It is impossible to stop typing meme. Mememememememe...

Anyway, I got curious. So here goes.

1. Bridget
2. vampire_lupine 
3. Nobody. I like my place.
4. vampire_lupine , purple_ajah 
5. The younger siblings of everyone on my friends list. Except maybe peterchayward , his siblings seem to not chatter.
6. azurestrike 
7. nuttermonk 
8. mujubius , hopefully. He seems like a good guy. Although hopefully he wouldn't be going to St. Mary's.
9. I have already done so with jechocochan and fargis_ferraris 
10. vampire_lupine hasn't killed any younglings yet.
11. poxy_report seems to keep an eye out for that sort of thing.
12. jechocochan . So ner.
13. peterchayward , except not in the glittery way
14. purple_ajah 
15. lustforlike because he wears pink shirts a fair bit, apparently
16. jechocochan , except she can't cook (although she makes a good spaghetti bolognaise)
17. nuttermonk 
18. mijichan 
19. mujubius . He may deny it, but he lies! I'm sure of it. He seems very sure of what to do.
20. Shona, one of my old coworkers
21. fargis_ferraris  because I'm sure he likes manipulating people as much as I do
22. pete_jones  because he took over coding fog
23. jechocochan . Comiccomiccomic.
24. Myself!
25. Dan
26. It really doesn't seem that hard.
27. 'Tou
28. fargis_ferraris . As Tuxedo Mask. And if jechocochan  didn't just burst out laughing my humour has failed and I might as well go crawl back under my rock.
29. I'll never tell :D
30. This meme is interesting (memememememe). You should do it.

Tags: meme
Current Location: home
Current Music: Perfect Story- Dr. Horrible Cast

Meme stolen from Jess because I wanted to know about my name on UrbanDictionary.

Go to www.urbandictionary.com and look up all of your answers and post them.

1. Your name?

Ashlyn: The coolest person ever. even though ashlyns are very short and stubby

     I have... er... long fingers? ._. *runs to find heeled boots*

2. Nickname?

Ash: Ashley J. Williams, most famous character played by the mighty Bruce Campbell. Has interchangeable instruments of mayhem for his right hand: a chainsaw and a bionic gauntlet. Is adept with a sawed-off scattergun. Slaughters Deadites and is eternally plagued with misfortune.

    Woohoo, chainsaw-hand!

3. Relationship status?

Pillow: A word used to describe boobs of any size.

     Er... I guess that's one reason people could flop on me...

4. You describe your best friend as?

Sunshine: A cute affectionate word use to show endearment toward a significant other. If you are someone's sunshine it means, you make their world brighter!!

     Plus it burns you if you're not careful.

5. What should you be doing?


6. Favorite Food

Steak: The greatest food known to man. Best when eaten dripping with blood.

     I am a vaaaampiiire!

7. Home State/Province?

Tasmania: Tasmania is Australia's cool climate island state, although the capital city Hobart has more sunny days in summer than any other Australian capital city. Many non-Tasmanians mispronounce Tasmania's second city Launceston as Lawn-ceston. Locals pronouce it like Lonn-ceston.

     LONNCESTON FOR GOD'S SAKE!
     (Also, I am not in a relationship with my cousin.)

8. One word to describe yourself?
Red:

9. One thing you can't go without every day?

Internet: A vast array of pornography and advertisements.
    
     Sometimes there are pornographic advertisements!

10. Your best 3 friends:

Jess:  A Jess is a person who is generous, talented and kindly. The name itself means "wealthy", and this is true, as a Jess will always be rich in spirit and personality. Also used by some kids to mean "awesome". The term should not be confused with the Spanish jess (pronounced hess) which means a woman with low moral standards.

Sarah: The correct spelling of the name sara.

Jim: A generic nickname used to give to a person of the male gender. Used commonly in hipster circles, mostly back in the '60s and '70s. See Marlon Wayans' character's usage of it in Requiem for a Dream for a good example.

   Hee. Jim is a hipster!

Tags: meme
Current Location: home
Current Mood: lazy
Current Music: STOP TALKING ABOUT WYD, NEWS. I DON'T CARE.

It's surprisingly difficult to script a webcomic. I've been trying to improve lately, but I still don't really think I'm all that great at it.

Papa Roach blasting in your ears when you're trying to think of how to structure the next page is oddly distracting. Daft Punk blasting in your ears isn't, unless you get the urge to sing along. I think I'll try listening to last.fm for a bit, see if new music helps any.

Normally I script in very bright colours, taken from the Wikipedia article on Crayola Crayons. Screamin' Green is one of my favourites so far. This chapter, however, has been plain black.

I still have no idea how to structure this bit...

Wait, I got it! Hooray ^_^.

I have five layers when I'm drawing up the script for a page: Contrast, Ideas, Panels, Fingerblobs/emotions, Notes.

Contrast is used so I can see what I'm doing. It's typically just plain white.

Ideas is a thumbnail sketch of the basic panel structure, plus the dialogue that goes with each panel.

...Last.fm just stopped playing. I am saddened.

After I get everything down on the Ideas layer, I redraw the panels so the layout looks roughly like what it'll look like in the finished comic.

The fingerblobs layer is so named because there are blobs on it. Shaped like fingers. These blobs represent whichever characters happen to be in the scene. I often put little descriptors of whatever emotion they should be expressing on this layer too. This is because jechocochan, the artist, needs to know what emotion they are expressing in order to draw it.

I just realised something: I'm no longer constrained by words! If I have an awesome scene in my head for this, I can just ask Jess to draw it. I don't have to stick to boring imagery because I suck at description! I can be as melodramatic as I want!


The notes layer contains the dialogue and any additional instructions for Jess. There you have it, the anatomy of a script!

On the plus side of this pointless entry, it helped me figure out how to structure an annoyingly difficult page. Yay! Now to the next page...

As an addendum, new graphics tablet has won the poll by one vote! Thank you for voting, those who did ^^

Tags: comicking, wasting money like whoa
Current Location: home
Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Bodaiju- Amano Tsukiko

It occurred to me while making my last post, that I am an odd person. Rather than simply buy a new power supply for $130, I went and bought a new monitor for about $250.

"Ashlyn! Are you insane? You should have just bought the new power supply!"

Why yes, I should have. Thank you, random voice of admonition!

The power supply was indeed cheaper, and it's not as if my monitor was a bad monitor. On the contrary, it was brilliant and I was almost in tears when it died. Point is, I didn't need a new monitor.

So why didn't I get the power supply?

Because it was worth all of $30, tops. That's why.

I tend to place more precedence on worth than value when buying something new. That is to say, if I have the choice between buying something for $130 that's worth $30 or something for $250 that's worth >$300, I'll opt for the $250 option, even if it is more expensive. In my mind, it is a better deal.

Is this strange? Am I the only one who wouldn't opt for the cheaper choice? Am I simply wasting my money by refusing to buy something for over 4x what it's actually worth, even if it's cheaper than the other option?

I haven't really examined this side of my spending before. I find it oddly fascinating.

Tags: money, sticking it to the man
Current Location: In the lounge room. It's cold here.
Current Mood: cold
Current Music: You Give Love A Bad Name (Bon Jovi cover)- Atreyu

My monitor situation has been resolved! Not by fetching an alternate power supply ($130 for a new power supply? Fuck that.), but by... buying a new monitor!

Seriously, they're so cheap now! I was going to get two and run a dual-monitor setup, but Dad said no while I was at Harvey Norman. He then later told me that he said no because he didn't like the sales assistant and didn't want to give him a bigger commission. Which is fair enough, he was a smug bastard.

So, my new monitor is a 20-inch widescreen Samsung monitor, that runs at a native resolution of 1650*1050 (!). It's not aaaall that much better than my 1280*1024 monitor, but it's sufficiently high-res enough for me not to get annoyed at having to scroll all the time. I hate 1024*768 with a fiery passion now.

I'm still considering that second monitor. Either that or a new, better graphics tablet because if I get one of those Dad wants the one I'm using now. And I could possibly extort some money out of him for it if that's the case.

I think that's the second time I have ever made a poll.

Tags: new monitor, poll, wasting money like whoa
Current Location: In front of my pretty new monitor
Current Mood: :D
Current Music: Bride and Prejudice is on TV in the background.

It appears that it was just the power supply of the monitor after all!

Dad and I are probably going to go to Tandy/Jaycar/Othergenericelectronicsstore and find a plug that will fit the monitor. Then we will cut the plug off another, otherwise identical power supply we found and try that on the monitor. If that doesn't fix it, well, then the monitor is probably screwed as well.

But yay! It might not be the actual monitor and I might not have to spend many hundreds of dollars on a decent screen!

Now, to breakfast!

Tags: breakfast, monitor
Current Location: a cold place in the house
Current Mood: cold
Current Music: the chattering of my teeth

Over XP, that is.

Vista has Mahjongg.

XP does not.

I am slightly addicted to Mahjongg. It is my game of choise for avoiding stuff. You can keep your minesweeper and your solitaire, give me a Mahjongg board, ten minutes, and a healthy dose of boredom.

Monitor has indeed gone kaput. Dad will bring home a multimeter tomorrow to see if it is just the power supply. Here's hoping it is.

Comic is almost done. It would be done if I hadn't gotten my AceKard and discovered fighting games playing against Jim are almost as addictive as Mahjongg.

Tags: mahjongg
Current Location: my computer
Current Music: Spicks and Specks

So, it has been verified by the father-person, the monitor is Dead. However, we're probably going to try it out with an alternate power supply, just in case. If that fixes it, I will be a happy Ashlyn.

Today was a good day, other than that. I did an assignment and read two books, all before 5:30. Now I'm just kind of sitting here going, "Hm. Stuff. Should do stuff. Don't have access to my stuff... I know! I'll update!"

I intend to steal the other monitor tomorrow before Dad gets home, so I can actually finish a comic so it's not a missed update on Saturday. A missed update would be Bad. Capital B.

I want to write, but as previously mentioned, I don't have access to my documents... I'd go shove my drive in its external thingy, but then I'd need a powerpoint and it's almost ten anyway so neh.

Sleeeepy. Probably won't go to bed for another hour or two. Perhaps I need another book.

I'm thinking that if I need a new monitor I'll just fork out the money and go for dual monitors. And if Dad steals them I will hurt him. Only he won't be able to because I'm the only one with a computer that has DVI-D connectors and there's only one DVI -> DVI-D adaptor in the house, and that's mine too. So ha.

I need to start earning more money. What I'm on now just isn't cutting it.

Tags: money, monitor, tags that all start with m (except this
Current Location: Chair in front of heater
Current Mood: complacent
Current Music: None, it's all on my computer.

Well, this has been, on the whole, a preeetty bad week.

I have discovered that I have slipped from an A student to a B student. A goddamn B student. I hate anything lower than an A, and my father will probably lecture me on and on and on about how I should try harder and apply myself and really, don't you think your job's dragging you down? Just saying...

Jess's computer exploded, so I loaned her my computer. This meant that I didn't have my computer for a while, which wasn't so bad, just mildly annoying. I hate using other computers, simply because mine is so utterly, utterly awesome. I got my computer back today, and what hapened? Dad insisted that I spend my time out here in the loungeroom.

Incidentally, I'm on the laptop computing from the couch. Oh, what an arduous life I lead!

Right now there's a program on torture on TV. The building the cameraman is walking through looks like an English castle-like version of the Manor of Sleep, from the Fatal Frame games. It has the same hallways I tell you!

Anyway, I also had to do a heap of photo work for Dad, all of which, while not all that complicated, was very tedious, and for which any photographer would ask a fairly decent hourly rate. He then proceeded to sit around staring over my shoulder while I carried out that work, going "...*sigh*. ...*siiiiigh*. ... ... ...*siiiiiiiiiigh*."

Well if I'm doing such a horrible, slow, boring job of it do it your bloody self.

Due to me not having my computer, I didn't manage to colour any comics for Dark Flying. This means that there are no updates ready for this Saturday. So it's up to me to get a comic coloured by Saturday, which is easy enough, but I've got an assignment due Tuesday, plus I've got no idea when I work this week, which means theoretically I could be working Wednesday-Thursday-Friday, which would leave me Tuesday/Saturday to do the comic. And it takes me two days to do the comic usually.

Hooray.

And then you can add to that my monitor packing it in. Right bloody then. I'm still in shock, but may burst into tears at any time. It was a brilliant monitor, a 1280*1024 LCD screen. Not sure how many inches, but it was a decent size. And I walked into my room to find it making funny sounds and the power light flickering on and off wildly, when it had been fine about an hour or two ago. Switching power cords didn't help, so I yanked it out and fled. I still have to break the news to my Dad somehow, unless anyone has any magical ideas on how to fix it?

And Jim just reminded me that my magical cartridge (A DS cartridge that will allow me to play ROMs on my DS) still hasn't come, even though it was probably supposed to have by now. Fuck you, internet. That's another $115 down the drain.

Woo. What a goddamn great week this has been. I think I'll go crawl into bed and stare at the ceiling and possibly my monitor now.

It's a pity I don't update more. You all could have heard about this in real-time!

Tags: suck, suck suck suuuuuuuuuuck suck suck
Current Location: home
Current Mood: suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
Current Music: BGM on the torture documentary

Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to introduce myself to you. I am what is commonly known as a "slob."

Now, as I'm sure you are aware, slobs clean very little and produce a disproportional amount of mess. I for one am very goot at creating mess, because I have several places to spread it. Mostly these places are located in my room. I have two dressers, and I also had a desk underneath my bed, which was a bunk bed with bed on top, desk underneath.

So today I cleaned my room.

( omg photo-heavy post nuuuuuu!!!! )

So yeah. My room is clean. Woo!

Tags: cleaning
Current Location: clean room
Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Yo pumpkin head- yoko Kanno