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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Announcementy: SVP 68th Annual Meeting, I Will Be There

I'm in.

Time to tighten the belt again. Next: airfares after the fifth of September.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Team Phoenicia Swag

The Team Phoenicia folks are now offering keen swag to help support their efforts.

Monday, August 25, 2008

_Brachiosaurus_ the Passable




Good enough! Let's Go!

What Will Be Done

My decision as it now stands: I'm stayin' the course. I still feel I need to commit to more rigorous improvements in my art, and I need to do it soon.

Since there have been a few recommendations along the technical I've received from strangers, I want to make something clear: the SGI is my last computer. I intend to use it until I no longer can upgrade/repair it, something to be treated as a perfect brush.

Part of the reason is that this is what I know. The larger part is that I simply don't want to be stuck using and maintaining mediocrity for the the rest of my professional life. Learning a new OS is, from my perspective, a waste of time. The old hardware and software still works, and works as if it were new, and I have never had an occasion to throw away a perfectly usable brush.

(Then again, no brush has ever frustrated me like a computer manages...)

So. I'm back.

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

This Blog is Broken [update: or not]

As you can see, none of my images are loading at all anymore. This may be the death knell for this journal until I can find something which will frakking work.

The days of straight html (and none of this database-driven shite) really were better for my needs.

Computers really suck lately.

[Update: the minor stuff seems to be working again, but the main site I host all my images on is still down, down, down.]

Monday, August 11, 2008

Ad astra per luna.

I'm tardy in getting this up, but this is relevant to some work I did recently (movies currently available through Team Phoenicia's site), and is important.

Currently, there is a donation drive up for the project.

Team Phoenicia's blog has been added to the blogroll: Go Go Rocketship _Team Phoenicia_ Go!

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Gone Missing from the Edge

Sunday (3 August 2008), a friend died. He was battling cancer, and had been diagnosed very recently. Now, it looks like the battle's over before it had a chance to begin.

Jeff had the capacity to explain things so well that even I could understand him.

In spite of the foreknowledge of his health, this is very sudden, and I won't pretend to be anything but frustrated and a little exhausted by this news (even coming as it does on the heels of a frustrating and exhausting weekend). You can get an inkling of how cool Jeff was by reading his Wikipedia entry.

Every time I had a conversation with Jeff, I learned something awesome, something important, or something cool, usually in combination.

He will be missed.