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Despite shots, peanut allergy kills teen
This story really hits home for me because the beginning so closely tracks my own experience exactly a week earlier during Comic-Con: Friday, on vacation, could tell there was something wrong immediately, reaction seemed to be under control but reemerged later…Except with me, the EpiPen worked, and I walked out of the hospital that evening.
No guarantees.
I watched a plastic bag floating around in wind currents eight floors up between this building and the next for almost half a minute before it drifted away.
Gotta love blogging (or any) advice that boils down to “X doesn’t fit my use case, so no one else should use it, EVER!”
Kiddo pointed at a text editor on my screen and asked me to read it. I figured why not? He lost interest at “public static void main…”
https://hyperborea.org/journal/2013/07/comiccon-er/
You don't expect to find peanuts in coffee, but two sips were enough to put me in an ambulance and wipe out an entire afternoon of Comic-Con.
This is shaping up to be a vastly different Comic-Con experience than usual.
Made it to San Diego. In related news, now I know what it's like to drive in stop-and-go traffic with a leg cramp. Ow.
Hey, this link on your page is broken. Would you mind replacing it with a link to my totally unrelated site?
Old crowded elevator etiquette: Studiously ignore everyone you don't know. New crowded elevator etiquette: Studiously stare at your phone so you can pretend that you don't mean to be ignoring everyone.
Remember when conservatives liked the Patriot Act even though civil liberties groups warned against its potential for abuse?
There are some words you just shouldn't truncate even on a small display area. Like “deadline.”
J’s reaction to seeing the beginning of a “Little Mermaid” preview: “It’s Ponyo!” Well, sort of…
Saying people shouldn’t complain about a problem without offering a solution is like saying only doctors should talk about being sick. Identifying a problem and solving it are different (if overlapping) skill sets. That’s why software companies have QA departments, run beta tests, and accept bug reports.
Gotta love how the systems on which security patches matter most are always the same ones that really need to avoid downtime.
Adobe is moving to an all-subscription model for its creative software. That means to use Photoshop, you’re going to have to keep paying them again and again, month in, month out. The old-school Curso de Photoshop sounds a lot better now.
Spamusement! Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines! – Curso de Photoshop
Discussion from Google+:
Stacy: Wow. Just Wow. It’s hard enough for me to get $500 upgrades to the latest FrameMaker and Dreamweaver, let alone a new Illustrator license every three or four years. This pricing model is going to be hard on small-time users.
Me: I can only assume they don’t want small-time users anymore.
Stacy: Not smart to price yourself out of startups around here. You want to be the tool used from the beginning.
I'm beginning to wonder about these Facebook page stats. 17 likes and 6 individual comments, but only 3 people saw the post. Riiight…
Things did get disjointed at the end, with Mandrakk appearing out of nowhere unless you read Superman Beyond, and the two parallel narratives in the last issue, but up to that point it was remarkably straight-forward.
People were already saying they were lost with the first issue, though, and my theory is this: They were lost because they were expecting to need to know more than they actually needed to know. In a lot of cases, knowing the background of an obscure character might enhance your appreciation of a scene, but isn’t actually required to understand it, but readers who are used to recognizing everyone might have been put off by the gaps in their knowledge.
I had a theory at the time that the more knowledge of the DCU you have, the more lost you would get with Final Crisis — and a casual fan would probably have an easier time following it!
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The thing is, the New 52 reboot was rushed compared to COIE.
COIE was a 12-issue event created specifically to clean house and combine what they wanted to keep into a new reality.
Flashpoint was a stand-alone “fix the broken timeline” story that grew. Somewhere along the line, DC decided to use it as the springboard to launch the New 52. They added a double-page spread with some mumbo-jumbo about merging timelines, and drew the new costumes on Batman and Barry for the last two pages. (I can’t confirm this, but given the timeline of when Johns and Kubert started Flashpoint, when the reboot got greenlit, the story of Flashpoint itself, and all the stuff Johns talked about putting into his Flash run that didn’t make it, this makes the most sense.)
In my mind, Flashpoint and the New 52 are completely separate entities.
And speaking of things that are completely separate…
“Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato are doing amazing work.”
Yes. Yes they are.