LÆMEUR @laemeur@mastodon.sdf.org

Using #Krita at work in spite of the full-blown Creative Cloud license that the company is paying for. Because it's just better/faster/lighter for illustration, IMO.

Thinkin' of doing a little art book of cartoon/comics/SF characters that play or have played #bass at some point.

#tmnt #cartoon #illustration

What in the world is the evolutionary advantage for flies that make such loud, irritating buzzing sounds when they fly? Or is it something that's just never been enough of a disadvantage to be selected against? The fly in the room right now is SO LOUD, and I'm wondering if this dude actually has a leg-up on his peers in the survival game, or if he just has a super-irritating personality.

Just grabbed my eraser and was about to start rubbing the Cintiq. Haven't had one of those moments in a while!

Because the various Web discussion platforms -- god knows how long they're going to last. All those phpBB forums that came and went in the 2000s -- poof, they're gone! Usenet, on the other hand, that's forever. Anybody can archive it, and Google actively does, so... y'know. Duking it out on Usenet is serious business.

Y'know what Usenet would still be great for? Call-outs and duels. Like, blogger A writes an article that blogger B takes offense to, so blogger B, rather than posting some shit in the Disqus widget or whatever writes a public response on Usenet and emails blogger A with "I have thrown down the gauntlet in comp.os.xenix -- are you bad enough to battle me there? Or are you a Web weenie?!" ...and then the flamewar ensues.

After using Debian exclusively for 7 years, my new job requires me to use a Mac. Here's my quick take, two weeks into the transition: https://alph.laemeur.com/txt/L/5G.html

According to Google's Ngram viewer, "macOS" overtook "Mac OS" in 2016. But the problem that I've always had with the newer styling is that it looks like it rhymes with "tacos".

Y'know what? I love IMF/MIME.

Sure, it's got line-length limits (thanks, SMTP), and the headers are restricted to US-ASCII ... I admit, it's old and could use a bit of freshening-up. But goddamn it, every company in the world is trying to implement some stupid bespoke JSON format for messaging these days. and they're all weird and incompatible and ALL THE WHILE, there's your good buddy e-mail, being super general-purpose, delivering plain text, rich text, and binary messages FOR DECADES.

Oh yeah, and here's Donatello in a custom-painted Pedicar. Because... well, he'd be into one of these, wouldn't he?

#art #cartoon #tmnt #illustration #sketchbook

These are four years old at this point, but I only just saw them a week ago and they're pretty-much the best #tmnt content that's come out in ages:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIPDagR4NRA

https://github.com/chbrown/overdrive

This is great. It's a shell script that downloads audiobooks from OverDrive so that you don't have to install their crummy software. I just checked-out an audiobook from my public library, fed the .odm file to the script, and it worked as advertised. Good work, Mr. Brown, et al!