2009-07-24

Distraction powers, activate!

Filed under: Writing — Tags: , , , — D. Moonfire @ 22:46
Weight Loss (8.3 of 14.7 kg)
Commission (4,227 of 15,000 words)

Well, Friday has come around and I can’t say I got everything done that I hoped. Not that I ever seem to finish my entire to do list when I have weeks like this, but I got a reasonable amount of them that I don’t feel that I completely and utterly wasted the weekend. Given the number of times I got distracted over at Armor Games and Kongregate, I’m going to say I got to the “fun” things. Just not the ones that I planned on enjoying, like playing on the PlayStation or programming a game. Oh well.

My commission is kicking my ass. Four days of working on it and I can’t say that I’ve gotten more than a quarter done. And I’m not exactly happy with the bits I do have, but I’ll keep plugging on it.

I did get pretty good progress on a theme framework for web applications (I’m calling it WTF for web template framework). I have a DokuWiki and WordPress themes that use the same centralized style and it seems to work out pretty well. It even has a test page to test the style.

Tonight, I’m going to dinner with the in-laws and tomorrow we have board game night (*squee*), so this week is pretty much over for projects.

2009-07-18

More ljxp changes, now with avatars!

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , — D. Moonfire @ 23:33
Weight Loss (6.3 of 14.7 kg)
Commission (823 of 15,000 words)

Finished up another little change, the ability to pick and choose LiveJournal avatars from inside WordPress. This way, I don’t have to write up a post, post it, then go over to LiveJournal to make it private (last week’s change) and pick an avatar (this change). It all happens in the same place, which makes it easier for me to post quickly.

Despite the fact I get almost no comments on my main blog, I still prefer to have that as my primary and LiveJournal being a secondary mirror. It could just be me being picky, but despite the fact I’m not on Facebook or MySpace, I still want to have my blog on my domain. But, all those delicious comments and online friends are over on LiveJournal, so I bridge the two in the way that I’m comfortable with.

This also means I really should stop stalling and work on my commission or write a program.

2008-09-19

Reorganization

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , — D. Moonfire @ 20:43

Last night, I trashed my baby squid god and started over from scratch. I just couldn’t get everything to line up and I realize that starting with the high detail 1/8th model is the wrong way to go. Two hours later, I had just about the entire low-poly model done, a basic armature working (which I’m going to redo later), and it in the range of 600 triangles (I’m aiming for 1000 maximum for this model). It isn’t quite as incredible as the model in my head, but its fairly close to something usable which is more important.

I did realize something. Squids don’t have eyelids or eyebrows and this is actually going to cause me some problems with expressing emotions. Furthermore, I’m using eyes from the vampire squid which are basically… just blue orbs. And the mouth is under the mantle, so it can’t be used either. (Gave up on the tongue for now.) So, if I do any closeups of the figure, I’m going to have a big struggle to make it look lovable (which is what I’m hoping for). (As a side note, I’m having a bit of trouble the Klein baby bottle, so I might give up on that unless I can find a good model to steal.)

I also reorganized the categories on my blog. Since WordPress now has categories and tags, I moved the tags into the tag section and left the big categories behind. This means the tag cloud is a lot smaller and those on LiveJournal won’t be able to see the tags, but it seems much cleaner to me.

I might start putting up my % complete bars again. This weekend, I need to put at least a few hours on story commissions, go to a family reunion, and write a story for scienceprincess. Do a bit on Scroll of the Lands. And work on the BSG of course. Ah, too many projects and obsessions, this I know.