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Calvin and Hobbes: Math Is a Religion
I’m a total sucker for anything Calvin and Hobbes. (And leave it to Mr. Gilliss to provide a transcript for a comic strip!)
Trent Gilliss, online editor
Some good clean humor to start the day, direct from one of my favorite comic strips via a tweetmeme.
For those who can’t easily read the word bubbles, a transcript:
First frame
Calvin: You know, I don’t think math is a science. I think it’s a religion.
Hobbes: A religion?Second frame
Calvin: Yeah. All these equations are like miracles. You take two numbers and when you add them, they magically become one new number! No one can say how it happens. You either believe it or you don’t.Third frame
Calvin: This whole book is full of things that have to be accepted on faith! It’s a religion!Fourth frame
Hobbes: And in the public schools no less. Call a lawyer.
Calvin: As a math atheist, I should be excused from this.
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From South 12th:
Ruling pens are amazing devices, and I still have one somewhere that I use for ink drawings on occassion. It works a little like a dip pen, where pressure draws the ink up into that cavity, and you use the knob to adjust the width. With enough practice, you can make incredibly fine, straight, continuous lines with ink that would be impossible with even a quill tip or dip pen.
Another proponent of the ruling pen: Chris Ware — although I’ve seen multiple interviews with him bemoaning the lost hours spent learning such an archaic and obsolete device. From Chris Ware, a biography by Daniel Raeburn:
I do all the curves with a brush, I do all straight lines with a ruling pen. I try to get my pictures to read like words, so that when you see them you can’t make yourself not read them, in the same way that when you see a printed word you can’t make yourself not read it, no matter how hard you try.
Clearly that hard work didn’t pay off at all.
(image: “Untitled,” Quimby the Mouse letterpress print by Chris Ware)
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Drawn by Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy. (via softculture)
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Back cover of Anders Nilsen’s Monologues for Calculating the Density of Black Holes.
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A perennial favorite. Had to get this one in before it was completely out of season…
