do i have to buy a baby to get pregnant??
"i got a note card saying i was pregnant i after i.... but i took a pregnancy test and it said i wasnt pregnant
wheres the clinic???"
wheres the clinic???"
Labels: It Came From the Forum
- Five! :-D
Hmmm... 42° F last night, and overcast today.
Sunday, July 05, 2009
Kicked in the Balls*
I was at Combat Cards and my vision went kablooey. I was going to try to tough it out but Doc arrived and I logged off and went to lie down with my eyes closed and have a think. It could be the m.s., as vision problems are common. I didn't think it was an eyeball problem. It might well be a migraine caused by all the intense flashes, lack of sleep, etc. I've had just one that affected my vision, but my brother suffered enormously from migraines that affected his vision, sometimes brought on by the intense light/shadow/light/shadow of driving down a treed Aussie road in bright sun (but he has suffered less as he has grown older).
Dunno yet if I'll go to the doctor as I wouldn't be able to afford the tests he'd want, let alone any treatment (which there probably is none of anyway). When I first got m.s. my vision went double for a month or two, and I had all kinds of neurologists then and they did nothing. It was a very hard time, and I said if it ever happened again it would be game over.
* eyeballs
Labels: Dept. of I-Hate-It-When-That-Happens
I think it's stopped for the night. My ears hurt.
Update 1am: Nope, that was wrongo.
Saturday, July 04, 2009
Ugh Zostipated Again :[
My ears hurt from the fire crackers and I'm hot and headachey. And my neck hurts. And I tried to rest just now but it didn't work.
I suppose I'll work some more :((
Kat Victorious at Spaceport
Labels: Combat Cards
I tried to video during a performance and forgot stupid Avatar Imposters :(
Ah, well - will need to redo, but meanwhile join us at the Airship Theatre in Phobos for live variety from The Show Must Go on!
Labels: Live Performance, TSMGO, yootoob
Subz
Once at work the transportation manager was complaining about needing to get a sub driver, and I said, "No one ever tells me anything." Pause. "I didn't even know we HAD a submarine." Transportation manager, "HAHAHA!" In Second Life we normal cantankerous and independent people rub elbows with subs - not substitutes or submarines, but submissives, who have a kind of control-based sexual role play going on. It used to bother me greatly (it went over really big when I offered to help one escape - haha!) but now I just see it as part of the shifting pattern of SL that reveals more layers of the human psyche than are dreamt of in my philosophy, so to speak.
Two of our yaks are submissives (actually one is on an alt), which means nothing much except that since subs want to wear special attachments for role play (so their dom can control them) and since the yak avatars are composed of attachments, the subs need to be careful as they don't want to mess up their role play by inadvertently replacing their sub accoutrements with a yak head and hooves. This is all voluntary and although it doesn't appeal to me one bit, it's what they like to do.
I blogged ages ago about some Christian dude asking me if I'd be submissive to him. I said, "No. Would you be submissive to me?" That caused him to splutter and shout - haha!
Batten the Hatches
Oh, the local yokels are having a Fourth of July parade on the water. Here comes an Uncle Sam blow-up doll. Flags, bunting, balloons. Motorboats and jetskis in a line. I've always considered the locals to be enemies, but one can't reasonably fault them today for being jingoistic 2 da max, I suppose. I don't think they had one last year - or I might've been in the shower or something.
Oh, a boat dressed as a pink car with fins. A huge "God Bless America" sign. A, um... huge Uncle Sam bobblehead doll or something? Screaming and yelling and car-horn honking.
The house next door has been sanded and spiffed up for the annual gathering of a clan John refers to as "hillbillies." It will be about 90° F and sunny, and very noisy all day. I'm sure it will be the same tomorrow. I get very sick from people's evil barbecue smoke, which pools up in here, so I'm just closing the house off and will put on a/c if needed (may be on for half an hour or so at about 5 or 6 but usually isn't needed).
Sorting, sorting, over the bounding main...
I'm sorting and processing, and trying to do it all in a highly organised fashion as the raw clips are just too numerous and too similar to do otherwise. I broke it down into times/areas and I'm doing the manageable ones first. If I leave the biggest until last I'll be carried along on a wave of "nearly there."
Labels: Machinima
Friday, July 03, 2009
Zosted.
I filmed from 12:30 am to 9 am, then went to bed at 9:15 and got up at 9:46. Thank god it wasn't 9:45 or I'd be tired. I started sorting through 100 gigs-worth of mostly uninteresting footage, renaming/assessing/sorting. Fun times. Actually, for staying up all night working like a fiend it was not bad - congenial workmates helped.
The sorting part is tedius but it's important not to get too jiggy as a piece with a crap beginning might well have a fab middle, and it's just not possible to remember individual clips. Usually I wind up getting sick of it and racing through, but I just can't this time as it isn't my project.
It's Quite Hot here today.
Labels: Machinima
Thursday, July 02, 2009
I have to stay up all night for a job. It doesn't start for a couple of hours.
Labels: Machinima
I like the visual part of fireworks, and the smell, but there are (common) illegal kinds that have no visuals at all and just make an eardrum-shattering boom for no reason I understand. New (at least to me) this year: fireworks that sound like machine guns :( This poor (drinking water) lake will be filled with toxic (presumably) debris by Monday.
Labels: Dept. of No Upside
Geezer Grid Expansion
(or maybe it's contraction)
Today I chimed in a thread about infohubs, first saying young people like hanging around on street corners irritating their elders, and that's fine, then:
"We need some geezer infohubs. They could have a lout-repulsing code name like "educational."
I never lose an opportunity to promote my geezer scheme, however it has yet to reach the tipping point."
Labels: It Came From the Forum
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
And while we are on the subject of Bach...
THIS is an interesting video.
Labels: yootoob
I waited ages for the animated documentary Waltz with Bashir to come out on dvd, and now it's here - w00t! I'm in the middle of this excellent film.
DG Design Network:
"Contrary to industry rumours, the animation in Waltz with Bashir was not achieved through rotoscoping techniques and Goodman actively fights this misconception whenever he can.
‘I’d like to state that the movie has absolutely zero percent rotoscope. Every time one of my animators hears or reads about someone on the other side of the planet saying the movie was in rotoscope, I get a phone call, regardless of the hours.’
‘Every movement in this movie was created and invented in the animator’s head, and not copied over live footage. Sometimes we watched the interviews for reference, but we never drew over them. Instead we tried to stylise and re-create them.’
It's a significant achievement - the film's animation is gorgeous.
Labels: Netflix
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
A Complete List of Associate Producers Will Be Supplied Upon Request
Continuing with the Inadvertent Philip Seymour Hoffman film festival, on tonight's schedule was State and Main, a David Mamet film about making a film in a small New England town. Light and mildly funny, this was enjoyable in a non-earth shattering way.
Wait, that Steve Buscemi flick was about film-making, too. Next film should by rights be about film-making, and star Philip Seymour Hoffman as a character with cerebral palsy. Wait - and gypsies. Flim-making, gypsies, Philip Seymour Hoffman, cerebral palsy - get it all out of the way then I can move on to... I don't know... William Macey, Tourette's Syndrome, the Ainu people, and glass-blowing, or something. Can't wait.
Labels: Netflix
Linden Graffiti
Tuesdays in Just Leap InThe devs have started Tuesday gatherings, which I'm starting to get into :-D JLI is in its early stages, but it's full of witty and thoughtful details that have kept me coming back, lo these many months. Today we were mostly talking about video, but at first I mentioned an uploading glitch I'd just had that we tried to reproduce. Of course it worked flawlessly as soon as all eyes were upon it :-D
I need to learn more about Ogg Theora encoding. Super© will do that, if nothing else I have can do the job. I'm running a short video through now to see if I can get something useable.
Update: The processing took a couple of minutes and the results were great!
Labels: JustLeapIn.com
Makes me miserable to hear the debug settings are "unsupported and may be removed at any time." :'(((((((((((((
I love the UI. If it goes all stupid and useless I don't know what I'll do.
Labels: Dept of :(
