Waffle

I've just inked the backgrounds to the 8th, 9th and 10th pages of Feral since I took the storyline on hiatus in mid-October. I don't expect to have much time for the storyline next week, but I intend to make time.
So far, though, the going's been tough. I'm low on energy, arriving at the studio every day in a half-asleep state that I never quite seem to come out of. The bit of computery stuff I started the day with filled the hours when my energy was the lowest, and having a bit of a success with data recovery lifted my mood, but once I sat down to do some inking it was hard to keep my eyes open. Whether it's sleep deprivation (unlikely, as sleeping in doesn't make the problem go away), seasonal affective disorder or some undiagnosed medical condition that's causing this sleepiness, it's definitely slowing me down and it seems to be here to stay.

The work on Feral is of acceptible quality, but not nearly as good as I want it to become. It's unlikely that I will be able to resume publishing it immediately after Rocket Bandits ends, so expect another White House in Orbit story after that. I want to get back to running my regular comic, and am willing to increase my workload for January a bit in order to get to that point, but right now I just don't have the energy. Sorry.

(Summary: If your Reiser file system is corrupt, a Knoppix CD is more useful for rescuing it than a (K)Ubuntu CD. If you're not either me six months from now or someone with a badly messed up hard drive with a Reiser file system, you probably won't find the rest of the post at all interesting.)

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From http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9432671/intelligent-design

I cannot believe this. It ignores all the criticism deservedly heaped upon Intelligent Design. It ignores Kitzmiller, it parrots all their claims uncritically. Perhaps the full version is better, but if they're putting this shoddy work up online as a sample of their expertise, I'll take Wikipedia. frankly.

Let's have a look:

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