Author: Don

Tweets for Today

  • 07:46 No writing last night after all. Zoned out to IN BRUGES (which I’ve been meaning to see for months). #
  • 07:47 There WILL be writing after a stroll through Ithacon 33! #
  • 13:46 Back from Ithacon, where I got to "ask the Answer Man!!!!" www.comicsbulletin.com/bobro/ #
  • 13:56 Not writing yet…but the afternoon is still young. I’m home alone and I’ve got a pot of coffee brewing! #
  • 20:00 Got some, if very little, writing done. Luckily, I’m home alone for another day. Plenty of time 🙂 #

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Don’s Big Score

Got back from Ithacon, the local comic show. Once again, I failed to connect with local great Roger Stern because of my perpetual shyness, but I just had to go and shake the hand of guest Bob “The Answer Man” Rozakis! I used to live for his “Ask the Answer Man” columns in the back of DC’s comics when I was a kid. Thanks to him, I learned the secret identities of most of the Legion of Super Heroes and in what issue the Batman of Earth-2 died.

I would’ve loved to have had an “Ask the Answer Man” column for him to sign, but I didn’t. Felt bad. He was a swell guy, too. I bought a boatload of 2/$1 books from him and accidentally left one, which he walked over to me. I ran into him again at another dealer’s table as I was flipping through old issues of Detective Comics. I pulled out one with an interesting cover (Issue 467, from Feb. 1977) when I heard someone next to me saying, “I wrote that.” What happened next was a no-brainer…

Other things I picked up…

  • The six-issue run of DC: The New Frontier
  • Jonathan Lethem’s Omega the Unknown, #1
  • Four issues of Steve Edmond’s Emo Boy
  • The first 8 (of 9) issues of Captain Atom: Armageddon (a DC/Wildstorm crossover)
  • A metric crapload of Bendis’ & Oeming’s Powers from Image Comics
  • A discounted copy of Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics

Oddly enough, none of these items were on my list!

I should also mention a pleasant conversation I had with artist Jime Alena Grabowski! The Wife bought a print from her a couple of years ago of “a chick” as Grabowski put it. Her drawings nowadays are completely different. There’s a print I’m interested in, so I gotta get to emailing if I want it.

Tweets for Today

  • 07:11 The busses will run today! #
  • 07:12 Tomorrow’s plan: Ithacon 33! www.comicbookclub.org/Ithacon.html #
  • 10:23 Edited six–count ’em, SIX–pages before work! (To make up for my zero edited pages last night.) #
  • 10:32 A co-worker: "I woke up at 3:30 in the morning because I had this bizarre dream about Justin Timberlake, Amy Winehouse, and an alligator." #
  • 12:33 BURN NOTICE S02E08: Pretty good. Just enough Bruce Campbell. Not too heavy on the how-to voiceovers. #
  • 17:18 Planning tonight’s writing session. Because six edited pages just doesn’t feel like it’s enough. (And this is me, decaffeinated!) #
  • 18:13 Batting cleanup at work. #

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Tweets for Today

  • 07:01 Wondering how long it’ll be before a 12-hour day of work and school gets old? (he asks, still very thankful he got into the damn class!) #
  • 08:38 Knows where he was when… #
  • 08:46 @firefox_answers Thanks–though I was never able to start it in safe mode. I ended up doing a complete re-install #
  • 12:14 Two signatures down, two to go. Then, it’s official! #
  • 14:24 Praying the bus drivers don’t go on strike tonight!!!! #
  • 14:25 @GigiVernon Exercise…what’s that? 🙂 #
  • 16:06 Planning tonight’s writing session. Should that come before or after the homework…? #
  • 16:35 Got all four signatures!! Muahahaha!!!! #

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Track This

I’ve taken one step backward from my trend toward low-tech/no-tech writing solutions. Although, I guess running portableapps off a USB stick, or storing stuff on Google Docs isn’t exactly low-tech. But I’ve been trying to decrease my computer dependance as much as is feasible. Because I just can’t carry around a laptop anymore, nor do I particularly have to.

I used to track my submissions in a small Moleskine cahir notebook. But, I’ve upgraded to Sonar now.

So far, so good!

Tweets for Today

  • 10:22 Edited 3 pp before work. Spent 30 min. on one damn paragraph! #
  • 11:50 Fiddling with my Twitter site settings. Doesn’t make it look too much better, does it? #
  • 14:35 Going with the basic white on the Twitter site. As if I don’t have real work I should be doing. #
  • 17:45 Trying like mad to cross stuff off my goodreads "currently-reading" list. #

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Tweets for Today

  • 09:00 Will hopefully get a decision today re: class. "Should I stay, or should I go?" #
  • 09:02 Correction: as of right now, only Jim Lehrer is stalking me via Twitter, not Neal Conan or the spirit of Tim Russert. #
  • 11:54 Looks like I’m in!! #
  • 15:38 Less stress about class + Decreased caffeine intake = Kinder, gentler Don. At least until the next thing ticks me off… #

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This WILL Be Mine!

I so fucking want this…


Can you blame me…?

The TARDIS has two doors, which open inward as they do in the series. Inside, we see a printed backdrop to indicate the interior and the central control console. When it’s opened, an interior light shines down on the floor.

The doors snap firmly into place when opened. To close them, you pull the left door closed first, then push a button inset into the floor (nicely disguised on the brick-tile floor), which snaps the other door shut. The phone panel on the left door snaps open to reveal the old-time telephone.

When you lift the TARDIS, a button on the bottom triggers the dematerialization/takeoff sound, which is accompanied by flashing police light. The interior lights remain on (and can be seen through the frosted windows and the police box panels at the top) during motion. There are three dematerialization sounds, slow, fast and emergency takeoff.

Two materialization sounds can play when the TARDIS lands, triggered by the same button being pressed.

Shaking the TARDIS side to side triggers two “turbulent flight” sounds.

An interesting feature caught my eye on the bottom of the TARDIS: a small, rotating plastic divot. I wondered what it could be for (before reading the instructions). It fits a finger, which allows you to support the TARDIS with one finger while spinning the TARDIS by its top-mounted police light. You can rotate this thing pretty fast, and while you do so, it plays the spinning vortex sound effect.

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