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| Off for Xmas! | Dec 22, 2022 7:54 PM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:
^ That's an ink sketch for a reader supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign. Thanks to everyone supporting the comic! : D
And that's me off for my usual once a year holiday bash. ^ )^ I'll be back to work on a new page on Tuesday, January 3rd! ~~Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year!~~ **\o/**
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The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
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| Pencils down, ready for painting | Dec 21, 2022 10:45 PM PST | url |
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Pencils for the next A* page are done, to paint tomorrow!
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| Ooh except I'll have art to take to the PO | Dec 20, 2022 11:12 PM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:I'll be off for the holidays starting on Friday, woo woo! I mean uh, just a heads up. : )
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The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
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| Sketchin; | Dec 19, 2022 7:37 PM PST | url |
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^ Pencil sketch for a reader supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign. ^ _^ Huge thanks to everyone supporting the comic!
Got the next page drawn today; tomorrow I paint!
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| There's always next week 'p' | Dec 17, 2022 3:30 AM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Page done, now for some sleep, sheesh. Let's get fresh for next week!!
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The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
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| Next: P-A-I-Nnn--TING! | Dec 16, 2022 2:29 AM PST | url |
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Drawing happened today—I think! Painting should be next!
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| Web tinkering instead of drawing: wrap rap | Dec 14, 2022 6:06 PM PST | url |
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I did NOT get the next A* page drawn today—I was drawn into tinkering with web scripts instead. Not nearly as interesting as the next scene in a space adventure, but I suppose it's got to be done now and then to make sure the site keeps being accessible for as many people as possible.
Specifically, I found that I needed to make sure very long strings of text in the blog don't end up breaking the page layout and shoving everything off the side of the browser window. There's a CSS parameter made to guard against that very thing, but it wasn't working in Google's Chrome browser, because it turns out that Google decided they didn't like it, and were going to ignore it. Instead, they liked a competing parameter, and expected everyone to use that instead.
Flashback of the old web bubble Netscape browser wars! Anyway, hopefully it's all gonna work for pretty much everything now. In fact, I suppose I may as well use this opportunity to make sure; it only takes a surprisingly short text string to blow through a page layout on a mobile phone browser, depending on how it's being used, but I'll put in a ridiculously overlong one here to test it even in computer-based browsers too:
thisisareallylongtextstringlikesayanakedurlicouldaccidentallyhavepastedintooneofthousandsofblogentriesfromthepastuhwhatisitfourteenyearsorwhateveranditwouldhavebeenshovingsomeofthenewsarchivepagesofftothesideandsoforth
So that should be peacefully wrapping inside the blog text box now rather than blowing straight out the side of your browser, and if it isn't, I will scream. = o
Anyway tomorrow, to the drawing board!
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| Fusion briefly breaks even | Dec 13, 2022 8:30 PM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:American scientists announced that the fusion experiment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California last week "for the first time produced more energy in a fusion reaction than was used to ignite it." This has been the milestone everyone has been shooting for in the field for quite some time, so it's firm sign that progress is being made. 192 "lasers focused an enormous amount of heat on a miniature spherical capsule [...] the result was a superheated plasma environment where a reaction generated about 1.5 times more energy than was contained in the light used to produce it."
Of course, operating the whole project still took more energy and it was all very expensive to boot, so there's still a long way to go before we're all roasting our fusion burgers, but the results "exceeded expectations," and "advances in recent years mean the technology is likely to be widely used in 'a few decades' rather than 50 or 60 years as previously expected."
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The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
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| Let's say tomorrow! | Dec 12, 2022 9:52 PM PST | url |
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Pencils for the next A* page are done, I think I hope I think! Which means painting tomorrow!
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| Episode 45 starts! | Dec 09, 2022 9:31 PM PST | url |
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Added 2 new A* pages:Off we go into the wild purple yonder. : )
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The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
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| Drawing episode 45 is go! | Dec 08, 2022 6:39 PM PST | url |
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Got the drawing for the first page of episode 45 done today. Painting tomorrow!
^ That's an ink sketch I got to send to a reader for their support of the comic through my Patreon campaign. : ) Huge thanks to everyone helping me with the comic!! = D
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| Episode 45 starts tomorrow! | Dec 07, 2022 8:32 PM PST | url |
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Got some dialogue down so all set to start drawing episode 45 tomorrow. : D
Here's an ink sketch I got to send to a reader for supporting the comic through the A* Patreon campaign:
Thanks to everyone helping with the comic! : D
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| Tinkering away | Dec 06, 2022 3:11 PM PST | url |
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^ Pencil sketch for a reader supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign. Big ol' thanks to everyone supporting the comic! : D
I'm gonna take one more day after today for tooling around, then we'll be launching out in pursuit in episode 45!
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| A* episode 44 e-book available! | Dec 05, 2022 9:19 PM PST | url |
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The episode 44 e-book is now available on the episodes & e-books page! : )
If you're a supporter of the A* Patreon campaign at the e-book level or above, check your email; if I've done them all right you'll have a download link for the e-book in your inbox. : )
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| End of episode 44! 45 starts next week! | Dec 01, 2022 9:58 PM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:That's the end of episode 44! Don't worry though, the pursuit gets underway in just two or three days or well however long it takes me to get the previous episode backed up and turned into an e-book and my next ducks lined up and that sort of thing—which is usually about two to three days. : D
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