busybee comics: Good Things

For the last couple months, Rachael Smith (creator of Flimsy and all around excellent illustrator) has been doing a daily comic called One Good Thing, where she reminds herself of the little things that make life good. It seems like the kind of daily therapy that would help me as well.

These are the sorts of things that can at least keep a buffer going. It’s worth a try, anyway.

The other good thing was I finally figured out another bug that looked like something completely different and was confusing everyone, and I also got rid of a major application performance problem, but those seemed less fun to draw.

Goodbye.

I’ve put several of the best pictures in my gallery.

The permit was free, but as a way of thanking them I sent a $50 donation to the Midpeninsula Open Space District which manages the particular park. Chris loved this park, and making a contribution in memory of Chris Sturtivant would be appreciated. (The donation link is in the “about us” menu.) Better yet, consider donating to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, or any other marine wildlife conservation fund. (See the comments for the notification address to use.)

For what it’s worth, here are the regulations and request form.

(I’d have also browned some white or yellow onions along with the pork if I had any.)

ullo there

Man, that arm just did not want to come out right.

Now you can promote the legalization of unicorns, too!

This being the slipshod recording session for my kickstarter project video. You want to see Unity in print, right?

The software in question is of course MacBreakZ (just BreakZ on the Mac App Store). It’s still not quite as good as Workrave in terms of the forcefulness of the user interface, but it does do a lot of things better than Workrave, and it’s certainly better than RSIGuard (the previous for-pay software I was using). The main downside is that the UI is still way too easy to circumvent, and like AntiRSI it’s way too easy to keep working even during a break. Still, it has a much better set of stretches and exercises, and it has the best microbreak implementation I’ve ever seen, so that alone should help a lot.

If you were backing my Kickstarter you could see the chapter title pages as I finish them!

Of course, you can see higher-quality versions of these images if you contribute to the Kickstarter project.

It is a regular event, incidentally.

(see the news post for part of why the background is unfinished)