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Jan 27 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Have arrived at the RV repair place in Maryland to pick up the repaired Lizardmobile. @LizardbethArt is doing the careful twenty point checklist. I am taking random photos of broken buses. Image
The problem is that the supply chain is so borked that the parts for all the big vehicles are backordered to hell, so it took like three months to get the Lizardmobile fixed.
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This one says “Presidential Staff.” Image
Somebody just drove up in a SmartCar, so now we have the complete size spectrum.
I made it to the Welcome to Virginia rest stop where I was gonna meet @LizardbethArt as we leapfrog south.

Liz…made it back to the mechanic.
I feel like vehicles are supposed to have those?
(Look, I brought my laptop and I have nowhere to be for awhile. I knew the odds were against us.)

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Jan 29
My first impressions of the new Pokémon game: If you ever really wanted Skyrim, but Pokémon, this may be the game for you.
Also, most Pokémon games are super cheery and life-affirming and random strangers tell you that life is about learning to live in harmony with people and nature and Pokémon.

In this game, you are informed repeatedly that if you don’t work, you don’t eat.
(I personally find this contrast hilarious, but I’m me.)
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Jan 28
Preach. 35 is a lot of chickens. Making a garden produce enough food to feed a family is a JOB. And that doesn’t even get into the issues of storage, distribution, etc. And I say this as someone who loves to garden and who has space!
Their next stage is “if that family also kept two hogs.”

Friends, there is no power on earth that could entice me to keep hogs. If you put a gun to my head and pointed at a pair of shoats, I would commend my soul to the saints and tell you to pull the trigger.
Wait, I misread. TEN hogs?!

I’d load the gun for you. Hogs are not hobby livestock.
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Jan 27
That horrible moment when you realize that you should have worked out a timeline for the fantasy series ages ago, and are now grimly trying to work out, based on the mention of people’s ages, what year X must have happened.
(I am trying to figure out what year the Saint of Steel died and it’s turned into a complex algebra equation with a lot of “Stephen is 37 in X+3 and Galen is 20 in Year 0 (the Clocktaur War) so solve for X…” while I dig through manuscripts trying to find people’s ages.)
Okay, this is where I got.
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Jan 26
Okay, you’ve all heard my trampled Neil Gaiman at the nacho bar story, so let me tell you my weirdass Lou Ferrigno story.
Right, so I was at a con. A terrible doomed con. A con which was held in an abandoned department store in a small town in North Carolina, organized by a local comic shop that was…ah…peculiar.
Somehow or other, the con organizers had convinced Lou Ferrigno, the former Incredible Hulk, to come out, and believed this would be a big draw. Also the guy who played Captain Marvel on Shazam! in the Seventies, and a couple other even more obscure actors.
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Jan 25
Oh glorious day! My most beloved contractor, the gentleman who built Shep’s yurt platform, has agreed to do the foundation work on Lizardhaus!

It has been A NIGHTMARE.
The original contractor, found via the realtor, agreed back in July. He would start in August.

August came and went. In mid-September, he said he’d send a guy out to meet me.
I met the hired guy. He had a Punisher skull on his truck. Whatever. He looked in the crawlspace, shrugged, said yeah, no problem, he’d start soon.

October came and he had not started, and the contractor stopped returning my texts.
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Dec 6, 2021
So this weekend, armed with a couple of AI art programs, I started noodling around to see what I could do, and if I could put together one of my Weird Little Comic ideas using mostly retouched computer generated imagery.

These nine pages were the result.
Using one program to render line work on the output from other programs leaves some fairly obvious no-human-involved artifact in places, even retouched. (I drew the figures, obviously.)
It works better in some places than others. Since most of the AI art programs output very small, I was splicing and dicing a lot to get enough to fit—this is 8.5 x 11, 300 dpi.
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