Comments for Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

Comment on Old Thieves and Moon Nazis by Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:50:52 +0000

That bookstore *appears* to be doing well. Always has a lineup at the checkout. I read on my tablet all the time. Not so much on my Kindle though, just because a lot of the e-reading I do is graphic novels.

Comment on Old Thieves and Moon Nazis by starbadger

starbadger — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:40:36 +0000

You’ve still got bookstores in Toronto? Mot for long. They’ll go down the same rabbit hole as BlockBusters. Do you use your kindle much? The Kindle 3 rocks with its WiFi and Cell (G3) access.

Comment on My blog to book software by Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:29:23 +0000

Shannon, do you know any tattoo artists in Edmonton that you’d recommend?
I’ve read your blogs for several years now, I just rarely comment but you’re definitely the person i’d trust most when it comes to body modification. I moved to Edmonton less than a year ago, and so I don’t know any shops here and I’m looking to get a smallish tattoo. Bit of a long shot since you live on the other side of the country, but thanks for any help you give!

Comment on Spoonflower Custom Printed Fabric Review and Recommendation by Lizzard

Lizzard — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:58:25 +0000

Looks amazing!

Comment on Continuing my snarking about Ami James on NY Ink by Shannon

Shannon — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:20:29 +0000

I don’t normally approve anonymous posters like “felipe”, “f@f.com”, but his IP address 207.38.196.14 may resolve to someone involved with the show or the people on it so I figured I’d let my curiosity allow it.

Anyway, Felipe, I’m aware that reality TV has a certain amount of illusion on it, which is why I’m not snarking about Ami’s reprehensible behavior and attitude. It’s why I’m commenting on the quality of the tattoos, which are not changed by the veil of television!

Comment on Continuing my snarking about Ami James on NY Ink by Felipe

Felipe — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:21:31 +0000

You people really don’t seem to know what TV is about, huh?

Comment on My blog to book software by Shannon

Shannon — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:05:06 +0000

Oh yes, of course, I do not discount the role that things like breathing can play in bringing ones pain down to its minimum level. For some people “lifestyle” type treatments can be more effective than “medical” type treatments, and in all people, they can at least ensure that you’re not artificially inflating your pain level (which is all too common)

Comment on My blog to book software by starr

starr — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:31:24 +0000

ever try yoga & meditation breathing? with some good music and a side bowl if ur not drugfree

Comment on My blog to book software by starbadger

starbadger — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:07:38 +0000

yes

Comment on My blog to book software by JKT

JKT — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:36:00 +0000

Hey Shannon,

I’d definitely be interested in the source for this tool. The idea of a printed year book of posts is great (for a personal, non-transient archive). I run wordpress mysel, so it sounds like it’ll be compatible.

If you’re happy sharing, please email :)

Comment on Try harder next time by Martin637

Martin637 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:17:40 +0000

The only crappy 1 is the thug life 1 and bro ur missing like 5 more tatts

Comment on Krocodile thoughts by talby

talby — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:59:28 +0000

I’m not a doctor- but afaik, skin heals faster than bone, so injuries can heal with the bone exposed in the short term, but the lack of blood supply means that the exposed bone is necrotic and will slowly degrade. The other thing I would guess is that because bone is so porous, there’s a constant risk of infection at the site where the bone renters the body.

Comment on ZenCBR – Comic Book Archive Maintenance Utility by Leon

Leon — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:40:06 +0000

You are one clever guy, Shannon.

Comment on ZenCBR – Comic Book Archive Maintenance Utility by Miles Pestell

Miles Pestell — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:23:52 +0000

Awesome bit of software. Thank you for sharing. Its made my collection look so much better

Comment on “Uncle Shannon paint me dog?” by R

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:56:59 +0000

Awww, sweet. I especially like how you’ve got your little ballooning owl dude in the background.

Comment on Krocodile thoughts by Twwly

Twwly — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:12:03 +0000

OK. I get it. Just finished watching some of this madness on YouTube… they don’t live long enough. You weren’t kidding about shortened lifespan.

Comment on Krocodile thoughts by Twwly

Twwly — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:40:06 +0000

Holy fuck. Well, learned something new today. I can barely believe what I am looking at.

I am left wondering why the limbs in 9, 10 and 11 (though 10 & 11 are the same woman it looks like) have not been amputated? I would sort of assume that would happen right out of the gate if any of these folks wound up at a hospital. Surely some of them go?

Shuddering.

And I have seen animals with healed skin and exposed bone, so I in theory it is possible. I am sure that the animals have a better diet and stronger immune system than any of these junkies.

Comment on Krocodile thoughts by Darrin

Darrin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:38:07 +0000

My dreamhost sites stayed up yesterday. I went and checked them as soon as I saw yours down, though, suspecting it was their fault. Guess it’s the old “cheap” vs “reliable” problem again. At least it sounds like they’re trying to ensure it’s not likely to happen again.

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Update Jan 29th, 9:40pm PST:

From Simon Anderson, CEO, DreamHost: My sincere apologies for the downtime experienced today by many of our dedicated and VPS customers, plus some shared customers. I know that this has been a poor customer experience for you. Almost all services are back up after an intense effort from the DreamHost dev, admin, data center and support teams. I was involved in the coordination of our efforts today and now am able to share what happened, and what we’re going to do to reduce the risk that it happens again.

We run Debian OS and have used autoupdates to ensure security packages are installed as soon as they are available. We’ve had some breakage in the past from this approach, but nothing major. However last night’s autoupdate went badly wrong, removing essential packages from dedicated, VPS and some shared servers. Our monitoring and support team flagged the issue fast, and we scrambled our admin, dev and NOC teams to reinstall the packages that had been removed by autoupdate, reboot servers, fix package dependencies, and test that individual services were live. Given the number of services affected, this took a long time to complete. Rest assured we had all hands working on the issue, but I know it was still a frustrating experience for customers.

To mitigate the risk of anything like this happening again, we’re immediately switching off autoupdates, and moving to a manual process where we’ll only push out Debian updates after significant testing. There’s always a balance to be struck between speed, efficiency, security and issue prevention, but this event has shown us that we need to take a different approach. Again, my apologies for the downtime experienced today. We’re acutely focused on adjusting our processes and systems to ensure we do a better job going forward. – Simon

Comment on “Uncle Shannon paint me dog?” by Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:20:38 +0000

aww!

Comment on Krocodile thoughts by Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:03:09 +0000

I’m fairly sure #9 is a still shot from a video I watched a while ago on the internet where they basically use a bone saw to remove his foot whilst still in the wheelchair. I might be wrong, but i’m definitely not going looking for it a second time round.