It all started when I looked up some information on The Elephant Man Joseph Merrick. I had this idea for a Late Victorian era story and he was going to play a role in it. That lead me to the page on the Royal London Hospital, since that is where he lived out his last days. On that page they mention a BBC series Casualty 1900's. Which is a mix of ( Read more... )

If I want to create the effect of double tone paper (du oshade) in photoshop, I have to:

1. Set my line art on multiply (layer 1)
2. Create a fine line pattern set at a 45 degree angle on one layer. (layer 2)
3. Duplicate that layer, and flip it so the lines are going the opposite way.(layer 3)
4. Delete the line patterns out of the areas on layers 2 & 3 I don't ( Read more... )

Over the years, I've run into at least two people in my life who I would judge to be pathological liars. One pattern I noticed in both cases was how they tried so hard to make themselves the center of attention ( Read more... )

I've been off work since last Tuesday, and I've quite enjoyed these nine days chilling at home. I needed it really, work was being quite a pain the last few weeks. Getting away has done me no end of good. Mostly it's been of quiet routine, punctuated by a rather busy weekend ( Read more... )

So I sat in front of the TV and flipped through the channels for a while. Oddly enough I find myself watching Qubo more than I would like to admit. I find 3-2-1 Penguins! is kind of awesome for a Christian CGI series. Midgel is cool, I'm thinking of pulling out the sculpey and trying my hand at making a figure of him ( Read more... )

I ran across a news article about Wyoming's shell corporation problem. The gist of the story is this business operating out of a house specializes in creating shell companies for various business purposes both benign and nefarious ( Read more... )

I expect a large part of my ankle and foot problems can be due to wearing these cheap Wal-Mart shoes. The only thing I can find in a size 14 over in their shoe department are some $12 Starter sneakers. The ones so cheap they have them hanging on pegs instead of in the shoe boxes. I've had two pair in the past year and they tend to start falling ( Read more... )

fyrdrakken made an interesting point in my recap of The Rivals of Sherlock Homes Disc One about whether the mystery genre would exist if Arthur Conan Doyle had not written the Holmes novels ( Read more... )

It's kind of hard to deny climate change is happening when I look outside at all of the snow ( Read more... )

All over town I've noticed these big signs for one of the canidates for State Representative. When I mean big I mean one of these big honking four foot by eight foot signs with her smiling face taking up a quarter of the space. The signs are downright ubiquitous, with every empty lot having one ( Read more... )