Category: Pretty Pictures

  • Vue 9

    I’ve upgraded from Vue 6I to Vue 9 Complete. It’s quite a jump though I’m happy to say a good jump. Vue 9 is much more stable than 6. The default interface is cleaner and easier to read. Ecosystems painting is smooth and much easier to use. I created this picture yesterday. I used an…

  • Cupcakes and Piggies

    To make up for the crazy rant from yesterday I bring you happier times of last week. Aia participated in a fundraiser in the fall and sold 15 items. This means she won a place in the pig race at school (as well as the piggy). So on race day I headed over to the…

  • Thoughts on Final Fantasy XIV

    I’ve been playing FFXIV since September. Not none stop, but rather here and there when I have time. Lately I’ve had to put a few two week long moratoriums on gaming so I could get some writing work done. So I’m not that high of a level. That means less in the context of FFXIV…

  • Website Redesign with CSS3 (and hacks for certain browsers lagging behind)

    I haven’t posted much because I was in Vegas, the land of little wifis and because I’ve been busing messing with this website. I just redesigned it using CSS3 rounded corners and background resize. Ie8 doesn’t support any of it and I’m not sure Ie9 will. I can’t be sure because it was messing with…

  • Thoughts on FFXIV Open Beta

    I’ve been playing the open beta of FFXIV. It runs slow right now on both my computers. Now both of them blow away the specs, except my tablet only has a 1.3gig processor. So I expect it to be slow on that. However if I log in late at night or early in the morning…

  • Working on the Site: Child themes, Portfolio, Gallery

    So I’ve been working on the site. I know I said I was working on a new design. Well, then WordPress 3.0 came out and twenty-ten and well. Okay I’m working on a child theme instead, expanding my horizons. So the site should change randomly piece by piece. Fun huh? I’m also updating my portfolio…

  • Happy Bookmark!

    I won a bookmark from Jennifer Tatroe. She’s an awesome collage artist, and writer. I met her through the local gaming conventions. The bookmark is a mini-collage with pages of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and sheet music. To see more of Jennifer’s work you can check out her web page at http://www.jennifertatroe.com/ or…

  • Painting Stuff

    My new tablet pc allows me to draw right on the screen. I can’t tell you how much fun this has been, but I can show you the paintings I’ve completed so far: [nggallery id=3]

  • Painting Minis – Medium Play

    Okay, so I don’t have any pictures yet. The plan is to finish cleaning up Book ‘Splode 09, run my Serenity game, then take pictures. I’ve been playing with blending. Most of the stuff I’ve read on it say to use some type of extender medium and water. I’ve just be using water with good…

  • Refuting the Need for IE6

    The call to quit IE6 has gotten louder over the years. Now with the release of IE8 and PROOF that MS can make a standards compliant browser, those calls are turning to screams. I am one of them. Frankly IE6 is broken and old and should be tossed with the bath water. I am less…