It actually snowed yesterday. A rare sight for WV these days, but a beautiful one none the less. Pictures from around my neighborhood, of things, streets covered in snow. They look wonderful. Those photos don't do the snow justice, that's for sure. It looks to be about 2 maybe 3 inches out there, but I'm not complaining. Now all that cold is worth having because of scenese like these. It's a nice winter wonderland, till the snow melts again anyway.
Today I'll be doing something with the possibility of earning a little money, it's not really a job per se, it's a one time thing, but I hope it opens the door to other similar ventures in the future. I can't say too much about what it is I'll be doing until after it's done, but I will update with that info in my next blog post.
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Kiki-tink
I hope someone who was there says something, there was a lot of publicity going into the thing, and nothing seems to have come out of the adventure. This mouse has had issues for a while, and one of the shorts in the wire finally decided to give. The mouse tried to open everything on my desktop before I finally unplugged the thing, I had at least 20 windows open. It's back to the lazy trackball mouse for now, hopefully we can pick up a new optical one at Big Lots or something.
Yensid:
The people at AnimeFF did the determinations of which artworks were featured in their live gallery, and since not many people from MyO actually went to the con, nothing is known about how that went, or what it looked like. The entries that came in after the 21 of December should have been DQ'ed on the spot for not making the deadline (I see the count has gone down since I last checked, so a couple pieces were removed, but there still are 3 with dates after 12/21/06), and people who enterened more than once should have only had one artwork featured to allow more space for other artists' works to be exhibited. those are the ideal conditions under which something like that should have been orchestrated. How Anime FF actually did it is anyones guess till one of the people who attended the con tells us how it was done. Adam did say: "Due to the small turnout and space limitations, we weren't able to feature all 300 entries. The convention organizers chose the entries that made it, we had no input." in his response to some comments Here, read the comments on that article, and you'll see it in context.
I hope we know the winners soon, and I hope we get an indicator of who's artwork was featured.
Outlaw Melfina:
Yeah one of those. It's been on it's way out for a while, so it was a matter of when, not if. I just didn't expect the thing to go that crazy on me.
alphonse13:
I think Verizon was playing with something and didn't have the decency to tell it's customers they were going to be doing it. It's worked fine ever since then without problems.
He does a good job avoiding it, which tells me something serious is bugging him. People always avoid serious issues that way. I hope for his own sake he lets it out.
death alchemist03
It's strange because it's worked fine ever since it came back on. I don't know what the problem was, but it seems to have fixed itself.
It's one of my favorites too, in terms of the work I've done. So do I. So do I.
scorchbird12:
I'm not that good yet, but I'm getting there.
My sister had the Hibachi chicken, wich is like a teriyaki chicken and she let me take a taste, and it was good. She doesn't like rice so she got it with yakisoba, fried noodles, and she told me the noodles were good.
I have to be careful with it, but the light is great for doing artwork under, things always look better in natural light, since I'm up at night, this thing will be a help in that area.
It certainly is, but I hope I can manage to pull enough together to get it out there on my own. Going with a normal publisher is fine and all, but I'm a little leary of trusting one to handle my first novel very well.
There's nothing wrong with looking up the lyrics to a song to get a deeper understanding of it. I do that all the time myself. I know what your saying. If a song doesn't move me, generally I don't like it, regardless of where it's from, or who sings it. It's a security thing for me, I don't feel out of place listening to Japanese music the way I do listening to a lot of American stuff these days.
It's worth it, that's for sure.
I've never played a co-op game, don't have the equipment to handle it. I would probably like that kind of thing, I don't really know. It depends on just how domineering the others on the team get. Too many cooks spoil the stew so to speak.
sikaurai
You two aren't the only ones who noticed that. I said before the entries after 12/2/06 should have been DQ'ed on the spot for that alone. It wouldn't be fair to the people who got their entries in on time to be pushed out of space for entries that came in late. I get distracted by things all the time too.
He's put some work into the AoO Sessions (The ReImagined AoO project) lately, and it seems his mood is subsiding, but I'm still not 100% sure he's out of the woods yet. I'll keep my eyes on his posts and we'll just have to see what becomes of things.
light shadow
Yes, Adam (the one linked on my friends list) is the founder of TheOtaku.com and MyOtaku.com. His blog is the one to watch for sneaked in little tidbits of what's up and coming for the sites. I certainly hope he gets through whatever's bothering him too.
If you're asking about the writing project I talk about often. It's not quite ready for publishing just yet. I have a few loose ends to tie up, then some polish work to do, and funding resources to locate first. When it's ready, this will be the first place I mention it's availability, and ways of going about getting it for those who are interested.
KanuckGrrl
That post was scary. I'd never seen him make a post like that where the subtext actually reads in as serious a tone as what was written. I hope he sorts out whatever's bothering him too.
Start with your disc defragmenter, run that, if the speed doesn't pick up, do a virus scan. If you need Anti-Virus software, I recommend AVG Free Edition. I still have to get used to the ball mouse again, it's so slow compared to the optic ones. If your' mouse is just acting more sluggish than usual, pop the ball out and clean the rollers with some rubbing alcohol. It does improve the tracking speed of ball mouses.
Hop-Frog
We'll know soon enough.
Shireishou
That's a possibility I never thought of, I suppose it could be work related, his post was vague enough to go either way. I guess we'll know the truth soon enough. Art of Otaku is a great resource, but right now Adam's temporarily stopped accepting orders for it, probably till he gets the new version, Art of Otaku Sessions, off the ground. I'll keep my eye on that and let you know when things change.
It seems like a lot, but my sister assures me it was a reasonable price. She's eaten there before, it was my first time, so I can't vouch for that.
I did see the one clip you got up on your site, I'm glad to know you're able to upload some things like that again. Audio work is as much experimental as it is creative, so you'll have to work with the recorder you're using and try to get the most out of it. If you record onto the recorder then upload the files to your computer, check the compression on the recorder. If it's set up to make the recording time longer, then it's overcompressing the files which will distort the sound. Set it up for higher quality recording, which shortens the record time, but gives you better sound. Other than that, I'm afraid my knowledge of recording applies only to analog recording. I can tell you to find a recorder with a mic jack on it, so you can get a reasonably priced mic and plug it into the recorder. A good external mic is always better than the built in mic on any recorder.
The "Big Business" software companies bring piracy on themselves by either not making their software available in certain markets, or by charging way too much for it when they do release it there. I can't say that I condone piracy, but if it's the only way within your means to get something, what can you do? I'm a big supporter of freeware, programs that people make and give away for nothing, but you can't always find good freeware to do what you want to get done (I'm still looking for a good text to speech program that's independant of the Microsoft Speech API, and a good voice recognition program also indepndant of the MS SAPI), so you do what you have to in order to get the job done. I probably should download the demo of Manga Studio, just to try it out, maybe I'll do that later.
Mamma Vash:
I keep up with Adam's blog to know what's going on, and up and coming with the site, though not everything he writes about pans out. It's an interesting look at the site through the eyes of the person who put it together.
Anime FF was two times zones away from me, so I couldn't go. I would have liked to be able to see the art exhibit though.
The internet crash had to be Verizon since it's not had any difficulties after it came back on mid way through the day it was out. The time it went down kind of tells me it was them doing something. The mouse just decided to be difficult and die on me while I was trying to navigate MyO, not pretty since it managed to pop 20 some windows open before I pulled it out the back of the computer. Not fun to navigate and close programs with the keyboard I tell you. I try not to think of the little monster as a creature because that would only make me hotter at it for not being good.
Breakfast Squid
Yeah, I guess Verizon was playing with something somewhere, it hasn't caused problems since then. Yeah, I hate to get rid of something that still works, so I never actually gave up the original mouse. It's sluggish compared to an Optic one, but I'll take what I can get as long as it works.
No, I didn't get to the con, that's why I'm going stir crazy over that whole art exhibition. No one who was there has posted any info, and pictures of the exhibit were promised and haven't been delivered yet either. Those of us who didn't go will probably never really know the true extent of what went on. He seems to be getting over whatever was bugging him, either that or he's avoiding it, which wouldn't be a good thing. I'm sure we'll know soon enough.
