Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Friday, May 15, 2009
Puppy Pictures
Some of you may not know yet, but Becky and I got a puppy (my first ever!) back in mid-march and I can't believe it's been 2 months already. I'll be uploading a bunch of photos of her, and more of the cats, as regularly as I can. You can see them here: Freyja's Flickr Set
She's now 4 1/2 months old, we stopped counting in weeks pretty quickly because it's an archaic practice that dog owners seem to be obsessed with. If you're not going to count in weeks their whole life, why not stop after 2-3 months? Once the weeks exceed 15 and the months are finally to a significant digit (2+) you should switch over. Why? Because when you say your puppy is 23 weeks old, no one REALLY knows exactly how old that is without doing math first. Said math is inaccurate also, as a month varies in the number of weeks it contains.
Josh said yesterday that my math discussions clearly define me as a huge nerd. I think he's right...
Other news, I'm attempting some motivation to get myself drawing regularly again. Parallax Perspectives had a great boost back in Feb/March thanks to an RPG blogging friend (Chgowiz), but I let him down and that died out. There must be some way to prevent this revival/death cycle my drawing seems to be in.
Oh also, you may notice on the right, I finally decided to join Twitter. My soul hasn't died yet, and it's actually a pretty fun thing to use. I do actually have a whole different set of problems with it than I thought I would, but I'll go into those later.
She's now 4 1/2 months old, we stopped counting in weeks pretty quickly because it's an archaic practice that dog owners seem to be obsessed with. If you're not going to count in weeks their whole life, why not stop after 2-3 months? Once the weeks exceed 15 and the months are finally to a significant digit (2+) you should switch over. Why? Because when you say your puppy is 23 weeks old, no one REALLY knows exactly how old that is without doing math first. Said math is inaccurate also, as a month varies in the number of weeks it contains.
Josh said yesterday that my math discussions clearly define me as a huge nerd. I think he's right...
Other news, I'm attempting some motivation to get myself drawing regularly again. Parallax Perspectives had a great boost back in Feb/March thanks to an RPG blogging friend (Chgowiz), but I let him down and that died out. There must be some way to prevent this revival/death cycle my drawing seems to be in.
Oh also, you may notice on the right, I finally decided to join Twitter. My soul hasn't died yet, and it's actually a pretty fun thing to use. I do actually have a whole different set of problems with it than I thought I would, but I'll go into those later.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Readings
You might notice the new reading progress bar I added on the right side, this is to aid my effort to read more. I'm currently 177ish pages through the 981 page long Shadows Rising, the 4th book in the Wheel of Time series. It's funny, but four books into a series is more than I've ever read, and I have no doubts that WoT will be one of the few long series of books that I ever read. The only other one I've read more than 3 books of is Dune, which I liked all 4 of the books that I read in that series too. Right now the progress bar is a % out of 100, but if I can figure out how to make it pages/total pages I will change it to that because then I don't have to do any math to get the %!
Is that a new level of lazy?
Is that a new level of lazy?
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Phrases that Make Me Want to Kill Babies
The radio is perhaps the main offender when it comes to these, but no form of media is truly innocent of these crimes:
"Now more than ever..." - $%$!#%balls$&$#! Any ad you hear on the radio has essentially been saying this to you for your whole life, but now it has added meaning because people are taking it seriously and thinking that it's true. No, not true, I'm sure there's some point in the past or future where you have/will need a sweet deal on MORE than you do right now.
"Unprecedented economic times." - BS. It's a "recession", there are tons of precedents for it. Granted this one may be more global than the last couple have been, but any previous recession still counts as a precedent for this one. It's not like we are completely clueless as to why the stock market and housing markets are down, WE KNOW.
"Change. (the believable kind)" - A great presidential slogan dragged into the desert, blindfolded, eviscerated, and abused for all kinds of foul purposes. I don't think Obama or his speech writers at any point considered getting a hamburger for $.99 instead of $3 was the change they were attempting to get. Then again we can't know for sure, because said change was never specified.
On a side note, I -do- condone puns made with the slogan in relation to monetary change. Then again I condone pretty much all puns.
"Now more than ever..." - $%$!#%balls$&$#! Any ad you hear on the radio has essentially been saying this to you for your whole life, but now it has added meaning because people are taking it seriously and thinking that it's true. No, not true, I'm sure there's some point in the past or future where you have/will need a sweet deal on
"Unprecedented economic times." - BS. It's a "recession", there are tons of precedents for it. Granted this one may be more global than the last couple have been, but any previous recession still counts as a precedent for this one. It's not like we are completely clueless as to why the stock market and housing markets are down, WE KNOW.
"Change. (the believable kind)" - A great presidential slogan dragged into the desert, blindfolded, eviscerated, and abused for all kinds of foul purposes. I don't think Obama or his speech writers at any point considered getting a hamburger for $.99 instead of $3 was the change they were attempting to get. Then again we can't know for sure, because said change was never specified.
On a side note, I -do- condone puns made with the slogan in relation to monetary change. Then again I condone pretty much all puns.
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Motivation
I feel wholly unmotivated to actually get off my ass and do the things I really want to do. I slump through and sometimes get something done here or there, but it's rare and mostly uninspired. The worst part of this is that I can't explain it to myself, or to anyone else. I don't know what's in the way of me moving forward with art, writing, and all of the other things that make up the humongous list of goals I write for myself some evenings and weekends.
I always assume it's videogames getting in the way, because I do spend a fair amount of time playing them, or even other gaming, but in the last two weeks I haven't played videogames very much at all and other gaming is pretty much limited to D&D which happens every other week. I do end up reading / planning for D&D with a lot of my spare time, but it's not that I'm forgoing doing other things to work on D&D stuff, it's more that I do D&D stuff because I'm not doing anything else.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Shock therapy, less caffiene, MORE caffiene, sex drugs and rock'n'roll? I'm going to think on it this evening and see if I can figure some part of it or maybe even try to get through it somehow.
I always assume it's videogames getting in the way, because I do spend a fair amount of time playing them, or even other gaming, but in the last two weeks I haven't played videogames very much at all and other gaming is pretty much limited to D&D which happens every other week. I do end up reading / planning for D&D with a lot of my spare time, but it's not that I'm forgoing doing other things to work on D&D stuff, it's more that I do D&D stuff because I'm not doing anything else.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Shock therapy, less caffiene, MORE caffiene, sex drugs and rock'n'roll? I'm going to think on it this evening and see if I can figure some part of it or maybe even try to get through it somehow.
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Movie update
Just realized I should update on this:
Wanted - 2 stars
Big old pile of crap in our opinion. :)
I'm writing more discussing this on Critical Hits, but I'll probably post even more spoileriffic stuff here after I do that, to really get into the nitty gritty between comic vs. movie and why a movie that people who didn't read the comic might like but those that did read the comic will cry themselves to sleep about it.
Wanted - 2 stars
Big old pile of crap in our opinion. :)
I'm writing more discussing this on Critical Hits, but I'll probably post even more spoileriffic stuff here after I do that, to really get into the nitty gritty between comic vs. movie and why a movie that people who didn't read the comic might like but those that did read the comic will cry themselves to sleep about it.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Netflix FTW
We had put our Netflix account on hold for most of 2008, as we'd just stopped watching dvd's an had borrowed or were given a lot of movies that we hadn't caught up on yet. However, just a few weeks ago the X-Box Live interface was updated and we noticed it included a Netflix feature, which I was immediately skeptical of but it turns out it is almost exactly what it should be. You can now watch any movie or tv show that you can watch online via netflix through your x-box!
In the last few weeks, we've caught up on quite a lot of our viewing and are actually enjoying the dvd's from netflix again also! We've watched:
Ratatouille - 5 stars
Enchanted - 3 stars
The Devil's Advocate - 3 stars (Becky had never seen it, I had)
Mad Max - 3 stars (hadn't seen it all the way through before, classic but not great)
Finding Neverland - 4 stars
Love Actually - 5 stars
Juno - 4 stars
Next up is Wanted and the next chance we get via instant queue Rob Roy (we love Liam Neeson).
In the last few weeks, we've caught up on quite a lot of our viewing and are actually enjoying the dvd's from netflix again also! We've watched:
Ratatouille - 5 stars
Enchanted - 3 stars
The Devil's Advocate - 3 stars (Becky had never seen it, I had)
Mad Max - 3 stars (hadn't seen it all the way through before, classic but not great)
Finding Neverland - 4 stars
Love Actually - 5 stars
Juno - 4 stars
Next up is Wanted and the next chance we get via instant queue Rob Roy (we love Liam Neeson).
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