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  • Looking Back, Going Forward

    Monday, June 11th, 2007

    My week off was much needed and well used. I put a couple of projects to bed and started more to replace them. I have several very firm goals this fall which stand to be huge shots in the arm to the amount of time I can spend working on the Attic. More on those [...]

    Scene From An Office

    Thursday, May 17th, 2007

    This has been rattling about in my head for a few weeks and I need to let it out so it’ll stop bugging me.
    Frank calls Tim into his office right at 4:55 PM on a Friday. On his desk is a conspicuous slip of pink paper. Frank closes the door and, inviting Tim to sit [...]

    Radial Plots - Push Me/Pull You Through the Gates

    Friday, May 5th, 2006

    I’ve been chewing over the Honeycomb Engine’s Radial Plot Diagram, which I unveiled a few posts back (link), and decided that I was unhappy with a couple of things about it. So, here’s the revised version, followed by a discussion of the two major changes and the philosophy behind them.

    Hm… First, a few general notes. [...]

    Radial Plots and Dialog Concerns

    Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

    This is Part the Second of as many posts as I can think to write on the topic of radial plots for our Honeycomb Engine™.
    Chris asked for clarification as to which direction the plots were intended to run - from the hub outward or the rim inward. I suppose I could have been clearer about [...]

    To the Unidentified Man on the Number 28

    Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005

    Today’s sketch comes with a bonus poem. I wrote the poem 15 years ago, I sketched the head yesterday. He grinned smugly up off the paper at me and I dug up the poem (easy to do with a digital file cabinet)

    I saw Smug on the Bus Today.
    Smiling condescendingly at the at the [...]