Figment of Your Imagination

(My lucky cat broke, so I made this. Is it bad luck to have a lucky cat with its thumb pointed down?)

(I put the image on my adoption blog first because Blogger has free image hosting. Sorry to whoever gets my adoption blog feed. Didn't mean to spam you.)

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Hey, all you lovers of sea life. Join the new community marine_bio.

It'll be fun. With fascinating creatures. I'll even draw some and post them. I promise.

http://www.shadowfist.com/node/2281

Title: 36-Legged Horror!
Subtitle: Spirit of Persistence
Cost: Pur Mag 3
Provides: Pur
Fighting: 4
Text: Mobility. +2 damage to Characters. Cannot be prevented from
intercepting. (This overrides 'cannot intercept' and 'ceases
intercepting' effects.) Not affected by other Character's Stealth
or Superleap.
Tag:
Artist: Angga Satriohadi
Faction: Purists
Set: Empire of Evil
Rarity: U

Title: Abomination Serum
Subtitle: State
Cost: Arch Arch Mag Tech 3
Text: Unique. Subject Character gains +3 Fighting and the designator
*Abomination*. Turn and maintain a *Scientist* Character you

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http://www.shadowfist.com/node/2281

Title: 36-Legged Horror!
Subtitle: Spirit of Persistence
Cost: Pur Mag 3
Provides: Pur
Fighting: 4
Text: Mobility. +2 damage to Characters. Cannot be prevented from
intercepting. (This overrides 'cannot intercept' and 'ceases
intercepting' effects.) Not affected by other Character's Stealth
or Superleap.
Tag:
Artist: Angga Satriohadi
Faction: Purists
Set: Empire of Evil
Rarity: U

Title: Abomination Serum
Subtitle: State
Cost: Arch Arch Mag Tech 3
Text: Unique. Subject Character gains +3 Fighting and the designator
*Abomination*. Turn and maintain a *Scientist* Character you

read more

My kid has OBJECT PERMANENCE!!!!!!1!11eleventyone!

Maybe not all the time, but greater than zero percent of the time.

Aren't you all utterly beside yourselves with pride? I know I am. (Yeah, he's only a year late. We're all on our own schedules.)

My life has become a series of clean the baby, feed the baby, entertain the baby, plus frequent visits to Children's Hospital, plus occasionally looking for things to do with the baby, plus snatching a quick moment here and there to clean the house a little.

I'm hoping to make the most out of Sunday mornings. The plan is I get to DRAW!

I've never missed drawing so much. But usually, during quiet moments at naptime or late evening, I'm just too tired.

Okay, there's a playdate near the library in Falmouth at 10:00 AM. We can do that. If it starts raining, we can just go inside the library.

I really want to go see a movie, an adult movie, by myself. In fact I have future plans for that. But I'm holding out to see "Precious" which has not been released anywhere near here yet.

I want to do anything adult-oriented. And by that I don't mean X-rated. I just mean something for the long-attention-span crowd.

I have often joked that I am where craft supplies go to die. Everyone gives me what they no longer have use for - especially fabric. I had thought that maybe, just maybe, that ended when my mom moved to another state. Lo and behold, I received a box from her this week - full of fabric.

I wish people's taste in fabric was better. But I'll find a use for this batch. I always do.

In the box, she also sent me 3 coloring books (one of 18th century clothes!) and an oversized gem of a book. And since the book was too large to fit in my poor to-read bookcase, I started reading immediately.


#15: Pamela Sherer, Dolls: Portraits from the Golden Age, 137 pages, Art: Photography/Dolls, Hardback, 1992. With photographs by Tom Kelley.

This lovely oversized book showcases 70 doll photographs with short blurbs telling about the doll. It’s written for someone who is interested in vintage dolls (most dolls photographed come from the 19th and early 20th centuries), maybe to the point where they may collect some day. I learned about the making of bisque heads and about the earliest ball-jointed dolls. The photographs are what really make this an outstanding book – each doll is pictured in appropriate clothing and in realistic settings. Very beautiful and would work wonderfully as a coffee table book!

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EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP.

Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!!

Thanks mhwest and dnewhall for helping out!

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On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

Mixed icon post.

30 Doctor Who Icons 9th & 10th Doctors
30 Torchwood Icons
15 Stock Icons Details of printed images of women 100 or more years old.



They're here at 100px_x_100px

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I've noticed that in older DW episodes, especially the ones with the Fourth Doctor, the Doctor calls Sarah Jane "Sarah." Yet suddenly in "The Sarah Jane Adventures," she insists on being called "Sarah Jane." She'll even correct people who call her Sarah, insisting that her name is Sarah Jane. But in Doctor Who, I'm pretty sure that everyone called her Sarah (other than the Brigadier, who I believe called her Miss Smith.)

But in "School Reunion," the Doctor calls her "My Sarah Jane."
( Spoilers for Sarah Jane Adventures 3 x 05 & 3 x 06 )

Hi!

Its great to find another Doctor Who community.

Here's a mixed bag of 10th Doctor with a couple of 9th Doctor thrown in. See icon file names for season and episode info.



   

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#12: John Joseph Adams, editor, The Living Dead, 487 pages, Horror Anthology, Paperback, 2008.

This anthology contains 34 zombie short stories. They are a wide range of zombie stories – some classic, some of the voodoo variety, others that may not seem like zombie stories at first. The author talent is top-notch, and I am impressed enough with this collection that I shall be looking into owning other anthologies by this editor. ( The Stories & Authors Plus Personal Impressions And A Bit Of Plot )


#13: Joe Hill, Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft: Volume 1 (Issues #1-6), 158 pages, Graphic Novel, Hardback, 2008. With Gabriel Rodriguez, illustrator.

Three kids travel with their mother and uncle to their father’s ancestral home after he was brutally murdered. The house, called Lovecraft, is not a normal house – it has doors and keys that make things happen or take you to other places. The youngest discovers someone or something in the well of a locked outer building after he went through the door that separates one’s body and soul. This story arc sets up the series and deals with the murderer after he escapes and tries to track them down. The story is fascinating (I’d expect nothing less of Joe Hill, given his other works) and the art is very detailed and rich. I look forward to further volumes.


#14: Kathy Reichs, Devil Bones, 382 pages, Crime Fiction, Paperback, 2008.

The eleventh book in the Dr. Temperance Brennan series (inspiration for the TV show Bones), takes place in North Carolina with Tempe preparing her class at the university when called in to help when an altar and human bones are found in a basement. Later, a corpse is found on a beach with satanic markings carved on his chest. Dr. Brennan has to educate herself, and try to work around the ignorance of those who wish to paint other religions as evil, to find the truth. This book uses the info dump to actually move the plot along, explaining the character’s research into the alternative religions, a great improvement from earlier books. I love how easy it is to read her books.