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gtk-assistant images from 2007-05-19

Real life and real people.

Almost everything that I said online between 2001 and now is to the best of my abilities to put it together and present them, a fact.

I once had the opportunity to compliment the writer of my college newspapers police report. I said something about how difficult it is to write something that is funny and interesting when you are limited by format and material (that column was not always -- but at least one time, very very funny stuff).

I am to the best of my abilities exactly who I said I am and I am trying to do exactly what I said I was. There has been now, the real and alive people who enter into the realm that I am existing in, a sense that people write themselves based on words that I use. Whatever it is that makes a person human is hurting so much from this going on for so long, the following is a crazed rant that is in defense of ghandi and a request to please, please stop....

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Student Union in the late nineteen eighties

This image was the best I could do and the text that it accompanied was almost complete.

student-union

fried rice

There was at least a couple of semesters in the university union where you could get a large portion of fried rice for about a dollar.

Those were good years.

fried-rice

antlers

For the superbowl this year, I had trouble leaving the pre-halftime party.

The halftime show was Prince behind an unpainted tarp?

antlers

Flavor, Extract and Color Bottles

Not just more kitchen wares for the desktop, but also an interesting stroking of the Free Serif Bold M font path by GIMP.

bottles

Simple images for recipes and legends

Two recipes, a series of special holiday memories and two legends all needed a simple image.

turds

fancy cherries

In real life, the blue ones are supposed to taste like wild berry, the green ones are supposed to taste like lime, the yellow ones like lemon and the red ones aren't any fancier than usual and should simply taste like maraschino cherry.

These cherries are very pretty and fun and would be probably as much fun to play with in real life as they are to draw and write about.

cherries

Wolf Eyes

The geese did not look right on the fables and tales of wolves page.

wolf

In Honor of the Honest

I needed an image for my rotated desktop and this one seems to be perfect to explain everything that has happened to me since May of 2003. Much confusion between the keyboard and the parts of the body which ultimately determine gender.

quagmire-and-Tommer

Snail Was Here

This image has been used twice in other locations on this web site. I think it is the 'footprint' of a snail moving across wet cement to investigate a nut that had fallen there.

snail-was-here

Cookie

One moment you are animating a brush that you are certain will not be useful. The next moment, you might be remembering a cookie recipe that your mom got from a magazine in the seventies (either Family Circle or Womans Day).

cookie

Various Cans for Chili Recipes

I made these cans to test my memory and sense of proportion. As I made them and guessed about what the dimensions had looked like, I was wondering if I would be taking a photograph and comparing or if I would be writing a script which would optimize the dimensions of the paths for the amount that the container is to contain.

Either one would be just as interesting as the other. They also have both been done before.

cans

Campbells Tomato Soup

Made immortal by Andy Warhol. In my life, I have complained when they changed the label and I honestly believe that I know exactly what the contents in the can will taste like. In my 44 years of being alive, every can contains the same stuff. Stuff I do not like.

All of this pop and can culture -- without looking at a can of it and without looking at an image online of it and without looking at my own photographs of it -- will I be able to reproduce this oh so well known label here?

pop-quiz

Wonder Palette

I went shopping once, with a friend of mine for a restaurant named Drakes in Ann Arbor. It was a great trip. I learned the secret of egg salad sandwiches there. It has to be on really really white bread. Really white.

wonder-palette

An Obituary for Andersca

It is (perhaps) not often that you get to reflect on the beginnings of your own internet chat problem and see that one of the causes is that you thought the time spent chatting with a young rude swedish nose picker about world politics and other things was at the very least fun.

Andersca is somewhat dead to us now. Similarly, it is no fun to pick your nose alone on the irc so a little bit of one of my favorite bad habits is dead to me now as well.

andersca

Me and the Toy

Photograph needs to be taken and put here.

me-and-toy

Lardon

Lardon means bacon in french. They probably spell it with at least one different letter, however.

lardon

Six sides expected, only five were seen

This story should fit into the Green Bugs Backstory but I am not sure where at the moment. So it goes here for now.

purplehaze

parking-angel

In the nineties, I bought a little wind-up toy parking angel from one of my favorite catalogs.

parking-angel

A longish irc log.

stepup

greenbeads

I wanted to make an easy pretty image for this page when I began to also see the potential for an animation.

greenbeads

Bacon

Fatty pork product, or six degrees of. They have a lot in common.

bacon

Butter

Butter is different than bacon.

butter

Bald guys

When I first arrived in California, it seemed like there was a lot of people running around the place with cell phones. This hasn't changed. What has changed is that for a long while, there were a lot of bald men running around with cellphones.

How come I forgot this other guy when I put them together to see which one worked the best.

bald-guys

Sheboygan Bratwurst

Moded, edge-detected, erased and more mode; I didn't exactly follow the recipe either.

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Bald guy

I forgot that I had tried this guy out as a bald guy for my story.

bald-guy

Old Fashioned Sign

I bought the ingredients for saurbraten from here and there. Then I noticed a sign that said something about German Meat. I bought a bag of spatzle there.

old-fashioned-sign

Beetle Images

I am getting a lot of mileage out of this.

beetle

Cellphones

I did not have a photograph of the original speaker for the purpose of this image. Lets just say I had some casting problems. I ended up using Ed Norton for the role of the german butcher for this image.

cellphones