When You Sit In The Woods Too Long
You Get Some Wierd Ideas
This page is under MAJOR construction, made the more difficult as I have almost no idea what I’m doing.
My Photo-Comics
The First Attempts
When A Costume Is Too Elaborate, You Know.
A Weird thing about Gender and Bullets. This is true...
Gender and Body Language. Also True
The one fun thing I do every year is Animazement.
Animazement 2006
The New Computer Saga
Everyone Loves A New Computer!
They May Go Back To 'Old Reliable'
But Sometimes You Just Give It Away
The Computer Saga 2: Kitbash Terror
Current Events
Recently, I’ve had a roach problem
That commercial is STILL on the air?
Grant weighs in on Immigration.
Movies...Why can’t I write these?
Spinach. E.Coli. You saw this coming...
Ideas That Never Got Off The Ground
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Mr. President!
Dora explores South America’s Export Industry job opportunities
The Importance Of Knowing A Second Language
Abby Teaches Us How To Herd Birds
In Memory of My Sister's Pug Dog
The Trials of the Discounted
The Election Year Begins
Election Results!
Endorsements: BEWARE!
My Take On Currant Commercials
No One Cares How Early You Vote
Because I spent all my Dreamweaver and Photoshop money on Transformers, here's a list of Open-source freeware I use!
KompoZerThe Web-design package I've used to cobble this together. Took twenty minutes, part of which was the download! This used to be Nvu, the project has changed.
GIMP-GNU Image Manipulation ProgramMost of my comics are done in MS Paint, which makes for bad quality.
While not Photoshop, of course, Gimp is a great Graphics Editor, you should see the image quality go up soon. Popeye, above, is an example.
Firefox!I like Firefox a lot, mainly because once you add the Adblock filter, you can really speed up your connection.
This is just a free office suite. Which is to say, if you lack Word, Powerpoint, or Excel, this will give you most of the same functionality, free. Plus some features the non-free stuff lacks, like direct PDF creation.
As the computer world becomes more diverse, it can't hurt to learn about it. Go here to get a Live-CD that'll let you experiment with it WITHOUT having to install it. Also, the Ubuntu Forums are a great place to get help. If you want to reanimate REALLY old equipment, I recomend Puppy Linux instead.
Portable Apps!All dumb ideas here are copyrighted by Grant Pilkay. Drop me a line and tell me what you think!
