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Concept Sketches

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:21:00 -0400

Here are those sketches that I promised. Keep in mind that they are just layout concepts. I have actually progressed beyond this point and have drawn final layout drawings for each page (that'll be next week). BTW - Not all of them have been included since I do find myself cursing a LOT when I am s...

Imantu 3

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:56:26 -0400

Well, I'm back! I had been working on Imantu 2 over the course of 2-3 years when school or other obligations did not get in the way. Unfortunately, it had never really gotten very far. So, at the beginning of this year, I was looking at where I was going with Imantu 2 and I did not like it. It was ...

Its...been awhile.

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:29:10 -0400

I have doubts whether or not anyone will ever read this (Is there anybody out there?), but I will go about giving you an update on how things are going anyways. Here is what has happened in the last year: Both of my original helpers are no longer helping on the site. The first (I don't remember his...

Soviet-Japanese Nonaggression Pact

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:18:27 -0400

The Russians and Japanese have never really gotten along. They have competed for similar territories for years. (Wieczynski, 1983) Before WWII they had a few border wars over the territories of Mongolia and Manchuria. ("S...

Random Quotes of the Day: May 22nd, 2010

Sat, 22 May 2010 18:28:02 -0400

"In new and wild communities where there is violence, an honest man must protect himself; and until other means of securing his safety are devised, it is both foolish and wicked to persuade him to surrender his arms while the men who are dangerous to the community retain theirs."- Theodore Roosevelt...

Random Quotes of the Day: April 13th, 2010

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:15:49 -0400

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. - Fred Allen It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. - Abraham Lincoln The average person thinks he isn't. - Father Larry Lorenzoni ...

Random Quotes of the Day: March 26th, 2010

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:17:20 -0400

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. - Flannery O'Connor When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right. - Albert Guinon No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. - Michel de Montaig...

Random Quotes of the Day: February 27, 2010

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:13:50 -0500

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. - Friedrich Engels Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win. - Robert Heinlein It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. - Eugene McCarthy People demand freedom of ...

Random Quotes of the Day: February 14, 2010

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:06:41 -0500

I'm in a Clint Eastwood mood so all of these quotes are from him. "Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power." "There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get...

Random Quotes of the Day: January 22, 2010

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:16:25 -0500

Reality continues to ruin my life. - Bill Watterson The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces. - Maureen Murphy More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The othe...

Random Quotes of the Day: January 16, 2009

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:47:32 -0500

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose. - Evan Esar You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty. - Cecil Baxter The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them. - Samuel McChord Crothers ...

Random Quotes of the Day: January 9, 2009

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:31:56 -0500

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. - Nikola Tesla If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. - Donald H. Rumsfeld Antonym, n.: The opposite of the word you're trying to think of. - Unk...

The Martian Manhunter: Re-Imagining Part 7

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:17:07 -0500

The Martian Manhunter: Re-Imagining Part Seven: Evolution A thousand years earlier, when the last remaining Green Martian elders decided upon the "extinction" of their kind, they had hatched a plan. Based upon the data collected on earthlings and their metagene potential, the Greens decided to ev...

The Martian Manhunter: Re-Imagining Part 6

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:09:18 -0500

The Martian Manhunter: Re-Imagining Part Six: End of the Green Martians? After fixing up Mars the Greens decided to create an empire for themselves to give them the resources to fight back against the Black Martians eventual attack. They wound up terraforming and colonizing dozens of planets in s...

Random Quotes of the Day: December 29, 2009

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:01:42 -0500

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. - Lewis Carroll Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege. - Unknown How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? - Charles De Gaulle If you can find something everyone agrees on, i...

Inbox Upgrade - Part 1

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:41:30 -0500

Last night I was working with the messaging system like I have for the whole week. At that time I felt I had completed the basics for what I wanted to do. Considering the fact that I may have no access to the internet for about 10-11 days starting tomorrow I decided that I should put up what I have ...

Random Quotes of the Day: December 13, 2009

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:01:20 -0500

Dance like it hurts,/ Love like you need money,/ Work when people are watching. - Scott Adams We do what we must, and call it by the best names. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution. - Edward Teller Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly...

Random Quotes of the Day: December 9, 2009

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:41:16 -0500

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. - Rita Rudner Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. - Fran Lebowitz The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. - Horace Walpole I bought some batteries, but they were...

Random Quotes of the Day: December 6, 2009

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:06:41 -0500

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working. - Anonymous Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul ...

Random Quotes of the Day: December 1, 2009

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:30:37 -0500

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.- Albert Camus Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.- Edward Abbey The most savage controversies are those about matters...

Random Quotes of the Day: November 25, 2009

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:05:48 -0500

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. - Thomas Szasz There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it? - Kin Hubbard There are no s...

Shiny New Profiles!

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:04:36 -0500

This afternoon I decided I would just put up what I have now for you guys. It isn't nearly everything that I wanted to update before I opened it for your use but I think there is still quite a bit of new stuff to gawk at. So, why don't I just hop to it and give you all of the juicy details.First off...

Random quotes of the day: November 21, 2009

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:17:26 -0500

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else. - Heywood Broun When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. - Hermann Hesse He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. - Chinese Proverb "The bottom line is that the idea th...

New Profiles Are Coming!

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:13:17 -0500

I feel like I am getting near the completion of the profiles right now and wanted to make a quick article about what I plan to do. For the most part, I am hoping that I will be able to find the time to get the new profiles up and running (along with many updated pages) sometime this weekend. If you ...

Random Quotes of the Day: November 18, 2009

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:39:28 -0500

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to. - Thomas Hardy Television has raised writing to a new low. - Samuel Goldwyn They certainly give very strange names to diseases. - Plato No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar. - Donald Foster The w...