Oh man, this is quite funny, our local news weatherman seems to have taken too much coffee this morning.

http://www.wral.com/weather/video/1076424/

Edit: Aw damn they fixed it. The original forecast was from the 11pm show last night. They accidentally sped it up. It sounded like he was on speed or something.

So I'm working on avs on SL when I get a PM from someone asking for an update for a Wolf Critter avatar. "No problem," thinks I, "I'll just send him this card here and he'll be good to go."

Then I see the taletell sign of disaster about to strike...

*Shady Character is typing...

And then nearly an hour later, he finally pipes up with:

[22:46] Shady Character: I'm really really sorry to bother you again, I know your busy. But I also need the updater for the Critters V3 Red Fox.

"No problem," thinks I... until I looked it up.

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Imma 31.

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My machine is working once more. We gave the damn thing to uath while we left the house and he somehow got it working again before we got back. He said the registry was all screwed up, which could have happened when it up and died when it was booting windows. Still odd but, meh. I'm running a virus scan on it now just incase and I've backed up my important info.

Of course this made me late for the artgrind and I have too much to do now to get back to it :/

My work machine randomly rebooted itself just after I logged into windows. When it rebooted, it said it couldn't run windows because of a missing or corrupt file in the windows system folder. It told me to get the XP CD and run the repair setup. So we go through all that shit, and get to the repair part, and it bluescreens with this message: "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA". We tried it again, and got the same error.

It's running XP64 Pro. Any ideas? Need anymore info from me? I can't do anything with this machine down :(

Edit: So far it's been suggested to try reseating the RAM. So I'll have Bow try that first when he comes in.

So, yesterday someone dropped this notecard on me. I really hate it when people give me notecards because they're usually given to me after my IM buffer is full, and that way I never actually see that I get them. Then I look in my notecard folder later and there's a shitload of notes.

Whatever.

I got this notecard. It's so absurd. It'll make any sane person lol.

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Hey, this is ********.
I am interested in hosting a vendor spot at my newly reopened club mall at *********.

Rent is FREE in this offer, at the clost of commission (you set the % I dont care what it is, This is more for traffic than anything.) or my prefered method: Access to your items, one a month free of charge. I prefere this method, Specially for Avatars and other high detail items.


I send this to you with the hopes that we may do buisness. And because your items are shown to be of high quality and may bring in some traffic once advertised.

Please Contact *******y if you want anymroe info or have other ideas of how i may have the privledge of having a vendor of yours on my land.

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Access... to my items... for a little vendor spot that I've never heard of. Worth it? Absolutely not. And it's quite ridiculous that he would even ask for such a thing. I'm not even sure what "Access" means exactly. That he gets a box and I trust he takes just one av? That he gets a gift card once a month?

Though I am tempted to reply to him and say "Sure, that sounds reasonable" and then put a landmark giver to our real stores. He can have all the landmarks that he'd like.

It's just /so much/ easier to just pay $L for vendor space. Any 'trades' have always ended up screwing me over in the end.

It's always when the idiot children come out of the woodwork.

So this idiot leaves a comment on my drifterlorelei Journal. I recognized his name as being someone we banned from Kaerwyn. So I wasn't concerned about flaming the troll.

"Subject: Old times...?
from:newblood1 Im sorry but i have givin up on BT and any other comic you have made... I dont see anything happening BT is a waste of internet space, i have been with BT since it started. Bt is a waste of my time comeing to the web page to be awarded the same comic page 4 MONTHS AGO!"

It's always funny when, I don't know, what I do or don't do impacts someone's life as to be a "waste of their time". I wonder if anyone gives a shit that he's given up on BT? Somehow I doubt it. I think his post is more of a waste of space than BT is. I'd say that his time was wasted more by typing that post than by knowing BT is still up on the intarwebs.

Okay, so I start posting away at my reply cuz everyone loves it when I get this email...

The following message was sent to you via the The Realm of Kaerwyn Contact Us form by newblood
.

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I have been banned for acting immature for 2 years, i feel i have grown up and i wish to be unbanned, i am now 16 years of age and i will not cause trouble again with any administrator. I am sending this message to you in apology for what i have done wrong, back then i was immature and i had small anger issues, but i will not do those things again. I promise to aphold all the rules forever.

-Sincerely
Newblood,
Banned by Chat purposes,
and a mistake never to be done again!

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He flames... then he posts that he's grown up... and he'll never make that mistake again... ... and he wants /me/ to unban him... wtf?

Really, would we find the internet so entertaining if people weren't this stupid?

This is yet another customer that bought something /months/ ago, and decided they didn't like it, and feel they are entitled to /something else/.

Entitled.

Entitled.

Entitled.
( Here's how it went... )

I just lost the game.

6 As a 1930s wife, I am Very Poor (Failure) Take the test!

Go Me.

I think shadowsmyst said it best when she IMed me today: "I find it amusing how you try to do something fun for a small group and ultimately, inevitably it gets blown up into this massive thing."

That /does/ seem to be my curse, yes.

If anyone is wondering what's going on, artgrind got a LJ spotlight, like right there on their main page. Worst of all they called it a "Contest" which probably makes people think "prizes", but there is no prize (Other than that self satisfaction stuff :P).

But we're looking into clamping down on the moderation of the group so only people taking up the challenge, and authorized, can post to it. That should help. I see we've already gotten the lion's share of people not reading, or not understanding the rules. SM is going to clarify that as well.

Oy. I hope we don't lose anyone that signed up pre-spotlight over this.

BTW, does anyone know how to set up a post that always stays on the main page of a LJ Community? I've seen people do this on their personal LJ's, but I'm not sure if a community can do it. Any help here? I'd like to have a post that's always up with the rules and join info.

Okay so, there is some drama going on with the FurNation World's Mall, which suddenly became the Drakeal Mall. Power play? You bet. This is /very long./


Here's the Drama that went in the form of /Admin Notices/ to everyone in the Vendor Group. Unless you really care about watching Admins bitch towards each other (As opposed to directly at each other) you should

(  Skip This Shit. )

Now for my personal involvement.
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You know, I don't give a /damn/ about what their issues were. I shouldn't need to know about the internal problems. I rent, I should get what I pay for. That's generally the way it works. I expect slip ups and issues to happen. We're all human (Despite them being furries) and we make mistakes. FurNation and Corsi did a wonderful job of rectifying the issues by offering free space for mall vendors. Even if they couldn't help us get what we lost, they helped us continue on. That means a lot.

Ethen and the Drakeal group have done nothing but sling insults and accusations at others, give empty, hollow apologies, and not offered compensation directly to those affected. This is not acceptable behavior. I told Fore that if they tried to get my money back, I would put it right back into their mall and keep my space, and see how well their mall does from that point. But if they aren't going to offer *anything*, Return my shit without waiting for a response, and then pass the buck, then fuck them. I'm not paying a *dime* into that mall, and I doubt it will last long with such *shady*, immature administration.

I don't expect them to act with business like conduct, but I do expect *some* decency, respect and maturity.

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Edit! Ethen Pow finally wrote me back.

Suffice to say that he was *very* pissed off that this other person returned my crap. He offered me the full $6k back, and he apologized profusely. And that is /all/ I was asking for. While I still think that he handled this whole situation /very poorly/, what the admin does is their business. I don't want any part of it. I just want to make sure when I pay my rent, I get my spot.

But he is letting me keep my 2 weeks that I had left, AND he gave me a better spot (One that I wanted originally). So all in all, I didn't lose out and I got a good spot out of it. We'll see if business keeps up in this new sim if it's *worth* the $1500 a week I pay for it.

I had someone ask me today for advice on making their character look more consistant every time they draw her. My suggestion to her was to get a pack of printer paper from walmart and doodle that character on every last page.

That got me thinking of an interesting artist challenge. Almost like an Art-Grind, if you will. Now I won't make people pay the $20 and the one that lasts the longest wins the total. But it would be an interesting experiment for any artists willing to play the game.

Basically the idea is simple. Pick a character, preferably yours, but I suppose it could be something from popular media (Like a Stargate Character) or just whatever. Sketch this character every day from June 1st til November 30. That is six months of drawing the same character every day. Post them, everyday, to your blog/journal. Track your progress. See how well you keep up. And most importantly, see from start to finish how you've improved at the character.

Is anyone interested in participating in this little challenge? If so, I might even make a community for posting progress.

Edit: I have made the community for it, since I've gotten some pretty good feedback thusfar (Not just here on LJ). So now's the time to start spreading the word as I make the post on what this community is about :) artgrind

There's a tradition on SL where Lindens (The people that run SL) given away teddy bears based on the Linden giving it away.

This little fellow, Leo Linden's bear, was given to me a couple of weeks ago.



As you could see... ( He could use a little help )

When someone IMs you on SL asking for an update, and you click on their profile, it's always nice to see the av you built right there in their profile image, like they like it that much that they even put it in their profile. You get a real warm fuzzy feeling from it. And it's pretty rare to see too.

But then you click on their "picks" and see ... that avatar ... in ... questionable positions.

Yeah.

A quadruped dog avatar in questionable positions... with a human avatar.

Yeah.

That warm fuzzy feeling is probably the bile that's ready to rise up the throat.

I hope this post amuses someone. That's about the only value it holds.

This is really funny to listen to. This guy is crazy.

http://www.chumfm.com/MorningShow/bits/march24.swf

So once upon a time, a person was banned from Kaerwyn for harassing people.

We told him, four times, to stop harassing people. We temp banned him, for harassing people. We told him if he continued that he would be permanently removed.

He continued.

The amusing thing is, it's been several months since he was banned. Yet every now and then, he pokes me.

And get this! In his forum PMs, where I haven't banned him /yet/, he insults and jabs at me. He also demands that I prove that he's harassing me.

Yes, you read it right. He's harassing me to prove he harassed others. I've just been ignoring him, and pasting his PMs to show my friends, get a good laugh in at his expense.

I thought I'd share with you the funniest part of the last PM:

You know I'm right in the fact that I didn't harass anyone. The only reason you haven't done anything to prove that I did is because you can't. You just don't want to be proven wrong because God help the day the ever powerful Jakkal is wrong about something. I dare you to prove me wrong because so far I'm right and there's nothing you've done to change my mind.

I finally sent to him the definition of the word "hypocrite". I'm sure he'll ignore that just like I told him to look up "harassment".

Maybe next time I'll just reply with "The proof is in the pudding."

This site is hilarious http://punditkitchen.com/

Politicians + Lolspeak = win