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Brain freeze Gary This comic took me all of Sunday to create. Normally they don't take that long, but this time, I just stared at the blank screen. I hit a total block of ideas. There are people I know who would tell me, "duuuude.. wait for inspiration.", but that's seems like a bad idea. There are people I've heard speak who say that you simply have to work through it. That sounds a bit more likely, though it is a lot harder. So I sat there most of the day staring at it. I put in the movie Head by the Monkees. That was a cool but trippy movie, and it didn't help me come up with any sane coherent thoughts. Since TV was failing me for ideas, I thought through my work week, hoping I would find something, anything of some comedic value. A friend had IM'ed me an idea, unfortunately it was on another computer, one I didn't have access to, so that was out. Last week was pretty normal. I did my standard two hour each way commute, to then program for 8 hours to leav and come home exhausted, so I was having trouble picking out anything special. Then it hit me. Earlier in the week I had been reviewing an email to see why something had changed, and if the code was needed when I made the comment. "Wow. That's a vague and useless comment. 'A lot of changes.' Really descriptive." And then it was pointed out that it was my comment. Quickly I started to defend it. "Oh, well, I didn't know what the changes were for.. blah blah blah." Basically I did the completely wrong thing. Luckily my co-worker called me on it. "You were jsut about to berate the consultant for doing this, and now that it's your doing, you start to backtrack." It was true. I was being an ass, and because of that, I have come up with my programming rules. Somehow I was able to break the mental block and cope. Yay for arrogance!

PS Gary Other items of note this past weekend, Stargate SG-1 ended. We finished rebuilding my dad's porch. Stargate Atlantis had it's season finaly. I hit my finger with a sledge hammer, I hit my other finger with a regular hammer, and I hit my head into a low hanging ceiling.

PPS Gary My brain freeze is over, I thought up a new comic on my 2 hour ride to work this morning.

PPPS Gary Fyi, I'll try to never use PS again on my comments, instead, I'll come up with real titles.. or something like that.

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