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Another PSA from Octopod Adventures!

This is a drawing from a bar I was at a while ago (some of you mighty keen observers might notice that it is, in fact, drawn on a napkin) and had requests at the time to put up on the comic. I didn't because I had no scanner readily available to me, but I've set up my printer/scanner again, so voila.

I do feel that Groucho Marx glasses are ALWAYS a good idea. If I ever went on a blind date, I'd demand that both of us wear a pair and we'd know each other by our bushy eyebrows and stylish eyewear/'stache combo. A date that you meet wearing Groucho Marx glasses could never go wrong.

--m

ETA: Spazzy thought Han Solo wasn't scruffy, but I maintained he was. Princess Leia agreed with me ("Why you stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder!") but looking at photos, no I guess he only had scruffy hair. Ah well. You should still strive to be/look like Han Solo.

SIck People: Stop Infecting the Rest of Us

The girl who sits behind me in calculus is regularly a mouth breather, I think, but she keeps coming to class sick and it's really starting to bother me.

Anyways, hope your weekend goes well, I'm off to finish homework.

--m

NOT THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER!!

This comic comes from the most disturbing news I heard today: the Large Hadron Collider will continue to run at half energy through 2011 and then NOT AT ALL IN 2012!! (As reported by Science)

Now how will we ever discover the quantum basis of mass?!

Also, to better understand this, I send those not in the know to the end-all, be-all source of accurate and reliable information: Wikipedia and its page on the Higgs Boson.

Pet Dragons

I really do think about what it would be like to have a pet dragon an awful lot. (Slightly pathetic, perhaps, but they are fun to doodle.)

Anyways, here's the comic. I've been irregular putting up drawings the past few days (honestly) because I kept going to bed early and forgetting to doodles. Pathetic, I know.

Do or do not, there are no excuses.

-m

Nomming Friendships

I have a couple of friends with whom I have nomming relationships (sometimes having friend noms is important) but Kupcake is already world famous (she's on stamps, for Darwin's sake!), so I drew it with her.

It's not really a nom, anyways. More like a nibble with mild gumming.

If you've never tried it before, I find it excessively comforting.

-m

P.S. I'm thinking about making a dinosaur shirt.

P.P.S. God I'm a weirdo.

Gangsta Street Movements I Can Get Behind

Although perhaps this might only be a gangsta street movement around MIT, UC Berkeley, CalTech, etc.

Still, a notion I really like. You have to understand the concept of i, the imaginary number. It is sometimes called "irrational" as well.

Someone I know said something to this effect (direct quote: "ban sqrt(-1). Keep it real.") and I don't know if he was the first or what, but I love it.

-m

P.S. Wireless internet is back at my house thanks to my brother's painstaking efforts (and perhaps I should mention incredible patience) helping me set up the new Time Capsule over the phone. So special thanks to mah broseph, 'Bert. (I'm pretty sure he hates it when I call him that, but this way I won't give the whole internets his secret identity.)

Godzilla Vs. Mothra

I'm fascinated with the idea of Godzilla and Mothra as real, non-science-fiction animals (this is the best way I can think to describe it and it is still inadequate). I wanted to draw an image using an iguana as the model for Godzilla and just a generic moth for Mothra. I did mostly tracing (it's been a long day) and then had lots of fun with color vs. not colored.

It's tired, and I'm late (yea, that's how bad it is) so I'm going to go sleep.

Good news: Apple has agreed to overnight a new Time Capsule for FREEEEZ. I love their customer support.

Until tomorrow,

-m

Noooo! (Alt. title: The Interwebs is Broken at Casa Octopod)

Lack of high-tech drawing tonight because there are interweb malfunctions chez octopod. Insert sadface here.

Tomorrow morning at 8am I get to talk to Apple about a b0rk3n Time Capsule. It's so broken it's b0rk3n.

And this is what my drawings would all look like if I had no tablet to draw with. I need to get my Intuos a gift or something. I always remember exactly how much I need it when it's gone*.

-m

* gone = downstairs, where I am too lazy to go and get it.

Actually, I'm a Five-Year-Old Boy in Other Ways as Well...

...like attention span, fondness for dinosaurs, fascination with all bodily functions--the list just goes on and on!

I thought of this today as I was walking around with my coat on. I should also mention that I always carry a hankie in my coat pockets, and unlisted current residents include: a pair of refrigerator magnets (~1 year), a stack of quarters and a free pen I got at Student Financial Services.

I like to have pockets like Chuck E. Cheese grab-bags because it makes walking around during winter with my hands in my pockets at least mildly entertaining.

-m

A Night Off

It's that day of the year, etc. Anyways, I'm taking the night off, but before I go I wanted to share with you possibly the most excellent, bizarre valentine this year (and I got more than one this year, which never happens!).

I don't know who to give credit for the image to--if you know, please tell me and I'll amend this to include a copyright for them. It's just so epically fantasgasmic I don't know what to do with myself. Also, it was from Kupcake.

I like to think that I am the creeper in the cape--because that is just what I look like!

Okay, I'll admit it, I'm having cape-envy.

happy etc.

-m

Good Advice that I Should Take

And the cat really does look just that adorable, except usually is keister is planted more firmly around/on my face.

For now, time for bed.

And as long as you're up, you may as well check out this webcomic drawn by a dudes I know: robots need not. It's all about what robots don't need, and submissions (drawn only in crayon, please) are accepted!

My Emotions Continue to Baffle and Alarm Me

I believe these three panels accurately express my successive confusion, displeasure, and grumpy-ment about my emotions.

Reading went well, there was lots of turn out.

-m

ETA: It doesn't look like it says "this" but that's because of horrible lettering, etc, etc.

Mad Scientists Always Have Goggles and a Beaker

Self-portrait. I'm going to assume that that green compound I've developed is my "Turn-self-into-octopus" serum. It was on my to-do list, but obviously I finished it.

Also, still don't have the hang of this mohawk drawing. It always comes out looking ridiculous, which come to think of it, is basically how it looks in real life.

You might also recognize Head Honcho Queer Girl's shirt. I think it would be a pretty good shirt for doing mad science in.

--m

Withdrawal is an Ineffective Form of Birth Control

Look at that cute sperm!!

A request from some friends of mine about withdrawal as a means of birth control. This request either says something about them or something about the kind of people I am friends with, I don't know which yet.

The drawing was done in about twenty minutes. Another thirty five was spent agonizing over the text...I hate lettering. Not sure how I feel about using "pre-cum" in a comic, but due to the same lettering issues, I didn't feel like writing "pre-ejaculate".

--m

P.S. Apologies for two days without comic. I'm doing a reading tomorrow, so I won't have time to do my nightly comic. I'm drawing it tonight and setting it to post tomorrow during the afternoon.

May I Introduce Calculus Bear

This sums up tonight for me. It's a cheap shot drawing, but what can I say? You all knew I wasn't classy.

Anyways, wish me luck.

-m

Kupcake the Riveter

Kupcake hasn't been on in a long time! Voila, Kupcake à Rosie le Riveter!

Rosie is one of Kristy's favorite images/heroines. Kristy is kind of a Rosie the Riveter to me personally. I'd say she and Rosie both have a mantra of, "Put on your big girl panties and do it."

Sometimes I need to hear it. (Okay, I need to hear it a lot.)

BREAKING NEWS

The comic now has a store!!

Go check out: http://www.zazzle.com/octopodadventures for more information! I'm looking for things people would like to see on shirts, bags, etc. Leave a comment if there's a comic you would like to see turned into wearable/useable goods!

As a note: I do get royalties from these, so you are helping support me as an artist.

An Octopus To Be Proud Of

Okay. This is the first octopus I've drawn in a long time for this comic where I didn't do some tracing over other images to get the basic forms and shading. This is entirely from my head (with some untraced reference images) and I'm really, really proud of it.

I needed a new desktop image and I figured I'd put up some for all my many readers. (snort) The quote on one is from Dodie Smith, but originally it reads: "The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to."

If for any reason you need another size or want another color, send an email (octopustank @ gmail DOT com) and I'll see what I can do.

-m

E.T.A.: Please do not edit these images yourself or use them (for anything but being a desktop image) without permission.

Science Loves

This does really happen to me. I have been known to get misty-eyed if I think about the beauty of the periodic table for too long. I wish I was kidding.

That said, I wanted to do a comic about science and my love of it. I've included the periodic table, a eukaryotic cell, the symbol for Reynolds numbers, and three of my all-time science heroes plus a stick figure of another.

Top: Madame Marie Curie

Middle: Middle-aged Charles Darwin

Bottom left: Rosalind Franklin (if you don't know her, I demand you go look up her wikipedia page immediately.)

And, obviously, Octopod-Adventures style Einstein.

The Pain in my Head is Really Tremendous

No drawing tonight--I am having a sinus attack.

Really sorry guys.

-m

Calculus Class Today (=phalewhale)

Yea...I should mention here that I'm pretty certain Calculus I is going to hand my my keister on a shiny, silver platter.

Up side: as my brain melts and slowly drips from my ear canals onto my sweatshirt, it makes interesting patterns.