I’ve long been a fan of Matt Inman’s “The Oatmeal“. I admire his work, and his creative vision. I recommend this little comic essay on creativity.
Tag: Comics
The Self-Driving Car Named Carl
ahem
Perhaps I’m a bit vain, but I do delight with pop culture things that use my name.
Incoming Personal Calls Over Time
This is far too perfect. This infographic sums up my phone’s activity pretty darn well.
Another one from xkcd.com
Defining “Grown Up”
I love this comic from xkcd.
It sums up a key idea I’ve been meditating on lately: that we get to define our lives. We get to choose what “success” means to us. We don’t need to be stuck in the destructive loops of our culture’s history. We can find a new way forward. That’s a key beauty of life today.
When I consider Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain’s suicides, I think that there’s something inherently wrong with our culture’s definitions about success. We need to work to define “success” so that we’re feeling fulfilled as we progress. I can’t imagine anything more miserable to achieve everything we’d dreamt of, and feeling empty and miserable.
Captain America: A Haiku
Over the decades
His journey reflecting us
And the ways we’ve changed
Good Ol’ Dilbert and To-Do Lists
Well, I still like making to-do lists. To be more specific, I like checking the boxes off as “complete”.
Comics and Dealing With Destruction
Trying to relax and fall asleep, I came across this video. One thing I often think about in comics: how do these cities afford to rebuild, calamity after calamity?
They can’t be getting covered by any insurance provider.
Anyway, the random things I consider.
Watching the Flash with my son
My son and I have been watching the Flash on Netflix. It’s been a fun little bonding thing.
I love the show. Watching Barry Allen, and the people surrounding him evolve really delights me. And the ensemble of cast and crew gel very well.
We’ve made a pledge to not watch without the other, so that were in the same place in the continuum. Now I need to add that I grew up reading Flash comics. So there are times I see what’s coming since I now the new characters. But they’re done a good enough job tweaking their TV universe that you can’t assume a character’s comicbook identity will track. It’s a clever way to give homage to the DC legacy but not be terribly predictable.
Now, at times they flirt with the edge of cheesy. Every one of their Christmas episodes makes me worry. Though I have a bias about the weird games screenwriters play with any sort of holiday, but they’ve done well so far. Yet, I still wonder about the need for holiday specials, but that’s just me.
Now we’re about halfway through the second season. Netflix has through season three. It’ll be fun, especially if we get more seasons. If not, we’ll then move over to Arrow and keep the DC stream going.
PhD Comics, Sisyphus and Life In Academia
I’ve long enjoyed the work of Jorge at PhD comics. This one delights more than most…which says a lot, really.
I like them all, at one level or another.
Infinite Recursive Loops
I do adore Jorge Cham’s comics.
Now, this seems to apply to far more than academia….
Have a great Thursday, folks!
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