Just added a couple Yahtzee Doodles and one more color sketch I did at lunch today with my Copics. It’s another version of my character Anne. I really want to be all witty and fun, but I’m tired, so you’ll just have to enjoy the view…
So there I was yesterday at work, typing away on an email when I got an IM from Sheila that said, “your post are about as fun to read as I don’t know say “Financial Daily”!!”.
Yes, MORE Invader Zim episodes are done being uploaded for your screenshot gallery needs of doom. They are, Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain, Bad Bad Rubber Piggy, Planet Jackers, Rise of the Zitboy, Plague of Babies, and Bloaty’s Pizza Hog. Enjoy!
UPDATE Jan 3rd, 2009 – Sorry, but after having to completely recreate this site after a porn idiot hacked it, the Invader Zim gallery is no longer here… You can find it here…
In the world of professional sports, there are a lot of great examples of how NOT to act, how NOT to treat others, how NOT to play. Practically every sport out there has a revolving doorway of players through the legal system for one reason or another. Others may stay out of trouble off the field, but play in such an un-sportsman-like way that they disgust me almost as much as their criminal cohorts.
But I tend to get sick of how the media in general focuses on these losers, not just in sports but in all areas of life. Feel-good stories just don’t get the headlines they deserve. My favorite football team is the Green Bay Packers and they’ve had their share of players getting bad press over the past decade. But there are a lot of guys on these teams that go out of their way to make life better for others.
One of my favorite examples is Donald Driver, currently the Pack’s go-to receiver. This is a guy whose family went through some really tough times when he was young. He has just as many things to point at as “reasons” why he could be a complete malcontent, but he doesn’t have to. He’s a stand-up guy that deserves to have the big headlines that all the Pacman Jones and TO’s of the world get. He and every player like him that works hard, plays hard, and lives in a way they can be proud of.
I just read a nice little article that, like so many I’ve read before, give a brief overview of what Driver has been through and what he’s accomplished. It should be the lead story on NFL.com, instead of who’s holding out for more money (to play a stinking game) or who’s going to miss time this season due to legal problems. But it’s not, so I’ll help point a few more people that way to read it…
That’s right folks, more Invader Zim image galleries are up and ready for your viewing pleasure. They are The Wettening, Career Day, Battle Dib, A Room with a Moose, and Hamstergeddon. Enjoy!
UPDATE Jan 3rd, 2009 – Sorry, but after having to completely recreate this site after a porn idiot hacked it, the Invader Zim gallery is no longer here… You can find it here…
One thing I plan to do is to get a lot of the digital images that we’ve taken over the past years uploaded so that the extended family can see them, mostly for the first time. This first gallery is from our camping trip to Tahquamenon Falls State Park last summer.
It’s been a really nice weekend. We got to see friends from Arizona that we haven’t seen in a long time. We also go to spend Sunday evening at lake Michigan and enjoy the beach with the kids. I’ll try to get some pictures posted soon.
I also got to waste some more time working on the Invader Zim Screenshot Gallery. Now complete for your obsessive pleasure are Bestest Friends, Nanozim, Germs, Dark Harvest, and Attack of the Saucer Morons. Have fun and don’t forget to tip your waitress!
UPDATE Jan 3rd, 2009 – Sorry, but after having to completely recreate this site after a porn idiot hacked it, the Invader Zim gallery is no longer here… You can find it here…
Things are going well getting the Zim image archive back up. It will actually have more than the original version including the alternate scene from “Door to Door” as well as the cut scene from “Abducted”. For now, there are four complete episodes up; the Pilot episode, The Nightmare Begins, Parent Teacher Night, and Walk of Doom. Seven others have been started and the rest will follow as I can get the time. You can see it as it grows here in the Uber Zim Gallery.
Now I need to get to bed. I hate when I’m not tired…
UPDATE Jan 3rd, 2009 – Sorry, but after having to completely recreate this site after a porn idiot hacked it, the Invader Zim gallery is no longer here… You can find it here…
I just love website statistics. Of course, at work I have access to some wonderfully granular stats for FurnitureFind, but even for my humble little site here using Google Analytics I have access to some free and at times intriguing stuff. For instance, I just got my site back up and running just over a month ago and already during that time people from these 22 countries have visited in order of quantity of visits – United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Philippines, Egypt, Australia, Ukraine, Israel, South Africa, Uruguay, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, New Zealand, Lebanon, Japan, France, and Poland. Even further, I see that these visits were split from 155 different cities (someone from Dublin really likes my site!) That just mystifies and at the same time excites me.
Then you get a glimpse in to *how* some people find your site. For instance, I saw today that someone came to my site from Google after searching for “how to draw a cartoon jalapeno”. Now I know that I’ve never written anything about drawing cartoon jalapeños before, so I went to Google myself to see what happened.
Sure enough, on the second page of results, there’s a listing for this site that reads…
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Those words are from two very different posts that were written years apart, but somehow they got mangled together in the mind of Google, and there you have it.
Well, that’s enough rambling for today, I must go mow the lawn! We have company from Arizona coming tomorrow…
Well, kind of… 
I’m working on it, but it’s going slower than I’d hoped. The gallery feature I’m using to display them this time around is a bit cumbersome when dealing with this many images. I’ve got the basic structure down now and I’ve got the Pilot episode as well as most of Parent Teacher Night done. I’ll be getting more done (each day hopefully) until the entire series is back up. See the Zim Images now!
UPDATE Jan 3rd, 2009 – Sorry, but after having to completely recreate this site after a porn idiot hacked it, the Invader Zim gallery is no longer here… You can find it here…