Huge, unabashed hugs to CTGray of Couch Tarts for whipping this up for us. For all coming to Night...

Huge, unabashed hugs to CTGray of Couch Tarts for whipping this up for us.

For all coming to Night At The Tank on December 26th, who's interested in getting this on a pin? We'll raffle some off, but need to get a rough head count of how many to order through our CafePress store.

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3 total for me and my boys pls … :)

Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality? (boycott Hollywood!)

by ang6666 on Nov 2, 2009 3:16 PM PST reply actions

oh and very nice!!

Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality? (boycott Hollywood!)

by ang6666 on Nov 2, 2009 3:16 PM PST up reply actions

Ugh

Reminds me that I still have to see if I can get tickets for that game. I keep forgetting!

by Nael M. on Nov 2, 2009 3:42 PM PST reply actions

I’d like one

Oh, so that's where you edit your signature

by Teas on Nov 2, 2009 4:50 PM PST reply actions

I’d like to have one to wear in whilst I am in “Death’s Waiting Room” on Boxing Day.

Obviously this is just a rough sketch! heh. i hope that obvious…>.>

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by CTGray on Nov 2, 2009 5:07 PM PST reply actions

Death's Waiting Room?

I’m going to take a random guess and assume that’s your in-laws house?

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by joe579 on Nov 3, 2009 3:20 PM PST up reply actions

nope

Though the trip does involve in-laws.
I’ll be on America’s wang. It should be pretty easy to guess which state that is why death’s waiting room also applies.

I’ll give you a hint: it has keys.

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by CTGray on Nov 3, 2009 4:19 PM PST up reply actions

Florida, dude...

Sometimes the impossible can become possible if you're AWESOME!

by ZeroIndulgence on Nov 3, 2009 9:48 PM PST up reply actions

I'm down

My two brothers are coming too so might as well get 3

by PNK on Nov 2, 2009 6:20 PM PST reply actions

I’d like one. I chose this game in my lottery.

Oh, and @Gray. It’s not obvious that it’s a rough sketch. Your rough sketches are better than anything I can put out as a final copy. Maybe I can borrow you for my geometry classes for drawing figures? Students constantly complain…

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by stufflife on Nov 2, 2009 8:11 PM PST reply actions

what figures are you drawing in a geometry class? I just remember shapes and soh cah toa

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by CTGray on Nov 2, 2009 8:35 PM PST up reply actions

I actually like the “roughness” of it if that makes sense. I’m not adverse to this being the final copy. Your decision of course, but just sayin’.

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by Mr. Plank on Nov 2, 2009 8:37 PM PST up reply actions

It would kind of bother me.
I don’t quite know how to explain it, but it’s like your work is a representation of you and there it is, not looking as good as it could, and that’s like advertising you’re sub par, you know what I mean?

I know I’m not the best artist out there, or even one of the better ones, (being serious. You all be blow away by some folks I know. I mean. wow!) but there’s still a compulsion to make sure anything that’s really being put out there is of a certain quality. I get very annoyed with myself when I make stuff for CT that’s not what I’d consider good, but I have run out of time and need to post it anyway.

And then, just to complicate things, there are times when something looks GREAT rough, and I go with that, because cleaning it up makes it lose so much of what was making it good in the first place, but, for me, this isn’t like that.

Hope that makes sense and doesn’t sound jerkish.

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by CTGray on Nov 2, 2009 8:46 PM PST up reply actions

makes perfect sense

Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality? (boycott Hollywood!)

by ang6666 on Nov 2, 2009 8:50 PM PST up reply actions

Hope that makes sense and doesn’t sound jerkish.

Not at all. It’s completely up to you whatever gets put out as the final copy.

Fear The Fin: Where Selling Your Soul Is The Likely Solution

by Mr. Plank on Nov 2, 2009 8:50 PM PST up reply actions

yeah … I’m into roughness as well …

sorry … had to say it … I tried to stop myself … (shrugs)

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by ang6666 on Nov 2, 2009 8:49 PM PST up reply actions

and now I need to scrub my brain. Thanks ang! :P

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by CTGray on Nov 2, 2009 9:10 PM PST up reply actions

We need to handcuff her so she’ll stay away from her computer one of these days.

Wait, don’t post this…

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by Mr. Plank on Nov 2, 2009 9:15 PM PST up reply actions

ha ha! you had to go there huh?? ;)

Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality? (boycott Hollywood!)

by ang6666 on Nov 2, 2009 10:10 PM PST up reply actions

anything for you … :)

Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality? (boycott Hollywood!)

by ang6666 on Nov 2, 2009 10:10 PM PST up reply actions

Family site...

FAMILY SITE!

-The dude responsible for this mess

by idunno723 on Nov 2, 2009 10:12 PM PST up reply actions

what? like you didn’t see that vid in the other post?? … :)

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by ang6666 on Nov 2, 2009 10:16 PM PST up reply actions

That's different...

(kidding)

-The dude responsible for this mess

by idunno723 on Nov 2, 2009 10:18 PM PST up reply actions

I like it as it

by PNK on Nov 3, 2009 12:09 PM PST up reply actions

Polygons, lines cut by transversals, and polyhedra (those are rough). Actually, anything with straight lines is tough for me.

Oh, and I’d be down with a t-shirt! Is that really an option?

Jon Casey fan since '84

by stufflife on Nov 2, 2009 9:54 PM PST up reply actions

rulers? Just gotta learn how to fake a straight well enough ;)
I liked geometry. I hated hated hated proofs.

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by CTGray on Nov 2, 2009 10:20 PM PST up reply actions

I like geometry...

I took it in summer school. Six weeks instead of two semesters! Then again it was 4 hours a day…

-The dude responsible for this mess

by idunno723 on Nov 2, 2009 10:37 PM PST up reply actions

I was never a geometry person … algebra and calculus were my thing … altho many years later (like 15 or so), I was able to help my sister pass geometry with a B+ … and considering her math skills are really bad, I was pretty happy I could help her get that.

Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality? (boycott Hollywood!)

by ang6666 on Nov 2, 2009 10:41 PM PST up reply actions

Algebra is just letters and numbers forced together in an unholy union of confusion. Yet another math class I spent a lot of extra time working on after and before school with some cool teachers who knew that some us us just don’t think in that way and they were willing to donate their time to help.

I was terrible at trig. I only passed that class with a B because I worked my ass off and came in before and after school for study sessions. And I did the homework. Homework saved my ass in math classes.

I never took calculus. I don’t at all wish I had, either. :D

( you can tell I’m a visual thinker)

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by CTGray on Nov 2, 2009 10:50 PM PST up reply actions

er, learner

thinker too, I guess.

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by CTGray on Nov 2, 2009 10:57 PM PST up reply actions

yeah numbers I always did well in .. that and sciences … was tough when I went to college trying to decide what to go for … and I kick myself now that I decided on accounting … dull as all hell … not that I do that anyways … but still

I am so glad my boys take after me in the math dept … we’re silly enough that like to do probs in our heads

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by ang6666 on Nov 2, 2009 11:03 PM PST up reply actions

Calculus based physics is what really got me. Algebra I never really had an issue with.

Was never fond of Trig either… something about cosines doesn’t sit well with me. All I remember is Soh-Cah-Toa and even that is too much.

by Evilducks on Nov 2, 2009 11:14 PM PST up reply actions

I guess I’m just the opposite. Numbers and letters go together like peanut butter and jelly for me – they can work alone, but can be put together to create something even better. Occassionally, when I get bored, I do algebra and trig problems for fun. I volunteer to help my friends with their Calculus homework. I make up formulas for hockey stats. Or I try some random long division thing (once I found a number that I thought was irrational, but realized it was a repeating decimal whose period was 27 digits long). Yeah, total math geek.

Conversely, I can’t find symbolism in literature or art to save my life. Can’t remember the character names or the places either. I can get the overall concept of the story, as well as the plot, but everything else goes over my head. I once described Hamlet as, “that Shakespeare story where there’s this guy whose mother marries this evil guy who killed his father so he tries to get revenge after he sees his father’s ghost.” I know that one guy’s name is Hamlet, but have no idea about the rest of the characters.

I’m more of a logic-based learner, I guess. Visual, but only in a sense of letters and numbers. Straight facts and singular, unchanging answers are my strong suit.

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by mymclife on Nov 2, 2009 11:17 PM PST up reply actions

Straight facts and singular, unchanging answers are my strong suit.

Black and white … no gray in the middle … :)

For the most part that’s how I’ve described myself, but I do get literature a bit. I think I have to considering my near fire hazard here (way too many books for the size of my place).

What’s fun as a parent is you can see how your children lean in learning. Their strong points. My younger son is alot like me – strong in math and science, rest of the subjects can go.

My older son – there isn’t anything that boy doesn’t know. He has a brain like a sponge. But totally lacks any drive. (which drives me completely mad!!!) He’s in his first year of college, barely has cracked open any books, but aces all his tests. Been like that since day one. No subject challenges him. But nothing motives him either. (shrugs)

It’s easier to deal with a child like my youngest – they have the drive to improve.

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by ang6666 on Nov 2, 2009 11:42 PM PST up reply actions