Was just called (well, she called my dad by accident, but yeah…) by a Chinese teacher. She needs illustrations.
Well I guess it’s portfolio fodder…but HALF AN HOUR to do that if I want to go to bed at a sane time (i.e. before midnight) and finish writing at least one paragraph of tomorrow’s Chinese essay and a Lang Arts essay on euthanasia (the second one. My first one opposed legalization, which I personally don’t believe in, so I’m writing one about legalization now.)
Untitled 2 July, 2009
Sleeper 1 July, 2009
Click for full size on Flickr (actually it’s not much bigger than the preview, 300+px wide I think.)
This is another one of those ‘ wow , I’m really bored’ drawings that you do when you feel like sleeping but you can’t.
Can you work out how her legs are positioned beneath the fabric? I tried to show it through shading.
1 hour approx, box of pencils on coursework sketchbook. Planning to turn it into something digital, with a background! Yes, a background!
Almost there… 28 June, 2009
Thank goodness! I’m doing the last summary now and will write the opinion piece in a while.
Advertisment Fail 14 June, 2009
Seen on MSN Windows Live Messenger. This ad is at actual size. Okay maybe it isn’t all that fail after all.
How To Uninstall U3 on Vista 14 June, 2009
I bought a SanDisk 8GB Cruzer micro today. It’s quite pretty, and I like the sliding design, but it came with U3, a portable application platform. Sounds good, you say, until you realize that it’s a closed system, which makes it nigh impossible for casual developers to create portable apps for the platform. Also, it’s got annoying pop-ups. It had to be nuked.
This post is written in rambly prose, but I’ve bolded the main points.
The U3 Launchpad came with an uninstall utility. But it didn’t work, because whenever I tried it Windows simply told me that “Launchpad Removal Program has stopped working”. I tried this a couple of times, both with the uninstaller on the U3 Launchpad itself as well as uninstallers U3Uninstall.exe and launchpadremoval.exe from the SanDisk website and MyDigitalLife (if you need them, go do a search for the filenames). Same problem.
So I disabled the Launchpad from auto-starting (right-click the U3 icon in the system tray), removed the drive, and then plugged in the drive again. This time U3Uninstall.exe and launchpadremoval.exe agreed to run, but now they told me that “this program only supports one U3 drive removal” even though I only had one disk plugged in.
Turns out that the uninstaller recognizes all disk drives on the system as U3. Dumb, I know. I had to go to Device Manager > Disk Drives and disable all the other drives (my memory card readers). You’ll have to leave the U3 thumbdrive enabled, of course.
Run the uninstall utility again. Make sure you have admin privileges!
Adjective of the Month: June 2009 5 June, 2009
- Characterized by intense activity, confusion, or haste: "There was nothing feverish or hectic about his vigor" (Erik Erikson).
- Medicine Of, relating to, or being a fever that fluctuates during the day, as in tuberculosis or septicemia.
- Consumptive; feverish.
- Flushed.
Memory doodle. Yeah her skirt is too long and she looks adolescent.
Usage
It’s been a dead hectic half-year for me, and it promises to get even more hectic as September (coursework due, O-levels, EOYs) draw near. ARGH! Also, 2009 seems to be a rather angry year. I’ve had several angry outbursts in the past two weeks alone (most of them, thankfully, contained).
I remember reading something about anger problems. It’s supposed to manifest itself in this way sometimes. Ah.
I was going to suggest “anger management” when they asked what to add to the PCCG syllabus, but…well, yeah.
Star Field + Planet 31 May, 2009
Created by following Greg Martin’s excellent tutorials. Photoshop CS3.
Putting The Star Trek Soundtrack Down On Fake Paper 29 May, 2009
I just finished my Lang Arts portfolio. At long last. Good riddance to that thing! Ugh.
Recognize this? No? Hum the notes? It’s what I’ve coined the “Hopeful” theme from the start of Track 15 (End Credits) from the Star Trek soundtrack. Track from Star Trek. Hmm. That sounds like something Yun would say.
Edit: I’ve just realized that “Hopeful” is actually the original Star Trek theme from TOS (I think).
I wish I had one of those direct MIDI input keyboards so I could play it out instead of having to click here click there and fumble my way through MuseScore (a free scoring program – while the UI looks basic at first glance, BEWARE! It’ll trip you up if you’re not careful).
Basically what I’m trying to do is arrange the first minute or so of End Credits, which is Hopeful plus a bit of Star Trek (theme) near the back. Then it fades out and it tricks you and comes back with drums! After that the second part of the song begins, which is when the scrolling credits on black appear.
Hopefully I’ll be able to get all the accompaniment in! Especially when Star Trek comes back in after the second repetition of Hopeful…
Star Trek XI (2009) 28 May, 2009
QuintoSpock! But why does he have stubble? 
Watched Star Trek at The Cathay with Chels, Pam, Claire and Elsa today yesterday on Monday.
Hehe Spock. Funny. So is Scotty! And Bones. And young!Chekov is adorable.
I sat through it with Pam and Elsa in the hopes of there being stuff after the credits. Alas, no such luck. Check out MovieStinger, this site that can help you avoid what we foolishly did (if you’re the type of person who only stays because there’s extra things at the end). Personally I like staying to watch the credits. Nice music, name-spotting, showing all the people who worked behind the camera some due respect and appreciation.
And I guess there might be some spoilers here and there, so I’m keeping the rest of the post behind the jump. It’s very messy, so I’ve bolded what key points I might have to say.
