good luck niccea!

there's this thing at the bottom of the page…am i missing something?

The thing that brought me to drunk duck looking for distractions, and allowing me to vent has returned. we have gone full circle in the last……4 years?!

I've been watching Ringer starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and I'm loving it. Quite skeptical before watching it (I guess I got hooked too much on the whole Buffy TV series) but finally entirely convinced and happy with the new series.

So this has been legitimately bugging me lately. Normally this would be something I'd simply PQ, but I know I can't be the only nerd here wondering…

Skoolmunkee; …. where'd you get that boxing monkey sprite? Or is that something you made yourself? I program my own games and often look at sprites for ideas and such. That monkey is uber cute, and quite frankly I'd like touse it in something~!

NickyP wrote:
So this has been legitimately bugging me lately. Normally this would be something I'd simply PQ, but I know I can't be the only nerd here wondering…

Skoolmunkee; …. where'd you get that boxing monkey sprite? Or is that something you made yourself? I program my own games and often look at sprites for ideas and such. That monkey is uber cute, and quite frankly I'd like touse it in something~!

YES.

EDIT:
Apparently quotes can't handle links on the new duck.

Whatever the new DD uses for posting stuff (everywhere on DD) is pretty shizzy. There's not much it CAN handle. -_-

You have more options for how you can post things is something like MSN or Gtalk.

Had a crappy day so far. Started with trying to do a newspost 5 minutes before I ran off to work… Work was EXTREMELY busy, people were giving me far too much to do and I had to work with crappy word docs and old photocopies and try and recreate the artwork in illustrator, That takes TIME people, don't bloody rush me when I'm doing that.

Then I have to go over the new signups on DD looking for the spammers… The spammers have gotten smarter so it's a lot harder to find them. It's a lot of work in any case.

Now I have to do my feature for tomorrow. Which means i need to go through my list and see if that comic has enough pages and is still updating, hen read it from comer to cover, then to a writeup and a separate news post.

I can't wait for the weekend! >_<
That thing at the bottom of the screen is yet another revenue raising thing for the site.

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AND now post got cut to nothing and I'm re-posting it… so perfect.

I've had the little thing at the bottom of the page following me around since I checked my email.

I worked Tuesday night,discovered they're finally training a new guy and turned around and went to have lunch that afternoon with the wife at rehab. I was all wound up because I started work on my next work of webcomic awfulness. She's doing better and was able to walk half the way back to her room with her walker. Though she hates thefirmboot she now has on her right foot as opposed to the cast.

That cast wasabout a 1/4 inch thickand took lots of cutting by the Physician Assistant to get it off. At one point I didn't even think her saw blade was thick enough to go through it. Judy had 22 staples in her ankle. That's all, just 22. One of my great aunts had a serious break like this back in the 1930sthat left her witha twisted foot andhobbling with a brace her entire life. Now a days they can fix these things better than new. And emergency medical attention is more readily available these days. There were no EMTs in the 1930s or surgeons on call, just a sister-in-law who was a nurse.

evaniles wrote:
I've been watching Ringer starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and I'm loving it. Quite skeptical before watching it (I guess I got hooked too much on the whole Buffy TV series) but finally entirely convinced and happy with the new series.

I couldn't even get through the first episode, hated it.

Funny, that's how I was with Buffy. :)

Genejoke wrote:
I couldn't even get through the first episode, hated it.

Damn. :( I can't convince you with the fact it's getting better with mysterious characters disappearances and a very, very cunning Siobhan who's plotting against everyone? no? re-damn.

ozoneocean wrote:
Funny, that's how I was with Buffy. :)

I saw someone online referring the new series as the “two buffys”. :)

ozoneocean wrote:
Funny, that's how I was with Buffy. :)

I first saw buffy halfway through the first series and it interesed me enough to keep watching, ringer… could get better I guess it just seemed very badly written. Not falling skies bad but bad enough.

With Buffy I was hoping for something as cool, funny, clever and irreverent as the film… I was really disappointed at how emo, serious, soapy and self conscious it was.

Buffy the tv series to Buffy the movie is like Twilight to Buffy the tv series. :)
make sense? ^_^

After watching 6000 repeats of it when studying though, I eventually sort of got to like it after a while… It did get better much later on, when it really started to make fun of itself properly.

NickyP wrote:
So this has been legitimately bugging me lately. Normally this would be something I'd simply PQ, but I know I can't be the only nerd here wondering…

Skoolmunkee; …. where'd you get that boxing monkey sprite? Or is that something you made yourself? I program my own games and often look at sprites for ideas and such. That monkey is uber cute, and quite frankly I'd like touse it in something~!

I just picked it up someplace, I've been using it for like ten years now. Apparently it's from a game called…. monkey fights? I think? monkey boxing? monkey punch? I think it's monkey punch actually, but i just did an image search and google thinks I mean “donkey punch” (facepalm) or an 80s-looking anime.


Got work to do tonight but feeling kind of run down. I had a coffee and dinner so I guess I'll see how much energy I got. Reeeeeally need to get organized and do some kind of notes for the quackcast. And work some more on queueing up a couple of features for when i'll be gone. And chip away at my pages for lite bites to finish them this week. and…. hm. well it's mostly that. I guess that's not so bad. But I've only got 3 more hours before bed. :[

My computer is finally running quiet again. No more rattling from the old worn out power supply fan. Good thing the fan and its wiring were nowhere near the capacitors. And I could unplug it from the power supply circuit board. So a bit of splicing, some electrical tape, and remembering the orientation of the fan blades (because they are curved you want to make sure the curved sidesare facing the proper direction) and the power supply is as quiet as ever.

Well… ‘til the next time it starts making noise anyway. The thing has two fans. The one I had to replace lay on the “floor” of the power supply. The next fan to replace (because it looks like it’s gonna fail soon) would be the one you can see on the back of your computer where your power cord plugs in.

All I need now is to wait ‘til next week when I pick up my LCD monitor so I don’t have to deal with my CRT turning all cyan and dark when I least expect it…

Doing a clopen…somehow got talked into working a split shift tomorrow. Split shifts are the worst.

EDIT: GAH! I hate the new quote system, I can never get it right! But this post is in reply to skoolmunkee.

Using your memory and my deductive reasoning (har har!), I have discovered the sprite sheet! http://sdb.drshnaps.com/display.php?object=2071

It's from a Gameboy Color game called Monkey Puncher. Your avatar is a recolored version of the sprite I linked to. I suspected it had to come from the GBA-era based on the size and coloring, but I didn't think that it was instead a recolored GBC sprite!

Oh my god, my monkey could do other things than jumping?!?! This requires serious consideration.

ozoneocean wrote:
With Buffy I was hoping for something as cool, funny, clever and irreverent as the film… I was really disappointed at how emo, serious, soapy and self conscious it was.

The movie was going to be like that too, but it got rewritten because the producers thought the orignal emo stuff was lame for a movie. However, when the writer repitched it as a TV show it sort of made sense to do it as a teen angst kind of thing. Grown-ups had X-files and the teens needed their supernatural show. But having the head vampire be Mr. PLEDGE PIN ON YOUR UNIFORM from Animal House… inspired casting that… and the intention from the begining was to have that association (at least according to the huge write-up on the character on thecollector's figure box)

Lost Boys was supposed to be like that and then the producers thought the script was lame and we got the Edgar and Allen Frog and the one-liners.I liked Lost Boys

@Skool- you should use some of those munkees as emotes ^_^

@Bravo- Lost Boys rocked!

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Wow, work today was crap like yesterday. Clients kept F***ing up badly with the art they sent over and I kept getting blamed for it… Yeeeeah, whatever. Those guys are just jumped up salespeople who could never do in a whole day what takes me literally 5 minutes. I'm a god at what I do, you're a saaaaaalesperson.

Eh, I usually just laugh when they try and blame me. It's no skin off my noes, I get paid the same whatever and I get home earlier, plus I don't ever have to deal directly with clients.

Aw… Now I actually feel sorry for them. Dealing with stupid clients must suck. No wonder they try and blame me. :(

I'm so annoyed, I've barely gotten any work done the last month. They want me to be in at the office more but that means I'm not actually in the office, I'm in meetings or doing workshops or helping people with their stuff, and not working on mine. And when I do get desk time, it's so hard for me to focus and concentrate now on what I need to do (being spoiled by working at home), with other people talking, phones, wrong ‘setup’ etc. And when I can focus, it still takes me like twice as long as it would at home. I end up coming home and working another 2 hours or so to try and finish what I need.

I feel like a jerk for complaining about having to try and work in an office, but I literally have fallen behind on things because they want me in 3 days a week instead of 1 or 2. They just don't get it that some of us can get more done out of the office than in. I don't have a customer-facing job, I have everything I need to do it, they just think if they're paying me they ought to see me more or something. It's nice seeing my coworkers more often but I feel like a jackass being exhausted and stressed out over having to spend 1 or 2 extra days a week having to come in to work, when I still get 2 at home.

Anyway, home now, time for 2 hours of work. :] Especially because although I work at home tomorrow, I'm gonna have to stop at like 2.30. (get up an hour sooner maybe…)

skoolmunkee wrote:
They just don't get it that some of us can get more done out of the office than in.

So many hours and so much money wasted because management is still living in the eighties. My ex job was supposed to become home based donkey's years ago, but they just couldn't bring themselves to do it and ended up losing some of their most awesome employees (that's me) due to spiralling costs. rent - utilities - it all adds up to a pointless waste of lives.

@skool - I work from home twice a week and you're right - when I'm in the office for the other three days, it's for meetings, not for getting anything done. It use to bother me more, but I've been in this job so long and am so bored that getting bothered again might be a good thing - a break from the numbness.

so yeah, I;'ve applied for another job

But today at lunch was kind of fun. I dropped by the health food store where the guy always has some unusual musical choices. Today it sounded like it could have been a soundtrack from a Fellini movie. So I asked about it and he asked if I liked it. “Yes I do,” says I. And then he said: “cool - I made a copy and now I know who it's for.”

sweet. and the funny part is that it's part of the same “ultra lounge” series that I dipped into for a lot of the radio play music.

I'm reading through the the Icelandic act of unemplyoment.
So it goes something like “ Oh hi there,the main purposes of this law is to ensure workers with momentary financial support untill the worker gets a new job…YAY!”. Sounds reasonable but then the act goes on and on about who actually are “workers” and how long they have to have worked before being unemployed, have to be willing to take any job available or be entitled to loose payments etc etc…. So in all, pretty simple purpose but pain in the buttcheecks to calculated each and everyones payments… oh boy….

There are times when I am such a reductionist. Either that or my Occam's razor is just so sharp. Wish I could get that close a shave with my real razor.

Can you tell I just finished reading the latest issue of Skeptical Inquirer and am now subjecting myself to listening to the empty-headed credulity that is Coast to Coast AM

I rocked at work today. Woot!

When I try working from home it usually takes me 3 times as long (for graphic design stuff anyway). I'm sure I could speed up though when I got used to it…? I could do a lot of my current job from home, but what I find with working from home is that you can tend to have a bleed over of it into your own time and co-workers expect you to be available to work on more stuff at inconvenient times.

I like to be able to leave stuff at the office and not touch it again till I come back the next morning- keep work and non-work worlds completely separate.

bravo1102 wrote:
Can you tell I just finished reading the latest issue of Skeptical Inquirer and am now subjecting myself to listening to the empty-headed credulity that is Coast to Coast AM

The trouble is that when you listen to stupid idiots phoning in their stupid opinions or read them posted on an online story, eventually your superior intelligence becomes offended enough by the idiocy on display that you feel moved to contribute yourself and set these poor fools straight once and for all…

Then afterwards you realise what you said was actually completely wrong and you've basically just become another one of the idiots contributing to the noise. :)

TRUE STORY! …happened to me. ^_^
-like you couldn't guess.

Wow… just woke up from a weird dream. I dreamt I was playing what looked like Mass Effect 3 and found myself recruiting a very special Krogan into the team… A Krogan who wanted to do a lot of good for the galaxy but probably fell on a rock headfirst after his birth and that he owned a space hamster who took care of all the details for him… O_O

ozoneocean wrote:

Then afterwards you realise what you said was actually completely wrong and you've basically just become another one of the idiots contributing to the noise. :)

TRUE STORY! …happened to me. ^_^
-like you couldn't guess.

This is where I remind myself
Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level and beat you with his superior experience.
and

If you argue with an idiot, there are two idiots Robert Kiyosaki

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain

I try to keep myself aware of this whenever I feel a need to debate.
Never debate a fool, he is too ignorant to know he's wrong and too stubborn to admit it.

Also learned from experience growing up as the moderate between a liberal feminist and a gun loving right-winger. Then in college sitting betweena Reagan Republican and a Socialist at lunch and dinner and finally the crazed Libertarians you run into in the Army as well as gun-loving right-wing nut-jobs and people who have managed to raise bigotry and ingnorance into an art form.

Now I just listen to them all. I regularly find myself listening to a fervant Conservative Catholic quote the Pope and EWTN. She had me read one work that takes on Richard Dawkins and the new Atheism which I am loathe to return as I filled it with penciled in refutation gleaned from other commentators on Dawkins as well as critique on this work. And I remind myself about why William of Occam wrote what he did. He was awash in the great theological debates of the Middle Ages that led one wag to compare theology to arguing over angels dancing on pinheads. Another thing I like to remind myself of whenever I get the urge to debate the ignorant.

Lovely… this CRT monitor is becoming increasingly more nuts. Soon it'll remain cyan and dark no matter how much I unsubtly tap it. So next week when I get my LCD back from the repair shop I'll be pretty happy as I'll be able to start drawing again without anything breaking my concentration…

bravo1102 wrote:

ozoneocean wrote:

Then afterwards you realise what you said was actually completely wrong and you've basically just become another one of the idiots contributing to the noise. :)

TRUE STORY! …happened to me. ^_^
-like you couldn't guess.

This is where I remind myself
Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level and beat you with his superior experience.
and

If you argue with an idiot, there are two idiots Robert Kiyosaki

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
I try to keep myself aware of this whenever I feel a need to debate.
Never debate a fool, he is too ignorant to know he's wrong and too stubborn to admit it.


First - hats off, bravo. you've really mastered the intricacies of including quotes in these troubled posts.
Re - knowing what battles to wage, my Dad (harking from a small farm in Iowa) puts it this way: “Never get into a pissing contest with a skunk.”

@lonne- I wish I could fix LCDs… I have two dead ones sitting behind me desk at work and one here at my home. I think it's something probably simple like a blown capacitor or something in he work ones, and a blown lamp in my home one. New ones don't cost too much these days, bu I HATE throwing stuff away!

@Bravo- yup, better to remain silent and be thought wise than open your mouth and show yourself for a fool… Or, in the original version from the bible:

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise:
and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

…or, rather; let the genius out sparingly and resist the urge to pontificate. -I try very hard to follow that one… and occasionally I manage it.

@Ayes- YES! The quote system here is a horrible monster to be beaten into submission and Bravo is doing well!

YAY, just finished our Quackcast with Pitface and it was great! She's one smart, talented cookie. Horror was a big success as a topic!