The Walton Firm Memos

This is a very exciting week for me because Chris Onstead has put up three Achewood strips,  and he hasn’t been this prolific for a while.  I’ve been anxiouse about the strip ever since he dropped the “you don’t always feel that way” bomb in a radio interview. Specifically, I’ve been worrying that he might go the way of other [...]

Fascinating article in the Guardian today on the Swiss assisted Suicide organization, Digniatas. Most astaoundingly:
Since Swiss law allows assisted suicide, but not euthanasia (the difference being that the person who wants to die must actively take the dose himself), the act of voluntarily drinking the drug, mixed with 60ml of water, and the subsequent death [...]

Sadly, due to recent annoncements,  it looks like Steorn has turned out to be a rather ordinary failure of a free-energy scam. Miracle-energy is a classic gag. Going back by some accounts all the way to the early 1600’s,  there have been lots of people who have all billed themselves as renegade scientists who have [...]

I didn’t actually leave this note, it just occurred to me to write it up for comedy:

…Yep … drug a couple of old projects out today and had em shot. learned a couple things though:
Mall Cop
this was a writing project where I was planning on using user input to finish a short story about a security guard, what I learned from this is that you need to have a “get the [...]

We are often times the last wave of people to occupy these great houses. A particular house I mean was probably a family home for several generations, was probably lived in and cared for by several generations of owners, but as the city changed around it, it’s role was altered. Many family homes find a [...]