Greetings. Tonight I made a small discovery that fixed a problem I had. It involves fonts in Linux. If you're not interested, maybe you're interested in learning Japanese. We otakus certainly like our Japanese. Yes, I am one of those guys who watches anime subbed. It helps me learn spoken Japanese and the actors are better and more realistic.

I don't know if I should be showing you yet another project, but I thought it would be interesting and exciting for those upcoming manga artists. I'm working on a 2d color raster-based manga today. If you're new to the terminology, have no fear, I shall define them right now. Raster is commonly known as bitmap. Jpeg, PNG, bmp, PNM, and the like are raster graphics. The GIMP, Adobe Photoshop, and PaintShop Pro are commonly used raster editors. Raster allows editing at the pixel level. Compared to vector graphics, which is at the shape level, raster is a lot more messy. But messy is good. There are a lot of things that a raster artist can do. I hope to explain them.

I recommend reading Winter. It's a good comic. While it doesn't seem to be updated regularly, there's quite a bit of if to be read.

Here is a lesson that I have learned over the past 4 years: _TOOLS_. Humanity has reason and it can use tools. It is what separates us from the animal kingdom: the ability to do something better the second time, the third time, and so on. In fact, I can create a tool that has no purpose today, but saves a dozen hours tomorrow. I can build a tool that builds a tool that builds a tool. The Nth tool may be totally useless in the hunter-gatherer sense of the word, but the Mth tool may cause something wonderful to happen.