X-Rays and Happy Meals

I'm-a-try something new here.

There's no comic today. Just a text update. I had a couple of comics ready to go in mid February, but stuff came up and I had to put the pen down for a bit. Unfortunately, once you get out of a comics routine, it's hard to get back. There's some new ideas a'cookin and hopefully I'll find some time to put pen to paper and draw more comics soon.

In the meantime, I have a fun story to share.

Diamonds!

I think the title of the article below is interesting from a science journalism point of view. The direct accomplishment of the study was about the qualities of liquid diamond, a state that is very difficult to achieve. Because of this research, we now know that solid diamonds, like frozen water, are less dense than their liquid counterpart. And the conditions to achieve this are insane (Reminder: They melted a diamond with LASERS!), BUT similar conditions happen to exist on Uranus and Neptune. And based on other studies showing a fair amount of carbon on those planets, the hypothesis that they may have giant diamond oceans and diamond icebergs now has some more evidence supporting it.

Ah, Science!

Source:
Diamond Oceans Possible on Uranus, Neptune

Nerd Cred

References:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Hedgehog
• McDonald, Kate (19 Jan 2009) "Robotnikin takes on Sonic hedgehog". Australian Life Scientist.
• Simonite, T. (15 Dec 2005) "Pokémon Blocks Gene Name". Nature 438, 897
• Astley, R. (Aug 1987) http://tinyurl.com/2g9mgh

Season Premiere

I'm starting it back up! Hopefully I can pump out 2-3 per week.

Bailout. Yer doin it rong.

Halloween Costumes

Originally published in the 10-31-08 issue of the Brown Daily Herald.

Mail Room Blues

Goodnight Moon

Ode to Scheduling

Shopping Period

Dumbing Down Monopoly

Thanksgiving Break

Though this goes out to the Med students (A-Baum, Danny, D-Wash...), the original inspiration came from seeing how much my sister, who is in law school, had to do over the weekend. You can read more about her adventures in case studies here. It's funny.

Carry-on Luggage

Originally published in the 10-30-07 issue of the Brown Daily Herald.

I'm back!

After a 2 week sabbatical, Nightmarishly Elastic has returned to the comics page. Awesome.

Originally published in the 10-29-07 issue of the Brown Daily Herald.

BRB!

So when I saved a large and small size to send the the Herald, I accidentally saved over the large size. :( I was able to blow it back up a bit, but it's not as sharp as it could be. Oh well.

Originally published in the 10-12-07 issue of the Brown Daily Herald.

A Tour of Brown

Originally published in the 10-11-07 issue of the Brown Daily Herald.

It's like playing "Mousetrap..."

Originally published in the 10-10-07 issue of the Brown Daily Herald.

Congressman Crunk from Party Central, USA has the floor...

Originally published in the 10-09-07 issue of the Brown Daily Herald.

Seriously, I'm up to 195 on Facebook...

Originally published in the 9-28-07 issue of the Brown Daily Herald.

I am serious about this one.

Originally posted in the 9-19-07 issue of the Brown Daily Herald.