Well, finally found a drawing program that I can really work with.
https://docs.krita.org/Main_Page
I wish I had known about this. Only found it on random chance (I was looking up paint programs on Wikipedia). It also recognizes my non Wacom tablet enough that pressure sensitivity works. Well… I guess I can start drawing when I get home from work if only to explore what I can really do with it. :)
oh… and it's free…
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2016 Rant/Share/General Discussion Thread
For whatever reason I keep having events and whatnot on Thursday night (when I do up my newspost). Fortunately I wrote most of mine beforehand this week like a good modmin, but I'm way too sleepy to make a coherent list of bugs and stuff for the thread I made.
I just got back from Hail, Caesar! I didn't like it as much as O Brother Where Art Thou (one of my favourite films), but it was solidly enjoyable. I would go see it again.
HippieVan wrote:
I just got back from Hail, Caesar! I didn't like it as much as O Brother Where Art Thou (one of my favourite films), but it was solidly enjoyable. I would go see it again.
Exactly how I felt when I saw it. Solid and enjoyable, but not genius like O Brother, Fargo, or Raising Arizona. And I was surprised by how small Scarlett J's and Jonah H's roles are. From the trailer I thought they'd be bigger. Gotta love those trailers.
Yes. Krita is more for the artist instead of image manipulation. That makes it a great tool for comics. :)
Aaand I ticked off my coworker (the one who told me I was being childish for playing Minecraft). Basically I told him that he was acting like a child for clinging to the idea that he was more "manly" than me. I know I shouldn't care what he thinks, but he's been really getting on my nerves so I decided on the fly that shutting him up will make things better. And now he won't talk to me.
*sigh* Just another one thing that's going south for me this year…
Sooo Lonne you'd prefer if he'd jumped you and tried to kick your ass to prove his superior "manliness"? The silent treatment is wonderful.
There was another pissing contest shouting match at work the other day and a worker walked off the site because the client is a first-class douche-bag prick. And he told him so. Talk about two kids disguised as 40-50 ish year old men. But then I constantly mumble to myself and am crazy as a loon and get along well with everyone including the co-worker who seems like he is from another planet. (Space cadet? No Ed, he's admiral of the fleet.)
ozoneocean wrote:
Sigh and say "Whatever man."
That works :)
I had a vivid dream last night where I was taking pics of all the things that happened with my phone. SUCH a disappointment to know that none of them were going to be in my gallery after I woke up. :(
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- Ah! You forgot to save your dream!…
bravo1102 wrote:
Sooo Lonne you'd prefer if he'd jumped you and tried to kick your ass to prove his superior "manliness"? The silent treatment is wonderful.
Yes! So I can have him eating dirt instead. But I think he knows that. On the bright side, he's not bragging anymore so I guess I hit a raw nerve when I told him how childish he was acting. After all, one of the biggest signs of immaturity (from what I've seen) is the declaration of maturity. I probably handled that situation wrong, but I was annoyed at the time and didn't want to put up with it any longer.
Oh, great… and I get a webcomic idea based on this song. What kind of dromedy could you get from living with one? Taller than 10 feet, super strong, flies, and hard to find an apartment for…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zpawLqRJWY
I get weird dreams myself. I sometimes wonder if my brain is producing all those illegal mind altering substances sometimes when my dreams get all weird and I REMEMBER them! O_O
Oh… somehow when quoting something, the "/quote" is spelled "/qoute" somehow…
And last night in a dream I went beyond beyond. Somehow I ended up in the far future where humans were near extinct old ones having returned via their worshippers having infiltrated world leadership. There was a mass emigration of old ones in the early 21st Century where at one point I was with a UN team trying to stop them until we realized it was already too late. Somehow I went on the lamb and ended up in an abandoned government facility. There was this gate and next I know I am in an apocalyptic waste. There's this giant pink furry feathered thing and it's an old one in her last years. She recognized me as human but over exerts herself and explodes. Inside I find an intact landing ship tank with the crew frozen in time. Somehow they revive and we go off adventuring. Well actually looking for pussy and booze. I get to see old ones in all the cycles of their lives and even one of their sitcoms about one trying to live with a brood of rambunctious deep ones back in my day. I hook up with a few remaining women but while rescuing them tear my scrotum. Then we discover there are still other human civilizations in the universe who might be willing to help. The coolest thing was the old ones who were a pastel colored race of bird, dragon, furry things ranging from cute book store clerks, crazy little kids and haughty teens up to the giant bloated flying "grandma" who exploded trying to hunt me down.
Hahaha! I hope your scrotum got better Bravo XD
Sounds like one of you comics, on steroids.
@Lonne- It's the opposite. All the stuff that "illegal substances" do to the brain is actually the brain itself doing that stuff, the drugs just disrupt normal function in specific ways and that's the mess that results, they don't change the brain in any way (though it might change to adapt over time).
It's like rubbing your finder on an old calculator screen and seeing all those broken digital numbers and the funky rainbow colours- the finger didn't have anything in it to make it do that, rather you just messed it up in a way that made the screen do it to itself.
So what I'm saying is that all those strange experiences and thoughts CAN be as a result of similar mental stimuli to someone on drugs, without requiring them to cause it because the potential is always there.
It's really, really interesting to know a bit about brain function and why we think the way we do. AMAZINGLY interesting.
Did you know if if you shut of a process in the brain that you stop knowing were "YOU" begins and ends and you start thinking everything is part of you? You can do that with time sense as well so that a person is in a constant state of deja vu "this has already happened before!", you can a make a person think they're floating outside themselves, witnessing everything as an outsider… and that's just scratching the surface.
Stress roller coaster is finally slowing to stop. I was offered and accepted a spring/summer position at Assateague Island National Seashore. Now I'm trying to find a place to park my RV for the season.
It occurs to me that my lifestyle and career path is not something my friends relate to. :P Fretting all winter and applying to everything to work half a year in I-have-no-idea-where. I hope something permanent comes along. In the meantime, I'm glad I bought the RV. It makes me feel like home can be anywhere.
ozoneocean wrote:
Seems pretty heroic and adventurous to me.
It's scary as hell not knowing where or if you're going to have a job. It's getting less uncertain now, though. The RV helps a lot. It's a source of stability. (Although these coastal jobs make hurricane season nerve-wracking.)
Also, I don't think anyone has ever called me adventurous. Lol. Thanks for that.
Too bad there are no RV's made of concrete. Most houses here on Guam are built from concrete. You can tell how long ago they were built… the oldest ones look more like concrete bunkers than houses. Even better… you don't have to get typhoon insurance if you live in one.
Took a look at CN's "We Bare Bears". Hard to believe it came from a webcomic. You'd think the series would be totally filled with happiness and madcap comedy. Then there's this…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zsSBjq1Sxc
I wonder if what some commenters are saying is true… that if there's danger about, the mother grizzly will have her cub climb a tree for safety. If that's the case, that makes the seen even more sad to me… :(
At least it explains his personality… and his love for burritos…
I try most shows on CN. That one is cute. I can't get super into it, but it's cute.
My RV weathered Arthur okay in 2014. It made landfall as a category 2. My first hurricane. I did not like it. I was evacuated inland and spent the entire time worried that I wouldn't have a home to go back to. There were a lot of storms and flooding in that area (all summer long) too. I once drove home through standing water that reached the bottom of my car. Plus, I have a lightning phobia. The weird thing is, as a science geek, I feel safer in the RV during a thunderstorm than in a traditional house. I live in an aluminum can. Faraday cage ftw.
Last year was much less stressful (Petersburg, VA), but I had to learn how to deal with traffic and city driving. I ended up getting my first speeding ticket. I also got to educate people about all kinds of Civil War era flags.
Btw, my mom watches those "Tiny Homes" shows and this couple were saying they wanted something really mobile and also hurricane-safe. I was yelling at the screen, "You can't have both, Stupid! Mobile means it MOVES!"
With all the shipping containerso piling up at ports, they are not a bad solution for mobile housing. It'seems about as easy to move one as a standard parked house trailer from a trailer park.
And yes strong enough winds will blow over 70 ton steel things. Didn't you read about that cruise ship in the squall recently? Those ships are bigger than a World War II aircraft carrier but still get tossed around like a tin can in heavy seas. Though of course as a "tin can" sailor (destroyer ) will tell you those same seas could swamp and sink a destroyer.
@Bravo, we need plymayer for that.
Living in an RV sounds quite fun, but the uncertainly if work and income would be worrying. My life is due for some changes, after a long time of work sick I need to find work and new place to live. It's a little worrying, but something will come along soon enough.
Though of course as a "tin can" sailor (destroyer ) will tell you those same seas could swamp and sink a destroyer.When I was much younger, on a sail training voyage, I asked a former RAN sailor why you never hear about modern navy ships sinking in storms. Was it because they're overpowered and well designed?
-Nope. They don't sail through storms, they just go around.
Commercial shipping hasn't got that luxury.
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Good luck on the house hunt GJ!
ozoneocean wrote:
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It's really, really interesting to know a bit about brain function and why we think the way we do. AMAZINGLY interesting.
Did you know if if you shut of a process in the brain that you stop knowing were "YOU" begins and ends and you start thinking everything is part of you? You can do that with time sense as well so that a person is in a constant state of deja vu "this has already happened before!", you can a make a person think they're floating outside themselves, witnessing everything as an outsider… and that's just scratching the surface.
Agreed!
Has anyone else read about the new screening for Alzheimer's? Research has identified the first brain areas to be affected by the disorder, which correlate to the ability to detect scent with the left nostril.
So the test is simple: a dollop of peanut butter at the end of a ruler. If you can smell the PB, continue (if you can't, you've got other concerns). Hold your right nostril closed with one hand and hold the clean end of the ruler to your open left nostril. Can you smell the PB? If not, rut roh.
The test is still being evaluated as a diagnostic for early onset of the disease, but it has a very good rate for confirming known cases (although it doesn't differentiate among the various dementia disorders).
So, yeah, I got rut roh. But I've also had a stuffy nose. Or I may just not recall this post after I hit submit. :/
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