A couple of years ago, my husband found a nest of four teeny tiny wild bunnies (don't know what happened to the Mama). We should have left them alone, but we were enchanted - the cutest things ever. They were big enough that they had their eyes open and all their hair, but small enough that you could hold three in one hand.
We saw them for a couple of weeks, but the runt failed and died (it was heartbreaking - because he/she would hop its little bunny hops to come and greet us, and then couldn't), one we found decapitated, and two we never found.
When we were trying to do something to help the runt, I located a wildlife shelter, and the woman advised that there was almost nothing to do. When young bunnies start to fail, they go quickly, and it had already taken me about 2 hours to locate her. She was the one who noted that it was nature's way - it's why there are so many bunnies to a litter, and so many litters to a rabbit.
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On another note, I've decided to acknowledge my long-on-hiatus comic, and tried to customize the background, but I can't seem to get rid of the automatic header (comic title) or camouglage it.
It seems others have, tho. How do you do it? please tell. :D
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I dunno Hippie… I think our experiences are very different.
North American bunnies are probably more specialised and individualised breeds (in general). Aussie bunnies, the common kind, are mostly descended from the same stock that were imported for hunting in the late 1700s/early 1800s. They're hardy and tough little buggers. I had some when I was little and they didn't need much care at all- Always lived in outside hutches etc.
The last one I had (Peter Rabbit) was the only one to die earlier than normal, it was when they did the full release of the modified Calicivirus to finally control the feral rabbit problem here…
The trouble was they there were no warnings or anything for domestic pet owners. Peter just wouldn't move and was shaking one day and died on my kitchen floor tn a towel while I was taking to the vet on the phone. He said there was absolutely nothing he'd be able to do even if I got him there in time. I was just so powerless and heartbroken that day. (apparently the vet had been seeing a LOT of deaths of bunnies from calicivirus at the time)
Then I had to go to Uni to hand in artwork… it was close to when exams had to be done and all that and last time that happened my old, much loved cat had died, so it was really embarrassing and humiliating to have something like that as my excuse again while I was still grieving…
But I digress. You often see the common sort of released bunny living wild in the suburbs, parks and the beach here- not dwarves and stuff like that, but rabbits from outside hutches that get out and go free.
I'll grant you that many would be from small colonies (the park and beach ones), but the ones living wild in back lanes are definitely escapees because they're known individuals.
Niccea wrote:
@ayes: My go to solution is to make an image that is just one pixel big. That is how I hid the navigation buttons in my CYOA.
Thanks, Niccea - but I don't understand.
Upload a background image that is only one pixel and that will hide the header and/or nav buttons? I can certainly try it, but I don't understand how one pixel can do that.
(and - uh, CYOA? I don't think it's cover-your-own-ass. or is it?) :D
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Oh Ho: girls' night in while the boys go do their basketball thang!
Lobster ravioli and WAREHOUSE 13. um-um X)
Wait. I need tomato paste.
Do I Have tomato paste?
I'm not sure.
I NEED TOMATO PASTE
Heh… been watching Stuart Ashen's videos on Youtube again. It's amazing that those chinese companies keep coming out with the very same games (For about a decade or less), just repackaged in some different case with images stolen from various sources to represent them. I guess some people apparently love buying that stuff up or they wouldn't be able to keep selling them.
And I still have nightmares about a certain site that earns itself a knockoff controlled by a certain government. It's mascot would be a green Mandarin Duck, and he'd be drinking bottles of Tsingtao beer. And of course the webcomics on that site would be high quality (as it's controlled by that government). However, every webcomic on that site would also be praising and promoting said government and ideology while bashing and demonizing all the others…
And of course the admins there have assassins and cyber tracking experts at the ready in case one of the webcomic artists says something otherwise…
Oh… and that site would be closed to the world and only available in that country (won't stop determined hackers from barging in though).
Man… I think too much. I should go outside and do something. Except that whenever I do those puffy white things try to drown me… or that big ball of fire in the sky tries to fry me. -_-
@Lonnehart - sweetheart
Please, this year, and sooner than later, get thineself a pet.
I recommend a small mammal (cat? guinea pig? rabbit? even a hamster or mouse) – a bird, lizard, or snake would work, too. Fish? meh. decoration.
My RX (and I have no degree, so you know what it's worth): You need to live with someone who doesn't appreciate games. and - yes - the sooner, the better.
a pet rock? *grumble, grumble*
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you'll all be happy to know: I found some tomato paste. YUSSSSSSSSSSSS
ayesinback wrote:
you'll all be happy to know: I found some tomato paste. YUSSSSSSSSSSSS
I suppose you know a few recipes that use tomato paste? :)
And yes. I probably need a girlfriend. Except that my luck with women has been pretty bad and I tend to keep away from the idea. A small mammal as a pet? Might work. I was thinking of getting myself a pet rabbit myself. I'd like a pet snake, but the only snakes around here are Brown Tree Snakes. The same snakes that nearly ate all of our birds into extinction…
I was just reading TV Tropes (it's freakin' hot outside and I'd rather stay inside) and I find out something about John Shepard from the Mass Effect games… well… the version of him that I play anyways…
He's a "Knight in Sour Armor"
Yep… a Soldier who's a Sole Survivor with the Colonist background. Stomped on all through his life, but he fights on anyway…
Now playing Mass Effect as that character makes me feel depressed…
@Lonne: Get a bunny, then we can swap cute rabbit stories! : )
Actually that's probably not a good reason to get a rabbit. They are really great pets, though, as long as you don't have any valuable antiques or anything that you don't want chewed.
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I had a really awful dream last night where I was somehow blackmailed/threatened into becoming a hitman of sorts. I kept having to go to people's houses and shoot them. It wasn't actually graphic or anything because most of it was very dark, but it still was not very pleasant. I woke up at the point where I was dangling outside of the window way up on an apartment building to avoid the authorities.
Whenever I have a bad dream, I feel "off" for the rest of the day.
I wonder if Sims count as "pets"… You have to make sure they're fed, housed, have a job so they bring in funding to keep themselves alive, keep them entertained, and ensure that they use the toilet when they're supposed to. And you could punish them by feeding them to the Cowplant… Just kidding. hehehe…
A bunny rabbit would be nice. I could teach it to play ball like I saw that one rabbit doing in the video. And living by myself I could give it lots of attention so that it would never be frightened of me. However, they can be pretty complicated to take care of, or so I hear…
Lonnehart wrote:And pet it and hug it and rub its fur the wrong way and name it George.
A bunny rabbit would be nice. I could teach it to play ball like I saw that one rabbit doing in the video. And living by myself I could give it lots of attention so that it would never be frightened of me. However, they can be pretty complicated to take care of, or so I hear…
Hopefully I can get some work done as the wife has me drive her hither and yon. NOT. I should just forget doing any work on any comic and content myself with doing laundry and driving the wife aroudn on her endless errands. It is amazing how she can make something take three times as long as it does for me. But then I try to embody the whole "Do what you got to do and move out"
@Lonne- get an Aussie bunny, care for them isn't complex at all. :)
bravo1102 wrote:
Hopefully I can get some work done as the wife has me drive her hither and yon. NOT. I should just forget doing any work on any comic and content myself with doing laundry and driving the wife aroudn on her endless errands. It is amazing how she can make something take three times as long as it does for me. But then I try to embody the whole "Do what you got to do and move out"
Aw, but you wouldn't do it if you didn't love her. ;)
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Well, well, well! I've asked some people to do recordings for the Quackcast… Let's see who I get responses from!
I've already got some cool stuff from Gulas and Ayes and Banes have promised big things (without even being asked too!).
SHould be good!
Now to look for my Quackcast guest… doh >_<
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OK, will try for Jillyfoo- this one is about artists that use interesting techniques and different media and why.
Wow… they brought back the Cow Plant for The Sims 3. Except this one won't eat certain Sims… those who are good, unlucky, and losers are among those it will spit out or will refuse to eat. Now maybe I can make Sim versions of the Admins and…
no… wait… it probably won't eat them…. after all they're…
I better not repeat that Mass Effect line again… O_O
Also watched some weird Youtube vid where a very fat guy was getting upset about not getting his chicken sandwich. I tell ya… there are some people restaraunts should NEVER serve…
And here's a Mass Effect thought… what if the Renegade ending of Mass Effect 3 featured Renegade Shepard becoming the core of a brand new Human Reaper and ends up replacing Harbinger as the leader of the Reaper fleet…
So being the cheapskates that me and my friends are, I decided to help them to brew some wine (crap-quality, but it does the job). Which wouldn't have been a problem except for the fact that I live country were counting on the weather is like rolling a 100 sided die, most of the time it's fair… but not tonight. In other words, very windy and wet snowfall and I was in my jacket (not a thick one).
Good thing I was wearing my dad's sweater that he gave me during this holiday. Totally dry and kept me warm all the way. If only if my jeans had that same property….
So reading post after post about the minutae of a video game gets me thinking of how superior I am because I don't waste my time that way.
Then I realize that I'm currently obsessing about scratchbuilding the air cleaners of World War II M4 and M4A1 Medium Tanks and the appropriate markings for a Panzergrau Pzkpfw IV Ausf F2. No, my time is wasted on lumps of molded plastic that collect dust. Guess I can point to that shelf full of kits when I'm done as opposed to memories of blowing things apart in a virtual world. However, I spent the last four years of my service in the Army doing precisely that. I had my fun, got it out of my system and got paid, video games now leave me cold.
Yeah, I'm a touch envious. But I can run around the room with my completed model Halifax B.1 with the open bomb-bay imagining I'm taking out some Naa-zi city.
Did some coloring while Judy had her 2 1/2 hours in physical therapy. So at last I'm not at a loss for what to do. Finished a page and set up all the others.
Heh… video games make us a bit too lazy to use our imaginations as they do the visual representations for us. So you're having a lot more fun playing with your model than I am at blowing up stuff in Mass Effect.
But not all games are about blowing stuff up…
heh… the Sim I'm playing in The Sims 3 just suffered his second death (because loser/unlucky Sims can't die of anything EXCEPT old age). He was killed by one of the rarest causes of death in the game… smacked by a meteor. O_O
And Death still refused to take him and just brought him back to life. Took all the friends that died with him though… O_O
Thinking that videogames are a waste of life is an outdated and terribly flawed opinion.
Videogames these days are often much more than just shooting stuff, especially the "Mass Effect" series. Difficult moral questions are weaved into the fabric of a beautiful world. Some games, like the game "To the Moon" make us face our mortality and challenges us to reach for our dreams. Games like "Deus Ex" show us a glimpse of a future that could be, if we do not mend our ways. The game "Minecraft" allows us to create our own world, not be put down by the boundaries the real world places upon us. The game "Plants vs Zombies" allows us to kill zombies, using plants.
All of these games and many more (perhaps with the exception of "Plants vs Zombies") enrich our life instead of drain it. As much as I myself enjoy painting miniature tanks, they don't really add much to our life.
Kroatz wrote:Hense my envy. However since my miniature tanks are rendered by an award winning master modeller they are truly a sight to behold and won awards and stuff.
Thinking that videogames are a waste of life is an outdated and terribly flawed opinion.
All of these games and many more (perhaps with the exception of "Plants vs Zombies") enrich our life instead of drain it. As much as I myself enjoy painting miniature tanks, they don't really add much to our life.
With its scratchbuilt interior and detailed exterior the equivelent for a gamer would be to completely reprogram the game world and maybe have the everyone transparent so you could see every bit of their insides? In case anyone cares it's an M3 Light Tank (Diesel) USMC mid-1942. Yeah, the antenna broke.
M901 Improved TOW Vehicle Scout section, 1-102 Armor Fort Drum NY 1990.
I guess I'm there with Bravo with a tad of envy toward those who have hours to play games. I do my morning suduko, catch a couple of rounds of snood for the good ol hand-eye coordination, and then go about doing this or that while observing the two in the house who become oblivious to all for hours while playing oblivion.
the thing is, no one really cares a whole lot about the platoons of dust bunnies that crop up when no one pays attention. When those fellows get organized, we're a-doomed - but so far, no one really cares.
just wait - come March, I'll start posting my blow-by-blow gardening activities:
those plants that wintered and those that didn't.
that peculiar mold on the holly;
and the season's most pernicious weed.
oh - and let's not forget the deer repellent (I think it's just puma piss, which always makes me think that if I only had my own puma . . . well, deer wouldn't be the problem any more)
I mostly feel the same way about videogames, because they really take over and when you're playing them, nothing else gets done… Like in the Blind Melon song about reading books "it rips my life away, but it's a great escape".
I have Grand Theft Auto III on my phone and when I get into it, wow… So I'm taking a break from it for a while.
Still can't wait for Mass Effect 3 later this year!
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Great Models Bravo! Gorgeously realistic paint job! You've got all the dirt and scuffs and corrosion in there. It's really painstaking but it's the most fun part of the paint job in the end, because you're being more arty and interpretive, "colouring outside the lines" and using your brains at the same time to work out just exactly where the scratches, rust and stains would be and what colour they'd be etc…
Like the fact that those M901's are mostly aluminium I think?- it's what a friend told me once, he used to drive them in the army here- and thing like steel being galvanised with zinc is going to have a different look, that sort of thing.
I used to do some model building years and years ago… badly. Never finished, like most kids. Then an art student friend got me into tabletop war-gaming for a little bit. Painting the miniatures and the vehicles was the best part, especially roughing them up to look used and "real".
After I gave that up I thought I'd use my new model painting skills (plus my more advanced painting skills in general), to tackle the model of the Cutty Sark I had lying around. I planned to do it in my own personal colour scheme though, not like the real ship:
That's the old beasti. I loved doing the verdigised copper plates on the hull and the slightly different look of the verdigris on the brass fittings…
(sitting on an unfinished USS Enterprise aircraft carrier with the nose of a SAAB Viggen in the foreground)
Anyway, roughing up stuff is fun and I use that to inform my comic art in Pinky TA now, making sure the mechs, tanks and ships have rust around the rivets, dirt, scratches and crap all over them :)
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