Short little snippet here, but I got an email a little while ago anouncing the date that The Witcher: Enhanced Edition will be released. I've held off on reinstalling that game because I want to play it at its full potential. Originally, Bioware was supposed to release everything in May, but oh well, September 2008 is good too.
They're working on improving a lot in the game, including re-recording all the dialogue, in 10 different languages. Bioware's trying their hardest. I can't really fault them for releasing the game before it's "complete", since a lot of companies do that. It doesn't mean the full game isn't done, it just needs a tad more polishing.
Something happens around this time of the year. Something, happens.
With a presidential race in full swing, children freshly out of their American History classes in school, and a nation of grumpy grownups who don't want to bother with the recession, it's the right condition for a special something to bloom.
Tis the summer of political comedy.
It's a long-standing tradition for comics to rag on the current political affairs of the United States. We tend to cherish those special folk that agree with our point of view and bash those we think evil. This style of comedy, while it tends to be dry and not very ridiculous, does have a large audience. Especially here in DC. This large demographic is partly how Air America came to be, it's a political radio station and features comedians such as Al Frankin and Janeane Garofalo. We also tend to have comedy groups like Second City and The Capital Steps begin their summer nationwide tours. Also doing nationwide tours are individual comedians, like Glenn Beck, who is also a blogger.
Glenn is a fairly funny man, on the liberal side, and runs a great little political blog. He's touring at the moment, but if you can't make it to see him in person, his Dallas show on the 17th of July will be broadcast in select movie theatres around the nation.
If you have never seen a politcal comedy show, an individual comedian is a great way to start.
If I had the choice between a laptop and a desktop, at this moment, I'd still take the laptop. I know it's weird, since desktops are better for the graphically/game inclined. However at this time, I value transportation over modification. At this moment, I prefer to be able to relax with my laptop in bed and be able to carry it around while at school. It's more comfortable.
I imagine when I have more than a room to call my own, a desktop will be quite welcome, but I'll still keep a laptop around to keep by my side.
Ugh, Photoshop is being bitchy lately. It's taking about 5 minutes to start up again. I don't understand why, honestly, it's not like I don't have enough memory in the computer. I got the "out of memory" error message again too when I was working on a photo edit. I've got 2 gigs of RAM in this baby, so I was quite confused.
It doesn't seem to matter if it's HP memory, dell memory, or Apple memory, I'll always get that evil little message that doesn't make any sense. I guess I'll just have to live with it.
I got my yoga books finally, a few weeks ago, and I'm quite excited because that means that I can now practice the yoga I've always wanted. I'm all for losing weight naturally, not having to rely on weight loss pills like Alli, or hoodia. I believe that those products work, but only if you keep using them consistently. I think it's the same way with diets like Weight Watchers and jenny Craig. All of those will definitely help you lose weight, but as soon as you stop taking the pill, or quit the pre-made meals, you'll go right back up to your high weight. Perhaps even higher.
This reason is exactly why I stay away from any sort of diet. I don't want to have to rely on changing my habits drastically to get an appropriate size. I'd much rather do it in a way that's not going to make me hate food.
I'm back in the swing of things at work, which means I'll be far busier in the coming months than June. Oh well, being busy is good.
Not too much has changed at VisArts, I should be working on some nice projects and I'll probably post more about them at a later date. At the moment we're gearing up for out next exhibition, Farm to Market.
Well, off to do some photo editing. Let's see how well I can replace an entire street...
It's the same loud experience in every hotel and casino, you just get a different theme. I don't know, it's a fun city but I think there are too many people who take Vegas seriously. Perhaps it's the antisocialite in me, but I don't know how much I could handle all of that money flaunting and obnoxious rich people day after day.
I'm able to do a lot of things at my age. I'm legally an adult, I can gamble, I can purchase alcoholic drinks. But, I still can't legally rent cars, not until I'm 25. Oh well, with the price of gas being what it is and my own financial predicament, I'm not planning on travelling anywhere soon, so not too big of a deal.
Still, when the time comes, it's nice to know there's a place I can find a cheap car rental for. Advantage.com offers some nice deals on car rentals, like $20 a day deals. Which sounds pretty good to me. Right now, they also have a special offer of up to 50% off of luxury and convertible car rentals.
Maybe I can't rent yet, but I seriously hope that when the time comes, I'll be able to rent for as cheap as Advantage offers.
I'm quite pleased with Amazon's shipping. I ordered the Futurama movie on Sunday, and today it's here! Let's here it for free accidental overnight shipping!
Yeah, I've yet to have problems with anything I've ordered from Amazon directly. I always get my packages on or before the estimated delivery date. So yeah, I'm pretty dern happy about this.
I've been hemming and hawing over a domain name for the website I will share with my boyfriend. This is a certainty that we're just putting off. Having a personal website to host your portfolio is pretty much an essential in the art world. It's also quite important in the business world as well, which is why I worked on Spinalrejuvenation.org to help that client reach a selected audience that he otherwise wouldn't get. Choosing a domain name is such an important step, that it should be taken seriously. This is your URL after all.
Network Solutions offers a neat little domain name scorecard, that helps see if your chosen domain name is helping your business. It's pretty basic, three steps, with three somewhat broad questions. It's nice, and does make you think "well, wait...maybe I should do this and that, I'll have a better site for my business". I tried it out with spinalrejuvenation.org, just to see, and I guess it didn't score too badly, 5/10.
The questions are this:
1.Have you registered additional extensions of this exact domain name? 2.Have you registered misspellings and common typing mistakes or names that sound like yours that a competitor might register? 3.Have you registered domain names that describe your products, services or locality?
This is definitely geared towards larger businesses, not personal portfolio sites like what I would like to have. While the questions are good, I do wish there were a few more or a better explanation of how to increase your score without spending more. Since the changes they suggest would mean spending more money. To a business, that doesn't sound like a bad idea, to an individual, that's pretty tough.
If you have a business or personal domain name, it might be fun to find out what your domain name scorecard is.
I'm a little sad/confused with my Intuos3 tablet. I downloaded a brand new (released on the 17th) driver last night in the hopes that my Wacom will go back to working like the dream it should be. Nope, the driver apparently did nothing.
My pen isn't sensitive at all Photoshop, there doesn't seem to be any difference when I apply pressure or draw as lightly as possible. I don't get any sort of difference in like when I tilt the pen one way or another. The Intuos should do that, and I've played with pen sensitivity settings on both the Wacom properties page in the Control Panel and in Photoshop itself.
It's quite bothersome really, and I don't for the life of me know what to do.
Have you had any similar problems with pen sensitivity using Vista?
So, of all the jobs available that I could do, social work is not even close to being something I'd like to do. Of course, I have great respect for those in the social work business, it must be quite hard to deal with a bevy of terrible people day after day. Those who can keep their cool after a few years in social work can keep their cool in any situation. I didn't realize there was an official social work test though, that's news to me. I suppose it makes sense, a lot of careers require an exam to become licensed, I guess I just never thought about needing it for that particular type of job. They also have study guides available to help out, so I suppose it's as much pressure as the SAT is for high schoolers. Just like the SATs, there's a whole lot of different types of study guides out there, but it looks like Social Work Guide.com has some of the more useful books for social workers.
So, continuing with my love for all things Matt Groening, I'm excited for the upcoming DVD release of Futurama: Beast With A Billion Backs. Here's the trailer:
Yeeeppp, looks like it's gonna be fun on a bun! I've already pre-ordered my DVD!
...Okay, I'll admit that I've already seen it. But, I support Futurama and watched the movie with the full intent of purchasing the DVD. Futurama is one of the few series I own the entirety of on DVD, yes, I also haveBender's Big Score. The reason being, that all the television DVDs contain commentary that is as entertaining as the episodes themselves. I'm such a DVD nerd, I love audio commentary and I enjoy it even more when those commenting sound like they had a good time making the film/t.v. show. I think it enhances the viewing experience, and touches on things that the viewer may have missed. Thus, I love Futurama and its consistent DVD commentaries.
So, here's a short review of Beast With a Billion Backs (spoiler free):
It's....weird. Definitely one of the odder stories to take place in the Futurama universe. I do like it though, the story is just a bit different from other Futurama stories. Why? I suppose it's a little more of a horror story actually, while funny the plot is quite disturbing and could easily be turned into a Sci-fi thriller if you take away the comedy...and Bender. But where would Futurama be without lovable Bender and its witty comedy?
The jokes are still great, and I've read a few reviews of people who are hardcore Futurama fans who didn't like Bender's Big Score because they said the writing wasn't as good as the t.v. show. That's, frankly, bullshit. Considering that the show has the same staff of writers as the films, I don't see how it could be worse. In my mind, it's the same. In fact, a bit better. Longer "episodes" lead to longer jokes, giving them more time to grow and develop. Also, by crafting the movies around a DVD release, the writers are able to get away with material that Fox would otherwise turn down. Fox has such odd censor laws, I can't imagine what the Futurama movies would look like on that station. Good thing they've got a contract with Comedy Central, a more lenient station.
I'm glad I bought Bender's Big Score, the DVD extras were plentiful and amusing. While the full-length Hypnotoad episode was a little wearing (of course it was, it's Hypnotoad, there isn't much more to elaborate on), the science lecture was quite entertaining and of course, the commentary was right on par with the t.v. DVDs. Looking at The Beast With A Billion Backs, the extras should be just as good.
There are two more Futurama films coming out after Beast, you can be damn sure I'll be watching them.
I'm a bit of a tomboy, I've always never been a girly girl. I don't care enough about makeup to worry about putting it on each day, and I find guy pants to be a whole hell of a lot more comfortable then girl pants. I also don't like to wear heels, on a daily basis. I see no need in putting my feet through that horror or pain down the line. Then again, my daily shoe wear consists of flip flops and other open toed sandel-like shoes. I haven't worn sneakers for quite a while now, and I have no problem with that.
When I did wear sneakers, I wore skater style shoes. Vans, DC Skate Shoes, etc. I've been on a skateboard maybe once in my life, so I'm no skater girl. That doesn't mean those shoes aren't far more comfortable then tennis shoes or trainers, I much prefer my Vans to Nike any day.
Buy Skate Shoes.com has a good selection up for perusing. In fact, a very good selection of brands to choose from for men, women, and children. Unfortunately, they have more selection for men then women (understandable), so I won't be able to find that special pair I loved years ago. Oh well, I've still got my sandals!
I'm such a homebody. I don't like going out much, unless it's to dinner or the like. Going to clubs has never been my thing, too many ugly people too close to me. I don't really like going to bars either, but that's because I don't want to pay for drinks (who does eh?). Actually, I really don't like to go out during the summer. It's hot, sunny (want to keep my moon tan alive and well!), and just generally uncomfortable.
When I was younger I did like to go out to the pool though. Whenever we went on vacation, the pool was the place to be for me! I suppose I never really had any official pool toys though like other kids. No innertubes, no foam things, nothing. If I was lucky, a friend would have brought their toys and we could play. If I was alone, my toys were pennies or rocks. Diving for pennies was what I loved to do.
I do sometimes wish I owned a few pool toys but it really was an unnecessary purchase. There was only one person who would use them, and she really didn't get to go swimming much. Oh well, now I guess it wouldn't make sense for me to own any. I rarely go to the pool, even though there's one in our neighbourhood and I've got passes.
That said, if I have children, you can bet they'll get a few pool toys. Nothing fancy though, a few foam tubes and diving sticks last a long time.
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