31May/100
Turnabout Insomnia
The Mrs. and I were up long past dawn wrapping up the final case in the Phoenix Wright trilogy. I'll... probably... do a write-up on the series at some point, for somewhere, if only to justify our obsession as research. But I'm up at this hour now, unable to sleep, so I'm finally able to catch up with a few things after the long break while I was out of town. I'll have some real content to speak of later this week, hopefully--if nothing else, the next comics column goes up Tuesday morning--but let's start by cleaning out my tab list:
- Tim O'Neil did a fantastic write-up on the values and drawbacks of the Mandarin as Iron Man's arch-nemesis, which is particularly relevant with his likely appearance in Iron Man 3.
- People venting on terrible working conditions at Diamond. Grain-of-salt reading, but not exactly hard to believe, either.
- I don't know why, out of all the silly pop thought articles I read a day, I was so taken with this note about the unhealthiest chain restaurant foods, maybe because I've noticed my weight not-so-steadily ballooning over the last two years, maybe because watching the KFC Double Down become a meme became tiresome very quickly.
- Speaking of memes, and aren't we always: another day, another Garfield thing. I thought this was cool: taking the color averages of a whole year's worth of strips and analyzing the pattern. The results, of course, will not surprise you.
- Shilling for someone I don't know: I first caught wind of the awesome craft work of Eyes5 over at the forums for MSPaint Adventures (about which more in this week's comics column), but their latest creation, dolls of Nu from Chrono Trigger, was so far up my alley that I couldn't help but point folks over to the sight.
It's been a really strange couple of months, and things haven't gone according to plan at all, but I am sincerely praying that the rough patch has passed. We'll see.