Last night, I was on a roll. I went to bed slightly later than intended.
This morning, Cub woke me up repeatedly. First, sometime before the sun came up. Then shortly after the sun came up and the blue light was caning my eyes. Then after the sun came up. And shortly after Josh staggered out of bed I did the same seeing as I couldn't sleep anyway.
Or not. Short version, according to last night's bizarro dream, there's going to be a merger between "this" world and "some other dimension/universe" soon if it's not happening already.
Now that I'm awake I'm wondering if it was Yet Another Incarnation of the Crazy Dog House, though I don't recall seeing a cliff this time. One day I should probably try to explain The Crazy Dog House, which appears to be a stupidly large mansion not a doghouse.
Me: Here Cub, a green nappy to go with your camo.
Cub: Camo! What's camo?
Josh: Camoflage.
Cub: Camel barge? What the?!
Business has been going pretty well. This is great, and it also means I haven't had a chance to work much on AR. I've been proofing and editing the scripts in between banging my head against code and deciphering client requests, and spent a whack of Sunday working on Red, but I'm pretty sure at this stage that I won't be ready to animate the first ep by the end of the year. I am refusing to have panic attacks about it.
stop-panic-attacks (Photo credit: mia.gant)
I think it's slightly depressing that my current progress doesn't look a whole lot different from my last wip (last picture right at the bottom of the post) seeing as I spent so much time reducing polys inside the mouth (an activity that vacillates between therapeutic and tedious, depending on my mood, how long I've been working on it and whatever else is going on in my life at that point), and am currently working out the shape of the mouth and kind of expanding outward from there.
We finally bought a NAS, it's living next to the router (which makes logical sense as it has to plug into the router). I'm currently copying all the music and photos onto it and will probably delete them off my computer as part of my cleanup process (moving a bunch of Stuff off the 250Gb ssd to the 2Tb sata).
Moving the iPhoto database was nice and easy (drag, hold down alt when opening iPhoto, selecting where the library had been moved to, delete the original file), and it kind of needed to go elsewhere as it's 53Gb and going to blow out as I'm shooting RAW.
Moving the iTunes library was a bit more of a hassle. Dragged to new location, changed library reference is preferences, dumped original in bin, restarted to make sure all was good, it seemed to be, so I emptied the trash can. I think I missed the consolidation step (another reason to not do this when tired) so it had a huge cry about not having a libary to use. I "opened" the folder I'd moved and now all is well with the world.
The D5000 died on us, Josh was quite determined he was going to stick with film and never getting another digital camera as the thing had only been 2 years old when it stopped working, apparently afflicted by a known and common problem with the D5000s. The film camera bodies he has (F3 and F4) are still going strong and they're relics from the 1980s.
I i nformed him that I needed a digital camera as I wanted to be able to blog photos shortly after taking them, not a month or so after we'd finished the roll of film and gotten around to getting it developed, and that I was going to buy one of those little point and shoot numbers that would fit in my cargo pockets.
He apparently couldn't cope with the thought, so he bought me a Nikon D70.
Nikond70front (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
It's a new-to-us thing and came with a Sigma lens (though I'm going to swap it out for my favourite which is an 18-55 that came with the D5000 and Josh doesn't think much of it) and a rather beat up old bag. I'm now on a quest for a bag that will haul the camera, my laptop, wallet, phone and some miscellany, and I've also finally been able to take more photos of the aquaponics setup.
Quick and dirty 3hr job of my gadgets, 1hr sketching last night and 2hrs slapping colours and a noise texture on earlier tonight.
ajana (big one that's supposed to be silver with tentacles and three eyes): Apple 27" iMac
symbiote (small one that's supposed to be white): Apple 13" MacBook
djinn (small black one): Apple iPhone 3GS
djuno (big black one with antennae): Asus Transformer
bek 6/04/12 10:23 PM
hee hee other cool thing with sass, i do this:
@mixin inline-block {
display: inline-block;
margin: 0 -2px;
vertical-align: top;
}
and then when i need things inline-blocked etc (in a few places) i do:
#container {
.stuff-what-needs-inlining {
{
@include inline-block;
}
}
Darqx 6/04/12 10:24 PM
i look at that and see what looks to be php mixed with css and want to run away screaming
Also known as: I'm a blithering idiot.
I spent way too long overthinking this problem and only finding solutions with floats (I have very specific cases where I'll use floats for layout, also I could have missed anything that didn't use floats for layout as I was stupidly staying up way too late when working on this). The way to do it is actually embarrassingly easy. I'll be using it for the header and footer (after I've installed Sassy, prepro and phpsass).
The above image is a screenshot of the header image on my local as seen in Opera (because it was the only one that showed the outlines regardless of the z-index). The middle columns are 950px wide (specifically set in the footer due to it being a background image, not set in the header as the image isn't backgrounded and the div sizes itself to it).
What I specifically needed was for the continuation images to start from the edges of the middle div (the left continuation image of the header and both footer continuations are uneven) and stretch to the edges of the container (which is the same width as the browser window, however wide that may be).
F=Faham (Photo credit: :Salihan)
Not "versus" because it's not a contest. Not really.
bek definition: technonaturalist - someone who believes that it is possible to live sustainably and in tune with the environment while having all (or at least most) of the toys and mod cons.
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