| Still don't get it. |
[Feb. 17th, 2008|07:39 pm] |
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| |  good | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Dead Eyes See No Future | ] |
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Now I am going to draw something.
Samuel Clemens Quote of the Day:
"A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation." |
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| I never really cared for roller coasters... |
[Feb. 9th, 2008|03:23 pm] |
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| |  drained | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven | ] |
Samuel Clemens Quote of the Day:
"Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain." |
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| Caution: Emo incoming |
[Jan. 8th, 2008|08:09 pm] |
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| | Emo | ] |
| [ | music |
| | KATE - Alchemist | ] |
Samuel Clemens Quote of the Day:
"We Americans worship the Almighty Dollar? Well it is a worthier god than Hereditary Privilege. The Dollar has no contempt for you but the other has." |
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| Some Fury |
[Dec. 27th, 2007|12:26 am] |
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| |  pissed off | ] |
| [ | music |
| | John Murphy - 28 Theme | ] |
Samuel Clemens Quote of the Day:
"[Hawaiians] will lie for a dollar when they could get a dollar and a half for telling the truth." |
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| Relearning |
[Nov. 30th, 2007|06:17 pm] |
Also... you ever have two thoughts that you know lead to an inescapable conclusion, and you know what it is, but you never really bother putting them together in your mind and in this way avoid the force of that conclusion? While this idea has some earthshattering potential in certain contexts, today's is rather light.
For many years, I have been confident that I would love to play a 2D fighter over the internet, because I loved X-Band and now my 2D fighter skills are shit hot. And for several months, I have had such a game for my computer that boasts the best netplay of all. And I have only now put it together and investigated its potential. So far I have gotten the client working (which also lets you play against an AI that has watched and learned from tournament play >_>;) but now I need someone to play against, QQ. I suspect I will be learning IRC sometime soon...
Samuel Clemens Quote of the Day:
"If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging." |
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| When you see it... |
[Nov. 22nd, 2007|07:27 pm] |
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| | artistic | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Big Giant Circles - Cool Spot - Overclocked Spot (OC Remix) | ] |
Also. Iron Maiden: Great band or Greatest band?
Samuel Clemens Quote of the Day:
"Since the Moral Sense has but the one office, the one capacity - to enable man to do wrong - it is clearly without value to him." |
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| I can draw! &mad. |
[Nov. 19th, 2007|03:47 pm] |
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| | artistic | ] |
| [ | music |
| | housethegrate - Snow Bros. - Go Blow Snow for a Year (OC Remix) | ] |
Been off Warcraft for a week and I've already drawn six pages in my sketchbook. Really been neglecting it since around June but recently I've found the gumption to put the lead down. I even did some at work! I am particularly excited about this because the hours of downtime at the shop boast a mighty potential for Draw EXP if only I had the mettle to tap it. Please allow me to run with that metaphor.
Samuel Clemens Quote of the Day:
"It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog." |
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| >:x |
[Nov. 11th, 2007|04:19 pm] |
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| | angry | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Daisuke Ishiwatari - Drunkard Does Make Wise Remarks | ] |
I recently completed a reading of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
Also, I can't find a definition for rhetorical hammer anywhere on the whole fucking internet. Does anybody know it? I don't like using phrases that I'm not super sure on their meaning.
Samuel Clemens Quote of the Day:
"Circumstance is powerful, but it cannot work alone; it has to have a partner. Its partner is man's temperament - his natural disposition. His temperament is not his invention, it is born in him, and he has no authority over it, neither is he responsible for its acts. He cannot change it, nothing can change it, nothing can modify it - except temporarily."
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| Comeback |
[Nov. 8th, 2007|02:11 am] |
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| | hungry | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Paul Van Dyk - Irish vs. Nyman | ] |
Several weeks ago I had a conversation about how fortunetelling, or more generally, prophecy, would conceivably work. I tried to weigh in with Mad Science, but the problem is that raw Mad Science is mostly abstraction and just comes off as hot air unless it is well tempered with reason and delivered with graceful language. So I believe I will think with my hands here.
Somebody point Ben at this. When I tried to explain it the first time, I failed resoundingly and he just looked at me like <:3
Samuel Clemens Quote of the Day:
"The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is really a large matter - it's the difference between the lightning-bug & the lightning." |
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| It's starting. |
[May. 30th, 2007|09:12 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  tired | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Sound Online - Necrofantasia | ] |
Samuel Clemens Quote of the Day:
"It is a solemn thought: Dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork." |
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| A Day at the Office... |
[May. 21st, 2007|11:13 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  blah | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Killswitch Engage - Without a Name | ] |
Today was my first day of answering phones at work. I have absolutely no prior experience in this.
It is my job to be smooth-tongued, as it pacifies the customer and facilitates the exchange of information. I stammered my way through the day well enough, until some gentleman caught me by surprise shortly before closing.
It is also my job to tank calls for the boss, because he is too busy to be bothered with every self-entitled client or solicitor who wants to speak to the man in charge. To inquire whether this man had a legitimate reason to see the chief, I literally asked him this: "wut busines u got."
I was as embarrassed as the others seemed amused. Doing a job for which I am unequiped is my waking nightmare - the pressure felt from the expectations of those who are depending on me is visceral. The rest of the evening was spent contemplating the meaning of "crash course." I look forward to the day that I can do my job by natural response instead of meticulously rehearsed mantra.
Samuel Clemens Quote of the Day:
"The fact that man invented imprisonment for debt, proves that man is an idiot & also that he is utterly vile & malignant. How can imprisonment pay a debt? Was the idea of it to pay the creditor in revenge?" |
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| PUN INCOMING |
[May. 20th, 2007|11:15 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  sick | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Immortal Technique - Leaving the Past | ] |
I recently finished reading Battle Royale, a novel about Japanese highschool deathmatch. Liked it, liked the movie too. *nodnod* I decided to go for some recreational reading; before I picked it back up, the last six books I'd read were technical manuals or some other stripe of textbook. Next up, Relativity theory - just some light reading.
2007 is a bad year for health, for me. Actually, there hasn't been a single day where I was completely well. That ear thing came and went, but now my throat is starting to fuck up, and my ass is absofuckinglutely killing me. If I assume a backward-slouching position or otherwise put any manner of pressure about my tailbone, then I am reamed beneath the lash of agony when that pressure is relieved. I don't know what it is. After I got sick - in March - my back got jacked when I ran on the trampoline, and it hasn't been the same since, even though I haven't used it in weeks. I should go to a doctor in September when will I have the money to spare.
Yesterday I got Immaterial and Missing Power from Santa Claus Ling. It's a 2D fighter inspired by Team Shanghai Alice's bullet curtain shooters, which I've been playing. I'm impressed with the way they fused the two entirely different genres; it's hard to explain, but neither one is really gimmick to the other. You are spamming bullets and weaving your witch through incoming fire, but you're also fisticuffing and blocking and such. And it has netplay!
Samuel Clemens Quote of the Day:
"I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises, that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity." |
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| WTB Walking Shoes |
[May. 15th, 2007|08:23 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | 10% F'd in the head | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Shai Hulud - Linoleum | ] |
Samuel Clemens Quote of the Day:
"That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up journalism on their way to the poorhouse. I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy." |
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| Some Stuff, II |
[Apr. 30th, 2007|01:12 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | guilty | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark | ] |
Samuel Clemens Quote of the Day:
"Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes - circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing it. They adhere without intention, and without foreseeing what is to result. When they see the result they marvel at the monster ball and wonder how the contriving of it came to be originally thought out and planned. Whereas there was no such planning, there was only a law: the ball once started, all the circumstances that happened to lie in its path would help to build it, in spite of themselves." |
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| >:3 |
[Apr. 20th, 2007|11:20 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | accomplished | ] |
| [ | music |
| | OverCoat - Seiken Densetsu 3 - Path-ology | ] |
Seven days, seven pages drawn. This is really working out. More importantly, I can feel myself getting into a groove, a rhythm, a practice. The chasm between my good and bad drawings is contracting; I am well pleased. Though it seems my ability to stare at something and draw it is far greater than my ability to draw from visualization. I will understand this to mean that my hand-eye coordination is well developed but my prefrontal cortex is oafish. My plan is to Blue Mage it - rifle through comics and anime and observe fancy renderings and constructions and reproduce them until I Get It. So far this seems to be much more fruitful than studying principles and tooling with them until I get a favorable outcome. *nodnod*
This avatar is something I sketched recently and then digitized in Illustrator completely. Vector is nice, I ain't lion. It was great to finally put all that Adobe Fu to use, since I went and read the book and all. Right now I'm studying Advanced Photoshop Jutsu. There seems to be a lot of stuff about doctoring photo-graphs if you can imagine that. However, it seems I don't deal with these arcane things often, so I fear I am not getting all I can out of the book. There is even a chapter dedicated to manipulating Camera Raw files that I have skipped. I am half tempted to instruct someone to begin rampantly photographing things they encounter in their daily lives and sending me the raws to shoop so I can get elite at everything the program has to offer. I suspect a significant part of paparazzi encouragement is because I think the best bet for having a good picture of yourself taken is to have someone shoot scores of them from all circumstances and then just pick the best. I believe it beats the hell out of "smile, this is the one that everybody will see."
Samuel Clemens Quote of the Day:
"There is nothing teaches like a fall. The man that gets a fall realizes things... He recognizes that he was moral in theory before; he is likely to be moral in fact after that rude experience. He was walking on precept and sentiment before - he is likely to walk on ground afterward... Until a man falls, once or twice, he isn't safe, I tell you! His virtues have not been tested in the fire; until they have been hardened in the fire they are not to be depended on." |
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| Some Stuff |
[Apr. 13th, 2007|01:14 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | downish | ] |
| [ | music |
| | ZUN - Perfect Cherry Blossom - Necrofantasia | ] |
Samuel Clemens Quote of the Day:
"I have long ago lost my belief in immortality - also my interest in it... I have sampled this life and it is sufficient... Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born - a hundred million years - and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together." |
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| Would you like to check the status of your mad scientist? Would you like to check his status? |
[Mar. 26th, 2007|06:06 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | satisfied | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Soilwork - Chainheart Machine | ] |
Got another comic up. This one took a long time on account of the difficulty and my going craxy with the special effects. After pushing a huge one like this I usually feel like changing the direction of my comic to something simple, like three panels of black and white talking heads. But I don't think I could do it if I tried.
I got hell of sick like two weeks ago. I enjoyed hanging out with everybody, and 300 was hawt, but I was out of commission for like a week afterward. SARS BOO. I've also learned how to study and comic in the same day. Everything goes slowly, though... This strip is composed of a week of ignoring the comic, a week of trying and failing, a week of furious thermogenesis, six days of modest diligence and then one solid day of nothing but beasting. So I've almost got the balance down.
Having a little problem with colors, though. I use nothing but web colors to prevent ghey dithering problems, but then it goes ahead and mixes up my perfectly smooth web-friendly swatches into perfectly checkered web-friendly swatches. I want to know why. I also want to know if anybody reads the comic on dialup, cuz this last one was a whopper.
Samuel Clemens Quote of the Day:
"For a God to take 3 days on the cross out of a life of eternal happiness & mastership of the Universe is a service which the least among us would be glad to do upon the like terms." |
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| Life Expansion; MP3 GET |
[Mar. 5th, 2007|11:02 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | Thrilled | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Hoshigami OST - Last Battle | ] |
Today, on a search of whimsy, I found a soundtrack I'd been looking for for about three years. The song I wanted was there. I am completely thrilled.
O-('. 'Q)
I've recently started studying again, this time for self-improvement and not lame institutional games. I have actually begun to like studying. I think cultivating an enjoyment of this sort of activity will help bridge the gap between work and play, between maintenance and progress, and so bring in an age of formidable gumption. However, I still must figure out how to study and work on the comic in the same day. I'm saying the comic will be late.
I really like the idea of having a natural job class, based on your psychological profile and such. My introspective focus sharpened by about 25% on the spot when Dylan mentioned I may be Hermit class by default. Thinking on that, I have found words to describe my motivational systems/work ethic. Simply:
In sharing a habitat with N individuals of homo sapiens sapiens, Tetsu's industry, initiative and MP are reduced by a factor of N^2.
When people leave the house or fall asleep, my muscle hustle goes up. This does not apply to welcome guests. This may explain my night-owl tendencies. *nodnod*
Samuel Clemens Quote of the Day:
"I can't keep my temper in New York. The cars and carriages always come along and get in the way just as I want to cross a street, and if there is any thing that can make a man soar into flights of sublimity in the matter of profanity, it is that." |
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| 2 HIT COMBO |
[Feb. 24th, 2007|01:13 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | blah | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Motoi Sakuraba - Never Surrender | ] |
Another update! Could the adventures of Tetsu Town greet you every Saturday morn?
My page is sort of ugly. It's servicable, but certainly lacking in the aesthetics department. I'd whip something decent up, but I'd probably shoot my momentum to hell. >_> ...I'll just make the strips for the time being.
Got a letter from Richland. Half of my refund petition has been accepted. /dance The other (more solid) half has been forwarded to the appropriate parties so that I can win all day long.
Also, yesterday seemed like a bad day. Anybody else get this? I cut myself on a cat, was fatigued all day, bad mood, bad luck, my hamburger was all vegetable and no meat... Fuck you, yesterday!
Samuel Clemens Quote of the Day:
"Genius elevates a man to ineffable spheres far above the vulgar world, & fills his soul with a regal contempt for the gross & sordid things of earth.
It is probably on account of this that people who have genius do not pay their board, as a general thing."
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[Feb. 17th, 2007|03:50 am] |
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| | artistic | ] |
| [ | music |
| | OA - Phoenix Wright: Ace Attourney - This Feeling (OC Remix) | ] |
I made a comic. I think it's time for more comic. It's time for more comic.
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Samuel Clemens Quote of the Day:
"I hate a man who goes to sleep at once; there is a sort of indefinable something about it which is not exactly an insult, and yet is an insolence; and one which is hard to bear, too." |
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