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@anathemad Wha??? in reply to anathemad #
@anathemad That is good :) (is there any stomping that needs to be done though?) in reply to anathemad #
@anathemad Thanks! (The advantage of being insanely productive last month – I have posts scheduled for the next few weeks. ) in reply to anathemad #
Wishing wordpress made it easier to hack tinyMCE. OTOH, I am learning interesting things. #fb #
This may be useful: http://bit.ly/dvn7jE #
Telling me I should bookmark your article before I've had a chance to read it is not the best way to impress me. Just sayin'. #
What??!!?! http://bit.ly/a8Wwrk No really, what. the. fuck. #
@MargoEve Wow. That's some serious funny. in reply to MargoEve #
@MargoEve I…. really have no words. in reply to MargoEve #
RT @AMERICAblogGay: Breaking: Dan Choi and Jim Pietrangelo handcuffed to fence at White House in DADT protest http://bt.io/EhHH #fb #
Why am I in a mood to crochet, of all things? (I'm really not good at it either… ) #fb #
My daily does of cute: http://bit.ly/bzs5Ax #
Interactive map of the Nazi invasion of the USSR: http://bit.ly/7Fgunz (I wish something this engaging had been around when I was in school) #
Yes, I'm linkspamming. it's a slow day. Speaking of — Pie In A Jar: http://bit.ly/7bJ7D #
Spiffy, spiffy dresses that I really have to get around to buying: http://bit.ly/yFC8L #
@okaythanksbye I am now! :) in reply to okaythanksbye #
Want to watch a movie, but also wanna work, so it needs to be something I like & don't need to pay close attention to. So, Princess Bride. #
The Fezzik & Inigo scenes remind me so much of my brother – we used to quote the whole thing back and forth at eachother. #
@anathemad ::Loves you:: in reply to anathemad #
So, actually getting some work done would be a good thing about now… #
Thin Lizzy doing Whiskey in the Jar: http://bit.ly/c1CeB8 #
Oh my – what if the DS9 intro had been done in the style of BSG? http://bit.ly/JAkas #
Lets take a dumb argument and… make it look really dumb. And then give it a dance track. I giggled. http://bit.ly/byQwB9 #

Desktop Publishing (Teterboro,NJ) – Industrial Distributor of machine shop supplies is seeking a full time, entry level desktop operator

Dumb, but not snark worthy. (Everyone is advertising for “entry level” openings lately ’cause no one wants to pay for experienced workers.) However, it often leads to…

to work on catalog design, sales brochures etc.

Unless they’re coming in as someone’s assistant, this is not entry level work. Well, not if you don’t want the work to suck. And I say this having been hired fresh out of school to *do* jobs like this, and I did not know my ass from a hole in the wall. I was unhappy, my employers were unhappy… it was a bad idea all all around.

Applicants must have extensive knowledge of Photoshop, Pagemaker, Indesign, Adobe Acrobat and in preparing files for printing.

“Extensive knowledge” does not dovetail with “entry level”. No, really. Once again, the words do not mean what you think they mean.

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Oh Illustrator, you make setting up bleeds so easy… #
@VikingBunny I prefer ignoring the whole thing and checking the results the next morning, myself. in reply to VikingBunny #
@MargoEve Me too! (it might be a dopey movie, but I still have fun watching it…) in reply to MargoEve #
@MargoEve Near Dark is even funnier if you used to RP WoD vampires in the 90's. in reply to MargoEve #
RT @okaythanksbye: It's the closest thing I'll ever get to posting ultrasound pics. http://www.teefury.com/ Nostromo Maternity Dept. #
@daremunro Considering how gray it was today, I needed something green. Glad you like it. :) in reply to daremunro #
No, twitter, I do NOT want to add location data to my tweets. Sheesh. #
Wind's been howling outside all day. Have not been terribly productive, but did manage to throw some meat in the slow cooker for dinner. #fb #

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@lundegaard Oh, I like that one :) in reply to lundegaard #
I have the strangest desire to watch Mortal Kombat… #fb #
Just tried a butterfinger creme egg. Was not impressed. #

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I don’t mind getting spam from scammers, but when the scammer emails back with a whiney “why haven’t you replied” note, then Julie Smash. #
For anyone who avoids fanfic ’cause “it’s just a lot of porn”, try this: http://bit.ly/9h6WDh No porn, but it might make you think. #
And this is why you get the money up fromt: http://bit.ly/dCYywG #
Wow. This is big. http://bit.ly/Wdstx #fb #
Desk at work got moved again. Will now spend the rest of the week
readjusting to a different ergo setup. Bleh. #
I have to take my glasses off to clean them, but then I can’t see what I’m
cleaning. Aaarg. #
For 100K labels I’m sending a proof, even if it is a reorder with no
changes. #
Cleaning keyboard crud // is a good way to kill time // on dull afternoons #geekhiaku #
Delayed opening at work. I got to wake up after the sun for once. (though the cat obv. thinks it’s a weekend now…) #
…aaaand there’s more snow. Bugger. #
For cases where wordpress is being used as a CMS, a “sort posts by last modified date” would be very helpful. #

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Sadly, I can’t paint a sound.

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More of the “re-doing old pieces to see what I’ve learned in the last few years”. First, the new piece:

The first version, done sometime around 2004 I think. (It’s amazing the metadata that gets mangled in 3 different computer migrations.)</p>

And finally, the original photograph.</p>

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The boys are playing Magic. I’m painting. Life is good. #
I’ll be going down to 1-2 pics per week in the near future. (I’d like to do more with spring than spend every blessed moment at this desk.) #
More snow tonight. Yay. And by that I mean, please kill me now. #
One interestng thing about scheduling posts well in advance is I’m almost as surprised as everyone else when they show up. #
Is there some sort of PHP debug tool for dummies out there? I don’t mind my template changes borking but I don’t know /why/ they’re borking. #
Or why thery’re working, for that matter. #
Stevie Nicks can cheer me up out of almost anything. #
Netflixed some eps of friday the 13th (tv) and the 1990 dark shadows. They’re horrid, but I can see why they caught my 15yr old imagination #
It’s amazing how impossible it is to sleep in when you have a headache and a hungry cat. #
I’ve completely cleared my WIP folder and have posts scheduled up though early May. Wow. #

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So, I’m considering buying a cassette tape converter. (which doesn’t always mean much – I’m good at talking myself out of spending money most of the time.) I’ve already re-bought ~~some~~ most of my old tapes, but I’ve got a bunch of mid-90’s folk, filk, and renfair tapes that are either completely out of print and unavailable or are out of print and expensively hard to get.

That’s not a huge hardship. I only get a real burning urge to listed to them every few years, (ah, nostalgia) and we do still have a tape deck in the house, but 1.) these are old tapes and every run though the player degrades them a smidgen more (not that I took stellar care of them back when…) and 2.) I’d have to dig though the damn closet to get to the storage bin, and that’s a lot of work for something I’m going to have to re-pack into storage. Also, 3.) I am quite used to digital convenience by now and would like to use some of these tracks in a modern (ipod-esque) manner.

So this may be one of my spring/summer projects. If I don’t get distracted first. :)

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I blame Steven Moffat.

No, I *really* blame Steven Moffat. (10 points to anyone who knows why :) )

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I don’t usually go this far in filling in the frames I make, since I find it easier to make the frames than figure out what to put into them, but this one’s an exception. I’ve added manuscript-esque rule lines, a spiffy little drop cap, and set some text from A Room With A View (A personal favorite and public domain.)

Detail on the upper left corner:

And the high-res version (pdf) if you’re really curious.

The rest of this series:
Part 1 (b/w and early color)
Part 2 (colored, no text)

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Is there a better solution for WP+twitter integration than twitter tools? I love it, but it’s killing my CPU allotment. #
Ok, WinRAR wins. 25 gig backup file and /nothing/ else would open/read/expand. May stop hyperventilating in the near future. #
Hell, I’m gonna have to dump comicpress. I’m getting CPU overruns even after turning off GD, enabling superchache, & killing twittertools. #
The post scheduling convenience is just not worth the hassle. Sigh. #comicpress #
My brain has turned to tapioca. g’night. #
Upgraded to Illustrator CS4. Honestly loving it, though I couldn’t stand Photoshop CS4 (still running CS2 at home). Go fiig. #fb #
Website will look funny today. Doing another redesign. #
Site work 90% finished. Probably quitting for the night. #
I don’t know where my portrait mojo went, but it is not here in the slightest. #fb #
It’s odd to look at work I did 5-7 years ago and wonder how in the fuck I managed to do that. If only I could comment art as easily as code. #
Of course, now I want to go from a 2 column layout to 3. Sheesh. #
If only every morning could be this relaxed. Of course, I’d have to get up at 4 to pull that off. Maybe not. #
Have been going back and either finishing or re-doing older pieces. Because I don’t compete with myself enough as it is. #fb #
No work tomorrow. We’re actually closing for the snow. #fb #
Snow’s not supposed to hit until tonight. After I get home. Very good. I was not looking forward to a white hell of a drive home. #
Yay snow! I have a *snow day*. I haven’t had an actual snow day since high school :) #fb #
The bitching about shoveling snow will commence later this afternoon. Maybe. #
Beaker! #
I may end up linkspamming today. It’s better than listening to the bit on NPR about the NY state senate dysfunction. #
Well, this sounds nice, but I have no use for it. If I wanna do that, I’ll tweak my theme. Hell, I can do that now. #
Utterly trippy scale model photography (Plug: Lines and colors is an excellent blog for finding cool artists.) #
The sharpening I did on a WIP last night is now Too Much. Undo is a lot easier before you’ve saved something for the night. #
Shovel out the car part one completed. It’ll make part two much easier. #
Just watched Fear and Trembling. I highly recommend it. Beautiful and slightly reminiscent of Secretary. #
This is so, so true #
On the other hand, this restores my faith in humanity (always a teetering thing) #
Some random internet love #
Watchng ghostbusters. Thinking that this really cries out for a crossover with Fringe. #
How do I not have “Pictures at an Exhibition” in my music library? Must fix that. #

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The comicpress experiment is over. Was far too much hassle for too little gain. If you're seeing these posts doubled, just unsub from the site's RSS feed.

And really, I'm sorry for the hassle. Typical for me, my idea for simplifying everything only made things more complicated.

Yes, time to mock another craigslist ad. (God, I’m such a cynic…)

We’re looking for someone who is facile with setting up web sites, installing scripts, cpanel, email autoresponders, web 2.0 sites

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

AND, who wishes to learn internet marketing techniques including on page and off page SEO, list building, article marketing, membership sites, etc

We want some magic pixie dust to make our website better. Actually, we just bought the pixie dust, but when it doesn’t work, it’ll be your fault.

This is an ideal spot for a student just starting out.

We prefer a blank slate we can brainwash. Also, we’re going to pay peanuts and students work cheap.

Most of the websites will be constructed by others but need to be installed on our hosting accounts and adapted to our business systems which include tracking, linking, building content and backlinks, etc.

We just dicked over our last developer. Hard.

You will have the opportunity to learn internet marketing techniques, specialized internet marketing software, and observe/learn from senior web designers.

Want some kool-aid baby?

This is a paid position.

Technically.

Skill at copy writing a plus (article rewriting, sales copy, web site content, blog posting/commenting, etc.)

You will wear many hats and grow to resent them all.

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