stupid snow hogs
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...they ate my clothes.
Yeah. Thats the ticket.
Well this day is off to a sour start.
Is it bad that I want the new demonic lasher in reaper's bones V kickstarter?
Been sick for a whole week. Wonder how work will go tomorrow.I hope you're feeling better today IS. Best of luck on a speedy recovery!
indeed. It looks like my post didn't go through- what are your symptoms?
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Are you pretty familiar with the formatting software? Getting it into book shape?While I am absolutely no editor and have no artistic talent unless you want paint stick figures, I can help you with the rest :)I have experience with self publishing.I may have to put some more work on it. I have a person who can do some illustrations what I really need is a editor but I figure I can teach myself to do it maybe.
Yeah I might have to give it another go.
I've done editing for this, which mostly consisted of layout/formatting/sourcing art.
Altough it would probably be an exelent motivation to really dive into afinity publisher.
I cant do editing in the sense of making sure your grammar is correct.
Whoa! Is you'se tryin' ta mussel in on my territory, pal? You'se better hope not, or else I'se gonna have to get very cross.And I won't be breaking your legs I'll be "Creatively incentivizing you through fiboral Fracturing".I have experience with self publishing.I may have to put some more work on it. I have a person who can do some illustrations what I really need is a editor but I figure I can teach myself to do it maybe.
Yeah I might have to give it another go.
Are you sure you can edit a "booke"?
To be clear, I'm teasing you. Not trying to be an a@&+~@!.
YOUR territory? Who's this sardine think he is? Those aboleth guys ain't pullin' their weight in th' docks? Somebody tell V'inny about this so th' Brainfather knows. We're gonna crack some skulls in th' meantime, sounds like. Get these fish off'a our turf.
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After a couple of people recommended the El Cerrito Recycling Center for "donating" my books, I decided to check it out, even though I was a bit skeptical because... er... recycling center.
Well, according to their signs (and I see no reason they would lie), roughly 75% of the donated books end up in various literacy programs, with the other 25% having to be recycled for various reasons. That's a pretty darned good retention rate compared to what I was expecting.
Even better, as I was there unloading bag after bag after bag of books, a couple of, er, "opportunists" showed up and started pulling out my choicest donations for themselves, to the tune of at least a couple of boxes full.
So I know my books are mostly going to be re-used in one way or another, so I'm happy.
Now, what to do with the DVDs until the library opens...
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After a couple of people recommended the El Cerrito Recycling Center for "donating" my books, I decided to check it out, even though I was a bit skeptical because... er... recycling center.
Well, according to their signs (and I see no reason they would lie), roughly 75% of the donated books end up in various literacy programs, with the other 25% having to be recycled for various reasons. That's a pretty darned good retention rate compared to what I was expecting.
Even better, as I was there unloading bag after bag after bag of books, a couple of, er, "opportunists" showed up and started pulling out my choicest donations for themselves, to the tune of at least a couple of boxes full.
So I know my books are mostly going to be re-used in one way or another, so I'm happy.
Now, what to do with the DVDs until the library opens...
This makes me happy!
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The thing that amuses me is that I took upper-division astrophysics back in the 1980s at U.C. Berkeley and they were all so absolutely certain of everything, and only now are we finally beginning to see observations that match the theories.
Few things are scarier than a confident theoretician...
Now, what to do with the DVDs until the library opens...
What's funny is that right now I'm putting these out front and the ones that I consider "choice" are just sitting there, while random arcane titles are vanishing. Probably because they're harder to find.
Winnie the Pooh Collector's Edition DVD set? Still there.The entire first season of the original BBC version of The Office? Still there.
The frigging Black Cauldron, a movie Disney would love to see vanish off the face of the Earth? Yep, it's gone.
EDIT: I'm also being extremely careful and not putting R-rated movies out there. While I'm sure there are plenty of people who would love to get their hands on Terminator 2 or the original Robocop, the sheer number of 4-to-7-year-olds wandering by means I'm sticking with either G-rated stuff or TV series that would bore them to tears before the first obscenity.
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Now, what to do with the DVDs until the library opens...What's funny is that right now I'm putting these out front and the ones that I consider "choice" are just sitting there, while random arcane titles are vanishing. Probably because they're harder to find.
Winnie the Pooh Collector's Edition DVD set? Still there.
The entire first season of the original BBC version of The Office? Still there.
The frigging Black Cauldron, a movie Disney would love to see vanish off the face of the Earth? Yep, it's gone.EDIT: I'm also being extremely careful and not putting R-rated movies out there. While I'm sure there are plenty of people who would love to get their hands on Terminator 2 or the original Robocop, the sheer number of 4-to-7-year-olds wandering by means I'm sticking with either G-rated stuff or TV series that would bore them to tears before the first obscenity.
You do realize all those 4-7 year olds are wandering by because they're waiting for you to put out the R stuff.
Also because since Disney pretty much disowned it, the chances that they already have it at home is pretty slim. The other stuff, not as likely to be missing in their current collection.
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The reason that someone took the Black Cauldron movie is that it's the closest thing to a Horror Movie that Disney ever made.
One of the most memorable nights ever was listening to the kids "dubbing" The Black Cauldron.
There were about 8 of them, each one took a character, and OMG it was the funniest thing I've heard in many a year.
I know Impus Major took down some of the quotes. Once he emerges from Whimseyshire I'll see whether he has any good ones.
You do realize all those 4-7 year olds are wandering by because they're waiting for you to put out the R stuff.Now, what to do with the DVDs until the library opens...What's funny is that right now I'm putting these out front and the ones that I consider "choice" are just sitting there, while random arcane titles are vanishing. Probably because they're harder to find.
Winnie the Pooh Collector's Edition DVD set? Still there.
The entire first season of the original BBC version of The Office? Still there.
The frigging Black Cauldron, a movie Disney would love to see vanish off the face of the Earth? Yep, it's gone.EDIT: I'm also being extremely careful and not putting R-rated movies out there. While I'm sure there are plenty of people who would love to get their hands on Terminator 2 or the original Robocop, the sheer number of 4-to-7-year-olds wandering by means I'm sticking with either G-rated stuff or TV series that would bore them to tears before the first obscenity.
Its what I would wait for.
Ah, pre-internet...
Also because since Disney pretty much disowned it, the chances that they already have it at home is pretty slim. The other stuff, not as likely to be missing in their current collection.
Truly? Disowned?
Ah, watching War In The Pocket and playing Battletech. I would love for there to be more strategy Gundam games but they seem to be action to the core...ah well.
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WE GOT A DREJK!
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The reason that someone took the Black Cauldron movie is that it's the closest thing to a Horror Movie that Disney ever made.One of the most memorable nights ever was listening to the kids "dubbing" The Black Cauldron.
There were about 8 of them, each one took a character, and OMG it was the funniest thing I've heard in many a year.
I know Impus Major took down some of the quotes. Once he emerges from Whimseyshire I'll see whether he has any good ones.
From Impus Major, just as the little furry guy was going to sacrifice himself by jumping into the cauldron (like anyone cares about spoilers for this piece-o-junk):
"I don't care if I die, but you have to live and I have to not die so you have to die and I have to live," and then he jumps in.From Impus Minor:
"I breed cows. I'm not smart enough to kill myself, so I breed cows."
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The reason that someone took the Black Cauldron movie is that it's the closest thing to a Horror Movie that Disney ever made.One of the most memorable nights ever was listening to the kids "dubbing" The Black Cauldron.
There were about 8 of them, each one took a character, and OMG it was the funniest thing I've heard in many a year.
I know Impus Major took down some of the quotes. Once he emerges from Whimseyshire I'll see whether he has any good ones.
From Impus Major, just as the little furry guy was going to sacrifice himself by jumping into the cauldron (like anyone cares about spoilers for this piece-o-junk):
"I don't care if I die, but you have to live and I have to not die so you have to die and I have to live," and then he jumps in.From Impus Minor:
"I breed cows. I'm not smart enough to kill myself, so I breed cows."
I see he's been to Wisconsin.
Also because since Disney pretty much disowned it, the chances that they already have it at home is pretty slim. The other stuff, not as likely to be missing in their current collection.Truly? Disowned?
More or less. They act like the thing doesn't even exist. Even their more socially-unacceptable stuff like Song of the South they at least acknowledge and, in more recent years, have started making notes and explanations for and making available to the public again.
But BC? Nope, forever banished to the darkest depths of the Disney Vault, never to be seen again except in used VHSs.
YOUR territory? Who's this sardine think he is? Those aboleth guys ain't pullin' their weight in th' docks? Somebody tell V'inny about this so th' Brainfather knows. We're gonna crack some skulls in th' meantime, sounds like. Get these fish off'a our turf.Whoa! Is you'se tryin' ta mussel in on my territory, pal? You'se better hope not, or else I'se gonna have to get very cross.And I won't be breaking your legs I'll be "Creatively incentivizing you through fiboral Fracturing".I have experience with self publishing.I may have to put some more work on it. I have a person who can do some illustrations what I really need is a editor but I figure I can teach myself to do it maybe.
Yeah I might have to give it another go.
Are you sure you can edit a "booke"?
To be clear, I'm teasing you. Not trying to be an a@&+~@!.
Pfft. I ain't ascared o' youse, squid face. What youse gonna to do? Eat our brains? My associate don't got no brains fer ya ta eats! He's all mussel, ya hear? And aboleths? Those pussywillows couldn't stop us if dey tried! But tell ya what. As I'm in a good mood right now, I'm willin' ta not send my boys over dere ta make calamari. So, you stay on your side of the docks, and we'll stay on ours. Capish?
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The reason that someone took the Black Cauldron movie is that it's the closest thing to a Horror Movie that Disney ever made.
I watched in the cinema when I was very small. It scared the snot out of me; I started screaming, and had to be carried out.
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In other news, some bright spark has proposed that, since we can't have an office Xmas party, we should all dress up as Merry Christmas Elves instead. People have already started buying costumes; I wonder if they'd be upset if I came in dressed as (say) Elric?
In other news, some bright spark has proposed that, since we can't have an office Xmas party, we should all dress up as Merry Christmas Elves instead. People have already started buying costumes; I wonder if they'd be upset if I came in dressed as (say) Elric?
I double dog dare you.
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I can build you one out of stone.
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
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In other news, some bright spark has proposed that, since we can't have an office Xmas party, we should all dress up as Merry Christmas Elves instead. People have already started buying costumes; I wonder if they'd be upset if I came in dressed as (say) Elric?I double dog dare you.
Well...
If I do, Stormbringer is more likely to resemble a pool noodle wrapped in black dustbin liners than a £5k cubic zircona encrusted wallhanger, but I think that's OK.
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Happy National Cake Day everyone!
*yawn*
Sadly, Shadow Of The Tomb Raider is inferior to Rise Of The Tomb Raider. The graphics are goregeous (when they are not bugging) but the story and the characters are feeling more wooden and the combat and encounter design is much worse...
Have I mentioned it's also much buggier than the previous games?
Sadly, Shadow Of The Tomb Raider is inferior to Rise Of The Tomb Raider. The graphics are goregeous (when they are not bugging) but the story and the characters are feeling more wooden and the combat and encounter design is much worse...
Have I mentioned it's also much buggier than the previous games?
Interesting. I'll ask Lara Croft guy about it. I have no idea what he's allowed to discuss and what he isn't, but companies' abandonment of any QA at all is a common theme we discuss, so he might shed some insight...
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Speaking of Thanksgiving, I have to give props to Mother-In-Law.
Nevertheless, she saw the news about Thanksgiving being a potential super-spreader event and called us to ask whether she should cancel and not come. I pointed out that:
(a) We see her every week or two anyway, so she counts as being in our social "bubble", and
(b) We have a 10' table, and she'll be at one end while we'll be at the other for an outdoor Thanksgiving. (Yes, it's going to be sunny and 66˚F today, to dining outdoors is an option for us.)
But her absolute willingness to cancel Thanksgiving to avoid risking viral spread is so refreshing considering what we're reading about the rest of the country.
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Meanwhile Scint is still getting grief from her parents about not coming to visit for the holiday and we're definitely not looking forward to when it comes up again for xmas.
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Meanwhile Scint is still getting grief from her parents about not coming to visit for the holiday and we're definitely not looking forward to when it comes up again for xmas.
let them give grief. I would rather they be around to complain than simply her and you left to mourn their loss.
Pretty much the plan. Just a headache to deal with.
And we're not even getting into my parents, especially after the events of a couple weeks ago.