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2013-05-17 00:50:08 (11 comments, 10 reshares, 35 +1s)

The Post-Apocalyptic Google Reader World

So! I asked where Google Reader fans were going to migrate to after its untimely demise. There seem to be four main camps. I'm also going to be publishing this publicly, so don't be alarmed if you see it elsewhere.

1.) Sadness.

It'll be OK. At least there's new Daft Punk and Arrested Development this month.

2.) Once Bitten, Twice Marked All As Read

Some folks are going back to a desktop RSS reader, like lovers once spurned who need to learn to trust again. Vienna and NetNewsWire are the most popular options here. I personally use Vienna as my secondary reader to check my own feed. It's very free and very good.

http://www.vienna-rss.org

3.) Fuck It, We'll Do It LIVE

Another interesting minority are the people who are opting to run... more »

2013-05-09 03:36:30 (70 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Just out of curiosity, what are folks who use Google Reader migrating over to?

2013-05-09 03:33:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

It's hard out there for a sexy robot.

2013-05-07 01:09:43 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

I think my favorite part of the Nexus 7 is the ability to have multiple users on a machine. I know I'm not a special snowflake for having a couple of different Gmail profiles. I wish the ipad did that.

2013-05-03 01:55:51 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

LOOK MA, I'M A ANDROIDS DEVELOPER

2013-05-02 19:47:11 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

IT'S AVENGING TIME, JUSTICE LEAGUE!!!

2013-05-02 19:27:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

TWERKIN IT

2013-05-02 18:03:55 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 18 +1s)

I finally broke down and Nexus Sevened today. Hoping to learn how to build something interesting on here!

2013-04-29 03:37:23 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 15 +1s)

I kinda want to try Google Glass, but I'd also want to disguise it somehow so no one knew I had it.

2013-04-27 15:52:31 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

2013-04-15 04:28:05 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

2013-03-25 18:43:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Yet another of my insane Kickstarter rewards in progress: A nice man named James pledged to get this shirt made. It's *metallic.*

http://store.dieselsweeties.com/products/robot-buddies-gleaming-paragons-of-friendship-shirt

2013-03-14 03:21:32 (18 comments, 5 reshares, 31 +1s)

http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/3282

Tonight's comic just found out about Google Reader and is currently being shared via Google+ which is quite meta and complainy, if you think about it. It's also available via standard RSS. ( http://www.dieselsweeties.com/feeds/ )

2013-03-14 02:42:04 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 19 +1s)

Google seems to cancel everything I like. Maybe if I use Gmail, that would teach them a lesson.

2013-03-12 01:27:34 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

Week three of Project Hubris AKA recoloring and re-uploading my old syndicated comic has just gone live. Seven comics, fresh from the oven!

2013-02-27 13:25:29 (9 comments, 2 reshares, 33 +1s)

Looks like Baby Andy is the breakout superstar of 2013, if reactions to a single panel in last night's comic are to be believed.

If you've never read my comics or have fallen out of the habit, today's strip + the next one will catch you up completely. Pass it on!

http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/3271

2013-02-25 15:02:21 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 23 +1s)

I wonder if The Onion is looking for a new social media person this morning. Call me.

2013-02-05 04:10:04 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Can someone please send me a donut through the internet?

2013-02-05 03:46:53 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Here's a cool trick I saw recently on my way to work- Gallon milk jugs as hand protectors when riding a bike in the cold. 

2012-12-02 15:54:47 (8 comments, 8 reshares, 34 +1s)

Hello, Team Plus.

I'm good but bananas for Christmas, how are you?


http://store.dieselsweeties.com

2012-12-02 15:53:17 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

A fine short bite of Kindle-friendly goodness, if I may say so.

2012-11-13 15:32:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2012-11-13 15:13:11 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

Sometimes I hate my brain. I'm still depressed by the gulf between my imagined version of Sith and the reality.

http://www.dieselsweeties.com/blog/?p=876

2012-09-25 16:54:08 (2 comments, 7 reshares, 18 +1s)

As dreamed upon a midnight dreary last week, I give you the Ravenn Diagram! Thanks to all who helped tweak colors.

http://store.dieselsweeties.com/products/ravenn-diagram-shirt

2012-09-25 16:06:10 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

2012-09-25 02:32:09 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Hey, +Andrew Bell! Like the sticker on my laptop?

2012-09-24 13:08:02 (15 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

I somehow managed to not sweat the iPhone 5 all weekend. This is a personal best for me. Kinda got my fingers crossed there will be a 7" iPad with data plans available, because I have big pockets and fuck telephones.

(A 4G Nexus 7 sounds like it might have worked too, but I don't have a ton of experience with Android and it'd be a bit of a leap of faith.)

2012-09-21 18:33:31 (12 comments, 11 reshares, 25 +1s)

This shirt idea came to me in a dream last night. Thoughts?

Props to +Ariana Osborne  for the loan of her bird drawing!

2012-08-23 14:06:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

If you're not reliving the Fantastic Four from the beginning along with Matt Fraction, you're missing out on a master class in bombastic greatness.

2012-08-02 02:42:54 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Need some music this Monday morning? Check out the latest episode of Cloudio:

2012-07-07 02:02:22 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Roll call! Who's going to San Diego Comicon next week? I missed last year, but will be back this year… with Red Robot thumb drives, socks and t-shirts.

2012-05-31 04:20:43 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 29 +1s)

2012-05-02 02:24:27 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

Are you going to ROFLCON at MIT this weekend? I'll be there with Sam Brown of explodingdog.com to do a panel on webcomics Friday afternoon. You should come. It's one of very few things that get me to go to Boston.

2012-02-26 01:23:45 (14 comments, 0 reshares, 28 +1s)

I don't think I've posted my Red Robot thumb drive sample images here. I really, really, really can't wait to get these in and SWIM in data.

I guess I need to start looking into a 10" Android tablet.

2012-02-16 13:28:56 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Diesel Sweeties is doing this awesome Kickstarter project for DRM-free e-books. If he hits $35,000, he is going to drive cross country to give Wil Wheaton a Pac-Man arcade machine. I think Wil should have Pac-Man. XD

2012-02-15 14:44:15 (11 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

So, I'm doing a Kickstarter to make those DRM-free ebooks I was talking about a reality. It's been kind of ridiculous and extremely fun. I hope to keep adding to it.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dieselsweeties/diesel-sweeties-ebook-stravaganza-3000

BUT I am here, amongst the more technical crowd to ask a more technical question. I'm afraid that working on so many comics in a 3-4 month period will re-wreck my mouse arm like what happened when I was doing syndicated strips. I like to solve with technology before medicine and would love to know if anyone has used a Dell multitouch monitor with a Mac running Lion?


I used a combination mouse/trackpad/Cintiq two-handed technique at the computer, but feel like using my fingers on the monitor in Photoshop would be a real boon. (I mouse right and draw left, using a pen for mousy tasks screws me up.)
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2012-01-30 03:39:24 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

I can't be the only person who puts coffee grounds under their tongue like snuff.

2012-01-26 19:53:26 (18 comments, 3 reshares, 15 +1s)

tl;dr: Webcomics as iBooks files look very promising. Readers are excited about the idea, I want to produce more work this way if I can afford it.

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It's been a few days since I put my iBooks comic experiment up and it's been a lot more popular than expected. I'm honestly not sure how many times it's been downloaded. My own server is reporting almost 8,000 downloads but that doesn't take into account the first burst which I had hosted on my Dropbox. (It was enough to get the public folder shut off... not sure I was supposed to use it that way. Sorry, Dropbox!)

I think it would be safe to say at least 10,000 people grabbed the file. Not bad for a file created by software which has only been out for a week on a single platform!

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The responses so far have been overwhelmingly positive. Since getting covered by a lot of... more »

2012-01-24 04:08:05 (9 comments, 1 reshares, 24 +1s)

So apparently you can change the file extension on an iBook from .ibooks to .zip, then browse inside of it and swap the image files for more efficiently compressed ones. In case you were wondering how insane I am.

2012-01-23 15:58:58 (10 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

Do you have an iPad with iBooks 2 installed? Want to help me test a little experiment?

Sorry to users of other platforms, but this is the only format for this today. I'm still figuring it out.

2012-01-12 04:09:45 (62 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

all wings report in

2011-12-29 04:03:51 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 25 +1s)

I found my fake ID.

OR IS IT?

2011-12-22 02:45:29 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

I couldn't find my knife today, so I invented the graphic design equivalent to minimalist running shoes. It worked really well. Great control. Gotta make sure to wipe the machine oil off the blade first.

2011-12-20 05:10:55 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 26 +1s)

I bet there's a universe where Biggie played Worf and +Wil Wheaton was in the video for Mo' Money Mo' Problems.

2011-12-20 02:41:00 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

I can't believe I never thought of putting two Magic Trackpads side by side before.

2011-12-16 03:29:48 (17 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

my meaty human friends, have any of you tried a wacom inkling yet?

2011-12-12 05:32:29 (9 comments, 2 reshares, 15 +1s)

Can I get a tattoo of a working, usable electronic circuit yet? If no, fuck it, I want off this sad excuse for a future.

2011-12-09 05:30:16 (40 comments, 4 reshares, 67 +1s)

THEORY: If Star Wars was set long ago and far away, with a different process of evolution causing almost the same Humans to arise … We wouldn't need to use any form of contraception with people from their galaxy. Right?

+1 if you like this theory. Any mentions of metal bikinis will be struck dead by Force Lightning.

2011-12-08 06:23:16 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 14 +1s)

Night Coffee: Teach Your Organs A Lesson

2011-12-07 04:58:05 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

// elaborate video parody of "do you know the way to san jose" starring google employees who get free bus rides into town and never need to know the way to san jose.

(not sure if that's an actual route.)