This is a test of the Reader's Attention System:
Buzz . . . Buzz. . . Buzz . . .
This is a test of the Reader's Attention system:
Purple monkeys frolic on the plains of Mars in moonlight.
Tap dancing on Saturn's rings is a pastel pink polka-dot Hippo.
Sanity is the excuse for weak minded people to conform.
Popularity breeds contempt.
This concludes the test of the Reader's Attention system, if this had been an actual incident, all text would be in
Bold, Red, Text, and bear an important subject line like "READ ME OR ELSE!" Once again this concludes the test.
That out of the way, I'll be slow to respond, comment and update for a while, my main computer needs to be taken care of it overheated, that means a new fan has to be put in. Oh well, I'll do my best to be on here when I can.
Comments:
Mamma Vash:
200DPI and 200kb are two different things. Don't try to make the raw scan less than 200kb, it'll look absolutely awful. Scan your picture in as high res as you can get, and from there you resize and compress the images till they fit what you need, and they'll look better. You always want to have a high quality base to work from, never do any editing or compression in the scan process, always do that later. Go download
Irfanview it'll help you with image resize and compression. It's the best free image viewer on the net, I've used it for a couple years now, so I know what I'm saying. You can even tell Irfanview which scanner your using and scan directly into it(in File the Select TWAIN Source it should show up in the list) You do have to manually save the image, but that's not a problem.
I've been too busy to do any photography work, but I'll keep my eyes and ears out for
opportunities. Maybe I can find a company that buys pictures for calendars or something, get some use out of one of my talents for a change, and earn a little money that way.
Keep your spirits up, and try to think of pleasant things, that should help you out. I'll just be doing my usual this weekend, except for being online as regulaqrly as usual (my main computer needs the cooling fan replaced, it finally went last night, so I'm bumming the connection on my laptop for now, I swore I'd never connect my laptop to the net, but it can't be helped, it's a necessity.
I can't resist: konban wa ogenki desu ka? (in a nutshell it's Good evening how are you[are you well]?)
Since I'm still learning myself, and the Microsoft IME is a royal pain in the [
Censored] to get to work correctly, romaji would be fine. There is a word processor that would let you write in Japanese (independant of the MS GIME) if you're intersted in learning to write it eventually (posting Kana/Kanji on the net is tricky, but I know how to do that part).
JWPce is the latest version of it that I could find, still a couple years old though, but it's free and it works. I have a couple kana tables too if you're intersted, but it would be wrong for me to post them, I sort of "borrowed" them from websites without asking, and I can't remember where I got them from to do the proper linkback, the MS GIME does have a Hiragana table in it somewhere, but it prints out over three pages.
I always get stuck on the rather comical "What are you, some kind of airhead?" question asked to Ed before she gasses herself, but I'm weird that way. As my shirt says, "I live in my own little world, but it's okay, they know me here." so I'm always off on wild tangents of imagination.
kout3uka
Pixia is freeware, made by a Japanese artist/programmer as an alternative to overpriced image maipulation software. I linked to the original Japanese page last time for the reason of showing where the program came from. Macromedia is owned by Adobe, the one and same who gave us useless software as Acrobat Reader 7.0 and Photoshop. I also have a strong aversion to paying several hundred dollars for software (Fireworks is $299) when people are out there on the net giving away their creations that do the jobs I need and want to get done. I always recommend freeware first, then I'll suggest paid options if the free stuff isn't adequate.
Yes I can cook, do a pretty mean stir fry and yakisoba, but I've only done that for my family, so I have no professional experience with it. Not having done it professionally (for pay), means the local employers think I have no experience with doing it, no experience means, no hire, there's no point in sugar coating it, that's the way it is. Well, I can't trust the information I got regarding the glass factory, that was one of the jobs I applied to through Workforce West Virginia, so the information I got from the Job Service Office's Manager and the secretary who supposedly made the call to find out if I could still put in my application (through WWV), had zero credibility with me to start with. If I see them advertising directly for people, you can bet I'll apply there again, and I'll apply anywhere that's looking for artistic people (so long as they don't want photoshop experience, I can't even fake my way through that). I must not have written clearly, I never worked at the glass factory, the only place I ever worked in now a flat plot of bare land, the hotel that was there was leveled in December after being shut down since 2002.
You know that, and I know that, but the employers around here don't seem to appreciate the concept of giving a guy a change very much. I apply for any and all job openings I see that I can qualify for, which is "No experience necessary" or words to that effect in the ad, at this point I don't care that it's people oriented or not. It's the employers who are either brave or stupid enough to call me in for an interview who seem to think my shyness is a problem. I have no qualms with working in front of people. I know that once I fall into the job pattern, I'll be all right and the people element won't be so unsettling to me. I can't convince someone I just met in less than 30 minutes that I can do that kind of thing, it's just not possible.
Japanese is a challenge, and I've done the same thing too with phrases and such from my DVDs. I don't know a lot yet, but I've still got to watch them all in Japanese many times before I'll really start to pick them up on the fly. I do pick out individual words consistantly, kokoro, sora, aoi, tsuki, hayaku, motto, nani, the phrase mou ichido ("once more", or "one more time" if I'm remembering right) and some others that I have to see or hear in context before I'll notice I know what I'm hearing.
Anime Dreams!
| Picture Requests |
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| Pending | Complete |
- Sanosuke (Rurouni Kenshin), for Caprice
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- Melfina (Outlaw Star), for Outlaw Melfina
- Duo Maxwell (Gundam Wing), for kout3uka
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| Project Closed Upon Completion |
