Posts made by surreality

The stuff being added to character pages is mostly 'extras'.

More or less everything you'd normally expect is there -- gallery, contacts, hooks, basic writeup. The stuff going in still is mostly... extra.

There are already some optional extras, like being able to list your aspirations on the page, so you can track them there (and ideally people will see them, and say, HEY, THAT SOUNDS COOL, LET'S DO THAT THING!) and mark them complete/etc. as you go along.

There's a sheet option that'll link you to book references and similar. It's mostly the sheet options -- because there are umpteensquillion of them to manage -- that are still going in.

Y'all can check out the sample crash testing page here:
http://portland.echoes.wiki/Character:Test

The buttons across the top are tabs to different sections.

@Taika My dye mentor's husband was great with bullshitting up names in a pinch, so he got that job in her business the second he demonstrated this talent. He did not understand that he was doing magic in front of brain-fried muggles with this rare and precious gift.

Ever since, he regrets uttering the words 'Sahara Sunset' out loud, he really does.

@Taika @Groth ...I hope they can deal with people numbering things and not naming them. Because I am not coming up with names for that many things.

If I have to do that, I'm going to jury rig one of those random name generators to spit out things like 'Crashing Rainbow Sunset Flame Earrings', and where is your God(s) then, I ask you.

Don't you test me, internet. I'm onto your shenanigans.

@Taika Writing product copy is so miserable a nightmare it seriously makes a joy out of writing policy files for obscure corner case MU bullshi--fuuuuuuuck me, now I see how I've been procrastinating all these years...

But I'm totally not kidding, and I so feel you, oh, gods, do I ever.

We have a Canon 20D. It's great, it is. For... not this any more, really. I know of someone who did amazing print work with one, even, but, y'know, that guy was a photographer for National Geographic for years, and I'm prettttttty sure he knows his stuff better than me in every possible way and he has a full time studio room set up for photography. We don't... have any of any of that. (The years of accumulated clue or the room.) At least when it comes to that, I still have good lenses and can just replace the body with something that works with what I've got.

@Taika Plus, who is going to rack up $140k in etsy fees. Seriously. Who do they think they're foolin'.

@Raemira It isn't so much a startup business; we've been doing this for ages. The online presence angle just went poof ages ago when ebay became useless for it and finding our site was a thing that simply didn't happen, and there was a definite level of 'cannot be bothered' when we were doing OK with a pile of shows.

Before handing things off to me, my mother managed to screw some things up for us (and my husband is helpful, but... sometimes lacking in clue in ways he needs education about re: 'how art shows are different from convention dealer's rooms') and we lost a few shows due to her insistence that our crap displays looked professional. (Just... no, Mom, no.)

Then she retired, and, welp. Now it's my problem to find new venues. Online should be easier than it actually is.

I may send the folks to that link, though. They think it's as easy as television commercials tell them on the news: 'two hours and like magic, you have a website, and then the money rolls right in!'

Meanwhile our digital camera is ancient (2004 called... ), our lighting rig needs either replacement or new bulbs (replacement = cheaper with some LEDs that won't roast me in under 5 minutes) and they don't quite understand that it can indeed take up a whole dining room table to photograph that wee dinky pair of earrings properly, or that 'photograph the earrings, put them in a listing online' often takes as long as making the damned things does.

Oh, you sweet summer children... (Not a phrase that one normally applies to one's septuagenarian parents, but there you have it, really.)

Pistachio pound cake is a thing that exists, and it is also green.

The etsy news is now making me grumpy because I had been hoping to set up there this year.

We have both old vintage junk I wanted to be rid of for at least a pittance and newly made things I was hoping to shill. Grar.

@Thenomain said in Favicon:

Sometimes people want fun over minimalism, Tim.

Yes, this.

I mean, there is a broad and enjoyable medium between stark minimalism and angelfire glitterbomb circa 1998 with shimmering snowflakes chasing your cursor and pixies screaming on click. Really and for true.

We actually looked at all the plans on the exchange this year while it was open, and none of them covered our usual dentist. Which is... kinda alllllllll the side-eye for that. Guess they just don't like 'us poors'. But we will be shopping around.

Average cost is supposedly around $34k for this in the US. $28k was like, oh, hey, maybe we're in one of the luckier areas. NOPE. How they justify more than $20k over the national average is a story I want to hear, though.

ETA: We are going to look into the discount plans, though, because we DO like the periodontist who would be doing the actual implant work. Probably best to just call his office and ask which ones he accepts (insurance, too).

ETA2: Naturally, the insurance through husband's work has no dental. "Oh, we'll be adding that... maybe next year." <facepalm>

@RnMissionRun Yep.

Need full top and bottom. With extra screws (minimum 6 each) 'cause they need to use the smaller size screws because I have a more child-than-adult-sized skull.

Bad genes, braces broke things more by ripping the enamel off with the adhesives they used (you used to be able to see the square HOLES it left behind until I had to get veneers across the top six at least, you can still see them elsewhere, where they were just filled), and 'let's save money by going to the teaching clinic! That sounds like a bad idea... But saving money!!!' destroyed the rest. (Some of their fillings didn't even last a single day.)

I'm the unhappiest of campers on all the levels.

Dear dentist: when I ask you, "What is this the total comprehensive cost of what you are proposing going to be?"

And you tell me $28k, giving me an on the spot panic attack already with that shit, and go on with examples of how 'if we bought a $28k car it wouldn't allow as much time to pay off' and similar?

Don't you fucking dare come back to me and say, "oops, I meant for each row, so it's actually $56k total," after we go see the guy you recommended for the consult.

Holy motherfucking fuck you, man.

@Aria I know, right? It's like watching the world's stonedest puppy.