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A Christmas Update Update
I was distracted by grading and am now trying to finish off papers and working with the lofty goal of being done with applications before the start of the new semester. Thus, updating the comic is on the back burner until approx. the second week of January at which point I'll have a few weeks to fall behind on readings (kidding! As if I would do that...) by doodling before the inevitable "Sh...are we half-way through the semester already?" moment.
In the meantime, enjoy a guest comic from Kelly Szpara who was showing off her new stylus to me yesterday while foaming at the mouth about getting herself an iPad.
In the meantime, enjoy a guest comic from Kelly Szpara who was showing off her new stylus to me yesterday while foaming at the mouth about getting herself an iPad.
Finally, a new character!
Who's the woman at the desk? Why, that's Portia O'Sire.
You can read more about her on the About page and you can see that she's considerably neater and more organised than myself when you compare her office:
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A Bit Familiar?
Some Aussies may recognise that this view of Orbis City is based off the view you get of Perth from King's Park.
There's also something else from the previous panel that may strike some readers as familiar, which you'll find out next week.
A day behind
Yes, the comic was a day late.
I've been falling behind so my safety of net of comics is gone and I'm now working week by week, but still intend to update every Sunday, but sometimes that might mean I'll be a day or two late. However, there'll still be a comic every week unless I really get behind.
Just to give you a sense of what else is taking up my time this semester, I'm taking:
- PHL2132: Ethical Naturalism after Wittgenstein
- PHL2009: Aristotelian Ethics, the first half-millenium
- LIN1000: Intro to Linguistics
And I'm auditing PHL2190 (Reference and Communication) as well as TAing and working on grad school applications.
I like to keep busy.
It's not quite sunday, but...
PhilosφNinja is a Go! Check it out at http://www.philosoninja.com
This project started out as the smallest nugget of an idea in January 2010 due to this comic. Then it began to ferment, mutate, and grow a life of it's own until I was forced to put everything else on the backburner this summer and figure it out. The result of this should unfold before your eyes on a weekly basis that I hope to stick to.
I currently have a backlog/safety-net of 3 comics and I hope to keep it that way i.e. always working at least a month ahead so I won't fall behind. But, at the same time I am a grad student and a 22 year old in the city so there is always the possibility that I may fall behind and require extensions 
I hope you all enjoy PhilosφNinja, I certainly enjoy working on it!
Spread the word, get a poster here
Two More Long Months
In the mean time, I've updated the Butterbeer - Done Proper website with new pictures HERE courtesy of Angela Li from our Butterbeer Night back in August.
Website Updates - PhilosoNinja
In preparation for the new comic series starting in October the website has had a slight makeover.
The look is still the same that you'd expect from Principia Comica but the header has been updated, the archive has been organised better and there's the new link to "Characters" where you can read a little bit about Psi and her daimon Phi and some content here and there has been fiddled with.
I've been meaning to take scans of the work in progress but my lack of a scanner has been getting in the way, accompanied by my laziness to go to the library and scan. However, I can provide the following sample panel featuring Psi and Phi (the thought bubble) which gives you a sense of the style of PhilosφNinja. However, keep in mind that it is a sample and not an actual panel, Psi does not look the same as she is drawn below:
Since I shall be beginning my Masters program at the University of Toronto in September you can expect more updates in the form of sample and possibly the sketch versions of actual panels since I will be near enough to a library/scanner to trump my general laziness.
Butterbeer - Done Proper
Butterbeer - Done Proper has had 61,318 hits, which, simply put: is awesome!
I'm super pleased that the recipes getting out there and people are enjoying Butterbeer (hopefully with Thai food).
Random Thought #287
No new comic this week, instead, just the following thought which kept bugging me while I was at the TSO last night for Verdi's Requiem: how difficult it would be to steal a pipe organ?
If any pipe organs go missing in the Toronto area I swear it wasn't me!
I'm not hatin' on you!
You may have noticed that the last few comics have been specifically about Epistemology, and if your induction skills are any good you might have even guessed that one explanation would be that I must be taking an Epistemology course this semester. Congratulations, you're right!
My courses this semester:
- GER100 - Introductory German (continuation from last semester)
- PHL333 - Issues in Epistemology
- PHL375 - Contemporary Moral Philosophy (Moral Semantics)
- PHL475 - Adv. Topics in Moral Philosophy/Seminar in Ethics (Practical Reason)
- PHL497 - Individual Studies (Rationality and the Nature of Human Agency/Action)
Fun times.
On a completely random note: you should watch Caprica.
It's friendly enough for non-BSG watchers (it may even help if you haven't seen BSG) and it has a very promising premise. I wasn't completely sold on the pilot, but after watching the second episode my interest has been engaged. I'm hoping that there's more "the emergence of Artificial Intelligence" rather than "Polytheists vs. Monotheist Terrorists" - one can hope?