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A whole day spent outside - 31 March 2007
Apr. 1st, 2007 01:37 amHah. I spent nearly eight hours outside today, yay! It all started with going up to Wizzywig, where I got to say hello and chat with the creators of 9th Elsewhere, Secret of Mana Theater, and get some sketchiness done by them (Sprite Monkey put forward a guinea pig Katamari Ball. Carrie gave me Chibi-Happy-Eiji-Link, which I noted was probably right before the time the boomerang came back and thunked him in the head. She agreed, but knew that he’d get up and try it again. Eiji’s such an optimist. I think it’s one of his most endearing qualities. I also got to see ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kaijumaster and his wife. He did DiZ, she was handling. There was a cosplay contest. Oh, and I got another book drawn in by that Fred Gallagher guy. The usual “what you need the most practice at” ploy worked, and produced a Plucky School Girl that hasn’t been around all that much. And I still don’t think she’s actually gotten a drawing lesson. Well, there’s also that bit about her lineage, but I suspect that will start coming through much more clearly as the story progresses.
Anyway, after all that stuff, I hung around withkaijumaster and a group of people that he either travels the con circuit with, are parts of forums he frequents, or are helping him run his panels. In any of those cases, we had dinner at Arbor Brewing Company. All told, I probably spent more than I should have, but I got posters and good food out of the deal. Of course, now I need more sticky squares to put said posters on my walls with. After that, I printed off the second code release, thus requiring that I plant another tree in repentance. I think I have enough to do it one more time, if it should become necessary, but I hope to $deity that it isn’t, and that I can re-use some of this stuff in the last release, since there should be no major functionality changes. The code might get cleaned up a little, but I may decide to submit basically the same thing for both this release and the final. Which is a great, great thing. Now, to the other assignments. And that interview thing. And those other job offers that I should apply for. Work never quite finishes, does it?
Hopefully, a more polite, less brusque set of links this time around. As I am reminded, in text, we're only about 50/50 on guessing tone correctly, and thus I have to strive to get across the intended effect, rather than one that could be read into it. Liberal Eagle also says the Intarwebs bring out the worst in us all, and dismissive attitudes toward the viciousness that can happen doesn’t help the problem get fixed. I suppose it could be responsible for at least some part of the politics (and assaults) that happen in Second Life's burgeoning political sphere, too.
Speaking of politeness, Iraq the Model posts a polite and civil searching of a house in Iraq. I can’t fully say whether this is norm or exception, but the soldiers and residents involved both seemed not to be assuming the worst about each other, and were thus able to interact in a positive manner. Had this been a place where the soldiers were most likely to be shot at rather than invited in, things may have been different. At least this one passed without incident.
Returning to Liberal Eagle for a bit, he lays out what he believes, in response to being told that he only doesn't believe, as if not believing in G-d meant that one didn’t believe in anything. That sort of argument also sounds like the one that says atheists can’t be moral people, because they don’t have a supernatural source to dictate/suggest their morality to them. Kind of silly, actually.
Pet food recalls widen, including a new brand of wet food, for contaminated wheat gluten.
Hooray for intelligence! Boo for angst! (But, unfortunately, probably pretty close to accurate.)
LLast bit, and mostly because of my choice of profession, if I’m in New York, and the price is right, I might check out the Library Hotel, to see what’s on their shelves. Maybe those already there can give us a scoop on it.
So that’s all from me tonight. It’s a pretty light list, comparatively. Maybe tomorrow there will be more. Or there may be less. Depends on the whims of the people involved.
kaijumaster and his wife. He did DiZ, she was handling. There was a cosplay contest. Oh, and I got another book drawn in by that Fred Gallagher guy. The usual “what you need the most practice at” ploy worked, and produced a Plucky School Girl that hasn’t been around all that much. And I still don’t think she’s actually gotten a drawing lesson. Well, there’s also that bit about her lineage, but I suspect that will start coming through much more clearly as the story progresses. Anyway, after all that stuff, I hung around with
kaijumaster and a group of people that he either travels the con circuit with, are parts of forums he frequents, or are helping him run his panels. In any of those cases, we had dinner at Arbor Brewing Company. All told, I probably spent more than I should have, but I got posters and good food out of the deal. Of course, now I need more sticky squares to put said posters on my walls with. After that, I printed off the second code release, thus requiring that I plant another tree in repentance. I think I have enough to do it one more time, if it should become necessary, but I hope to $deity that it isn’t, and that I can re-use some of this stuff in the last release, since there should be no major functionality changes. The code might get cleaned up a little, but I may decide to submit basically the same thing for both this release and the final. Which is a great, great thing. Now, to the other assignments. And that interview thing. And those other job offers that I should apply for. Work never quite finishes, does it?Hopefully, a more polite, less brusque set of links this time around. As I am reminded, in text, we're only about 50/50 on guessing tone correctly, and thus I have to strive to get across the intended effect, rather than one that could be read into it. Liberal Eagle also says the Intarwebs bring out the worst in us all, and dismissive attitudes toward the viciousness that can happen doesn’t help the problem get fixed. I suppose it could be responsible for at least some part of the politics (and assaults) that happen in Second Life's burgeoning political sphere, too.
Speaking of politeness, Iraq the Model posts a polite and civil searching of a house in Iraq. I can’t fully say whether this is norm or exception, but the soldiers and residents involved both seemed not to be assuming the worst about each other, and were thus able to interact in a positive manner. Had this been a place where the soldiers were most likely to be shot at rather than invited in, things may have been different. At least this one passed without incident.
Returning to Liberal Eagle for a bit, he lays out what he believes, in response to being told that he only doesn't believe, as if not believing in G-d meant that one didn’t believe in anything. That sort of argument also sounds like the one that says atheists can’t be moral people, because they don’t have a supernatural source to dictate/suggest their morality to them. Kind of silly, actually.
Pet food recalls widen, including a new brand of wet food, for contaminated wheat gluten.
| You Are 68% Tortured Genius |
 You are smart. Brilliant in fact. And while it’s a blessing, it’s also a curse. Your head is filled with everything - grand ideas, insufferable worries, and a good deal of angst. |
Hooray for intelligence! Boo for angst! (But, unfortunately, probably pretty close to accurate.)
LLast bit, and mostly because of my choice of profession, if I’m in New York, and the price is right, I might check out the Library Hotel, to see what’s on their shelves. Maybe those already there can give us a scoop on it.
So that’s all from me tonight. It’s a pretty light list, comparatively. Maybe tomorrow there will be more. Or there may be less. Depends on the whims of the people involved.
