Comic for Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Posted: 8:25 am, Wednesday, July 28

The Pac-10 unveiled a new logo, and I'm pretty meh on it. The wave/mountain thing is OK, but the rest of it looks like a superhero's emblem. And why is the 10 a different shade of blue altogether than the rest of the blue? I'm also not huge on gradient in an official version of a logo. I imagine on its most native position - a football field - you're already reducing the integrity of the logo by not including the gradient there. Best of all is that the Pacific 10 conference will be unveiling this logo officially... in New York City. (I was right about fundamentally changing the logo for the field, but I didn't expect them to get rid of the blue altogether. This is actually a nice effect, but it still looks like the Warner Bros. logo.)(Also, props to the Pac-10, they will not be pulling a Big11, and will be numerically accurate.)

This was an awesome Royals mug on eBay, if only it were still active when I found it. Someone in my building threw out two glass mugs commemorating the marriage of Charles and Diana the other day. I didn't take them, because this is a strange building, and I knew 2.0 wouldn't go for it.

Mostly very nice re-imaginings of Calvin and Hobbes.

My mother knows who Lady Gaga is. That is all.

Man, the art in the Abominable Charles Christopher is out of this world, isn't it? My cows always look so stiff when I draw them.

If I had a garage and money for a new car, a Volt would be awesome for me. One out of every thirty or forty drives for me is longer than 40 miles. I'd use virtually no gas. I suspect this is true of 90% of big city dwellers. I wonder if cities will build charging stations for these things? I have nowhere to plug my mythical car into - all of my parking is street parking.

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todd -- Wednesday, July 28 2010, 11:12 am

I was in Chicago last night to see Gaslight Anthem and the parking garage I used had special reserved spaces for electric cars with charging stations adjacent.

So... Thoughts on the season 4 opener of Mad Men?

Oh, gee, I guess we haven't discussed. I'm on my way out the door to read in the breeze that's not penetrating my window screens - back in 45 or so with my thoughts.

So by like 45 minutes, I meant 18 hours or so. OK, so the Mad Men premiere - I thought it was great. I wanted more Joanie - obviously - but I wasn't anticipating still enjoying scenes between Betty and Henry. Henry's mom is awesome, and in an episode full of withering lines, I think, "Believe me, Henry, we all think this is temporary," may have been the best. 2.0 actually booted the whole thing back up and watched the midnight re-broadcast right then and there (a move she regretted the next day), and the second time Don stormed out of the bikini meeting, I got the idea (picked up on all the recaps the next day) that he had done that on purpose (sabotaged the meeting from the get, for a story).

One thing 2.0 and I disagreed on. Did Don Draper desert the army? His big crime is the identity switch, right? He's not honestly a deserter, in my eyes, because he was getting sent home because of his injury, right? (Which was what, does anyone remember? We never see any scarring or anything like that.)

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