How I spent my Christmas vacation:

* Coding! Actually managed to get myself working on C# project, figured out how to instantiate a List of buttons and arrange them in various ways.
* Playing Borderlands, lots of it.
* Eating lots of candy / cookies / other snacks and generally ignoring my calorie counts for a few days.

I think that other things may have happened, but I don't particularly remember them. I'd say it was a fine few days, though.

Merry Jingly and Happy Boxing Day!

And a happy upcoming new year, yo!

I shot a stop motion video with my Nikon D70s and put the images in istopmotion and then edited in Final Cut. There was a total of 360 images taken.

Four years. On Monday it will have been four years since Jeremy kissed me and so began...

THE GREATEST LOVE STORY EVER TOLD.
That is sparkly, but you can only see it on my page, until I feel like editing it to make it an inline style. SORRY. GOSH.

Heh. Really, though, four years is a long time--and yet, hardly any time at all. In the same amount of time from now, I will be...THIRTY. (Can you tell I've been dwelling on this a bit in the past few weeks?) Hopefully he and I will still be chugging along together.

Anyway, we haven't decided what to do for l'anniversaire de l'amour, but it will have to be something cheap. D: The constraints of time and daylight and weather make it a bit more difficult (why couldn't he have made a move in early October?).

Four years. Really. Huh. Maybe it's an unrecognized blessing that I don't feel nearly as old as I really am?

Also I finally got to Angra Mainyu in FFX-2 and after an hour I KICKED ITS ASS. My proudest moment.

Another question about luvox...any experiences of smoking pot while on luvox or another SSRI?

thanks :)

I just bought about seven pounds of discount Christmas candy. And a large cake-like cookie.

A woman with a French accent stopped me in the produce section to say, "Excuse me, I just want to say, you must really have a sweet tooth!"

Today was awesome. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Lately when I've been getting high, my skin will start to tingle and crawl and go somewhat numb. It remains like this even when I'm not high anymore. It's starting to get really annoying and very uncomfortable. I'm not sure what I can do to make it stop. Has anything similar happened to anyone else before? Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

slightly late merry christmas

hope everybody had a nice time!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Steve Austin is truly my hero.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otjMRuZvm8s

(If Youtube gives you an error, just reload, it should work ^-^;; Dumb Youtube)

A deep thought:

The holidays are a time of leisure - and occasionally boredom. It's a time when many people want to just do nothing, to unwind. Others wind to just sit on a couch with friends and family and be together and just watch whatever's on TV. Just enjoy the time off. It's a time when you have millions of eyes glued to the set.

And you show reruns for two weeks straight on every single channel. So all of those glued eyes are sitting around thinking, "God, there's nothing on!" There's something wrong with this!

Fuck it, we don't need any explanation for it this year. This year sucked. And you think materialism will make up for that? No, bitch, it won't. It certainly will not.

BAH HUMBUG EVERYBODY

BAH FUCKING HUMBUG

In January and February, I was finishing up my how-to draw book, Draw Furries - How to Create Anthropomorphic and Fantasy Animals (more info). I started experimenting with coloring over pencil lines (as opposed to inked) in Draw Furries. I thought it wouldn't work because I'd tried it in the past and it looked sloppy (for example, pencil illo from 2006), but as it turns out, that's just because the pencil lines were sloppy. My line art is much cleaner and refined now, so adding colors works fine (and suits me because I enjoy penciling a lot more than inking).

In March, I began working on my children's illustration portfolio, which I continued to work on till August.

In April through June, I worked on two chapters of Domo: The Manga for Tokyopop. With it came an opportunity to try my hand at color comics, something I had been thinking about doing for a while. I really like the results. I still love black-and-white comics, but I don't think one should limit themselves to black-and-white if color makes sense for the project.

I started doing 1-hour speed paints in June, around the time I started the Boy and Gator illustration series, when I realized that I didn't have a good technique for painting trees, and as a result the background in this image was taking me much longer than it should. Since then, I've tried to do that daily speed paints, when time allows, and have practiced everything from water reflections to realistic portraits of dogs.

In July, not pictured here, I did some Sonic the Hedgehog "Off Panel" comic strips for Archie. That was a blast from the past for me, as I spent a lot of my teenage years with my cousin making little Sonic fan comics. I think the strips are currently running in the back of the Sonic the Hedgehog comics, up through issue 208.

In September through November, I turned my focus onto a new comic project, and started doing a lot of research and development for it. Writing, sketching, character designs, etc. Because of this, the only color work I did was in the form of 1-hour speed paintings. November's speed paint is a Christmas gift for my aunt.

Finally, in December, I finished my promotional poster illustration for The Last of the Polar Bears - the new graphic novel I'd been developing the last three months, and will be continuing to work on in 2010.

Here's links to the illustrations featured in the 2009 Summary of Art:

January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

Blank 2009 Art Summary MEME comes from: http://audreydutroux.deviantart.com/art/MEME-2009-Summary-blank-147170285

Holy hell, man, this has got to be the most fabulous example of uncanny-bastard A.I. I have ever fucking seen.

Like. You know when you're fighting some boss o another in a game and it starts to seem as if the jerkass is TAUNTING YOU DIRECTLY?

Yeah, that's what this is.

About four minutes in when the boss starts spamming the energy pulse thing, that's what that is. My jaw frigging dropped. I mean, that's above and beyond even my friend Code's FF7 game in which Sepher Sephiroth kept bitchslapping Cloud around with the freaky black wing and making Code spam status cures and Phoenix Downs like motherfuck. (This bossfight session elicited the exclamation "Son of a Santafucker!" He does seasonal profanity!)

That, though, that there is like -

- You cannot tell me it doesn't look like the boss is going "Oh yeah, and also: nyah nyah nyah" when he peeks out of the flooooooor. (That's creepy, dude, knock that off.)

It's like the Bastard Dice phenomenon only with more pixels.

(Warning: the boss theme WILL get stuck in your head.)

Also starring: One of the best LP voice acting adlibs I have ever seen. When he busted out with "What the fuck is going on" I just lost it entirely.

http://coupdtaco.blogspot.com/2009/12/coup-dtaco-12-22-09-holiday-show.html

Merry Holidays! Get your dose of Christmas, Chanukah, and other assorted goodies in this jam-packed bonanza of music.

Coup d'Taco 12-22-09 - Holiday Show

Steam is having a big sale. Put Torchlight and the starter kit for Champions Online in my download queue for $10 each. A secret santa also bought me a copy of a game called Aquaria. And then there's DLC for Borderlands to go through. Plus I've forgotten that I have a couple of these other indie games - Gish, Everyday Shooter, Audiosurf - that I bought in a big pack a while back and never got around to. And I'm still trying to get all of the achievements in that pinball game I have for 360. And people still rope me into playing Catan three nights a week, it seems. So now I basically need to not buy any more games for a year or so.

When am I learning to code around this? *pffft* Learning is for dummies. Real men waste every waking hour playing games.

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