Welcome Interruptions

[den]

I'm hacking away at a JAVA assignment when there's a knock at the door. It's the postman, and he has this:



It's kevinpease's book! And he signed it! I was expecting him to sign it with a "Hi Batty" sort of thing. What I wasn't expecting was:



The "check you out" puzzled me until I read this this bit in the intoduction by Steve Jackson. I was blown away:


How good is that? The text, that is. Not the poor scan. I'm grinning myself to death here.

I wrote that story while Kevin was having a serious burnout. I thought I'd send a comic script to him so "all he had to do" was draw it, and we Patient Ones would get 3 weeks worth of Absurd Notions while Kevin had a rest from thinking up stories and scripts. I didn't expect it to end up on the Art By Other's page, and I never dreamed I'd be mentioned in the book.

I bow to you yet again, oh sky-blue one!


Me, By Kevin Pease.

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Java and Mt. Rushmore

[ursuscal.livejournal.com]

Java is evil. Evil, I tell you! As an ISO in the making, I have developed a knee-jerk reaction to applications that allow scripts to be run through my Internet browser. Many US entities are putting blocks on Java so that employees can't even access them. Incidentally, I'm told that business and government entities in the US are abandoning frames because many vision-impaired screen readers can't cope with them, and it consequently represents a vulnerability under the Americans with Disabilities Act! Eh. I kinda like frames...

I am enchanted with the idea of a miniature Mt. Rushmore sculpture in our parking lot, like the one pictured in the book you showed. It beats the 9-story high metal sculpture I'm watching them erect across the street. It looks like a hideous white metal flower, has taken two weeks of welding to stabilize, and I'm told will feature sheets of glass hanging off of it (I'm not kidding!) That's what we need in earthquake country with a budget deficit: a $250,000 sculpture with potential Guillotine blades hanging from it...