| Begining Story |
[Jul. 25th, 2008|12:06 am] |
This is the beginning to a story idea I had. For now lets just call it "The room"
The room was quiet. Its thick metal walls kept out any sound that existed outside the room. The door had no crack under which light could seep in. The two tall, thin windows had no drapes for sunshine to try to penetrate. Their dark, black glass kept the room in a state that might as well be midnight, no matter what time of day it actually was. The only light in the room came from a small aquarium built into a wall that jutted out from the wall opposite the windows. This wall was not designed to keep noise and light out, but to have a visual block between the main space in the room and the little kitchen area as you walked in the door. The aquarium was an entertaining distraction as you walked in the room and a bit of amusement if someone in the kitchen was trying to peer through its glass, water, and fish to see who just walked in. The dim light hidden somewhere in the wall above the aquarium, shined through the water to cast shifting shadows on the floor. The soft sound of bubbles escaping a tube at the bottom of the tank and rising to the top was the only sound in the room. For a few more moments, the aquarium was the visual and audio focus of the space it inhabited.
( The story continues here ) |
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| Chermans |
[Jul. 15th, 2008|05:40 pm] |
I know that fortune cookies have been getting worse over the years. They use to contain fortunes.
Example: A long journey awaits you.
Then they went away from fortunes and onto helpful ideas.
Example: Relax, Even a long journey starts with a simple step.
Then they went to what I call Faction Cookies.
Example: Those who lie have no friends to sit with.
Now I am convinced they have completely given up. As is evident by the below "fortune" i got yesterday, they are not even using Chinese knowledge anymore.
What's next? Polish jokes in Chinese fortune cookies?
-j- |
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| Chicago |
[Jun. 26th, 2008|08:58 am] |
I'm off to Chicago for the Wizard World Comic Convention where I'll be showing my Best of Friends stuff with Kelly.
See everyone Monday.
-j- |
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| Everything is on the Internets |
[Jun. 6th, 2008|11:53 pm] |
My newest example of "Gee, everything CAN be found on the internet."
A list of movies and TV shows where women lose their shoes.
Make sure to move on to the Second list of women removing their shoes, or dropping their shoes but soon getting them back. (Guess you have to be specific about these things if you are going to go through the trouble of making a list.)
Oh well, At least it is a little less strange than the "How to have sex with a dolphin" web site.
-j- |
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| Just wondering. |
[May. 14th, 2008|10:51 pm] |
Are rainbows on other planets in other solar systems made up of different colors? |
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| Printers Reproducing |
[Apr. 10th, 2008|01:02 am] |
So apparently 3D Printers (a printer that can make any object) are coming along well enough that they are making a 3D Printer that can duplicate itself. I adore this idea, and i think it is how things will be in 10-20 years or less.
What confuses me is, how do you sell something that can make another one like it? After the first person buys one, arn't they just going to have it make more for their friends? If they do will there be copy right issues? Would you pay $25,000 for a 3D printer or $25 for an exact copy of one off of e-bay? And if you are not allowed to make certain things, then what is the point of having a 3D Printer?
I hope these issues are solved because i can't wait for the day when you go online, check the item you want, and it makes itself in your 3D Printer.
-j- |
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| Renaissance iPod |
[Mar. 2nd, 2008|10:05 am] |
Bear with me on this one, it gets cooler at the end.
I had a crazy dream that I now want you all to be part of so i can see your response to it as well. Please keep in mind that this uses dream logic so if the rules say it works, it works.
Ok, Here we go.
It is a dark and stormy night and you are looking through your songs on your iPod, laptop, desktop, whatever you keep the majority of your song collection in. Suddenly lighting strikes. There is a white flash, and a glitch in the electronics of your device somehow sends you back to late 1600's England. A rich nobleman befriends you and takes you into his home. He is a bit of a renaissance man and dabbles in science enough that he is amassed by your music player and believes your story.
He says he has some friends that know a lot more than him and they could probably help you to recreate whatever happened to send you back home. (If you are one of those history lovers, please just pretend for the moment that you actually want to go back home to 2008.)He does point out that they really adore music so if you could just play a few tunes on your music player, he is sure they would be intrigued and want to help you.
So, in order to get back home, you need to look through whatever songs you currently have, and pick 5 songs from 5 different artists that you want to play for these gentleman. No fair picking classical songs as you are trying to impress them with the future, not prove a point that your device can play Chopin, But if you have new songs with a classical taste to them, that is fine. Pick something toooo modern and strange for their ears however, and they will not believe that this counts as music and they will write you off as a witch or jester, either way they won't help you.
So, what 5 songs do you pick?
Here are my choices.
1) The Verve - "Bitter Sweet Symphony"
2) Evanescence - "My Immortal"
3) Rasputina - "Rose K."
4) Metallica - "Nothing else Matters" Off of the S&M Album
5) Falco - "Rock me Amadeus"
I know, i copped out and picked songs that sounded classically accept for Falco. I'll probably be stuck in history forever for choosng it but oh well, it seemed right at the time.
Anyway, this is what my brain does at night. What does your's come up with during the day?
-j- |
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| Snow day |
[Feb. 18th, 2008|01:34 pm] |
At home today because i got stuck in the snow last night. My car was in snow and on ice sorta sideways in the parking lot. I finally got it unstuck around noon today but since i was already working from home it made more sense to give up and just stay here.
Anna called, she is in Philidelphia where it is 65F and raining *sigh*. apparently she won't be home until march, so i should have plenty of time to sit in my appartment by myself and focus. hopefully on positive art things =]
So here is to a sorta snow day, relaxed atmosphere while working, and getting some stuff done in the next few weeks.
-j- |
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| Models |
[Feb. 17th, 2008|05:50 pm] |
Just a quick post to show what I have been working on for the last while.
Click here for some pics of the finished War Hound Model.
Now I need to straighten out my head and feelings and get myself into a life style and thought process that is positive for art because thats what I want to be going on to next.
More laters,
-j- |
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| And by Sunday you mean Monday right? |
[Feb. 10th, 2008|11:21 pm] |
Well, I am in Chicago for the week so I can learn all about Cisco routers for work. To be more exacting, I am in Schaumberg which is a little north and west of O'hare airport. Some crazyness happened. I was suppose to drop Anna off at Midway Airport so she could go visit friends in Philadelphia. We got to the airport and the person could not find her name on the flight, then finally he says "Oh, this is why, the flight is not until monday." Somehow Anna's friends mistakenly booked the flight for Monday, and Anna never noticed on the flight info and i just was polite and didn't ever question if she had the right times or anything. So, she gets to stay at my hotel room for the evening (the hotel was nice enough to say no extra charge and gave me a two-bed room) and gets to catch a cab in the morning back to midway. Last time she flew she got a flight delay and had to stay over night in cincinati Ohio so it is starting to look like some sort of Russian bad luck with flights for her or something.
While trying to find what generic chinese place was near here i found they had a P.F. Changs which i adore (it gets a mentionin BoF #108) so we went there to eat. Yes i know it is about as real chinese as olive garden is real italian but i don't care, i wanted some lettuce wraps =] So that was fun.
Hopefully Monday goes well for both of us and we wake up on time and get to our respective appointments without anymore chaos.
So far I found a PFchang, Uno's Pizza, TGI Fridays, and a Borders book store all close by. I should be set for the week. I might actually even learn something.
-j- |
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| Scud is back! |
[Jan. 24th, 2008|10:04 pm] |
I just found out that Scud the Disposable Assassin #21 is coming out February 6th.
What makes this amazing is that #20 was released in 1998 so it only took him 10 years to finish off the huge end of the world cliff hanger that he left us with.
If you have never heard about Scud, Check out Rob Schrab's page or the
Scud Wiki for some quick info on a cool, kick ass robot.
I mention this because it is some fun little thing to look forward to and I need to think positively. I have 3-4 projects I need to finish for people, then I can at least feel like it is ok to do my own personal art projects, but it is no big deal because I don't feel very inspired right now. There seems to be so many things in my life that I want to change but I do not have a lot of control over right now. Some of it is my fault (if i would not be in debt, i would not have to worry about trying to pay bills.) Some of it is not my fault, but i feel like there is nothing I can do. (Do you know how hard it is to try and get someone to immigrate into the US these days?) and there are somethings i feel like i constantly try at but constantly fail at (loosing weight, having a girlfriend, writing.) I don't know. I have so many questions and not enough answers.
Maybe i should just stop asking questions . . . .
-j- |
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[Jan. 20th, 2008|01:25 am] |
I have not posted a written story in a long time.
That is probably a good thing since i am not the best writter.
the following is what happens when alcohol stops certain parts of my brain form functioning.
( story )
-j- |
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| New Computer |
[Jan. 12th, 2008|12:13 pm] |
Well i gutted my computer and put in a new mother board, processor,video card ram and hard drives.
I got everything up and working and am now going through the long terrible task of uploading all my stuff, programs, etc. Hopefully in a few days it will feel like mine again.
Warning! Geekyness Ahead!
Processor: Intel 2.0ghz dual core. (Not the best i could get, but i had a price range and this one was about $120 and anything 3Ghz or better was in the $300-$500 range. But, I never owned anintel before and considering my old processor was a AMD 1.6 or so, this is 2x or more better.)
Ram: 2G (sounds like over kill, but i have two 17" screens and like 10 programs running at all times because i can never do just one thing at once.)
Video Card: GeForce 8400 (Again, not top of the line but i don't game that much. I mostly wanted it for good basic graphics, the two monitor output, the PCI Express format, and the fact that it is SLI for later when i add another card just like it so i can have three or four monitors. Muahahaha!)
HD: A 160G SATA HD for all teh main programs and a 500G SATA HD for whatever the heck i want on it.
In the future I'll expand with other HD to back up each other, more ram and another video card and monitors but for now it feels really nice and fast and comfy.
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[Jan. 6th, 2008|02:16 am] |
Yet again my computer freezes up hard core and I must grab a hard drive, add XP onto it, and start all over again, hopping that maybe I can get all my files from the other HD that isn't working anymore. Things going good and then they all go to hell and i have to start all over again seems to be a pattern for me with computers, women, friends, life . . . .
I'm just tired of it happening all the time, with any of them.
-j- |
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| Join for all the right reasons |
[Jan. 2nd, 2008|10:54 pm] |
Join the Empire
Click on the above image to see more awesome recruitment posters. |
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| New Years |
[Dec. 31st, 2007|09:24 pm] |
No I'm not going out for New Years, No I'm not doing anything special.
That said, I am probably just staying in and working on the WarHound thing some more so Gerry can get his Christmas Present soon.
Click on the pic to go to the WHIP Page (War Hound In Progress.)
-j- |
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| I am Legend (no spoiler review) |
[Dec. 23rd, 2007|03:09 am] |
I went to go see I am Legend on Saturday. I must say over all it was really good.
Will Smith's acting was excellent. There were many tense scenes where i was anxiously wondering what would happen next. There are some very emotional moments that i am sure will touch some people.
There are some plot holes, but nothing drastic. They used CGI to show the monsters, and i have heard people complain about it, but those same people will go see movies like Silent Hill where obviously every monster was CGI and not complain about it. In short, I don't think the CGI distracts from how good the film is.
It is one of those movies i will want to go see again because there are so many little things to look for in the background.
One of the things i liked about the movie is that for the most part it made me feel like it could happen. I kept thinking of what i would do if i had an entire city to myself, and many of the things he did seemed like what someone might do.
First movie in a long time i felt was worth the price of admission.
-j- |
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| Lost |
[Dec. 13th, 2007|12:14 am] |
If you have been wondering where I have been or why I have not posted art, stories, or anything like that, it is because i have been busy working on a model project.
Here is where I show my geekiness and my "I never for a moment think 'can i do it?' I just do it," mind set. I decided to make a christmas present for a friend of mine. He likes playing Warhammer 40k and would like to have a titan. Unfortunately, even a small titan costs $600 and ships from the UK. Even though this friend can be a spend thrift at times, even he can not justify one model = rent check for a month.
So, I decided to build him an Imperial Warhound titan completely from scratch.
Click on the pic for even more pics of the WarHoundInProgress.
That is all.
-j-
P.S. Anna Kim will be back in the states on Monday Dec 17th. |
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[Dec. 3rd, 2007|10:55 pm] |
New power supply, no more hum or loud grinding noises.
YAY.
now back to art, comics, and model makin.
-j- |
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