Hippo Toothbrush

Tonight, while tucking in my younger daughter, she hit me with this undeniable bit of wisdom:

"Never put your toothbrush on a hippo's butt."

I don't know what's more disturbing - that she would come up with something like that, or that I would have no problem instantly coming up with a picture and drawing it without any sort of reference.

Yuri's Day

Happy Birthday, Yuri Gagarin! The first man in space would have been 80 today (he died in an unfortunate plane crash in 1968). He flew in Vostok 1 - basically an ejection seat wrapped in a pressurized ball. As I sit here tonight, watching the premier of the new Cosmos series, I think that I still want to go see it all, but not in that!

Man Card

Tonight I'm feeling a little proud of myself again - I added another check to my Man Card! This one was for "Disassemble and Rebuild in Working Order a Major Appliance." I was able to take apart our dishwasher, scrub off years of accumulated slimy, crusty filth from the drain and filters, and then put it all back together. We just finished running a test load, and the dishes look better than ever!

Day of Unplugging

From 6:00 tonight until 6:00 tomorrow night, people are supposed to unplug from their digital entertainments and actually interact with the real people around them. Here are my thoughts...

Tonight is the night to break free

Of your iPad or big screen TV

Spend some time at your home

With your friends, not your phone

And leave all the bandwidth to me!

Robo Sign

Tonight, a work in progress. More details will be coming soon (probably).

Check It Out!

Check out my GIANT BRAIN!!!

At least that's the way I was feeling as I was driving home from work today. We've had this annoying little problem with a program in our computer lab for nearly a year now. It wasn't bad enough to bring everything to a halt, but it did make it hard to use the latest and greatest version of our 3D CAD software with the students. So today I spent most of the day online with our tech support representative, trying everything he could think of to fix it, and it still didn't work the way I wanted it to. Eventually, he logged off and I had one more idea to try. As you can probably guess, it worked perfectly! Of course tomorrow I'm going to have to try it with a room full of kids, but for tonight I'm feeling pretty good about myself!

F-16 Speed Sketch

Today we learned that when the A-10s at the base where I work are retired, we'll be getting a bunch of F-16s instead of drones or something like that. This is very good news for the base. So tonight I did a very quick (about 20 minutes), very rough sketch of an F-16. I like this plane - they always look like they're smiling.

I'm All Thumbs

In the spirit of today's holiday - "What If Cats and Dogs Had Opposable Thumbs Day" - I offer this:

Today is the day that we ponder a puzzle

That’s heard throughout mansions and slums

What would happen if all of our doggies and kitties

Were born with opposable thumbs?

Would kittens be knittin’ instead of unwindin’

The yarn from your neatly wrapped ball?

Perhaps they’d parade in new fashions from Paris

With zippers and snaps, big and small?

And our puppies, would they use a fork or some chopsticks

While searching for scraps round our feet

Or they might find a method of holding their leashes

While walking themselves down the street

But the one thing about this that really concerns me

Is this - what if they drew a line

Or painted a picture or sketched a nice scene

And their art turns out better than mine!

Happy Birthday

It's the birthday of a famous illustrator and poetical author - can you guess who?

Lion and Lamb

Happy March, everyone! Just a quick sketch tonight - I'm busy working on updating something else, so I don't have a lot of time for drawing.