Hey, check out my old roommate Romeo's new movie! It's “a modern age horror story from age-old Filipino folklore”. Anyway, he was super talented when we lived together in 1991 or 1992 or whenever it was (at university), so I can't wait to see how this has turned out:
I'm just waiting for Jon to get back (he went fishing on the Toronto Islands today) and then a bunch of us are headed out for a quick bite. I spent much of the day hanging out with Nefarious and doing art stuff (thanks to Saira for coming and helping in the morning). I'll start with showing you (again, with great embarassment), the stage I'm at right now with my current painting… I know, it's pretty childish and it keeps changing, but I'm a simple guy with simple ideas (I mean that as a self-compliment; simplicity is a good thing — I just happen to also live a very complicated life).
As I point out all the time, it's still just at the undercoat level and I'm still figuring out exactly what it's going to be. But what I really wanted to share with you is Nefarious's canvases. She's drawn them all out in marker (well, I drew the left arm on the scary monster in the leftmost painting to show her how to illustrate “scary”, but the rest is all her). I think I'm going to finish them for her in paint.
Anyway, I'll have an experience update for you later tonight some time, and depending on my weekend plans (Carlilse, PA, and then NYC; 90% business trip), I'll either do a big update tomorrow with both piercing and member stuff, or I'll post in the normal order… I hate being so last minute in my plans, but that's part of the reason I'm driving, not flying, on this one.
As you know, I run Under Mars, a military photo site. Anyway, I just added advertising to it, and while usually the ads are very relevant (”Impeach Bush”, “Buy Body Armor”, “Iraqi Oil”, and so on), sometimes I get weird ones. Check this screencap out:
Either way, it illustrates the problem with some of the bulk-buying of generic (and automatically customized) advertising from Google and other vendors. Not that I'm complaining, since I'm on the other end of the equation!
Edit: According to Badur (because like I said, one of the cardinal rules of Google is “don't click on your own ads”), these ads return info on hotels in Mars, PA, the Mars Hotel in Prague, and so on. Meh. Maybe I watch too much sci-fi, getting all excited about (non-existant, at least for now) hotels on other planets.
This Avante has been on sale for ages and no one seems to want to touch it. If it was a slightly different year (with the round lights, not the square ones), and was a convertible, I'd buy it, just because then I could be driving the car from Gattaca… But it's the wrong year, I can't afford it, and my 996 should be back on the road next week anyway. I should post a picture of what I'm doing to it…
Whew! So tired! First of all, ModBlog is updatd as is BME (say click, take a pic)… and I may stll update the kit car site also.
Anyway, there's a burger (and more) place on the corner of my street (“Garden City” or something I think) that's pretty good [edit: Back to the Garden]. It's open from 5PM to 10PM if I remember right, and opening at noon on Sundays. But the reason I mention it is the waitress who just started today:
Seriously, if you see this same thing, make sure you let the owner knows that his or her decision is making them money. It helps us all, and like I said, it's true.
I just ordered my (entirely promotional) business cards to give away this weekend at the convention to try and promote the kit car blog site. I think they cost less than the Google Ad money I've made so far off of it, so I guess you could say they were free?
Anyway, Phil will be here soon for work — today is tattoo update day!
