Just Sayin’, y’know?

sticky

…more signs…

TimesPicayuneStatesItem cutting printing to 3 days a week.
Detroit to shut off half of its streetlights.
Having seen Robocop, I’m not surprised about Detroit, but TPSI going down kinds stings.  McKenzies, Schwegmann’s, Katz&Besthoff – you will live forever in my memories.

Have we really come to this?

Confession: I seriously and without sarcasm used the phrase “the semantics of the metadata” the other day.  Eww.

(Hey, isn’t that Damascus off in the distance?
Aw crap, I didn’t want to go there.)

my Verbose List of Essential WordPress Stuff

• (n)AMP server with ftp-server (theme/widget/updater works via ftp). FWIW, I use pure-ftp and pureAdmin. I like the flexible Virtual Users and use 1 user for each site/dir.
• WordPress itself. Currently using 3.3.something.
• A

How to make your site invisible to Google

…because why would you want anyone to go to your website, right?

<disclaimer: if you think I misuse some piece of
terminology or am just plain wrong, you still don’t
get the right to punch me in the jaw or anything.  >

Thoughts on 2012 Repub Primary process

The Very Poor? Sir, I care not for the Very Poor, for they have safety nets sufficient unto their kind – and if they break, do we not fix them?

Behold our works and take pride! Are the vomitoria not brimming, that the Very Poor can in their turn sup on the bounty of our Great Nation?

-Mitt Romney, 2012

Tachikoma arms

Arm comparison. Is Smooth or Flat shading better?

More work on the Tachikoma.

Mine is on the left, and has been selectively Smooth Shaded.

The finger parts were the toughest parts of this batch, though they might not look it.

Furthermore, the fingers are really very simplified compared to the opening sequence of the series.

Tachikoma Hand Reference

Also, the original model had a cylindrical drum-magazine that look weird and out of place – so I deleted it. I now see that there is in fact a magazine attached to the arm (though not much like that in the source model). That definitely has to be added. Total redo of the fingers will just have to wait till its time to start a second, much more detailed version.

Looks like the flat light grey texture will need to be upgraded to a shiny metal at some point as well.