Moo

» Written on February 22, 2007 at 5:04 AM «

Goes the cows. As I have aptly illustrated below, after spending about half an hour in Illustrator.

Moo

The story behind this particular doodle is a bit odd, actually. But then again, I guess the stories behind all my pieces are rather odd in their own ways. In any case, this particular one was derived after watching my friend doodle on his lecture notes during a particularly drier-than-usual torture session. By the end of half an hour, he had accomplished several iconic masterpieces all over his white canvas, some of which were actually quite good in their own way.

If you hadn’t guessed by now, yes, one of them was indeed a mammal of a certain species. B. taurus, as Wikipedia attests to. And if you’re also wondering, yes, this is the same guy who inadvertently provided inspiration for the Vandalism piece. Maybe I should ask him about helping out with Hard Life; he did take an art course after all.

You’ll also note, of course, that the design uses the stkHandwritten font, the first time I’m actually using it anywhere out of the Hard Life comic project. This would somehow coincide with the fact that it is now under a Creative Commons license as well; you’ll probably hear more about that once I finish up stkImplacable and other stuff on the comic. Basically, though, know this; if you find yourself wishing for said typefaces, you will be able to be in possession of said fonts soon.

I’ve just about finished watching the few meagre episodes of House M.D. that I managed to prematurely accquire, and I must say, boredom is once again beginning to set in, though I’m trying to prolong each episode’s shelf life by transcoding it over to my PSP. The process is arduous, tedious, and may, I don’t know, be a representation of Sony’s idiocy, in every sense of the word?

You can probably tell where this is going.

And I mean it. Unfortunately. Sony has managed to slam doors shut on its consumers every step of the way, whether in advertising, in homebrew development, in firmware updates, everything. They’ve somehow managed to take a great concept and turn it into potato salad. Burnt potato salad.

I know Jerry Holkins of Penny-Arcade shares the same sentiments. Honestly, going through so much trouble just to put a goddamn video on a handheld, you’d be inclined to think that Sony wanted to do this just so people would rather buy UMD movies and save themselves the trouble. Except that now, UMDs aren’t doing so hot, and yet, still, even with the 3.01 firmware update (I know 3.03 is out, but do you really think I want to off all chances of getting this thing downgraded?!), the VIDEOS subfolder on the PSP still doesn’t somehow, allow videos to be stored and recognized on it.

Kind of amusing, yet insanely annoying, if you catch my drift.

But with this year’s hongbao totals going at a nice amount (though it’s still less than last’s), I may just find myself over at our local gaming haven tomorrow picking up an unpatched copy of GTA: LCS.

Hopefully. But then again, I’m still sick, so I might just take the day off instead and head straight home.

Of course, that’ll mean I’ll have to pass on Chemistry and a Photographic Society meeting. But hey, I’m sick, right? Accomodations must be made!

   

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