I think I've mentioned a couple times before that of late, I listen to audio books more than music when I draw these days. Having a story told to you makes sitting still for 4-8 hours much less of a chore! As my budget for audio books is not huge, I've been taking advantage of some of the free podcasts to listen to as well. I thought I'd link a few of the ones I've enjoyed for anyone who's also looking for some listening material.

Writing Excuses - Brandon Sanderson (Fantasy author), Howard Tayler (Web comics), Dan Wells (Horror author)

I highly recommend writing excuses for anyone who's ever wanted to write their own novel or web comic. The podcasts are 15 minutes each and every week they cover a different subject. I found them very entertaining and they give you a lot to think about when writing. Coming from someone who produced 200 page failed web comic out of high school with no plan at all for what was going to happen more than 3 pages down the line, I can safely say that the importance of thinking your story through is something everyone who wants to do a comic (print or web) or novel (I think preplanning is a given there, haha) should consider. You can listen to seasons 1 and two through the archives, as there are too many episodes to have on itunes at once.

12 Byzantine Rulers - Lars Brownworth

A series of podcasts about the eastern roman empire. My friend Erich recommended these to me. The podcast covers the history of the Byzantine Empire by giving you the life stories of 12 key rulers. These probably won't be for everyone, as it is very much like having a (very good) history teacher lecture to you. But if you're in the mood for some learning, they're a good listen.


If anyone has any podcasts they favor and would like to recommend them, I'm all ears. I'm finished with Byzantine and halfway through season two of writing excuses and my stockpile is dwindling fast: Honoes! D=

o I signed up for a free trial of netflix and me and ritz watched 'mega shark vs giant octopus' tonight. ... yeah. its rated 3 stars on IMBD. it was amazing. oh god sleep. i have to know the muscles that make up the hamstring, rotator cuff, outside the eyes, etc etc ITS BAD I DONT KNOW IT and so many other useless things. i hate memorization

i want mw2 :C k o god sleeps

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That turkey vulture smells like so much ass even when not vomiting. Like. Dear lord.

Sooo crazy, but, I just volunteered for a panel at FC.
'Created Species Panel'

A panel regarding made up species as avatars and discussions thereof.(obviously I'll be talking about my taithal) Should be interesting, I'm fairly excited, wonder who my companion panelists will be. I really do love species creation, so I can wait to talk with others about it.

Speaking of FC, when would you say is a good time to start Pre-Orders for things? I was thinking of doing some button stuff before the con to hand out at con.

This link is a collection of youtube vidoes of soldiers returning home to dogs that haven't seen them in a long time, so sweet.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/40324

Brick and Mortar
A World of Warcraft Story by Gre7g Luterman

Episode 9: Elwynn Forest

New episodes Monday through Friday!

Wood cut outs of Cthulhu heads for next week's MFF convention. These are still in progress!

They are about 14" long and will be priced at $60.

Another artist's work, but scroll down and see this gnoll as it progresses ... http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=169681

Happy Whelpdays to shadowpaw and dougdelmastro!

Firstly, my deepest thanks to those who said something to me in my earlier post about the mid-air collision. As you can understand it's had a pretty big affect on the Coast Guard as a whole. Did you know that there are more New York City police officers than there are Coasties? So yes, even one death affects us greatly.

Still, today is a day of celebration, introspection, activism, or nothing special, depending on who you are. I got to march in the Veterans Day parade here in Petaluma, CA, alongside my students and the Commanding Officer of the TRACEN. We actually headed the parade, and lead a group of 140 other agencies/entities in the parade around a route that lasted about a mile. We were dressed up in our Service Dress Blues, and man, did we look good. Not to mention it felt really good marching down the streets choked with people cheering and clapping and saying all sorts of uplifting things.

Afterward I picked up selasphorus and we went out to Applebees, where they gave me a free meal. Not surprisingly I met up with a bunch of my students, some of whom discussed the positive qualities of sweet tea along with the wife. (It was silly, but you had to have been there.)

Other aspects of the day involved taking advantage of some sales at Kohl's, and picking up the Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection (the first 3 MGS games for $20) for the recently Metal Gear Solid obsessed wife.

There's a chance that I will be heading over to a co-workers house tonight to drink some beer and do some character creation for a tabletop RPG of his - there's also the chance that I'll relax with some rum and contemplate episodes of The Twilight Zone. Either way sounds fun to me. :)

A doe this day called me cute.

Earthmother protect me, but I do so hate that word.

~Samhuinn Runetotem

Here has visited one more thrown school. Certainly some can not like a state, in comparison with last is worse... But also in this there is a snap. Any autumn spirit when you look out of a beaten window and you see orange-red trees and when so the sun beautifully sits down... Much all school, any figures, posters, a heap of school desks, chairs, sports hall and many other things in this report.

I love this place and I visited this again) Now still a horse and carriage court yard. Plus sorts of a palace, lakes and one more building nearby to manor.

I finally got the last two months of garden photos cropped, uploaded and sorted in the gallery. I won't bog you down with two months, though.. I'll just share a couple of things.

PEPPERS - James and Beatrice, the two pepper plants in the earth box, got a little drowned because the box stopped draining. I hope I have rectified this, I also dumped most of the water out of it to allow the plants to recuperate. They are now getting watered very lightly. Beatrice on the other hand, while she looks sickly (again!), is still popping out peppers. She's a MACHINE! I love her so much.

BEANS and SOUTH BEAN ONLY - I'm not sure what killed off the north-side bean, but my parents commented that the concrete I am using to secure the trellis may be leaching something into the soil. You can see it smacked the south-side bean pretty hard too, but it still has a lot of new growth and is producing a lot of fruit. I am trying to slowly trim away the dead stuff, but I don't know where the good growth actually attaches to the plant so I'm worried I'll sever it.

TOMATOES and ANOTHER VIEW - Why so scraggly? Okay, so obviously using the pyramid trellis was a bad idea for these plants. How was I to know? My first (REAL) tomato took to the trellis just fine. These things.. I should have just let them sprawl on the ground, since that's what they're doing anyway. You can see my attempts at staking them are rather pathetic. I've since given up.. next time I'll do this differently. (If I ever grow cherry tomatoes again, which I doubt. I wouldn't have grown these had I known they were cherries.)

HARVEST - that's a whole lotta harvest update in one pic! :D

NEW ADDITIONS and SPROUTING GARLIC - remember, I just planted this stuff on Saturday morning, and by yesterday (Tuesday) morning, the four largest cloves were already poking out of the ground. As of this morning, so are eight more. (That leaves three cloves and the bulb's "foot" still in the ground.)

Dear Internet,

Are there any sassy web designers out there looking for a contract gig?

Please respond to ravenink(at)gmail(dot)com with your prices, examples of your work, and where you know me from. A coworker wants someone to build his website and I want to give one of you the referral. If it goes well, repeat business is a strong possibility. Must be able to work in Wordpress.

Thanks in advance for contacting me. I hope one of you guys gets it. :)

Truly,
~Kigs

I have a bizarre problem with my music collection. A few of my mp3s are missing, either deleted or actually moved to another drive/device instead of just copied. Not many, just about five or so. But here's the thing: I can't actually figure out how that would have happened.

You see, I'm not missing, say, all the songs from a single artist. I'm missing a smattering of songs here and there from various different artists. They aren't songs that would go together on a playlist or anything. Rammstein and Dr. Theopolis do not belong on the same playlist. So it's not like I was putting together a playlist and screwed it up somehow. Nor is it because I moved them to another device -- I don't copy single songs to other devices, I copy entire genre folders or artist folders. Likew

I've tried looking for things in common among the missing songs, but that just makes it weirder. As far as I can tell, there are two common themes. One, the missing songs are always the ones I listened to most from a given album. Mind you, they aren't necessarily the songs I listened to the most overall. I listened to a lot of Rammstein not long ago, but System of a Down and A Perfect Circle haven't been part of my regular rotation for years. Two, they're all songs I ripped from my own CDs.

Now, this isn't really a problem per se. I can go reclaim my drive and re-rip these songs no problem. And I'm not really worried about this being an ongoing problem. Right now, I'm just treating it as a strange, one-time event. So no, I'm not looking for solutions.

But this really has my curiosity piqued. How did this happen? Why these songs in particular?

I have one theory that could account for it (though I don't find it likely for various reasons), but I'm interested in hearing if anyone else has any thoughts.

EDIT: Correction, "Taivas Lyo Tulta" and "Orjatar" weren't from a CD I own. So scratch that pattern.

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