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[18 May 2008|07:08pm] |
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| Con Report - Morphicon 2008 |
[18 May 2008|10:41am] |
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Here's a bit of a mini con report. The convention, business-wise, has gone much better than I expected; I made more money than I expected, in directions I really didn't think I would. All great stuff - I will be back next year, definitely.
Saw lots of fun stuff. Also, this has been extra fun because this is Lukas's first real convention. He's having a blast. Also, I got a badge done by Mary Minch. It came out *amazing*, and I'll be posting it later on. Got some t-shirts, almost bid on some technogizmos, but decided to focus on trying to get Shinies as far out of debt as possible. I am going to need some money anyway to get product for Anthrocon in a month anyway, and I hope to have some LCD badges done for that as well. However, I am pretty tired... up till 3am last night, back up at 9 to get to the dealer's room by 10. So yeah... But it's okie. Had a great time, and I'll be leaving in around 6 hours or so, as soon as the dealer's hall closes.
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| Kissimmee, FL |
[18 May 2008|11:37am] |
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A one-story old Florida crack motel and a school for travel agents complete with dorms. Here are a few decent shots.
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( Central Florida Arachnid Vocational School )
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| A Real Life Platform Game |
[18 May 2008|11:36am] |
Swiped from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kuniopt.. this reminds me of Shadow of the Colossus in some way. Except that if you slip on this level you only have one life.
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| "Absinthe, Absinthe, the drink that makes you want to kill yourself.." |
[18 May 2008|03:41pm] |
So, I have three 10cl bottle of french Tenet Absinthe left over from Xmas. Would anyone like to buy them off me?
£10 is a fair price. Any offers?
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[18 May 2008|07:05pm] |
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| Things I Arf |
[18 May 2008|10:30am] |
With Clarion coming up, I find it increasingly hard to write. All of my fellow Clarionites, so far as I can tell, are working busily on other projects... But me? I look at it and go, "Well, I can't sell the novels I wrote before Clarion, so clearly I'm not doing it correctly as it is. So anything I write pre-Clarion will need to be re-written from the guts up come the end of Clarion, which seems like work. Why not just start fresh?"
So I haven't been writing anything, just waiting around for the blessed touch of Clarion to magically make me a good writer. This is odd, since I've almost always got two or three projects bubbling somewhere.
But the weirder thing is that it's making it a little harder to combat the seasonal depression this time 'round. As it turns out, when I feel bad about life, retreating into the imaginary world I'm constructing for a short story/novel and tinker-toying with concepts is a good way to forget my blues. I'm never happier than when I'm creating. And having no projects to tuck myself into is turning out to be a little odd, because I can't suddenly ask myself, "Oh, wait, how in hell could a dragon survive as a predator when it would have to eat so much that it would strip the surrounding countryside?" and then devise a Very Clever Answer to that for my latest botched book.
Fortunately, I've realized this, so I'm now kicking around ideas for my next novel idea-cum-short-story, and retreating fairly heavily into that. But it's very odd not to be taking those concepts and immediately stringing them down to paper. But I figure I'm clearly not writing well right now, so why try to put more wounded words to paper where I'll eventually just have to put them out of their misery anyway?
(Under normal circumstances I'd just revise an old novel, but lemme tell ya - when your brain is flooding you with artificial senses of self-worth, the last thing you want to do is go look at your own writing. You might as well just shove rusty razor blades up your colon and be done with it.)
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[18 May 2008|10:05am] |
Today and tomorrow, I'm taking requests for free icons, and drawing as many as I can get through in those two days. I'm also taking donations to guarantee that I'll get to someone's request, for as little as a dollar, so, basically, it can be a $1 or more icon commission, or you can get a note in and request one, and see if my hand does or does not fall off before I draw it :D It's likely I won't do something like this, again, for a long time. You can see examples of my work in my FA gallery, here: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/formidonis/
Here's the post for more info and icon requests: http://ninjahijinx.livejournal.com/100940.html
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[18 May 2008|03:04pm] |
Hm. Need another £150 before I can order the next batch of equipment really.
I guess I'll just have to break it down into smaller purchases.
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| Working with furniture, playing with furniture, being squashed by furniture |
[18 May 2008|08:36pm] |
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So I figured out what was eating at me last week. Two things:
- Thing #1 - I've become ridiculously responsible in the last two years. Something needs doing, I do it. I'm terribly efficient. This has its drawbacks, however...
( Thing 1 thoughts )
- Thing #2 - As I've injured myself not once, but three times in the last month to the point where I could barely walk, I've not had as much exercise as I usually get.
It seems so obvious, but exercise = more endorphins = happier Sassa. I've barely been able to go for walks or dance or swim or anything this last month, and my mood has dropped correspondingly. As I began to exercise again, I perked up (but then bellydanced for three hours and injured myself again - opps).
I'm slowly getting over my current injury though - I haven't been taking it easy, I've been shifting furniture and doing excessive cleaning of other people's houses ('coz I'm awesome) but hopefully I haven't exacerbated my injury too much. I should be better for next week's bellydance classes (I'm taking three at the moment XD)
Steel-capped boots are excessive win. I would have hurt my feet so much this weekend without them!
So, I am happy and things are good. I just need to take a holiday, work out where I want to go next with life, and see some good friends, some of whom may be made of paper and smell of libraries. And start exercising again, as soon as I am recovered from my latest injury ^^;
<3
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| Tits or GTFO |
[18 May 2008|12:38pm] |
Christ, the Internet is spoilt.
I don't mean ruined, I mean spoilt. As in the type of brat.
When was the last time you saw an advice section on some website where someone's asking for help with their relationship that wasn't followed by a tirade of "It's not working, dump them!" Any problem at all means it's irretrievably broken.
How many times this past week have you seen someone complaining how their day's been ruined because their fav artist has uploaded something, but that it's ruined because it's censored, watermarked or doesn't meet their precious sensibilities?
In the past few months I've had the pleasure of making a joke or sarcastic comment in my own journal, only to come back to a screaming fit of "How the hell"'s and "I can't believe you'd say that"'s. Internet journals are fucking serious business. Jokes are relegated to designated forums and threads with lots of cat pictures.
Some new music is out, or a movie, but you just don't feel like spending money on it. Or leaving the house. No matter if it's a small independent, or huge corporately backed production, it's all just a few clicks away. To quote RvsB; "I don't want it to be illegal, therefore it isn't. That's the way it works!"
And god forbid you should make a mistake. Admitting you're wrong, or even that you may be willing to accept new ideas is a terrible sign of weakness and you will be crushed under a tidal wave of insults and personal attacks.
It's unforgiving, blunt and resistant to the concepts of change or compromise.
I love you Internet, you smelly little freak. Because amid your childish petty whining is autistic genius that's going to give us cancer cures and world peace. While furiously masturbating.
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| Ah, finally I know what to reply to these kind of people |
[18 May 2008|12:19pm] |
Found on slashdot post about the new Firefox 3 RC1 release:
Comment:
God I hope it's better than the last beta.
Beta 5 was quite unstable for me, so bad infact that I downgraded to beta 3.
Though I am using a lot of addins, so don't know exactly who to blame.
Follow-up:
After like 10 years I'm still reading the "works on my machine" posts with no mention of the machine type.
I call them the "Well, its raining HERE" comments.
You need to identify the (OS::distro) and plugins in use for these "Release [ ] suxx0rs!!!" posts to have any meaning.
I generally find that if that question is answered, it's some guy running the L33tware distro in 24MB of RAM on a Transmeta Crusoe who is enraged that his opensource software crashes, and no, he hasn't logged a bug because God told him that it is destiny to always have bugless software AND will be Lord of Faerun in time.
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| Iron Man |
[18 May 2008|11:27am] |
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It's OK. Robert Downey's great, everything else is just.. acceptable. I'd be a lot more impressed if I hadn't already seen an infinite number of super hero flicks in the last five years, or if it was notably better than one of the Spider-Man or X-Men lot, but as it is.. yeah, it's OK.
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| Hogfather |
[18 May 2008|02:26am] |
OK, this is a charming little two-part mini-series/movie set on Terry Pratchett's Discworld, which I gather was first a book. I've read plenty of Discworld books, although admittedly not in years, and I have to say just how goddamn charming it was. I'm a sucker for high-quality low-budget cute little thoughtful stories, for some reason especially of the two-part miniseries variety (both parts are on the same disc). So anyway, go rent or buy it. It's awesome.
Just thought I'd share.
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| No, I didn't make this up... |
[18 May 2008|01:10am] |
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WARNING: Seriously bad craziness ahead... Report: Son Dismembered Dad After Being Raped
Jeremiah Berry Says His Father Wanted Son To Become Wife CORTEZ, Colo. -- A 20-year-old man accused of killing and dismembering his father told police that after his father raped him, he shot his father, skinned and decapitated him and then fed his flesh to coyotes, according to court documents obtained by the Cortez Journal. Jeremiah Berry was charged Wednesday with second-degree murder. Police started searching for Jack Berry, 42, on April 28, after family members in Arizona claimed he had been missing for some time. Deputies with Montezuma County Sheriff's Department later found body parts -- some encased in concrete -- at various locations in the county. According to a search warrant affidavit, on April 29, Jeremiah Berry confessed to police. He said that on or about Feb. 19, his father told him that God instructed him that his son needed to get a sex change and become his wife, according to the affidavit obtained by the Journal. ... Seriously, what the hell do you do with this one? If what Jeremiah Berry says is true, I wouldn't blame him if he decides to fight the charges tooth and nail. It's a brutal thought to have, but it's possible that some forms of perversion can only be stopped with a bullet (especially if the person driven by those perversions believe they have God's backing). And who wouldn't want to feed a guy like that to the coyotes? And why are the voices in my head telling me that the Coen brothers are already trying to buy the film rights?
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