tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80783682212283085092009-10-20T20:04:17.817-07:00Ray Bishopraymondbishop@gmail.comBlogger632625tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078368221228308509.post-880322377279737112006-11-29T18:48:00.000-08:002006-11-29T19:15:47.380-08:00

I think it's plague season again. I mean, it never really stopped being plague season, but as the days wear on, I feel like I'm in 1665 London wishing someone would set fire to some rats just for variety's sake.Don't get me wrong, I'm not sick yet, but the daycare bug (see my archived post regarding plagues) has gone through every member of the family, including in-laws and babysitters. Over

Ray Bishopraymondbishop@gmail.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078368221228308509.post-69017707381700267662006-11-28T09:13:00.000-08:002006-11-28T09:45:37.426-08:00

Yes, I feel silly now. Thanks again Aliza. Something *was* wrong: Blogspot moved their link and Feedburner couldn't cope. Those who were subscribing through the Atom link on the site were getting the site as per normal, m'self included. No big. Think of it as delayed gratification. Now you get to read three weeks of... Oh. Right. Haven't posted in three weeks. ok, you get to re-read

Ray Bishopraymondbishop@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078368221228308509.post-43550465163088667302006-11-26T20:18:00.000-08:002006-11-26T21:00:41.710-08:00

Yes, three weeks or so is rather a long time to not update, I agree. Thanks for Aliza for kicking my ass into gear and letting me know that 25% of my readership has a bone to pick with me.Hey, when you've only got 4 readers and you know them all by name, criticism takes on a new and very personal form.So, on an unrelated note, the thin veneer of family-friendliness of the strip gets another

Ray Bishopraymondbishop@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078368221228308509.post-16197027437736709332006-11-08T07:53:00.000-08:002006-11-08T08:01:50.361-08:00

Darn it, you're off the hook again. Too much catching up from missing classes last week while I attended the conference to get another really good torrential rant editorial.But don't give up your front seat or you'll miss the Belgians...

Ray Bishopraymondbishop@gmail.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078368221228308509.post-28146764400064114582006-11-06T13:45:00.000-08:002006-11-06T14:15:17.209-08:00

I'm back from the convention. Get back on the hook, you. Quit twitching, and make yourself comfortable or I'll set you spinning.So. Responsibility and Accountability in Law and Government... Let me tell you, this reinforced my belief that if you like hot dogs and if you like law, you should never ever watch either being made.There was a real all-star lineup of panelists, ranging from litigation

Ray Bishopraymondbishop@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078368221228308509.post-6908518381732973682006-11-03T11:10:00.000-08:002006-11-03T11:13:58.604-08:00

I'm still at the conference. You're still off the hook. Enjoy the comic sans editorial today. Back to your regularly scheduled logorrhea next Monday...

Ray Bishopraymondbishop@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078368221228308509.post-63217171184066002702006-11-01T14:14:00.000-08:002006-11-01T14:16:29.664-08:00

Heading to a law conference today. Here's the comic, and I'm mercifully letting you all off the editorial hook for this week...For those of you who have no idea what Vecna is, you can read up on it here.

Ray Bishopraymondbishop@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078368221228308509.post-64490132312768459922006-10-30T11:41:00.000-08:002006-10-30T11:49:10.751-08:00

And now we return to your regularly scheduled reality.I'm a little miffed today. Two of my webcomics have ended (Doobl and Mac Hall). They might come back, they might not, but it's always a little sad when a series ends, whatever the reason.I'm lamenting my personal fix of someone else's creativity, though. It's like I'm in slight withdrawal.

Ray Bishopraymondbishop@gmail.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078368221228308509.post-57370781247585244062006-10-28T20:03:00.000-07:002006-10-28T20:09:23.889-07:00

I have accomplished exactly two things today:1. Cleaning up after yesterday's Hallowe'en Party.2. This post.We'll be back to the more usual format on Monday. See you in a couple...

Ray Bishopraymondbishop@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078368221228308509.post-2937345257185867612006-10-25T23:58:00.000-07:002006-10-25T20:55:55.768-07:00

It's still reading week, and I'm still being lazy. No editorial today.I do however, want to point out that Jess Hanley's web comic is rapidly running out of characters. I'll be sad if it goes away, since I appreciate the humour there even if other don't. Jess: if you ever get redirected here: keep writing!

Ray Bishopraymondbishop@gmail.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078368221228308509.post-73206007435805474932006-10-23T23:52:00.000-07:002006-10-23T20:50:35.108-07:00

Hi folks, it's Reading Week, so to balance out the fact that I have huge metric (don't get me started on that again) buttloads of reading to do, I figured I'd give you less reading material in exchange.There's some vague thermodynamic principle at work here, but I'll forego the explanation until next week. Meanwhile, enjoy today's strip in the 7 minutes today has left.Or just look at it in 8

Ray Bishopraymondbishop@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078368221228308509.post-203959364039000102006-10-20T09:42:00.000-07:002006-10-20T09:43:52.127-07:00

So you think you know your way around the universe? Don't make me laugh, you don't know distance from doughnuts. And hey, I found out today I don't either. The point came crashing home for me when for some reason in our philosophical foundations of Law class the teacher decided to explain what a meter is.I mean, thats just, um... a hundred centimeters or so, right? Or ten decimeters, or a

Ray Bishopraymondbishop@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078368221228308509.post-39424271834941973552006-10-18T20:18:00.000-07:002006-10-18T20:22:57.233-07:00

Blerg.1 mid-term today.1 mid-term Thursday.1 mid-term Friday.1 take home mid-term due later.This week is an ugly week.But, it could be worse. I could have a goat.

Ray Bishopraymondbishop@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078368221228308509.post-29982942009742568882006-10-16T07:15:00.000-07:002006-10-16T07:46:19.710-07:00

Yes, it's that wonderful time of the year again. Flu season in full swing. As if fading daylight, allergies, midterms, and the start of the holiday retail season weren't enough... Before you know it not only will you be deathly ill but it will hit you mid-season and you'll be knee-deep in TV reruns too.It amazes me, the way we set up our urban environment to encourage rapid propagation of

Ray Bishopraymondbishop@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078368221228308509.post-12395856861773713952006-10-13T09:00:00.000-07:002006-10-13T09:32:17.174-07:00

Happy Friday the 13th, everyone. To maximize your chances of surviving the day unscathed, my advice you would be to be avoiding:- walking under ladders- black cats you see hanging around with devilish old grannies- spilling any salt- looking at the new moon over your left shoulder - picking/finding any five-leaf clovers- putting your shirt on inside out- stepping out of your bed left-foot-first-

Ray Bishopraymondbishop@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078368221228308509.post-32381329237548280892006-10-11T06:53:00.000-07:002006-10-11T07:30:52.195-07:00

I've just been placed in a gallery. Isn't that a hoot?A very nice fellow named Mark Pearon over at plasq (the creators of the Comic Life software on which this strip is published) found Crunchy Milk through a technorati tag search and emailed me a while back about this, and today we're on the gallery.And we're one of two strips to bear the "Explicit" label shown over our picture. The other "

Ray Bishopraymondbishop@gmail.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078368221228308509.post-74901616992227148182006-10-09T15:13:00.000-07:002006-10-09T15:22:24.919-07:00

Happy Post Canadian-Thanksgiving everyone...I think I'm quitting cold turkey. And warm turkey. In fact, I'm quitting turkey altogether. Especially eating turkey in the altogether (a frightening midnight snack image for my neighbours). This could be a problem, with twelve pounds of leftovers threatening to become my lunch for the next few weeks. That's a lot of late-night snacking, and I

Ray Bishopraymondbishop@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078368221228308509.post-10781239347342680792006-10-06T13:45:00.001-07:002006-10-06T13:45:49.433-07:00

Do you remember weebles? I remember weebles. If you were a child of the 70's (and probably the 60s and 80s, yes) you couldn't help but have had at least one at some point in time, even if you were past the age where they were really that much fun to play with. Weebles are the kind of toy your parents put away in a box and you find years later. It's the kind of toy you'd put on a desk and

Ray Bishopraymondbishop@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078368221228308509.post-87665582832194607972006-10-04T07:09:00.000-07:002006-10-04T07:30:59.900-07:00

I have to reinstall Photoshop on my computer at some point.In my mind, Mr. Fluffy should have demonic red glowy-eyes, but the best I could do with Comic Life (which isn't meant to do that sort of thing) was red dots, which were size 48 Times New Roman periods with a red fill.Not very demonic if you ask me. "Oooo, look at my scary eyes! Kerning of the damned! They're not sans-serif but how can

Ray Bishopraymondbishop@gmail.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078368221228308509.post-43758912907548473642006-10-02T06:58:00.000-07:002006-10-02T07:14:46.097-07:00

It occurs to me that if you're not one of the 4 people who read this strip locally, the whole "One Red Paper Clip" phenomenon might have passed you by.Since we here at Crunchy Milk do give a rat's ass about what our readership thinks, please send us a self-addressed stamped envelope and we will send you some background material on the One Red Paper Clip story. And we will include, free of charge

Ray Bishopraymondbishop@gmail.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078368221228308509.post-52092823881375563682006-09-29T09:34:00.000-07:002006-09-29T09:46:04.595-07:00

*Shudder*I saw an ad for the Tickle Me Elmo TMX today. (The "X" is for "EXTREME")Only I read it: "Tickle me Emo".A quick search revealed that I'm not the first one to make this particular brilliant humourous connection. It's not a very funny link, but then again, it's Emo. If you're not sure what Emo is, I think this sums it up best.I'm still in awe of the sheer evil that is the Tyco marketing

Ray Bishopraymondbishop@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078368221228308509.post-52963145740308595212006-09-27T06:28:00.000-07:002006-09-27T06:42:47.664-07:00

Health Canada decided about six years ago that anyone who has spent more than 3 months in France or six months anywhere in Western Europe, from about 1986 onwards, is at risk of being a mad cow disease carrier and is therefore ineligible to give blood. This, of course, got pointed out to me when I tried to do my civic duty a couple of days ago and give blood. So. Mad cows at it again. This

Ray Bishopraymondbishop@gmail.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078368221228308509.post-31919995377856472492006-09-25T20:06:00.000-07:002006-09-25T20:32:36.622-07:00

I have a new feedburner feed. See the lovely orange RSS button at the top left hand side of the Blogspot CrunchyMilk page? It links to feed://feeds.feedburner.com/CrunchyMilk.Please click it and make that your new feed for the site. This is meant to accomplish two things:1. Occasional commentary that the Beta Blogger Atom feed doesn't work for various browsers.2. The feeding of the frenzied

Ray Bishopraymondbishop@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078368221228308509.post-51431768300963054462006-09-25T07:07:00.000-07:002006-09-25T07:52:25.682-07:00

I'm convinced that the reason most beggars aren't more entertaining is that they're really undercover sociologists.Think about it, they're probably judging your reactions and noting them down via bluetooth recorder. You can't tell, after all it looks like they're just madmen in the street talking to themselves. In reality, they're muttering "Subject #347523, Thursday, gave me $5, confirming

Ray Bishopraymondbishop@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078368221228308509.post-19156401680730952006-09-21T19:42:00.000-07:002006-09-21T19:59:32.261-07:00

I'm posting this up tonight, because tomorrow is my final exam for a crazy two-credit accelerated Introduction to Law class. I've just finished digesting a week-long class that consisted of 30 hours of lecture time, 300 pages of cases and doctrine, and nearly 40 pages of single-space typewritten notes into three pages of Things I Need to Figure Out By 1pm Friday.Today's strip completes

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