Hahaha! For ONCE I have completed a comic before midnight! I'm getting a jump start since I have an 8am Dr. appointment tomorrow, so I can't afford to lose sleep for my story. At least, not this time.

A plea to the computer-language-savvy: if you know Perl, I need your help. My comic is growing too large for my gallery navigation. I have a popular cgi prog called autokeenlite to help solve this problem, and its very user friendly, but I can't seem to get it to work for me. It SHOULD be working, but I'd really really really appreciate it if someone would look over the stuff I've defined and tell me if I'm a moron or not.
Another question: if something supports PHP 4, does that cover PHP 4.1 or whatever? Or only 4 and below? No one can seem to answer this for me.

Okay, boring stuff out of the way.

Now.

Do you have anything in your life that you CANT talk about? Not because its secret or uncomfortable, but because you ABSOLUTELY lack the language to communicate it to other people? Sometimes I feel that way. I have these ideas about purpose and meaning and truth (I'm not talking about faith here, since faith is a well-covered topic in our cultural history; I'm talking about being a person here on earth). But every time I sit down and write about something pertaining to these ideas, I come up against the edge of all words. I can't ever find any way to describe them accurately. Its as if some of these ideas are outside of language itself. I can try to hint at it by creating really long metaphorical situations. Or I can cross-reference different authors I've read, like Robert Pirsig, or Kierkegaard. But it always falls short of what I'm trying to say.

See, Grant wrote this long rambling comment about the nature of art on my 6.29.04 post. And while it was interesting, I feel like there are some very important things he missed there. (Though I don't blame him, the post is timestamped at like 5 AM.) I want to ADD to his thoughts and talk about how art REQUIRES and observer, and that there is this special relationship between artist, art, and observer that is crucial to... well to something, but there I've run up against that cliff's edge again. I guess the closest words to fill in the blank are "the truth" or "the meaning of life" or something. But that's not really it. I'm almost glad there isn't a word for it either. I think if I could really define it, I would be missing the point.

Man, I just stare up at all these philosophers on my shelf and ask them "Did you have this problem too? Did you know what it was, and spend your life trying to write out the answer?" Any philosopher is fair game. This thing is like the common thread that runs between them all, ALL systems of thought. Its like the reason they even THINK at all.

And you know, I'm not saying all of this because I feel like I'm so deep or something. Its definitely common to all people, even if they don't spend as much time fretting over it as I do.

Enough. I guess all I have to tell you about the last two weeks is:
1. I went to Fourth of July in Memphis (which was AWESOME, as usual).
2. I lost the traditional Scrabble tournament but I saw some beautiful fireworks.
3. I painted my sister's room with a swirling night sky design over the last week. Its AWESOME.
4. I'm really enjoying writing my comic.

Thanks for reading! If you don't mind too much, would you mind leaving a comment just to say you were here?  ¶ 20:13