Recent content by Mad_Jack

Little bit annoyed right now... When you say you're going to be somewhere, especially when you say you'll be there as soon as you can, you show up, or at least call/text/whatever to explain why you can't make it... :mad:

I'm strictly a snapshot artist, never fussing with any settings or anything, but I do pretty good at it. I used to do a lot of nature photography, landscapes, birds, sunsets... And sometimes random people. The college I went to is situated on the former site of a small 18th century manor house...

Hell, once I got old enough to cross the street on my own, my mother would throw me out the door in the morning and tell me if I wasn't going to be home for dinner to call... A few times she got calls from me and my brother to tell her we'd gone out of state with friends and their parents and we...

Unfortunately, I haven't been to a con of any sort in the last five years or so... I used to do the national Rocky Horror Picture Show conventions, and there's probably still pics of me performing at one of the cons floating around on the net somewhere. I'm massively pissed that I wasn't able...

It's a grammatical quirk that happens when native speakers of some Asian languages accidentally mix-and-match the grammar and sentence structure of English and their own language. Adverbs particularly, for some reason. Geographically speaking, you see it less often in places that have languages...

I used to have a coworker who looked alarmingly like that guy if he had glasses on.

If you have other uses for the Micron pens, it's well worth the money to spring for a full set of them. Especially if you want to do darklining around the edges of objects but don't want to have to spend a lot of time on it or don't have the precise brush control for it. They're more than decent...

You often find yourself in situations where the Computer is telling you to push the big red button that has a "Do Not Push This EVER" sign next to it, and you have ten seconds to decide whether you're going to disobey the computer and die, or push the button and die, before you get killed by the...

You can't save everyone, especially from themselves.

Technically "none", but I'd definitely still be playing CAR WARS if I had people to play with and hadn't had to sell off my stuff over the years.

Well, that's all sorts of wonderful... My car's rear drum brakes needed to be replaced (for a while now), and I was planning to get it done this weekend when I had the time - the parts are sitting in my trunk... Tonight on the way to work I lost my damn brakes and had to turn around and slowly...

Anything shiny like metal or polished leather is just black with severe straight white highlights. Other things like cloth can get shaded with gray if you want a more grayscale look, or highlighted with dark blue for a more comic-book look.

I had a shop teacher in junior high school who was missing the last joint on one of his fingers. It absolutely killed any desire I may have ever had to become a shop teacher. Not because of the potential for injury, mind you. But because he was constitutionally incapable of refraining from...

I liked Soon I Will Be Invincible. Just finished one of the Jack Reacher books by Lee Child. Think I'm only about two books behind at this point. Also picked up new copies of stuff I read ages ago - First Flight by comic book writer Chris Claremont and one of the Casca the Mercenary books by...

Speaking of barrelmancy, that reminds me of Two Worlds II, where you could construct a spell that explosively summoned a pile of barrels and crates doing damage as an area effect - and then the stuff remained permanently as regular junk. Combining it with a vortex effect to create a swirling...