(engincookpeneurtist)

Err, about time.

2010-01-13T22:46:00.003-04:00

It's been a while since I did a post. It's the no news is good news scenario, fortunately.
We havent missed a comic yet, thanks to our enormous archive of backup up comics.

Hooray! Made it to 2010, and the comic is going well!

Added bonus of coming here today: My newest recipe.

Filed under "Thing I Made All By Myself With No Help From Anyone (Especially Jacob)"

Broccoli, banana and peanut butter smoothie.

-1/2 cup steamed, unseasoned broccoli
-1 not-super-big banana (medium/small?)
-1 tsp peanut butter
-skimmed milk

Drop everything else in the blender, add enough milk to almost cover the other ingredients, and blend till you're happy. Drink.

Cheers!

And we're finally up!

2009-09-05T17:34:00.003-04:00

It turns out, starting a new restaurant, and being in med school are very time consuming. So much so that we didnt really get much work done on the site till a few weeks ago when Brian came down to visit the island.

But now ready!

bscomics.com is fully operational, and we've put up the first few comics. Expect updates every Monday and Thursday, with occasional updates in between. I'll post a little blurb here when we put something up.

Soooo

2009-04-18T08:29:00.002-04:00

So, it turns out, if I hadn't tried to fix bscomics.com myself, and just waited for a couple more days (yeah, like 2 weeks), the host would have fixed it themselves, which is why thelunchhouse.com works again. Go figure. Procrastination wins again!

Amusing observations

2009-04-17T22:53:00.004-04:00

It's been a while since I updated. Anywhere. Why?

Well, see, I opened a restaurant a few weeks ago! The Lunch House is now open for business! We have our menu online, just in case anyone is interested =D

The website was down for a little while, but we're up again, even though google refuses to recognize it.

bscomics.com is a whole 'nother story. We technically completed everything we wanted to do, but surprisingly (to us), owning businesses and being in med school is unexpectedly time consuming. As a result, we're keeping the site down until further notice.

Well us and the craptastic Box 16 on the otherwise pleasant 110MB host. We just can't be bothered to set up a new host just yet.

p.s. On a funny note, according to google webmaster tools, this blog is #29 if you search "my girlfriend webcam".

p.p.s. I saw Fast and Furious. Very fast, very furious. Go see it.

Paintings

2009-02-15T16:41:00.003-04:00

So them paintings I did :

After clear varnish

Before varnish

Another not so comic-related post

2009-02-15T00:43:00.005-04:00

I still have no internet. It's really making it hard to do new comics and things.

Sooo, the restaurant is almost done. I got in almost all the equipment this week, and we've been doing a lot of work on finishing that. I finished 6 cubist paintings to decorate the place today. Waiting on furniture but not much I can do about it except wait. Here's a couple of pictures from a few days ago, I'll put them on thelunchhouse.com eventually.

We're almost ready to open the full comics site. I've slowed down on drawing though, because I'm also super busy with trying to open the restaurant soon, but we'll get there.

Hooray!

2009-02-01T23:35:00.003-04:00

Well, good news! My restaurant now has an official name!

The Lunch House (www.thelunchhouse.com)

The website isn't up as of this moment, because of DNS propagation (it strikes again!), but it should be up super soon. For now, you can see it directly at the host if you want.

In other, more relevant news, we got some good comics done this weekend! Our art had improved somewhat over the last couple of months, and things are pretty consistent looking now.

Back to drawing

2009-01-29T22:50:00.003-04:00

After a bit of a hiatus, I'm back to drawing! Did a new comic today, and revised an old one.

I just realized I never put up the banner for the site... anywhere. So, here!

Things are coming along. I got my official business name for my restaurant today; I'm going to buy the domain name for the website for that tomorrow, so I'll talk more about it then.

Bwahahahaha.

I also learned today that I'm not very nice. Maybe I should try to be less angry-looking.

It continues

2009-01-29T14:50:00.005-04:00

The terrible frozen-video moments march on, forevermore.

It's like I'm chanelling Carl from ATHF.

OMG, it's back

2009-01-24T17:35:00.006-04:00

The internettubes... they're reconnected at my house. Sorry I may sound kind of meh, but I'm kind of in a meh mood.

We got some good comics done even when I was offline, so things are still going well in that department. I still miss Christy a lot, so that department is right where it was, except we're a little closer to when we can be together again.

Restaurant is coming along: it's nicely painted, and I'm getting equipment and things in, and sourcing potential employees. Oh, and I decided to take a real commercial cooking course, starting February.

Here's those videos I promised. Enjoy some time lapse goodness (x3) from my window!

P.s. You should listen to this song :) --> http://www.deezer.com/track/2745929

Not what I promised

2009-01-13T23:54:00.004-04:00

Well, I didn't get internet back yet, kind of. I have this wireless 3G card that is metered, but I couldn't wait anymore to update, so here I am! I managed to get some good comics done over the last couple of days in between doing restaurant stuff. That's coming along nicely, albeit stressfully-ish.

Also I made a couple new bean sprouter prototypes that are working like magic. Mnnn, bean sprouts. Still producing less than I care to eat... for now.

I saw the Hitman movie today on HBO. While it certainly appealed to my action film strings, it's nothing like how I had hoped it would be when I first heard of it. I was hoping to almost never actually see him in the movie. Just see glimpses of him from the viewpoint of an investigation, and then at the end, maybe have the investigator see him from the back as he's leaving a scene.

They really ought to have cast David Bateson as 47, if not Jason Statham.

There was some nudity though (Olga Kurylenko, who was in James Bond: Quantum of Solace), so all was not lost. I am male after all.

GAHHHHHH

2009-01-07T21:29:00.000-04:00

Gahhhh!

I have no internet again! It's kind of a downside of living in a 3rd world country I guess.

I'll have some kind of mega update including some videos or drawings or something, promise ;)

Case in point

2009-01-01T16:47:00.004-04:00

Some people have been asking why we dont hurry up and launch the full site. Y'know, start posting comics and whatnot.

Seeing as I date everything I draw, I know that it's been 14 days (2 weeks!) since I've drawn a whole comic. This fact alone, necessitates us having a huge archive of comics to draw upon. Granted, Brian has been hard at work, but I cant stand the thought of missing an update.

In other news, life in Tobago continues to be awesome for me. It's a new year! And I think it's going to be great! Should launch the new restaurant within the next 2 months, and hopefully launch this comic properly too.

Only thing missing now is to figure out how to see my girlfriend (she's much cooler than yours) more often.

p.s. Song I'm listening to right now: Akon- Right Now (http://www.deezer.com/track/2203428)

We didnt draw anything! Well, one thing, but it's about how much Dane Cook sucks balls (in the bad way).

2008-12-28T22:18:00.005-04:00

A lot of stuff has happened in the last few days!

I've been spending a lot of time with old friends, which naturally leads to the creation of a lot of great comic ideas. Spending an afternoon with old friends is more or less a surefire way to fill a couple pages in my idea book.

I did come down with the illest illness a few days ago, which kind of put comics on hold. It was 4 am, and I woke up and tried to swear (as I usually do when I wake up in pain), but my throat hurt too much! Which caused me to try to swear, which failed again, which caused me to... I think you see where this is going:

Recursive cursing.

Anywayz, I'm better now, and we're not much off of website schedule, for a Q1 2009 launch.

p.s. A friend and I nearly came to blows over how much I hate Dane Cook, and how much she adores him. In the end, I was being kind of a prick (channeling Dane Cook?), but years of friendship won out. But deep inside, everyone knows he's not 1/10th as funny as Demetri Martin.

Personal things... and Uwe Boll should be harmed

2008-12-22T21:09:00.005-04:00

I had a CT scan today. I've had headaches for years now... unexplained headaches. So far so good though, the technician thought it looked normal, but I dont get the radiologists' report till tomorrow.

I've also been trying to grow bean sprouts... without following what the hippies say online. I believe them and all, but I just have an aversion to hippie techniques. Not that I dont like them. Ahem. Anywayz, it's going OK, the BeanSprouts 2.0 (bs2.0) project is going a lot better than 1.0-1.3. We shall see soon.

In any case, I shall for now, continue to blame my headaches, bean sprout problems, and aversion to hippies on Uwe Boll. I'm not sure I want to go into how it's all connected, but I'm sure you can think it through.

And besides, in any case, Uwe Boll is just awful. I keep trying to make a comic about him, but it always end with ninjas kicking him in the balls. Or something about Uwe Balls. Gosh he's awful at life.

Creative differences

2008-12-22T21:01:00.004-04:00

Brian and I differ in opinion on more than the colour scheme. We tend to come up with ideas together, and often flesh them out together, but we sometimes have very different "visions" for how a strip will turn out.

As a result, we're going to do something we havent seen too often (or ever) online... concurrently running, but different comics. It'll be the same scenario, just our different takes. We're also hoping to eventually have online voting for "Faceoff! Comics" where, Brian and I will be working separately, and see what each of us comes up with.

We're rather excited about the concept, actually.

Though you probably shouldnt be. The reason we make a fairly-ok team is, admittedly, fully 35% of my jokes arent funny; and Brian is somewhat.. well... different. Together we come up with much better stuff. Maybe we'll make a comic about it ;)

An update... maybe

2008-12-21T15:46:00.000-04:00

Is it fair to say this is an update? Seeing as it's the first post on a new blog, it's semi-controversial for me.

I decided to start writing here because hosting the blog at bscomics.com was beginning to be a kind of a pain in the butt. Admittedly, this is mostly due to my lack of programming finesse. Perhaps someday, when I have more time to devote to the website I'll find motivation to work on that.

Anyway, we purchased the domain for the new website, and set up a teaser/placeholder page. And then switched hosts, a couple of times (we're now at 110mb.com , and it seems to be pretty cool so far). It turns out DNS propagation takes... a while. For those of us who thought things happened on the internet immediately, or at least quickly, it was a shock.

Brian doesnt really like my choice of colour schemes, so we're going to be doing a major overhaul before we launch next year. We want to have quite a few comics on hand before we start really posting, so we never have any time where we dont have a comic because we were too busy.

Thanks again for all the support so far!