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I totally forgot to update the Glorious Bounty site this morning, so if you're waiting on that, it'll be up when I get home from work!

blah .. okay these are my tuesday and wednesday updates

Had some down time at work. This is what came from the daydreaming. For those of you not passed chapter 328, the warning is implied character death.

Two
Series: Naruto
Pairing: implied Asuma/Kurenai and Kakashi/Sakura
Rating: G
Word Count: 202
Challenge: n/a
Summary: ( The faint smell of burnt paper and wood and Asuma filled the space between them. "This just seemed the better option of the two." )

* link leads to my writing journal

http://www.mypapercrane.com/blog/?p=1503

Today was a lovely day with my bestie Katie. She had some extra vacation time so she took the day off so we could do so Christmas shopping. Our shopping including all the best thrift shops, the candy shop downtown, and lunch out…it was absolutely grand :)

I spotted that cute mushroom gnome in one of the shops, and I want to try and make my own. The bottom photo is part of the Christmas window display the candy shop does, Santa’s sleigh zooms around jars filled with candy, I love it! I tried to get a better photo of the whole thing but the sun was shining really brightly so this is all I was able to get.

The story is a Sir Reginald story I wrote that you can read right here.

Since then, Art Grafunkel (grafunkel) has drawn two pages of it in comic format.

PAGE ONE.

And while I don't remember writing it into the scripty thing--maybe I did; I'm terribly stupidly forgetful--the thought balloon in the final panel made me put pee in my pants.

PAGE TWO:



Toodles,

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Totally awesome documentary I watched the other day called the Botany of Desire. It's about the amazing ways we have forced plants to evolve into the varied and vastly different things they are today compared to 500 years ago.




It's also about the amazing control plants have over us. One thing I was specifically amazed by was TULIP MANIA a period in dutch history when people went completely insane for tulips so much so as to pay "...10 times the annual income of a skilled craftsman..." for one fucking tulip bulb. A flower! A thing that does not feed you or clothe you, just sits there and looks pretty.

Kate Beaton I am thinking this might interest you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

Just being gay gets you life in prison - having AIDS means you can be executed. Oh, and leaving Uganda isn't enough. Per this law, being gay is like treason. I guess they'd be demanding extradition of homosexuals because I can't think of anyone stupid enough to say, "Oh, sure, I'd love to come home and be persecuted."

Oh, and why the FUCK is it Christian and Muslim leaders only ever seem to agree on the most horrible shit. Yeah, this law is being endorsed by Christian and Muslim leaders in Uganda.

That doesn't even need a smarmy comment. Religious leaders of faiths that claim to be about love are endorsing persecution and government-sanctioned murder - oh, and cutting all funding to AIDS programs as it supports homosexuality.

Christian leaders in the U.S. understandably threw their hands up and said, "Whoa! Back the fuck up there, Sparky! Nooooooo."

One of my LJ friends was almost killed yesterday by someone who feel asleep at the wheel of their truck:
http://daylight-broke.livejournal.com/210524.html

I mean, holy shit. That is sobering stuff. I would have cried too.

About 7 years ago I was hit by a minivan at the intersection of Oak and 16th ave here in Vancouver, while riding my bike across a crosswalk on my way to work. (I had the walk light). I heard the van coming, turned, and the last thing I saw before it hit me was the grill of the van. Time did not slow down for me like it did for "daylight broke", although I do remember my last thought was: "oh shit this is going to hurt".

I was thrown from my bike, and hit the pavement right as the van came to a stop in front of me. I reached up and put my hand on the bumper -- that is how close it was to running over me a second time.

I jumped to my feet almost as fast as I had hit the ground, and I looked right at the driver. She was a woman in her 30s, and she had been driving her van with her dog on her lap. The dog was going INSANE. Barking like crazy. I turned, grabbed my bike (the seat got turned all the way around backwards, and was in that position so tight I needed a wrench to turn it back around!) and I walked it to the sidewalk, where two teenagers were marvelling at what they had seen. The woman in the van yelled "oh my god, are you ok?!" and I waved and smiled and said that I was fine. Oddly, I wasn't mad, but I felt totally embarrassed for some reason. I found out later that I was in shock.

I had no serious injuries, and so I walked my bike the block I had to go to get to work at Rogers Video. I felt like I could do my work at double speed, and I walked in laughing about how I had survived getting hit, but about 30 minutes later I felt like I had the worst flu of my entire life. My entire body felt like one giant bruise. I had to go home about an hour into my shift, and even laying down in my bed made me ache like crazy.

Thank you for still using this thing!



(Pink Snow Bunny #9 was supposed to be making fun of 9 Chickweed Ln but apparently no one got it)

Have you heard the amazing story about the man who was thought to be in a coma for 23 years and yet was awake and conscious the whole time? You might want to read this.

Read the rest here:
http://jessfink.com/Chester5000XYV/





( ...UNDER THE CUT for naughtiness... )

http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/2431

If your RSS reader does not support animation, I recommend using The Internet to view today's comic.

The Weirdo Funtivity Book makes a great gift for children, adults, pets, imaginary friends... basically everyone. Give them the gift of Weirdo this holiday season.

Here's a higher-resolution image if you want to draw on it.

I am so frustrated with zbrush

It feels like it could be an AMAZING program if I could just figure it OUT.
I really like how the tools feel, but the technical aspect is so frustrating. I want it to work like clay, but the program works like a program. How do you even save?? I tried to save something, but it duplicated it on the screen and I don't even know what it did or why it did that! It said it saved, so I exited and came back but the thing did not save at all! So I lost my project

Also, when I sculpt a sphere thingy, you can't push it out too far otherwise the mesh gets all choppy, so I go to add another sphere thing on top of it, like glopping on more clay, right? No! It doesn't let me edit this new sphere at all. I can't even rotate anything or anything



I have NO idea what I am doing! See how it gets pixelly the farther a shape is pushed? why :(


What is the best way to learn about zbrush? Most tutorials I find will tell you to do things (hit this, press that, push this) but won't even tell you *why* you're doing things, like what you're doing as you're doing it. So frustrating!

I just want a tutorial that is like "Now we are going to do this, and I will tell you why so you understand!"

I should just... get some clay :(

These are some Life Meter comics by goraina's 6th grade Afterschool Comics Workshop students! They were asked to write and draw a comic based on their favorite game, and we promised to post them here. Please give them some feedback, as they'd love to hear it!


Transforming Popping Kirby, by Andru

( More this way! )