Friday 30 January 2015

The New Banner

As you can see, I've started to doodle a new banner for the blog. I've always wanted a completely hand drawn banner but I've never thought my skills were at the point where I could pull it off. I'm still not sure my skills are the at the point where I can pull this off. I intend to work on it slowly, perhaps adding things that have relevance to the blog. Perhaps things that have no relevance to this blog. The tortoise was a mistake and will be removed tonight and something else put in its place. I have no idea why I added the tortoise. It was very late and I have a lot of space to fill.

I did think of adding virtual likenesses of anybody who leaves a comment but I had second thoughts. Firstly, I don't know what anybody looks like and, secondly, I don't want to put off anybody who might be thinking of leaving a comment. Besides, what would a 'Radical Rodent' look like? With the exception of the guy on the right who looks (very vaguely) like me and the woman prodding 'me', who is a bit like my nemesis from Tesco, none of the other characters are meant to resemble anybody other than the generic stereotypes I constantly seem to come across. Well, okay. Perhaps the guy flying the drone might be my perception of what Barman looks like but that's a vague ill formed thought and not worthy of pursuing.

Today: I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm making very little headway programming with WPF. I should get into it but my spirits are lacking. Yesterday was an odd day. It reminded me how much fun I used to have working on my spoof letter project. Today I need to be more productive. Deep breath. I should work on figuring this WPF out. I can't let it beat me.

9 comments:

  1. Does that mean I caught your likeness or just the likeness of your drone?

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  2. Oh bugger! :(

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  3. Well, you could use me as a guinea-pig for your banner and send us all a capy(bara) or a coypu (ooops... typos...).

    Keep beavering away - you keep this little mouse entertained, you shrew-d rat!

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  4. As for my likeness; picture a rodent, then give it spiky hair, no bra and low-gusset pants...

    Would you have me smoking, or with a partner in dungarees? - the choice is endless!

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  5. Ha! Beat you to it. I drew the new headed before the you gave me the details. I've gone more radical rodent than spiky hair, though I could perhaps add some spiky hair. As for radical: the Morning Star t-shirt was as far as I went. I was aiming for the kind end of the 'radical' spectrum. ;)

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  6. Good one! At least you made me big enough to cover (whose?) embarrassment. Glad you didn't have me facing him! (But then, am I safe with my back to him?)

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  7. Laughing but damn! Meant to be Cameron (to be updated after next election) but probably too small to be recognisable. Originally drew the Radical Rodent much bigger but needed to move things around and it was perfect to cover his embarrassment.

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