BoingBoing has news of an artist who has come up with a great plan. Great for us… and possibly the death of the artist. Mouse has decided to create a steampunk wallpaper everyday for a year! Of course Mouse would appreciate it if you could help this project along by submitting ideas for new wallpapers. You can read a little more, and find a link to Mouse’s site (and the pretty wallpapers) at BoingBoing.
While browsing the web for all things Lovecraftian, I came across a quote that any HPL fan just can’t help laughing at… then grinning with wicked delight as they imagine the scene. In describing the problems of “safe” web browsing and protecting your computer on the web, the following was said:
“The first day someone launches a serious attack against Mac OS X, it’s going to be like Cthulhu slaughtering bunnies on Easter morning.”
Read more at Houston Chronicle’s chron.Commons.
OK, so I’m a bit tired from having my Army Reserve weekend, and a little over a week of sub-six hour nights of sleep, so instead of some lengthy piece of prose comparing and contrasting HPL’s vision of contemporary society with the piece of green fuzzy cheese in my fridge, I shall instead post a few links of note! 
And don’t forget! After Dark’s Horrorfest: 8 Films to Die For is this and next weekend!
A demo version of “Anderson & the Legacy of Cthulhu” game is now available for download! You can find yourself the English and German versions over at GamersHell.
Sigh… I turned on my PC today, and what greets me? The Windows XP file check screen. Is it checking the system drive? Nope. It says the 400GB RAID setup I have was shutdown uncleanly… Was it? I really don’t think so. Theres not much cleaner of a shutdown than the standard menu, shutdown option. I don’t pull the power, hit the reset, or press and hold the power button for 4 seconds. I shut it down cleanly. Its got all my important comics on there.
So its doing its thing, and suddenly I spot “Deleting file 10June2006-Happy Trees-Inked.psd from blah blah blah”….
In the words of Luke Skywalker…
NYAOOOOOOooooooooo!
Quick! Look for the backup DVD I had burned! I can’t find it! I’ve checked just about everywhere. I’m starting to second’guess myself. Did I make a backup DVD? I’m pretty sure I did… or was that a website backup? Crap! I don’t think I is because all my comics make up more than 1 DVD. Besides… its on a RAID setup! Blargh. RAID is only good if one drive fails… not if the file system goes corrupt. I should know better. I’ve dealt with this multiple times this year already at work as a Systems Administrator.
Fortunately, the “inked” file is the file made up of the original scan. Its the scan of the inked paper version, that I use to clean, fill, and shade. The important file is the “final” file that has the layout, text, and borders. Of course this means if I had resized anything down in the final version, I no longer have the original sized version in the inked. I also no longer have a black and white, lines only layer that I could use for other comics.
Oh well. Time to go burn DVD #5
