Thanks, Darkcloud. Means a bunch. Would've replied sooner but Gran's lawyer wated to see me personally because he said things in my statement were "unclear". I couldn't see how; the statement was almost long enough to be a thesis. But whatever. An actual date still hasn't been set yet, since I'm guessing the guy wants to see how much evidence we can pool together to actually make a case against the bowling alley. With my luck, they'll decide on a date just as I get called for jury duty (I'm due for a calling soon) and I won't be able to do much.
Oops. Yeah, that'd do it. At least your fish isn't like my apparently ******ed wall-clinger one who got himself stuck to the countertop while I was cleaning his tank.
Thought this was worth a mention here, since it is pretty cool. http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/game-boy-makes-the-toy-hall-of-fame/1371311 Two questions: 1) Where is this place located, cause now I wanna see it, and 2) What the heck took so long?
I forgot A gets into the home menu and not the Home button on the Remote. No need to scold me. I also haven't been near a Wii in about..oh, 5 months since I moved back to school. Apart from that, I'm not sure what really caused it to have issues. My brother's always losing ours, and when we do find them we just end up charging them in their dock. Granted, that's only after one week, but still. The little reflector thing (where the signal comes out, on top, I have no idea what the thing is called) isn't cracked at all, is it?
^was going to suggest that Are you remembering to go into the Home Menu and synching the Wiimote once the system is on?
I saw this on the news. Now everyone at my college does it.
and discovered it says "pie" when I hold it up to a mirror. Uneventful day was uneventful. Everyone else?
My epic fail? I set my alarm as I usually do because usually on Wednesday I have a very early class at 8:30. So my alarm went off at 7:15 this morning. On a holiday. When there was no school.
Well, it's not exactly CPR, but you still did something to help, which probably meant the difference between life and death for that guy, so kudos to you. Not many people would know how to act in that kind of situation.
And I don't mean dating. I mean actual, lawyer judge and jury courtin'. Back in August my family and I had picked up my grandmother from her home and took her with us to a local bowling alley. She doesn't bowl much anymore (poor ol' girl's going to be 73 next Jan.) but she loves watching the rest of us and just being with the family. Plus, it was just two weeks before I would be moving back to college to start my senior year. When we got there it was about 10:30 in the morning, and the sun was right behind the alley so the whole building cast a shadow on the parking lot. This is important later. She's got a handicap placard, so we pull into a handicap space closest to the steps. There was another set of handi spaces on the other side of the lot near a wheelchair ramp, but they were all filled. My grandmother prefers using the ramps so she walk at her own pace (which is better for her anyway, she carries one of those portable oxygen tanks on her all the time due to her emphysema), but when she saw how far away it was she decided to be a trooper and use the stairs. She knew she'd be winded halfway over to the ramp anyway. There was a railing for her to grab onto, but it was on the next step up from the ground level and was almost up against the next stair up from that. And remember that shadow I was talking about? It covered the whole staircase, and there was none of that yellow caution paint on the stair edges that are usually there. So even from a distance it was tough to see where one step started and another ended. It all looked like one big step. Well, my grandmother starts reaching for the railing, but doesn't see the step because of the reasons I just mentioned, and down she goes. We rush to help her up, and see that the next step up that she fell onto also has this six-inch long crack in it that goes all the way to the edge, so we figure she's caught her toe in it. We sit her up and help her calm down because she's visibly shaken, and start trying to clean her up because she's bleeding from both knees (she's been nicknamed Ol' Faithful because even the smallest cut gushes now. It's scary). A clerk inside the alley comes out with a bag of ice for her, and said she saw her fall and wanted to make sure she was okay. She helps us take her inside and get her settled in a chair with the ice and we start cleaning her up. The clerk also gets an incident report - standard procedure for incidents- and my mother starts filling it out. While she's doing this the clerk mentions my grandmother was the second person to fall that day. The place had only been open for a half hour. It makes me wonder how many have fallen before that. We try to carry on with a round of bowling, and she's watching us and taking her mind off her fall, and the clerk comes over every so often to check on her. Just then, my grandmother complains that her left arm is bugging her. My mother doesn't like how this sounds and calls up the ER so they can take a look at my grandmother. An hour later my mother and I are in the waiting room of the ER and my grandmother's getting X-rayed. My father came and took my brother home. When we see the doctor in one of the exam rooms, he tells her she's broken her arm at the elbow as a result of the fall -a radial fracture, he called it. He put her arm in a sling and only three weeks ago did the thing finally come off. Her left arm is her dominant arm, so life's been hellish for her. And she's hopping mad at the bowling alley. After we took her to the ER and found out what happened, we called the alley and told them her diagnosis so they could mark it on their incident report. They did and told us someone would be calling her soon to get a statement from her and check up on her. They never did. And just to humor ourselves my mother and I took a drive out to the bowling alley to see if they did anything to fix the stairs, and there was nothing. No paint, no signs, nothing. It's like they've just forgotten the whole thing. My grandmother sure hasn't, and now she wants to sue them. She's gotten a lawyer and everything. I just finished typing up a statement for him because I won't get a chance to actually speak to him because of my school schedule. I'm still waiting for more details on my end here, like if I'm actually going to have to go to court or anything, but the whole thing is making me nervous. I hate having to deal with stuff like this. Last time I did anything of the sort was when I appealed a surcharge on my insurance record after an accident that was not my fault, and that was two years ago. Only other court experience I have is a morning of jury duty, where I just sat in a tiny room for four hours and never actually sat in on a case. Like I needed any more stress right now. I know this really doesn't affect me directly, but it does in a way because I'm involved as a witness to the incident and my grandmother keeps talking about it and asking me for help (which I have no clue how to help). Thanks for letting me rant...phew.
Get new account names, because if there's 600 of the guys you'll be blocking them for days. And who's to say they won't make new accounts and come after you again? Make new accounts and find some way to make them private to prevent that from happening a second time. (I forget how to do that...only reason I had a Myspace was to catch art thiefs)
You've got a good start, especially on the night one at the bottom. That's a tough angle to draw in and you've got a good grasp to start with. I guess the best tips I can have are to try looking at screenshots of the Pokemon Spock is based on and use them as a reference to get the proportions and anatomy correct. Do you have a figure of Latias? I used to use my Pokemon figures when I drew so I could mess with angles, light/shadows, and all sorts of stuff. And also, just keep practing. You're not going to go from doodle to Da Vinci in a week's time. Some artists have been drawing for years.
I want to go so bad, but I've never been on a cruise before and I have this strange fear that I'll feel claustrophobic while on board. Just because I'd be surrounded by endless sea and no sight of land, even though I'm on the boat. I'd feel trapped. Won't lie, it does look pretty sweet.
Try pacing yourself. Do maybe two or three things, then take a short break, then do two more, then another short break, until it's done. That's the strategy I've used for years. I'm a college senior now and I still use that method to get everything done. That's how I managed to finish two 30-minute presentations, two mini-lesson presentations, and a 20-page science unit, when all were due the same week and a couple were due the same day. It also helps if you know the due date for the bigger projects ahead of time and can work a little on it each day. That way it doesn't snowball into this massive thing that you're scrambling to finish the day before you have to turn it in. Also, plagiarizing is a big no-no. You don't learn anything from it, and in some cases there can be legal reprocussions from it.
It depends on the person. Some people learn to moderate themselves, which is good, while others just want to try and "get rick quick" and end up in financial trouble. It's like I've said before about drinking: it's only bad if you can't control yourself. Once you lose your grip, it's very difficult to get it back before you end up hurting yourself. Illegal? In my state there are no casinos, but Connecticut has two and Rhode Island has 2 as well. I'm not sure why my state thinks it's illegal, and there's been a push as of late to build one, but people here have a very strong NIMBY attitude. My personal outlook on gambling? I first played with a slot machine at 18 (the casinos in Rhode Island are 18+), and my mother has always taught me to limit myself, and set a stopping point. Whether it's the first time I was at a machine and I hit a decent payout (say $5 on a penny machine), or I realized the machine was a "grabber" (likes your money a little too much), I printed my ticket and walked away. It's helped me control how often I play, and how much I walk away with in the end. Also made me a thousand-aire after my 21st birthday in Atlantic City, but we won't discuss that here (although it IS an amazing story).
I wonder how they're going to do the emoti-gem things...and I wonder if worker's comp covers getting impaled through the skull by one should the cables suspending the things snap.
But there won't be much of a script. Don't they babble in random...babble?
Allow a program through the firewall? Simple. I'm going to assume you're using Windows, and going to assume further that it's XP (I think it's the same idea in Vista, not sure.) Go to Start, click Control Panel. Click on Windows Firewall. Click on the Exception Tab when the window pops up. There will be a list of programs that Windows is allowing to pass through the Firewall. Check and see that Firefox is there and has a checked box, this means that it is being allowed through. If it's not there, click the Add Program button and choose Firefox from the list of progams that shows up. Click Ok. If that doesn't work let me know and I'll think of something else.
Nope, it's large enough that all the spikes will be on there. I even took them a step further and dipped a few tips into red paint, so it looked like I just came back from taking out Vexen. That was fun (until a Vexen cosplayer tackled me out of spite).
1) Is it all one piece? Yep. The whole thing is one piece. You cut it out of the foam board using an X-acto knife (a scalpel, basically). 2) How long does it take to make them? Err....it took me about two weeks to cut them out, layer them and paint them, but that was while juggling a school and work schedule. If you have more free time than I did, it will take less time. I also allowed for paint to dry, the Model Magic to set up and to let my finger rest after using the scalpel. You will get a blister from carving those things out, I'll warn you ahead of time.
