A picture is worth a thousand words—or I don’t really have anything to write about, so here’s what I have been doing, not in any particular order:
Pavlov’s dream; time out.
The process.
Trying out the tools. Since Copic is alcohol based, you can use it with ink only if you apply copic first. Other wise copic will bleed your ink.
Pavlov’s Dream Page 19, Micha lost his hat! *gasp*
Not much to show on the comic department, since everything is at writing/planning stage.
A lot of things to talk about at the distraction department though, it’s a wonder I ever get anything done these days!
First, the infamous Robot Unicorn Attack. This game is crack-done-right; It’s a combination of absurd concept taken to the top, tried-and-true gameplay mechanism plus actual quality in execution. I think the soundtrack (Always – Erasure) also plays a big role.
My fingers started to twitch involuntarily after 30k.
On other gaming news; Steam for Mac! With free Portal! I got it of course, never said no to free stuff (Unless you can see obvious strings attached) and downloaded 
Torchlight demo. So far so good, but I want to see more AAA titles available for mac before I make any judgment. One complaint though; where’s menubar icon? I like menubar icon!
Last of the distraction; over the weekend, I decided I wanted some lightweight Linux on my EEE 900HA netbook, because waiting 5 seconds for each window (even an empty folder!) to completely loaded up is ridiculous. Don’t make me say how long I had to wait for ‘add and remove programs’, grrr.
I never used any linux before. But I do enjoy installing (and breaking) things. My criteria is simple, all I need on this netbook is Browser, Dropbox and some kind of word processor that can open .doc. I started with googling ‘lightweight linux for eee’, and ‘lightweight linux for netbook’ which brought me;
– Puppeee Linux. I was sold by the name alone. But after trying it out for a few hours, I found that there’s such thing as ‘too lightweight’. For one thing, I can’t figure out how to install Dropbox on it to save my life. So it’s a no go.
– Jolicloud. Everything seemed fine except that I hate having to register to their site to use an OS. And I hate ‘cloud computing’, whatever the hell that means. And really, why do I want to know which apps people are installing? Some kind of nerd voyeurism?
– Ubuntu Netbook Edition. First time I installed it, it didn’t work, produced a lot of error booting up and shutting down. So I tried to wipe it off and installed it again, worked better second time, but really, it was about as fast as XP, and as prone to crash as XP as well. What’s the point?
– Xubuntu. The same as Ubuntu, just with prefix, different look and a –tad– faster. It worked well enough and I could have stuck to it, but I really want something more lightweight. And I really don’t see the point of using linux that looks like windows…
Which brought me to final candidate, one which I’m currently using, and probably here to stay:
– #! Crunchbang linux. Confession time; I misread the name as ‘Churchbang linux’ for about half a day before I realized it, no wonder I can’t find anything worthwhile when I googled the name. Crunchbang linux is basically a lightweight Ubuntu (at least the current version is, the next version is gonna be based on Debian instead) with just enough GUI to get by, a lot of administrations/configurations are done via terminal/text file config, just enough to keep me on my toes and make things interesting. And I like abusing sudo apt-get, the bestest way to install programs, imo.
Isn’t it pretty?
First, the big news would be that Zuda, as it was, is no more.
They have eliminated the monthly competition entirely. It used to be that they pick 10 comics each month and let readers vote, which comic get most vote would get to be serialized on the site. Pavlov’s Dream which I co-created with @bicyclefish was in the January 2010 Competition (we ended up rank 6). I admitted that I both like and hate being in the competition. January was the most stressful month so far and I was glad it was over. But I’m definitely sad to see that there will be no more competition. After all, it was the reason that Pavlov’s Dream was born. I have 2 more stories I was working on which I had to put on hold for now, just to see what will happen next. My guess would be that Zuda will move to ‘instant win only’ model, which is at best, one comic every few months. I feel like the door was definitely shut. But we will see, @bicyclefish wrote a thought on this as well, check it out if you are curious.
Here’s some drafts of Zuda entry that will never be:
I might try to adapt these two to some other format, or maybe there will be other venues open up in the future, who knows.
I’m currently working on sisters’ luck book 2, speaking of which, I need to finish website for it, at least before the book comes out.
On a more personal news; I’m going back to school, in pursue of a bachelor degree. A degree in which I don’t know what the hell I’m going to do with it. But I guess Bachelor degree is the new high school and it’s your civic duty to finish it, or something.
There’s nothing caught my eyes on the internet this week, not even Youtube cat, On to next week!
It’s last week of April! Holy crap, where did the time go?
This week’s Pavlov’s Dream; It’s Sasha’s interview with famous dead people, and he’s still with Ivan Pavlov, who never really got to finish his lecture. Main storyline will be resumed next week!
Machine golem comics is fully up and running. I’ll give it a couple of months to see if everything will work as (I) expected. If nothing’s gone wrong, I’ll post about how to set it all up later.
New books to read, courtesy of @bicyclefish. Soulless by Gail Carriger and Demian by Hermann Hesse. I have skimmed read Demian before but didn’t finish it, was distracted by Rockband. 
I want more new reading materials but I rarely venture out to buy dead tree books and it’s hard to fine non-DRM ebooks that aren’t porn erotica romance or public domain.
Last of woe-is-me; I absolutely despised Thailand Post. This package would have been in better condition if it was dropped from a plane. Jesus Christ. 
The ink was brand new despite how it looked like it went through WWII. 
Let me end this post with a movie I wanna see (but probably won’t get to). A movie adaptation of a comic that isn’t superhero or hipster (or god-forbid, hipster superhero). Les Aventures extraordinaires d’Adèle Blanc-Sec (The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec)
Let’s start with Page 17 of Pavlov’s Dream. I’m getting the hang of drawing this!
Major change on my sites (note the plural), which probably confused everyone including myself. I’ll just pretend that last couple of months I was on high acid trip and can’t remember anything. I moved main blog back to sharii.com while giving Pavlov’s Dream and Beleth their own set ups. I just got tired of trying to customize WordPress just so I can have everything in one place the way I want it. By separating everything, the pros are
1) Clean site structure and URL.
2) Easier navigation for each comics and blogs.
3) Proper automate archives, no more manual pages.
4) Everything out of the box, I don’t have to heavily customize anything.
Cons
1) Separated feeds, who’s gonna keep track of me ;_;
2) I feel like I have too many sites to take care of.
3) Did I mention separated feeds?
It’s a trade off I’m willing to make. And I really hope this set up is working cos I don’t want to change anything anymore.
What am I working on besides Pavlov’s Dream? How about a new original GN? Here’s the back cover for The Sisters’ Luck. 
I’m hoping to put up preview pages soon, after everything is finalized.
Lastly, is there anyone who actually haven’t seen the ipad cat yet? I watched the clip went from 1K views to 1M views in one day. The awesome power of twitter.
Some commissions I’ve done a while ago. Finally able to show them.
Google+ inspired some doodles. Made with Manga Studio.
