the ramble dump
Thursday, July 28, 2005
Holidays
Do you know what the most annoying thing about the French is? They don't sell lined paper... at least, not where I can find it. So, I need to take a pad of that. I shall not be forced to use the squared paper of the lower classes! I have rights!
...I leave tomorrow night/Saturday morning. Four hours in the car, five hours on the ferry, another several hours back in the car while we get lost trying to find the way. We're there for two weeks.
I leave you with the fantasticalness of this, created by a friend with the utterly silly name of Doors.
This is where I depart by saying 'au revoir', because that makes me really clever.
Au revoir!
...I leave tomorrow night/Saturday morning. Four hours in the car, five hours on the ferry, another several hours back in the car while we get lost trying to find the way. We're there for two weeks.
I leave you with the fantasticalness of this, created by a friend with the utterly silly name of Doors.
This is where I depart by saying 'au revoir', because that makes me really clever.
Au revoir!
Saturday, July 23, 2005
Bulletin
I've been watching the repeat of the first series of 24 for a few weeks now. This is the first time I've seen it. The BBC have been showing two episodes every Friday night. Next Friday I'll be on holiday in France, so what are they doing? They're showing three.
Indignation courses through my soul like a raging, caffeine-stimulated dragon of high-voltage electrical power.
Suffice to say, I'm buying the DVD.
In other news [shuffles papers]...
We got started the rewrite of Agaffa and went through the first two chapters scribbling down various minor changes, but I think we decided that there's a lot of major stuff we need to sort out, which might make a lot of these minor changes unnecessary anyway. No idea when we're going to do that.
The future of City of Anarchy looks uncertain as a huge argument breaks out on the message board I write it for, and now I'm really not sure I want anything to do with it anymore.
As a result, The Aberration is now my main focus, and the one I'm really going to work on during the next few weeks. I've been neglecting it, and there's still a lot of stuff I need to do.
Indignation courses through my soul like a raging, caffeine-stimulated dragon of high-voltage electrical power.
Suffice to say, I'm buying the DVD.
In other news [shuffles papers]...
We got started the rewrite of Agaffa and went through the first two chapters scribbling down various minor changes, but I think we decided that there's a lot of major stuff we need to sort out, which might make a lot of these minor changes unnecessary anyway. No idea when we're going to do that.
The future of City of Anarchy looks uncertain as a huge argument breaks out on the message board I write it for, and now I'm really not sure I want anything to do with it anymore.
As a result, The Aberration is now my main focus, and the one I'm really going to work on during the next few weeks. I've been neglecting it, and there's still a lot of stuff I need to do.
Labels: 24, agaffa, boardfic, city of anarchy, the aberration
Friday, July 22, 2005
Browser Blues
I hate the IE/AOL browser. It has no friends and its mother is a whore. It doesn't like co-operating with CSS at all. Why couldn't it be a good little browser like Mozilla and put everything in the right place?
I need one of those ridiculously expensive things like Dreamweaver or something so I can get somewhere with this.
I need one of those ridiculously expensive things like Dreamweaver or something so I can get somewhere with this.
Labels: webtechnical
Friday, July 15, 2005
They're Here...
Aliens have landed in next door's back garden.
Oh, and I've decided that the Barenaked Ladies song Celebrity is about Ringwraiths. 'All that's left of me is my celebrity'...there is no better way to describe them.
('All the jaws'll drop/And all the girls will scream/And there will be commotion when I show up on the scene.')
Monday, July 11, 2005
Pregnant Pair
This was in the back of my German exercise book.
That was done just before the exams, at the peak time of exam stress. I think it would make a great animé series. The two action heroines have to fight the forces of evil with the added complication of pregnancy. One's serious and moody, while the other is chirpy and ditsy. The unlikely pair find themselves stuck together with this one thing in common. Drama and comedy ensue.
On a sidenote, Starcustard Chapter 4 is finally finished. It just needs to be soundtracked and polished up.
That was done just before the exams, at the peak time of exam stress. I think it would make a great animé series. The two action heroines have to fight the forces of evil with the added complication of pregnancy. One's serious and moody, while the other is chirpy and ditsy. The unlikely pair find themselves stuck together with this one thing in common. Drama and comedy ensue.
On a sidenote, Starcustard Chapter 4 is finally finished. It just needs to be soundtracked and polished up.
Labels: sketches and doodles, starcustard
Monday, July 04, 2005
First Impressions
The first part of City of Anarchy went online on Friday. I think those who read it liked it, but some responses were a little...bemusing.
One guy said, 'I like except for the bits with violence and pain. I kept having to close my eyes.' I don't understand how closing his eyes would have helped. How did he know when to open them again? Did 'YOU HAVE REACHED THE NEXT PARAGRAPH' flash across his eyelids?
Aside from that, I didn't think it was so...well, dark. Another person said, 'Is this story going to give me nightmares?' If people are seeing it this way, I think I'll just go with it, though I really can't see how they are.
Another guy told me, 'it reads like comics.' This is probably a good thing, because it suggests that the opening was sufficiently action-packed, but it was still something I really didn't expect.
Still... as long as they're enjoying it...
Tomorrow I'm going to force myself to sit down and get this bit of Starcustard done. I think one of the reasons I've been avoiding it is because I'm not sure how I'm going to go about it, but if I take another look at what we've already got, I'll probably be able to figure it out.
Also, Olli awaits Agaffa. I really need to be getting on with websitey things in general.
One guy said, 'I like except for the bits with violence and pain. I kept having to close my eyes.' I don't understand how closing his eyes would have helped. How did he know when to open them again? Did 'YOU HAVE REACHED THE NEXT PARAGRAPH' flash across his eyelids?
Aside from that, I didn't think it was so...well, dark. Another person said, 'Is this story going to give me nightmares?' If people are seeing it this way, I think I'll just go with it, though I really can't see how they are.
Another guy told me, 'it reads like comics.' This is probably a good thing, because it suggests that the opening was sufficiently action-packed, but it was still something I really didn't expect.
Still... as long as they're enjoying it...
Tomorrow I'm going to force myself to sit down and get this bit of Starcustard done. I think one of the reasons I've been avoiding it is because I'm not sure how I'm going to go about it, but if I take another look at what we've already got, I'll probably be able to figure it out.
Also, Olli awaits Agaffa. I really need to be getting on with websitey things in general.
Labels: agaffa, boardfic, city of anarchy, starcustard
