Death Magnetic

Random train of thought time.

So the iPad got announced ... kinda lame. It's a giant iPod touch mashed together with a kindle? Fantastic, I guess. It'll start at 500 bucks (for the 16GB model, and probably more like 600 bucks in Canada), it has no camera, no decent video out option, iPhone apps look AWFUL on it and for some reason, that I can't seem to deduce, it isn't even in 16:9 aspect ratio? That's just confusing.

Now, maybe once someone hacks it to run the Adobe Creative Suite and I can get some sweet multi-touch Photoshop Cintiq-esque action going on it'll be worth it. But right now it's just an expensive eBook reader. Meh. This kind of reminds me of the Macbook Air.

The one thing that I will say WOULD be good about the iPad is comics being in eBook format, that is pretty exciting and I think the iPad would be a good platform for that.

Speaking of comics, I've been in a drawing cartoons kinda mood lately. It's getting fun again, which is good because I kinda lost it for a while there. Maybe if I can get access to a scanner I can upload some of the stuff I've been doing, it's a little more developed than the last time I was drawing this stuff.

Still haven't figured out how to pay for school. That's getting more and more stressful every day. Also, I found out that OCAD pays almost HALF the tuition that my program does. HA-FUCKING-LF. If I could justify it, I would switch schools, but I'd only be getting a Bfa from OCAD and I get a BDes here. Although those letters are looking less and less meaningful every day.

You know how sometimes when you hear a word or phrase for the first time, all of a sudden you start to hear it everywhere? I hadn't heard the phrase "separate the chaff from the wheat" before, and after learning what that meant all of a sudden I noticed it in an Electric Six song, a Failure song, god damn.