I’ve just got off the phone with the chaps from LUG radio. They were chatting with me about the Everybody Loves Eric Raymond comic strip. 10 million geeks will hear it next Tuesday and rush to buy the tshirts I’m hocking on there. Or will be. By next week. Then I can retire at 26.
Anyway, it’s an amusing show so you should be listening to it whether I’m on it or not, so get downloading.
A guy at work has turned up this morning wearing blue mirrored sun glasses. He’s wearing them at his desk at the moment. Everybody is whispering about him.
I’ve managed to do a couple more strips of “Everybody Loves Eric Raymond” on time now (each Tuesday). Although it’s hard work coming up with something topical and (hopefully) funny, and then putting it altogether each week, it’s getting easier each time. I’m building up a little library of heads, bodies and backgrounds now, have got a good system for making speech bubbles and perfected my font usage. I’m enjoying it. I wonder how long I can keep it up on my own.
Me and the New World Odour team are working on reviving that project too, so I’ve been a busy and productive chap. Especially since I broke my new radio control car and have been awaiting the delivery of a replacement part (Another new expensive hobby I’ll write about another time).
I’ve started a web comic of my own. After literally a *couple of weeks* in the planning, I unveil Everybody loves Eric Raymond.
You’ll only get it if you’re a Linux geek and it’s very high brow. Except for the geek wrestling.
In case my non-geek readers are interested, Eric Raymond is an “open source” advocate. He’s wheeled out by various big companies once in a while to legitimize their forays into open source software. He’s also a gun nut. In fact, just a bit of a nut in general.
Richard Stallman is the creator of the Free Software movement. His emphasis is very much on software freedom which he thinks is very important. He is described as rather eccentric in real life.
Both Raymond and Stallman (or esr and rms, as they are known) are basically fighting the same battle, but they differ on the freedom issue (and probably the gun stuff).
Linus Torvalds is the guy who first created the Linux kernel (now developed by thousands of geeks worldwide). I think he tries to keep out of the politics of it all.
I’ve put them all in a house together without their wives/girlfriends/whatever. Drawing takes me way too long so I’ve done some very subtle and clever photo manipulation, which involves sticking their heads on my friend’s bodies. I’m also lazy so this isn’t done very well. Anyway, enjoy it or don’t.