- Your
Guide to Wunderland
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New this week: Chapter
85, in which Dave regrets throwing away the strange black
package
lagniappe (lan'-yap, lan-yap')
n. a small gift given a customer by a merchant at the
time of a purchase, broadly: something given or obtained gratuitously,
or by way of good measure.
Sirens :-)
- A deacon, his wife,
The Serpent, and naked Nell
from Ally McBeal!
The Truman Show
I saw this mindblower last summer and liked
it so much I made myself a pin like the one in the film, reading
"How's
it Going to End?" Now I finally have it on video and
I'm half-watching it over and over again. (Alison said recently,
"You watch movies like other people listen to albums.")
But I see I didn't get the button design quite right; the real
one used a non-serifed font, with the text in all caps.
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- Thursday, May 6, 1999
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Contagious
Dreams Update: We still have a frightening amount of
work to be done, but we're making great progress and should be
ready to open the new store by next week. Not that you can tell
from looking at the site... much of what we've been doing lately
is invisible infrastructural-type stuff. Kristin's
been building an incredible new automated system for us, which
is going to streamline our order fulfillment process and allow
us to handle much greater sales volume with more efficiency than
ever before.
Ever since the days of Icehouse
Games, we've been doing much of our business management the
old fashioned way: using carbon-paper technology to create hand-printed
sales receipts, writing out mailing labels by hand, and entering
sales into the accounting program on the computer at the end
of the quarter (or the year, if we're really far behind). As
our sales volume has increased over the past six months, this
has become increasingly tiresome. So, Kristin has finally gotten
around to putting her Information Systems expertise to good use,
and has built us a system that will dump new sales data directly
into our database, and allow us to print up beautifully formatted
sales receipts, complete with a peel-off mailing label. It's
gonna rock! (She's also been printing up lots of nice looking
purchase orders... the process of stocking up on inventory is
underway!)
Fluxx
Update: The Bad News is that the blanks we've been expecting
any day now seem to have vanished without a trace. Carta Mundi
says they were printed, but now they are nowhere to be found.
But the Good News is that sales are going great... ICE has already
sold 60% of the print run, and has started planning for the Fourth
Printing. And they promise that this time, we'll get blanks.
This week I finally unearthed the originals for a slim little
children's book I created for the Empire
Publications label back in 1988, entitled The
Cake that Baked Itself. Even then I took delight in depicting
characters without arms who somehow perform amazing feats, so
fans of my current cartooning
effort will be eager to see this humorous tale of a bunch
of pantry staples who cook themselves into a birthday cake. It's
available now in our gift
shop for just $2.
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 Don't
forget to play!
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I hear
they're making a new Spiderman movie. I hope they can get Elton
John to play Doc Oc... he looks just like him!
"Ideas
go BOINK when they bounce off of other people."
- Alison
A
pet peeve of mine is the phrase "software program."
It's redundant! All computer programs are software. That's what
software is: a computer program. So referring to a piece of software
as a "software program" is like calling a refrigerator
a "refrigerator icebox".
