DXS Machina

Well, that was interesting… see first I got sick. Really sick, I spent all day sleeping on Wednesday and it’s still making me cough today. But thankfully I’ve got it on the run and feel pretty good. Now being all sick and messed up my hours were even weirder then normal…

I ended up catching a robot using my old wordpress image uploader to send txt files to my tmp folder on ghostcircles. I noticed it because in the wordpress admin control the image uploader was pointing to a completely different folder then it usually does. So, I freaked out. Cause wow, not good. I reset the upload folder and my password and spent the rest of the day wondering what was going on… then I checked my email and “hello” bounced back spam originating from my webserver using my email address.

See this happened before like um… 6 months ago and I was all “OMG who got my email address and spamed the crap out of people??” And damn it it’s all coming back to me. This is when I learned that yes indeed there are still people who think they should respond to spam as I got one email that just said “Bitch.” in it. It amused me greatly even though I didn’t send this um… crap. This time I think I cut off the upload in the middle by changing back the upload folder to the normal folder because I only got 260 bounce backs instead of 1200. Whee.

I was using the old version of the “iimage-browser-plugin” for wordpress from 2005 so if any of you are still running that you might try seeing if there’s a new version that DOESN’T allow you to set you upload folder to the very top area of you website. Cause yeah security risk and such. Also the newer versions of wordpress have a pretty nice built in image uploader that is much more secure. You’ll need a newer browser to use it like firefox but hey it’s free and stuff.

So yeah, I upgrade to the newest version of wordpress which was incredibly easy. Smoothest 10 version upgrade I’ve ever done. I still need to update my poor site design though. I’d like to put in a shopping cart system to buy prints and comics and stuff and I’d like to put my comics up which I could do with Comicpress but I’d like to keep my journal as well… and that just seems to be one too many things to fit into one site. =/

I’m just going to have to find sometime to really think about how to cram all of that stuff in there and still make it easy to look at and buy things. I mean I have enough room I could set up a shop as a stand alone but it’d be nice to have it all be one site.

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So, I’m definitely going to A-kon this year. Which will be interesting. I plan to take many photos of people in strange outfits… I’m not even talking costumes I just like it when they dress up for the cons. Sometimes it’s unintentionally hilarious. I take photos of lots of people in awkward fitting clothing, mostly pants cause the pants people are selling to chicks now-a-days are terrible to the feminine shape and make us mostly look weird and terrible. I need to draw some from all those photos I took at last year’s A-kon, I really want to get down the horrible shape of the muffin-top because my brain refuses to let me draw it due to the fact that it doesn’t think it looks right at all. So photos have to be taken cause the muffin-top can make even thin anorexic girls look lumpy and fat. It’s not right. =/

I’ll be in the Komik Market at A-kon on May 30th through June 1st. I’ll be at the Bassanimation table though I think it’ll be under a different name since we’re sharing the table with… Steven the guy that ran the Komik Market for the last few years. So I’m not sure what name it’ll be under. I figure I’ll mostly be hanging out at the con and helping Shawnna sell buttons. Hopefully there’ll be room behind the table but that’d be okay… that way I might roam the con a bit and see if I can find some of the people I want to see. It’d be nice to actually see people for once.

Speaking of seeing people at A-kon two years ago I got to see the lovely Shirotsuki and we traded sketches. This was the image I drew for her of her tree guy, Cure. She’s suppose to be at A-kon again this year and hopefully unlike last year where I didn’t see her at all maybe I can get out and bother her. =]

Other Conventions I’m going to be at this year:

A-kon in Dallas… May 30th - June 1st
Anthro-con in Pittsburgh… June 26-29
Comic Con in San Diego… July 24-27

That’s all of them that I can think of.

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Part of the prize things I did for the winners of my Saiko and Lavender Contest. The winner of the art part of the contest asked me to draw Satan from Saiko and Lavender. I gave him a tie. =D

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Taxes are finished… though I still have to sign the forms and mail them off. Whew!

I know, I always say this but this year I’m going to keep better track of my crap so tax time won’t be hell on earth. =X Sadly, I just know I’ll end up slacking and be pondering what the hell I made at San Diego Comic Con again next year cause I forgot to write that one super important number down… or something. Honestly, I just need to be better organized. On the other hand I actually cleaned my room and now I’ve found most of the things I was looking for so I could move forward on projects. Yay!

Also an image of the kid that I made to reply to a comment in the last LJ post… and also because I found my inking pens and I wanted to see how much work I’d need to do to get back into the swing of things. It looks like inking won’t be too hard to get back into I just need to draw the characters a little bit to figure what the hell I was doing with them. Sigh.

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“Never put off to Tomorrow what you can put off for months and months… and months and months and months… ect. ” It’s not artist block, honestly it’s more like stupidity. =/ Smacks self in the boob. But here’s a small update on where I am.

But yay! I found my inking pens while searching my room for tax info. Now I can get started again on the inking and maybe the comicing and the tearing of hair and the wailing and flailing… Ah, well at least there’s the job and the money and the… shit, I still want to get back to the comics. =/

Half of this page is still at base inking levels. Which is where I lay down the lines without any weights. It looks a bit odd this way and I always think it’ll look like crap when I do this but then I put down the final lines and it looks fine. Sighhhhh.

But first taxes, then estimated tax payments, and then the paying job of money to pay for the taxes and then maybe the limping comic bear trap. =[

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Sometimes I really wish I knew what I was doing on Wordpress instead of just fucking around with the code and reverse engineering the shit that I need. On the other hand I’m a really accomplished hack and I have good design sense. =/ Still, I wish I know what I was doing. Does anyone have any tips to actually learning CSS or PHP? Cause right now the net and my webdesign books are my main friends and it seems a little silly. Maybe I should go take some classes so I don’t feel quit so shaky on the basics. =/

On the other other hand it is an awesome intellectual challenge. Smirks.

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O_o My fetish!!!

I was a tomboy for a very long time and I still have no idea how to apply makeup. I have a bunch of it but I hardly wear it enough to figure out how to put it on. I’m a very lazy person and would rather spend the time sleeping or surfing the internet or drawing or thinking about drawing and not doing it. =/

Speaking of laziness… there is more to this image. I just haven’t finished drawing it.

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Austin drivers are trying to kill me. There’s only two types of drivers here, the slower then slow ones “OMG caution” and the “Oh my god my ass is on fire! Rah Rah Rah!! I’m invincible!” drivers. Oh and the “I take a corner so slow that I hope you’ll rear end my car and I can collect insurance and make you just as miserable as I am” people but they don’t count cause they are already dead inside. Nothing like getting boxed in behind Mister McSlowerSaferDriver and then when you try to pass them being prevented and almost killed by “OMG I’m so fast” McDriver in your blind spot on the left. Good thing I got my brakes fixed for 840.00 dollars last month (not my fault I had a leak in the line) and I constantly watch out for those guys on every side. They are out to get me I know it.

Also, just a tip. In Texas, if everyone is stopped and your lane is still moving… guess what? Your lane is going to end soon! YAY! And the reason that everyone else is going so god damn slow is because of people that stay in that dead lane and then try to merge by cutting in front of whoever they can poorly at the last minute. It makes everyone have to throw on their brakes. I’m not sure what they could do to fix this problem, honestly. But it makes me tailgate like an asshole when I see it happening. By the way tailgating is retarded. They do this in turn lanes out here as well. Everyone will be stopped on the highway so “smart” douchebags get in the exit only turn lane and then hold up the people getting off the highway just so they can get 10 cars ahead of where they were. If they’re lucky.

So, I tend to drive somewhat aggressively, you’d have to if you don’t want to be behind mister McSlownuggets. It’s sort of sad cause I do like chilling out behind the wheel of my car.

On an unrelated note… I found a dime that was dipped in copper. So it looks just like a penny. Wonder how that worked out for the person that did it?

I am really loving these animated Zero Punctuation game reviews by that guy at the Escapist called, Yahtzee Croshaw.

My favorite is the one on Silent Hill: Origins but they are all kind of fun.

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Man, it’s been so long since I’ve inked anything that I have no idea where I put my inking pens. =/ I need to search my room but it’s full of crap. It’s every where, EVERYWHERE. O_O I barely have room for me. Stupid books and comics. What really sucks is that I can’t find my brush pen. Grrr. I guess I should start on a new pen anyway the last one I was using was actually starting to split I had used it for so long. =/

Took the kitties to the vet yesterday and got pills for them that hopefully will help with the bacteria or micro organism that’s giving them doom pile poops. Poor things. Max was deemed very healthy and soft to the touch. He hissed like crazy at the vets when they took his temperature. I don’t blame him even though it was funny. Cam didn’t hiss at all when they took hers last time I took her in. But she’s harder to get in the carrier and meows more then Max.

Along with sending out the last of the contest prizes I also shipped a print order or two. I included this little sketch in one of the packages. I really need to get a real order page up so I can make some money from these pictures I have laying around. Or something.

Also I updated my site design for the day. D=

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