Ratfarts!

This site began nearly 20 years ago (in June of 2021) with a blog and a comic strip pretty much devoted to a Television network named TechTV.

At a certain point this year, I was down to a work computer, my iPad Pro and a computer devoted to running my PLEX server. I gave away distractions. I needed to focus on work and I needed to get my life in order so I could transition into a full time role at work. It was good at the...

It’s 3-something AM on a Sunday morning and I’m up early having an allergy attack. My floor is covered in comics. I’ve collected comics since I was a little boy and my collection (what’s left of it) is woefully messy as I spent most of the early to mid-2000’s ignoring boarding and bagging comics (used to help preserve them), in...

Those who know me know that I’m literally allergic to the world. I almost died the last time I was allergy tested and it came back that I was allergic to everything they tested for. Until recently, I was in a program of weekly shots with no end. It was balanced, every so often I’d have a reaction like I...

I know the Summer Solstice is coming and things are going to be weird until then. How’s that for a nut job start to a blog post? It’s 6:16AM, I’m in a funk that I probably can shake but I’m trying not too hard to do so. I had a dream that one of my characters from the comic faked...

It’s a little depressing that the WordPress app on iPad has statistics about my posts here stating the obvious. Things like “well, they won’t come to your site unless you tell them it’s your site.” Posting a link to a blog gets lots in the wilds of Facebook and not a lot of people stop between memes and have a...

I guess I’m starting a decline, but not a big one, in my lifestyle changes. It’s been a hard week. It’s been a long week. Not having the 30000 projects to fall into when things are stressful has consequences. I’m being forced to face realities instead of escape into whatever. One of the things I wanted to do was build...

I don’t know if I’m going to keep up with these blogs, or how long this one will be. I do need to get back into writing. So we’ll see where this goes. Day two was interesting. The first thing I discovered was that my work-issued computer actually has a screen SMALLER than my iPad Pro. It’s also harder to...

It’s 5-something AM on a Monday morning and I’m typing on a mini-keyboard attached to my iPad Pro. This is the first full day without a personal PC since 1991 or 1992, and probably 1983-ish if you count the hodgepodge of video game related computers (Commie 64, Coleco Adam, TI994/a), that I’ve had in my life over the years. I...

I'm starting to get feedback on the first couple of issues and other than the single "WTF?" I got in comments here about last issue, most have been pretty positive. I did get some minor criticism about flashbacks and why I've made choices not to use them in my comics and instead use large blocks of text where the character...

For those following this blog you know that besides the yearly post to keep it alive, my other frequent activity is to revise the comic(s) I feature here any time there is a technological breakthrough with the modeling software. I also wait a long darn time for those technological breakthroughs. Right now, I've been waiting over a year for the...

I've spent most of the past two days trying to figure out lighting schemes and cheats for the new rendering software. I must say that I'm not used to the slowness yet, as with the old rendering the renders completed near immediately. Now? It's between 15 minutes and an hour, depending on size of the render. It is painful, but...