Painfully Hopeful

A Comic Thought

I was not going to do one of these posts, but eventually I just had to. 2016 was, indeed, a mess. The politics of my native country sunk into the realm of reality TV, more icons from my childhood died than I care to admit, and people all around me pretty much seemed to give…

A Year of Creative Output

I have an Apple Pencil now. Suddenly, I feel dangerous…[/caption]Today marks my second consecutive year of blogging (nearly) every day, and I’m very pleased with how far this space has come. I’m extremely grateful to my regular readers 1, and have actually conversed with some “off-blog” this year. Given my wide-range of subject matter, I’m…

The Journey to “Mobile First”

Yesterday I described how my recent acquisition of some clipboard managers was likely going to further shift me to an iPad-centric workflow in 2017. My friend, Jamision, whose blog you should really check out , commented on the post. You really have quite the workflow going there for all of this. It’s really quite impressive…

Changing Workflow

Ever since I first acquired my 12.9 inch iPad Pro in August, it’s become my computing device of choice. I still use my Retina MacBook Pro, but often for the purposes of “finishing” tasks 1 or “heavy lifting” 2. Most of my daily work can be done on my iPad Pro. It’s faster, quieter, and…

Unpacking You Can’t Fight City Hall

“You Can’t Fight City Hall” is the first new scene written for *In the Land of the Penny Gnomes” in nearly four years. I can’t say I wasn’t a bit nervous about getting back into the voices of these characters, but going over my previous material the past several months has really helped. I had…

Fiction Tuesday – You Can’t Fight City Hall

Today’s blog continues my long-neglected satirical fantasy, In The Land of the Penny Gnomes “Oh dear. I wonder who that could be?” Nobody skipped merrily over to the stairs, and then proceeded to bound up them. Everyone else took a moment to stare dumbly at the others, then shrugged and followed The Professor up the…