Steampunk Wayter

Definitely took more time with this one, hence it looks slightly polished.  Maybe one and a half hours.  I’m enjoying this.

steampunk barbero

15 minutes.

Steampunk Mekaniko

15 minutes, photoshop.  This is an interesting idea that deserves more than 15 minutes, but i wanted to finish something real quick.  I’m imagining a whole set of steampunk folk, like labanderos, tuberos, and barberos.

Urban messiah

10 minutes. Photoshop.

Wanderous.org

That’s right, we got our own domain!  Nothing’s changed really, except that you can now get to the site by typing wanderous.org into the address bar.  It’s really just a redirect kind of thing that wordpress allows you to for the price of ten bucks.  I don’t exactly know why it costs 10 bucks to do that, but it’s a lot easier to pimp out wanderous.org instead of wanderous.wordpress.com, so I’m happy.  If I ever learn how to do CSS, then we’ve got it made.

Philippine logomania

This’ll be a bitch to cut if I ever decide to make a stencil out of it.

Mars Voltaic

This is what happens when you listen to the Mars Volta for too long. 15 minutes on photoshop.

weird star girl

An exercise in design that I played with until I tired of it.

You’re deaf, not retarded.

So in England there is a debate about deaf embryos.  Essentially the government is saying that any embryos to be born using IVF (in vitro fertilization) should be genetically screened for defects such as deafness.  Some deaf people are up in arms about this, saying well what if we want deaf children?  Mr. famous deaf man, who I won’t name because I don’t want hordes of angry british deaf people pounding at my blog-gates, says that he doesn’t feel that deafness is a disability, and there is a rich deaf culture and that it’s tantamount to discrimination to force him to choose a non-deaf child, never mind the fact that most rational people would want their children to be better than they are.  To have all 5 senses instead of 4.

Let’s get this straight.  Deafness is a disability.  It is a physical handicap.  It’s not an imagined inferiority like being black or gay, it’s the fact that you can’t us one of your 5 basic senses and is entirely different from having a cock and wanting more cock and being a darker shade of brown. I don’t pity or condescend towards deaf people, nor do I openly evangelize the beauty of deafness.  It is good to integrate deaf people into society, it is good to treat them as regular people with regular jobs and regular lives.  I’ve heard that people with disabilities have better sex because their lack of one sense makes the other senses richer.  But you cannot impose deafness on an unborn child just because you feel that it’s your right to do so.  It’s the same as choosing a non-deaf child.  It’s discrimination to a higher degree because you’re selecting a specific trait, ie deafness, to impose on your child.

I mean seriously, if I was going to pick some shit to endow my child with, I’d go for long schlong or sculpted chin, not fucking deafness. In the end, couple going for IVF should have the same chances as a regular couple, just pick a random embryo and deal with the result, whatever it may be.  Shit I almost hope that deaf dude gets a blind kid, see how that works out for him.

No actually, you’re the ones who don’t seem to understand

This rant was brought about by my annoyance at some Israeli kid telling the BBC “What people don’t understand is that kids 14 years old, 15 years old, 16 years old, high school…kids…died here yesterday…very hard, I saw my friends die, yesterday evening…” after 8 students were shot in a Jerusalem school.   Afterwards, their headmistress lambasted the Islamic religion, saying their commandments are all about killing and killing everyone they can, while the torah encourages them to do good things for other people.

I guess someone needs to tell the Israeli military to go read their Torahs then, since their continuing attacks on Palestininans which kill men, women, and children as young as a year old indiscriminately make the body count of the school attack pale in comparison.  They say it is their right, because they are protecting the Israeli nation, to kill as many people as they can to get to a handful of terrorists.  And all the while they forget they are merely sowing the seeds of another terrorist cell, as children who watch their families die resolve to take up arms against the perpetrators of the crime visited upon them.

I’m not saying what that man did was right.  I understand the shock of an incident like this can cause people to say stupid things.  But if the Israeli nation refuses to acknowledge its sins, then there will never be a bridge towards reconciliation, and the war will never end.

Batman lego gear! Suhweeeeeeet!

Right, So I’ve been trying to be a good geek, not buying anything superfluous or unnecessary like action figures, comics, games and whatnot, but when I saw these things I just had to have them, especially since I’m a sale whore. I got me some keychains, and a 3-pack of Batman, Penguin, and two-face in lego form! Behold, my Batman lego gear:

(1)5 minute sketches : ‘Sup homes?

Just trying to keep loose and sketchy.

On Language

Found this tidbit while reading Lee Kuan Yew’s entry in Wikipedia:

Designating official languages

Lee continued the colonial legacy of imposing English as the language of the workplace and the common language among the different races, while recognising Malay, Mandarin Chinese, and Tamil as the other three official languages. All state schools use English as the medium of instruction, although there are also lessons for their respective mother tongues.

Like I said before, that’s what we should do.  Have English as the language that bridges the communication gap.  Have it as the medium instruction and shore up the little advantage we have over other southeast asian nations.  At the same time cultural groups that speak a certain dialect can freely use it amongst themselves and keep it alive in their land.  It shouldn’t be the government’s fucking job to keep your language alive, it should be yours.

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On housing

The thought of taking ten years to pay for something makes my head spin.

Game idea stream of thought

A game about mice and politics.  You run a nation of mice.  Your mission is to improve the standard of living so you can join the international league of creatures.  Mice, because mice are cute, and the game must be cute. The game is subversive.  The game will fool children and their parents into thinking they’re buying a kiddie game but in reality its a very serious game about politics and family and how the two can intertwine disastrously.  Economy is nuts and berries.  Every so often a mouse in your family will approach you asking for a government project he can skim berries off of.  This happens frequently.  If you refuse them, they will try to raise a rebellion against you.  If you give in to them, a whistleblowing mouse will appear out of nowhere and crush your credibility, and a rebellion will ensue.  There are no easy answers.

Changing the Philippines starts with love, as cheesy as that sounds

Cliff: All Arroyo wants is to take care of herself and her corrupt little brood. So why is she any worse than any of us then?

Found this on a blog, and it holds more truth to me than the “inter-faith” rally that was held last friday.  How indeed is GMA worse than us, when she’s merely practicing what every Filipino has been brought up to do, which is to take care of family first, above all else.  Maybe friends as well, but that’s already pushing it.  Everyone else can go to hell.  Don’t deny it.  You may not be one of them, but the majority of Filipinos feel this way, and it’s one of the roots of our current situation.  Rallies won’t solve the political crisis, only a cultural shift in thinking will.  Once every Filipino starts trying to take care of every other Filipino, that’s when the change will occur, in tiny increments.