Another delay in getting some of those Pixia Projects up. I'd forgotton how much time it takes to do that kind of stuff.
I'm also considering extneding my deadline for the first draft of my novel. All told building a gingerbread house and putting up Christmas decorations is tiring work.
If I haven't gotten to your site lately, Sorry about that, I'm really too tired to go through them all right now (see previous statement). I will try to get cuaght up in the next day or so, but I can't tonight, I'll be out *cringe* shopping. Well, my family is doing the shopping, I'm just going with them.
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Magnus Lensherr
Pixia is an image manipulation program like Photoshop, but it's not that high end, and it's geared more towards artists rather than web designers, but it works. The dripping blood font is called Dracula, and my sister found it somewhere. Given the Mothman's rep, I thought it appropriate.
I had to look up your paper references there (we don't do the easy standards here in America) and A5 is a little smaller than 6x9" paper. Since I'm typing in the 6x9" paper format, I have no clue what it would come out in terms of length on letter (8.5x11" closest to A4 in size) paper with basic formatting. I'm guessing it would probably be about half, but I don't know. When I get it all done and edited, I'll do a check on that just to humor my own curiosity.
I can't afford not to at least try to find a job, I need the income, really I do.
It was part of our Theatre history that we read Oedipus, and Antigone, which is like the sequel to Oedipus (Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus and his mother, so she's like his sister too, those Greeks were confusing, and really sick minded sometimes). The only scripts I have trouble reading aloud are Shakespeare, but that's because I can't get the rhythm of Iambic Pentameter down.
I made it a point to do things right, just to show everyone else in class how it was supposed to be done. I had one of them so startled that he routinely missed his cues, even when our characters weren't dialoging with each other. I used to talk fast when I was nervous, now I just do a really low grumbly sort of Bebopesque Spike voice when I'm talking to people, especially the ones I can't stand.
You think what you want, and wonder if you're doing it on your own, or if I'mn tricking you into thinking the way I want you to. Now that's evil, or is it?
I think role play message boards have some measure of leeway, given the people on them are supposed to be pasty faced teenage computer nerds with no social lives and rich fanatsy worlds exisitng in their heads. I'm not sure how they do things over there, but there was an article in the news about the Secret Service harrassing a High school student for a comment, or picture or something she posted in a blog, more than a year before they contacted her. It's one of those tread softly areas, so keep your guard up when discussing politics. Why do you think I don't discuss politics at all if I can help it?
It's not a mansion, if my family had that kind of money, I'd be posting this from the Bahamas, or Rio, or anyplace that's warm. It's a lot smaller than it sounds, it was built up instead of out considering it's in the city and the lot it's on is only so big. Hard to believe it was built over a hundred years ago, but it was.
Breakfast Squid
Yeah, I posted that first one with the idea that I'd have more to follow, but that didn't happen. Pixia is a lot easier to use than some ofthe higher end programs, but it has it's quirks like all of them do. If you need a good basic image manipulation program Pixia is the way to go. There's a lot of user built filters for it that are good, and you can make your own pen tips too, and it has tablet support now too. As for my story, I haven't revealed plot details yet. I probably won't do that till I've got the thing in publication, just to prevent any possibility of my storyline being "borrowed" without my consent. I did say a while back that is was a Sci-Fi/Real-Fi blend, but that's about it. I'll have some info on the characters up another day, I'm really worn out tonight and don't really feel like typing out all that info.
alphonse13:
By all meas do set up the button, that's what it's there for. On the welcome banner, I should mention that I used some Pixia user defined filters (An extra installation) to make part of that banner (the curved text).
If it's important, you make the time. I think that what Kirk said in one of the Star Trek Movies. I'll make the time and get tha draft done.
What made Jaws was that penetrating, creeping Double Base riff that you heard to symbolize the shark. Speilburg (yes, the Steven Speilburg directed the first Jaws movie) had many challenges with that hydraulic shark when filming (They filmed on Martha's Vinyard), so he had the composer work up a "theme" for the shark which they used in the final cut to portray the shark which actually wasn't seen the the move as often as you think it was. My Mom grew up in New Jersey, in the era that movie first came out, and even she said a lot of people (including herself) wouldn't go into the ocean for a while after seeing that film.
My most memorable paranormal experience would have to be Captain Demming. We have an old cemetary in our town here, and there's a man, he was a sea captain, who moved here in the late 1800s to seek his fortune in the oil industry I think. Anyway, he's buried in that cemetary, and his tombstone had fallen (it's been repaired). I was standing with my sister looking at his stone, and for a split second, I smelled burning pipe tobacco. It was only in that one area in front of his stone, and aside from my mom, sister, and me, no one else was around, much less anyone with a pipe. I have a couple experiences from when I worked at the Ramada Inn too which were unique to me, and a few that others had similarly shared too.
That was a nice sentiment on your grandmother's part. Even in passing she was concerned for her family's happiness.
Yensid:
I've been behind the times too long, I figured I needed to start looking somewhat contemporary in style.
I'll try to get over there when I'm on dA again, just to humor a look around. If I want to find her page here, all I have to do is type the username into the "Jump to User" thing at the top of the page, and it'll take me there. dA really needs something like that.
The first one's on the house, that much I'm sure of right now, there's no snese in charging for a trial run anyway. Snail Mail is out right now, I've been wating for two months for someone to replace the black ink in the think, so I can't print it out myself. I don't think I have photo paper either. I know a little about Creative Commons, I like their attitude on licensing and making materials accessable for people to add to another's creativity, but since I'm in the position where I'm thinking about starting a financial stream for myself, I have to be careful how I let others use my works. I'll have to do a few things to the file to make it fit those specs, but that won't be hard.
I have no distinction between my works yet since it's all hobby for me right now. When I get paid for something, then I'll begin to categorize things into hobby and professional. I wouldn't put anything professional on dA either, that's why I hesitate to put my other rose pictures up, some of them are really well taken.
KyuubiKhaos
There's only one field where my actions don't speak for much, that's trying to find a job. Otherwise it's better to show someone what you can do rather then tell them, because most of the time, they don't believe it till they see it.
That one was more fluke than intentionally done, but it did turn out well.
Once the rough draft is done, I won't have to worry, editing and polishing is gravy becasue all the material is there. I just need to finish up that rought draft first.
