Fractured.Logic

Haha. Although you meant that as a joke, you are right :angel: Now, I did not have that joke in mind, of course. The story behind the drawing is:It wasn't until I was nearly finished with the top one that I decided its midsection, shoulders and hips looked more like a male dragon... and those were among the things I altered when I played around with the female dragon. I had originally intended to follow the symbolic pattern of two gender-inspecific dragons chasing each other's tails... but after the sketch started to take on more personality, I decided to make it a capture of sibling dragons instead.On a sidenote, I have recently discovered that I forgot to interweave two other arms of the celtic knotwork into the bigger picture. So I will be posting the changes once I have time to work on that. After that is finished, I will submit the linework to my torturous CGI techniques. So keep in touch.

It's just the linework, for now, but I had to share it with you folks. If you look, very carefully, there are slight differences between the dragons... enough to subtly differentiate gender. Copypasting a perfectly symmetrical linework would have been way too easy

 

Now, for this one, this is going to be one of my very special "babies". So if you want to work with it, you have to ask me for permission first. I'm going to be very particular about this piece, since the design is fully unique to my warped little self :angel:

 

So, I had a bit of a graphic field day last night. I couldn't sleep, so I just kept poking at things. What resulted was some crazy linework (which I will post in a separate topic), and 9 new variations of my abstract CGI Let me know what you think!

 

I would still like to hear back from my fellow Trappers, if they care to lend their input, criticism, or otherwise. In the meanwhile, I have decided that I ought to provide some definitions for some of the less-known vocabulary I've used in my poem. Due to restrictions on how many links a post may contain (at least, so it would seem), I am going to copy/paste definitions in this post. Please check back as I edit this, thanks!

 

Corporeal -

 

Ambivalence -

 

Tempestuous -

 

Excrete -

 

Osculum -

 

Nether -

 

Exponential -

 

Formaldehyde -

 

Tentative -

 

Fledgling -

 

Expound -

 

Magnificent -

 

Grotesque -

 

Conflagration -

 

Proverbial -

 

Cumulative -

 

Rampant -

 

Indiscretion -

 

Noxious -

 

Effulgence -

 

Sulfuric -

 

Dolour -

 

Abhorrence -

 

Pinioning -

Enigma -

 

Concubine -

 

Consummate -

 

Hypocrisy -

 

Lubricious -

 

Contradictory -

 

Propagating -

 

Unremitting -

 

Inevitable -

 

Massacre -

 

Acumen -

 

Amass -

 

Figurative -

Quaver -

 

Sonorous -

 

Ire -

 

Nescient -

 

Egocentric -

 

Forebodes -

 

Ominous -

 

Mue -

 

Eschew -

 

Pander -

 

Sagacity -

 

Nascence -

 

Athenaeum -

 

Garner -

 

Obfuscate -

 

Acquisition -

 

Laic -

 

Decrepit -

 

Tome -

Resuscitate -

 

Notion -

 

Exemplify -

 

Vitality -

 

Primordial -

 

Inundate -

 

Cadaver -

 

Prone -

 

Indiscrete -

 

Scalpel -

 

Elated -

 

Bestow -

 

Pry -

 

reference : Kaolin

 

reference : green ware

 

reference : Citizen Kane

 

reference : Imbolc's

 

reference : Br?d

 

reference : Sirona

... The sprites in your screenshots (as well as effects and a fair amount of other graphics) are identical to the ones from Ragnarok Online (which I admittedly played, once upon a time, before it went P2P).

 

Is this someone's alternate-server of Ragnarok? Last I ever knew, alternate-servers of Ragnarok (and various other games) aren't exactly legal... (So would there be repercussions for advertising it on the Trap?)

 

Supposing that, despite the odds, this is not an alternate-server. Explain how it is supposed to be different from Ragnarok Online... (what I see doesn't convince me, in the slightest, that it is). How did the person(s) who maintain(s) this game get ahold of the same graphics engine, and did they legally acquire it?

 

I'm sure there is something else I should ask and am forgetting. Anyone else want to lend their input on this one?

 

Regardless of the legalities, many private servers are active today, and it is debatable whether or not their existence has created a loss of revenue for legitimate official servers. With many official servers changing over to a Free-to-Play with cash shop revenue model, their future viability is called into question. Although many private servers have no donate-for-advantage models, some players feel more secure in the environment. Server emulation follows the development of the Korean version, thus they often contain more recent updates than other local versions, although quality is often far below that of the official servers.

To date, my favorite Linux OS is my first (who doesn't love their first of anything, right? :angel:)Redhat 9 (which has since evolved into Fedora) holds a very dear, permanent space in my heart. I even proudly stuck a sticker on my car and it literally weathered the odds from one end of the country to the other, while I got the "traveling bug" out of my system (this was before I had my daughter, of course). Unfortunately, the last time I had my car maintenanced, all of my old stickers were cleaned off as well. But it wasn't very recognizeable by then, anyway!

Thanks for the suggestions, Fractured.Logic! I shall have to check out those authors (bad library humor? I need sleep).

Library humor is never bad, Abby!

 

Another author that I would recommend looking into (she's not one of my absolute favorites, but she is a fairly decent author nonetheless):

 

Kristen Britain

 

And I also hunted down the information on Juliet Marillier (whose name I am never able to remember, for some reason). She is the author of a historical/Celtic-lore fantasy series starting with the book Daughter of the Forest.

So a friend of mine requested a triquetra drawn with rainbow colors, with the circle drawn through the three loops. She really didn't give me much else to go on, which left a lot of room for play. This is what I came up with.

 

 

I'm very happy with the end result, and it didn't take me very long to throw together. I did the linework in Illustrator, then exported as a PSD. With the PSD file, I kept the linework on top, set one layer for the rainbow effect, another layer for the shaded-gray circle, and a final layer for the single-tone background.

 

Anyone who likes this image is welcome to download it and save it. The triquetra is an old, well-known symbol, that crosses the boundaries of many cultures, lores and religions.

 

If you would like a copy of the PSD file, or the linework, to play with it yourself, feel free to message me or send me an email.

 

I'd love to also hear some feedback! Thanks, everyone!

*facepalm*

 

I had to share this one because he/she/it's not even trying to mask the blatant invasion of privacy... Let's forget, for the moment, that they obviously don't know who I am... or they wouldn't be calling me "Sir" ...

 

There's a little well of vindictiveness burbling inside me right now that wishes I could get my hands on whichever of the jobhunt sites I've signed up with in the last few months that traded my email to these vultures... *liptwitch*

 

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Dear Sir,

I Am Brian Casey Esq, I want you to assist me to handle an inheritance.

Please get back to me with your details.

1.Your Full Name...

2. Your Current Address...

3.Your Age...

4.Your Occupation..

5.Your Telephone number..

6.Your Company if any...

Brian Casey Esq.

Don't rush yourself! I'd like to consider myself rather patient :angel: Thanks for the input - I'll save a copy of the image from the PSD file, later, that doesn't have either border or solar flare, so you can compare that. :(I will have to get the files you requested to you later... I'm thinking tomorrow, if everything works out all right. My buddy training shift is going to be from 12:30 to 8pm today - and even the Library is closed by the time I'll be off of work.I look forward to seeing your second draft, whenever you can get it done.Until then, take care and keep in touch.

Darn! The image is broken, so I can't see this "puppet-face" ... *snickerfit*

 

Galexcd :

 

Thanks! I am very proud of her. Pottsville is something that I greatly enjoy being a part of, and I hope that my daughter will also treasure it as she gets older and understands more about it. As things are, right now, it's one of the biggest "back yards" that a child could ever have, and she has almost-limitless free reign of it. My mother and I promised each other that, between the two of us (and with the help of a large and often-crazy family, and all of our friends), that she would have the opportunity to experience all the things we ever wished we could.

[Emote] ~snort! coughchokewheeze...~ I take a moment to collect myself. [/Emote]

 

What a ridiculous joke. They make monstrous fools of themselves harrassing Linux and accusing its PICs of stealing "their" patents and re-distributing them for free, only to sneak around and try to steal the freeware thunder from under their feet and try to make themselves look like good samaritans.

 

I am not going to even give this a moment's worth of research. Just another farce, as far as I'm concerned!

 

lol lets hope it doesnt get to the point she will be driving it all by herself if it was going to the corner deli or supermarket. haha

That would be one extremely slow trip to the store!

As much of a tomboy and daredevil as she is though... I have many years of heart-in-throat left to experience! :angel:

Is this about my thread on meditation? I had no idea my thread could become so controversial! (in a roundabout way). I see the doppelganger of which you speak. Spooky, eh? :angel:

You might be able to relate this to the "Butterfly Effect," with the notoriety that it's achieved, thusfar!

 

I guess it should be fixed, because it seems like a forum bug, but it doesn't bother me or anything. Impressive observation skills, though! You seem to be the first one ever to have noticed it!! Congratulations.

Me? Impressive observations skills?

 

Maybe when it comes to tracking my own posts... sometimes!

 

Thanks for the compliment though. I look forward to hearing some more about what others think should be done about this.

 

[Emote] I nod, mock-sagely, poorly hiding a twitching grin. [/Emote]

Congrats, its always good to see your children make it in the newspaper and go "OH YEAH THAT MY BABY IN THE FRONT PAGE."

Haha, yea. Especially when, in a small town like the one I live in, everyone knows who your daughter is... and adores your daughter, to boot. She already has her own fan club, as we like to call it! :angel:

yep one small step for popularity. one giant step towards celebrity!
congrats! she knows how to drive the thing which makes things easier when its time to get her a driver license! ( )v

the day my daughter hits the road as a legal-age driver! The funny thing is, my mother lets her sit on her lap when they are putting the golf cart around the grounds, and she can steer the thing in a (mostly) straight line already

Haha Thanks, Jim!:angel:I feel like I am literally glowing with pride for her. She's going to have something amazing to look back on when she gets older!

This very, very, very proud mother thinks this is extremely HOT news, so I have to share it with all of you!

 

[Edit] (click on the image to visit the news article, btw) [/Edit]

 

Part of the story behind the picture:

 

My mother is one of three trustees who took over the care and upkeep of Pottsville after my grandfather, Debbs Potts, passed away. She recently took my daughter over there, with her, while she and my step-father have continued preparations for the annual Early Day Gas Engine & Tractor Association show (Father's Day weekend, coming up). Imagine my delighted surprise when my mother called me earlier today and told me that "Pottsville's youngest volunteer made the front page!"

 

I promptly drove around and bought up every copy of the paper I could find!

 

Pottsville celebrated 50 official years, this year, and has a wonderful array of fascinating Oregon memoribilia. Mother is planning to launch the official site of Pottsville very soon, so feel free to message me if you would like me to keep you informed!

Well, I hadn't included that many links (I had thought, at any rate), but then I have a rather extensive vocabulary. The poem is rather long, too... so your speculation may still be accurate. I don't want to flood my own topic with unnecessary posts (if I divided the poem into sections to link that way), so I will have to consider how to better approach this.Your reasoning makes sense... and I would be greatly disturbed if people could take the alternative aspect of what I was trying to do and flood people with spam sites and other scams.Just thinking about the possibility of that makes me spasm involuntarily.

I am going to pop in here with a raving review of two authors:

 

Elizabeth Haydon

 

I have not read her series The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme, but I adored her Symphony of Ages, and lovingly collected the hardback versions of all six books therein.

 

Neal Stephenson

 

I have read Snow Crash, The Diamond Age: or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, and Anathem, and I remain an obsessively-adoring fan of his intelligence and talent.

 

Between those two, there are several books to whet your appetite (if you like science fiction & fantasy even half as much as I do ). Judging on your interest in Hitchhikers Guide, though, I don't think that's an issue! Hope that helps you out a bit. Enjoy!

OpaQue honored me with a reply!

 

 

Pardon me while I bask in the glow of attention from our most awesome Admin-ness...

 

[Emote]I pause to shake the syrup off of my skin, with an evil grin and a wink for OpaQue.[/Emote]

 

I do realize that they are the same forum... perhaps I have misled by my choice of topic titles, and I apologize for that. From my perspective, I had made a single reply, to what I thought was a single topic/forum, and later found it mirrored. By "mirrored," I mean that one section had moved on to list a different topic as having the most recent reply, and the other section listed that same topic I'd posted on as having the most recent reply. Thence was my reason for bringing it to your attention.

 

Though, this truly does not bother me, in the slightest bit... I'm just attempting to be helpful!

 

It doesn't seem to be very troublesome, but I keep recalling subjects mentioned about cleaning the Trap up a bit, and removing unnecessary/old sections among other things. Is this something that the Trap would benefit from fixing?

I am still an avid, adoring, enthusiastic supporter of the Trap, whether this is edited or not. However, bearing in mind the aforementioned topics concerning the Forums appearance and suchforth, I felt that this was worth denoting for consideration.

 

So I am, therefore, led to believe that they are, indeed, the same subforum listed twice, in two different sections, with slightly different names.

The above, quoted comment refers not to the URL address of the subforums (which is identical, as you have stated), but to the listings on the Forums main page. The "doppelganger" effect (as I, perhaps inaccurately, labelled the situation), in my opinion, exists because said forum is linked to within those two completely separate sections.

 

To explain this better (I hope!) :

 

Forum: Health and Fitness (WellnessPostive.com)

 

Subforums:

...

Men's Health,

Women's Health,

Hearing & Vision,

Martial Arts, Karate, Ninja...,

Meditation, Pranayam, Yoga

 

----- * -----

 

Forum: Spirituality and Consciousness

 

Subforums:

General - Introduction to Spirituality, Understanding Spirituality - Questions & Doubts,

Spirituality & Meditation : Yoga, Meditation, Pranayam.,

...

 

----- * -----

Please forgive any confusion that I may have caused you.

 

 

:angel:

Leezards, dragons, or any other related creature thereof are always a win in my book!

 

I really like the rough sketch, are you going to hand-ink it first, or CGI from where it is now? I have PSD files for you, including one of just the (new) linework... so let me know if you want me to email them. Since you don't have a link to your email on your profile, maybe send one my way and I can reply to it.

 

So, it took me longer to get back with my CGI edits, but here they are. One is the CGI I did, by layers, in Photoshop at home. I poked at it for a couple hours each night (that's all I had time to spare, unfortunately) until this came about. It views a lot darker on a PC monitor than it does on a Mac.

 

Which led me to do the second one - which I lightened in Pixlr. When I get the chance, I'll edit the PSD file and make that lighter (which will retain the border better, I hope :angel:).

 

[Edit]I went back and did another quick edit in Pixlr (third image). The border's integrity still doesn't make me happy, but what do my fellow Trappers think?[/Edit]

 

I had decided to go ahead and flesh out my most recent poetry submission with some links to better-explain some of the less-known words & references (to Wikipedia and to Dictionary.com)

 

For the first few sections, everything was fine, and I was able to preview the content as I periodically checked to make sure my coding and links were accurate and valid. After... about an hour?... I clicked the preview button to receive this error:

 

THE FOLLOWING ERROR(S) WERE FOUND

You have entered a link to a website that the administrator does not allow links to

I had used no urls except the two listed above (with the appropriate address changes for each target word or phrase), and I had had both return a preview, beforehand, with no problem. Then, suddenly and with seemingly no reason, this happened.

 

I first deleted the wikipedia URLs. This did not help. Then I removed the URL for the last word I had referenced, which was "massacre," thinking that it had generated a censorship error. This did not help, either. Then, I edited out the URLs for the entire current section I had been working on. This did not help, either.

 

Then I cut the entire section except for one word (the first word of my poem), which was referenced to the dictionary URL. It pulled up a preview.

 

So I re-pasted the rest of the text, with only links to the dictionary URL (and I double checked this with the find feature). I received the error again, instead of a preview.

 

And now, when I have tried previewing this help topic, I am at least able to preview the content, but I get the same error. Why would the Trap have any issue with either of these very common and popular reference sites? Have I missed something terribly important here?

 

Please help me understand what is going on, thank you.

but to others it might be a gift from heaven

Hear hear! I could go on and on about my adoration of Linux... I noticed that comment previously and chose not to reply to it because my hackles were still miffed by such a comparison!

 

Linux has personalization options and a general stability that leave any version of Windows in the dust.

 

Don't be so hasty to judge Linux, Sky. And if your current distribution of choice continues to uninspire you, try another!

telling about 30-40 people which included my family was the hard part

That is a more common scenario than you might think, hon. It's amazing how much of a communication barrier can exist between one and their kith and kin. Though I love and admire my step-father, he and I have had numerous occasions where we absolutely do not get along, and are unable to communicate.

 

I have been able to get by for the most part.

It is very good to hear that you are regaining some of your normalcy and ability to function. People often underestimate how important it is to feel stable and secure in your actions, on a regular basis.

 

luckily for me I never had to worry about pumping drugs or eve alcohol to forget what I ahd to deal with.

My step-father had a very heavy drinking problem for a long time, including pre-breakdown. He was never a violent drunk, mind you, but it caused him to suffer pancreatitis and is irreversibly diabetic because of it.

 

Granted not every situation is the same like you mention FracLog, usually it is the talking to strangers that has help me the most, could never talk to my family about it. Of course, they never brought it up and I saw no need to either, and that is what he might be going through, but it is all about support and once a person accept the support they are on a road to recovery.

I never really know what goes on in his head... but I'd be willing to believe that you are closer to the mark on that observation than I've ever been. But, I'm a firm believer of the saying, "It takes one to know one." You have the greatest understanding of your circumstance, and the greatest ability to relate to others suffering in a similar fashion.

Ok, so to briefly describe the inspiration for this topic:I replied to a topic in "Meditation, Pranayam, Yoga" under "Health and Fitness" earlier today and was happily browsing for others to comment on. After a few moments of scrolling back and forth, I happened to catch sight of a new topic post in the same forum area that I'd just been commenting in. A little concern popped in my head, since I'd experienced a loading issue on my end when I'd posted my reply. So, I checked the subforum to make sure my post had been accepted. I found that everything was fine, so I just figured that that forum section was particularly active today, and clicked back to "Open Discussion" to browse some more.While perusing, I caught sight of my name as I was scrolling, in a section I didn't recall posting in. So I took a closer look and recognized the topic title I'd recently replied to in the other area. I clicked on the topic link to make sure it was the same one; it was. So I double-checked the forum area: "Spirituality and Consciousness," which listed a subforum called "Spirituality and Meditation: Yoga, Meditation, and Pranayam".This inspired me to look closer at the other topics in both subforums. They matched, identically.So I am, therefore, led to believe that they are, indeed, the same subforum listed twice, in two different sections, with slightly different names.What are other members' and mods' opinion(s) concerning the nature of this doppelganger scenario? It doesn't seem to be very troublesome, but I keep recalling subjects mentioned about cleaning the Trap up a bit, and removing unnecessary/old sections among other things. Is this something that the Trap would benefit from fixing?