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02.14.03 11:46PM |
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happy valentines day mortals. i tend to believe that the concept behind valentines day is very noble and is worth the holiday, but the spending and the commercialism has seemed to have ruined it for some people and it seems to have made some people gift-greedy. this is not good. of course, we should express our love for those people we love everyday, but then again its nice to have a designated day to go crazy with it. so i try not to be too pessimistic about it. today was all about erin for me. around 6:55am i met her at her car and gave her my first gift. i bought her these two pink monkeys that were kissing each other. score a hug for team dave. then in first period, she received two carnations from me (also known as "art monkey"). then in second period i gave her some art (i added some words to it after that scan). score another hug for team dave. 2-0. then in third block we talked and team dave scored a hat trick with another hug. 3-0 for the day. yay. i felt good all day. happy day. fourth block was amazing. i understood that mortgage/annuity crap in pre-calculus and i think i got a 100 on the "measurement" we had today. plus my teacher brought us cookies. mmmm. c00kies. after work was pretty cool. me and peter went out to Kate Sheppard elementary school and did some martial arts stuff. we showed each other our martial art's throws and joint locks and whatnot. i failed twice to do a kartwheel. i cant do one to save my life. im good for the first 1/3 of the kartwheel or so, then i just flop over on the ground. its not that im too heavy or anything (i weight 180lbs roughly) because im light as a feather when i play ice hockey. i just cant do kartwheels. oh well. fun time. then later tonight i sketched out a life drawing of Erin. it came out better than i expected. i expected to throw it away after the first 5 minutes or so, but i kept going on and it looked better. well, see for yourself. its over in the art box. tally ho. |
02.07.03 10:53 |
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about time for an update, where have you been jackass? shut the fuck up. i update when i want to update. looks nice though, i have to admit. today marks the beginning of a new background image. im doing new background images for each of the four seasons and for major holidays and festivals. notice this one is a mardi gras background. also, i added some title bars to these here column deals. the major update to this site is the added art box. i think this is a pretty good idea to showcase previews of what im working on. i think this site is coming along nicely as my personal site. im still thinking about getting a private domain though, so i dont have to deal with homo keenspace. ive been making a lot of posts on my column at wills site, so go over and check that if you wanna see what ive been up to. i really need to start updating this more often. it got away from me for a while, but it gave me time to formulate a major update. the only real thing thats preventing daily updates now is my homo precal homework and english reading. i can probably update on weekends regularly with a few weekday updates. we'll see how that goes. its fucking freezing in my room. we got a new heating system installed, but instead of sustained heat, we get really short powerful blasts of hot air that comes out of the vents. this is very not good. im constantly freezing. someone bring me a blanket, damnit. |
01.18.03 7:41PM |
 
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well i had a 'colorful' day, to say the least. i bought Iron Monkey 2, and i am utterly disgusted with it. i can't return it either, so it's going up on Ebay. we will never speak of this again. in other news, i got an art 'job' doing the colors for some kind of comic deal. its a TMNT takeoff titled something in the ballpark of "The Ninja Turtle". here is what i colored for a color test. also, i got robbed yesterday. read about it here because i dont feel like typing about it again. |
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01.16.03 9:59PM |
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a couple of important things. last weekend i had an 'anime day' with Cody, Danial, and Peter. we watched Zone of the Enders, and had planned on watching a bunch of gundam, but we never got to it. we watched some crap on the net and fucked around. we also tried to teach Cody how to snap his fingers. he cant. at all. funny stuff. also, i have achieved the noble cardboard-tube samurai status. i dont know why i posted that. i thought it was funny at the moment. i feel kind of special. i was approached to redesign the current DHS senior t-shirt. i didnt have to do much, because i only had to redesign our mascot indian warrior. meh. over the past year or so, ive been getting interested in this robotics garbage. what caught my eye today was this ants stuff. i think its really cool and rather simple. i like how they made a little ant society and play-pen. more later. |
| 01.14.03 9:44PM | no time for icon, must type! |
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best CG fuck head goes to... oh fucking god. this race of humans is incredibly shallow. GOLLUM IS NOT A REAL ACTOR. DO NOT GIVE A CG CHARACTER ANY FUCKIN AWARDS. its like giving my fucking TV a golden globe. if you're going to shoot at giving gollum an award, give the ANIMATORS the award. i wont go into this particular CG character because i know im losing an uphill battle, but i know im right in saying this. this is a little late, but people also think that the Yoda VS Dooku scene in Episode 2 was the BEST scene out of the whole movie. i will go against my own religion and publicly state that i think its one of the worst scenes of the whole movie. first off, there is nothing really behind it. i mean, it all the fight scenes we've seen before that, there was meaning behind the fights. now, i think Lucas just wanted to make yoda fight because ILM is his bitch and he can make them do whatever the fuck he wants. the fight is WAY fucking over-rated, and frankly, i skip it every time i watch it. the choreography wasnt even worth calling a fight scene. it was banging sticks - literally. all other fight scenes in all other star wars movies consist of tactic and strategically placed blows that would work out in real life. dookie's fight couldnt hurt a fucking dead horse. he just swung his saber around left and right. and it didnt impress me one bit. i know im going off on a tangent, but it better explains my reasoning that this scene was MOST DEFINITELY NOT the best scene in the whole movie. however, ILM did do a good job modeling Yoda. he looked much better than the shits Ep1 Yoda. now to whine about real problems. davidson high school has a homosexual fad going around now. all of a sudden, within a month's time, practically half the school is gay. out of the blue. ive seen people who've had normal relationships turn gay cold turkey. im saying "normal" because straight is "normal" (whereas homosexual is a chemical imbalence in the noodle that is wrongly exploited because people want to be 'original'). anyway, its really freaking me out, and frankly, i dont like it. turning homosexual because your friends are is the cigarette of the new millineum practically. soon, the 'gay' population will be a good chunk of the population. its a fucking fad now. everyone says this, but i really dont care if your naturally gay. but this shit is fucking stupid. if you say your gay, chances are, your not, and you're just someone who needs better things to do than canibalize your sexuality. ladies, are men boring now? i want email responses to this, seriously. are we boring? well come on now, dont give up on all men if one treats you bad or whatever, come my way! i have fucking vacancy people. i swear, im going to puke if even a third of the people at prom are same-sex couples. by then it will have gone too far. i may look like a bad guy here, hating on 'gay' people, but im not. i am indifferent to naturally gay people. i hate fake gay people. another thing that pisses the hell out of me is this. we had this midget/dwarf/little-person come as a student-shadow the other day, and all of the girls thought he was 'the cutest little thing'. ok now, he knows hes small. we dont need to emphasize it. people would go over and fucking stare at this kid. i can say that i truely am troubled by this. when i took taikwondo, there was a midget that i had to free-spar. personally, that was the single most degrading experience of my life. i had to fight this kid who was 2, maybe 3 feet tall. i can deal with poor people, i can somewhat deal with people who suffer with mental retardation, but fighting a midget just felt wrong. having the obvious height, maneuverability, and flexibility advantages, how was i supposed to fight? and the only thing going through my head was the fact that i was facing off against a fellow human being (not a teddy-bear, as the girls at school saw, bitches) who was at an incredible disadvantage and in no position to fight me (nor i him). if i let loose on him (he was older than me by a few years), i wouldve been ridiculed for not being fair, if i let him win, i wouldnt just been standing there. it was the most degrading moment of my life. and now people toy with midgets like they are pets or something, something less than human. this makes me want to find and befriend a midget. particularly one who has my feelings about this, and one who is ready to blow his top at any moment. maybe someone like a mexican midget. yeah. if you're a troubled mexin midget in the Mobile, AL area, drop me a line, and we'll get to work setting things straight. |
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01.06.03 10:27PM |
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a couple of random blurbs real quick before i hit the sack. last night i came across my tickets for the Star Wars : The Magic of Myth showcase at the Smithsonian Air/Space Museum in DC (this one in 1998). i scanned them in and here they are. the top one is stamped in blue with an etching of Darth Vader's head. the bottom one is an unused ticket we bought as a souvenir. that was probably one of the best experiences of my life. i got to see all of the real costumes used on set during the filming of the original trilogy. i also got to see many of the real models used for blue screening, one of which was the Millineum Falcon model used in the death star landing bay in A New Hope. i really should scan some pictures, but i really am too lazy to do that. i really am. speaking of scanning, my scanner is on another wont-turn-off-a-thons. i turn my pc off, but the scanner stays on and heated. the last time it did this was for about 2 and a half weeks. this is not good for it, especially for the scanning lense. right now, ive recorded it being on for about 5 days, but it might have been on before that, i didnt really notice it until i started keeping track of its up time. i came across a neat bit of information today. my recently downed dave's column at will's site has made word around school. well, to a few people at least. leah told me that she read it a lot in second block today. i just think its pretty cool. whether or not the column will return is pending. |
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01.03.03 11:00PM |
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| blegh.... i put up two desktop cams today. one from my laptop, and the other from my work computer. first post of the new year and not much to say. im cold. im fucking freezing. i watched Iron Monkey again today. great fight scenes. guess what im going to see again tomorrow. im going to go see Frodo Baggins get his hairy hobbit ass kicked some more. i need to hassel my owed money out of peter. i also need to get my report card in so my parents can do the usual pay-for-grades deal. we do a $20/A, $10/B, $5/C, $0/D, -$5/F. im expecting around $70, but my folks never pay on time. its really annoying. i should put up a photo gallery or something. this site needs gimmicks. gimmicks i tell you. good night mortals. |
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12.31.02 11:34PM |
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this is my last post of the year 2002. all in all, its been a decent year. it
couldve been better at times. otakon kicked
mighty ass. i got my laptop. i leave this year with a conversation between me (LinusBlanketeer)
and sean (EpyonGT) out of sheer lack of ingenuity and creativity for a rant. ====== Linus Blanketeer: happy new year ===== some other key events that happened this year, i discovered my true feelings for rebecca, i made my first art commission (which fell through due to horrible, un-interesting subject matter), i launched my star wars fanfilm, got cable w000000t!!!!!, and got accepted to UAH. |
12.28.02 5:56PM |
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great day. i started out with the dreadful feeling that i wouldnt get to see rebecca again before she left, but i made a call to her house around 10:30AM. rebecca, whitney and i got to go to lunch together. yay! i took them to the best place i could think of - quizno's. as destiny would have it, i got to buy rebecca her lunch. we were there for nearly an hour. i didnt realize it and i dont think they realized it either. then we went back to their house where we met up with their mother and cousin stacy. we didnt think of anything to do, so we walked around. girls walk really fast. im not particular to slow walking unless the mood permits it, but this was fast i felt it in my calves about 2/3 of the way. im not complaining though. we got back and we took some pictures. here is a picture of me with rebecca, and here is a picture of me with whitney. i wont be seeing them for at least another half year. *sniff* i miss rebecca already. after taking them home i went straight to peter's house and picked him up. we came back here and watched Minority Report. i noticed early on that the music sounded really familiar. it was john williams - the composer of Star Wars (less-notably, jurrasic park, indiana jones, and jaws). my only complaint is that the music didnt quite fit the movie. the music harkened more to star wars than it did this movie. perhaps some techie-sounding music or something more cold and metalic to stress the futuristic world. i also didnt like the year it was set it. it seemed to have an old 1950's feel to it. back in the '50s and '60s, movie makers viewed the '80s and '90s as being the years when we would colonize mars and speak with extraterrestials. well, being set only 50 or so years from now, i dont think we'll get to having that kind of transportation systems. the cars, maybe, but not the crazy highway things. i think it was flaunted just a little too much. a really good movie none-the-less. the story was original and the mystery was twisted heavily and it played out nicely. i liked it. |
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12.26.02 9:34PM |
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well, i saw Star Trek Nemesis just now. i cant quite give it a one-word review because i have very mixed feelings about it. but i will say what i have to. to start off, i (and most likely every star trek fan out there) feel that the writers just recycled the plot of The Wrath of Khan. not that it's a bad thing, but i feel it couldve been more original in plot design. the idea of a clone (living tissue, not android) in the star trek universe is something we havent been introduced before, but it's been coming for a long time. i dont like how they did it though. it seems that star trek is getting into the one kind of deal. pretty much anything and everything can and will happen to captain picard and captain picard only. i think its getting rather old. i would have much rather seen the clone be of someone else, perhaps diana troy. it wouldve spruced things up a bit more, and with a clone of someone like diana troy, it wouldve provided a larger twist and wouldve been much more interesting. the graphics werent all that great either. it maintained par with the more recent star trek movies, but in some areas the graphics really slipped. i was only thoroughly impressed with about a 2-second piece of cg. that said, i think it was an OK movie. i think The Wrath of Khan was much better, but hey, im an old-school- (albiet a closet-) trekkie. i did like the fight between the first officers (Captain Riker and that Viceroy fella), because we've only seen commanding officers fight personal vandettas. i thought it was rather interesting and i liked it a lot. there you have it. i didn't bother going into much detail about it, but im no professional movie critic. i tried to make it an actual review instead of my personal feelings, but i let some slip. im a very pro- sci-fi/space movie person, so id have to rate this film with a 7 out of 10. the movie got lucky because i was going to rate it a 6.5, but that seemed a little low. what can i do? im still waiting for that one star trek film where you see some real suffering (much like how kirk suffered seeing spock die of radiation poisoning). those were the days. well, he did it. he finally did it. will killed his computer. we thinks it's his motherboard got poisoned by some new ram he tried to install. he just dropped by and i let him borrow my future server that i bought from mr cornelson. i recommended he put his parts in my server to see whats broken, but we're unanimous that we think its his mobo. we will see. call for help is almost done with their 18-hour call-for-help-a-thon. i almost typed thong. you can tell chris pirillo is really tired because he can hardly say anything serious, much less say anything (period). its pretty damn funny. chris was just dancing. gotta love it. |
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12.25.02 10:35PM |
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merry christmas mortals, i had a very happy christmas. it was both event-filled and filled with time periods of pure nothing. i got this really cool digital camera. its a 2 megapixel fijufilm digital camera, and its just what i need. i really dont need anything above 2 megapixels (though anything above that wouldve been nice). im far from complaining. it does exactly what i need right now. i also got some really cool pants with the zip-off legs so you can covert them to shorts. i also found out who steve is. as you may know, i had this gift under our tree from "steve". nothing else. well, my parents wouldnt tell me who steve was so i was clueless. my mom actually dropped a really clever hint the other day too and i want to kick myself for not seeing it. we were eating dinner and that crocodile hunter show with steve erwin was on. she blurts out "hey, maybe its from steve erwin!" well, what the hell are the chances of that? so i think nothing of it. come to find out, it was a box of crocodile hunter fruit snacks. gaaahhhhhh!!!!!! it was steve erwin all along! mmrvvrfrrghrrvvrrrr... so, as tradition suggests, we went over to the powell's house for christmas dinner. i walked in and whitney says i have five minutes before hide-and-seek starts. so i bolt down my food in 3. it was great. so we play. we played about 5 or 6 rounds before one person left and it was just us four (me, whitney, rebecca, and their first-time-player cousin stacy). after about 10 minutes of literally staring at each other, we go inside and stare some more. then we decide to play some card games. we played something called 'spoons' that didnt work out too well. then we played some poker with some shredded up paper for money. i totally whooped ass at the beginning and the end. then i lost the all-or-nothing round. but i lost it to the beautiful rebecca, so i felt honored. then whitney dares rebecca and stacy to have some sort of drinking contest to see who could drink the most glasses before having to use the bathroom. stacy won i think. then we had a staring contest that actaully turned out to be a laughing contest (whoever laughs first loses). it was me and stacy, and rebecca and whitney. me and rebecca won, and we went into 'the championship'. this is how bored we get. so we stared into each other's eye for like 10 minutes. she has some really beautiful eyes. i lost. i gave in to her beauty. actually, she was doing some funny stuff with her eyebrows. those pictures i linked here are taken with my digital camera. i didnt bother to ask whether it was ok to put them up because i will be showing them anyway. that picture of stacy on the ground is from the drinking contest. she wouldnt stop laughing because of the things i was doing, so she left the room. of course, i felt obligated to follow her and take pictures. this one was too good to pass up. she was laughing so much that she fell down and spilled water all over herself. it was really funny. all in all, i rate this year's christmas a 10 out of 10. this site is almost reaching 'ludicrously long' length. and i like it that way. |
12.24.02 5:33PM |
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this year i actaully have some very sincere christmas wishes, but i will only speak of two. the first wish i will speak of is to have a christmas where my whole family is happy, and the second is that i want people to accept gifts from me without question. now to explain. for that past couple of years (since i was 13 i think), we have never had a happy, let along normal christmas. my mom always has to find something to get super pissed about and it has to ruin the blissful feeling of christmas. i will use our most recent event as my example. this is my last year at home (going away for college) and pretty much my whole family realizes that. my best supporters for college would have to be my aunt mary. she talks to me about college with short and to-the-point conversations where she delivers the facts in easy to comprehend words. on the other hand, my dad lectures me and ends up going off on a tangent about life and the likes. so i consider my best support my aunt mary. well, my uncle tom (aunt mary's husband) has this really nice job - so nice that he bought her a mercedes-benz. so they are pretty we'll off. she's put two kids in college, so she has some experience with college-bound kids and the feelings generated by this occasion. so this year, her family sends my parents a $500 gift certificate good for two round-trip tickets to some island or some nic beach somewhere, and my mom takes it as an insult. in the card, my aunt wrote that my parents need this vacation because this is my last year here. well, obviously my mom took it the wrong way. my mom thought my aunt meant that this is my last christmas here, when in fact, it is not. ill still come home for christmas. so then my mom goes off claiming that shes a bad mother (her usual self-pity shit) and that my aunt mary is laughing in her face for some reason. i dont know how the fuck this devil lady got this way, but im very fucking sick of it. i want a fucking christmas where she doesnt take every fucking thing as a fucking insult. i mean, with the way she acts at christmas time, this might be my last christmas here. i might just choose to spend christmas with someone else next year if i get word of some horrible thing my mom is up to. now, this thing about my gift-giving started on the last day of school before we were let out for the holidays. there is this girl at school, the lovely sheila nguyen, who i consider very special to me. hell, ive done a crap load of stuff for her that i wouldnt think of doing for anyone else. well, the night before the last day of school, i thought it would be a nice thing if i bought ger a christmas card with a message saying what she meant to me in it. so i bought this really nice card and wrote a really nice note to her in it. so i give it her and she doesnt believe i bought her a card. she reads it and thinks it was very sweet and whatnot. then out of nowhere she pulls this "you really didnt have to do this for me". i tell her that i wanted to, and she keeps emphasizing it. shes all like "you really didnt have to do this". i know i didnt. she cant get off of it. but isnt that what gift-giving is about? she must have thought that i was under the impression that i was obligated to do so, but the thought never crossed my mind. i sincerely wanted to give her something because i knew it would be a nice thing to do. the same thing almost happened to what would be tomorrow. that date me and rebecca had planned fell through. well, i wanted to get her at least some flowers or something because it wouldve been a date. but not only that, it wouldve been a date during christmas time. so that wouldve called for the heavy guns. so i told her i wanted to get her something and immediately i get the same "you really dont have to" that sheila was giving me. now is it me, or is there a pattern emerging here? it seems that people will gladly recieve a gift, but not from me. its devastating to an already low self-esteem. i just want people to accept me for a friend and not have problems with getting gifts from me. |
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12.24.02 12:51PM |
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| i put up a new webcam today. i got a new webcam program and i was just testing out its features. not much else to say right now. tomorrow i will have a list of what i received for christmas, and, if my dad got me a digital camera, ill take pictures of my gifts. im also looking at a new goalie mask. the one i just linked is my number one choice right now, mainly for the price and because its very solid. this mask is very strong, yet somewhat flexible so it would crack as easily. |
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12.23.02 5:31PM |
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im adding some mood icons to my posts now to spruce the site up a little. here are the icons and what they mean: : i am happy : i am content : i am feeling geeky : i am feeling the joys of love : i am angry : i am sad they are quite simple i think. if you find yourself getting confused, you really need some serious help. there are no honorable players of JK2 anymore other than me and sean. EVERYEONE is either a fucking ground-fighter or a chat-killer, or a combination of the two. NOONE looks for a challenging (and rewarding) fight anymore - everyone wants the cheap kill. and they think nothing of it! whenever i go into a duel, im looking for two basic things: 1) no cheaters, and 2) honorable fighters. i want to fight someone who will provide a challenge to me, which will then provide a rewarding victory if i win. i dont want to fight some n00b fucker who crouches on the ground (nearly invincible when crouched with a lightsaber) and overuses one-kill techniques. then you have the fuckers who say "no force" and "no weapons". now i like to fight with a saber, but i dont hesitate to whip out a grenade launcher if the chance comes to me. hell, ill even use a rocket-launcher a point-blank range to make a kill, even if it means nearly killing me. and i like to use force - in moderation. i like force-lightnig. i think its the coolest thing. heck, you know you wanted to be emporer palpitine that first time you saw him fry luke back in 1982. i want that! and if JK2 is the closest im getting to using the force, then by-golly, im going to use my force god damnit! you have to look at these idiots as what they are - idiots. if they make a game server with force enabled and weapons available, then its your duty to use those weapons to whoop his/her ass. and if they dont like it, then you must remind them of the server's weapons/force settings. then you have to tell them that your playing fair whether he/she likes it or not, because your using what that server admin gave you to use. |
| 12.23.02 9:00AM |
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now hear this - let it be known across the lands that i, sir dave, loath being up this early in the morning. but even though my senses are not at 100% working efficiency right now, i will give credit to where it is due. i got the background from machall. of course, i tweaked its colors to make it fit this page. so, if hell freezes over and Ian finds this page... Ian, i give you credit for the background. that said and done, i move on to my next order of business. ill tell you what, costume making will hit my wallet hard. the fanfilm im making calls for some pretty elaborate and thought-out costumes. neither costume has less than 4 layers. some of the layers will be somewhat like a floor-length night-gown for the ladies, but in star wars, men can wear these and get away with it by calling them robes. this film has two characters in it - a Sith Warlock, and a Jedi Prophet. it will just be a lightsaber proof-of-concept film, but costumes will make it look less-shitty. the idea that you have a warlock and a prophet has no meaning in the film, but it plays out in the background. the jedi is, of course, davre gamob - the jedi who 'went crazy' and prophesized the coming of luke skywalker's new order of jedi. so im just taking his position to the extreme and giving him some 'holy' clothes. phophet = holy ? eh.... you know what i mean. his costume consists of 4 layers, not including pants worn underneath and probably an undershirt. the sith warlock (played by peter savill) will be wearing 5 layers. im modeling his costume after the sith witch's clothes on page 27 of the Star Wars RPG : The Darkside Sourcebook. even though this is a lady, i just really like the costume, so i turned the character from a female (a witch) to a male (a warlock). we also concieved a very interesting face paint design for peter. peter's had this dream of tatooing his face blue with a celtic band going across his face with a single tear drop on either cheek. i dont know about the tears, but we're going to do that for his face paint. instead of tears, we'll probably do triangle or diamonds or something. the blue paint will be very light, like a skin-toned blue (instead of vibrant blue) that turns dark blue or black when it gets to the eyes. we'll probably find some wacko lipstick (like black or white) for him also, then we'll start painting the designs. i think it will turn out quite well. |
| 12.21.02 1:12PM |
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well, i just got done playing some jk2. i went into a room with like 5 other player in it and i immediately started whoopin ass. i wasnt expecting to, but i jumped up to 9-0 right off the bat. it was a duel match. apparently, i have this knack for getting down to below 10HP and then cleaving my opponents in half or something. i think they started to hate me because no one would reply to my 'good fight' statement after each fight. i think they were n00bs. i thought it was quite funny, really. if you ever play jk2 online and you come across a guy named [Torso_Boy] with a 'jedi-trainer' skin and a blue lightsaber, thats me. ive been working on developing my own style of artwork. ive been doing this in a two-teared fashion. i want to develop a style of lineart thats serious, yet obviously comical (not haha comical, but comic-book comical), and i also want to develop a coloring style unique to me. ive been testing out different styles, and so far, i really like roughly coloring a piece of lineart. i might try some two-toned stuff as well. i think a color-marker look is kind of neat, so i might try some of that with painter. the piece im working on now comes from some of me and sean's earliest work, in fact, it comes from the background information on our very first piece. it will be a comical depiction of ville's father murdering his mother. ive got ville down-pat, but i still need to work on the father and mother. i wont be able to put up anything any time soon, but here is a preview of the ville valo lineart. you cant see all of the neat little details ive inked in on this preview, but rest assured, they are there and they will be there on the final image. |
| 12.19.02 12:34PM |
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school ended today for the christmas holidays. i left school today around 9:15AM because i didnt have anything to do during second period (4th block exam). i got a 100/100 on my anatomy exam which brings my grade up to an 84. im happy. but what im really happy about is my english exam. i had a 66 for this quarter and a 69 for last quarter. i got an 84 on my exam which brough my grade up to a 71. woooooo~ i cant really think of anything else to type right now. more later. |
| 12.14.02 9:42PM |
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sad robot on a swing (head/neck portion completed). whats this all about? about a week ago, before i discovered rustboy, this concept came to me. think of a small, insignificant and overlooked robot sitting on a swing with his head bowed foreward. see, robots cry too, and this, i think, is a good outlet to get this idea out of my head. this model can also double as a starwars droid or something along those lines. i have lots of idea for this fella. the poem linked above is written by me, believe it or not. im getting really good reviews on it. me and peter went to bestbuy today and i picked up two dvds. i got the recently-released Goldmemeber, and i got Zone of the Enders : Idolo. ZOE:Idolo is really good and i recommend it to anybody who likes love-story anime and big-honkin robot anime. i like it because it doesnt deal with all this tech stuff, like pistons and whatnot, and it has a wiff of evangelion in it as far as mech controls go. its an interesting concept. they do, however, go into gravitational detail, with the differences in gravities of mars and earth. it also has a gundam wing reference in it, in that the pilot goes coo-koo. kinda funny, but its not supposed to be. go buy it! |
| 12.09.02 7:32PM |
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*siiiiiggggghhhhhhh......* the veritable maelstrom of terror known as Tony is here right now. he's this little fuck who's like 3 years old. he's the son of this russian lady we've known for a while. she stayed at our house for a couple months when he was an infant, and couldn't sleep a wink during those months. well, he's back, for tonight. he keeps coming into my room looking at all of my model kits and wanting to touch them. so i use my stern voice and kick the little fuck out o my room. i hate little kids. if i ever have a kid(s), i want rebecca... er.. my wife ( :P ) to give birth to a 25 year old man who's done with college and just needs someone to play touch-football with on thanksgivings. judging from the various ages of kids i've seen, they are terrors, save for newborns. will's youngest neice is the sweetest little thing, or at least she was when last i saw her. i'm not sure about now. in any case, don't get a 3 year old, they are like the i love you virus imbodied in a human. if i ever get one, im selling it on ebay. so here's where i am. i went to brunos today to talk to demetri about my $45. not only did i see him, but i also saw amanda stokes. so im walking down the isle, meek and amanda at the end looking at my approach. i come within 5 feet of the two, and amanda comes and give me a hug - out of nowhere. she's never done that before. never. so during the hug, i look at demetri with a look of "what am i supposed to do?" on my face. its kind of odd, seeming that she was there to talk to him about getting back together. but he declined since hes, and i quote, "with his nextdoor neighbor". man, if they break up, they better plan out cutting the grass and checking the mail. being with your neighbor is just wierd to me, because your destined to see each other if you break up. now im not hinting at the soon-to-come death of meek's current relationship because that's not my business. hell, im just using that situation as an example, so don't crucify me if they were to break up sometime soon. anyways. im getting way over my head. its two days from being two weeks from christmas, and a potential three days from two weeks until me and rebecca's date. she says i don't need to get her a gift. but it's christmas, and a date. how can a gift not fit in to the equation? but i'm going to get her something whether she likes it or not. she claims she'll feel bad about not getting me anything, but that's where the darkness comes into play. see, being that it'll be at night, on after a romantic date, we'll be at municipal park back in the back part where it's all quiet. our date will be on a special night making any 'rewards' even more special. ^_^ this is just my way of thinking, that is. i'm just hoping it will come out to be the perfect night for both of us. who knows - after that night, her house might be the target of a road trip during college or soemthing. i'm now an offial seller/buyer of ebay. whoopdy do. i mainly wanted to do this so i could sell off all the things i don't want anymore and so i can make some money. i am surpised that right now, there is a giant market of Graflex 3-Cell Flashgun Handles that were used to create Luke Skywalker's lightsaber for ANH and ESB. i fell in love with this lightsaber a while back, and have always wanted to make my own, using one of these flashgun handles. on ebay, about half of them are already made into the lightsabers, but those are the more expensive. besides, id rather buy my own flashgun handle and make my own (one that will hold a pvc/wood pipe/dowel) for fanfilm purposes. im going to be making one out of pvc piping and metal parts pretty soon, but it just won't be the same. perhaps, if i sell enough stuff and get enough money, ill find someone who'll sell me one for less than $200. yeah right. there is always a chance that i will find someone who will, though. so im not being a total downer. |
| 12.07.02 11:52PM |
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well, after about 2 and a half hours of playing jk2, ive decided to stop killing newbies. for today. i entered this one dueling game against two guys who had been going at it for a while. one left and it was me and some french guy. we developed a pattern in which i would be stationary, he'd come to me, and i would kill him. you would think he'd catch on after 8 or 9 rounds. then some guy came in declaring rules. me and frenchy were like "what the fuck?" since we basically owned that game server because we had been playing in it for a while. so he was all like "no force, no guns, no saber throw" - our digital jaws dropped and we chuckled. then he was all like "your going to attack me now." whoooooooaaaaaaa.... hold up. now he's ordering us around? he got kicked and his IP was banned. its obvious, though, that he had a dynamic IP because he popped back in and began shouting orders. we just killed his ass. stupid fuck. how can you pop into a game server, make your own rules, and expect them to be followed? we could tell he was getting frustrated because he'd press the ESC button right before we'd attack so he can claim we 'typekilled' him (when you kill someone while they are typing something). we didn't care. it just boosted our kill ratios. ive been meaning to post a bunch of stuff during the past couple of days, but i haven't gotten around to it. see, finals are here, and study time has increased. plus i have to have my required dailey amount of online time. if i don't, i go mad. so i've been sacrificing posting time for online time. tough. i can't trust people any more. melanie - one of my better, closer friends - has lost my trust. friday i let her borrow some work so she can copy. it was understood that she'd give it back at the end of class. the bell rang, and she refused to give it back. she said she'd give it back on monday. how am i supposed to trust that she won't get sick or have some other means of not coming to school? granted that the chances are low, but still. it's the meaning behind it that counts. im border-lining from a B to a C in anatomy, and that 71-point assignment would really bring me far from a C. if i don't get my work back, it'll be melanie's fault. and she's 'miss DHS'. she's supposed to be a model student. model students dont cost other students their grades. model student don't steal work. i recognize the fact that i let her borrow my work, but she had a whole weekend to answer the rest of what i answered in 30 minutes. so melanie is being looked down upon right now. i frown upon her. especially because she's not only 'miss DHS', but she's also the varsity cheerleader captain, and she's the senior class president. it goes to show that corruption of goverments can exist on the most meaningless of levels. another instance of a friend having lost my trust would be of demetri, or 'meek' as some of us call him. he's supposed to buy my old car stereo for $45. he was supposed to do it two weeks ago. i finally caught up with him last night at bruno's. he told me that he will be home on saturday after 1PM. he even went through the trouble of emphasizing it. i even asked him again to make sure, and he confirmed. today around 2PM i call and he's not there. fuck. no trust at all left for this guy. im gonna have to play really dirty to get my money now. no trust what so ever. |
| 11.30.02 9:30AM |
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see what had happened was, johnny over there jumped into his boat and i was left alone on this big floating pumkin out in the middle of jessica's pool. this is how i am in the morning. im just one big sack of "what the hell?" ive decided to type something along the lines of an actual rant today. but that task is proving to be harder than i thought. HTML and saturday morning cartoons mix just as well as bar peanuts and a 1984 buick lesabre. i cant code worth shit this morning. anyway, the batjew t-shirts are back on sale at gameskins.com, and im in the market to buy one. these shirts sell out really fast for some reason. it has some magical addictive powers that noone can explain, because i am neither bat nor a jew. $18 doesnt sound too overly expensive for a shirt, so i think ill get one if i ever get the chance to hold my own money again. $6 an hour for 10 hours a week is nothing. of course, its my choice to work that little, but hey, chuck a guy some more money eh? my christmas bonus probably wont be shit either. ill probably get a, now get ready for this, $50 bonus. whoopde-fucking-do. and i work for an attorney. he better not go skimpy on the bonus or ill - hey! jello! well i just checked back at gameskins.com and they are sold out of batjew t-shirts on all sizes except adult XXL. damn. oh well, i probably would lose interest within the hour and totally forget about it. thats typical me. i havent really told anyone other than my dad, but im looking for a digital camera. i originally wanted something small that i could carry around at school, some something around 2.0 megapixels, but ive been shopping around the net and ive found some really nice +/- 3.0 megapixels that im closely looking at. this one is looking really good to me right now. ive actually paid off my laptop, so now i can start buying more expensive things now. first on my agenda is a digital camera. my new big purchase would be a digital camcorder. with this im going to actually save for and shop around. im looking for something more professional that can do wisescreen formatting rather than crappy little home videos. something like a canon minidv camcorder would be really nice, but it doesnt have a lot of the features im looking for. but its along the lines of what im looking for. more on this later. |
| 11.29.02 9:00PM |
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i updated inks and colors with an update in the gallery. i managed to finish off sarah's portrait. you can see it here. the wrath of kahn is on tonight. but i can't disclose that i like star trek because im a closet trekkie. being that im a star wars fan, i cant cross religions. if i said i liked star trek, id just be a dork. ^_-;; |
| 11.29.02 4:57PM |
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gotta love JK2. its even better with roger wilco. me and sean played JK2 for about half an hour today with roger wilco on, and it was great. i forgot how great roger wilco was. i use to use it in playing lucasarts' badass xwing alliance (which is still a great game, btw), but i put it aside once i lost interest in the game. now that JK2 has proved annoying in stopping gameplay to type, roger wilco has solved that problem. today me and peter went down to bestbuy a got in people's way. seeming that today is the day after thanksgiving, youd think we were crazy. well, we are. i found two copies of American Grafitti while there, one of which will be mine once peter pays me the rest of what he owes for somethine i sold him. ill be spending the rest of the night working on sarah's protrait. hopefully i can get these skin tones down pat so i can start fine tuning it. thats probably the only problem anyone can have when coloring a portrait of a real person. but im using three pictures of her as reference, so hopefully ill make some progress tonight. ill post whatever i get done tonight before i go to bed. |
| 11.28.02 8:00PM |
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happy turkey day mortals. ive been up since 9:30AM, and ive only broken away from playing JK2 and talking to rebecca a few times to eat. yes, my obsession for JK2 has once again reared its head. ive been playing [practically] non-stop since tuesday night. i even made a new character for myself. it didn't take but 5 minutes to do, too. i just found a cloaked darth maul model, and i reskinned it. simple, yet effective. i think its rather funny. me and sean played against each other a lot - reenacting our favorite scenes from the Empire Strikes Back and whatnot. speaking of jedi knight, A New Hope came on today on TBS. it was weird looking at an old obi-wan kenobi. watching that movie again also renewed my love for the original trilogy. episode 1 is on right now. lots of star wars happening today. im loving it. in watching the gungan city scene, i realized that qui-gon jin is one sly mother fucker. he used the force like 200 times in a period of two minutes. and its not obvious to add to his slyness. i also saw this today. you must see this. its funny as hell, especially if you like mac commercials and if you're a fan of will ferral (sp?) who recently retired from SNL. go see now mortal. webcams have been updated. |
| 11.24.02 2:07AM |
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i came upon this a minute ago and thought of it as funny as nobody's business. you must go see it. you must have seen one of the newer mac commercials in order to understand its format. this agaian sparked my interest in doing a commercial like this as part of my film site. the thing holding me back is not having a studio (for the pure white background) and proper microphone equipment. in the future perhaps. im also giving you a preview of that portrait of sarah im doing mentioned in the post below. go here to see it. g'dnight. |
| 11.23.02 10:32PM |
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well, i just got done with about half an hour of nothing but dueling in JK2. and they were damn cool duels too. i got my birthday party picture back today (i wouldve had them back earlier but i had to fill the film up with pictures). here is the official group picture. of course, im dead center, in the urban camo. from left to right on the front row is the angel-like ever-beautiful shiela, melanie, me, and amy (will's g/f). back row, from left to right is joanna, peter, my best friend will, and danial. why, you ask, did i wear urban camos when everyone else is wearing blue jeans? because thats the kind of person i am. i like to be different, plus they were readily available and i dont like jeans. here is another picture of me, danial, and the most beautiful girl on the earth, shiela. note the A1 steak sauce bottle in front of danial. it got emptied onto my puny 10oz steak. dont ever go to o'charley's and order their 10oz steak. it rivaled in size with a half-dollar coin. im starting on a project i hope to be very proud of. one of the people i invited couldnt come to my party, but i want to do something with her in some relation, so im doing a portrait of her. it will go up at Inks and Colors when its done, along with a major gallery update. so look foreard to that. this is my first portrait, but im going to spend as much time on it as it needs to make it perfect, like her. the tough part of it was editing the photo im using for reference. the picture came out with a really bad white/black contrast (as usual with disposable cameras), meaning that the background is almost black, and her face is mostly white. i had to spend about an hour tweaking the photo in order to get all the details out. and even after that, it doesnt do her justice, but then again, its just a reference photo and i got it to where i have everything i need. doing that is an accomplishment in itself thanks to the horrible cameras fujifilm makes. i think i will make a lunch date with her so i can do some in-person studies. its not like i dont see her enough, shes in %60 of my classes at school, but id like this portrait of her to be as beautiful as she is. so whatever i have to do to get it that way im going to do. plus in this reference photo, she has her hair in a pony-tail and she wants her hair down, so ill have to see how her hair falls on her head. off-subject, ive recently fell in love with Simon & Garfunkle. notably, ive fell in love with "sounds of silence", one of their many songs from the movie "the graduate". its a good movie starring duston hoffman, id rent it if i were you. also off-subject, i bought spaceballs and the original transformers movie, both on VHS today. hey, they were $5 each at wal-mart. why not? ^_^ |
| 11.16.02 10:16PM |
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the hockey game was awesome, and of course, UAH won. yay! the score was 5-2 against the stupid air force. the air force team played horribly. they cant shoot worth a flip. and they are defending our nation! oh well. i took pictures. ill post them if i dont feel lazy when i get them developed. im offically ready to get back on the internet. being without cable access for two days sucks ass. i suppose i could yank off the phone cord and use it because they have dial-up modem ports here in the hotel rooms, but once you go cable, you dont go back. so im going to wait it out and play some JK2. and if my parents make me get off my laptop because it annoys them, ill just read my XML book. yay for XML! i had an idea for an enhancement to any webpage class today (if thye dont already incorporate this). this would be for beginning level HTML classes. the teacher should start out by teaching XML. he/she shouldnt go past the XML parser or any DTD parts so as to not confuse the mess out of anyone, but starter XML should be taught at the beginning of any HTML class. this would instill proper nesting habits for those who think that < td > goes on the outside of < tr > (which it doesnt). this would also get like 20 people off my back in my curreny HTML class. fuckers. |
| 11.16.02 5:30PM |
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well, im up in huntsville, alabama for UAH's campus tour day and so on. i missed being up here so much. even though i live in podunk mobile, alabama, i consider huntsville a home-away-from-home. ive been up here countless numbers of times for hockey, twice for college touring, and i already know mid-town huntsville almost as well as i know biloxi, mississippi (and i know biloxi pretty well, to say the least). my day was fairly eventful. after the touring stuff was over, we headed back to the car, only to find that one of our tires was flat. so i whipped out the lift and put the shits tire on in under 5 minutes (it seemed that fast). it was like a record for me. then we went out to scottsboro, alabama to see what we could get at the famous unclaimed baggage center. i swear, that place is waaaaaaay overly advertised: "unclaimed baggage center - exit 27" "unclaimed baggage center - 6 blocks ahead" "unclaimed baggage center - 1 block" "unclaimed baggage center - 100 yards" "unclaimed baggage center - turn right here" "unclaimed baggage center - this way" "unclaimed baggage center - we're right fucking here" i swear i shouldve brought my camera. everything is true up until that last one. but i bought this really cool shirt, and an XML book. there was this really fine girl at the checkout too. i swear she was perfection. super secret update - 5:45PM not five minutes ago, my dad got out of the bathroom followed by a torrent of toilet water. seriously though, it flooded like a mother fucker man. the water in the bathroom is at least an inch deep, and like 3 feet of carpet is saturated beyond capacity. i just got done changing rooms, and we're about to go out to eat, so i big you farewell young travelers - at least until late tonight, when i rant about the hockey game im going to later. ^_^ go chargers! wooooo! |
| 11.12.02 9:55PM |
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i put up a new webcam image today. its me holding up the inks for my first webcomic in a long ass time. the person in the drawing is yours truely. stay tuned for the full image. |
| 11.09.02 8:40PM |
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i spent the night over at peter's last night. it was pretty cool. we watched the live action spawn movie. i love that movie so much. peter went to bed around 11:30 or midnight, but i stayed up and played morrowind. i played it until like 5:30 in the morning, and then i went to bed. i couldnt sleep long, and i never found out why (it wasnt that i wasnt comfortable or anything, its just that some nights you just cant sleep), so i got back up and played some more morrowind. one thing you realize is that after no sleep and a steady stream of random animals and beasts attacking you from behind rocks, is that, hey - its like really late or something. i come up with the most ingenious in the early morning. anyway, im still working on getting my cams working. im going to have to find a better webcam program because the one im currently using wont allow these characters [ :/ ] when you type in the ftp location. that means i cant upload to a specific folder. im currently using Webcam32. so if you know of a better live webcam program, please email me. that would get the ball rolling really fast. |
| 11.08.02 4:40PM |
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ok, so i was planning on having a blog here, but the keenspace servers had a bad childhood and wont let a blog client access their servers, even with my username and password. so for now, there will be updates like this one. and unless i find a decent blog client that will access these servers, this is the way it will remain - unless i purchase a domain, which i might very well do! i just need to get my laptop paid off before i make any other purchases. so yeah, this is the new nuclear stomach. i actaully came up with a reason for the name a while back - this is the site that churns and regurgitates all the web stuff you see here. im weird, i know. dont ask. the site you are reading this on is what i call the "hub." there have been many other hubs in the past, but this one will be more of an online journal for my lengthy rants (and boy do they get lengthy) with a side order of links to my other sites and posting locations. i also had an idea today to make an ftp folder on my computer so i can be able to put up some webcams and screeshots. the screenshots thing is working out pretty well so far, i just need to set up an ftp client on my machine. shouldnt be too hard. actaully, it wont be hard at all. there will only be one problem though. my main machine is a laptop and i dont leave it running for extended periods of time, so you wont be able to see updated screen captures or webcams if my computer is off. once i get my webserver built and running, ill be able to move everything to that and leave it running indefinitely. i havent started modding the case im using for it yet, but you can be assured that i will have mulitple cams on that machine. ^_^ look foreward to a massive update. this site will be MIGHTY. |
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 title: life drawing #001 series: --- type: sketch medium: pencils (2H and 6B) program: --- for: erin wike status: again for Erin, its her! this is my very first life drawing, if you disregard my portrait of Sarah as a drawing (it was ONLY colors). i actually didnt think this sketch would make it past the first 5 minutes of drawing, but it turned out really well. im proud of it and i hope Erin likes it. the one on paper looks much better than the one scanned. previous: the gaogaigar coloring is still going on. i finished with all of the shadowing, and im about to start the shiney stuff. we're all about the shiney. |
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inks and colors - an art site run by myself and sean kennedy nucstom films - a film site created and ran by myself gundam junkyard - this is my gundam modeling website dave's column - space on big polley's page given to me Studio XD - i am davre_gamob on these message boards Led Heavy - i am davre on these message boards Ponju - i am davre on these message boards davre@ponju.com - my official email address |
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