
Maybe more later.

The stars are out tonight.

2005-04-26T11:42:00.000-05:00

Comic: It's nighttime, just look out the window. Group shoots like the last panel can be annoying. Deciding who gets to be in front takes time, and usually comes down to who's the shortest. Then I have to stack them up in reverse order. Forget the order and I might have to start over. Oh woe is me, my life is so difficult.
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Life:A guy on the bus laughed at my outfit for almost 15 minutes last night. New Record! In other news yesterday was a great day for keeping other people amused. While I hung out between classes I kept a whole two people amused when they weren't talking on the phone.

Also bonus points for whoever guesses correctly what movie the title of the blog post refers to.

BedTime

2005-04-25T08:12:00.000-05:00

Comic: Smick's motherly role continues. At least he's not tucking them in. That would be an art nightmare.
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Life: I have rediscovered crack cocaine aka Turn Based Strategy games. They have this wonderfully annoying property called the turn. Each time you finish a turn, you feel compelled to take another one and another one, until it's three hours later and you only meant to play for one. On the plus side, I conquered the world last night in Civilization II. Yes I have a problem, but it's just a little one.

Hat Trip

2005-04-23T22:15:00.000-05:00

Life: Those of you who know me, know that I like to wear hats. Specifically outrageous hats. Over this weekend I have received many varied comments refering to my hats and colorful clothes as I travelled around. Here's most of them.

Cool hat, dude (grade schoolers at the Capitol)

I really admire the way you dress.

Nice hat.

Are you happy today? (my hat had smiley faces on it)

Is there a festival going on?

Are you high?

And that's just this weekend.(I included Friday in the weekend)

Your Mother

2005-04-23T08:38:00.000-05:00

Comic: The trouble with being the only responisble one is illustrated in today's comic. It is odd only having a week of buffer. When I started I had a month, but it gradually diminished. The comic felt really far away and commenting was like reading a history book. Now it feels like the comic is ever in danger of catching up to me.
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Life: I didn't have quite the art day I thought I was going to have but I did have a nice little adventure. For all the pictures, click on them for a (much) larger version.
Here's a funny bridge, my first stop on the trip. Below it are a bunch of train tracks. I would have taken a picture of them, but I didn't have the camera working quite yet. Also it was really windy out at the middle of the bridge and the camera wouldn't stay still.

After that I walked over to a nearby college campus and found this. Forgot to turn off the flash.

The door was open so I took a look inside.

Nice place, but with a table that has a floor pattern on it you just know someone is going to do this.

Moving on I found a building that had a nice steeple. I tried to get to it but got stuck on the third floor. I found this room instead.

I'm up on a balcony. A rather unsturdy one that creaked when I moved around. I left. Then I came upon this church. Take a guess about the denomination.

Looks Catholic right? Nope it's Methodist. This next picture will basically tell you where I live.

The statues are a lot of fun, but some sourable people are insulted by them because they think the drunken bum Fitzgerald was better than Schultz. Idiots.

I know, you can turn your head sideways just this once. It's a little ramp connecting the walking path of this park with the playground stuff that's in the sand. Useful for people in wheelchairs and parents who really don't want to get sand in their shoes ;)

My next stop was further away. I went down to the state Capitol and looked around. While I was there I sat through a vote on a spending bill in the state house. It had something to do with funding veterans comp and the national guard. It passed. The picture is a lovely star on the floor in the main entrance.

Apparently there's a large asian population living in the area between my house and the Capitol. At least that's what I assume from the large number of korean and vietnamese restaurants, grocery stores, and video rentals on the road to the Capitol.

After a brief trip to the library. I took a picture of this. If this is our monument, no wonder we don't get any respect here.

That's my day. I had fun. Hope you did too.

Yeah

2005-04-22T09:37:00.000-05:00

Comic: I'm trying to include passage of time in the comic now. You may see better structured days now with relavant amounts of sunlight coming in the windows. It's quite true when authors talk about stories writing themselves. Smick is quite different from his original self in my hand drawn comic. He used to be more of an accomplice and a foil to Nob's sillines. This time he's turning out to be more of an authority figure. I think he works better this way.
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Life: I'm just having one of those "hate the world because I can't get a girlfriend days" even though it's probably my fault. I think I'll try to have an art day if I get my homework done in a reasonable amount of time.

Cannonball!

2005-04-21T17:43:00.000-05:00

Comic: Today's comic is pure Nob. Just having fun, irregardless of who's around to have fun with him.

Life: I fell up the stairs last night and bonked up my right knee. It swelled up, but it's mostly better now. Though I do run oddly because I'm favoring my left leg a bit.

More later when I actually have something to say.

A start

2005-04-20T21:48:00.000-05:00

What does it look like? It's my new blog for comics and life.