Sigh. I can only access the site through a proxy server right now, but I'm glad I can access it.
I'm wondering if I should let my pre-uploaded pages go live or delete them and wait for the site to work for everyone. I think I'll just let Monday's page go live and decide based on the pageviews/comments.
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If you change your DNS to Open DNS for now, things will be cool.
http://www.opendns.com/
There should be instructions on the site. :)
Heh, I'd have never known about it if it wasn't for the big DNS exploit scare that was going on a couple of months ago. My work comp was using a vulnerable DNS so I changed it to Open DNS… and today I realised that was probably why I could see DD fine while a lot of people couldn't yet. I've just changed my home comp to Open DNS for the time being because the DNS my ISP uses isn't loading the pics at DD yet either. :)
Probably due to you going around here in the nude…
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There are still errors on the site. Still being logged out occasionally, things not loading correctly… Is this a faster server or did things just seem faster and more stable because hardly anyone could or can access DD right now?
Should I be surprised? lol!
I think it's the new server, because I'm not having any problems whatsoever and all of last week I couldn't even log on without being logged off as soon as I navigated to a new page.
I can live with a few bugs on this one, the fact that they had to go to a new server means there's more people, which in turn means more awesome new comics and stuff to read ( Not that I'm not already pathetically behind on the ones I normally read. ). In a certain way of looking at it, the problems we're encountering currently could be a good thing. At least that's the way I like to think of it.
As for ranting and whatnot: I think I may have to get some serious leather gloves or something. I've recently picked up on using a more graffiti influenced style and that means lots of stencils and cutting stuff, and as a result my hands are just absolutely covered in cuts from the X-Acto knife slipping. It's a weird sensation having your skin open and close in 20+ different places when you move your hand. But I like doing the stencils [i[way too much to even think about quitting them. They just look so cool. I'll get better at not cutting myself as I try it more I think.
i need to get my passport fast….like 4 months ago fast. there's a super awesome trip coming up and if i cant get my passport…then i'm stuck not going, and i may never get another chance to have first dibs on said super awesome trip.
also everything sucks. and so do you. but not you.
As for ranting and whatnot: I think I may have to get some serious leather gloves or something. I've recently picked up on using a more graffiti influenced style and that means lots of stencils and cutting stuff, and as a result my hands are just absolutely covered in cuts from the X-Acto knife slipping. It's a weird sensation having your skin open and close in 20+ different places when you move your hand. But I like doing the stencils [i[way too much to even think about quitting them. They just look so cool. I'll get better at not cutting myself as I try it more I think.
I've been dealing with that for 33 years. Adult Plastic model builders are a pretty hard core bunch. Everytime I change blades (#11 and #2 for detail cutting) I get at least 4 cuts. I'll see the blood on the piece and get a Band-aid and put on a pressure bandage. How about gouging yourself with a slip of the Dremel tool?
Then there's photoetch. For that you keep a fresh super sharp blade handy. Then the edges of the etched brass are very sharp and you have to fold it into tiny complex shapes. No gloves or else you lose the touch. Fortunately not every cut draws blood.
Don't make me laugh. And you do know that the current part count for a 1/35th scale armor model is almost 800? That's before the photoetch. Try folding a 1/72 aircraft cockpit that is smaller than an inch long. Everything is measured in millimeters.
And comes the masking and airbrushing, counter shading, back shading, pastels and weathering powders. All for something looked down upon as a kids' hobby. It isn't. Think about masking the canopy of a World war II bomber and realize that it's the same as your stencils but it's after all so much other stuff that it's the easy part! I often do it freehand with a little bitty brush. Steady hand even with all those cuts. :)
Excuse me but I have to paint facial hair, puggeree flashes and rank insignia on 50 WWI British infantry each standing about 2 centimeters tall.
This is what I call fun. ;)
But only other model builders get it. I'm sure the artists out there think you're above guys who build "plastic model kits" or "scale figures" (the usual scale figure is basically a 3-dimensional oil painting) I have an artist friend (I'm really jealous of him, he's a NYC asst District Attorney but he's had two solo shows) but he can't figure out how I can build the pieces I've given him. Guess shedding all that blood and cutting my fingers badly enough to in essence change my fingerprints every six months is worth something after all.
Thanks for reading the vent. Those rank stripes on sleeves less than 2 mm wide can't wait.
I tried painting and custom modelling Warhammer 40K miniatures for a while… not because I liked the game, which I've only a handful of times, but because I liked the figures. :)
Cutting and crafting those little lead and plastic things and panting them with 000 sable brushes was tricky work… When a 000 sable brush is too big and clumsy for the job, that's something. :)
I tried painting and custom modelling Warhammer 40K miniatures for a while… not because I liked the game, which I've only a handful of times, but because I liked the figures. :)
Same here. I was thinking of collecting them again, but they're so fucking expensive.
So anyway, I've just sort of moved into my new room at college. It's self catered, so for the first time in my life I'm actually worried about money. I'll need to spend carefully if I'm to continue avoiding a job. I know I'm going to have to get one eventually, but I'm going to stretch it out for as long as I can. Being a drain on society is fun!
YES! Typist's cramp!
YES! Degenerated back muscles!!
YES! Not allowed to draw for the entire week - and not sure about the next one either!!! But then again, I'm allowed to work!!! My darling job that forces me to type all day!!! Isn't that just lovely???
Well, at least I still have my sarcasm…
This sucks. I have all these awesome ideas and no time to do them because of school.
I wanna make this online guide/magazine, my own site, finish my stupid essay,take over the world, make a poster for my comic, rob a bank, and make donation 'freebies'.
oh and then do my actual comic but that's easy.
This sucks. I have all these awesome ideas and no time to do them because of school.Not to mention, you have that black/green question mark man stealing your avatar.
I wanna make this online guide/magazine, my own site, finish my stupid essay,take over the world, make a poster for my comic, rob a bank, and make donation 'freebies'.
oh and then do my actual comic but that's easy.
My mom and I both have this friday off, and she told me that "I better find something to do on friday," meaning she wants me out of the house and out of her hair all day. Which I find quite rude, as it is my only friday off and she has every friday off. I think she better find something to do on friday.
Seriously, though, I have nothing to do, so my mother will end up getting frustrated with me around the house all day and make me clean the toilet. Tomorrow I'm going out adventuring, but there's not really enough to explore around here to make that last more than one day.
I've been thinking about randomly hopping on a bus to Selkirk one of these days(which means nothing to anyone outside of Winnipeg, MB, but whatever).
brian k. vaughen you one trick horse piece of shit, what a shitty ending. God damn you.
and you still managed to pack the typical dose of rape and political propaganda into an otherwise decent story, how 'DEEEEEEP'. then you've got to beat your 'people dying without warning despite previous turmoil of death' drum to death.
I refuse to move out of the comic book world where the characters die heroic long drawn out deaths and say their last words, screw you shock effect.
(you ass crab)
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I'm going to read 'The invisibles' now.
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