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Next nine panels of the comic are inked, just no time to color them right now. And, argh, I just realized that I set most of the story in the city, and that I don't really like drawing interior spaces all that much. I like to draw landscapes... canyons... caves... water. Next story will have to be set planetside!

couple youtube links:
Murder Unscripted Writers, who needs 'em?
Anti-Piracy Ad from The IT Crowd Parody of the annoying anti-piracy ad that is also to be found on my Atlantis Season 2 DVDs (fortunately I finally figured out a way to jump directly to the main menu so I no longer have to froth at the mouth whenever I pop in those DVDs.)

pic I took in our front yard yesterday:

Question for the German readers of this LJ... more accurately, German readers who are living in the North-West and would be interested in adopting a cat:
Freunde von mir haben über ein Dutzend Katzen abzugeben, weil die Vorbesitzerin gesundheitlich nicht mehr in der Lage ist, sie zu versorgen. Die Katzen sind alle gut versorgt (allerdings nicht kastriert). Alter: 2 und älter. Meine Freude wohnen in Minden-Lübbecke, sie würden die Katze auch bringen, wenn die Strecke nicht zu weit ist. Ich habe Fotos und Beschreibungen einiger Katzen; wenn Interesse besteht, mail mir am besten zu (username at livejournal.com)

Fic recs later. Work first. *nods, in a determined way*

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LOL @ the anti-piracy parody. These ads are so annoying, not to mention that they completely miss the point: I mean, I would totally "steal" all kinds of things if I had a pocket-size, portable Star Trek replicator and could point it at other people's stuff to get an identical copy without damaging theirs.

to get an identical copy without damaging theirs.

Well, illegal downloads or pirate DVDs do lose them revenue*. My problem is not so much with the content but with the fact that they make everyone who bought the DVD sit through the bloody ad every time they start it. Apparently in some DVD players you can't even fast-forward through it. They're missing their target audience spectacularly. It actually turns me off buying DVDs - my online downloads don't come with an annoying ad attached to it.

*Though I don't have the hint of a bad conscience when I download US series that aren't available here yet. There's a fair chance I'll buy the DVDs once they do become available. I consider online downloading as just another form of advertising. Some people will eventually buy the product, some won't... in the end the producer will make their profit.

What I find ironic is how the legal versions are so often less functional than the illegal ones, because they hobble them with copy protection until you can't even play them anymore. I mean, of course I'm not going to buy a DVD if I can't even play it on my computer legally because of course the software to decrypt DVDs on linux actually counts as "circumventing copy protection" and is also illegal to own and download. It is ridiculous. They should just figure out how to make the sold product better instead.

Yup. As long as they punish their paying customers, their business model is made of fail.

But, hah, I was just about to complain that all my original videos aren't running any longer, since I don't have a tv and watch everything on my computer which apparently doesn't agree with the copy protection. That's when I remembered that VLC player so far has played everything I threw at it. I popped in a Video tape and, yay, it's running.

Tonight I had the coolest dream... something about a subway system that was more like a rollercoaster, going up and down and round and round, through basements and vaults. Apparently there wasn't enough space in that city for a regular old subway system. I don't know, it made sense at the time. Still don't know how the Goa'uld fit in there though.

:Blinks: :stares:

That...is actually really freaky, because I had the SAME DREAM last night. No, seriously. Subway roller coaster. Where, at our stop, there was one of those little videos they play at the end of rides like Star Tours and Back to the Future with Rodney congratulating us on completing our mission and getting us his data, while John snarked at him in the background.

Weird.

Okay, that is weird. *cue theme from The X-Files*
Yours didn't happen to have a part where the tracks went spiraling down on the outside of the huge basement? (At the time I didn't even wonder how a hollow space underground could be on the outside of the building.)

You get Rodney and John, I get Goa'uld... what's that about?

fortunately I finally figured out a way to jump directly to the main menu so I no longer have to froth at the mouth whenever I pop in those DVDs

omg how?????

I still froth at the mouth and actually a few times have downloaded files of things I _owned_ so I won't have to be subjected to this crap anymore. Any workaround would be muchly appreciated!

Happy to share. I'm using VLC media player on my computer; don't know if and how it works with other players. (VLC is the best player I know, and it's free for download if you don't use it already).

Actually my version is installed in German, but I'm assuming the buttons are named similar: start the DVD ([file] -> open medium), then go to [navigation] -> title -> DVD menu. That's it, it jumps right to the main menu.

Hate that ad!

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