Wizzywig – A Beautiful Story of Hacker Lore In The Comic Form
Today I was listening to the most expensive podcast out there, Gweek, and one of their guests was the comic artist Ed Piskor. They mentioned his first solo project, Wizzywig, which sounded like an interesting rehash of ye old phone phreak and hacker lore, packed up into a rather sad and beautiful story. This piqued my interest, and what makes Gweek so expensive for me was that I did what I usually do in these cases: thumbed a search on my phone, realized the comic is available on comiXology, and bought it there and then. After the day’s hijinx I dropped in to my favourite watering hole just to read a couple of pages on my iPhone. I ended up drifting back home after one beer so I could read the comic better on an iPad screen, and finishing the whole album on one sitting. Wow.
Camping Trip in Nuuksio – Or How To Get Insulted into Productivity By Your Subconscious
I’ve been a little bit here and there throughout the summer, and after a week of hard work and even harder carousing I finally managed to gather together my camping gear scattered around by the move, buy the things I had lost, and head over to Nuuksio National Park to relax. As it turned out, it was a trip of surprising productivity.
Bad Characterization in The Scifi of Big Ideas – Who Gives A Crap, Really?
Charles Stross has turned out to be one of my favorite scifi writers from the last few years, and his rant about the scifi of big ideas made me like the dude even more. This is a thing that has started to annoy me more and more lately – whinging about bad characters in books, where the main character is obviously The Idea or the setting.