Things I have done today:

* Woken up.
* Made some new icons.
* Watched the season finale of Doctor Who.
* Inked a panel and a half of the next 'With Friends Like These...' strip.
* Called Deborah to rant, at length, about the season finale of Doctor Who* Dumped laundry on the bed ( Read more... )

Ever notice how when you're waiting on a really important* email, you wind up taking this combination 'a watched pot never boils' and 'if I'm not watching when it arrives, the server elves will eat it just to screw with my head' approach? I both don't want to watch my inbox for fear that the email, like the groundhog, will see its own shadow and ( Read more... )

I have finally found a way to keep Nyssa from sleeping on my laptop keyboard (and consequentially screwing things nineteen flavors of up ( Read more... )

Why is it that twice now, files have become unreadable from my thumb drive when using any other computer, but remain entirely readable on my laptop? Not all files. Just some. No predictable pattern has yet emerged. And yes, I have virus protection and it says my machine is clean.

Help?

So I keep the most current draft of whatever I'm currently working on stored on a thumb drive, along with the applicable continuity guides. Last week, the most current draft file of Lycanthropy and Other Personal Issues decided to become unreadable to anyone not on my laptop -- something I was able to get around by opening the file, copying its ( Read more... )

Because sometimes, you need a little badass science to start your day off right:

The Six Most Badass Stunts Ever Pulled In the Name of Science.I am full of science geek glee. A sample ( Read more... )

After over four hours of intensive Photoshop work, I have finished sorting the pictures from Sunday's shoot into 'useful for our purpose' and 'not useful for our purpose.' Note that this isn't the same as 'good' and 'bad'; the goal was to get something Bill could paint from, not necessarily something that looked good raw. So there are some ( Read more... )

How is it that my cats can, in five seconds of strolling across the keyboard, Do Things To My Computer that take me twenty minutes to figure out and fix?

In other news: Lilly, still not mittens.

For those of you who couldn't see the comic strip linked in this post, the server outage has been resolved, and all should now load normally. Yay for technology being something I can hit with a hammer until it works again!

EDIT: How did y'all crash it again so fast?! Getting the hammer now. More later.

So the iPod has a function called 'Top Twenty-Five', where it puts together a playlist from the twenty-five songs you've listened to the highest number of times. This means that either you wind up with a totally random list of songs, or you get a list that really summarizes the musical tastes of the iPod's owner. In my case, well...it's the ( Read more... )