tags: coffee, open source, creative commons, GIMP, postaday2011
Tag: Coffee
My mother believed in having the lights on. She would seem to revel in the presence of television and radio background noise, several lamps on at once, and fans and air conditioners working together in the summer. She was not an environmentalist, but she did like being comfortable and illuminated. Despite my green views, I find it hard to fault her when it gave her such pleasure but I cringe a little at her former carbon footprint.
tags: mom, lights, electricity, light switch, environment, environmentalism, conservation, sustainability, drawing, wacom, Inkscape, open source, creative commons
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So later today (this is yesterday’s sketch) we’re going to say our final goodbyes to mom. She was a beautiful woman in lots of different ways.
Mom always had coffee brewed and waiting on the counter, often cold. It sometimes sat for hours and hours, but she would just put about 8 ounces in a cup, microwave it for a minute and 11 seconds, and set it up with an entire scoop of hot cocoa mix, a packet of sugar substitute, and an entire scoop of non dairy creamer. I was at least 17 before I knew what coffee actually tasted like, but I drank her concoction from the age of about 10 on. Hers tastes far better, but it makes everything else in the world taste a little plain.
tags: mom, coffee, kitchen, recipe, overdoing, extremes, memory, design, inkscape, drawing. wacom, 365, open source, creative commons, sharism
So this is a request from Dave Reynolds, who I have an ongoing battle with about coffee. I suggest that no one be subjected to the nonsense they sell as coffee at Dunkin’ Donuts and he says that Starbucks only sells pretentious, overpriced bitterness. Just like I like it. At any rate, very recently he suggested a sketch in which a Dunkin Donuts cup relieves itself on a Starbucks cup in the way that Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes) often does with Ford and Chevy logos on the back of trucks of the other make. I thought it was a great and funny idea, and decided to do it right away. Especially since I think that the analogy is right for the taste of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee (#OHNOHEDIINT!) Thanks for the inspiration Dave, and I hope someday when Starbucks buys Dunkin Donuts and shuts them all down, we’ll be able to drink coffee together in peace. 🙂
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So my friend Robert has been trying to get me into gaming. He alerted me to the fact that the gaming platform called Steam was coming to Mac OS a few months back, and they offered a free game called Portal as an incentive to get you to download and install the engine. I loved the game, a mix of strategy, first person play, and a manipulation of the physical world that is just amazing. One mission from the game involves having to travel with a weighted companion cube throughout the level, and without giving too much away, you end up having to do something horrible to it at the end of the level. Since it’s just a bunch of metal, you needn’t care so much, but many do. Robert asked me to do a sketch based on my feelings about this event in the game. So, here’s my note of apology to the weighted companion cube, with an acceptable excuse, I hope. 🙂