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Just for fun I made a new icon for the Anti High Fructose Corn Syrup group on Facebook:

Their current icon is this:

Since I’m unemployed now I am taking on some freelance work, and I am working quickly so that I comply with the requirements for unemployment insurance (which permits a bit of sporadic work when one is between full-time jobs).

I got a gig to do another book cover from an author I’ve worked with before, and I’m pleased with the current draft, previewed below.

And to get to this draft only took 2 hours! (Please don’t say “it looks it”.)

Elements are a stock art photo purchased from iStock, a Seed of Life icon which works with the content of the book, a 1970s-esque futuristic font, and, cleverly, another font that is currently used on PDAs and some cell phones (clever because it subtly ties in to the technology theme of the book). There’s also some Helvetica. I was also asked to create the synopsis and select the critical praise for the back cover, which I am still working on but is basically an edit of some parts of the original book proposal.

Soon I will be working on another book cover for a self-published author, and I thought to myself that I could probably find some good art to license on DeviantArt. But after looking through it for a couple hours, I realized it’s all punks and unicorns.

I dreamed the evil forces of Narnia finally wised up to the existence of our Earth and sent a massive invasion force to kill the eight or nine kids who sometimes turn up in Narnia as Kings and Queens.

It was extremely violent.

Airplanes were crashed into neighborhoods, followed by a swarm of millions of small robot soldiers. In this dream there was so much flak flying around that I had to engage an energy bubble around myself to just basically move-it through everything. There were some people who begged me to take them with me, but I could only carry perhaps one extra person and keep the bubble engaged at the same time. It was laborious. And the problem was, no matter where I went, the invasion was underway. As I said, it was a massive invasion — entire continents invaded at once. I noticed some Buddhists were also floating out of there, a bit faster than me.

Moral of the story: Don’t underestimate Narnians.

First images of that Olympus camera that has a big DSLR sensor crammed into a compact-camera body!

Even the lenses, which might look as if they’re big in this photo, are smaller than the lenses of a DSLR. Once there are pics of this in someone’s hands it will become clear. Not my hands though, not for the time being.

UPDATE: JUNE 17: The camera was officially launched on June 16, and advance orders have been far beyond expectations — there will be shortages. This doesn’t surprise me — this is the revolution in camera size that everyone has been waiting for.

The best part of the launch is the 1960s theme.

I want the white one with the silver lens:

New discovery for lucid dreaming: Unable to make my way back to some location, I demanded “teleport to [location]!”. It worked — my environment shook, and when it stabilized a couple seconds later, I was in the location I’d demanded. This bears remembering.

Since Jabra has essentially given up on its behind-the-ear bluetooth headsets (and those that remain available are reportedly the lowest in quality Jabra has ever produced), I’ve had to switch brands, much as I would have liked to stay with the silicone earpiece goodness that was Jabra.

The new bluetooth I’ve selected for my cellphone is the Plantronics Voyager 510, which appears to be the most popular headset on Amazon at the moment, at least among those who don’t like the ones that hang the electronics outside your ear.

I think that’s an Ikea “Mylonit” color-shifting decorative lamp behind her by the way.

Someone else wrote my opinion on health care, so I’ll just copy it:

“Some of these arguments [against universal health care] are so foolish. My favorite is the argument that the gov’t shouldn’t be deciding your health care. But a for-profit, non-medically trained insurance provider should?”

That was the hardest decision I’ve had to make. I’ve decided I am not yet ready to leave Boulder, but I feel very sad about not being living with my friend because I also know that would have been the most heartwarming experience. It was the most I’ve been offered in this life, it’s true. Simply to live with her as roomies would have been awesome on so many levels. She offered me something that normally only Gods offer — opportunity. Well, so for now, I have to be a God myself and try to make what I believe now will be my last year in Boulder mean something. I need to put myself out there more, go to clubs at night, chat people up, do whatever growing up I have to do so that the next time I have to consider changing my life, I will be be ready for it (and know I am ready for it — arguably I could have done it this time, but I didn’t *know* for sure I was ready for it, and without that certainty, I… it would have been a little premature.

So, I’m underemployed. I plan to wake up tomorrow and do web work freelance as if I was working normal hours. This will come as a relief to my clients. But it is only a short-term fix at best. Things remain uncertain. The only certain bit is I will try to eek out a little bit more of Boulder. Although no one will replace __, and we’re platonic I hasten to add lest people confuse the nature of our relationship, I do want someone to be with in Boulder, someone female who I like enough to want to sleep over and sleep over with. Whatever that term may be… something between friend, fuck-buddy, or whatever the current archetypes may be… People don’t realize I’m 40 years old. I’m 40 years old people, and single. (I’m probably good for anyone 27 on up…)

I have to determine what it is that I need to grow up about. It involves being an adult. I don’t know the parameters of it, and maybe that’s the point. That’s what I need to discover.

How did Blade Runner not foresee this? Courtesy BoingBoing: