VOTE BECAUSE WE'RE IN THE TOP TEN! Please?
So Friday's rant was super long. Hopefully this one won't be so bad. But do vote please! I'll love you! It's helping the site - for realz.
I'm having a terrible time working on fixing this site because of FTP issues. It was stable and then it was just gone. Le sigh. The Mac has two FTP programs on it and apparently neither of them will work now. And I blame Patrick because they were working until he got on! :P So I'm trying kids. I really am. Not only that, Mike took the mouse I was using on the Xeon so I really have no way to fix the site until I can leave the house this afternoon and get a new one. So the Previous Page link works... it just doesn't have the right image and the navigation can't be fixed until I have adequate time on the Xeon. At least I'm updating, eh?!
Page 95 which I'll always remember as Page 72 is one of my absolute favorite pages in all of Book 1. Maybe with the contender being the burning car page that comes later in Chapter 5. This page went through a ton of revisions in the end, specifically script revisions and some power revisions here and there. This whole scene was a lot shorter than it should have been. My issue with Chapter 4, and ultimately Chapter 5, is they were scripted too long and I didn't quite write the pages out where they should have been. What was one page ended up being 3 and then one page of that got cut out. A lot of these pages were put back in though for the print run. But Chapter 4 is disjointed and even though that saddens me a lot, I still like this scene. Sure I could have shown more concise mayhem but then you wouldn't have had the uber cool Chapter 5 scenes in the print version. So I think, for my first book, I did okay. ;)
In other news, Mike's rant is going up today. He speaks of me accusing him of crying after the ninja pillow star incident which you can catch on the previous rant. Ranting is apparently a lot harder if you don't do it everyday. Poor kid. And yeah, I'll make him his own special avatar eventually. Maybe once I get some software. ^_-
[ORIGINAL RANT from Nov. 2004]
So almost three weeks without updating... Damn. Well, as most of you have heard, I got admitted to the hospital yet again this time to do some hardcore epilepsy testing all of which made me sick as hell. Seriously, I have never in my entire life been that sick, that scared, or in that much pain. But I'm better now! Well... I'm getting better. lol. I try, man. I try. :D Anyway, we'll be back on schedule by hopefully Friday with Page 96. Not much more in this scene. Then the real fun part starts!
Don't forget to vote if you can! We're really doing good guys! Thanks a bunch! Expect a lot of cool gifts from me this month. Also, if you haven't seen it already, I made some groovin gift wallpaper in thanks for getting us in the top ten of Buzz last month. You can get yours here. :D
Hello World!
Ok, not the most auspisious start to a rant, but I was totally laying down to crash for the night, after a long day of protecting the public faith (my day job which I'll rant on later) and as my brain is logging
out for the night... it rebots with the iconic "Hello World!" I have run accross it several times in programing, and I always have to wonder... Who came up with that anyway?!? I mean, who'd want to
waste their very first program saying something as cheesy as "Hello World!"... anyway, my subconsious wanted to air that out.
So some of you know me on the forums as heyIMmike, but for the rant we... well, Juno, decided that we would shorten my handle for simplicity sake. I'm also suppose to be getting a new avatar, but she hasn't let me see it yet. So long zombie bunnies, hello... um... world?
NOW, to dispell any slander/rumors that you might be reading next door <<< I have no recollection of any of this crying business… Is it not enough that I am prepared at any instant to slay night time, underware gnome, stalkers, and general intruders of sleepy time?!? In retrospect, its probably a good thing that the pillow is the only thing in my arsinal of mass distruction that I keep near the bed! Remember honey… you need to disarm the alarm system BEFORE entering the room... :-P
In other news, I just figured I'd let everyone know that Juno is a very jealous person. I had to go to memphis for work the other week, and she was concerned she was going to lose my affection, to some
hotel pillow... there is actually more to that, but that is like 90% of the story... honest...