wankery
My Andorian Monster
Monday, November 26, 07:09 PM By
Shelly
You really have to go to this cool
make your own monster site yourself, to see the
animation too, no way to save the pix. I chose the face because it
reminded me of my favorite obscure Trek race.
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Super Woman
Wednesday, November 21, 11:41 AM By
Shelly
I think it's lame to tell you what I
was GOING to do, but in this case I am telling, because I was very
annoyed that it didn't work! Ugly Betty teamed up with Scrapblog,
but I couldn't get it to upload my photos no matter what browser I
tried. Here, try it yourself, let me know if it works for
you.
Since that didn't work, I'll just caracterize myself:
Since that didn't work, I'll just caracterize myself:
Overworked, Creatively Exhausted
Wednesday, November 21, 06:13 AM By
Bryan
As you might have noticed, my postings of late have been lame.
Lame, lame, lame. I'm at a creative brick wall. Plus I've been
working a lot and really only have a few hours at home most
weekdays. I have so many uncompleted big projects that working on
the small projects or the filler posts seem like a waste of time.
Work is very busy lately as well, so I am unable to focus much on
Things there either. Does anyone like the month before
Christmas?
I have a big project that may be a Christmas present, but can't
corral the time or energy to finish it. So, here's what I want to
do: work on it an hour a day or a minimum of five hours a week
until it's done. That's more time than the stupid filler posts and
is actually working toward someThing. And posting about it would be
stupid. It's also a bit of a waste of time and your energy to read
the post.
So if I lose, I lose. But I'm going to post only when something is
done.
I have a backlog of projects I'd like to finish. Big projects that
hopefully you'd enjoy as well. Time, lack of energy and a feeling
of creative exhaustion are killing me.
Hope to have something big soon.
I love my pirate
Tuesday, November 20, 11:38 AM By
Shelly
Ice Cream Maker
Tuesday, November 06, 07:54 PM By
Bryan
Mmmm, mmmm. You can create your own ice cream at Ben & Jerry's. This is a morning ice cream with chocolate covered expresso beans, hazelnuts, dark chocolate and other goodies.
Yea, morning ice cream.
Action Figure
Friday, November 02, 11:45 PM By
Bryan
Frappr Map
Tuesday, October 09, 09:41 PM By
Shelly
Skitch and Games
Wednesday, October 03, 11:30 PM By
Shelly
So Bryan introduced me to a great
program today, Skitch. You can take a photo or a screen grab and
draw on it, type on it, goof on it, and then share the 'doctored'
photo. Very fun so far in the few minutes I've had to actually play
with it.
One of the gamers at Nuke Con put up a website with photos, so here's a couple borrowed and Skitched shots, to prove we were really there.
Click on the photo to go to the page they are from, and respectful thanks for the borrowed pictures.
Me at the 'Artist Jam'
And the youngens getting in their foam swords groove.
And I suppose, just taking a couple photos and messing with them isn't much of a Thing, so for an added bonus, a mini review of one of the games I played. (And also using Skitch!)
The game Vikings comes from the publisher Rio Grande Games, which told me right off the bat that I would probably like it. I've loved Rio Grande and Ravensburger since I got Labyrinth in '91. From watching some other folks play, I see there's little wooden dudes, and board bits, and it appears it doesn't take up the whole table, but yet has lots of cool parts.
When it was finally my turn to play, I learn that it is somewhat random (drawing the doods, and the shuffled stacks), and somewhat strategy (deciding if/when to buy things). The basic premise is to get the most points by making your own set up better, not specifically by messing up the other players, altho there are definitely times when helping yourself messes the others up. It's pretty quick to play, because there are only so many tiles, and it works as a 2 player game, tho our expert teacher said it wasn't quite as exciting with only 2. It looked complicated when watching, but was quick to learn and actually simple while having several things to keep track of. I only played once, but I came in tied for first. Awesome bonus, I tied with a friend that I hadn't seen in about 20 years, and we reconnected at the con.
Again, respectful thanks for the photos, and click on them to go to the web page I Skitched them from.
One of the gamers at Nuke Con put up a website with photos, so here's a couple borrowed and Skitched shots, to prove we were really there.
Click on the photo to go to the page they are from, and respectful thanks for the borrowed pictures.
Me at the 'Artist Jam'
And the youngens getting in their foam swords groove.
And I suppose, just taking a couple photos and messing with them isn't much of a Thing, so for an added bonus, a mini review of one of the games I played. (And also using Skitch!)
The game Vikings comes from the publisher Rio Grande Games, which told me right off the bat that I would probably like it. I've loved Rio Grande and Ravensburger since I got Labyrinth in '91. From watching some other folks play, I see there's little wooden dudes, and board bits, and it appears it doesn't take up the whole table, but yet has lots of cool parts.
When it was finally my turn to play, I learn that it is somewhat random (drawing the doods, and the shuffled stacks), and somewhat strategy (deciding if/when to buy things). The basic premise is to get the most points by making your own set up better, not specifically by messing up the other players, altho there are definitely times when helping yourself messes the others up. It's pretty quick to play, because there are only so many tiles, and it works as a 2 player game, tho our expert teacher said it wasn't quite as exciting with only 2. It looked complicated when watching, but was quick to learn and actually simple while having several things to keep track of. I only played once, but I came in tied for first. Awesome bonus, I tied with a friend that I hadn't seen in about 20 years, and we reconnected at the con.
Again, respectful thanks for the photos, and click on them to go to the web page I Skitched them from.
Personal DNA
Thursday, September 20, 11:36 PM By
Shelly
Another web test. Click here to see all of my results and try it yourself.
P.S. Three months from today is my birthday!!
Moral Orals
Thursday, September 20, 01:32 PM By
Bryan
Today's Thing is a set of morality tests. I took them all. It took about an hour and a half to take all of them, but you can take the main ones in a short period of time. The problem is squaring your self-image, either up or down, with your actions and practical thoughts. I have a hard time with absolutes as well.
Try it yourself.
TTOTD facebook
Monday, September 10, 11:23 PM By
Bryan
Kind of a slow week this week, Today's
Thing continues the endless stream of TOTTD hollow promotions, I
signed up for facebook. I created an entry for myself. Then created a group for this website and put it in the
sidebar.
I like facebook way better than myspace---better layout, easier to find people, impossible to remember the URL. However, there is a bit of a stalker-y vibe to the whole site. I know the just-outta-college girls and the creepier just-outta-college boys at work sit around eating up company time cross-referencing all their comments and semi-connections to each other and every other just-outta-college kid on the planet. It's a rabbit hole of endless, pointless info.
The amount of cross-referencing of groups, ID's, locations, work and everything else is tasty tempting catnip to even the laziest of looky-loos. It's almost im-pos-i-ble not to click down the chain.
Anyway, I still think cell phones can be blamed for all this self-absorbed constant blather. Not a new thought, but cell phones + Twitter will end civilization.
Anyway, enjoy the TTOTD facebook page.
I hope inspiration hits, so there's real content from me this week.
I like facebook way better than myspace---better layout, easier to find people, impossible to remember the URL. However, there is a bit of a stalker-y vibe to the whole site. I know the just-outta-college girls and the creepier just-outta-college boys at work sit around eating up company time cross-referencing all their comments and semi-connections to each other and every other just-outta-college kid on the planet. It's a rabbit hole of endless, pointless info.
The amount of cross-referencing of groups, ID's, locations, work and everything else is tasty tempting catnip to even the laziest of looky-loos. It's almost im-pos-i-ble not to click down the chain.
Anyway, I still think cell phones can be blamed for all this self-absorbed constant blather. Not a new thought, but cell phones + Twitter will end civilization.
Anyway, enjoy the TTOTD facebook page.
I hope inspiration hits, so there's real content from me this week.
