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Many face tweaks.

The “entire area” vertex may pinch the mesh strangely with that many patches using it as a corner, but will have to see how I go with the face morphs. Also I’m stupid and the “moved outward” applies to the vertex above the one highlighted, I am too lazy to change the diagram.

Rapture and armageddon and all that are upon us, and as per usual JJ has taken the kids to 6yo’s Auskick game and I stayed home, trained the dogs (could have gone for another 5mins on top of what I did do but I got defeated by the cold) and ripped through an Anki session with a Lojban gismu deck. We know we’re not going anywhere.

Think I’m one of the few people on the planet who could have trouble with something as basic as this.

Problem: csv dump of the users table will not import no matter how you tweak the settings.

Solution:

1. open csv file in NeoOffice (or whatever your spreadsheet thingi of choice is). I had to edit mine to change the user1 in the csv to uid 2 as there is already a user1 in the D7 it will be going into, other people may not need to edit theirs
2. save the file, and keep it in csv format rather than changing to the native format of the spreadsheet
3. using phpmyadmin, go to the database and find the users table, and select import
4. browse for the csv file, leave all settings as they are, press go

In my case running the thing through NeoOffice stuck semi-colons all over the place which apparently made it easier for phpmyadmin (or MySQL, not sure which) to deal with. User table inserted.

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We had our initial visit yesterday, with the next one scheduled for another couple of months. Everything went pretty much as expected. The lady was nice, and was happy with all the learning areas except for English and maths, and also wanted to see more “scientific communication”.

6yo and 4yo set up an experiment to turn a flower blue, directed by 6yo, who had seen a demonstration on some science show on ABC. They made the blue water with paint and water (as we don’t have food colouring). They then went on to do some other arty crafty thingies while they waited for the colour to be drawn up to the flower.

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I’ve been lusting after one of these since shortly after they first came out. This year, I finally had to retire my beloved Intuos3, partly because it was getting laggy and jittery in its old age after much use (it was a wedding present, wedding was 6 years ago), and partly because my toddler walked off with the pen and I haven’t seen it since. Following was angst over whether I should take the cheap simple upgrade to the Intuos4 or splash out and be broke for a while getting a Cintiq.

Self portrait. Don’t be fooled by my expression, I have none (literally, haven’t done face morphs yet, I am just in t-pose and the mouth is slightly open because it’s easier to model and pick points when they’re not just about overlapping as happens with closed mouths). I also have no hair to speak of, need a bump map on my lips, my earrings, tattoos and minute freckle splash are missing, and I’m not convinced my eyes are that accurate (I was however too lazy to go look in the mirror for that long). I am wearing my favourite shirt (which has an odd red border around the top which I need to figure out how to get rid of) and my pants of power (which look dodgy, but I kind of figured out how to do camo :).

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Earlier today, we went on a mini road trip to Mundaring to visit The Naked Butcher , on the offchance that they had meat I could eat. As it is round the back of the small shopping complex it’s in, we managed to completely miss it and ended up in Sawyer’s Valley before we realised we’d gone too far and doubled back.

I got Yet Another Email urging people “fighting” for marriage equality to inundate politicians with messages of support for same sex marriage.

I fail at comprehending why this is an issue.

We are in a country that supposedly has a secular government, supposedly is big on giving a “fair go”, supposedly tolerant of all “race, colour and creed”. It’s also supposedly progressive thinking.

What we appear to have is a government that rolls over when religious groups and big businesses cry, throws money at people who want it and ignore the ones that need it, is cited globally as being racist, and cannot accept the fact that sometimes boys fall in love with boys and girls fall in love with girls.

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Firstly, what in the hell is with the life category?!

I’ve been (very slowly!) importing livejournal entries so I can replace missing photos. Very minor regret that I didn’t bother skimming through my shadowshifter livejournal before I deleted it as I probably had a few progress reports for my various projects kicking around on it, but oh well.

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I am a terrible mother.

For my big two, I did a “12 months of…” for their first birthdays. My poor, neglected third child missed out. So I decided to make up with a 24 Months of Cub for his second birthday. Didn’t even do a write up like I did with 6yo and 4yo (hers got lost when the last reseller host ate technonaturalist and set my other sites back to June 2010).