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[13 Oct 2008|11:53pm] |
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Can you imagine no love, pride, deep-fried chicken
Your best friend always sticking up for you even when I know youre wrong
Can you imagine no first dance, freeze-dried romance, five-hour phone conversation
The best soy latte that you ever had...and me...
Been listening to songs while drawing again. It's good for the soul. This sketch and the song make way more sense together in my head than I could possibly put in just one sketch or even attempt to explain in words.
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| Obama and NASA |
[13 Oct 2008|08:00pm] |
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For those unaware, the Constellation program is to be replacing the Space Shuttle program within the next few years.
A few months back, Obama had stated that he planned on delaying the Constellation program and cutting their funding in order to put more money into education.
However, he seems to have recently changed his mind, stating:
"I know it's still being reported that we were talking about delaying some aspects of the Constellation program to pay for our early education program. I told my staff we're going to find an entirely different offset, because we've got to make sure that the money that's going into NASA for basic research and development continues to go there. That has been a top priority for us."
...If he wins, I just hope he follows through. The moon and eventually Mars are far off enough as is and I'd really like to play a role in it.
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[13 Oct 2008|04:46pm] |
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[13 Oct 2008|05:07am] |
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It's 5 in the morning, I'm running off of 5 hours of sleep, and I'm full of turkey. If I don't post tomorrow, it's because I slept through the whole day.
Thanksgiving was pretty good. Did actually talk to Mom about some stuff, though it was more general, like housebuying and stuff. Oh, well.
I'm so glad tomorrow is a holiday.
Yeah, I think I got all my venting out in that last post. I've got nothin' tonight. Sorry.
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[13 Oct 2008|12:51am] |
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I've just been told by a furry that zero divided by zero is evidently one.
...Excuse me while I cry myself to sleep.
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[13 Oct 2008|12:00am] |
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[12 Oct 2008|11:26pm] |
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Billy Joel - "It's Still Rock 'n Roll To Me" |
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I honestly don't know where this came from. Paul Simon's "Me And Julio Down By The School Yard" came on and Al seems to pop up when Paul Simon comes on. The random giraffe guy, though -- no clue. He just showed up randomly.
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| omgcute |
[12 Oct 2008|03:07pm] |
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( More.. :O )
Swiftcutter draws some really cute art. :3
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| Thanksgiving. |
[12 Oct 2008|03:46am] |
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So, I had my shower, am pretty much as good to go as I can be tomorrow. If only I didn't have to work beforehand, then I'd be really set.
I don't know. Been doing a lot of thinking about how I never really talk to Mom. I mean, sure, we trade the joke here and sarcastic quip there, but that's not really talking. It's a tenuous relationship at best. Then again, I don't really talk about myself to anyone, heh. Still, I should be able to trust my Mom, and talk to her, and have a real heart-to-heart with her. Her, and Dad, too. But, understandably, I'm bad at these kinds of things. I haven't got a clue about what I'd like to talk about. My insecurities? The fact I am perfectly happy with underachieving, and my complete lack of self-motivation? Whatever the case, if I can't even dish to my own mother, then I'm a pretty sad husk of a human anyway.
I mean, why do I need to keep so secretive, anyway? Even at work today, someone asked me what I was eating. Instantly, I replied, "Food," as if she wouldn't understand that I was eating BBQ Ringolo's, or that it was something she wasn't supposed to know or didn't have to know. This is someone actually taking some time and courtesy and turning it towards me, and I can't even respond with the same courtesy. No wonder people don't bother.
Then again, what does it all really matter? I'm just one tiny, insignificant person, and one insignificant question asking about the insignificant snack I'm having doesn't really have much of an impact on much of anything. Then again, it's that exact same brooding that I contemplated when I was feeling less eager about life itself, so we'll change the subject immediately.
Leotards. Furry art. Malcolm in the Middle. Mmm. I haven't had chicken noodle soup in forever. Or turkey, for that matter. Or a damn nice home-cooked meal. The closest I've gotten is Hamburger Helper, and even that's a combination meal-in-a-box and frozen food. I should probably try my hand at making macaroni and cheese again.
I really feel like I have limitless possibility. I can follow a recipe like I can follow instructions installing a netword card in a computer. Heck, I have the capability to be decently athletic if I put my mind to it, if DDR can say anything. I can't remember the last time I've gotten any exercise -- and if walking to work and back is exercise, I'm already an old man. I haven't broken out my rollerblades in years, I haven't touched my dance pad in ages, heck, I haven't even done any jogging. It's kind of disheartening to think I could manage sixty situps in a minute at school, and now I get tired before I hit twenty. Maybe that'll be an idea for a New Year's Resolution next year -- stick to a decent workout routine. Or maybe something a little more important, like, you know, eating properly, and getting that whole personal hygiene thing going. I'd bet I'd feel better about myself if only I took care of myself.
But then, that wouldn't really be under the spirit of Thanksgiving, now, would it? I need to be thankful for what I have. On the top of the list, I'm thankful to have a best friend I can depend on despite my constant nagging him, someone I can live comfortably with, someone I can hang out with, someone who understands I need a lot of distance. I'm thankful for my job, despite the ignorant and selfish people, as it gives me a chance to work with what I love, and it gives me a chance to flex my mental muscle, as it were. I'm thankful to have a family, though distant as we may be, we all can at least talk to each other and take care of each other if need be. There are lots of people that don't have that kind of thing, you know. I am thankful to be living under a roof, and to be eating good, fresh food, and to be sleeping in a warm bed. Tons of people don't even have that, and it's those things we tend to take for granted.
Do I really want to win the lottery? While money would 'solve all my problems,' as it were, I don't really have all that many 'problems' that need solving. I'm not in any sort of debt, there's nobody out there looking to kill me, I'm not suffering from a terminal disease, or in any kind of agonizing, crippling, unlivable pain. Despite my whining and bitching and complaining... I'm doing just fine.
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| What I Did Today |
[11 Oct 2008|11:59pm] |
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[11 Oct 2008|10:58pm] |
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There's a woman on my lap and she's drinkin' champagne...
I've had Bob Dylan's "Things Have Changed" in my head all day. I'm not really sure why -- I assume it's because the phrase "People are crazy and times are strange" was floating through my head all day yesterday and I'm the kind of person who knows all the words to most songs in Bob Dylan's discography, so that one kinda wandered into my subconscious and never left.
Haven't drawn these two in a while and frankly, I'm not happy with Tom (the wolf fellow there). He's supposed to look a bit more friendly, rounder, personable...his skinny muzzle there gives him a sort of instantly harsh personality -- in my head, anyway -- and that's just not him. Still, I'm happy enough with the sketch to post it, I think because I'm pleased at Ariella's posing there.
Tom is an older fellow -- somewhere between his late forties and mid-fifties -- who owns a pub someplace in New York City and has for many years (this story is a side story to the whole "New York State of Mind" saga -- as is Felicity's tale, and the story of Daniel and Jack). He's British but has been in the United States so long that though his accent is still defined, some of his expressions are definitely American. His girlfriend, Ariella, is half his age...young enough to be his daughter. It's honestly love, too; though he owns his own business and lives somewhat comfortably, Tom is far from rich or even well off. Ariella came to New York with the hopes of finding something better and getting away from her family, and after a few flings fell into Tom's arms very happily. I don't know if they're living together yet.
But, yeah, this sketch was mostly inspired by Bob Dylan, who refused to get out of my head. Might've had some influence in the slight gruffness added to Tom there.
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| Malcolm in the Middle. |
[11 Oct 2008|04:09am] |
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I think I've pinpointed what I love about this show. It's a family full of dysfunctional characters, and the main character's in elementary school and in a class for gifted students. All that on top of not cheapening the humor with a laughtrack and, well, just being so damn funny. It's a shame that only one season made it onto DVD. At least all seven seasons made it onto Torrent. Even though the quality of the second season isn't that great, hey, it's free, and right now I'm downloading them faster than I can watch them. At least I'll have something to do for the next couple of weeks.
Thanksgiving's going to be on Sunday. Dad's going up north to visit family, so after working on Sunday morning, I'll be heading up north, and spending time with Mom and Nick. While I'll admit, it's always been kinda weird spending time with them, dinner is always so damn awesome.
So far so good with the tester power supply. I figure I'll give it a whole week or so to fuck up before I buckle down and get a replacement.
As for the whole house thing... Yeah. I know, it's hard to get a hold of the real estate lady when I've only ever called once. Truth is, I just don't feel ready for a house, as much as I'd like to move out of the apartment. Who knows, maybe next year, something will pop up that -doesn't- have a pool. Quite frankly, I don't want to have to pay upkeep for something I'm never going to use. I'd still rather own a detached house, and, yeah, I would like to have more money saved up to put down on it. Of course, something even more perfect could come along and change my mind, but right now, yeah, as nice as the location of the house is that I'm looking at, I'm gonna have to pass. Just not ready.
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| Fursuit blather. |
[10 Oct 2008|10:41pm] |
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Whee, redoing Beef Jerky, the inside of his mouth looks nice now. I took out all the felt that disintigated over the years (felt does that-- don't use felt on fursuits!) and he now has shiny smooth polyester-type fabric in there that makes his mouth innards not look fuzzy like felt did.
He's got a new set of teeth that are extra cute. and I took off his old nose and patched new fur in the place where the nose was, he looks extra silly without a nose. I've been meaning to make a lighter nose for him since his other nose is solid Sculpy and probably half the weight of the entire head. I sculpted two noses out of Sculpy Ultralight, but both of them I don't really like, so I think I'm going to try to use the last remaining Daiso paper-clay on a new nose for him. If not my second Sculpy Ultralight nose will have to do, even though it ended up flattening out a little more than expected when I baked it. :( :(
I tried to make a sewn footpaw pattern, but decided I hate sewing toes. The pattern seems good, but sewing toes really just sucks. I think a sewn pattern would only work out if I made my toes oversized-huge, but I was kind of going for a conservatively-sized toepattern so I could use it for other characters, guess I'll just have to try out a larger toe-pattern I suppose. Either way I really need to redo Beef Jerky's feet, and I need to design it in a way where I can strip the fur off it to wash, since white footpaws made of out longpile fur kind of suck to wash when they're attached to foam, and spot cleaning only goes so far.
I redid Cathlamet some, based on the critique I requested a week ago on a LJ community. I gave her cute eyelashes to try to make her a little girlier.. I just bought some fake eyelashes from the store and carefully attached them with a better glue than what they came with. I built up her cheeks under her eyes, and shaved up her smile a bit more. I thinned out her jaw and shortened it by about 1/2 an inch to make it appear open into a smile more. I also sewed the center of her snout together about 1/2 an inch as well, so her cheeks on her muzzle don't flare out as much as they did. I also painted the fur a bit darker on the underside of her mouth where I shaved the cheeks up to make it more obviously a smile, but not too obvously a line, its just shaded a little darker than the original furcolor. I still need to repaint her eyeshine to be a bit bigger, I think that'll make her "cuter" ... even though I meant for her to look relaxed there was just not enough expression in the photos I'd seen of her, and I think fursuit heads really need some sort of designated expression to at least look good in photos. I also did some more minor trimming on other parts of her face as well to even things up.
I have plans to redo Mangle's toe-paws more like I did Cathlamet's. Since Mangle was my first try at Digitigrade, I think I did alright, but not as well as I pulled off Cathlamet's, so if I update his toes I believe he'll look just as good. I'm going to keep his existing toes, but build them up more around his ankles so there's also no more "use-your-own-ankles" happening any time he poses.
At this point I'm trying to decide if I want to redo the fur on the inside of Beef Jerky's ears, I guess the longer fur along the outside edges is kinda cute, but I have better fur I could replace it with... I may just not touch it. I dunno. I think I'll think about it though.
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[10 Oct 2008|08:48pm] |
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Remind me to not go out next time Governor Palin is in town. --
My mom got me a ticket to come with her, I think because she knows I want to vote for Obama. I had her take one of her friends instead to Palin's speech here in Greenville. So, I went out when it was getting dark, just right over to Wal Mart five minutes away, and when I came out.. every road was blocked by police. --; I waited for like thirty minutes, and they weren't letting anyone across.. so I tried to go around, and I ended up getting lost at ECU campus. Took me an hour and thirty minutes just to get home, ugh. xD I didn't know ECU was so damn big, holy shit. Makes me kinda glad that I'm going to Pitt, at least first (probably going to get the basics out of the way at Pitt, then transfer over to ECU).
I've been bored, arg. Got the new Silent Hill. <3 Though I beat it in like a day, lol. ;[ And I can't wait for Halo 3: Recon. Woooo.
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| While We're on the Subject of Guns... |
[10 Oct 2008|04:02pm] |
Here's a list of [almost] all the guns we own. Some of them we haven't even shot yet. We're probably going to the crater off of Lakeshore sometime this weekend to sight some of them in.
The neat thing about the STG-556 =and the FN FS2000, they each have an EOtech 512 scope on them. If you've ever played Call of Duty 4, they're the exact same thing as that really snazzy scope on some of the weapons in singleplayer, the one that projects a red, holographic circular target shape with a dot in the middle, instead of just a red dot. It's definitely an awesome scope, and surprisingly accurate.
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[10 Oct 2008|04:21pm] |
WAIT A MINUTE.
Let's review the facts.
1. Anthropomorphic means having a form resembling that of a human.
2. Humans presumably have forms resembling those of humans.
3. Humans are animals.
We can only deduce that humans are *anthropomorphic animals*.
Every day we are surrounded by people dressed up like *anthropomorphic animals*. Men, women, children! In public and private! The furry invasion is all around us.
Note: This may all be the result of an argument I was writing on a forum concerning why arbitrarily applying the term "furry" to some anthropomorphic beings and not to others (particularly in a fantasy setting) is questionable. In fantasy settings in particular the humanoid shape seems to be unusually common (which admittedly betrays an ignorance of anthropology, anatomy and evolutionary biology, but whatever) so it's rather silly to place divisions between some humanoids and others based on how closely they resemble *one* humanoid race.
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