My data that is. From my old server that bit the big one. SO I finally now have new hosting, and have gotten some of the domains back up and at least semi functional.

www.shadowsden.org
Its up, mostly functional, the forum is working, but I still haven't quite figured out how to make the SQL file dump into a DB. I'm an artist.. not a database person. :P A lot of the really techical stuff escapes me. I need to pin down a tech, and I happen to know where two will be on New Years eve... *looks shifty*

If anyone cares, the den forums have a subdomain now: http://forums.shadowsden.org

You can go there, it works, but if you register/post, just remember that things won't stay.

www.shiftersonline.com
The archive should be there, but certain things aren't working, like the forums. But that will come as I find a way to dump the DB. The LJ subscription elapsed, but I might switch over to wordpress/comicpress to run the comic in the new year, however, for now, its there.

I'm still working on the donors section to work again.. it was all script driven. Again, no DB. :P BUT I have the image data! so, I can at least salvage the content.

www.brymstone.net
Mostly functional save for the chatbox on the front page. Again, that is a DB issue.

www.realmscapes.net
Functional, although needs retasking.

www.pathwayz.org
Unfortunately this domain isn't a part of my normal cadre of domains hosted with dotster, as a result, I need to do a little more work to get the nameserver changed over. Don't expect this one to be functioning too soon.

www.evilspacecat.com
Pretty damn simple site. Functioning fine, but needs a redesign badly. *shudders*

Anyway, that's my report on the technical front.

In other news, happy new year everyone!

Let's hope 2009 doesn't suck as hardcore 2008 did. :P

How you do it:
Put your MP3 player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first is the title.

Can you guess all the songs?


Too Long

When you wish upon a star
Talking about life
How dare you say that my behavior is unacceptable
Everybody look at me, me

Ma-ia-huu
I know there's something in the wake of your smile
You must die I alone am best!
Stones and flowers on the ground

Let's dance in style, lets dance for a while
Hey, do it now
Rhythm
The waves keep on crashing on me for some reason

Well my heart knows me better than I know myself
Watch out here I come
One way or another I'm gonna find ya
Hahahahahahahahaha

Breaking my back just to know your name
He is the angel with the scabbed wings
There's not much left to love
We are human... after all

more the engrish!

Clipped for your sanity.

( The Meme )

Heyo all peoples who are finding me from artgrind!

If ya wanna join, please make sure you read this post: http://community.livejournal.com/artgrind/11623.html

and send me your info *EXACTLY* as I've laid it out. Either post it in that thread or send me a private message on LJ and I'll add you to the participant list. If you must reply in my journal here, please only reply to this message so I can keep everything strait. Its hard when there's hundreds of people posting in like three-four different places!

Posting in the proper thread helps me keep track of peoples and makes sure that everyone who wants to gets included! Thanks!

The shifters forums live again: http://www.shiftersonline.com/forums/index.php

for those of you who care.

I'm posting this here because I know more people watch this journal than the actual shadowsden one. Back in November my server died. Its taken much time, scrounging and frustration, but we have it working again and shadowsden.org exists again. It's still not a full recovery, as we haven't been able to get the databases back yet, but for now there are forums and page to direct people to them while I'm re-building the site. It probably will not be as it was, but I'm going to try to recover the forum data. I'm still working on the other sites that were hosted on my server, but one at a time.

So if you were on shadowsden, you can at least go back and there is something there.

Your Superpower Should Be Manipulating Fire

You are intense, internally driven, and passionate. Your emotions are unpredictable - and they often get the better of you. Both radiant and terrifying, people are drawn to you. At your most powerful, you feel like the world belongs to you. Why you would be a good superhero: You are obsessive enough to give it your all Your biggest problem as a superhero: Your moodiness would make it difficult to control your powers

Your Superpower Should Be Super Speed

You're quick witted and fast to act. You're mind works at warp speed. From your perspective, everyone else is living in slow motion. You get so much done, people have accused you of not sleeping. Definitely not a couch potato, you feel a bit crazy if you're not busy doing something. Why you would be a good superhero: You're be the first on the scene... and likely to finish the job before anyone else shows up Your biggest problem as a superhero: Being bored by everyone else. Including other superheroes!

Now that would be pretty cool..

And in other news:
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-vampire0208-cn,0,6717961.story

wow. Just.. wow. Many people will know why words fail me on this.

There are some people in this world that just really need to stop existing. Whoever was responsible for this is one of them.

In my workplace there was a classified put out to foster two pups. Their story is heartbreaking.

Apparently a bag of seven pups were thrown onto the highway, and before anyone realized what was in the bag, five of the seven pups had been run over, squashed in the sack. Only two of the seven remained alive after it was realized what was in the bag and what was going on. They were rescued and taken to a humane organization, and my co-worker is fostering them while homes are found.

But seriously, what kind of cold, heartless, black souled monster do you have to be to do something like that to pups like this?

( Cut for pictures. )
They figure they are about 6-8 weeks old, and both male. Not sure about their breeding tho.

There are tons of organizations and ways of getting rid of unwanted pups (they should have obviously fixed their bitch...) that will find them loving homes. But to throw living babies onto a highway to be squashed?? WTF?

Honestly makes me angry and ashamed to share the planet with people like that.

Omg. this guy is my hero.. seriously. I could not stop laughing. Anyone who's worked in the graphics industry should appreciate this too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5igTIBSnV7c

TRUST YOUR GRAPHIC DESIGNER!!

I yoinked it from Bulletwolf after much laughing.


5 Things Meme:
Here are four truths and one lie. See if you can pick out the lie, and post it in a comment. First person to get it right gets a LJ Icon.

1. I have taught a class at a university.
2. I have rescued someone from a cult.
3. I drove through a forest fire.
4. I lived for a month in a foreign country.
5. I have won an prestigious art award.

Because it is just ALL the rage and everyone and their dog (or cat.. literally) is on this thing, I was sort of shanghaied into joining it. Now, its a social networking site, and if you haven't heard of it yet, well, get with the times. I was forced to, now you should too dammit.

www.facebook.com

Anyway, you are supposed to put up a profile picture and so forth and I went off looking for a profile picture and I realized... I have no pictures of myself. Not on my computer or anything. What does this say about me? I'm not sure, but its probably not good.

Anyway, there was this welcome back 'company' type BBQ at my work and someone got a snapshot of me on the web. When I saw this picture I remembered why I don't have any pictures of me. Because I look like a doof in 99.9% of the pictures I'm in. I don't know why, but it seems every time I have a camera in my face I end up looking like a complete retard. That, and I'm fat, and reminded of this in every photo thats taken of me. I wish it was a motivation thing, but as it is right now, its just depressing.

I don't usually get much to bitch about in SL. (secondlife) Generally speaking, most people leave me alone or are fairly polite when they want something, even if I tell them something they don't want to hear. But today.. I dunno, tis just been something of an odd day in general, perhaps I shouldn't be surprise when suddenly the dumb on SL finds me.

Here are a couple of shining examples.

Sler: Hi ^_^ I"m in your shop right now and I'm looking at the evil eyes series pictures. I see that the one on the picutre has decapitaion marks around her neck....could you tell me where to get those? Thanks in advance ^_^

Me: Those are on a custom version of the female 'deadskin' I did for my ghost character. They are not on clothing, they are directly painted into the skin.

SLer:ah okay, thanks
SLer: so i can't buy them for myself?

Here I hear a massive 'dhrrrrr' noise. I just told them they are a part of the skin. :P

I had to continue explaining that it wasn't a tattoo and was the actual SKIN. Eventually I sold them a custom skin, which solved the problem. Next winner:

SLer: may i have a copy of your china house
Me: China house? I'm not sure what you mean.
SLer: chinanies
Sler: house

Okay, I have several places where I use asian buildings, although none of them are chinese, they are all japanese inspired buildings. And I have many. This tells me nothing.

Me: I'm still not sure what you want. Where did you see it? What region? What is it being used for?
SLer: in werewofl place

So I'm figuring this guy is talking about in Therianation, I have a BUILD called "The house of crimson wings" its a horror setting loosely built off of Project Zero/Fatal Frame sort of idea. This is not a HOUSE, this is a BUILD. I couldn't give it to him if I wanted to, its not linked, and I certainly couldn't link it together NOR would I give it to ANYONE. I wouldn't even sell it! I love the way SL peeps think you can just give anything to anyone. If I did ever sell it, it would be for moi lot of cash. Like thousands of dollars. Thats months of effort there, and several rebuilds. Screw that.

Okay, I'll stop ranting now.

Behold! the Sterling plushie!! Bask in its almighty cute-but-pissyness! Okay, so maybe not, but hey, we tried. Isn't he cute? Hand sewn and stuffed with microbeads for extra soft and squishy. Those are real metal chains he's got on, black to boot. They are poseable and are tipped with red glass beads. He's got red enamel eyes and because each one is sewn and assembled individually they each have their own 'personality' as such.

We will be taking orders for these guys, but they will be limited and we aren't sure of the price, but it will be under 20$ USD. So if you are interested in ordering one, please send me an email (shadowsmyst at gmail dot com), or leave a message here. We'll keep you informed for when we start taking orders. It will be on a first come first serve basis, so if you want to be kept in the loop, be sure you get your name in the pot.

Otherwise, enjoy his cuteness. :)

The Psychology department can't recognise an inkblot test?

I mean come on people. Its bad when the *designer* is more cerebral than you. Apparently they saw it as 'weird spray paint'. I wonder what that says about them?

Check it out:

Brymstone got featured at DrunkDuck.com!

Still on the front page if you want to check it out yourself. I guess this means I need to update Brymstone more often than once every couple of months. :P Damn, I need extra hands and the ability to function without sleep to keep up. *falls over* Least Brymstone doesn't have death enviroments like Shifters.

Right now I have a nasty case of sinutitis and bronchitis. As a result I can barely breathe, nor can I smell anything. My sinuses are so swollen, I can't taste anything, since ya know, most of our taste is influenced by the ability to smell.

If you go on what the toungue actually has the ability to taste, you can taste precicely five things. Sweet, Sour, salty, savory and bitter. (and hot, if you count burning mouth for spices.) After not being able to taste going on 4 days know, I've come to realize that if we could not taste but those four things, we'd probably eat differently. Without the taste, you have only the texture and basic tastes. Processed soup becomes unbearably salty. But then, if you look at the package, it told you that, but normally you can't taste it. Meat has a very pleasent texture, but you can tell when the spicy BBQ sauce is too much from the burning sensation after about three bites. Veggies have a pleasent crunch. Juice is WAY too sweet, as are candies. Most foods do not have a very good blend of the four basic tastes. They seem to err heavily on one particular taste, and have no 'range' of the basic tastes. It makes eating with no smell a very unpleasent thing, but rather enlightening too. I have to wonder, if no one could taste based on smell, how we would eat. I imagine that it would be very different, because processed foods become umbearably salty, bland or sweet. They have no range to satisfy the pallette. I've yet to come across something that tickles more than just one of my five tastes.

I imagine tho, that to do that, the food would actually probably taste pretty disgusting or at the very least strange to those who had the taste by smell. But I wonder, would it be healthier? Would the limitation of the taste be enough to stear one away from these disgusting processed foods we consume? Maybe. I wonder if I can actually cook something that might be interesting to my limited palette tonight.

I got this one at work. Its the title more than the content that is funny.

"Man in hot pants struts in boots, cheers city"

Is that awesome or what?