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September 2006 Posts September 29, 2006  More than a few people know of my love for minature mundane life. I don't like dioramas of battle scenes with tons of little soldiers. I like normal life, like Scale Model Cities.
Last night our respective heroes hit Level 30. Thus below I present to you the three aspects of heroic endeavours. You might recognize a little bit from each man of valour. September 27, 2006 Here are some more vlogs I want to watch: commandN, GeekBrief and Inside The Net. And does Systm still live anywhere?
Just a quick comment on a book I came across in the Hairy Tarantula this weekend. I was looking for the other massive tome of a campaign / city book called Ptolus but I came across The Free City of Cadwallon by Rackham. Rackham does the most visually stunning, detail oriented miniatures line on the market. Cadwallon is the setting of one of their groups but this is a role-playing supplement / starter game. And THIS is what 30+ years of D&D should lead to. Even at first glance the art is incredible, the book is massively packed and the little bits I read inspirational. Unfortunately their website is intensively flash based and therefore I don't have a link directly to a page about the city. More later once I have dug into details about it... or spent the hundred bucks on it. September 27 06 September 26, 2006 This is a nice idea. Aminus3 Photoblog Community is about offering a pretty decent photoblogging environment complete with storage and subdomain for free. The design is pretty decent as is the navigation.
September 25, 2006 I am a sucker for these Web2.0 gadgets and gizmos, such as Twitter, but probably more so because I can do them with my phone.
The DIY CanFrame is ultra-fun-cool. I can envision myself wanting to get the photopaper just a little wet so I could press it into the grooves of a coffee can and I can envision grabbing all those plastic storage containers under the sink and turning them into ultra-fun-cool storage cannisters. Yes, I am my own kinda craftsperson not interested in knitting, scrapbooking, needlepoint or quilts but I do likes me some paper & photo schtuff. For example, I just printed 3 pieces of a photo I took in 8x10 format, shy a half-inch border, and created a pseudo tryptich.
September 25 06 This comic at PvPonline reminds me of a situation at work, which I have begged them not to expand upon, but they used a phonecam instead.
Slowlydownward is the site of the person who did the artwork on Thom Yorke's The Eraser but also does little writing bits, kind of like the pieces of writing I used to do called vignettes.
September 24, 2006 September 23, 2006 Sweeeet, lightspeed chronicles has a new design and still has quite the enviable job. (P.S. ENTRY ONE THOUSAND since moving to MT)
I am going to start a cult, yes a doomsday cult, where the precepts predict the end of the world in fire and flood BUT have a disclaimer that if such prophecy does not come true, all members are required to abandon said cult and start writing sitcoms.
September 22, 2006 September 21, 2006 OMFG !! I can combine my obsession with paper craft and collectible japanese toys by just getting SHIN TANAKA schtuff !!
September 20, 2006 meebo.com, a tool that let's you chat with people via your website? As in live? Sounds like something I had in the beginning of this blogging schtick.
Remeber how I said the only better than making photos was printing photos? I joined JPG Magazine; maybe they will print my photos.
No time for proper blogging, dealing with the fall sale at the The Store. Forgot what it was like to have no time to do my usual shit and just focus on the, "Can I get some help HERE !!" People with money do not understand the idea of waiting their turn.
September 18, 2006 I prefer the look of the old iPod nano; i never liked the tube-y look to the mini, which this new one has adapted.
September 17, 2006 September 15, 2006 Wow, sometimes you can click a random button, like the one at moodaholic and get something incredible !!
As a player of many FPS games, I am subject to the Gun Porn, and I must say that the nutcase's cx4 storm beretta sure was a pretty gun. But I think I will stick to getting a Lord of the Rings replica sword instead.
Except for one little aspect of The Battle of Farador, that little video did remind me of recent games of D&D with old timers. (thanks moooooo)
It would be interesting to wake up some morning and discover a "childhood friend" is a popular blogger, if you were yourself a blogger. It would be even more interesting to find out they remembered a key point in your shared history much more strongly than you do. Remember, the bullied always remembers more than the bully. I have my own strong memories of such events and while if I met said individuals now, I might laugh it off it still sits strongly in my head.
September 14, 2006 So, let's see, I am a bachelor seeking to meet some nice lady to share my life with. The first mistake I make is admitting I watch anime and the second mistake is taking her home to find a Shunya Yamashita PVC Statue in a prominent place on your shelf.
I remember the good old days when Goths were hedonistic, vampire-obsessed, wearing too much makeup, terrible dancers, anorexic, depressed, lonely and kinky but never fucking violently looney.
September 13, 2006
While I have now saturated my gadget fixation quota (via dollars not actually capability) this new iPod shuffle is just sooooo cute. I am not sure what I like more, it or it's packaging. But I do not need 6 devices capable of playing MP3s. Listed: iPod 3rd Gen, Sony Diskman capable of MP3 CDRs, 256mb Rio, DVD Player also capable of playing MP3 CDRs and lastly, my new phone.
September 13 06
In case your were wondering where these photos or these photos (mostly duplicates) were taken, they were taken in and around this centered area.
September 13 06 September 12, 2006 Other sources of Open Source Web Design are not just good for actual templates but good for inspiration.
September 11, 2006
Last night as Marmy and I walked home from 'Little Miss Sunshine' I was talking about how I no longer remember my dreams. I remember that I have them but I don't remember the dreams themselves; thus a new category that records them when i don't remember I did.
Considering the ease at which Americans sue, I imagine the whole 'Jason Fortuny posting responses to a sex-ad publically' webscandal is going to tie up their local legal system for a while.
My category name for linking to videos is 'Vidiots'. It really applies in this webcam related video. BTW, couldn't we just call them 'YouTubies' as they all come from there now? (marmy, ya don't blog it, ya lose it)
September 10, 2006 I have always loved games with little buildings. Thus I have joined Travian, a browser based MMO game. TBIT is a Gaul.
September 09, 2006
We have finished watching Deadwood. And in honour to the occasion and to the show where so much whiskey was imbibed, I took to my bottle of GlenBreton 10 year-old single malt whiskey, the only single malt 10 year distilled in Canada and poured it into our computer geeky shot glasses and the Marmy and I had ourselves some libation. The show ended not so much with a sigh or a wimper but with a sigh of great violence averted and the loss of some dear (and somewhat neccessary) people. I hope the fucking hoople heads in HBO land are convinced to bring it back.
Just think Noods, when you fear the doldrums of your current career, you could still be back in the cubes.
Really, how many camels is my girlfriend worth ? No, Marmy and I are not getting married so I don't need to shell out any camels and yes, she will hit me for posting this with reference to her.
After Nood mentioned this I thought I might like a Palm™ Wi-Fi Card but I think I would need a hack for the 650.
September 08, 2006 September 07, 2006
I like to make declaritive statements in my head about how I am going to do things differently, usually for the best. For example, I will say to myself, "You will wipe down the bathroom sink every day that you have 5 minutes to spare." But I rarely provide myself with 5 spare minutes, procrastinating while writing inane blog posts, and it falls to the way side. Sometimes they are big statements, such as, "I will think positively about my current situation in life -- it's pretty good and I should cherish it." But then a car cuts me off, a customer yells at me, a movie sucks and I berate myself for having a sucky life again. Today's declaritive statement is this, "I will no longer look nostalgically behind me. I will look at the now and what the current can give me. There is good TV now, there are cool things being made now, there are good comics to be read now, Toronto is a cool city to live in, I am of an interesting age, I like the clothing I wear now, etc." Yeah, I say "etc." in my head. And in tandem with that, I will look forward to looking forward a little; there IS a possibility of good things happening to me.
September 06, 2006 Sire go ahead and deny me from watching the Battlestar Galactica webisodes. I may be in a blocked area called Canada but I have access to BitTorrent so kiss my hairy ass.
September 05, 2006 I was once known as Po but I was never known as Master Po and this one is for my friends who are right now just recovering from their latest martial arts class.
I feel I could have this conversation with some of my friends. BTW, I am the one wearing the glasses.
While I ended up here because of the grungey photoshop brush post, I will stay at Veerle's blog 2.0 cuz it's neat.
Do you write and produce your own music? How about posting a few to the MeFi Music Community Weblog.
September 04, 2006 OK, this is just me but I didn't expect TypePad to be a pay-for site. I expected it to be just another BlogSpot.
I don't see my nephews enough to be the cool uncle but I do appreciate that this kid knows how to deal with design-speak.
Want a comic book style art of your favourite MMO character? Have MMO Art do it. These kind of companies / people have been around forever as I used to see ads in the back of Dragon magazine in the 80s. But I imagine the popularity of MMOs and the obsession people have over their characters can really send it over the top. I always envied those D&D players who had an artist playing with them and soon had perfect character sketches done.
September 04 06 Banksy, that british artsy guy who likes to fuck with people, has altered some Paris Hilton CDs and put them back on the rack.
Oh man, Steve Irwin died a freak death. That just plain sucks. I really like people who live their life so fully as I sit here in my underwear reading the web and pondering a coffee.
You know the problem with having a new phone? The problem with having a new phone with cool ringtones? Well, my problem is that no one calls me. Really, I might like the idea of a new cool phone but I am not one of these people who is constantly on the phone. It took the guy at the counter, the manager at the Bell Store, a few minutes to stop talking about personal productivity and how much the phone could be used for business. I was buying it because it was a cool phone and I liked it. Same goes with the email functions. I may have geeked out and created a Gmail account JUST for the phone but really, how many emails am I going to get on the phone? Oh well, even if I don't get any phone calls or email, I do have Bejeweled on it and that should keep me amused on subway rides. September 04 06 September 03, 2006 September 02, 2006
If you know me, you know I have been complaining about that crappy BlackBerry that Bell "convinced" me to upgrade to. It was not really all that hard as I wanted an email enabled device but I didn't know what I was getting into. It regularly crashed, was the crappiest UI i ever met, made random calls on it's own, crashed irregularly and had terrible ringtones. I like my ringtones.
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