Congratulations, Kroatz! That's awesome! Way to go. Keep us posted, man!
Hippy, that's a great story! Very cool that you met him and I like that it had such an impact on you without you even realizing it would! You must have made a great impression on him if he hugged you!
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Rant, moan, rave and share - for all your chatter, natter, ETCETERA! 2013/2014
It took some doing, but I think I've finally removed that pesky Conduit search engine/browser hijacker from my machine. For a while it kept changing my Chrome settings when I didn't want anything changed. Worse, it was nearly impossible to find. I was only able to find it using some anti-spyware software and booting my computer into safe mode to clean out the registry… apparently this thing can hide its own entries within the registry to keep anyone from removing it.
Now I hope it stays gone.
A friend of mine had an issue wth something like that… even though there was nothing left of it on the comp it kept going into that as its home page… even though the real home page was google.
The trick was that it has added the link to its stupid home page into the shortcut for the Chrome icon. I just rightclicked that and took out all that crap. Worked fine after that. :)
Thanks guys, It´ll probably be late November before I get to actually see the final result (And be allowed to show anyone any drawings). And I don't think it's really anything special, since I've only ever done better work, so don't expect too much quality. I only joined the project four days before deadline, which is quite tight. I'm much more excited by my recent writing work.
So stuff has been happening! Very happy to read about the new baby, Genejoke – That's great!!
And, Kroatz – very cool. I'm really impressed and I'm gearing up my harking, as in "I remember him from WAY back …" (as a troll to new mafia players; a troll who had suspensions). But that was then and this is now.
And all the other stuff – it's just great to be able to see what people are up to again. This duck went on Such an F-n bender this time. FB is good for what is is, but it's no Duck.
Can you believe how close this year is near the end already!? My family has had to focus a lot on family this year. We lost our first parent, and two more are fragile. Otherwise, I have been trying to consolidate and Complete rather than piling more things on an already-full plate. Not with great success, but am pleased to report that a sweater I started knitting maybe a dozen years ago is in the process of being finished. Originally it was suppose to be for my husband. But there's been some "weighty gain" and now after all this time, it looks like it'll be just right for my son.
And I'm taking a lot of walks. I LOVE walking when the trees compete for most glorious color. Exciting stuff, yes: knitting and walking – that's why I round things out with the weekly episodes of American Horror. Balance. gotta have balance. And comics, though sadly many of my favorites are in duck-bender-land.
Maybe a thread is in order? A promotional thread where those comics that are still alive CAMPAIGN and show their wares, as it were, and find homes for jilted readers such as moi. a thought
Knitting has the potential to be every bit as exciting as for example:
- Sittting.
- Picking up various objects.
- Doodling.
- Cutting carrots and/or tomatoes.
- Watching commercials.
- Fighting dragons using nothing but a tootbrush made of valyrian steel and an inflated ego.
Well, maybe not that last one, but I can think of quite a few things a lot less satisfying than knitting and walking. Especially if you eventually finish the sweater, or find something you've never seen before on one of your walks. I've never been taught anything like knitting or sewing and I have spent quite a large amount of money buying things I would have most likely been able to create myself. My favorite hat (a red wool one) was made by my mom and I have spent several hundreds of hours wearing it. So don't knock knitting, it may not be the most interesting activity to perform, but it has the potential to create amazingness.
You know what? I'm going on a walk right now, maybe I'll be able to see the sun through the thick layer of clouds that has hidden it from me for so long. SUCK IT INTERNET, I'm going OUTSIDE!
Ugh… now I find myself looking for complete song lyrics for Grand Theft Audio's song "As Good As It Gets". I've searched the net for them, but all of them are missing one set of lyrics. The set I can't find is where one of the female singers is doing a solo. I can't make out what exactly she's singing as there's a lot of echo in there. -_-
JustNoPoint wrote:Damn that ozone, featuring the poo-poo and ruining your computers since 2004….
Ozone jinxed me! He features me and my computers power button stops working so now I have to wait till its done at the shop before I can update again >:(
gullas wrote:And he keeps saying he wants to be overthrown, but I say where's the fun in that? We wouldn't have him to kick aorund any longer.
JustNoPoint wrote:
Ozone jinxed me! He features me and my computers power button stops working so now I have to wait till its done at the shop before I can update again >:(
Damn that ozone, featuring the poo-poo and ruining your computers since 2004….
I think it's time I started writing that biographical comic I've kept talking to myself about for the last couple years. After the last two weeks, I pretty much have every single pitfall a 20-something could fall into covered I think. I broke ties with a roomate, who proceeded to rob me blind and trash my fledgling business in the process of her leaving which resulted in me literally being homeless, after being kicked out by my landlord, for two weeks until I could scrap together the money to move my possessions and myself into a storage unit and my parent's basement respectively. Right now, I'm using the public library for an office and hanging drywall for a family friend to try and scrape together enough of an income to get back to the point where I'm stable enough to start thinking about a home of my own again. I'm getting past the point of all the depression and stress enough now to be thinking about it and really how it just kind of adds to this weird, twisted and altogether surreal story.
lba wrote:you know lba, that does sound like a hillarious comedy… with a hint of european realism.
I think it's time I started writing that biographical comic I've kept talking to myself about for the last couple years. After the last two weeks, I pretty much have every single pitfall a 20-something could fall into covered I think. I broke ties with a roomate, who proceeded to rob me blind and trash my fledgling business in the process of her leaving which resulted in me literally being homeless, after being kicked out by my landlord, for two weeks until I could scrap together the money to move my possessions and myself into a storage unit and my parent's basement respectively. Right now, I'm using the public library for an office and hanging drywall for a family friend to try and scrape together enough of an income to get back to the point where I'm stable enough to start thinking about a home of my own again. I'm getting past the point of all the depression and stress enough now to be thinking about it and really how it just kind of adds to this weird, twisted and altogether surreal story.
@Kroatz: Congrats! That is really exciting!
@Ayes: Well done with the sweater! You wouldn't believe how many half-finished scarves I have.
I think a thread for comics that are back up and running is an excellent idea.
@lba: That's really terrible - I'm sure you've done whatever you can, but there wasn't any way to get police involved with said roommate or anything? It does sound like it would make a good dark comedy-type comic, though.
bravo1102 wrote:We're in the process of a gradual usurpation, I think - I am helping out with newsposts now. :)
And he keeps saying he wants to be overthrown, but I say where's the fun in that? We wouldn't have him to kick aorund any longer.
https://next.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2013/nov/12/friday-newspost-meet-your-new-newspost-overlordoverlady/
lba wrote:"…after being kicked out by my landlord, for two weeks until I could scrap together the money to move my possessions and myself into a storage unit and my parent's basement respectively. "
On the bright side, you finally have time to draw webcomics again!
Live it up, spending time with the 'Rents normally means that you are now free labor for chores or help around the house. Think of it as payback for all the free room and board they supplied for eighteen plus years before you went away to college.
My apologies for what you had to go through with the roommate. It sounds like a nightmare, that (hopefully) is over.
@ hippie: It's kind of working itself out better without the police involved. I'm kind of in one of those situations where tangling with the law under any circumstances is bad for me. Besides, I ended up with one of her heirloom diamond rings and a pile of electronics she left behind that have actually turned out to be worth a bit more than she took.
@ kawaii: I've always kind of been free labor for them. I've been their business' marketing department for about the last 4 years. Now I'm just doing it while I'm standing at the counter in the coffee shop. It is mostly over now, and given the timing since I'm supposed to be working for the government for a few months soon it's a lot better than it could have been, and with the afore-mentioned valuables left behind, I may actually come out ahead in the long run here.
That's raw lba. If I were you I'd try and do a swap- your stuff for hers'. But I know that's easier said than done. :(
So I needed about 80 metal, smooth, high dome shaped buttons for my other hussar jacket. The place I ordered them from mislabelled the part of their site and they were actually plastic!
It is very hard to get just the right shape and type of button you want, even with all the internet to look in.
For this exact style of button pretty much no one makes them new now, unless it's in plastic. The only places you can readily get them are replicas from renactment outfitters for about 1.2 euros or even 1.4 pounds a button (at the minimum), or auction places for antique buttons…
But usually they don't have enoygh in a matching set. Even reneactment places have limited suplies.
So I zaged instead of zigged. Now I'm having them custom made in China.
There's a thousad piece minimum and I have to pay for the mould to be made… but at $0.14 a button WITH silver plating, the cost for 1000 is the same as getting as paying for 80 from those other places, even with the pprice of the mold.
Shipping will probably be a lot… But I can always sell them on Ebay. The scarcity means I can corner the market, even if they're mainly scarce because no one wants that style anymore. :)
Still, plain, high domed, silver metal buttons go with a lot of things and they're great for decorative touches!
I'm going to make an Adam Ant style waistcout with them:
Maybe put them on the outside seem of some tight trousers… that would look prety cool too ^_^
A laced hussar waistcoat. The 15th British Light Dragoon (Hussar) regiment has a reenactment unit who might be happy to get silver dome buttons. http://www.xvld.org/
At the very least they could put you in touch with someone else who needs them? Love watching these guys in action, gives you a feeling for what the uniforms looked like in service as opposed to how they are sculpted on my miniatures or even painted in all my Osprey MAA volumes.
Excelent idea Bravo! I'd love to offer them to guys like that, if they're good enough quality buttons that is. We'll see how the finished product turns out.
Shipping from here could be expensive for them, but if they needed a lot it'd be a bit more cost effective. The price for the buttons themselves would be better than they could get locally… if the quality is what I hope. You never know though.
Their genuine replica uniforms are pretty amazing! ^_^
Mine is only my own "ideal" design, based roughly on Prussian styles from the early to mid 19th century. - although with no modern touches or anything out of place inserted into the design.
I think my thing is that I love the "look". I want it authentic, because it's the authenticity that makes it, but I don't want an actual replica because that involves compromises and also taking on the role of a real solder… which I'm not. I'm just a guy in a fancy outfit.
It's hard to explain.
But for the route those guys are going down, with renactments and being part of a troop, I admire them and that's the way to go if you're going the full replica path.
Wow, Iba. That's a tough road to walk (and tripping on all the potholes along the way). But it's good to know you're picking yourself up, dusting yourself off, and moving forward. Just don't stay single like I have though… there may be days when you will find yourself regretting it…
Blah!
Okay… watched this crime thing on the Discovery Channel (we get Australia's version for some reason… lots of Australian commercials… especially that one scary commercial where this woman is really REALLY CRAZY about Christmas) and saw something disturbing… besides that commercial that is…
Here's this serial killer. He's gotten close to killing his female victim. She's mortally wounded, but managed to make it to a neighbor's apartment. Later the police arrive and request an ambulance. However, the ambulance is delayed. Turns out the person who tried to kill the woman intercepted the ambulance and wounded himself badly, forcing them to take him to the hospital first. This works for him because he wants her dead, and forcing the ambulance to divert its attention to him robs her of the help and precious time she needs to survive.
Too bad for him there was another ambulance in the area which also responded to the call for help.
Now I'm finding myself wondering how I will handle that if/when it happens when I'm on the job.
Now for something completely out of left field. Just out of curiosity (and watching too many old TV shows) is it true that women swoon when they see a man in military uniform? Or was that just made up to get more men to sign their lives away to the government for combat duty?
Lonnehart wrote:YEP.
Now for something completely out of left field. Just out of curiosity (and watching too many old TV shows) is it true that women swoon when they see a man in military uniform?
Not new ones though, just the old ones with all the lovely buttons and buckles and hats.
It's completely involuntary. I have a massive crush on Captain Vidal from Pan's Labyrinth, and I hate myself for it.
(I can't speak for all ladies, of course. Just myself.)
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