I spent hours trying to find a term for this sort of rock. This was in pre-internet days, when we had to thumb through books we’d guessed at, at the library. I think this one was in Rommel’s diary. Or — no, wait – Lawrence of Arabia. But don’t quote me. Can imagine the terms for soil I could find now?
I’ve been arguing about what makes genre vs. novel with a reader; perhaps it’s the amount of copy-work in a book. Is research genre? A true novel is all out of the writer’s experience.
Fap. I always said that if I started talking about writing instead of doing it, shoot me in my little head. These blogs are about talking about it. Which is annoying.
What’s nice about looking at these lines is I’m trying to draw on the Wacom Bamboo, and it’s almost making me want to go ahead and get an IPad. No, it’s NOT the equivalent of a Cintiq, but for linework? People say, “How do you transfer files from an IPad to other devices?
Gmail.
(Who else thinks the inability of an IPad to transfer with a cheap USB cord is DISGUSTING? I mean, little mettle points? PLEASE).
(snicker) Erwin’s expression in the last panel is PRICELESS. ;D
3M: Yeah, hes a bit nonplussed by the situation himself. But not surprised; he knows plenty of officers who trained with the English.
ROFL – agree on the iPad. Ridiculous. I use DropBox to synch documents between all my devices.
Sylvene: Ooh. And it’s obviously a Mac app. Nice. Now how do you load a camera into DropBox….?
ah … Apple, Plenty of style and darn good hardware, but fussy about who it will play with.
The expresssions and body language (line work?) on this page are delightful. I think it’s a bood measure of the truce the 469th has in its backyard that nobody’s taking potshots across the gorge.
hswoolve: Considering the viral atmosphere, maybe they have reason. Is it a security measure?
It’s odd how often instances of troops NOT shooting happen in wars. As in, “This is almost over, and we have to get there, and can we not fight HERE? And everybody has to get here to get this water, so nobody shoot.” Outside the actual fighting zones in North Africa, the troops on all sides “agreed” to let the other go go through, share water and food, and rest. Kind of like the line behind the front sword line.
Donna, as an erstwhile doodler in my spare time, I was very keen on getting a tablet drawing device myself. Whereupon I found one of my other beloved online comic creators had this to say (link = http://iboxpublishing.com/index_mark_oakley_digital_cartooning_on_a_tabletPC.php#top_of_news )… he reckoned that a whole heap of tablet PCs use the same digitizer technology as the Cintiq. So I tried taking his advice and buying a second hand HP TC1100 for around $200, having Googled first to make sure this was a PC with a Cintiq digitizer. Early days yet but it seems to work, and it has USB ports (still trying to figure out a good illustration application though).
I wasn’t able to track down much good re: iPads and drawing but that might be because I wasn’t looking in the right places. I did see some comments about it not being pressure sensitive in terms of line drawing?
I believe it goes back to when Apple (hardware and software) was trying very hard to “not be a PC”. So far as I can tell, this meant going with a closed architecture/hardware because the PC market went with an open architecture.
At the time, Apples were better machines, but because of their choices, more pricey than PC’s.
Kate: I think an IPad is really just a connectivity device — so I don’t have to take my MacBook. I think Mark told me about this before. Have you tried GIMP? I used it for a lot of stuff — it works PC and Mac. It’s called GIMP for a reason, but there’s usually only one or two gimps and they’re not that annoying.
hswoolve: Apples still seem to be the better machines; PC just seems to have retained its You-Build-It character. With a Mac, you just drive. I never got so much work done as when I got a Mac.
Donna:
My Papaw Martin was stationed in the South Seas. He used to tell a story about scrounging for non-military issue food, wandering on a large island where they were stationed, hunting wild pig (Gods, how he bitched about the food, even all those years later.)
He said they came to a clearing, you could see the blue sky above, and it felt like being in a church. He and his fellow army mates were entranced by how beautiful it was. Most of them were mid-western farm boys, never been anywhere but where the army sent them.
As they stood awestruck in this natural church they heard something. Across the clearing from them was a small group of Japanese soldiers. Papaw said both groups backed away as quickly and non-threateningly as they could. He said it did not feel right to shoot there, and the others looked as awestruck and young as he and his friends were.
Erimentha: They found a sacred place; those can be very very powerful. And the less shooting the better — good on all involved!