I didn’t like anything I drew today, so instead, I’m going to put up two that were okay.

This first one, i started with single strand.  Hands are hiding because no matter what I try, hands folded in front looks like ass.  Times like this though, I wish I had an eraser to go with the pencils.

This second one, I started with the hair, and everything else came from it.  I think i actually like doing single lines for hair strands, comes off softer.  The wind just makes the hair look better.  The dress, I hate.

Okay, first one of hopefully one a day.  This took me an hour and a half, which is very sad since it shouldn’t have taken more than 5 minutes.  Still, can’t get better without practice, this would be the crawling stage.  No eyes.  I can’t do eyes.  Never have I been able to make eyes I like with a graphite pencil.

The problem is that I just can’t do bodies.  For some reason, I just can’t put any feelings into my characters.  Stilllifes and inanimate objects, no problems there.  Maybe I”ll try one of those next, but the only way I can get back to doing comics again is if I can make characters, so there may be more suffering ahead.

Some interesting stats i’m looking at on the CNN website.

As of this post.

While Obama has won by a landslide of electoral votes, the popular vote is only seperated by 3% (51-48).

Arizona, California and Florida had ban on gay marriage amendments up for vote and all seem to have passed.

Arkansas has banned adoption by unmarried couples (which coincidentally occurs for gays especially).

On the very same night where an old discrimination has taken another big step forward, a new discrimination has taken a step back.
One interesting note about this is that Obama has said he does not believe in gay marriage himself.

Michigan looks to be passing stem cell research. Makes sense in that biomed is building in Ann Arbor.nbsp; I am also very happy to see this.nbsp; Maybe we can get Michigan to be a new technology hub built around biomed.

Nebraska ended Affirmative Action while Colorado did not.nbsp; Looks like Affirmative Action continues to be an issue people are split on.

As of now, Democrats are 56-40 in the Senate.nbsp; There are 4 seats left, so there is sitll a possibility Democrats get theri 60 majority. Here’s hoping it doesn’t occur.

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1.5 TB HD for $175.  That’s about $0.12 per gigabyte.

It was only a few years ago I was paying more than that for crappy no name CDs!

I don’t know if people actually know my opinion on these two guys (though I am pretty sure you don’t care.) Still, I wanted to jot down my thoughts so here you go:

1.  It is true, Mccain makes emotional plays better.  He really comes off as the “I am your grandpa vibe”.

2. Obama’s speaking abilities are totally overrated.  I just kept hearing him stutter where as McCain stuttered significantly less.

3. Obama keeps bringing up how Iraq is a bad idea.  Seriously, get over it.  I understand its a bad idea, but we are there now, what do we do from here.

4. Why aren’t our overseas wars fought more economically?  Instead of tanks, let’s build schools, and infrastructure.  Suicide bombers which stop your kids from going to school or prevent water going to your house will probably not get much sympathy.  Recently watched Charlie Wilson’s War, and wonder why we aren’t doing more to build infrastructure instead of bringing in tanks. 

5. Given that we are stuck in Iraq, I don’t thinK Mccain’s ideas are so wrong.  Yes, the initial decision was bad, but now that we are there, what are the next steps.

6. Both keep talking about being world leaders and rallying other countries.  All I can think is that Bush already destroyed any good will we had built up, so not sure what they can do what they say they want to.  Of course, Mccain responds to the Isreal question by saying “Obviously I would not wait for UN security council”.  You know what, that probably isn’t the best way to make friends.  It is also a statement I STRONGLY disagree with.  Iraq was the same problem.  If we are going to play in the world politics, we should listen to others too.  I would say, “its okay to go in and help defend, but absolutely no attacking without UN okay.”

7. I don’t like the attacks on Obama’s terrorist friend.  He’s a professor now and had won Citizen of the Year in Chicago.  Seems like he can’t be that bad anymore.

8. The story about Palin’s husband being part of group which wanted Alaska secession scared me a little.  To be fair, Alaska is close to Russia.

9. I was sent this: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/hongop.shtml.  To me, its similar to the Spain and slanty eye thing, only I think he really should’ve apologized.

The No Votes – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com

I don’t understand any of this Bailout stuff.  The more I read, the more I get confused.  Quite frankly, I still don’t really know how it would affect me (no debt guy).

Still, to look at these graphs, its very interesting to see who says no, and what their leanings are.

Very interesting soreness today.

It looks like the rollerblading has helped my thighs in that they don’t feel the least bit sore.  What is hurting though are the calves.  Since rollerblading specifically removes a lot of the pounding of cement that occurs from running, I think it causes my calves to not be used to the running involved with basketball.

Also, it turns out, the rollerblading does not help keep me in shape enough for basketball as I was tired almost as quickly as when we had first started playing.

In actual basketball news, I was a sadly pathetic 0-4 shooting missing 3 layups and a wide open shot.  Hopefully it comes back as the season progresses.

When is a laptop with the Wacom capacitive screen coming out already?

I have been waiting on this thing for months now. Previous news has said that they expected screens sometime this year, but all the laptop manufaturers have already released for the start of the school season (Main interesting ones being the tx2500 from HP and the t5010 from Fujitsu).

The thing is, you can find the part on the wacom component site. There are two, a SU5R-12S05A, which is for a standard 12.1″ screen (maybe we will see it in the X200 from Lenovo?), and a wide screen version SU5R-12W03A (which most people will be leaning toward as majority of tablets now are in this widescreen form factor).

One interesting thing to note, without a 13.3″ version, expect Fujitsu to update their t4020 line with this and NOT the t5010.

Sorry for all the test entries.

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I can’t get over the craziness that is fashion. Here we have jeans which are pre-worn?!? and they are sold at a premium over normal jeans? Somehow, people don’t have the time to actually wear jeans but instead are asking others to wear them first.

Does no one see this as being absolutely crazy?

More importantly, I wonder if there is a business for this. You can outfit the poor with clothing, and then resell it at a premium. Seems like a win-win for everyone.