Working on a sketch for "Meanwhile... in La Crosse, Wisconsin".

I probably won't keep the underwater scene, and will most likely change the rocky background to an iceberg (which is in the story). But I started drawing fish and thought I needed to see it through.

 

When I was in high school my older brother went off to college to study Psychology.

One weekend when he came home I asked him what he was learning.

He grabbed a piece of paper and a pencil and asked me to draw a picture of a person.

What I drew looked a lot like a version of these guys.

He then said that what I drew was how I see myself. I think it was supposed to mean that if you drew big ears or a long neck you were self-conscious about that part of yourself.

I didn't agree with his assessment.

He never did go into the field of psychology as a career so he was probably wrong about self-sketching as self interpretation.

But I do think that my hair, when I grow it out, does look a bit like that sketch in the upper right.

I have no idea what I was going for here, but two of my favorite things are:

a. creatures in biomes
b. short shorts

So I combined them both here. 

​Enjoy.

I've always been able to solve one side of a Rubik's Cube in under 12 seconds. 

Seriously. Always.

My elementary school math teacher, Mrs. O'Neill, brought one in one day when I was nine or ten years old and a bunch of my classmates played with it. I was so fascinated by the mechanics of how the edges could turn without breaking off, even when you went fast. 

I solved the white side pretty quickly and everyone thought I was a genius. But that was as far as got.

Ever.

It's been decades since then, and I can still solve a side in under 12 seconds, and I can even complete the top side rows pretty easily, but I never learned to solve the entire thing. 

I've had friends and co-workers try and show me but the only way to solve it seems to require memorizing specific algorithms. 

In my mind, that's cheating. 

So I keep plugging away at it, trying to intuit my through it.

I sketched this picture to show how a robot might do it if it didn't use algorithms. It would probably use all of its limbs to solve multiple cubes at the same time, but the poster in the background is meant to show that it would probably have to stretch its own creativity a bit, where humans have to try and stretch their logic a bit.