February 2011

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• Angry Art, Life, Sketchup

  This shirt could save both our lives

  02.28.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  

  My brother has been telling me for a long time to submit some of my doodles to threadless.com and see what happens. If you’re not familiar with the site, it’s a place where users submit t-shirt designs which are then voted on by the community. If your design gets enough votes you get some money and the community gets the ability to purchase your design. It’s a pretty cool idea; if it works. It was also sort of a pain in the ass though.

  I have to wait a day or two for my design to be approved. Once that happens I have 7 days to get some votes. However, if there is a low amount of votes in the first 24 hours, my design will get pulled. So I’m posting here (and everywhere else I can think of) and hoping people will help me out even if they hate my design. I know it’s a pain in the ass to go join a site and then fill out a poll, but it would keep me from bitching about money all the time both here and in ‘real life’. I’m sure everyone else is just as tired of it as I am. Let’s work together to shut me up!

  I wrote a little description to go along with it, but since it’s pending approval you can’t see it, and since I just smoked a joint (something I’ve been doing very little of recently) I can’t really remember it. Something like “Buy this shirt or robots will kill you when they become self aware.”, only more eloquent longer. I’ll post about this again once I get the email telling me I’ve been approved or not.

  Remember to vote or robots will calculate your face off.

• Angry Art, Gaming, Sketchup

  Cobra cabinet slips through cracks

  02.18.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  

  I was looking through some of my renderings this morning and realized I had forgotten to post this. When I originally posted my arcade cabinet concepts I made the mistake of claiming it would be impossible to render the machine and include the screen shot and other imported images that appear in the model. I figured it all out the day after I posted the cabinets, then spent a day avoiding my machine while it struggled to pump out a few low-res images which would hopefully look real. They aren’t as good as I’d hoped, but they still look okay.

  I avoided posting them right away because there was an abundance of arcade cabinet images on the front page of this blog already, and although these look much cooler than the previous ones, they’re essentially the same thing. Then I forgot all about it.

  

  The way I fixed the problem was actually incredibly simple and gave me a bunch of ideas for fun things to make in the future. Basically I have to turn the images into textures, then do a little fiddling and adjusting until everything looks right. If I wasn’t so busy with the book right now, or if I had another machine, I would do some sweet renderings of the other cabinets I designed. For now, they’ll have to wait.

• Animals, Photos

  A squirrel in lion’s clothing

  02.17.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  

  Our friend Lesley set up an appointment for us last night with her friend who does pet grooming. I wanted to get Mr. Squirrel the “lion” hairdo because I think it looks super cute and figured I might as well add another layer to her identity issues. She was very quiet in the car on the ride to and from the groomers, and sat still for quite a while before starting to squirm. Even when she squirmed it was mostly due to the other cat that was roaming around making her nervous, otherwise she seemed fairly content with the attention she was getting.

  

  It seems to be nearly impossible to get a decent picture of her new ‘do, but trust me it’s awesome. Her tail looks just like a lions, and her head looks big and fat compared to her skinny little neck. Unfortunately her boots don’t stick out as much as some of the other cats I’ve seen with this hairdo, but I think it’s just because of her colours. I’m also kind of sad I didn’t remember to tell the girl not to cut her little toe hairs. If you look close in the top picture, you can see she had what looks like claws made of fur sticking out from the ends of her paws. It was one of the things Holly and I loved about her, and I wasn’t expecting the groomer to trim them, but she did.

  

  I’m pretty sure she loves her new look, and probably appreciates the time she will save bathing too. She definitely wasted no time assuming the role of King of the Jungle as you can see in the photo above.

  Post Titles That Didn’t Make the Cut:

  Honestly, I’m not lion… I’m a squirrel, I swear

  This no good lion cat claims to be a squirrel…
  

  Drag King of the Jungle
  

• Life, Photos

  Weekend breakdown – take two

  02.16.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  

  Yesterday I wrote a fairly lengthy blog entry about our weekend in Windsor, only to have it completely disappear for no reason at all when I tried to post it. It seems ever since my WordPress got updated it’s been acting strange on my laptop. It seems to work fine on my windows machine, so perhaps it’s just an issue with Linux. Either way I’m resorting to an unordered list of things that happened this weekend instead of rewriting the entire post again.

  • Picked up Holly’s parents around 10:30am Saturday
  • Arrived in Windsor at Holly’s grandmother’s house around 1:30pm
  • Toured retirement home, ironed out insurance details with grandma
  • Dropped Holly’s parents off at her uncle Brian’s house
  • Dropped our stuff at Holly’s aunt Lana’s house
  • Met her parents, uncle and brother at TBQ for dinner
  • Ate hummus
  • Went to Sportsman’s Club for party around 8pm

  

  • Said hello and happy birthday to Holly’s aunt Michelle
  • Gave her an awkward gift (a picture of my eyes, she asked for it…)
  • Drank a bunch of beer
  • Met a bunch of Holly’s family (Jesus, there’s hundreds of them!)
  • Had some good conversations
  • Listened to a band play 2 or 3 decent songs and a bunch of shit
  • People watched
  • Listened to Holly and her cousin talk catty
  • Studied several species of animal mounted on the club walls
  • Studied several dancing humans of varying age/weight/ability
  • Drank more beer

  

  • Found passed out dancing human (above) by fluke and saved his life
  • Left party around 1:30am, went back to aunt Lana and uncle Tom’s
  • Helped Tom carry leftover food into awesome garage around 1:45am
  • Discovered I was allowed to smoke weed in awesome garage at 1:52am
  • Smoke weed and have deep conversations in awesome garage until 5am
  • Re-enter house and discover Holly’s missing
  • Find her laying on bathroom floor
  • Hold her hair
  • Get water and mobile vomit receptacle (large bowl)
  • Walk her back to bed
  • Wake up at 1pm
  • Drink coffee and listen to drama from the night before
  • Leave for home around 2pm
  • Arrive home around 5:30pm
  • Received phone call around 6:00pm from Holly’s dad
  • Learn tires on car we bought from grandma (which he is driving) suck
  • New car arrives around 6:30pm (minus a tire)
  • Drop Holly’s parents off around 6:35pm in sweet ’97 The Sword (Le Sabre) with a flat doughnut

• Music, Video

  Fascinating

  02.10.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  This video combines two of my favourite things and it does it quite well. I love how good some of the fan made music videos are on youtube. If you haven’t seen them before, I also recommend checking out two of the best fan made videos I have ever seen (one, two) which also happen to be two of my favourite songs. I love when I find things like this without even looking.

  Also, this video reminded me that this exists. Hehehe…

  Here is one last fan made video that is worth watching (not for the edits, those are pretty shitty… but the song is another of my favourites).

• Angry Art, Gaming, Sketchup

  Cool guy looking to meet other cool guys who want to play games together online – Nothing sexual

  02.10.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  

  In case you forgot about my love for all things video game, I will reiterate it now; I love video games! I especially love online games I can play with my friends. This seems to be getting ever more difficult to arrange however, and I find myself getting frustrated. The problem is that not all my friends game and of the ones who do, not all play what I play or when I play. The other day I gave Jon shit for not putting his project on hold so we could kill some zombies, and I told him I was working on a flier to help me recruit some new cool gaming friends that game more games than him (borrowing an idea I saw on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia). Above is my idea for a graphic for said flier. I didn’t spend much time on it (maybe half an hour), but I really like it.

  This morning I pitched an idea to Jon for a gamer networking site that connects online players with people who share similar interests and online ethics that would otherwise never find each other. He agreed that it’s a decent idea, but he’s got far too many things on the go to take on another project. If I didn’t feel the same I’d consider taking it upon myself to learn the necessary programing to create such a site, but who knows how long that would actually take. I have no idea what is involved in turning my concepts into reality (but I hear it helps to have a moustache). Jon suggested he first create a site that connects programmers with knobs like myself who are full of ideas, but lack technical knowledge. I think that’s his passive aggressive attempt at telling me to find some other programming friends while I’m out canvassing for gamers.

• Angry Art, Animals, Roanisms

  Cats>crap

  02.10.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  

  If you don’t own (or rent) a nine year old human you’re probably unaware of the existence of something known as Silly Bandz. You’re probably also equally unaware of how lucky you are to be ignorant to such a pointless waste of money and resources. I however am quite familiar with all things Silly Bandz since Roan brought his first ones home back in September. Back then he had maybe half a dozen and he rarely ever took them off his wrists. Fast forward to last week, his collection is now in the hundreds (partially our fault) and not one is on his wrist. Instead, they are scattered around his room and various locations in the house.

  A few days ago I found three half eaten Silly Bandz in different spots, at different times. I told Roan how important it was that he not leave them lying around so the cats ate them. Although we love our cats, we could not afford to drop a few thousand dollars on stomach surgery because they’re retarded and can’t distinguish food from brightly neon coloured pieces of rubber. If faced with the decision of thousands of dollars to save one of their lives vs. letting them die, we would have to choose the latter. It would suck, but we would have to remember that we had done everything we could to give them a great life, even if it has to end prematurely. If we want to avoid that, we need to pick up our Silly Bandz.

  The next morning I found a pile of cat barf with a half eaten, semi-digested Silly Band right in the middle of it. I called Roan and Holly downstairs to show them, and again tried to stress how important it was to not leave things like them laying around for the cats to get. I asked him if his Silly Bandz were more important than the cats, and if maybe he could consider which he’d rather keep forever. He decided to give away about 90% of his collection to his friends at school this week, and kept only a few dozen in his locker.

  I was really proud that he was able to see which was more important, and was willing to make a sacrifice. He also told me he would have gotten rid of most of them sooner but he felt bad giving them away since lots of them were bought for him by Holly and I (oops!). I made him the above card as a thank you. I wanted to buy him something as a reward (something less dangerous to the cats), and to fill any feelings of emptiness left behind from saying goodbye to his collection of Silly Bandz, but I’m currently waiting on a paycheque. Once I can afford it though, I’m going to get him something cool.

• Roanisms

  USA USA USA

  02.07.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  

  The other day I found this masterpiece sitting on the table. Before anyone calls the authorities I want to clarify that this is supposed to read Hitler Plane, not Plan. Roan is not in the process of drafting a master plan to ethnically cleanse the planet (to the best of my knowledge). Instead, I believe this is his rendition of what Hitler’s plane looked like.

  Although it is an amazing drawing of a cool plane, I doubt it was any match for the Americans.

  

  How could those propeller driven Hitler planes expect to stand up against the jet fueled Steowth Bomers the Americans possessed?

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