First, I want to thank everyone who has sent my happy birthday wishes and everyone who came out for my party on Sunday. I had a marvellous time. All the gifts were lovely and those that were buying me drinks succeed in getting me thoroughly plastered. Thank you all.
Now that it is actually my birthday, I'm sorry to report I am so far not having a good day. I took the day off work to relax and I am anything but relaxed at the moment, which brings me to my one wish for my birthday at this point:
May I never have to suffer the illogic of others again.
Of course I may as well wish for immortality, world peace, and the abolition of taxes.
In summary: technology now exists that can reduce any hydrocarbon, including plastic, into oil and gas. It is no longer true that every bit of plastic ever made still exists.
I'm going to need some way to transport my paintings, decorations, cake and assorted birthday stuff to and from Skank on Sunday. Are there any vehicularly endowed teatotallers out there that can help?
With the civic strike and therefore no one cleaning up after the wretched rabble, Lower Hastings is already looking exceptionally squalid.
Yet I suspect it will pale in comparison to the West End after tomorrow night's invasion of suburbanites for the Symphony of Money.
Which will be worse: the drug addled morons incapable of cleaning up after themselves, or 300,000 adherents to the Cult of Entitlement who *expect* to be cleaned up after?
Some of you may have noticed I went unusually long without posting here, wasn't responding to messages on Facebook, mySpace, deviantART, etc. More of you probably noticed it took me unusually long to getting around to posting last week's Sin City pictures.
Pretty much every spare moment I had this past week went into writing a new upload interface for Gothic BC. The old one was slapped together over five years ago and was mediocre in 2002. I've been wanting to do a proper drag-and-drop control for a long time now and the opportunity was ripe since I needed to being the upload control in line with the new design anyway.
I "cheated" to a certain extent and bought a Java control to handle the drag-and-drop ("Hey, look, a wheel. Guess I don't need to reinvent that.") - what sucked up all my time for a week was *doing* something with the files that was better than the old upload. I'm pretty happy with what I've got going (especially a spiffy progress indicator while it builds the editing page). Much like when I first put the new gallery up there are still some problems: if you try to upload more than 75 or so photos in M$IE it takes forever to render the editing page
Nonetheless what I've got going now is as easy to use as Flickr, Facebook etc. which isn't too shabby since my budget is about five million times smaller.
First, I want to thank everyone who has sent my happy birthday wishes and everyone who came out for my party on Sunday. I had a marvellous time. All the gifts were lovely and those that were buying me drinks succeed in getting me thoroughly plastered. Thank you all.
Plastic is now 
Some of you may have noticed I went unusually long without posting here, wasn't responding to messages on Facebook, mySpace, deviantART, etc. More of you probably noticed it took me unusually long to getting around to posting last week's Sin City pictures.
Larger versions of the three DJ drawings I made for my birthday