Hair: Butters & some other stuff

Butters has scripted bows and it's cute. The End. I'd write more but I don't have much else to say. ; )

Reference picture:


Some lanterns are out too. (stamp cards included)

Honig Glasses

I love these glasses soo hard!!! Mostly cause one of the lense options has redtube.com reflected in it. RED TUBE IS PORNOGRAPHY! DO NOT GO THERE IF YOU ARE AT WORK OR A DELICATED FRAGILE PERSON SCARED OF PRIVATE PARTS.

Anyway, all the frames are darker colors and the lenses have reflections in them as well as normal lenses like black , rosey, yellow etc.


*update:

[2:09] Helyanwe Vindaloo: you Prevert.

Another satisfied customer! :D

Hair & Glasses: Klaar & Ducklips

I've been wanting to redo AOI for a while, and while keeping that in mind I ended up with Klaar, which is different than AOI but still has pinned back bangs. I imagine it's what Cain looks like if you pull the bangs back.


Ducklips are called that because of the below reference picture. Look at her lips? Why is she doing that? It's not a kissy face. It's not an attractive face. I can't imagine why you'd do that expression unless you were playing charades and your word was "mentally handicapped duck."
Sweet glasses though. These are texture scripted with more retroy pastel-ish color as well as basic black and white.

Reference picture:

HAIR & bake sale stuff

Available at Koreshan. It's sculpted. I'm kinda in an awkward trying to figure some stuff out phase atm.

Inspiration: From Starfighter, a anime porn comic I found on Deviant art. Woooo porn.




KORESHAN BAKESALE UPDATE:



THE EXTREMELY FANCEH SQUID HAT: A knitting/fishing happy accident.
Available this weekend during the Koreshan Bale sale. It's not scripted because I didn't get my texture script in time ^^; so there are 5 colors in the box.

UPDATE: Linden Labs... Are you fucking kidding me?

[17:26] Draconic Lioncourt: oh so llabs was a total douche to me over the phone
[17:26] Draconic Lioncourt: trying to tell me i had to cut down on textures
[17:26] Draconic Lioncourt: and after 30 min of telling them we know wtf we are talking about he magically finds some physics object that was colliding and removes it and oh look at that the sim works again

And paying them thousands of dollars a year is something we do becaaaause? Note that Draconic is a private island owner. She's a premium member. What fucking part of that at all sounds premium?

Fucking A, I only pay $10 a month for my gym membership and the staff there once spent 30 minutes of their time looking for my keys.

It's so true

Kris Straub is a genius. Read his comics at Chainsawsuit.com.

I just started playing D&D with my friends, it's been about 2 months now and I'm a level 4 halfling Beastmaster ranger. I fucking love it so much. I don't think I would have played this in highschool, but now in my mid 20s I seem to be just the right age.
I own 3 sets of dice and they are all sparkly. :D I don't own my own mini yet, but I made one out of fimo to represent my pet bear.

The Koreshan Lag Issue

Lately Cobalt has been getting a lot of complaints about lag and greyness in my main store in Koreshan.
I don't have these issues, but then my computer is so godly that it exists on another realm of awesome. I realize the average SL user does not have a $5K gaming PC so I'll just pretend you all have macs which run SL like a piece of shit.

Some fun facts about Koreshan:

• Koreshan is a full sim (15K prims)
• Koreshan is on the same shitty lowest class servers that are used to host OPEN SIMS. (homesteads are on better servers than Koreshan)
• Draconic owns Koreshan, it's her and Chica's baby.
  
• Upgrading Koreshan to a proper server is more money than Draconic can afford
• The additional tier fee is also more money than Draconic can afford atm
  
• Draconic is way too sweet a person to get on people's asses about paying rent so as far as I know maybe 2-3 people are actually paying her rent right now.
• We do not use images larger than 512X512 although last time we complained about lag, LL said the proper size to use is 256 X256 which would look like complete shit.
  
• I try to turn off scripts everywhere when I can to reduce lag from users coming in
  

Draconic and Chicanery currently are working a lot IRL. Since it's hard to get hold of them and I really have no control over the sim, bitching out Linden labs is on hold for now.

First thing I'm going to do (maybe in a second or two since I just realized I brought my mac to work and it has SL on it), is I'm going to restart the sim. I don't know when the last time it got restarted was, and sometimes it just needs that to make it stop failing.

Second, I'm going to try to get Draconic to bitch a fit at Linden Labs over preformance. In theory I bet if you bitch a fit enough they might grandfather you into a better server, but it's Linden Labs. They are pretty confident that if you left, someone would just come in and take your place.

So that's the state of Koreshan atm.

The bakesale is scheduled to be this weekend but if the preformance doesn't improve, I might tell Chica we have to postpone it.

HOOT BAG

There is an option to delete the resize script on this bag if you so want.

WANTED: Art community

Does anyone know a small(ish) art community where you can post pictures and get redlines and critiques?

Kind of like what Yerf used to do a billion years ago when I was on yerf.

HAIR: Trilam

Trinitee sent me a picture for this hair idea, but I can't find that picture anymore. :/ so I drew a picture of it so I'd know to make it. See below.
Oh wait nevermind, I just found the picture!

I want this rug

It's in the clearance area of Urban outfitters. I just don't know if I want to spend $100 on a rug.. even if it's a super awesome rug.

Oh as I write this B gives me the thumbs up on it. OK now I need to buy it cause it's so full of awesome.


UPDATE:
I think my favorite part of adulthood is the accumulation of nice stuff. I'm hoping by the time I'm 30, my apartment (soon to be condo) will be fancy and awesome... just I can only buy one part of it at a time.
I've only recently thrown out the milk crates and beanbag chairs.

FAWNICATION

Last October I got it in my head that I wanted deer parts. I started some and I didn't like them. I used the antlers from that initial try in Hunting season.
Then I wandered around with Fade looking for deer parts recently but I didn't like anything I found. After a day of searching I figured it would be easier to make them, so I started making them again from scratch. Untextured I didn't like them. I was like meeeeeeeeeeeh.

But then this weekend I popped on that posing stand that had the ears to work on a bag and I was like heeey wait, these sculpts aren't too bad. And I proceeded to procrastinate finishing my bag by finishing the deer parts.

Long boring story. Yes. I know.

These have some animation, but not a lot. Click the ear and it twitches, type and they wiggle, do /32 sadears and they go sad. The tail just wiggles.
They come in 3 colors and they are L$250 a color (includes ears, tail & antlers).

HAIR: XD

XD is basically Barista without the hat combined with my RL hair on my head right now... just maybe a little shorter and thinner. I has a lot of hair.

I'm never taking this off my little pixel head.

It's called XD because I wanted to name it after something to do with me IRL and my position at work is as an XD. Which is a stupid abbreviation for Experience Design. Also I drive a Scion XD. And XD is the emote I use the most when talking to Bill while we are at work.

AAAA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

http://www.chainsawsuit.com/20090512.shtml
Oh man it's so true.

BAKE SALE. It's coming

June 13-14 I think...

I made this poster in March to prove that I'm cool and like Helvetica like all the other graphic designers.

The Penthouse in a mag

Although it's not credited/mentioned or acknowledged in any way, My Penthouse skybox that I spent a shit ton of hours texturing and drawing the city line for was in ROLE Magazine.
Check it out.

Look at this fucking hipster

Is something one of my coworkers keeps saying to me when I wear my kinda too huge headphones @ work.

I got this rad font and made a shirt from it.
There is a website but... the shirts they sell on it are lame.

HAIR: Kinder

I didn't get my script yet so... I'm using the old one but liberally :/

Moo.

Angry moo.

I need to find a prim scrubber that targets only my old retexturer scripts and not my toaster scripts. The one the retexture thing came with deletes everything.

:/
rawr.

RLFL!

http://slurl.com/secondlife/AXISLE/128/128/2
Check it out peoples!

God I love that Clawtooth is "Clawtooth by Clawtooth".
If that man made a movie, he's get like 90% of the credits.

New Scripts... coming soon

I got the final complaint about my current texture change scripts*, so now (hopefully this will happen) I am commissioning new texture change scripts for my hair and items.

I have a new hair built and ready to be scripted, so that will be out this weekend. I also might try to make a non scripted hair this week if RL doesn't get all complicated.

I remade my hair textures slightly and all hairs from this point out will be made with them. Same colors though. While redoing every color I have (this means my regular colors and my streak colors that I don't normally sell) I realized that I have enough variations to do 3 packs of hues for Red, Blonde, Brown, Blue, Purple, Pink, Green, Black/white. This is just for the hairs I made with the newer non-tipped textures.

So here is the question, how much bitching do you think I'd get from people if I started selling 3 packs for +$L30 to their original price? That would mean my L$130 hairs would be $L160 and my L$150 would now be L$180, but you'd get three shades of a color. MOST people only buy Black and blonde to be honest, so even thinking that a customer would be like "YAY 3 awesome shades of Blue" who isn't me (I love blue hair right now), is kinda of.. not going to happen. Transaction histories prove this.


The Pros and Cons.

PROS:

• Save prim space.
• Save actual vendor space.
• The textures are already made
• I think I have all my toaster scripted originals
• I have to retoast my SRU scripted hairs anyway
• More colors! Even if I'm the only one who gives a shit!

CONS:

• Everyone only buys black, Blonde, ash & sometimes Rusty.
• That's a buttload of hairs to repackage, extremely time consuming.
• Chances of me fucking up vendors or scripting increased when I have to do it over and over and over.
• Every nightmare I had toasting past hairs will be repeated.
• Complaints from people who bought the hair before I did this. (although, I do have Cobalt.)
• I'll actually be losing $L by grouping.
• Losing $L makes getting sim eventually more distant.
  

But.. more colors. *strokes chin*

Any thoughts? How many people out there who have already bought my hair think they will be pissed to rebuy it for more colors?




*Since this last one came from someone who didn't even own the item they were complaining about, that was a great indicator that I need to change my scripts. As much as I hate re-scripting things, I hate being IMed about this stuff more.

PORKCHOP SANDIWCHES!

I haven't been able to get on much in the last week. Mostly cause I has shit to do. <--extremely important person. That Adult swim cartoon commentary isn't going to watch itself. no sir.

Here are 3 of the like 10 Venture bros inspired shirts I made myself in the game. These are my favorites.

Henchmen 21 in the shirt.


The original inspiration for POrkChop Sandwiches:

Dear internet,

Lets make a deal. I'll actually log on to SL and make stuff, if you all keep buying it.

This way I can afford to go back to school in the fall.

And I will loves you forevers and evers.

XOXO,
Noam

PS- I will consider e-whoring if the price is right. I really want to go back to school.

PPS- But I don't kiss on the mouth and you have to use e-condoms.

PPPS- And no potty stuff.

Devil Collar

I got this idea from an anime picture book tha I got for Xmas years ago. It looks better in person than in this ad...

Achariya is more photogenic. See her blog for better pictures.

HAT + Hair: Hunting season

Could my av look any less rednecky in that ad? He's like a rednecks nightmare.

I think the nightmare would go something like.. the redneck is out at a bar and has to use the mens room, it's dark when he enters the stall, and then he hears the door shut and the lock click. The light flickers and then illuminates a surly looking fancy man who is half man and half deer... Is the deer a symbol of his broken relationship with his father? or does it have to do with the buck he shot point blank between the eyes last weekend?
Then rape. He can't run away! OH NO!! Molasses legs! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! He wakes up in a cold sweat and wonders what his subconscious was trying to tell him and if he likes penises now.

The end. :D



*UPDATE: ignore the above retarded rant cause Uma just blogged my hat and she is waaaaaaaaaaaaaay more good looking than Noam. Look at Uma. Look at her blog. She makes everything look amazing.


And her avatar reminds me of Audrey Kawasaki drawings.

I believe this is what it looks like to win at life NEVERMIND

I love this man.
He makes sweet love to the camera.
**UPDATE:
Apparently he makes sweet love to little children too. O_O Thank you reddit for ruining it. >:C

O_O That last post was my 666th post.

regrets...

I wish 3 years ago I had picked a store name that I could easily add umlauts to.

New hair: Lenin

I'm all about headbands atm. Each of these are texture scripted so you can change each individually.

Reference picture: I found this ref picture for the hair in a suicide boy group. Later pictures of the same person revealed that under that T shirt is a sweater. A chest pube sweater. Actually it was kinda cute, I wish they made more blonde chest hair skins in SL.

International outreach

Here is my proposal:

Every person who purchases anything on Second Life, reguardless of nationality or language fluency, MUST know how to find their transaction history. It must become a standard that all asset server errors are dealt with by giving the vendor your transaction history in a notecard. Just copy and paste and put your name on the notecard.

I know getting broken English IMs in capital letters is not the end of the world, but having to do a normally simple task for someone who does not make any sense to me and I make no sense to them sucks big donkey balls.

Are you with me people?!!! Teach all your newb friends how to get their transaction histories.

HAIR: Ghetto

So I'm all about weaves now and 4" long fake nails and bling and going on Maury Povich to complain about my friend cooking Chicken tetrizini for mah man.
Ok not really. But I did make a hair that is pretty Ghetto fabulous.

Inspiration:

Cobalt Maladay, GK customer service rep extraordinaire

If you're the type to read my profile, you may have noticed an added line to the front page. I have a customer service representative now, Cobalt Maladay.

Cobalt is a friend in real life and a genuinely awesome personal all round. He helped me out when I was working late nights and weekends through February & March and he was so awesome that I'm keeping him.

I'm going to make a little "Cobalt is Online" or something in my store. I don't really know how this works.

What Cobalt can help you with:
Everything except delivery of failed transactions. And even then, he can explain to you how to get a transaction number and will send me the information so that I can get back to you asap.

You can even send your mall invites, modeling services, magazine advertisement rates and fashion show requests (aka spam) for Gritty Kitty to Cobalt so he can delete them instead of me.

Things to note: I try to be nice to everyone, but when I have a bad day, I'm a douchebag. I pay Cobalt to NOT be a douchebag. IMing him should be a 100% douchebag free experience, thus it's more beneficial for everyone to IM him when they need assistance instead of me who, lets be frank here, is a socially retarded jerk.

For those 0.5% of the SL population: Should you ever have an encounter with Cobalt where he is not being 100% awesome and non douchey, please don't contact me, and instead reflect on your own personality and question why someone who is literally being paid to be nice to everyone just treated you poorly. Then you know... knock that shit off.*

So please welcome Cobalt as a CSR for Gritty Kitty. Don't try to secks him for free GK stuff, he doesn't have any and his wife could prolly kick your butt.

*see I really am a dick. IM Cobalt, not Noam.

HAIR: Hollister

Here is some hair based on a picture of a guy. I swear to god, look below. It's kinda pixie chick hair though.

I've dun forgotten how to build. This felt like it took ages to do.




<-- inspirtation pic

RELAY FOR LIFE: pink hair

Hi
How are you doing?
Me? I'm good. Quite good.

I made some pink.. and I retextured 2 hairs. All proceeds go to American cancer society.

They are at my main store in Koreshan.

SL & Adult Content

The new changes SL is going to do, is basically creating an adult filter that wasn't previously there. The rational parts realize this. It's not something to shit the bed over.

Now my inner typical Second Life user, is scream "wtf, if I build a penis I should be allowed to wear it on my fucking forehead if I want to." (Expect in a PG sim.)

This will be fun to watch pan out.

You know what would be rad? If you could check a box on an object and mark it as being mature and those who aren't verified or request not to see mature material just can't render it. Or it renders with black textures that say CENSORED, like how we used to have missing images.

I would prefer SL as it is. I know who wants it to change and I know why. It's not a bad thing, but I like wandering around and seeing an 8 breasted herm demon shopping at like bare rose for a cape. I'm not grossed out by it. It tickles me in the same way those skins with way too much boob shading do. It's over sexed to the point it's funny.

There are some people out there who look like noobs with their panis on their midriffs, but then there are those who just pull off being a big scary sex demon, hats off to them I say! There is absolutely no way I'd know that penors now come with flexy precum without people wearing them in sandboxes and while out shopping. It's impressive how far they've come. <-- not a pun.

I don't want those people to not be allowed to be a giant scary sex demon whenever they want. So for the record, if you want to wear your penis or your prim boobs or tentacle monster phallic appendages in my store, you are totally welcome to.

And if you are one of those people who are greatly offended by the above visuals, well, I'm sure I have a shop in a PG area somewhere.

If living with Bill for the last 8 years has taught me anything, it's that no one's prudish catholic upbringing has any affect on my shamelessness. Blame my parents for raising me without religion (as Bill says) and my mom for that time she took me to that questionable art show with the guy holding his erect cock when I was 10.

I won't let a masseuse touch me naked (cause it's creepy) but I will randomly talk about something gross I saw online involving a penis and a battery while out to dinner with our friends. \o/

btw did you see that video? I wanted to vomit.

I'm not dead!

I'm just resting.

I'll try to make stuff this weekend (no promises).
I need to expand my main store to fit more hair and make room for another store.

Please say goodbye to Mousezilla while he's still there.
I leave you with this song, which I have listened to over a thousand times in the last 2 weeks.


They put their album out on Vinyl. It's like they hate me and don't want my money. >:C

How to be a New Media Douchebag

I never want to troll people and I've wanted to troll some "social media experts" that I've found online lately. Here is how you identify them.

I'm alive

My birthday came and passed on Monday. I'm so old.

Last night we had our site launch, so I worked from late evening until mid morning, which was about 12+ hours. I get home and go to sleep and and I wake up to find that the site got rolled back because of performance issues AND my company just laid off 1/3rd of it's headcount including my friend who was my boss at Staples and got me the job in the first place.

Today sucks on an epic fail level. So excuse me as I go get some sprite to mix in my homemade skittle's vodka and get thoroughly shitfaced this afternoon.

IT'S GONNA BE ALGEBREIC!!!

Why is this so awesome? O_O

That's more rhetorical because if you didn't notice, it's made of awesome.

:O!

I have a day off! On March 6th!

*dances*

It's 2pm on a tuesday and I've already worked 27 hours this week.

You know when my last day off was? 2 weeks ago I worked half a Sunday. My last whole day off was January 11th.

I can't fucking believe that I've been working every single day [SAT AND SUNDAY TOO] for this long.

3 day weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of work....

I have 63 bugs in Jira and a code freeze on tuesday.

Does anyone have any good online playlists that might motivate me to get through this and not kill myself?

I'm sorry!!

That I haven't made stuff in forever!!!

Fade and I are working on a side project which we just started. It was kinda fun to do something completely stupid when I was able to get on this weekend.

Once my project is over I will make some hair! Promise!

GARRRRR

WEEKEND WORKING!!!
I'll be honest. It's been about 2 weeks since I last logged into SL for more than a couple minutes. I don't miss it and somehow, through the magic of offline emails, it's managed to piss me off considerably.

SO.
I need a customer service person. I don't know who yet; I need to ask a couple friends if they would mind handling it for a few bucks a week or free stuff or whatever.

Right now, even if I wasn't working 11+ hours every day until the 24th, I would not want to log on. That's how annoyed I am. I need a buffer between myself and those few obnoxious people in SL so send me these IMs.

I just want to make shit. I'm not forcing anyone to buy it. I'm not even charging much to own it considering the retarded amount of time I put into making it. So these fucking IMs are just baffling to me.

Also if you know me then you know how friendly I am not, this is probably something I should have done a while ago.

I wonder if Ralph would do it without telling people to eat shit and die. *strokes chin*

It's magic!

Paul wrote an easteregg into our website where if you enter the Konami code [up up down down left right left right B A] Rainbows and unicorns will cover the page. Don told us to take it out... but.. no? :D

They look like this:

Epic =_= face

I'm working every day until the site is launched.

Everyday.

Weekends. Holidays. Everyday.

Also, my 3rd gen nano died yesterday. I fucking loved that thing so much and I just got a new skin for it. The new 4th gen nanos are shitty. :< Suck.

I found something better to spend my money on than Sim teirs

It's $3600 USD a year to pay for a sim. And you have to buy it first from $250-1000 USD.

And as I've said a bunch of times to everyone pissing away $4k on a videogame is retarded when it's not my sole source of income.

I just found something totally worth $4k though. Classes at Harvard extention school are $1725 each and my company will reimburse the cost if i get at least a B in the class. If I take 3 classes and get 3 Bs, I can enroll to get my Masters in Computer Science and Digital Design from Harvard.
Requirements:
* One digital art course
* One multimedia course
* One digital video course
* One website design and development course
* One 3-D modeling and animation course
* One object-oriented programming course


I want to do this soooooo bad. I can't enroll until the fall, but I'm totally enrolling. *squee!*

Unconfirmed launch date for my project

Feb 23rd.



My Birthday:
Feb 23rd.


Fuck you [project insert company name here]

65

65.

That's how many hours I worked last week.

I'm so tired.


I haven't had a chance to log in for a while. I will try to log in for for customer service love tonight. My IMs are totally capped so if you have problems please send a notecard.

-----------------------------------
In other news, on my only day off yesterday where I had to clean my apartment, do laundry, take care of my car, take my macbook to the "genius bar" (ghey) and buy a bunch of kitchen/ pet stuff, and I watched the movie Deathrace.
It was awesome. If you like Jason Stathem without his shirt on and driving cars, then you should see that movie. I can't wait till Crank 2. That man can do no wrong.

Other movies I have watched recently while I cook dinner and clean:
Babylon A.D --Shittiest movie ever made. It didn't even meet my standards and my standards are fucking LOW. REALLY LOW. I walked out of Chronicles of Riddick saying "I want to own that on DVD."

Max Payne --this is what Mark Walburg said was his good movie coming out after The Happening. No one ran away from the wind in this, but it still failed. Those crazy demon angel things were just hallucinations. It was crappy. I don't even remember if it had a plot. Shockingly it's a videogame movie that sucked and had nothing to do with Ewe Boll.

Battlefield Earth --I will watch anything that should have been involved with MST3K. I watched this with RiffTrax but I could only get an hour into it before passing out. OMG what a fucking shitty movie. It is like gloriously bad. It was by far the best of the bad movies I watched.



BALLS. I posted this on fucking koreshan by accident.

According to Superficial.com

Kanye West flipped out on his blog about a rumor that he might do bisexual porn. He wrote a big long post IN TEH CAPTIALS CAUSE HE IS SHOUTING. But the most quotable part was him saying:
"YOOOO WHY WON'T YOU LET ME BE GREAT!!!" And then "LET ME BE GREAT!!!!!!!"


That's the most fucking obnoxious thing I've ever read. Kanye rules.

Next time anything crappy happens that effects me in any way I'm going to yell out "WHY WON'T YOU LET ME BE GREAT?!!!"

Starbucks barista: "I'm sorry, we don't serve the Peppermint Mocha latte anymore"
Me: "YOOO!! WHY WON'T YOU LET ME BE GREAT!"

Bill: "Can you stop putting the pans in the dishwasher?"
Me: "YOO! WHY WON'T YOU LET ME BE GREAT!"

Linden Lab aquires SLX and Onrez

Read here for limited details.


Does this mean LL is incharge for customer issues? Because the phone numbers listed on SLX's site, they don't go anywhere.


I would seriously rather have no online commerce than have to deal with SLX again. They fucking fail.
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Update:
Originally Posted by Grant Linden
Xstreet is now a part of Linden Lab and will be following the same policies and processes as in world claims. Linden Lab's DMCA Policy: [url]http://secondlife.com/corporate/dmca.php[/url]

SWEET. MEGASWEET. ULTRASWEET. Fuckin Splenda.
I'm not signing up, but YAY cause I get to file DMCAs again!

Offline Until the weekend

Hey, I see by my offlines there are a bunch of giftcards and need helps. I don't think I can get to this stuff this week because of work.

I'm putting in really long days and I have a really long commute.

I will try to get to some of the stuff tonight, but after that I may be MIA until the weekend because I have about 70 bugs in Jira and we have not looked at the new site in IE6.

I hate IE6.

Awesome

There is a pizza place my company orders from which is owned by a guy named Peni.

And so...
It's called Peni's Pizzeria.


AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Yes I have the sense of humor of an elementry school student.

I has a work bonus coming at the end of the month

Therefore I has a CS4.
BWAHAHAHAHA.

I'm kinda banking a lot on the fact it will be larger than $600 (yes I got it for PC and Mac.)Yuval ordered them for me yesterday and we went to pick them up at Harvard today.

Yuval said after the company meeting today that the bonus is probably going to be huge since we made loads of money last year and loads of people quit too. But he's sales now and I'm dev, so he'll get more $$ than me. Rightfully so though cause he's a genius and I'm like "duuurr, how does the .data() work in jQuery? ... *drool head-desk*" ((Paul explained it, but if I had to explain it to you right now I'd just stare like this O_O until you felt uncomfortable and went away.))

So now I have my uber super awesome legit copies of photoshop.
Downside: Working all weekend! D: Working a half day Sat and a half day Sunday and Monday is a holiday for the company, but not for my team. Booo.

I have like 38 bugs in jira w/ only a quarter of the site tested and I feel like puking, but on a happy note we have 4 weeks before launch. 4 weeks is waaaay more time for QA than we normally get which is like.. 4 days.

And this is good cause my boss and I only checked the site in FF2, FF3 and chrome. *coughs and looks at the IE6 & IE7 icons on the toolbar* *huge sweatdrop*
Whatever, 4 weeks! 7 days a week! We'll be fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine.


Note to self: Make personal web Developer blog tonight.

I can't tell you when or what I'm making next in SL. I have like a billion and 3 hair ideas and I want to make some boots. Nothing I want to do is very simple.

Skybox: The Penthouse

I put a lot of work into this one. All the textures are light and shadow "baked" just... I did not use a program to bake them, I just eyeballed it in Photoshop. The city scape was drawn in photoshop.
It has a yard. : D Kinda... With hang out poses.
58 prims I think.

You sweet anonymous bastard

Whoever offered me an invite to Spotify beta, is both nice and evil.
It's not available in the US, so I'm banned from using it. My proxies aren't working and my boss is going on about how "superawesome" it is.

EVIL.


SO EVIL.

INSPIRATION HAS STRUCK ME

No wait, not inspiration, that other one...

MOTIVATION HAS
STRUCK ME

Yuval gets a software discount for going to Harvard. He said he'll buy me CS4 if I give him the money.

It's $299 for either PC or mac. I use both PC and Mac.

Therefore...
I need to raise $600.

O_O I should make a little progress bar like I did when I'd save gold on gaiaOnline.

Aw crap.. I'm stuck in a time vortex again

I swear it's been 11:48 for the last half hour.

Fleet foxes vid

Fleet Foxes - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

This video of an acoustic performance by Fleet Foxes is about nine billion times better sound quality than their crap CD.
Imagine my surprise when I bought their CD after listening to this and found out that it sounds like it was recorded in a basement while the musicians played in the attic.

Takeawayshows

Uppity Bitches

I made an alt for fun (not so much, what the fuck is the point of SL if you don't build?) And some chick took the time to IM me and call me a noob cause I was at a store buying shit, and when the lucky chair came up with my letter the people were like, it's your letter, I looked to see if of the crowd anyone had the same letter. They didn't so I turned the chair. Did I want the shit from the chair? No. Did I go there to actually purchase items from the store? Yes.

So because the person accidentally said "thank you" when she meant Your welcome and I said no prob, she took the time to IM me after I left to let me know my 6 day old account was a noob and to explain proper lucky chair etiquette. And her 3 year account, that is only in freebie and lucky chair groups, with the exception of the xcite group, is obviously far more learned than I.

Do they give out free vaginas at Xcite? is there a lucky chair for those?


Second thing to note today while the grumpy bullet has hit me:
Linden Labs finally fixed the issue where prim textures would not match the body mesh textures. For over a year many designers have been compensating by adding a 10-20% grey tint to clothing attachments.

So before you go off on your personal blog about how designers fail at life for not making prims match, think of this:
The designers who busted their ass working hard to get their stuff to work with windlight have attachments that look like crap and don't match because the bug was finally fixed.
All the designers who didn't do shit are golden.
So who are you complaining about?

*SOB*

Me: omg, ie 6 makes me want to cry
paul: i thought we werent fixing for it yet
Me: I know but
Me:I wanted to know how bad it was
Me: ;_; whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhy can't everyone just switch to 7
Me: Paul i think our efforts has developers would be much more helpful to the community if we stopped making websites and just developed a really horrible virus that only effects IE6
paul: i fully support that decision


I don't know what this virus will do... but I think before it does it, it should lock up and force the person who uses IE6 to watch 2 girls, 1 cup.

Note to self: Get this

Busdriver

Love soooo much. <3


Note to people and people who know people: The grid's asset server has been UBER shitty the last couple days. Be careful when rezzing stuff. I almost lost someone's giftcard last night.

Also, giftcards aren't like checks. I'm not the bank of Gritty Kitty. Don't ask me for "just the money." O_o Ask your friend who gave you the card for money next time.

Gumbercules? I love that guy!

I'm playing with my Zoidberg action figure (see previous post) because he was lost in my bag and I forgot I had him. I know I'm like a child. He's like gumby, rubbery with bendy insides.

And in my cube I'm making him dance around saying "Gumbercules?? I love that guy." and "woop woop woop woop."

Today is a productive work day.
*nods*

What's in my bag!!!!

Bill got me a surprise present cause he knew I was kinda bummed about not getting any like.. fun presents for Xmas. So on friday he gave me a digital camera! It's like the best thing ever. It's red and little and I took like a billion pictures of my cat Poe.


So anyway, any excuse to use the camera. The fashion feed has a "show us what's in your purse/bag" meme.

Here is what's in my bag from left to right:

• scarf
• mimobot USB thumb drive. I think that one is called RayD8. I have a few of them.
  
• work keys, 2 keychains, the key to my laptop, the key to the building, 1 USB thumb drive
• 500 gig external harddrive
• 2 folded up pieces of paper, one is a pass to see a pre-release of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and one is a print out of my first review at work where Phil wrote a poem about how awesome I am.
• Blistex
• Spare headphones (the shitty pair. I have a better pair I normally use, but those are just in case I forget ones.)
• Zoidberg
• watch
  
• wire bracelet that is pinchy
• 2 plastic things that came with a Gary Baseman toy I have on my desk at work
• One hair elastic and one elastic headband
• one coupon for free starbucks I'm scared to use.
  
• One raving rabbid vinyl toy in maids outfit
• Movie ticket: Let the Right One In
• 2 pens, one mechanical pencil
  
• My shitty work laptop that is a huge piece of shit, and only 13" monitor. They expect me to do design and coding on it. Boo.
• 2 Ledbetter qees on um.. tokidoki messenger bag. I usually use my gasmask bag, but it smells funny from gym clothes and I'm letting it air out
  
• one receipt for a medical bill from when I was sick this summer
• Extended warranty for my PS3 from Best Buy
  

Merry Christmas!

Yesterday was pretty sweet. I did not get hosed during the yankee swap as I did last year when I got the sweet rocking chair reindeer that sings when you press his paw. This year I picked 3rd to last and it was a hard choice between what looked like a gallon of Captain Morgan's and $40 of itunes cards.

I got the iTunes. I wish someone got me emusic credits like last year though, cause I went through their 100 best albums of 2008 last night and I want like 40 of them. Most of them are post rock, but I DL'd the 5 that I liked that weren't post rock for now. I did get some credits for Amazon MP3s, which I looked at this morning, and the music it suggested to me was so spot on that I'm convinced they have spyware connected to my machine. It's kinda creepy.

We exchanged presents last night after we got home. If I haven't mentioned it, I told B I was getting him something pretty huge, and he responded "a piano?" Because he's a smartass. So I said yes, I'm getting you a baby grand. And he said "if you loved me you'd get me a proper grand piano."

What I was really getting him was an iPhone. But since he's such a smartass, I went on ebay and purchased a toy baby grand electronic piano. It looks like what Schroder uses in the Peanuts. It came and I wrapped it and everytime B looked at the bag he's like what's in there? And I'd say "it's your piano" and he'd be like "hehehehe."

Last night he was very surprised to see he actually got a piano. I waited until he opened everthing and started playing with it before I gave him the iPhone gift card.

I got everything on my previously posted list, minus new mustache glasses. Tea press, rice cooker, Saints Row 2 (for PS3 instead of Xbox360, but we are going to exchange it tomorrow) and my surprise gift which is like a counter grill, but it's also a skillet and has detachable plates. It should be easier to clean than my George Forman which is like, a beast.

My dad got me a GPS for my car. I haven't used it yet because people driving around now are fooking crazy so I don't want to go far from the house.

I don't really understand how my tea press works yet. I wish I had loose tea to use it with, but Bill says I can just rip open my tea bags.
Ok that's my pre-christmas day summary. I'm going back to bed for another hour before we have to get ready to go out again.

8-Bit Jesus

What's better than your beloved NES game music turned into xmas carols?

I dunno.. lots of stuff.
But this is still pretty damn awesome. Download it here.

Happy Holidays

May none of your family members kill each other this holiday season.

I'm spending the holidays with Bill's family, and they are like a freakish TV family from the 60s. Everyone is nice to each other. It's bizarre.

Musings...

Musicians who put 2 minutes of loud screeching feedback at the end of their songs can suck a bag of dicks.

I'm looking at you Deathcab for Cutie... and I'm shaking my head in disapproval.

HAIR: Hoke-troika

I based this hair on pictures of Disembodied Hand's RL handsome self. He gave me a bunch of reference pictures and now my skybox looks like I'm stalking him.

This is plain old non scripted hair. Nice and messy too. I already have a hair called Disembodied, so I named this one after his fancy man mustache, which is called a Hoke-troika according to this poster on the internet about beards.

Now it's time for me to go all single white female on Dis. \o/ yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

My Disembodied Hand Shrine:


For you beard fetishists out there:

HAIRs: Belle & Sebastian

THANKS to Lucilla for sending me the reference picture waaaay back in the summer when I asked for some. X3

Gritty Bucks FAQ

How do Gritty Bucks work?

You purchase the gift card from me, it's NO COPY, Transfer.

Pass it to the person you'd like to gift it to. They will follow the directions, fill out a notecard contained within the gift card with their NAME and the items they would like with the colors and prices of the items they would like. They then pass the Gritty Bucks PRIM that contains their notecarded list inside & my script, back to me.

If I don't get the scripted prim that looks like Gritty Bucks, I'm not fullfilling the order. Passing me just the full perm note card contained within does not = you owning a gift card. I tested passing these with my alt and my friends and I know that what I'm asking can be done and that it's easy.

So again:
TO REDEEM THE GIFT CARD, YOU MUST PASS THE GRITTY BUCKS PRIM WITH THE SCRIPT AND YOUR SHOPPING LIST TO ME. It's not rocket science. It's something everyone over the age of 18 should be able to handle.

NO GRITTY BUCKS PRIM w/ SCRIPT = NO GIFT CARD.

I'm not being mean. I'm just saying, don't even bother to scam me. I filled my scammer quota this month when the transaction history was down last week. Just pass me back the scripted prim.

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Update: I will be taking down the Gritty Bucks this weekend. I will full fill all orders from those that were bought already.

I didn't make these for a get rich quick scheme, I made them so people could give my copy - no transfer items like hair to other people during the holidays. God I hope I only sold like 10. *head desk*

BTW, anyone who passed these to uh, lets say "challenged" people, no Noam love!!! >:O

Further update: I sold 17. Only one was for $1000. So I'm IMing that chick tonight to ask what the hell is up with this guy IMing me about his $1k gift card.

Where u at?!1

I get to build and design the 404 and other broken site pages for the project I'm working on. We want to go along the lines of fail whale and less "404: blah blah text."
Paul says to remember that if they are done well, they will be the official design that is kept when we launch the site.

My brain says "be professional! this is a great portfolio piece," but my guts say "LOLCAT."

Then my brain starts singing "hamster on a piano eating a popcorn" and I'm pretty much mentally done for the day.

I love zombies

I think I'm coming down with either the flu of a case of the "I don't want to work no more and just want to watch horror movies" because I'm not feeling that productive. Last night I did the Locos Pocos xmas hunt and Bill rented the Zohan movie with Adam Sandler. Guess what? Zohan was terrible. Stop being so shocked.

Tonight I'm either going to bust my ass to make 2 hairs that I really really really want to wear in game, or I'm going to watch Cube 2 on fearNet even though I have never seen the first one.

Improper use of "Pants on the hedgehog"

Coworker: "Yeah the client is asking us for pants on the hedgehog"
Me: "I thought that their site was down and they wanted it to be up"
Coworker: "Well yeah..."
Me: "Um.. as a web developement company, you'd kinda think that the site being up would be part of the service we offer...."
Coworker: "I see your point, but this still interupts me from watching cat videos on youtube for the rest of the day."

I hate working with west coast clients

SO I get out of here at 6pm and it will take me 1hr 30 mins to get home, which means 7:30. I have to go to the store to buy stuff to make dinner and then make it, and by the time it's done it's 9pm.

I hate this so much.

DAMN YOU FASHION FEED

Is there a blog feed out there for SL that doesn't have naked fat lady avatars on it so that I might read it when I'm rebuilding my dev code at work?

=_=

Request...

I'm running out of prims in Koreshan. I have to start thoroughly kissing Chicanery's butt (which I will), but as a back up I need to start looking for something a little bit... uh... bigger.

15000 prims bigger.

I really don't want to own a sim. Monthly teir is like $300 a month, and to buy a sim will cost me $1k USD. That means for the first year I will pay $4600 USD on something that is not tangible, and more often than not is the reason I get heartburn and migranes.

The only way I can talk myself into this is if I find a really cheap sim to buy from someone. I fail at buying land. If anyone has heard of a friend of a friend wanting to get rid of their full or OS for cheap, could you please ask them to IM me?

You'll have to pry my rotting clinging corpse away from Koreshan. If I did get a sim, it would be butted up against Koreshan. Possibly in the spot of ocean behind my shop now.

There is always the case that I can mooch more prims out of Kore and not have to worry about this. But I have less than 500 prims left and that's like... 9 hair vendors. Boo.
Nevermind I talked myself out of it.

HAIR (+hat): Comrad

This hat is scripted with 16 textures. 5 are camo, 11 are corduroy. Um... yep. I'm so tired. I've been working on these textures all day.



Buy it alone? This is resize scripted and mod. I find that resize scripts are awesome.


Reference picture:

OMG I SOLD A HANUKKAH LIGHT

My first one lol.

Damn it, I'm just proud I learned how to spell Hanukkah.

GIFT CARDS

I drawed dem in crayons. Available @ my main store in Koreshan.

Please be gentle with me as I try to fill orders after the holidays.

Hanukkah Lights @ Mainstore

They are Mod Copy, no trans. You can mod them to change the color or glow or bright or light or size of whatever the heck else you'd like :3

They are hanging up in my store, just buy a copy.

Feedback requested

I can not script all my vendors with that gift card stuff and not kill our shitty class 4 sim.

But I realize everyone wants gift cards for the holidays.

I talked to Hya and she said she makes custom ones. They are no copy & trans. You have to use the notecard inside the card to write down the item name, color and price which you'd like and then send it back, also write your own name on it just to be safe. It has to all be set with me as the original creator. Then after filling it out, you send it back to me and I full fill the order.

I could do like $500, $1000 or $5000 (gah that's so much.)

Do you guys think this is an ok way to deal with gift cards? I can't do the scripted ones at all.

Retro Winter Vest

$L770 + in upload fees for this. OMG. 11 color options, scripted to change colors and to resize.

Fit for guys only.

Black Winter Vest

sculpted and only fits dudes. I have to sculpt and texture a female version which would take forever so sorry ladies :P neener neener. Now yall know how I feel about not being able to wear the awesome poncho from barerose. BOO.

I've attempted to make this hat hair 2 times before this weekend and failed miserably cause the hat came out like a blobby blobbasaurus with stripes. This last attempt I was very happy with. And the texturing also came out pretty nice.
You can pick this up at my main store in Koreshan.

Reference picture:

An assortment of hoodies

6 colors, plain. No text or anything. I made these for myself cause I love bright colors. You can find these at my main store in Koreshan.

Uh kaaaay

Don't file DMCA's with SLX when you find your stuff on there. File them with Linden Labs.

SLX:
"DMCA notifications and counter-notifications sent to Virtuatrade are real-world legal notices and will be treated as such. Copies of these documents will be sent to participants or third parties as required by law. The Xstreet SL Privacy Policy specifically states that your personal information may be disclosed in connection with these notices."

They send the crazy people whom you file against your personal information.

Best. Agency. Commercial. Ever.

Never has one commercial so perfectly summed up what my job is like.
I'm the nerd at the computer who is saying "Do you know how long that would take?!!!"

Evan: you know - "pants on the hedgehog" could well become the new catchphrase for whatever crap the client throws at us
me: Dave and I are testing it out
Dave: "yeah they want us to put pants on the hedgehog"
Me: "Reskin community?!! Why that's pants on the hedgehog!"

Joel: IT NEEDS TO HAVE ROUNDED CORNERS
Me: Aw, is your client telling you to put pants on the hedgehog?

Jen: Kevin wants more pants.

DMCA: Online fax those bitches!

Staples charges $1 per page for faxing out of state. This sucks giant balls when I fax stuff because my DMCAs tend to be like 10 pages long. I usually report more than one person when I send them.

So I tried a free online fax service on Sunday and I've been waiting to see if it actually worked. I got the Removal Team's email today that they received it.

So for everyone who has to send in DMCAs, if you make your file a PDF, you can online fax it using:
http://faxzero.com

Please remember that you have to sign your DMCAs. I just signed it electronically cause I have a tablet.

This is great because if it works fine, I can fax the DMCAs the day I write them out. It also kinda sucks cause it hajavascript:void(0)ppens every other day.

UPDATE: IT WORKS. They received and removed my stuff from the one I sent before I wrote this blog entry.

Holiday Bondage

Again, another thing I made that I'm almost to proud of for stupid reasons. I made the animation to make you stiff and i wrote the animate on attach script and made it so when you TP it doesn't break. Hoho. Slowly I will conquer the world. \o/
This has a demo, please try it. The lights fit Fade and I but we are tiny tiny people.

My Xmas list

Dear Dad & Bill Santa,
Please buy me the following:

1. Saints Row 2


2. socks


3. GPS system for my car, nothing fancy


4. A rice cooker


5. A cookbook for the culinary challenged. No Rachel Ray or anything that might make me wander around the grocery store wondering if arugula is a meat or a plant.
   


6. New glasses (the kind you drink out of... preferably the ones with mustaches etched in them. See: http://www.breadandbadger.com/glassware/mustachepint.html )

Poe wants a new feather duster toy and some felt eyeballs.

<3

CSR cards

CSR... it's COMING.

Cards are now in select products at my MAIN STORE ONLY.

You can only get cards from select marked items purchased from yesterday until the event is over. I will be putting the cards in all new releases until the event is over.

Please don't IM me about stuff you bought before Sunday, I can't give cards out.

The event does not begin until December 20th, when the stampers will be turned on. I will announce it on the blog and in my group when they work.

To see who is participating and what the prizes are, check out the official webpage.
Please note that our deadline for prize submission isn't until the end of this week, so not all prizes are listed (or even created) yet.

Also you can check out the Offical CSR Blog, which.. is in Japanese, but there are pictures!

Filing DMCAs suck giant hairy balls.

How was your Thanksgiving? Mine was pretty ok. I ate a lot of food and saw a lot of movies. The best being a swedish vampire movie called "Let the Right One In."

Thanksgiving day was dominated by my Dad's girlfriend's family members, which made me nervous at first, but actually turned out to be pretty entertaining. None of the people who showed up were very dramatic. There were no fights or anything. Lots of laughing. So that was good. And how fucking awesome was it that Foster's Home for Imaginary Friend's parade float Rick Rolled the Macy's Day parade?!! That made my day.


Tonight, I saw my mom for the first time in 2 years and she didn't say critical mean things to me. My sister's new boyfriend, North (that's his name), is an engineer for HP and he was awesomely geeky. I like him a billion times more than all the previous sports obsessed irish italian racist slabs of meat she dated before, mostly cause he's like an awkward older version of me. Ok no, we are both awkward; he's just older. Did you know Voodoo PCs are made by HP?

My cat did not hairball vomit all over the apartment like I feared she would. I also don't think she pooped the whole time I was gone. O_o Unless I find it in some weird place later.

Lastly, I was gone since Wed, and I'm back Sunday at almost 2am. In that time there are 5 more people to write DMCAs against on top of the 2 other people I wrote up on Wednesday. So I just faxed a DMCA for 7 people selling, and 4 creators (meaning the people who passed the prims around.) WTF.
I'm less annoyed now that I found a free online faxing site, but still. What. The. Fuck. I'm even more WTF over the fact that the majority of the sellers set the permissions at no mod, no transfer. O_o why do they even bother to set permissions.

I have to insert CSR cards now.

CSR Winter Gift from Gritty Kitty

CSR is approaching!!!!
I wanted to get my gift ready just incase my job goes all sadistic on me about deadlines.

What we have here is a sketchbook. When you type it appears like you are drawing on it. There is a texture animation making it look like you drew the fug girl that you see in the above picture. It's mod so if you are the drawing type you can add your own texture to animate. It will come with very rudimentary templates to explain how to make it animate. Basically you make 4 panels on one texture.

Also on this bad boy that I fookin scripted myself with a little help (yes I am cocky... yes the script is probably terrible) is an assload of keychains. When you are just holding the book at your side they hang down the side of the book, when you are typing they hang down perpendicular with the book. Like you know.. how gravity works.

Also it comes with a pencil. Yay for a pencil!

All the sketches on this sketchbook are my own. There is a big picture of Fade I drew on the back and one of Sinjun in the little papers that are falling out.

What else...
I made all the animations myself in qavimator.

Hum I spent a lot of time on this peoples! You can get it by collecting stamps during the CSR winter event. I'll keep you posted when it starts.

For the record:

All in One script (the updated mono compiled one) by Scripts 'R Us, is really good. If you have the old one, upgrade to the new one cause it's kick ass.

The fact that it tells people when the scripts are loaded, has stopped people from IMing me that the script is broken. O_O The free time I get from answering those IMs is like.. the best thing ever.

All in one has texture change, color change, resize, and other stuff that I can't remember cause I probably don't use it.

Also, texture changing is FANTASTIC with the script because you can use multiple textures. The best example is on my hairs, you have the alpha texture and the regular texture for each color. It knows that when you pick Blue, to make some prims the alpha textures and some the non alpha texture.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Gwendolyn/165/125/22

So all the builders out there, get this.

I have the best mom ever

I shouldn't get my hopes up too much, since I haven't actually gotten an Xmas or B-day present from my mom in like 2-3 years. Last year she said she was getting me a fish eye lense camera and a set of salt and pepper shakers I found from a cool design store, but I don't think she bothered and I haven't brought it up. (Mind you I buy her B-day and Mother's day presents... >: / )

This year I'm going to see her for my sister's holiday party after Thanksgiving, and she asked me what I wanted. Knowing full well I wasn't getting shit, I said $100. Which I figured is a lot for her since she's kinda living outside her means in her fucking crazy expensive Manhattan apartment. But then... I saw the muppets...


I emailed her a link and said "I want this" and she said I can't change my mind now cause I own a muppet.

AWESOME. \o/

Surly the Cyclops

I forgot to post him to the blog.

Hair: Marlei

I love this hair so much I could cry. The braids and streaks are texture scripted and it's maxxed out on prims.
I found the reference picture on Flickr a while back and I was like dude, I am making this bad boy.

Marv the Monster hat

Nom nom nom nom nom nom.

Texture scripted for 7 color combinations.

HAIR: Hathair, for wearing under one's hat

Fade needed hair to wear under her hats. I wanted more short hair. And thus there is hathair. Hat not included.

This is kinda based off some kid's picture that I'm not posting because I think I want to try again at making his hair, just with sculpts this time.

Mini rant

NEX-Core are the ninjas of "model Managment" Reguardless of how many times I tell them NEVER to IM me or drop stuff on me, I still magically have these fooking flyers in my inventory.

I don't even know how I got this last one!!!