[Wonderful Labs] WONDERPIXELS

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Dear Mister Wonderful,

	In my computer illustration class today I was being scolded for not
importing my Photoshop file into Illustrator to do this little detail
part of it, and they were saying how you can alter the bounding box
problem by doing this, and I was totally spacing out because I felt like
ignoring their good advice, so I started wondering about the term
"bounding box." 

	Bounding. In this case it was supposed to mean "the box that frames
everything and holds it all in." Nonetheless, all I could see in my
mind's eye was a box that was leaping and jumping around, bounding
across the page.

	Does bound have anything to do with bound?

Love, 
Etty Mologist
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Dear Wyrd Which,

	Let's see... unless one is clever and bounds over the boundaries with
which the world abounds one could wind up labeled a bounder and be bound
to the mast - but if you're bound for glory something good is bound to
happen.  Unless it's just a rebound.

	Does that about cover it?

	The English language has an unfortunate tendency to borrow words from a
variety of swarthy people and kind of "knock the edges off" to make them
simpler to pronounce.  This Procrustean urge leads to a plethora of
artificial homonyms, causing untold confusion in the classrooms and
furtive hand-holding in the cloakroom.

	I'm not sure what that means, either.  Tell you the truth, I shot my
wad on that first paragraph.  I'm running on fumes here.  Ideas floating
in and out of my head like.... I don't know.  Smoke?  Smoke drifting
past the lava lamp in Woody Harrelson's sauna?  Something.  Wait. 
Inspiration strikes.

	"Bound" as in "limit or restrain" and "bound" as in "gambol, frolic,
gad, or leap" come from two different French words, but the connexion
between them should be clear if you consider any Pepe Le Peu cartoon.


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Mister Wonderful Recommends: "Abolishing Christianity and Other Short
Pieces" by Jonathan Swift, published recently by Manic D Press, San
Francisco.  Man, you do not want to piss off the Irish.  Stomp on them a
little and the words they let fly will burn for centuries after your
boots are dust.  This stuff is funny and fucking *smart*.  It includes
the one you were supposed to read in college, "A Modest Proposal," but
also lays waste to literary pretension, organized religion, astrology
and oooooh, everything.  300 years before The Onion.  Think about that.

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-- 
Wagstaff, Hackenbush, and Firefly

SUPERMAN:	The unusual missiles we are developing
		at the base are exciting!
		(thinking) Mother... Dad! If only I 
		was free to tell you how much I love
		you... >choke<

		-"Superman's Return to Krypton!"
		Originally presented in SUPERMAN #141,
		November 1960

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