12 Sep 2009
by Nikkiin tech Tags: computer
I’ve finally, finally bought a new computer. It is something I’ve been meaning to do since the beginning of this year (and even earlier, to tell you the truth). My old HP laptop was acquired early in the beginning of my first year of university. I’m entering, sorta, my fourth. That really should be all that needs to be said – whilst my laptop was rather powerful (and overpriced) for its time (and status as a laptop, not a desktop), it does not have the power I need in a computer. Especially since the battery is completely shot (it holds a charge for a minute and thirty seconds – my brother timed it) so it doesn’t even have the benefit of being portable (that’s what the eee pc is for).
Thus, a new computer was desperately needed. One that can handle my ridiculously oversized files in Photoshop and be able to multitask with twhirl, pidgin, chrome and iTunes running in the background.
Also, I bought the Sims 3 on release day and nearly died of horror when I realised that my laptop took as long to load the Sims 3 as the old desktop, the second computer we owned, took to load the Sims 1.
An upgrade was more than necessary at that point.
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05 Sep 2009
by Nikkiin school Tags: introspection, thoughts on the future
Apparently I neither write, draw or blog much when on vacation. Shame – that is what I am supposed to do during those days off. Instead, I read. And I read to the point in which I start losing sleep. Sense I make? None.
Anyhow, classes start up again on Tuesday and that always prompts a bit of melancholy-esque reflections for me. Yes, I tend to reflect on my life/year right before the fall semester. Yes, that’s bloody insane, I know. New Years has no import to me – the beginning of the fall semester is actually the beginning of my new year. It’s strange, but I have always felt that way. (My birthday, for those interested, occurred just after the end of the school year up until I started university, which ends before May, and, thus, my birthday now ends up near the middle of the break.)
This year could have been the last year in which I have a proper end and beginning. While my credit count says that I’m entering my second semester of my third year, I have enrolled in eight semesters – four years. No, I am not entering my ‘fifth’ year of study – I’m entering my fourth. No, I didn’t take three or four classes in the fall/winter semesters and picked up the slack in the summer. I’m a co-op student; when I worked, I was gaining credits. Well, one credit a work term. (A completely useless number – the U of R uses the three-credits-per-class system (since there are three lecture hours a week per class) and there are four work terms required. I’m going to end up graduating with a minimum of one extra credit.) So, needless to say, if I had just gone off to acquire a standard B.Sc., I would be out in the work world in eight short months.
Cue panic.
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24 Aug 2009
by Nikkiin comics Tags: buffer, webcomics
Or, rather, why I feel that having a buffer for myself is important.
There’s a lot of reasons why I feel that, personally, I desperately need a buffer when (if, at this rate) I start a webcomic. At the same time, I’m well aware of the fact that buffers won’t work for other people/types of comics and I’m aware of when other people should have a buffer but, for various reasons, don’t.
I suppose I should start with why I feel that most comics (actually, pretty much all comics except for ones satirising current events) need a buffer.
It’s actually a very simple reason, really. Buffers exist to protect you when life happens. Ever had a 24 hour flu and spent the morning intimately acquainted with the toilet bowl and the afternoon passed out delirious on your bed? Or maybe you’ve had your ISP decided that you no longer deserve internet and you spend an hour on the phone trying to get it working again and you’re just too frustrated to draw (and have too many missed tweets to catch up on). Or perhaps just a really long day and all you want to do is just collapse and sleep for the next twelve hours but, gosh darn it, you’ve got that comic to draw. If you had a buffer none of this would be a problem. And it’s not like you have to make up the bit of the buffer you lost the next day or anything. Nobody but you sees how large your buffer is and, thus, you can take your time building it back up. Devote an extra hour every day to your comic until you bring your buffer up to a comfortable level. You should not be stressing over something that your audience doesn’t see and shouldn’t even care about.
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19 Aug 2009
by Nikkiin tv Tags: bones, castle, chuck, criminal minds, defying gravity, eleventh hour, eureka, fanfic, fringe, house, multifandom, sanctuary, sexism, sg-1, sga, star trek, star trek: enterprise, star trek: the next generation, star trek: the original series, star trek: voyager, stargate, stargate atlantis, stargate sg-1, the big bang theory, warehouse 13, x-files
Maybe it’s just the shows I watch or the books I read, but I find one strange similarity between them all… there is rarely, if ever, a woman as the ultimate lead character. In fact, off the top of my head, I can only name Star Trek: Voyager and Sanctuary as shows I’ve watched with a female lead. But I’ve got a notoriously bad memory, so let’s make a list (in a rough order of air time from the 2008-2009 season).
Buuut I’ll put it under a cut cuz I really hate uncut long articles on blogs.
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17 Aug 2009
by Nikkiin writing Tags: influences, tamora pierce
This was supposed to be last week’s post, but then I lost the interwebs on Friday evening (when I was with my parents) and my plan was to write this Friday night and post on Saturday morning. Obviously, that plan failed entirely. Still, I did not lose the contest with Travis because A) I wrote two entries last week and declared it a buffer and B) internet dying is about the most legitimate excuse for not posting a blog entry ever.
Also, I moved. Again. On the 28th, I move again, but that’s just a move back home. I’m pretty excited about that cuz that means that I can buy and assemble my new computer! Yay!
But on to the actual topic of this post – Tamora Pierce’s Tortall books (and The Song of the Lioness Quartet in particular) and their influences on my writing.
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