The book was Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, obtained from Project Gutenberg, a pretty cool resource for old things written by now dead people.

I laid it out in Word with a 5.5″ by 8.5″ page setup, the dimensions of a letter paper folded in half, so as to not waste any real estate. Then I exported as a PDF and used Acrobat to print it in booklet form with two pages on each side. This one turned out to be 208 pages original. With double-sided booklet printing, that’s 52 printed pages.

I took every five printed pages, that is, every 20 pages of the book, and bound them together with thread. This is called a “signature.” Here’s all 11 of them.

Then, using such professional tools as a ruler, a guitar capo, a pencil, and a clamp thing that came with a generic dremel tool, I clamped all the signatures together and glued them up with some binding glue.

After a whole bunch of coats of that stuff, it gets a cardstock cover.

Opened to a random page, in proof that it is, in fact, a real book.

Total project time: a solid 5 or 6 hours

This is actually the second Jane Austen book I’ve made for my girlfriend, the first one being Pride and Prejudice. To friends and relatives who may receive such an affordable (but thoughtful!) gift like this from me for Christmas, please forget everything you just read. Yay!!

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Basically, it’s an experiment in passive income, rashly created after brainstorming ways I can conquer the internet without trying too hard or involving drugs, naked people, or naked drugs.

Ultimately, the goal is to make $10 a year to pay for the domain renewal. So far, I’ve made a penny, which is a pretty good start!

.1% Success! Huzzahs!

This is also my first time playing around with ads, which has been pretty fun.

Do I “want own business?” Hmmm… I don’t quite know exactly what that entails. I think I’m good?

Oh, one more thing… Computers, stocks, bonds, NASDAQ, black people and white people shaking hands, buzzwords, etc.

I’m sorry, internet, I had to.

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“A Bear Looking at a Burger, Floating”	“A Bug With Its Mouth Open”	“A Bear-like Creature Near Some Bubbles”
“Mr. Moon Face”	“Things On My Desk”	“Troll”
“A Content Robot with Unevenly Girthed Limbs”

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Shirts are $10 and come in the following two flavors. Wear one to the last show on November 1st and get in for free.

Some of the other ideas I had:

And a picture of me wearing the yellow one, thinking about politics:

The original swooshing LP logo was made by co-YMC-intern Sarah, so props to her. To learn more about the venue and find out when the remaining shows are, visit the LP MySpace page.

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I’m gonna keep it in my back pocket and try to draw something in it every day. Gotta keep up my doodling chops now that I’m not a student with boring, mandatory lectures to attend anymore.

Drawing #01 is a robot with buck teeth! Shock! Yikes! Hmph!

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Osama bin Laden? More like “Shmoshmama shmin Shmashen!” Am I right?!

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If I remember correctly, I hastily made it for a Photoshop class out of pictures hastily taken for a Photography class. I think I also remember getting a B on it. Mehh.

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We used to have this game on the Something Else forums where we’d collectively write a cheesy romance story, with each person contributing a new line or paragraph. It was pretty fun. A month or so ago, friend/colleague Kris Knight had the idea to make a whole site dedicated to such a peculiar activity. I volunteered to help.

With that, we give you:
iromanceyournovel.com

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Here’s how it works, from our “About” page:

Every week, we will start a new story, giving the readers the first paragraph. Past that, it’s up to you. Log in, read up, write a new contribution, and wait for someone else to follow your lead.

The site runs on WordPress but is definitely more complex than anything else I’ve made with the blogging platform. The theme we made formats the posts and comments so they all run together cohesively, unlike a traditional blog. The comment (or, as we call them, contribution) details are hidden using Prototype JavaScript, a first for me. I also used multiple loops within the index page to display the latest news above the story of the week.

This site is also cool because it’s the first project I’ve done where I haven’t gone out of my way to support Internet Explorer 6. Without going off into a rant, for those not savvy to the internet, coercing your site to work on IE6 is possible, but extremely difficult and limiting. We decided to take a stand and be lazy and not support it.

Here’s a video promo Kris made about IRYN:

And I think that’s it. Go take a look and contribute, if you dare. We really hope this thing takes off.

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Photo props to jeltovski and vierdrie.

Update (8-10-08): vierdie has included my tracing of his hippo in the news section of his website. Very cool.

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