Christmas night and it's actually cool and nice here.
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Happy Boxing day everyone! Enjoy the mystery named 26th of December.
Seriously, NO ONE knows why it's called that.
- Has nothing to do with retail workers taking home boxes of stuff. That is a simply MORONIC theory since the name of the day is obviously older than stupid cardboard boxes.
So it's also unlikley to be about putting presents in boxes or any other box container related thing since the main boxes around would have been made of metal and wood and not popular for the type of stuff you share during Christmas. i.e. VERY heavy containers for carrying things about! They were mainly for storage, not for casual transport of goods.
- Is it about pizefighting? I'm not sure why it would be but the name IS English and boxing was basically invented there - hand to hand fighting was more popular in Britian than any other country outside of East Asia because civilians didn't use weapons that much (for whatever reason). So while you have a LOT of sword and pistol duels in Europe, Russia, India etc, in Britian it was mainly bare knuckle fighing, even between women.
They did have weapon duels but it tended to be very ileagal, ESPCIALLY if you managed to kill your oponent.
People would often make a trip to Ireland if they wanted to fight a weapon duel.
- Wikipedia talks about "Christmas boxes" for tradespeople from the 1830s and some notion that there used to be boxes for gifts placed outside churches in the 1700s and earlier. But the truth is that these are the sorts of things you often get on wiki: Explanations made to fit the premise. The truth is that the real explnation for the day is not known and those are just theories.
Any other theories about boxing day? I haven't got any.
ozoneocean wrote:True enough, but the nights and early mornings have gotten cold enough to have me put something on at work to keep the wind from nipping at me (and I have to stay outside at work)…
HAHAHAHA! Lone, it's STILL over twice as hot in Gaum as it is anywhere in the UK ^_^
O_O Actually the uniform I wear is a bit low on the quality side…
At least I have a game project going now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw16_auhW6s
Just taking the Extra Credits team's advice and testing the "minimum viable product". Think Flappy Bird, but you have to shoot AND mantain altitude…
Here, here. I just ate really tasty lasagna leftovers for lunch. If it were Monday, I would be having a Garfield experience.
Super slow day at work. Pretty much, I am getting paid to watch movies. Guardians of the Galaxy, Never Been Kissed, Princess Diaries, and now Legends of the Fall.
I have none!
…ok, I have some Christmas cake that I keep forgetting about. It was just too hot here for me to bother making food. >:/
It's STILL too hot! Here I am on holiday, having to wake up early on Monday morning and make sure everything is watered because I'ts going to be hell outside, now I'm in my cool, dark office room ediin the Quackcast tomgether.
I'm being really fussy about fonts with my comic right now. One of the pages is meant to look a bit like a vintage travel brochure (thanks again to Oz for finding reference material!) and I can't decide on a font for the longer text bits. I haven't taken any kind of graphic design classes since high school so I have just enough knowledge to know that what I have doesn't look right, but not enough to know why or what to look for.
ozoneocean wrote:I don't have it. :( I think my reference material was all 1930s. Most of them seem to use serif fonts for longer text, but not all of them.
What period was the broucher again? From memory Futura was super popular for everything in the '20s and '30s. It has lots of variations (bold, thin, ulltrabold etc), so it works well for paragraph text as well as titles.
Well it's super old so it's also super free!
https://www.fontyukle.net/en/1,futura
Stuff in the style of it:
http://www.1001fonts.com/futura-fonts.html
ozoneocean wrote:Yay! Thank you. I switched to Fortuna from the serif font I was using and it looks a lot nicer. I'm still not 100% happy with it, but at this point I think it might just be the effect of having stared at the same thing for too long.
Well it's super old so it's also super free!
https://www.fontyukle.net/en/1,futura
Stuff in the style of it:
http://www.1001fonts.com/futura-fonts.html
Just thought I'd show off my Space Luxury Liner… in combat… :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uoblqk1Eiy8
Hi I started a new community project any one intrested?
Anyone?
Hello?….
That's a heavily armed space yacht Lonne. More like a pirate ship in that configuration?
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Well our ad revenue for this month is WAY up on what it's been, in fact we've had our highest month ever!!!
We were steadily decilining before I hired Alexey for the emergency fixs, and I really thought it wouldn't even be enough to pay the bare bones site costs… But this month people are paying crazy amounts for the ad space, so even with the extra added cost of $48+ US a month for our image server we will STILL have a very safe proffit margin.
-Which goes to pay me for the $90+ in back costs I paid off on the unpaid AWS bill, but that's STILL a boon. I honestly didn't expect to have that almost paid back so soon.
We can't expect the same rates of earnings though, you simply cannot rely on Project Wonderful ads to give you a consistant amount. So rather than expecting the ad revenue to increase even further I will just assume that this month was a bit of an abaration and it will go back down to normal again- or bellow normal, you just can't ever tell.
I expect the worst but hope for the best ^_^
All that said though, at the moment the site is financially quite healthy and ticking along better than it has for the last few years.
That is some fantastic and uplifting site news, Oz! Buy that duck another drink. He has been sober for way too long.
My New Years Eve plans have just become a lot more exciting. I plan to spend the new year changeover at a nerd convention, it is actually called NerdCon. There are supposed to be lasers and other outrageous things and people. I am really looking forward to this event. It fits my comfort zone.
@oz: That is super awesome!
kawaiidaigakusei wrote:
My New Years Eve plans have just become a lot more exciting. I plan to spend the new year changeover at a nerd convention, it is actually called NerdCon. There are supposed to be lasers and other outrageous things and people. I am really looking forward to this event. It fits my comfort zone.
That sounds really fun! I have one party invite but not sure if I'm going to go. Pros: the friends whose party it is has a really cute cousin. It's also sort of a family-plus-other type of party, so chances are there won't be too much crazy drinking. Cons: I'll only really know the one friend.
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I haven't been posting here all that much recently because I've been taking advantage of my holiday to socialize with real life people, so that's been nice. I think I've gotten far less awkward over the past couple years - university has been really good for me.
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For my curatorial practicum course I'm supposed to find a job posting that I would be somewhat qualified for after have graduated and completed the practicum, then put together a mock resume and cover letter. This is a tremendously depressing assignment because *surprise* no one cares about your history degree. It's actually easier to get a museum job as a history student than as a person with a history degree, because the government helps to fund a bunch of student jobs. There's very little in the museum field without a master's degree in Canada.
ozoneocean wrote:If I was playing a Klingon warrior, it would DEFINITELY be a pirate ship. But I'm playing a Federation character so….
That's a heavily armed space yacht Lonne. More like a pirate ship in that configuration?
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Well our ad revenue for this month is WAY up on what it's been, in fact we've had our highest month ever!!!
We were steadily decilining before I hired Alexey for the emergency fixs, and I really thought it wouldn't even be enough to pay the bare bones site costs… But this month people are paying crazy amounts for the ad space, so even with the extra added cost of $48+ US a month for our image server we will STILL have a very safe proffit margin.
-Which goes to pay me for the $90+ in back costs I paid off on the unpaid AWS bill, but that's STILL a boon. I honestly didn't expect to have that almost paid back so soon.
We can't expect the same rates of earnings though, you simply cannot rely on Project Wonderful ads to give you a consistant amount. So rather than expecting the ad revenue to increase even further I will just assume that this month was a bit of an abaration and it will go back down to normal again- or bellow normal, you just can't ever tell.
I expect the worst but hope for the best ^_^
All that said though, at the moment the site is financially quite healthy and ticking along better than it has for the last few years.
And I just realized… my character's name (Y'ndere) and her ship (Killer Lady) is an unintentional reference to an anime called School Days, where meme "Nice Boat" came from… You may want to look that up, though… O_O
As for the Drunkduck website news, I'm happy to see things are going up. I look forward to things geting better next year. :)
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