{"id":1965,"date":"2007-01-23T00:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T08:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2007-01-23T00:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T08:42:00","slug":"found-1300-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=1965","title":{"rendered":"Found $1300 This Weekend!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Okay, that title is wildly misleading, but stay with me, Dear Reader<\/em>, as I relate my fantastic tale:<\/p>\n

This weekend, my mom found a stack of my old college notes and papers. I sorted through it, and about half of the papers were blank on one side and therefore still usable as scratch paper for me to draw obscure He-Man<\/em> characters on. (I compulsively save any paper that can still be drawn on–I sort of have a reputation for being “that guy”)<\/p>\n

Anyways, after doing some calculations about the time span that those papers covered, and the amount of tuition paid during that time, I somberly informed my mother that it was about $1300 worth of paper that I was recycling, and the stack of scratch paper I was taking with me was worth another $1300. I don’t know if she found it as amusing as I did.<\/p>\n

What does that have to do with anything? I guess I just thought it was a funny little story. OH RIGHT, you folks are here for sketches of obscure nerdy characters. Here you go:<\/p><\/div>\n

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However, speaking of my rabid conservation of scratch paper, it is worth mentioning, for those who are interested, that the preceding illustration was drawn on a piece of lined yellow paper from a legal pad. I scanned it in color, and by fiddling around in Photoshop with the “Select Color Range” function, I was basically able to clean up the image without doing much work, and color it as I normally would.<\/p>\n

Numbered 017, Hardtop Tortoise<\/a> (known in Japan as Black Turtle<\/a>), is one of many characters from the toyline Battle Beasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fun Fact<\/strong>: Battle Beasts<\/em> started off in Japan as a spin-off of the Transformers<\/em>, and they were known as Beast Formers<\/em>. When they were brought to he United States, they were renamed and marketed without any mention or indication of their relevance to the Transformers<\/em> mythos. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, that title is wildly misleading, but stay with me, Dear Reader, as I relate my fantastic tale: This weekend, my mom found a stack of my old college notes and papers. I sorted through it, and about half of the papers were blank on one side and therefore still usable as scratch paper for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battle-beasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}