God damnit. I swear to god I am never buying another wacom tablet. I have had so many freaking problems with them. Out of nowhere, they always just decide “Nah, I don't feel like working any more.” Woke up today and my tablet isn't responding the buttons or the pen. Only touch. It doesn't even make SENSE! If it's going to stop working it should at least stop working completely!
So I remove the user profiles and blah blah blah, still not working. I am very upset.

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@Ally: Some of the best acting I've seen has been on The Twilight Zone - but on the other hand, that was a pretty exceptional show.

Oh man oh man oh man I bought an off-brand “urban vinyl” figurine. I'm gonna turn it into Koji. So excited. X3
The head looks like a marshmallow!

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@ Hippie Van: What tablets have you been using exactly? I had SOOOOOO much trouble with my wacom graphire, but once I upgraded to an intous I've had no trouble. : )

Dodger
@ Hippie Van: What tablets have you been using exactly? I had SOOOOOO much trouble with my wacom graphire, but once I upgraded to an intous I've had no trouble. : )

I had a little Bamboo Fun, and now I have a bigger Bamboo Fun. I wouldn't be able to afford a replacement for this one, nevermind an upgrade.
But I reinstalled the drivers and now it appears to be working again, no thanks to wacom.

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I like going thru facebook's “people you may know” and seeing how many friends we have in common, and still being like “Who the F*ck is that?” So far the record is 20.

Hippie Van

Dodger
@ Hippie Van: What tablets have you been using exactly? I had SOOOOOO much trouble with my wacom graphire, but once I upgraded to an intous I've had no trouble. : )

I had a little Bamboo Fun, and now I have a bigger Bamboo Fun. I wouldn't be able to afford a replacement for this one, nevermind an upgrade.
But I reinstalled the drivers and now it appears to be working again, no thanks to wacom.

My bamboo does that, I think it has something to do with the wire connector (that metal port) being flimsy inside the tablet, don't quote me on that though. I usually reboot my computer and it fixes.

I recently ordered a replacement pen for my intuos pen since i accidentally snapped the board…70 freaking dollars. I still have no idea why they charge so much even after seeing the inside.

Hippie Van
But I reinstalled the drivers and now it appears to be working again, no thanks to wacom.

From personal experience with many Wacoms (Graphires, Intuous, Cintqs) On many different versions of Windows and Mac OS, the trouble is usually always something to do with the OS and not the tablet. (when it's the tablet for me it's been the stylus just breaking from being too old)
The OSs just don't want to let the tablet driver run for some reason all of a sudden, or they never let it run or they run it all weird.

My usual fix is just to log out (or windows) and log back in. Usually that always fixes it for me. But I cannot guarantee that in all cases. The hardest time people usually have is getting it installed to start with (in some cases it can be a fricken nightmare, most cases it's easy), but once you're past that then is usually just Windows or the Mac messing with the driver.

Wow… just watched some segment in “The Most Extreme” about the Cuckoo. Klepto Parasitism, it's called. I wonder if it happens in humans too… where a conman or some other criminal replaces the newborn of rich new parents with their own child, dispose of the child they kidnapped, then later in life they find a way to profit from the child's now rich status (maybe by threatening to expose the child's true birth parents so he can't inherit anything from his rich parents)… or maybe not. No human would stoop that low… right?

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Just finished reading the Mockbuster entry in TV Tropes and found about Dingo Pictures. Isn't the word “dingo” a term for a feral Australian dog? And it's in the name of a very bad animation studio in Germany?!? I wonder if the Australian air force will pay a visit to the place and lay out a nice carpet bombing for them… hmm…

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Maybe I should go and finally write that parody I've been wanting to write…. about a disaster aboard a submarine where everyone is trying to survive deep under the ocean. The title? 30,000 Leaks Under the Sea… :)

i have a cold

not a major cold, the kind where there's a lump in the throat and everything drifts into each otheranditskk cause whatami going to do about it anwya lalalalalala

i know i got it from our freaky ac. the PCs are in the basement where it's freezing because if its not freezing down there, then the bedrooms won't get cooled off.

i love control+z i always have

and yo know what – i was just reading in the 2010 rat and rave–August. aug 2010 was a fine month – except for bravo. poor bravo. but he was bruce willis to oz's george costanza.

I wouldn't have had to go diggin through the archives if SOMEBODY had asnwered a PQ all the way thru. *sigh*

I'm having trouble with my granny hips again.

After several months of working bliss, my hips have suddenly decided to hurt again and prevent me from walking long distances. I've got this congenital hip defect, or something, where the head of my femur doesn't fit into the socket of my pelvis in my right side, the head of the femur is all fucked up apparently, causing the ligaments in my leg to work overly hard to keep me walking which results in a massive pain in my leg preventing me from moving more thne a couple of metres.

Basically, I have the hips of an 70 year old even though I'm only 17, and the doctor said I will probably have to have a hip replacement when I'm 30 (Hence the reason why I called them my “Granny Hips”).

Uuuughhhh…. So painfuuulllll…..


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Fugly isn't eating. He didn't eat anything last night and refused to eat anything this morning. Mum reckons he's too cold, and she's put a hot water bottle in his cage, remade his nest and stuck a thermometer in to check if its warm enough. Its just that its so cold within my house at this time of year, I'm not susprised he's cold. But I'm worried about him,because if he doesn't start eating, well… I don't know how long he'll last. :(


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Jesus. My latest comics are so lame, I guess its from all this recent stress that I've been having to deal with, so my jokes have been really strained and lame. :/

I guess we're all somehow having a bad day. I can't sleep. Well… not yet. This is one of those times when I'm sure I'll have an accident in my sleep. I hope none of you ever develop diabetes, or if you do I hope you don't have to take meds for it… especially METFORMIN!!! Sometimes I can feel the side effects taking effect, and sometimes they can get really bad at the wrong time. I'm glad I avoid taking the stuff at least 3 hours before work as there's no way to deal with them during work except through sheer endurance of will…

Maybe my craft cupcakes will cheer someone up? : ) ???



They're kind of crappy cellphone pics… but they're made of caulk, instillation foam, and different craft materials.

I came up with a cool idea for a comic but I have no idea where to go with it and I don't really have interest in drawing it. I thought of asking for story advice on a forum but I really do think someone would steal the premise. I usually laugh when I see people like this on collab forums when they have a really cliche anime plot…ah whatever. Better safe than sorry. Maybe I'll drag it out in a few years and fix it.

I fully thumbnailed my comic and my “60 pages max” became 90 -_-. No way in hell i'm drawing all that. I whittled it down to 80 but that's still freaking high. It's partly because I made a rule not to have more than 6 panels per page, but now that's just drawing the story out.

Dodger
They're kind of crappy cellphone pics… but they're made of caulk, instillation foam, and different craft materials.

They look so edible, despite their obvious inediblness D:

They look awesome! But I suspect they taste like poo…

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Just reading some of my favourite blogs, many of them once they become popular have to deal with people stealing various images of thers and posting them around the web on other sites while getting rid of the citation details that give the oroginal author credit. For example, I was having a read of The Oatmeal, a site with lulzy comic material and pictures, and saw in his blog that posters on Funnyjunk.com have nicked most of his stuff and loaded on their website without giving credit to him. He asked thme to remove it, and now FJ is in a eostrogen fueled uproar, calling him fairly nasty things (changing his name to “The Fag” for example.)

Its pretty sickening people can be so petty about things. I suppose its one of the dangers of posting works on the web though, there's always people who are going to think they're awesome and steal it. I've had that problem once or twice when I posted on DeviantArt, people just nicked my works and used them for their own purposes.

But policing these things is like walking into the Veitnamese Jungle in 1965 and asking everyone polietly to stop using bullets and use water guns instead.

OnlyFoolsAndVikings
I'm having trouble with my granny hips again.

After several months of working bliss, my hips have suddenly decided to hurt again and prevent me from walking long distances. I've got this congenital hip defect, or something, where the head of my femur doesn't fit into the socket of my pelvis in my right side, the head of the femur is all fucked up apparently, causing the ligaments in my leg to work overly hard to keep me walking which results in a massive pain in my leg preventing me from moving more thne a couple of metres.

Basically, I have the hips of an 70 year old even though I'm only 17, and the doctor said I will probably have to have a hip replacement when I'm 30 (Hence the reason why I called them my “Granny Hips”).

Uuuughhhh…. So painfuuulllll…..


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Fugly isn't eating. He didn't eat anything last night and refused to eat anything this morning. Mum reckons he's too cold, and she's put a hot water bottle in his cage, remade his nest and stuck a thermometer in to check if its warm enough. Its just that its so cold within my house at this time of year, I'm not susprised he's cold. But I'm worried about him,because if he doesn't start eating, well… I don't know how long he'll last. :(


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Jesus. My latest comics are so lame, I guess its from all this recent stress that I've been having to deal with, so my jokes have been really strained and lame. :/

:( Well I hope your uh…granny hips feel better! And I hope ‘Fugly’ gets better. I hope everything gets better. D;

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Alright yeah, so I'm super sunburnt, right? I've been putting aloe on (where the sunburn is, of course) and today, as I go to do it for the first time, I notice within seconds it itches like crazy. Honestly to the point where it drives me insane. I took a shower, which didn't help at all, so I had to deal with this immense itching pain for a good 20-30 minutes. It doesn't sound that bad, but…I can't even explain.

Good news is, tomorrow's the last day I have to go to my high schoool wooooooooooo.

Bad news, I have to be there at 7:15.

And then commencement itself is next Tuesday.

Y'know, for being out of school, I sure have to be at school a lot (I had to be there everyday this week, except Monday).

OnlyFoolsAndVikings
They look so edible, despite their obvious inediblness D:

They look awesome! But I suspect they taste like poo…

THANK YOU <3

I made a sculpture of a cat from these last semester… A senior ate a chunk of the tail. He took my -nearly finished- sculpture down from the top shelf in the sculpture room and took a bite out of it! I don't think he actually swallowed the piece he bit off but it was never seen again. ) ':

Ryuthehedgewolf
Well I hope your uh…granny hips feel better! And I hope ‘Fugly’ gets better. I hope everything gets better. D;

Thanks, I hope it all get's better too, until then, I'll stuff my face with potato chips and pretend nothing is wrong.

Oh, and this may seem really wierd, but raid your bathroom cuboard and find crap loads of moisturizer. Apply crap loads of moisturizer to your sunburn constantly. It will help, trust me, and it should be much better the next day. :D

seventy2
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I like going thru facebook's “people you may know” and seeing how many friends we have in common, and still being like “Who the F*ck is that?” So far the record is 20.

And then there's the people you know, but wish you didn't.

Wacom tablets: As far as I know the drivers provided by Wacom are a little wonky. They work fine MOST of the time but occasionally they bug out pretty badly. Usually rebooting helps, sometimes though a driver reinstall is necessary.

Sometimes odd stuff happens when you install a different version of the driver. And stay away from the latest ones if you can if your tablet is old. My Volito2 didn't want to work properly after I installed latest drivers and when I tried to install earlier ones, I had to manually delete register keys to resolve some bizarre conflict that was crashing my pc.

In other news: I doodled a little today and I must say, the last break didn't roll back my art skills all that far, in fact, if I keep up, I might even make progress forward within the month or so. At least I hope so.

OnlyFoolsAndVikings

Ryuthehedgewolf
Well I hope your uh…granny hips feel better! And I hope ‘Fugly’ gets better. I hope everything gets better. D;

Thanks, I hope it all get's better too, until then, I'll stuff my face with potato chips and pretend nothing is wrong.

Oh, and this may seem really wierd, but raid your bathroom cuboard and find crap loads of moisturizer. Apply crap loads of moisturizer to your sunburn constantly. It will help, trust me, and it should be much better the next day. :D

Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I would, but I'm afraid that I'll itch like crazy again. I don't think my skin is dry so much anymore, it's just a matter of it healing from the terrible sun. I HATE YOU SUN. I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU.

As far as I know, I just gotta wait it out. That, and take drugs. Yayyyyyyyy.

But anyway, I'm hungry, so if you could pass some of dose' tater' chips, I reckon I'd love ya forever.

Ugh… I wish I was so lucky. My Wacom graphire won't power up at all. I'm probably gonna go get that DigiPro tablet anyway. It's pretty cheap but it will get the job done. I'll probably just use it 'til I can afford a genuine Wacom drawing tablet… which will be a while.

Ryuthehedgewolf
But anyway, I'm hungry, so if you could pass some of dose' tater' chips, I reckon I'd love ya forever.

*momentarily stops stuffing face with chips*

GET YER OWN, SCAB!


om nom nom nom nom!

Lonnehart
The title? 30,000 Leaks Under the Sea…

Oh the Huge Manatee!!

@Onlyfools: Is there a wildlife rehabilitation centre you could take him to?

@Hippie Van

There's WIRES, but they only take in native wildlife, they won't take a pigeon in because it's a pest. I was thinking about taking him to a piegon club, but I don't think they'll want him either because he's only a common pigeon. Australia is really strict about native and non-native animals. My aunt took an injured crow to WIRES once, and they wanted to kill it, thought she was bloody nuts for rescuing it in the first place, so I don't know how they will treat Fugly. :(

I'm going to ask the RSPCA, but once again, I don't know how eager they'll be about taking in a pigeon.

OnlyFoolsAndVikings
@Hippie Van

There's WIRES, but they only take in native wildlife, they won't take a pigeon in because it's a pest. I was thinking about taking him to a piegon club, but I don't think they'll want him either because he's only a common pigeon. Australia is really strict about native and non-native animals. My aunt took an injured crow to WIRES once, and they wanted to kill it, thought she was bloody nuts for rescuing it in the first place, so I don't know how they will treat Fugly. :(

I'm going to ask the RSPCA, but once again, I don't know how eager they'll be about taking in a pigeon.

Oh, that's really sad! I hope he does alright.


Which relates to today's rant…
A woman came in to our store looking for kitten milk replacer. Turns out she found a baby bunny that had been abandoned. It was a long weekend so I kind of figured she was just taking care of it until she could find someplace else to take it. So I recommended that she get the kitten milk for now, but take him to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre the next day. She responded, “Yeah, well, we'll see. The kids like it.”

Uh…I don't think your kids will like it very much if the bunny dies, lady. It's not like bringing home a hamster or a fish, bunnies(and especially babies) are really fragile. It especially bothered me because our wildlife rehab place is awesome. I brought an injured bird there about a year ago and they even sent a postcard sometime later letting us know that he had been released back into the wild.

OnlyFoolsAndVikings
they won't take a pigeon in because it's a pest

Wow… I guess sea gulls aren't the only birds people consider pests. Don't know if pigeons steal food from people at the beach by heckling them ‘til they get their beaks around the food people have in their plates…

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Gotta love dreams sometimes. Especially the one I just woke from. Met a nice girl in the dream. Told me she’s single and that she loved talking to me and that we had a great time (we were walking along the beach). Soon as she leaves and is out of sight I turn around… to see some beautiful rich woman and her two muscular male “friends”… who use me like some sort of punching bag before the woman tells me to stay away from “her girlfriend”. I guess my belief that every woman is taken, no matter what. Oh, well… being alone sucks, but at least your heart doesn't end up shattering.

Tonight I went out with friends and one of our stops was a restaurant where the service and food happened to be fantastic, but I was told that if you complain, a furious man kicks you out before you get to eat.

It isn't a gimmick or anything, he just owns the restaurant and gets really pissed off. I admire that man's fighting spirit.

Lonnehart
Wow… I guess sea gulls aren't the only birds people consider pests. Don't know if pigeons steal food from people at the beach by heckling them 'til they get their beaks around the food people have in their plates…

haha, seagulls are little bastards the way they do that. I always end up giving my chips to the seagull with one leg. People consider pigeons a pest because they're everywhere, and they carry diseases (or suposedly, I don't know how truthful that is, but its what people think).

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Mum thinks Fugly might have some fungal infection in his crop (where the food goes) and has gone to the vet to get some drops for him. He seems to want some food now, he's been trying to eat my fingers, so I'm assuming he wants food, or wants to kill me, can't decide which.

He seems alright now, I hope he is anyway.

I'm still holding out on creating a Pigeon circus.

Pigeons are weird. They pick the weirdest places to sleep around the condo I've been assigned to watch every night. Where do they sleep? On the top of door frames of the topmost floor. I guess the nice thing is that the Brown Tree Snake can't climb up to where they are in order to eat them. It probably helps that whenever I see one, my first reaction is to do everything I can to drag it out and stomp it to death. It may seem cruel on my part, but when you think about how thanks to its arrival nearly all our native birds are extinct (or on their way there)…

And they even sleep in pairs. And sometimes they fight. The tenants apparently don't mind their “guests” sleeping on top of their doors.

heh… killed 12 snakes one night while on a post in the middle of the jungle. The workers complained the next morning about all the dead snakes on the path, so I ended up throwing them into the jungle after destroying them. I guess the sight of the dead things rotting on the road was worse than the smell (which is pretty bad in itself). Too bad the snakes themselves are unappetizing. I've been told the meat from Brown Tree Snakes makes Rattlesnake Meat look like gourmet food. Not that I would know since I don't eat snake…

I wonder how that aspirin laced dead mouse bombing program is progressing, since when snakes eat the aspirin laced mice they end up dying (something about how chemicals in the aspirin prevent the snake from absorbing nutrients from their food)… I think the mice are stuffed with Tylenol…

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Youtube Video: The Chintendo Vii (version 2)

The only advantage of this console over the others (as I have commented)… your foot won't break if you happen to drop this thing on it…

Seems like lots of people are having tablet problems(myself included).

I'm hanging out with my friend tomorrow(the one that ‘embellishes’ all his stories) I almost feel like it's a chore hanging out with people lately…

Just found out I have a thing which explains all the other things and why I am the way I am.

Very unsettling.
Although if Ive had it the entire time id doesnt really make a difference. Just means a lot of people where right and that I have a thing.