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Joined: 12 Mar 2007
Posts: 11
Location: New Jersey
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:44 am
Post subject: Philosophy-themed webcomic: Lump of Clay
Hi everybody, I'm completely new here. I'm interested to hear what people think of my strip, even though it's rather esoteric.
It's here:
I've been updating M-F since November, so there are some archives to peruse. (You'll see how I managed 5x per week when you see my 'art'.) The 'storyline' links in the sidebar point to natural places to start browsing.
Suggestions are extremely welcome.
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Thinking Ape
Joined: 17 Aug 2005
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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 2:02 am
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I'm torn because I love the idea and think the writing is clever but I have a total hatred for clip art comics, more so this past week than ever before. Unfortunately, it seems it would be impossible for you to curry my favor ... it's basically Pavlovian for me: I see clip art, I want to kill.
I wish you would take a stab at drawing it yourself, however crude, or team up with an artists, because your ideas are funny and your voice should be heard.
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Joined: 23 Jan 2006
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Location: London, UK
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:21 am
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Enjoying it so far. I wouldn't worry about people having a problem with it being clip art. That's what it is. That's what you decided to do. It's like making a black and white comic and having people say that they hate it because they think everything should be in colour. Don't worry about those people. Also, cheers. One thing I would say is that for a text heavy thing it's important that the text always be really clear to read. A couple of times so far it wasn't. Still legible but I did have to squint a bit with some of the smaller text and the stuff on the red background.
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Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:22 am
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ditto to thinking ape's sentiments. very good writing but the bad clip art makes me want to tear my eyes out. i'd rather see stick figures you drew yourself. if you must use the greyscale clipart, i beg you to cease and desist on the colored chat bubbles particularly the orange ones with gradient filter. bleh.
'married to the sea' uses clip art of old vintage illustrations and it works, so it's not like it can't be done without being an assault on the eyes. so maybe there's a way to improve your comic visually and still use clip art. i honestly don't know.
the writing really is strong enough to warrant an artist. you might want to put your feelers out on boards like this one and see if anyone wants to team up with you.
best of luck
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Joined: 12 Mar 2007
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Location: New Jersey
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 6:30 am
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Thanks for the suggestions!
Unfortunately, I don't think that drawing my strips is a practical choice -- partially because I have very little talent in that particular artistic domain (did you see the picture in my banner? that's about as agood as it gets!), and partially because just writing is taking up enough of my limited time as it is. The idea of collaborating never occurred to me -- maybe it's worth further consideration.
Some of the tips are much more easily implemented, though, like the one about text being difficult to read in Michelle's orange-red gradient bubble. I've just lightened the color and removed the gradient, as a test -- can you tell me whether you think it looks better?
The original style:
The prototype style:
One more question. Those of you who hate clip art -- is it the clip art yourself that you hate, or the fact that I'm not drawing each strip? Maybe I could draw one or two versions of each character just once, and cut and paste them around. Do you think that would represent an improvement?
Thanks again!
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:42 am
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yes it looks better without the gradient
personally i wouldn't color in the chat bubbles at all, but losing the gradient is a big improvement.
i'm not a big fan of clipart but i understand that you dont feel up to drawing it. i guess what we were trying to point out is that you are actually a really good writer and with even a half way decent artist you could churn out a damn good comic. i'm not sure if a bad hand drawn image flipped back and forth would make it better. maybe. don't be so sure you can't do the art work yourself. i wasn't kidding when i said stick figures would be better, nor was i being sarcastic or anything.
are you familiar with any of these comics:
cyanide and happiness
toothpaste for dinner
natalie dee
married to the sea
white ninja
i'm too lazy to put in the links, but i think all of those are on my links page. they all use very minimalist simple artowrk except married to the sea which uses old timey clip art illustrations.
oh here is one for you! boy on a stick and slither . have you seen that one? it's fairly philosophical, uses pretty crappy drawings and has a damn big following.
i think the problem you will run into is people see the clip art, cringe and click off.
oh, hey you could do a photo comic. my favorite is
but recently i discovered tiny ghosts as well. aarin here on the forums does one too called aarin's desk. all of these just use images with no actual drawing.
there are ways around the lack of art skills/artist. i think if you wanted to you could find a better approach to this. not that you can't carry on as you are, but it would improve your chances of getting a larger reader base.
anyway, i sincerely wish you good luck whatever you decide to do.
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Thinking Ape
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:56 pm
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motty wrote:
I wouldn't worry about people having a problem with it being clip art. That's what it is. That's what you decided to do. It's like making a black and white comic and having people say that they hate it because they think everything should be in colour. Don't worry about those people
I beg to differ. It's not really like that at all. Adding color is a stylistic element to existing art ... I mean, would you call a manga fantasy comic, a PA style gamer comic and a sprite comic the same genre because they all use color? Clip art is a beat to death ugly genre that is currently suffering a huge backlash because people are sick to death of it. There are tons of played out art styles out there that various factions of the reading public are getting totally sick of, but clip art is the worst because it requires no effort or thought, really. It's like the creator is saying "I have no time or respect for 50% of the equation of a comic, so you the reader should just deal with it".
If the defense is that the writing is just so good, then fine, be comedy writer. These are comic strips and require 2 elements: writing, however good, and art, however good. I'd suggest that a clip art comic is not a comic at all but a marginally creative excercise, like whiting out the punchlines of a Family Circus cartoon and putting in your own non-sequitor. It might be funny once or twice, but it ain't a comic, it's an office prank you do to make a co-worker giggle for a second or 2. And it get's old real quick. Like back in 1999.
This guy writes good stuff and admits he's fairly consumed with the writing aspect and says he has no real drawing talent. I'd rather see his crude drawings than clip art, or even better, see him team up with an artist. And apparently I'm far from being alone, so maybe he should worry about "those people". No one has to be a fantastic illustrator and he doesn't "have" to do any of this, but I for one think his product would benefit greatly from having real art with it. As Ginger Dead said, his writing certainly warrants him finding an artist to give value to the other 50% of the equation. Y'know, using clip art is like saying "Hey, screw it, I'm a funny guy and I can't draw, but who needs to draw to do a comic? I'll just use some clip art, everyone's doing it, and besides, it's easy".
Well, it's easy for me to skip over yet another clip art comic. And alot more people than you might wanna admit feel the same way I do.
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Thinking Ape
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:15 pm
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ichikawa wrote:
One more question. Those of you who hate clip art -- is it the clip art yourself that you hate, or the fact that I'm not drawing each strip?
Speaking strictly for myself, as a comic creator who's day job is an illustrator, I'm quite snobbish and loathe the laziness of a clip art comic. I'm obviously quite biased, since the use of clip art, to me, is like someone having a number one hit on the charts using karoake or something like that. I'm pretty old school and to me, a comic strip is drawings and writing. Writing over pre-existing images is an excercise. I love pop art and absurdism, but when I go to a museum, I'm gonna love a painting in any style far more than any collage or found art is. I enjoy the dada-esque aspect of a clip art comic, but only to a certain level, then it maxes out. And as I said, that plateau was reached years ago. It is only novel and interesting so much, and that point was about 6 months after Get Your War On/My New Filing Technique Is Unstoppable became huge, and that was like 1999/2000.
So, I personally hate clip art comics almost across the board, even very good ones, which I consider yours to be. Sure, every once in awhile one will catch me off guard and make me laugh, but it's so won't a knock knock joke. And, being an illustrator, someone eliminating the need for actual art in a comic strip is on one level not only irritating, it's kinda offensive. Maybe this is how script writers feel about the proliferation of reality TV shows that require no writing.
That isn't to say no clip art is a valid artistic statement, it's just that I personally have had enough of them and voice my obnoxious opinion about them as often as I can in a one man war against the scourge of this crap. Becuase, UNLIKE your strip, most clip art comic suck total goat balls, so now you have no art AND crappy writing because, hey, any schmuck who thinks he's funny can crank out 10 strips a day using clip art.
The real point is, I think you are a very funny writer, so I'd love to see you reach a much higher level by finding an artist or cranking out a crude silly illo of your own (which has it's own dopey charms, too).
But maybe you just like the look of the clip art. That's fine, too, I just probably won't read any more of them, no offense.
Good luck with it, though, because, as I've said, I think your idea and writing are good.
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Joined: 12 Mar 2007
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Location: New Jersey
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 8:18 am
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Thank you very much for the strip recommendations and the advice! Looking at minimalist strips is opening my eyes to more possibilities; I will seriously consider whether I can draw this thing myself -- that's something I just never really considered before. I appreciate the advice, and the kind wishes.
Thinking Ape:
I certainly don't want to offend anybody's sensibilities of what a comic strip should be. I think that awesome art in comic strips is absolutely awesome. I would never suggest that it doesn't matter; I just hoped to be able to present my ideas without it, even though I know they'd be cooler with it. Unfortunately, it's not as simple as "if the defense is that the writing is just so good, then fine, be comedy writer". I'm looking for an easy way to make my fun accessible; if I were a standup comedian, or a writer for a TV show, I could do it that way. But I'm just a guy writing his dissertation and typing up silly dialogues in his free time. Comic form was the best way I could think of to get my stuff out there.
But I do appreciate the honest reaction and advice. Like I said above, I will think about different options, and toy around with the idea of trying to draw this thing myself. I'm not at all sure I'm up to it, and it'll time sime time experimenting, but I will give it serious thought.
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Thinking Ape
Joined: 17 Aug 2005
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:25 pm
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Oh, don't sweat it, you aren't offending anyone's sensilbilities. These boards sometime lead me to go off on tangents about larger issues than the comic at hand. Sorry this turned into a paper on "Critiquing the Clip Art Comic: The Horrible Cancer That Eats a Society's Underbelly Away".
What should have been my main point, simply put, is I really like your writing and think you could have a damn fine strip (or, I suppose, a damn finer strip) with original art, yours or another artist's. It would just put it in another league altogether. If you have no time/energy or simply aren't interested in doing that, that's cool. I think Ginger and I just wanted to encourage you in that direction if you were so inclined.
By the way, you might really like this comic .... I'm a huge fan of these guys, even though they're clearly insane:
Frederick The Great
It's bent philosophical and mathematical jaunt through time and space featuring Frederick, Sir Isaac Newton, Salvador Dali, Voltaire, Emily Dickinson ... just nutty crap. Plus, you can see how crude their art is, but it just sorta works.
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Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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Location: behind you
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:21 pm
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here's another that's self described as ' a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language'. definitely a smart comic using simple art.
if you like minimalism, (but by no means is the art 'simple") just a minimalistic approach with strong black and white artwork and smart, thoughtful writing often using very few words, check out Flowfield Unity:
you certainly take criticism well and seem like a really nice guy. i wish you well adn hope you'll stick around the forums here.
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - If there's one thing the Wolverines can expect when squaring off against their longtime soccer rivals from Incline, it's a challenge.
The Truckee boys and girls received just that in their Mount Rose League clashes at Incline on Tuesday, which resulted in a 1-0 win for the Truckee girls and a 3-1 victory for the boys.
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"I thought that was a really good game," said Incline head coach Tom Canino, who coaches both the Incline girls and boys. "But this season we've made a habit of giving up goals when playing Truckee. They scored all their goals off of free kicks. We don't want to give up those kinds of fouls."
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Sometimes I think that no one at Blizzard plays a paladin on a regular basis. How do you miss the fact that Judgements stopped working?
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- Judgement of Command does double damage on a stunned target. Combined with Point 1 above, we see 8-9K crits on people.
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- Seal of Vengeance is broken, and is scaling too well with AP. This is an issue with brackets in the SoV equation, because apparently the Paladin designer does not understand BEDMAS.
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SNOW HILL — Commissioners Bennie Heath and Denny Garner said it's time to stop pointing fingers of blame about Greene County's financial dilemma.
But many of the residents have wanted to know since June who is responsible for the financial disaster of a budget — both last year's and current.
"I think we're all responsible for it," Commissioner James Shackleford said.
The board member said he put his confidence in then-county manager Don Davenport, who retired in December. But if a tax increase was necessary to make the budget balance, Davenport should have been forthright in saying so, he added.
"I think he should have stood more for his recommendations," Shackleford said.
Those who shared responsibility over the budget were Davenport, former finance officer Shawna Wooten and the commissioners.
Heath said he had confidence in the staff and didn't see the "red flag."
"I'll just say that we all had a piece of this puzzle," he said, "and we're all in this together."
Garner said there's plenty of blame to go around, but to "beat it to death" hurts the county.
"The bottom line," he said, "the buck stops with the commissioners."
Chairman Jack Edmondson and Commissioner Jerry Jones said the omissions and overages of revenue on the budget put Davenport at fault, but the commissioners are to blame for not monitoring it closely. Edmondson said the board told Davenport not to raise the property tax by the proposed 5.4 percent.
"Nobody ever said anything about dropping back to 2 cents or a penny," he said about the board discussion. "We just asked (Davenport) to make expenditures fit revenues, and it was not done."
Jones said Davenport didn't discuss certain elements of the budget and wasn't "truthful" about what would happen if taxes weren't raised.
"We paid a man over 90-some thousand dollars a year," Jones said. "You expect him to tell you the truth and what's going on, and he did not do it."
Edmondson said, "Maybe we didn't ask the right questions to get the answers that we should have been getting."
He also said politics were involved, such as Davenport — "a likeable guy" — giving in to the department heads' requests when the money may not have really been there.
The commissioners agreed Davenport was ultimately responsible for overseeing the work Wooten performed. Edmondson said, with Hicks' evaluation of her and assistance, she may have still been in her finance position today had she not resigned when the heat turned up.
Interim County Manager Richard Hicks said the auditor was "pretty clear" in 2010 and 2011 the fund balance was in decline.
Hicks said amendments should have been made all along. If the manager doesn't look at the line items on a monthly basis and their history, he "could easily be fooled" or "may not see something that happened," such as a trend, Hicks said.
"Myself, personally," he said, "I would not be comfortable with those kinds of mistakes, you know, in a budget I presented."
County residents Jody Tyson, Carolyn Newcomb and Chuck Stokes put the center of blame on Davenport, but believe the commissioners should have been more aware — especially when the public raised concerns over budget items. Newcomb likened Davenport to a CEO of a company.
"Greene County was paying top dollar for a county manager to make sure that our finances were looked after," she said, "that everyone was informed to make a wise decision."
Stokes compared Greene County to Enron — making the books "look right." He also said the commissioners' reaction was a negative one — "damage control," but the financial mess was bigger than damage control could handle.
He also blames the citizens for not being involved all along. But he indicated there are still questions to be answered.
"I think the county manager," Stokes said, "I think he should come forward and confess to what happened and help us all to understand a little bit more about exactly what his motive was for cooking these books, like he did."
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MARK KEOHANE, in his Business Day newspaper rugby column, lauds Victor Matfield's mastery of Andries Bekker and the Stormers.
The occasion demanded Andries Bekker to peel away just a bit of the Victor Matfield aura, but as with the Super Rugby final of 2010 it was the veteran Matfield who simply added to his aura. He remains the best lineout specialist and strategist South Africa has produced and his performance in the 19-16 win against the Stormers at Newlands provides the comfort that Matfield still has the strength of mind and physical capacity to be influential and dominant at this year's Rugby World Cup.
There were whispers on the eve of the match that Bekker was injured and would not play. The Stormers management denied this but if there was no injury to Bekker before the game then there definitely was to him afterwards – and I am talking about those psychological scars that are a lot more lasting than any physical beating.
Bekker's performance was always going to be critical to a Stormers victory, but the player who has stood tallest all season had to be content with an evening in the shadow of the master Matfield. It was another reminder that Bekker, for all the potential to be better than Matfield, has not yet delivered in those big moments. Until he does he hasn't earned the right to be spoken of internationally in the same breath.
The wind conditions at Newlands were testing but the reason the Stormers lost three of their first six lineout balls had more to do with the presence of Matfield than the weather.
The Bulls deserved the win because they played the better finals type rugby and made fewer mistakes. The Stormers fumbled their way through the first 70 minutes and some of the basic handling errors were embarrassing for players at this level.
The defence on both sides was effective and the Stormers were marginally more creative in attack, but the Stormers could not replicate the aggression they showed against the Sharks a month ago.
The match had the traditional South African-derby brutality but as a spectacle it failed to deliver to a capacity Newlands crowd, whose doubts about the Stormers this morning will be justified.
There will be similar questions around the Bulls ability to win away from home in a one-off situation should they be required to travel to Australia or New Zealand for a match against the Reds or Crusaders.
The attacking efficiency from both sides at Newlands was substandard. The Bulls scored from a Stormers lineout mistake and the Stormers scored with two minutes to go and could have had a match-winner with the last movement of the game had Bryan Habana shown the express pace of four years ago to beat the cover defence.
Creatively this match offered nothing for the first 75 minutes as South Africa's two best teams hammered away at each other. It was all too predictable and from a Cape perspective so too was the result because once again the Stormers lost a match they were favourites to win and once again every doubt resurfaced about the championship capabilities of the Cape-based side, who have lost to the Reds, Crusaders and Bulls at Newlands this season.
Those excusing the Stormers defeat will seek comfort in the Stormers going so close despite having to select their fourth-choice flyhalf because of injuries.
But this was a Bulls team missing Bakkies Botha and Fourie du Preez. Come on, there can be no excuse for the Capetonians.
The Stormers, in securing the bonus point, claimed the South African Conference but they can't claim the bragging rights of being a cut above the rest of the South African teams and the visit to Bloemfontein has the potential for more questions than answers.
The Sharks and Bulls will determine their own play-off destiny when they front each other in this Saturday's final league match and everything now favours a home team win and Sharks play-off elimination.
The Sharks decline over the last six weeks has been gradual and a more composed opponent would have humiliated them in Johannesburg. The Lions led 30-9 after 55 minutes, lost Butch James to the sin-bin in the last quarter and were defending their line at 30-all.
I don't know which would have been worse for Lions coach John Mitchell … to get stuffed or to stuff it up like this?
James, up until his yellow card, had played splendidly at flyhalf and like with Matfield at Newlands the Bok veteran definitely can make a contribution to South Africa's World Cup success.


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Arusu, a young girl who believes in magic with all her heart, finds her dreams have come true when she's thrust into a magical world that is nothing like she imagined. While wonders surround her at every step, from fairies of all shapes and sizes to fantastic magic spells to whimsical modes of transportation, she can't help but disapprove of how magic is used in the Witch Realm and where it comes from.
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Qualifying for Race 2 at Houston's NRG Park consisted of two groups, running 12 minutes each. The groups were determined by Friday's combined practice times. The driver with the quickest lap overall in qualifying claimed the pole position.
Running in Group 2, Castroneves made a lap around this 1.683-mile, 10-turn temporary street circuit in 59.1702 seconds to earn his second pole of the season and the 40th of his career, which placed him in a tie with Rick Mears for fourth on the IndyCar Series all-time pole winners list.
Castroneves started second and finished ninth in Saturday's Race 1 here.
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^^^ agreed and the tee signs looks very nice also.
^^^ agreed and the tee signs looks very nice also.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves. Carl Sagan
Thanks for the clarification Martin. I just assumed it was parks that spread the chips. They did a great job.
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There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to people by which we must be saved.
And Iroquois is a course that needs the chips because it can get soupy
"That's what she said."----Michael Scott
Any idea on when the signs will be ready for Otter Creek?
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new..........Albert Einstein
Very soon.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves. Carl Sagan
The new signs look good. I like how they are low to the ground and not on a post.
wow - played iroquois last night at leagues - the youth group from oklahoma did an amazing job - they mulched the entire hillside on hole 9 - amazing
they also mulched a number of the paths and around the baskets and teepads
I finally got to play IQ a couple of weeks ago and forgot to make a comment even though everyone else and their brother has played the course now.
1) I like the layout
2) I shot even from the shorts because of some blow bys on some holes and trying to figure out a different route after the guy I was playing with threw.
3) A rec player, playing from the shorts, should be able to at least par the course every time out. It was my third time playing this year and I shot par counting everything as a par 3. I was told that one of the holes is a par 4. I'm guessing the uphill dogleg right (I don't know the number)
4) I Ace ran 1, 2, 3, 4, the nipple hole, a couple others in the woods that I don't remember the numbers, and 18. My putting stinks. I missed some easy 10 footers.
5) The nipple hole needs stairs made on the back side if people are going to continue to go down that side instead of walking back down the fairway and around. That is dangerous and needs to be addressed before it becomes worse than what it is and someone gets hurt. It would be a great addition if some steps could be constructed that went around the back side. They could go straight down, spiral around the hill, be all the way around, etc. They could be built to still maintain the drop-off factor but made so that it is safe to traverse the hole.
6) There is a hole in the woods. Dogleg left, maybe one or two before the TigerWoods hole. There is a small tree stump off the front right of the tee pad about 5 inches high. I think that could dangerous if someone stepped off the front of the teepad onto it. Left handers especially.
7) Overall, I think IQ is a course that is true to the original course that is beginner friendly. I hope to be able to play there again soon due to the fun factor it had. I haven't had that much fun playing in a long time. Maybe also due to the fact that I don't get to play much.
8) Good job AllStar crew.
Jason Van Over
Number 5 is a great point! I also love playing there because it's so fun but next time play from the Longs because it's even better.
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"No one here has said that. Millions of red necks believe it, however."
I think it's a bad place to start if you are aiming your comments at 'red necks'. Lets just stay focused on the issue at hand, and we can keep personal or stereotypical judgments to ourselves.
"If atheists stereotype all muslims as terrorists that would give them (the atheists) a bad name… But it is what Sam Harris does "
"There have been people who confuse one billion muslims with a fraction of a per cent of muslims who are murderers."
I feel like Harris addressed this comment in the radio segment? He shows a pretty clear understanding of the difference between a moderate and extremist. It's one thing to say that all Muslims are terrorists, and a completely other thing to say that all Muslims stem their faith from the Koran. Is it wrong to analyze the implications of the latter? No one here seems to accuse all Muslims of being terrorists. Rather, we are merely looking into the text that motivates the martyr.
"This mosque isn't particularly important. But it is crucially important that the cobwebs built up over centuries that have protected religious ideology from the sunlight in the cultural arena, be forcefully cleared away."
Case and point.
"I'm not even slightly interested in getting into an ad hominem exchange about who can slice an onion thinner, or even delving in depth into Hitler's Christian upbringing in Austria."
I wouldn't mind hearing more on that actually…
"Unless there is evidence the people who are opening up the new "mosque" are terrorists or affiliated in some way with terrorists, or otherwise criminals, then it is none of anyone else's business, since this is private property."
The affiliation, though be it a subtle one, is seen in the religious practice that lay at the core of both the terrorists and the GZM.
"Small minorities, like publicly professed atheists, have the most to lose if freedom of religion is not upheld as a Constitutionally guaranteed right for ALL."
Lets look at a hypothetical - If the mosque was being built by those who directly support the acts of terror, would you defend their constitutional right to build their mosque?
"By the end of the show, he was so enraged at not having gotten to say all he wanted, that he went really over the line. "Who has a doctorate in Islamic studies here?"
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Rowing Around the World: One Woman's Odyssey
By Marina Solovyov
Roz Savage, a 38-year-old British woman, is the ultimate nomad. With no place in particular to call her home because she is always exploring the world, she feels happier than she ever has in her entire life. In addition to being an avid adventurer, she is making a name for herself around the world with her round-the-world rowing expedition.
In an interview with Roz, I got to learn all about her trip across the Atlantic and the one she plans to make across the Pacific this summer.
Roz calls the trip the Voyage; it is a seven-year project that will take her around the globe on her row boat. Her plan covers three phases, one of which she has already completed. On March 14, 2006 Roz finished the Trans-Atlantic Row.
Regular Person
Anyone who hears about Roz's past expedition and future goals is sure to think she is a professional in the field. But this is not the case at all. While Roz did row competitively during her Oxford University years, she went on to work as a management consultant and investment banker. However at age 34, Roz realized she wanted more from life than "a red sports car and to be married with a house in the suburbs."
Roz doesn't fit the typical profile of an ocean rower. Usually ocean rowers are male, six feet tall, and weigh over 200 pounds. Roz is female, five foot four, and weighs 112 pounds.
Second Leg
Roz is currently training for the second leg of her journey across the Pacific Ocean. She sets out from San Francisco this July in pursuit of reaching Hawaii. It is a 2,600-mile row to the island and she hopes to reach it in two in a half months if the ocean winds are favorable. When she reaches Hawaii she plans to return home to rest up for about six months, but Roz likes to travel light and seize the moment. "If I am inspired, I may just stay."
Roz makes friends easily and it would be no surprise if the exotic island wins over her heart until she hits water for a third time. After Hawaii, her destination is Samoa, a country comprising a group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean. After that it's on to the coast of Australia; she hopes to reach it by 2009.
Roz vs. Ocean
Unlike her previous trip, the next stage will not be a competition. This time the row is just her and the ocean with no official finish line to cross, just the one she has set for herself.
Training and Preparation
While reading Roz's blog about her first trip across the Atlantic, I discovered how difficult it is to travel for months alone across the ocean. If the turbulent and stormy winds don't kill you, being alone with your own thoughts may drive you crazy.
In addition to her phone breaking, her navigation instruments and music player stopped functioning. Perhaps worse than all of that is that all four of her oars broke and she had to patch them up with duct tape.
I was intrigued to know if Roz was doing anything differently this time around to prepare for the Pacific row. Surprisingly she told me that she wasn't. The wander luster is currently living with a friend in Washington where she utilizes the Grand Columbia River to practice.
While this is different from her Atlantic training because she did most of her rowing (up to twelve hours a day) on a rowing machine, she is not practicing any more than she did the last time. If she makes any changes they will be mental.
During her trip across the Atlantic, Roz says, "There were many times when I was struggling and wondering why I was doing this. The only thing that stopped me was that I knew I would never forgive myself if I turned around."
But Roz made the long and arduous journey. "My faith that it would all be worth it in the end kept me going."
The Sedna Solo
Roz's boat is an important part of her life and adventures. To her it feels like another crew member or even an old friend; after all her life depends on the security her boat provides her. There were several mornings on her row across the Atlantic when she would wake up at 4 a.m. and row for up to sixteen hours a day. Her cabin inside the boat was her refuge from sharks and stormy weather.
Roz's boat, which she calls the Sedna Solo, is 23 feet long and six feet wide. It's a lightweight carbon fiber craft specifically designed for ocean rowing. A key characteristic is its stability; it cannot sink while it is still intact.
Roz can heat up food on her boat and did so using a cooking stove. However, since it failed after the first twenty days of her Atlantic Row, one change that Roz will make in preparing for the Pacific is to buy two gas stoves. If possible, Roz does not want to be stuck again eating just cold food.
Making History
Roz is one of only four women who have rowed the Atlantic Ocean solo. When she accomplishes the solo row across the Pacific, she will be the first woman ever to do so.
Roz keeps a travel blog which she updates frequently, and she will be adding videotaped segments. Live footage from her Atlantic row can be found on her comprehensive website. Roz is extremely down to earth and friendly. She expressed to me that one of her hopes is that other ocean travelers on their sailboats or yachts come out to see her during her journey and share a portion of the adventure with her.
Not for Everyone
Although Roz is not a professional rower, she is pretty familiar with the sport. Sometimes people read about Roz's journey and get so inspired that they want to try an ocean row themselves. However, she says, "I'm not sure I'd recommend ocean rowing. It was tough. I already had eight years of experience, but it was without a doubt the hardest thing I had ever done. Most of us out there were total novices when it came to ocean rowing, so it is possible for a novice to go out there and succeed, but never underestimate the ocean.
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