MARIO: The secret to avoiding parking tickets is to look like you already have a parking ticket. [[He gestures to an envelope marked VIOLATION on his windshield.]] With an envelope already under your wiper, you can park anywhere you want!
AMBROSE: But won't the officer making the rounds know whether he's given you one? Won't he check the date and time of the existing citation?
MARIO: Let him! He'll find a citation with today's date for this exact point on the street. Photoshop lets me customize it for anywhere I park.
AMBROSE: So you plan out where you're going to illegally park and print fake citations ahead of time? Or do you just print a dozen citations every morning for whatever times you think you might need?
MARIO: Yeah, I've got a macro. It's actually not that much trouble once you make it a habit.
AMBROSE: ?you realize you're probably spending more on paper and ink and time than the actual citations would cost.
MARIO: Ah, but ruining one's own life by choice is the very definition of liberty.
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{{alt-text: 'Can you believe Mario carries around a box of pre-printed tickets everywhere he goes?' 'I know, what a moron! I just keep a color printer plugged into the cigarette lighter.'}}
'Can you believe Mario carries around a file box of pre-printed tickets everywhere he goes?' 'I know, what a moron! I just keep a color printer plugged into the cigarette lighter'
The computers tell me it was 20 years ago, June 9, 2006, that I arrived in New York for my first-ever comic convention as an exhibitor, MoCCA.
It was an important trip for me, a milestone in what would go on to become my career.
I wrote a little reminiscence on Patreon (free/unlocked) — including a first-since-then reprint of the photocomics I made at the time, documenting the trip!
Read the rest here: [ 20 Years Ago (In Photocomic Form) ]
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