I'm still working on that dragon, I'll have a lot of time to devote to him this weekend so hopefully I'll get him done in a couple weeks. I've put together a relatively simple guidebook from the sources that were provided for me by members here and it's turning out to be a good thing. When I get good at dragons, I promise I'll do up my own dragon tutorial.
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Outlaw Melfina:
Yeah, it's in the past for me, once in a while though something comes up that makes me remember one experience at a theatre conference that wasn't overly bad, but all the same I was shown that even among the people I was supposed to share the passion for the theatre with, I didn't really fit in. I don't think they fully understood why I was never as friendly with them after that conference, but I don't play around with things like that, friendships are serious things to me.
I had to be honest with the review, so I didn't pull any punches. The content is very well done, but there are technical problems with Adobe Reader 7.0 which Art of Otaku recommends using. If you haven't upgraded your Adobe PDF reader from 6.0, don't, you'll have no problem with it. Another thing to consider, you're in the UK, which unfortunately means the CD version isn't available to you yet. It's shipped by a private carrier here in the US from a fulfillment center, so I can't even begin to calculate the cost for sending it overseas(If the carrier or fulfillment center even ships to overseas addresses). If you know someone with a way to buy the downloadable version(it would be easier with a paypal account or credit card, and a high speed internet connection[DSL or broadband] is also suggested), that's the recommended way for overseas purchasing of the guide(not to mention it's cheaper!). I forgot to cover that in my review. If I had the time to rewrite it I'd add that to it.
Mamma Vash:
Oh, I hate those days. I have them a lot, so one of the servers here at MyO must be going on the Fritz again. The page backgrounds come up, but it takes anywhere from one to five minutes for the content areas to show up. I just log off, and come back later and things are usually working faster by then.
Here's a tip I got from a member here to make the 200K limit, aside from resizing the image, reduce the image quality. When you save a picture as a JPEG, you should have the option to adjust the image quality, don't leave it set at 100%, back it down in 5% increments till you make the file size you want and still have a decent looking image, for me with pencil and ink drawings (no color) that's around 80%, but our art is different, so that number isn't set in stone. Play with it till you get the results you want. And no, a digital camera will not make much difference on the file size, I tried that one myself, unsucessfully.
I was an average student in schoool myself. I'm actually a lot smarter now that I'm not in school anymore, but that's just my way of proving to the locals here that things aren't always what they seem. Drop me a PM (this is only to Mamma Vash) if you want me to explain the details, I don't really want to post them here in my blog publically.
Simply put, yes. On
December 15, 1967, during the height of the Mothman activity in Point Pleasant, the Silver Bridge which joined Route 2 in WV to Route 7 in OH did suffer a structural failure and collapsed. It's hard to image that
this is where the bridge once stood on the Ohio River. If it were still there, the train trestle would be obstructed by it. In all 46 people lost their lives in the tragedy. Their
names are engraved in the
brick sidewalk where the Silver Bridge once ran into Point Pleasant. It's a powerful, moving, experience to actually be in the town where that very strange stuff took place so long ago. They say the land was cursed by
Chief Cornstalk, and I don't know if it's just my imagination playing tricks on me or not, but that whole area there does have a lot of "energy" to it.
Image hosting credits go to
Photobucket, Thanks guys.
I'll point out that the movie the Mothman Prophecies was not filmed in Point Pleasant, or West Virginia at all, they filmed up in Pennsylvania somewhere. I think that's why I like taking pictures in Point Pleasant, to show people what the real place looks like. I linked the pictures instead of embedding them, it's easier for me to do that, just click the links, they'll pop open in a new window.
No thanks on the biscotti, but I'll take one of those hazelnut cookies!
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