Due to a technical issue with MyOtaku here, and to continue to provide you all with the level of information you've come to expect from me here, I had to move my Version Vibrant Update off site. It'll have to remain off site till the newly created bug with post modifying is fixed. You can now find my Version Vibrant information here for now. Please note, it's not linked on my web site anywhere, so you won't be able to find it again if you go wandering off looking at the other stuff. Anyway, speaking of Version Vibrant, got a little bit more info for you all. Version Vibrant may be here very soon according to the second paragraph of Adam's post from the other day. He also covers an avatar thing in that post as well, which I already took care of in my Version Vibrant update. Feature Announcement #15 is also out, it takes care of the "Fan Character" submissions and sorting that's kind of a best of both worlds thing. It lets people sort them out of viewing, or lets people see them, but they will be submitted to the anime they're inspired from.
As you all know, I've been ill this past week. I'm mostly over that. Turns out that where no medicine would work simply sweating out the illness did. I was on clear liquids when my stomach got upset, but I'm on solids again, so I'm all right there.
Been thinking about the payment methods thing with my pyrography project again. I'm at a loss. I want to make the whole process easy for people all the way through, but I don't really know how to do that. At any rate, I'll have to set up some kind of system so that I can get started and move toward doing mail-order. Nest post, I'll have breakdown of the offerings I'll be starting with for you. Can't promise I'll have a payment system worked out, but at least you'll have an idea what I'll be burning.
I was also thinking about some things the other day, and well, I've mapped out my initial Version Vibrant configuration, should that multiple blogs things work the way I'm anticipating it to work. I won't go into details on that just yet, cause what I want to do might ruffle some feathers and I don't want to do that prematurely. Having that plan in place will help me get through the process of putting it all together when Version Vibrant comes out. I also have planned for my first main posting on Version Vibrant already, it'll be an amusing article that's right up my alley. Hopefully I can find some decent images to go along with it, and hopefully you'll all enjoy it too.
Oh, I haven't forgotten about the pyrography stuff I'm still behind on, I'm working on those still. Just need to be inspired to get the right pictures down for them.
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Responses to Feb 9, 2008 Post
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Thank you for your concerns and understanding. That was something I had to get out in the open because keeping it to myself was getting to be very hard on me physically. All I can say about the situations is that my brother knows what he needs to do, and he knows ways he can help himself, but he's demonstrating his acclimation to the area by being to ignorant, lazy and cheap to do those things. I've washed my hands of the matter one before but he's kept dragging me into it over the years, hopefully getting cursed at like a sailor will effectively tell him that I'm not able to handle sitting back and having that load of garbage dumped on me. He was warned the first time he went out with her she'd be trouble, he'll have to learn the hard way that my gut instincts aren't wrong about people. I don't know why I'm good that way, but give me five minutes with a person I cant tell you if they're good or not.
I do hope that my brother sees the real message hidden under all the profanity, and that is that I'll continue to be worried about him, but I just can't afford the physical and emotional toll of being the free psychologist for all his problems. I've tried to help him in the past, but he won't take my advice. He already knows that when someone asks for my advice, then ignores it, or won't even consider it till they hear the same thing from someone else, I stop giving them help that way.
Anyway, thank you all for letting me put that out there for you. It's not something that needs a lot of discussion, because talk won't change the situation any. Now at least, there's more than five people who know what's going on.
the real yojimbo:
Those are some helpful tips that I'd actively pursue if I had the materials around the house. It does kind of remind me of a SoBe drink I like to have once in a while with Vitamin C, zinc and Echinachea in it. That combo is usually very good with illnesses as well. I might just have some grapefruit juice, but I don't think I have a vitamin C supplement or even a multi-vitamin supplement around.
whtdragon:
My dad used to have random issues where his picture would go weird (like flashing horizontal lines, ghosting images and a high pitched buzzy type noise), he tried a couple things before he found out it was actually the monitor itself which couldn't handle the output from the computer, so he replaced the monitor and went from there. My bet is, the monitor you're using barely made the specs to handle that resolution, that's why if gives you those fits once in a while, that that's why changing the resolution makes it go away. You might consider starting a small fund to work on getting something a little more robust. You never know when it'll go beyond that noise to affecting the picture, and believe me, it's hard to fix a display issue when you can't see what you're looking at clearly.
AngelBest Dream:
I try to be creative, even when titling my posts.
The doctor I saw told me that it's something that's been going around. Lucky for me it's going away right now. I hope to be completely well in a couple days if not sooner. Sweating it out was just about the only think that made an impact on the illness.
It's not so much research about the family as it is understanding the history of a place I love to be. I'm personally connected to the rail history through my late grandfather's job too, which makes that history all the more alluring to me. There aren't a lot of people who can walk up to stuff like this, this, or how about trekking through one of these? The Rail Trail brings out a lot of my good traits, that's one of few places I'm most comfortable. There's a lot of natural beauty out there, and a lot of history out there too.
Be careful, you don't want to take my words as full and complete truth when it comes to business stuff.
Something I learned and experienced first-hand myself a few years ago is that when a storm of any kind is coming in off the ocean, the waters get really calm at first, then they rise as fast as you can snap your fingers, and then they get turbulent, turn a sickly shade of brown or green, then all [Censored] breaks loose. This whole Version Vibrant thing, is probably going to be like that. We're in the choppy brown water phase right now, we've past the point of calm here, the big one will hit when VV finally goes online and people have problems. I'd recommend everyone make a note of Adam's e-mail address, just in case things happen that make it impossible to contact him here.
I need some personal calm yes, Too bad I've been sick this week, I could have taken the time to just relax. I may do that once VV goes up and I don't have to report on it anymore. Just take a week or so to find my center again and get back in the game.
That had to be one dense dragon. Geez the flame is pressurized and fueled partly by our breath, that's how we get big flames like that. All he had to do was close his mouth. I think I'm having some compatibility issues between my fire and ice energies.
C.S. Lewis wrote a "power line" in one of his Chronicles of Narnia series, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. The line is simply "Courage dear heart." Whenever I'm in a really slump emotionally, that line comes to mind. It reminds me to keep my spirits and strength up.
Shonigoneyes93:
Well, I can think of a few choice words to fill in there, but this is a family show so I won't say any of them (that's my horrible Mike Rowe impersonation if you can't tell).
Well, I respect the BBC cause they tell it like it is, especially about US policy. They don't have to worry about retaliation so they can be more honest about those things. I don't get a BBC news channel on my cable set-up right now, but I do stumble upon their shortwave radio channels one is a while. Fox News was garbage from day 1 in my opinion, I've never liked them. When the Fox News channel first came to cable, they're big deal was "unbiased reporting" All they have on their network are biased, opinion based, news commentary shows, the very opposite of what they were claiming to be.
Well, I'm mostly better now, still got a little way to go, but I'm back to being able to do normal things, well, most normal things anyway.
Thanks for the description of the page, that helps me a lot. I'm not sure if I can configure the code to make it center in all resolutions (I have no way to test multiple resolutions myself), but I'll do some digging and see what I can come up with for that.
Yensid:
I'm at the "nagging cough" stage myself right now, hopefully I won't get the rest again, I don't want to be on clear liquids for a whole day again. Geez, it was three days before I could eat solid foods. Like I mentioned earlier, I sweated it mostly out of me, the cough just won't go away yet. Get yourself a tin of "Fisherman's Friend" cough drops and hopefully they'll last you a week. They're potent, they taste horrid, but do they ever work.
Wow, that's a large screen resolution. I don't think I could handle one that big. Yeah, I've run into print issues with pictures, but I've got garbage for a printer anyway, so most of the problem is actually with that. W3Schools is one of the first sources I stumbled on when looking up CSS, and because it does let you test some of the stuff out (they like to hide their testing pages there), I hung onto it. I'll have to look at the other one though, I've not heard of it. but if it's a good resource, I'll be glad to add it to my collection.
I like to get feedback on my works, that's how I know what to try differently when I do other ones. That's how I grow and shape myself as an artist. Thing is, I don't get a lot of feedback on dA for my photos, that's why I haven't uploaded anything else there. I've thought about uploading artwork, I've thought about uploading a story or two, but it all seems like a waste if no one's going to give me usable information about the pieces. I have to hang onto dA cause I have friends there who aren't here for one reason or another, and I don't want to lose touch with them.
I stopped believing in that phrase last year, with the Anime FF reports. Hopefully, the lack of information output is just a sign that Adam's working on the finishing touches and we'll see the release soon.
Shireishou:
Actually, you didn't miss much this time around. It was sprang on everyone unannounced. I still like like being an "oldie" though. If you happened to miss it it, when Adam first started separating The and My O, he had a phrase with that term in it up in the backroom's ad space (It was something like "Sh, only oldies allowed back here"). I'm a MyOtaku Oldie and proud of it.
I'm dense. I never even gave honey a thought. Thanks for the tip, I'll give it a try.
That's an odd size. I know the BG was knocked out for a while during the separation, but it should be back up now. I need to add stuff to it cause it's mostly plain at the moment, the surfing lizard should be in the upper right corner of the gray field. I'll probably make the BG blue or something, the gray I'm using is such that the MyO logo vanishes into it. That wasn't intentional.
Oh, and don't forget, I still need to know what to do with the pyrography piece as well.
kitbug69:
There's still no word on a launch window yet. Near as I can tell though, the earliest we might see it would be later this month. If what's happening is a strong indicator as much as Adam saying he's close to being finished, then I think we're going to see Version Vibrant by the end of the month. I'm still doing my best to get the info out to you all, sorry I have to take you off-site to do that now, but I can't fix the problem to keep the updates here anymore, so I'll do what needs to be done.
Responses February 14, 2008 Post
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Thanks for the well wishes, it's been a tough week for me physically. I'm still ill, but it's mostly a cough right now, the rest has gone away. I'll be back to my routine soon, but for now I'm going to continue to take it easy. Now, you'll probably notice that I didn't separate out everyone's comments individually and respond to each in turn. It's easier for me to take care of the well wishes all at once, and I pulled out specific comments that made statements which warranted a response beyond thanks for the well wishes.
Yensid:
Yeah, I saw your post the other day about that, I'll have to read it again now that my mental faculties aren't clouded so much. I may just have to get onto MySpace (as much as I really don't like that idea), just to keep up with people. Anime has been a passion of mine since 2000. When I was in a very bad place mentally, it found me and pulled my toward who I am today, it helped me find structure when I needed it. I kind of learned early on through anime that life is what me make of it, and I've continued to draw on anime to help me make like a little more fun and lot less scientific. Science is cool, but there's nothing wrong with a healthy dream now and again.
AngelBest Dream:
I'm getting that impression too. Later this month might just happen. Don't know for sure, but it might happen.
