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| Thursday, August 7th, 2008 | ||
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canray |
3:48p | Nothing "A Sploded" Yesterday... Maybe I finally broke the birthday curse here! :-D |
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cuprohastes |
8:48p | Cloud tutorial ( You are about to view content that may only be appropriate for adults. ) |
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strangething |
1:02p | Vote, vote, vote I reminder to all my Memphis-area readers: local elections are today. Incidentally, the Steve Cohen/Nikki Tinker race has gotten nasty enough to attract some national attention. Here's Keith Olbermann: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrw7ZBo2 EDIT: Find a voting location: http://www.shelbyvote.com/locator/ |
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glowingwhispers |
11:56a | NYC Question I've been looking at a series on "rich people's rooftop NYC gardens" but I'm confused. Can anyone explain to me why some NYC rooftops have big barrel looking structures on them? http://www.flickr.com/photos/jwillys/27 http://www.flickr.com/photos/jwillys/27 http://www.flickr.com/photos/jwillys/27 |
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cuprohastes |
3:25p | Guennol Lioness Picture ( You are about to view content that may only be appropriate for adults. ) |
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doronjosama |
9:02a | Store Stuff Take Two I woke up this morning to find the online store has been fixed. I didn't hear from the server host guy, but mysteriously, like a shoe-making elf, he fixed the system overnight and it's not spitting out error messages anymore instead of category listings. I am well pleased and can get many things updated now! SO RELIEVED! Hooray for server host guy! And hey, we didn't have to completely redo the entire batch of store code, which I feared. (Manually re-adding over 600 products and re-adding over 2000 customer IDs would have been a major pain in the rear...) Now to do some work/errands before I have to go into work at 3 today... Oh, and I have new auctions on eBay: Check them out here! I apologize in advance for eBay's new stupid layout system. I would do more FurBid auctions, but I still can't get into my account due to always getting the "security certificate has expired" message. Is anyone else getting that problem? Current Mood:  bouncy |
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shatterstripes |
9:37a | revisions I revised the King of Wands. Thanks for the commentary, folks; you gave me a bunch of things to think about! These manly cards are just hard for me to do. On to the last one... |
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lab_gripes [ small_chicken ] |
1:58p | This is just not my day 1) Came in this morning, checked the counter (thingum that counts the disintegrations of the radioligand we use) because I'd put in 159 tubes last night. Annoying, but no big deal--I was revisiting some old experiments today, so I didn't need the results. I'm pretty sure this one is entirely my fault, even though I just KNOW that I sent them through before I left. 2) Other student who uses the same counter came in and tossed out her counted tubes, which is standard. She tossed out the last row of my tubes as well. Which included a test for a good binding window. This one is mostly my fault, as I didn't label that last row, but still--I kept her racks in the same order when I did a little shuffling so I could resend the samples through the counter, so you'd think that that rack being AHEAD of hers would mean something...I'm not blaming her (as I said, it is mostly my fault), and the experiment is easily repeated. It's just...*sigh* |
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cuprohastes |
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jirris_midvale |
1:43a | New Advances in Boner-Inducing Technology ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) Current Mood:  amused |
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cuprohastes |
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| Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 | ||
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shatterstripes |
9:43p | King of Wands  Air of Earth. Debating if I need to add horns or something to him. Done for now; I'll upload it elsewhere in the morning after I decide if he needs an addition. next-morning edit: I recomposed it a lot, bringing the King much closer and lightening up his humungous tool so that his head is the strongest contrast. And I added a few details: finessed the clouds in the Earth that I'd cut-and-paste from the Princess of Wands, added an ungainly little spaceship silhouetted against the nebula. Much stronger now. Compare it with the first version if you like. There's just the High Priest left for the show. I'm not looking forwards to him. I still need to fight the sketch. And thanks to Peter Lewerin up in Sweden for the donation the other day! |
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doronjosama |
7:02p | Store Stuff So, the Radio Comix Online store is rather borked at the moment. It appears that when we had our downtime a little while ago, the server host guy upgraded the servers to MySQL 5.0 -which isn't really a problem, except..... it conflicts mightily with OSCommerce. So, huge swathes of the store are unviewable from the sidebar links. Huge hunks of it just won't display and it spits out error messages. I was wondering why the orders were so slow this week, and chalked it up to convention season, but no, I was wrong. Now I play the waiting game as I have filed the proper tickets, called both of server host guy's numbers and left messages. ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} brokenlibrarian seems to have deduced what the problem IS, but we need the host guy to get into the server side of things and fix stuff. Worst case scenario, we need to completely back up the entire store database, install a new version of OSCommerce and put the backed up database back in it. Joy.This was unexpected today. In cheerier news, we were finally able to update the Sin Factory Comix site (SEVERELY NSFW, I mean it!). So that's coming back on track from the hellish Month of Moving at least. We have two books to work on, too, as well as the mail order stuff. Chipping away at it all. Still not unpacked yet. EDIT: And hey, is FurBid screwy for anyone else? I keep getting the same error message when I try to access it, that says their security certificate has expired. I can access the main page if I don't use the "https", but can't access my account login page because it won't let me delete that little "s". Very weird. I want to list more furry auctions, but I can't seem to use FurBid. No idea what's going on. Current Mood:  aggravated |
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ff00ff |
4:20p | The Olympics China is making fools of themselves in front of the entire world. What do you think the fallout of this impending debacle will be? I'm sure that after the games are over the interviews, books and retrospectives will begin pouring out about what it was like to be an athlete or journalist trying to enjoy/participate/cover the games under the boot of this authoritarian regime. I almost want to go there and unfurl a banner of Tank Man, though I'd be preaching to the choir, because the Chinese people have never seen that image. I heard an athlete from the US has been barred from attending the games for being part of a charity that wants to stop the genocide in Darfur. That's good PR. Do you think an event like this can open up China to the rest of the world, or is this going to be more like the 1936 games? Are The Celestial People just showing off what we all have to look forward to when their military begins to spill into neighboring countries? |
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cuprohastes |
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mharpold8 |
2:23p | MYSTERIOUS STRANGER COMMITS SUICIDE, BLAMED FOR EVERYTHING, FILM AT 11 Funny, I DON'T BELIEVE YOU Not to go all conspiracy-theory on anyone, but really. Does anyone believe this? My favorite quote is below: "We regret that we will not have the opportunity to present evidence to the jury." Yeah, I'm sure you'll be losing sleep over it! |
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paka |
2:02p | The Vanishing Tower? Inspired by Elven Banner and a little bit of Ghost Tower of Inverness and Expedition to the Barrier Peaks; The PCs travel to a place which is only a crummy ruin nowadays, but which used to be significant and which people say is haunted, because frequently it seems to be there. Maybe monsters have been crawling out of the place - dinosaurs, vegepygmies, intellect devourers, clueless Bronze Age dudes, robots, you name it. What's actually happened is that, at the moment the castle/wizard's tower/whatever fell, the wizard who guarded it activated a great time travel spell. Possibly not intentionally and definitely not without flaw. So the entire dungeon phases in and out of time, and picks up critters from various times, including our heros. That's why people occasionally see the darn place, including times when it's solid enough for the PCs to wander on in. Anyone stuck there has their abilities and physiologies better attuned to their own era than to a time in which they don't exist. From dinosaur to space traveler, everyone gets penalties or bonuses depends on exactly what time period the dungeon happens to be in at the moment. As the PCs explore, they find that the place has other travellers from their own time - a demon and his retinue, who plan to disembark when the tower goes far enough into the past, and remake the world in their image. And as long as I'm referencing Moorcock. Black Blade is one of the cheesiest songs I've ever had the pleasure of listening to. I think it'd make it into a good cheese playlist that'd include the likes of Fire or Meat Sandwich. (Meat Sandwich somehow reminds me of Arby's. I think because the music video involves not exactly being able to figure out where the meat came from.) Current Music: "Meat Sandwich," GWAR |
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shatterstripes |
5:21p | capsule review Braid = Super Mario + time-shifting + regret = fucking awesome. It's not a game you'll keep playing for score but it's a hell of a worthwhile experience. |
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cuprohastes |
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trianine |
2:06p | Electric Cry for Help I'm not sure what's up with the MoBo. I give up, and I'm tired of XFX. Have I said it enough? Well, after a wayward suggestion to go to ASUS, I checked, and it seems that I can get a Striker for the price of my current board. So... I've sent my message to XFX in the hopes that they will award me a refund and I can replace the board without losing the computer for weeks. I didn't want to call the Firewire a dealbreaker, but I spent more money on equipment that needs it than for the MoBo itself. In addition, NVidia has begun to notify me that my GPU is underpowered again. And that is the reason I got the board in the first place. So something is going to happen. |
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phorm_vixen |
11:39a | To my chagrin, the entries I post these days waver between the unreasonably serious and the entirely frivolous, which I assume makes me appear bipolar. I assure you all that the reality of my life is merely boredom punctuated by these interspersed, random events, rather than a constant parade of chaos. The stark life of chemical research is flavored mostly by tedium. Repetition and monotony are the only spice found in this academic meal, and one grows tried of such seasoning in short order. As I have mused elsewhere, this is why I am guilty of selective reporting. ( On recent publications and conversations... ) I have become too scatter-brained to continue on, and for this, I apologize. Once I have recollected my thoughts and feelings, perhaps I will have more interesting and insightful matters to discuss. Until then, I wish for all of you to take care. |
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dv_girl |
8:03a | If I were God for a Day Stealing this meme from paka just because.So. If I were God for a day, what would be top of my TODO list? Assuming it would break the universe to badly bend the rules too much, I'd try to be kind of discreet about my actions. Letsee. I think I'd set a large extra-solar object on a collision course with the inner system. Actually, I'd go for an object about 2X the size of Earth but composed of water ice and rock, kind of fragile. Set the path going just close enough to Jupiter to break it into a couple of large chunks. One of the major chunks would be on a direct collision course for Mars. The resultant impact would shatter the poor thing but would put enough heat, water, and mass into it to make it a strong life-sustaining planet in a few hundred million years. Probably want it to end around 1.5 Earths in size. The other big piece would be a hook-shot for Venus. Not a direct impact, just close enough that it tears off half the atmosphere, sets the planet spinning at a good clip, and ends up caught in a very fast orbit with it. I think the result of just the right collision could make both of the resultant planets habitable by some very heat-loving creatures. This is of course dependent on neither Mars nor Venus already having some kind of life unknown to man. As for the Earth... It would miss most of my inner-planet pinball. There'd be some fallout of course. A few good-sized chunks smashing into the Earth but nothing that would end civilization or even wipe out large chunks of the population. Texas is large and mostly empty. It's a rather appealing target. :) Maybe give them another little ice age, just to give man some time to get their part of the Earth back into balance. Then I'd sit back and watch. Imagine how amusing that would be. On the one hand, you'd have religious zealots, frantically scrabbling to make up explanations, both for the event and why we were 'spared' and why we were going to end up with 4 habitable planets in our solar system all of a sudden. At the same time, it would drive scientists MAD. First off, they'd get to see planet creation and evolution in progress just we got to see that cool stuff with Shoemaker-Levy-9. Second, it's just a little TOO nice a coincidence to be fully believed. I also suspect that in the long run, it would get humans to be a lot nicer to each other. Watching 2 other planets get wiped out and a near-miss for ours from a single rogue would probably be a pretty big encouragement to stop bickering and figure out how to get off this planet (the new ones would make good stepping stones) and eventually to other systems. Or maybe I'd just play out the scenarios and see how the turn out, then rewind things back to 'normal'. Or maybe I'd make sure that a computer AI got its chance at life. Or maybe I wouldn't be interactive at all. If I were God, I might spend some time seeing what it was like to be a turnip or a cat or an ocean. Could be fun. Then again, I can already play the what-if's in my head and I can already create worlds of my imagination so I already am God when I chose to be. Current Music: Lorenzo - 039-Various: Mind States 2005 Samples & Lorenzo |
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strangething |
9:54a | Doctor Who fanart Joe England, creator of Zebra Girl, has been making some Doctor Who stuff. His version of the TARDIS is breathtaking. http://joeengland.deviantart.com/ar |
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canray |
8:11a | Happy Birthday to me... Hopefully better than the last few years. :-S Go me, another trip around Sol! |
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shatterstripes |
8:26a | prints I got some email from tugrik this morning with good news: he's got the whole thing printed, aside from the two cards I have yet to finish.He also gave me a little comp for a pretty cool idea he had: posters of the whole set.  The final poster would be about 42x48", with some sort of title banner for the whole thing, and of course without all the little 'rotate' arrows his layout software is adding. It'd be a signed, limited edition of about 20 or 30, depending on the response I get here - some for you folks, some to be sold at the show. I'm thinking about $30-40, plus shipping. edit: replaced his comp with one I did. I need to come up with a better name than 'the Urnash Tarot' for purposes of selling; 'the Silicon Dawn Tarot' is a wry reference to my primary source material, and the fact that this is an information-age deck. The name will surely be quaint in a decade or two, when chasing Moore's Law makes us abandon silicon! Anybody interested? (And #1 of the run might be reserved to go on either my wall, or along with the sketchbook that has all my roughs for this project - the closest there is to an original..) |
