The comic is up.

That’s all I’m going to say, because northern sumatra JUST got hit by another earthquake. Preliminary results on the richter scale: 8.2. That’s Eight-point-fucking-two.

Some of you may have felt it. Some people on mr brown felt it too.

It’s particularly upsetting because our University just played host to a largish delegation of sumatran students. Oh, and unverified, but someone tells me it’s geographically just “below” aceh.

Please, please, please be alright.

Edit:

Another friend of mine just pointed out that it struck just after another christian holiday. I will kill the first christian who comes along trying to draw a link between the two. Go on. Try me.

I don’t usually wax lyrical, but the bougainvilleas are in bloom, and it’s a sight to behold. Around the National University Hospital, and all along the East Coast Parkway, the roads aren’t green anymore - they’re purple. And it’s beautiful.

The most striking thing you’ll see is along the Rocher Road flyover. Approach it from the east side (from Changi), and as you go towards Marina South, look to your right. Framed against the background of our giant durians and ugly buildings you’ll see a row of evergreen trees. By a marvellous quirk of nature, the one closest to the flyover has had a bougainvillea climb up all the way up its foliage.

The result is a defiant explosion of vivid, living purple amongst the drab green and grey of our urban landscape… and it’s gorgeous.

Anyway, the comic should be up later in the evening. I saw the pencilled version, and I think Zeng drew this one real purty. Hopefully the coloured one will be as good.

Neil Gaiman has made available online 3/4ths of the first chapter of his new novel, Anansi Boys. I haven’t read it yet, because as I was reading his blog entry on the matter, something else caught my eye: the Flesch-Kincaid readability test!

Apparently it’s a mathematical test of how readable your essay/book/chunk-of-text is. According to the Wikipedia entry, the US government itself uses it as a standard (not sure how good an endorsement that is, but there you go). But getting to the point: I saw an online gizmo you could use to get your own Flesch-Kincaid score.

‘Heh heh heh~’, I thought. ‘It’s time to see just how good our local blogders are!’

So in total disregard of the looming exam schedule, I got to work copy-pasting random blogder’s URLs into The Machine. The scores are based on two factors: how easy it is to read, and how it stacks up to major publications. The list of publications goes something like this:

TV guides, The Bible, Mark Twain (simple)
Reader’s Digest
Most popular novels
Time, Newsweek
Wall Street Journal
The Times, The Guardian
Academic papers
The government is covering something up (obfuscated)

Without further ado, here are the results!

Xiaxue - http://xiaxue.blogspot.com/
Ease of reading: 84.46
Standard of writing: TV guides, The Bible, Mark Twain

I’m sure the gizmo isn’t saying that Xiaxue writes like the Bible. If she did, #2 on the Ten Commandments would read “Thou Shalt Not Proselytize”, and Christianity would have died out millenia ago.

mr brown - http://www.mrbrown.com/
Ease of reading: 79.28
Standard of writing: Reader’s Digest

Wah, mr brown can compare to Reader’s Digest! Not bad, not bad. Or maybe the singlish just messed with the gizmo - I don’t know. But there are more heavyweight contenders to come!

Mr Miyagi - http://myveryownglob.blogspot.com/
Ease of reading: 74.95
Standard of writing: Most popular novels

Out of nowhere, Mr Miyagi comes in and thrashes mr brown! He writes like a pop-novelist. Really. Don’t look at me like that, computer say one!

Wannabe Lawyer - http://shianux.jiyuuu.org/
Ease of reading: 60.85 (!)
Standard of writing: TV guides, The Bible, Mark Twain.

Well, here it is at last. Conclusive proof that us lawyers are full of shit. Just look at that low readability score, coupled with that dumbed-down standard of writing! All those difficult words and we still only convey as much critical thought as a TV guide. And we’ll still make more money than you, suckers!

Popaghandi - http://popagandhi.com/
Ease of reading: 71.70
Standard of writing: Most Popular Novels

What’s this? A valiant effort to dislodge Mr Miyagi from the current top spot?! Will she succeed? But no - Mr Miyagi’s blog is easier to read! Alas, ’tis a pity. Is there no one to stop his reign of superiority?

Daryl Sng - http://www.dsng.net/
Ease of reading: Ridiculously difficult
Standard of writing: The government is covering something up

Yes! One man bravely steps forth… but wait. This guy’s blog had such short snippets & such short quotes that getting an accurate gauge was next to impossible. When I found his “Robots” review I thought, AHA, some content to gauge! But his web page was so deviously written that it broke the gizmo:

His “Closer” review also nuked the gizmo.

I can only conclude that his blog contains evil subliminal messages. Don’t go to it! Wait later you all get mind-controlled or something.

Mayhemics - http://www.geocities.com/mayhemics/home.htm
Ease of reading: 59.19 (!)
Standard of writing: Wall Street Journal (!)

On a whim, and suspicious of the accuracy of the broken gizmo, I loaded a passage that I knew to be enigmatic. Now the author (whom we shall call D) will adamantly insist that this is not a blog, and it isn’t - I just wanted to mess with the gizmo. The result? The passage is hard to read, but talks at the mental level of the Wall Street Journal - which is probably pretty accurate. Despite being the highest, knowing D, he’s likely to take that as an insult.

So there you have it! Our winners are:
1st Place: Mr Miyagi
Most Readable Blog: Xiaxue
Most Scary Blog: Daryl Sng

What about Squarebrain? Well… see, that’s kind of embarrassing. We scored pretty well on the readability, but couldn’t even garner enough points to be compared to a TV guide. That would put us… um. In last place. Thank god we’re not actually a blog!

(Test notes: blogs that quote extensively would not accurately reflect the skill of the blogder. In such cases I tried to choose a particular wordy post of the blogger’s own words to rank. But then I realized that those posts will have tons of comments from other people, too. At which point I gave up on all appearances of being fair. So don’t use these results for anything important!)

KOTOR is, of course, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. I enjoyed it and its sequel more than I enjoyed the prequel movies.

Do also check out Clone Wars, an animated miniseries that’s supposed to fill the gap between Episodes II and III. It’s a damn sight better than what Lucas has been dragging out of his decrepit mind.

I’m submerging for the exam period. Comics go on as usual, but news (such as it is) will mostly halt until May.

…

Yes, you may all sigh in relief now. Sheesh.

Just a couple a days back, as I was walking towards the busstop, I saw a young couple on the verge of breaking up. What makes me say that? maybe they are just having a bad arguement? WRONG! The guy was kneeling! Both knees on the floor, face filled with anguish pleading softly to his girlfriend ( who was like sitting on the bench having the “I don’t give a shit” face ) not to go .
Thats SAD! I guess she needs a (bad ass biker dude) to satisfy her needs, not like her pussy boyfriend haha.

Anyway Samurai Champloo is getting real cool! I strongly suggest you should check it out if you havent heard of it before, the animation quality beats Naruto animation anytime! wait… anything BEATS Naruto animation anytime. I cant believe they did such a sloppy job( regarding ANIMATION ) out of such a good comic …after all they have so much sponsors for it, where the hell does the money go to?COSPLAY EVENTS?I highly suspect that the animators don’t get paid enough to do a great job out of it. Of course with great directing, fast panning shots and a good story… any anime can be great!

To all the guys who’ve had this happen to you - we understand. Some accountability would have been nice, no? Of course to be fair, some girls I know of have also felt the sharp sting of hypocrisy - so by no means is this a gender-specific incident. It sucks when people spew bullshit in the hopes of avoiding the unavoidable.

But you know what? When it happens to someone else, it’s funny as hell.

Heh heh heh.

From the “Oh no, they didn’t” department, comes today’s wrong link of the day. Bob Tosterud & his wife, Karen, have brought a new scented candle to the world - one that smells like Jesus! Yes, that Jesus. Yes, really. It’s called “His Essence”, and is available for order here.

The couple made the scent from Psalm 45:8, a literal reading of which goes:

All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia…

So that’s what they put in it. Well… we all know what happens when things are read literally. I mean, you’ve got to take things into context. Should Psalm 45:8 have been re-written in modern times, it probably would’ve gone something like this:

All thy garments smell of Issey Miyake, and Channel, and Hugo Boss…

That’s not all. Perfume companies put in a lot of R&D to make sure their products are as hypoallergenic as possible. This couple just mixed a bunch of herbs together. Imagine what’ll happen if someone’s child is allergic to this stuff!

Mom: “Now always remember son, Jesus Loves You. This scented candle will remind you that he’s always beside you, even as you sleep. So there’s nothing to be afraid of when I switch off the light, okay hon?”
Son: “Mommy, my eyes are swelling shut and my chest hurts and my nose is running.”
Mom: “… that’s just His Love. Goodnight, dear!”

Or worse still:

Son: “Mommy, why does Jesus hate me so?”

Hell, he doesn’t even need to be allergic to it. What if the child just plain doesn’t like the smell?

Son: “Mommy, Jesus smells like poo-poo!”

Hoooo boy. All this in litigious America, no less.

Seeing as how none of Hollywood’s sacred teachings turned out to be right, we here at Squarebrain have decided to show you the light. Our combined years of experience cannot be wrong! Hot on the heels of our guide to breaking up, Squarebrain is proud to present: How to get the girl! This informative new book is chock-full of easy-to-use, comprehensible and concise tricks to nab the girl of your dreams - so forget about that bear trap you were eyeing and buy this now!

The first 50 purchasers will also receive one of two complimentary gifts, while stocks last! Early birds can choose between a fly-powered airplane or a second penis.

Remember men - she deserves nothing less.

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Now that didn’t quite come out right, did it?

South Park is no longer funny.

Season 9’s premier episode was just sick, with none of the vicious sarcastic wit the series is known for. The script degenerated into an orgy of blood, guts, and gore. While normally I would be mildly amused by violence, pointless violence is just a waste of my time. That’s 22 minutes of my life I’m never going to get back, Matt & Trey!

And now, I just spent another 5 of my precious minutes announcing it in a newspost that I’m sure nobody reads anyway. Ye gods!

On the other hand, Carnivale is fantastic. It’s not for everyone, but it’s just about as close to real as any TV show involving the occult can get. And unlike other shows, this one actually scares you off the occult. Too many times, I’ve seen the media portray the occult as something… well, cool.

And I suppose it is, but I’m sure you people remember the matrix defense (at a peurile analysis, basically an insanity plea that says “I committed a crime because I thought I was in the matrix”). I wouldn’t be surprised if some time in future I hear a constantine defense (I killed him because I thought he was a demon!). Hell, even I think some people deserve the moniker.

But disregarding apportionment of blame, blatantly ignoring further analysis, and speaking just off the top of my head… isn’t there enough morbidity abound already, without people having to contribute to exacerbating the situation?

Take yesterday’s post, where I mentioned poetic justice being done. I don’t think the magnitude of the crime was made clear. 27 children died from eating a cassava-based snack during recess; the vendor, insisting the snack was not to blame, took some herself and ended up in the ICU. That was ghoulishly funny, until I discovered that the plant in question contains chemicals that break down into cyanide when digested. Correctly prepared, it’s alright; incorrectly prepared, it’s… well, toxic.

In other words the deaths needn’t have happened.

‘Tis an unnatural thing, for a parent to attend his child’s funeral.

But that’s okay. We can get over anything, right?

So I come back home, wondering where the comic is, and think to myself maybe Zeng put something up.

He did.

I’d be pissed… only I’d do the exact same thing in his position.

Anyways!

Remember Warner Brother’s re-imagination of bugs bunny? Well, Sega has followed suit. Ladies and gentlemen, Sega presents to you: Shadow the Hedgehog! I don’t know what he does, or how he does it, but it’s okay because he’s shadowy, y’know, like ninjas and stuff.

Why, oh why, do these people insist on destroying every last good memory of my childhood?

But it’s okay, for the intarweb has enough funny & interesting stuff to last me a lifetime. Why, in the past four days, I’ve discovered so much:

- That the availability of choice may just end up narrowing our minds (neato summary at Wired). Kind of the reason why I don’t like sycophantic friends.

- That the Guardian Unlimited has good writers.

- That the Incredible Hulk has a blog. And that it’s quite entertaining, in a goofy retarded sort of way.

- That you don’t need to be a good artist to have a funny comic.

- That there is such a thing as poetic justice.

- That Fred Durst’s sex video is actually very, very pathetic. No, I am not posting a link.

- That lawyers can sometimes be very, very stupid. Over a measly $60.

And one wonders how come I never study. Sheesh.

When I first heard this playing on TVMobile, I thought it was a typical blockbuster-sunday trailer for some mediocre B movie. Fooled by the LOTR-esque soundtrack, taken in by Voice Over Guy [tm], I looked up to check just what fantasy / medieval / war movie Mediacorp had dug up from its dusty archives…

Turns out it was just a trailer for a documentary on the 2004 tsunami.

You just know we’re going to become the creative hub of the region when the best we can do to promote a documentary on the century’s biggest earthquake… is to imitate Hollywood.

Ah well. Anyhow, I found something really amusing in our traffic statistics. One of the advantages of having your own host is that you can track a lot of interesting information - amongst them, how people came by your page. See, people can come by your page via links from other pages, links from search engines, or direct bookmarks. Look what I found amongst our search engine hits:

If that didn’t provoke some amusement from you, you shouldn’t be reading this comic.

This is something I’ve never been able to understand. Nor do I try to - that energy should rightly be devoted to more important issues, like playing games and watching anime. I just call ‘em as I see ‘em, man.

I believe it’s time I talked about my iBook. It’s a gorgeous piece of hardware, and is quite possibly the epitome of functional beauty. So rarely do pretty things have substance that I swear I’d clean forgotten such a thing was physically possible. Every moment with it brings a smile to my face; every design choice reveals a useful feature; every task done (in a quarter of the time it would take on a windows system) executed in a way that you instinctively understand.

I mean this thing has a dopey processor (1.2GHz) and a pithy 512MB of RAM! It shouldn’t be physically possible to surf the ‘net, check my mail, download pr0n watch a DVD, read a few PDF documents, type a few Word documents and chat online… all at the same time! That kinda shit just ain’t natural.

But it happens, all the same.

Which is why when Microsoft proposes devices like this, I can’t help but laugh. The company that makes devices do THIS:

Is thinking of making robots that will watch over your children. Your children! Fruit of your loins, apple of your eye… and soon to be victim of the Blue Screen of Death. Imagine going home after a romantic dinner with the wife, trusting a robot to take care of your flesh and blood. Imagine opening the door to your home, smelling the fresh scent of… burnt flesh? As your eyes desperately seek what your nose tells you is there, they fall upon a cute teddy bear emitting a curious blue glow. And then you see your beloved electrocuted daughter, her curious fingers having unfortunately found their way into the power socket. Imagine your devastation, your hurt, your horror.

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Aw hell, who am I kidding. Imagine the lawsuits! Imagine the money! Bring it on, Microsoft.

Wassup dudes ,

Hehe its been a very long time since I post some news or any news as a matter of fact, well Ive been busy trying to get a proper drawing style for the comic but as you can see its still not so concrete but don’t worry ill get the hang of it sooner or later.

As Ray has mention , Ive got the offer from KOEI and its more of a honor to work for such a great company especially since auditions were really tough and this will be my very first job too! So yeah , wish me luck in that .
Expose 03 work …that took me about a week to complete , there isnt really a “theme” for it I just wanted to make something funny and yet look good cause everyone whose doing CG nowadays are just going for the “look at me im so cool” characters, it can get really boring after a while.

Anime review time! hai sodesu ne…. anou… i have been watching this anime called Ebichu the housekeeping hamster and all i can say is…THIS ANIME IS SO SICK! you can’t stop watching once you start cause its also cute at the same time! (ergh !) its quite amazing with all the sexual contents in it , it still went on air. Ill recommend this anime to guys only.. of course if girls are more openminded about animes with sexual contents *ahem besides all the yaoi * then feel free to watch it.Giving the directing and the plot of this show ill give it around 7/10 plus or minus whether sex humour is your kind of “thang”.

Okay dudes, i’ll see your later, time to do more of my..research for the next comic : P. ( My english sucks and its going to stay like that for a looong time, live with it )

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