Comics I might get April 15, 2009

Asterisks after titles that Diamond has refused to ship in the recent past: Green Arrow and Black Canary #19, REBELS #3*, Mysterius the Unfathomable #4, Amazing Spider-Man #591, X-Factor #42, Gold Digger #104, Gold Digger Maidens of Twilight #3* (still don't have #2), Gold Digger Tech Manual #2, Eureka #4*, Farscape Strange Detractors #1.

I did look on IDW's webpage for the books I'm missing from them, but they were already out of Maximum Dinobots #2, and with shipping it comes to about $6 an issue. None of their output has been good enough for me to pay 50% markup.

Angriest I've been in a while

Trying to turn my PhD thesis into a PDF, so I don't have to worry as much about format drift. I successfully get AppleWorks 6.0 (already a non-supported format) to convert the ClarisWorks 3.0 source files without losing the formatting or making the images screw up (which happens when I try opening in Pages, Word or Open Office). I print the front matter and first chapter to PDF successfully, and then do the rest. But when I go to use Preview to merge the files (in 1999 when I started writing this, making a single 1M file was a Bad Idea), I find that past chapter 1, only the first page of each section was converted to PDF.

Nothing I've tried has gotten them to generate more than the first page of each file. I've tried reconverting chapter 1, and it worked just fine. I quit AppleWorks and restarted it. I rebooted my computer. NOTHING IS WORKING. And this on top of dealing with laggy connection to dvandom.com, and dealing with work stuff today and other technical problems. I'm about ready to kick a hole in the damn wall. My throat hurts from strangled screaming.

Sharon Venturi gets a new costume

I've collected all my character stuff HERE.
( MUCH more Dave Stevens inspired now. )