ZachWeinersmith

ZachWeinersmith, 24 days ago to random

Weird question:

Why do you think so few artists attempt to create a magnum opus? It really seems most people who are good at something want to just keep making it in various forms, but don't try to make a single lasting great work, even when they're in a position to try.

As an example of what I mean, take Virgil who became well known for pastoral writing, but always had an eye on writing a national epic. A few people still read Georgics and Eclogues, but the Aeneid is the Opus.

ZachWeinersmith, 24 days ago to random

Working on Bea Wolf. This line is my gift to literature

ZachWeinersmith, 25 days ago to comics

Readers, you have the feckfulness to go to my website to see the full comic: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/feckful
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ZachWeinersmith, 25 days ago to random

Ethics papers:

Suppose X. Now, consider X is a subcategory of Z which is equivalent to R, which as recently been shown to be comparable to N which is, taken with P2, a type of W, and W is generally agreed to be icky.

ZachWeinersmith, 26 days ago to random

Stupid econ question:

So it looks like a lot of remaining inflation is rent. In that case, wouldn't you want to lower rates to increase home-building and home-ownership in order to reduce rent pricing?

ZachWeinersmith, 27 days ago to random

One of the weird things about writing a book called Bea Wolf is you discover the "Be a wolf" hashtag which appears to be a lot of large shaven men posting photos of themselves to each other?

ZachWeinersmith, 28 days ago to comics

Full comic here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/automatic

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ZachWeinersmith, 28 days ago to random

I've been working on getting my dialogue more natural

ZachWeinersmith, 28 days ago to random

So, after putting it down for many years, I'm back to trying to read HG Wells' corpus. Interesting thing: all of his famous, lasting, books were published between 1895-1899, when he was aged 29 to 33. There are other novels, lots of philosophical and political thought, but so far I would say none of it comes close to that first few years.

Having read lots of it my feeling is that he was very smart but used up his original ideas quickly and his political thought verged on silly.

ZachWeinersmith, 29 days ago to random

How old were you when you realized that when your karate teacher told you not to put your thumb inside your first, it's because he was protecting other people from you having ultimate power punches?

ZachWeinersmith, 30 days ago to random

I'm offended by this comic idea

ZachWeinersmith, 30 days ago to random

There should be a version of John Wick where, as in the Iliad, whenever someone is killed for any reason you get a story about where they came from, who their parents are, and how they'll never see their son again.

ZachWeinersmith, 1 month ago to random

J'apprends la Francais par lire Reddit, et... "gant de toilette" ? Qu'est ce qui passe dans les douches francaises?

ZachWeinersmith, 1 month ago to random

Hey language-learners, what's your tip for improving your ear? I can read French pretty well, with a glossary, and I can write it OK, but my hearing is garbage.

ZachWeinersmith, 1 month ago to comics

Full comic here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/frank

Try this one weird trick where you support artists whose work you enjoy: https://www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith

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ZachWeinersmith, 1 month ago to random

Question whose premise may be faulty:

Why is it that in Chinese calligraphy, it seems to have always been impressionistic, with quick pretty strokes, whereas with Latin scripts the calligraphy, even when it's swoopy and fancy, is highly controlled? Is this inherent to pictographic vs alphabet calligraphy or is it random cultural stuff, or are their actually just forms of calligraphy I haven't found?

ZachWeinersmith, 1 month ago to random

Lot of people telling me we know the Earth is round because the people in space look at it all the time but how do we know it's not just a very cleverly made sprite? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(computer_graphics)

ZachWeinersmith, 1 month ago to random

Garrison Keillor is really strange to me career wise. He wrote exactly one outstanding novel - his first. Then ever after he wrote the same novel, only worse, and with more weird sex stuff. He also wrote very good (really!) poems early on, and then over time what he counts as poems is just aw-shucks Minnesota stuff. It's like he noped out of a lasting literary career for kitsch.

ZachWeinersmith, 1 month ago to comics

Fossils
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/fossils-4 (click for full comic)
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