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this icon finally has its use [27 Aug 2008|06:11pm] halcyonjazz [ mood | cheerful ] [ music | Under the Influence of Giants - Beautiful ] ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) 4 comments|post comment

Holy Fucking Shit of the Day (Climate Change Edition) [27 Aug 2008|04:03pm] nyuanshin I just had to pick my jaw up off the floor upon reading this post by Dave Rutledge at Caltech, whose main area of research is fuel reserves and climate change. It's a bit dense, but I'll distill the point that blew my mind. If you're like me, you've been following the debates about climate change with just enough interest to have developed an acute awareness of how complicated it all is, and thus were willing to take the IPCC's report at face value simply because you didn't have any other rational alternative given your priorities. If you're like me, you assumed all the numerical ranges they assigned to the variables in their models were all based on the best known estimates. Rookie mistake. According to Rutledge, turns out that they never actually bothered to base their carbon emission values on the best estimates of world fossil fuel reserves; they just plugged in a range of values that seemed reasonable based on current and past usage trends. They ran the numbers for 40 different scenarios up to the year 2100, all of which assumed more fuel would be burned than we appear to have. Slightly more specifically, more than three times more. Even more specifically, Rutledge says the IPCC is assuming 11-15 trillion boe of oil and about 18 trillion boe of coal is available to be burned in the IPCC scenarios, while the numbers he comes up with are 3.2 and 3.5 Tboe, respectively. He ran his own plot of cumulative fossil fuel emissions alongside the IPCC scenarios and this was the result: That line at the bottom is the one using his numbers. When you run them through a simulation like the one IPCC used, atmospheric carbon is expected to peak at 460 ppm around the year 2070, which would lead to a temperature increase peaking at 1.8 degrees Celsius around 2150, which is at the extreme low end of the IPCC estimates. (The range they give as most likely is 3-4 degrees, which by their calculations would result in 1-5% of global GDP being lost.) If this is even close to being correct, then the entire climate change debate is being conducted under an incorrect assumption and the models need to be revised downward considerably. I told colinmarshall a little while back that I kept a list of five large-scale trends I allow myself to worry about, with climate change clocking in at #4. The fifth was "medium-term drastic increases in transportation costs as oil prices continue to rise, before we can get this whole alternative energy source thing worked out". Since I'm now more worried about fossil fuel supplies than climate change, the two have now swapped places. 1 comment|post comment

Oh my [27 Aug 2008|07:07pm] yuki_onna [ mood | loved ] In other news, regyt is the best friend a girl could ever dream of. She, because she is made of magic and win, made chicken soup and chocolate appear at my bedside via the boy-shaped teleporter of justbeast, along with a recipe for her mother's chicken soup for the Beast to make this weekend. Chicken soup tastes like getting better to me, it always has. And vrax is giving me distance reiki, being literally made of magic. I feel so loved and cared for. *weakly happy smile* 4 comments|post comment

fic wierd [27 Aug 2008|11:08pm] toffeeliz [ mood | giddy ] [ music | silence! ] Found a fic today called "Damnation of memory" which mentions so many places that I live near and know pretty well. It's so wierd to hear about Hermione and Snape talking about restaurants in Attercliffe! :D  http://ianthe-waiting.livejournal.com/?skip=20&tag=hp_fic go read her fics becuase she is v. good. :D I love fanfic. Is good to know that I'm in not the only person in the county who is into fanfic lol EDIT: apparently she has never been to Sheff.! impressed we are! :P post comment

Ow [27 Aug 2008|04:07pm] yuki_onna [ mood | sick ] I've been feeling wretched all day, thrilling vomiting episode this morning and general malaise thereafter. My head hurts, my stomach hurts. I'm craving orange juice I don't have, which probably means I need Vitamin C, though I've been taking my vitamins every day like a good girl. Not a good couple of days, to say the least. I want to either make something pretty to console myself (no idea what) or drink tea and eat chocolate until my stomach gives up and gets happy. I will likely do neither. Instead I will crawl into bed with old Babylon 5 episodes and mew poorly like the sick cat I am. 17 comments|post comment

Medieval sexy sex [28 Aug 2008|01:08am] weepingcock [nylonpanties12] ( You are about to view content that may only be appropriate for adults. ) 14 comments|post comment

Samurai Hulk [27 Aug 2008|08:20am] usagiguy My Hulk 100 cover is up on eBay, a benefit for the Hero Initiative. I like the back cover even better than the front: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300253501343&fromMakeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:middle:us 4 comments|post comment

The Behemoth Horn, or What I Learned About FFVII Today [27 Aug 2008|11:06am] blueshinra I've long known that Red XIII's Behemoth Horn is available in the Shinra Building stairwell on Disk 2, provided that the stairs were taken on Disk 1, but I've never been able to get it. Today, I figured out the trick to getting it, which is missing from the Versus Guide and every other tip on the weapon that I'd seen in the past. If you enter the Shinra Building on Disk 2 via stairwell, it will skip you ahead a ways, and you'll miss the Horn. However, if you leave the building via stairwell, you'll get all the flights of stairs, and thus come across the Horn! Looking at the Versus Guide again, it seems I missed getting Cid's Grow Lance on the 63rd floor (and possibly a Source via the vending machine on the 64th), so yep, I'll be heading back inside. I did get the Master Fist, Pile Banger, and HP Shout, though (and the Behemoth Horn, of course). ETA, re: the vending machine - I didn't get either of the available Sources (can't remember what they were offhand). At least it verifies that I didn't use the vending machine on Disk 1 after all; my memory was kind of sketchy on that. As an aside, I never knew those Sources were available o_O Oh yeah, and on a non-FFVII note, nabbed Ys Book I & II off of the Wii's Shop Channel today. Have yet to start it, though; impressions will be posted once I do. post comment

Not Funny [27 Aug 2008|08:55am] nyuanshin :( 6 comments|post comment

I kinda wanna ... break into song [27 Aug 2008|03:43am] beanclam I love my birthday I love my online friends, I love the drawing of comic-related things, I love the whole world and all the internets, boom de yada boom de yada boom de yada boom de yada .... This was one of the best birthdays EVER. Things are really good sometimes. ^___________^ 3 comments|post comment

clomping & stomping [27 Aug 2008|08:53am] jerkcity http://www.jerkcity.com/jerkcity3586.html post comment

News for Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 || Volume XXXIV, Issue XXVI [26 Aug 2008|10:38pm] ff_press [sirea1182] Send any and all news or story recommendations to ff.press@gmail.com or leave them in the comments of the most recent issue. Before sharing any links to fanwork, please make sure you have read our listing policies carefully; all fanwork must meet these policies to be listed. For older links, please check the archive. News ff_compilations: New XIII, Versus, Agito screenshots; Dissidia profile translations Communities de_rp: Multifandom RP amatomnes: Multifandom RP (18 and Older Only) pilotte: Multifandom RP Activities ffmelody: Icontest Week 39: Sandman Quotes/Happy quitethecouple: Weekly Prompts ffx_x2_awards: Icontest Week 56: Anime&Manga Titles/Provided Lyrics Fanfiction Crossovers/RPGs sarasa_cat: A Summoner on the Nebra (FFX/FFXII) (Balthier/Ashe, Penelo, Basch) (PG) Icons Final Fantasy VII Compilation Crisis Core    9 icons by _829service Various    21 icons by chocolatychip (+1 header) (VII, XIII, XIII Versus)    9 icons by neonlicht (VI, XII, XIII) Vids paperclipchains: Mordred's Lullaby (VII, AC, CC, DoC) (Sephiroth) auronlu: FFX International "Undub" - Djose Temple NPCs post comment

Mary Sue Litmus Test. [27 Aug 2008|03:22pm] clockwork_hands [ mood | Crimson ] I'm having fun with the Mary Sue test over at http://ponylandpress.nfshost.com/ms-test.html. I've run a few of the characters I'm working on through it. So far so good. The character of the story I'm (very slowly) writing scored a 22, which is just inside 'Borderline-Sue' territory. It's all good, though. Most fantasy characters will have one or two of the 'Sue' traits listed, because...well, that's what makes them interesting. This particular character's name is an adjective, so that's what's shoved her into Sue territory. Apart from that, she's not such an unusual character. What's really fun about this test, however, is not running your own characters through it - but rather, answering the test to check out how it applies to some famous characters. I just ran Harry Potter through there, and I scored a whopping...63!! That makes him an Über-Sue by all accounts. He's still a workable, likeable character though, so that goes to show this thing is really just a loose template. Aang from Avatar: the Last Airbender gets a 60 by my calculations. Readers in the Amazon forums have been applying it to Twilight (arrrgh!! don't get me started!!) with Bella usually scoring more than 80 and Edward always going over 100. In young adult literature we must have a real thing for heroic types with supernatural abilities and not many significant flaws. (Then again, having a character with 'angst' adds more points to your score...if you could consider that a flaw.) Someone in Amazon pointed out that if you put U2 lead singer Bono through it, he scores over 70. Lol! My favourite questions come from the section on high school characters... Does the character keep a notebook of poetry? Is the poetry "good enough to be published"? Does a love interest find this poetry book and begin to understand the character? Or does an antagonist find this poetry book and use it against the character? Do any poems written by the character actually appear in your story? Does the poetry contain any of the following words: crimson, soul, darkness(etc)... Bad fanfic! Bad fanfic poetry is spreading! 7 comments|post comment

[27 Aug 2008|01:09am] pyawakit SO GOOD AND TOMORROW UGH GOTTA GO TO BED TO OPEN UP THE STORE IN THE AM FOR OTHER TALES FANS <3~ 3 comments|post comment

Fetishes [27 Aug 2008|04:00am] xkcd_rss http://xkcd.com/468/ 120 comments|post comment

more Havermercy sketches [26 Aug 2008|01:46pm] halcyonjazz [ mood | calm ] [ music | Foo Fighters - The Pretender ] ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) 17 comments|post comment

you can't ever hide from the youtubs [26 Aug 2008|07:43pm] beeblebabe ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) post comment

That foot/leg thing, aka life's continuous crusade to keep me from getting shit done [26 Aug 2008|05:48pm] gallo_de_pelea Ssssoooo I went to the doctor about my leg - as I initially suspected, it's a nerve problem, rather than muscle or tendon. Been going on for the past few months, but it's only gotten bad recently. (As in "interrupts what I'm doing" bad.) When I sit for more than an hour or two, I get intense flashes of pain in the top of my right foot. It lasts for about an hour once it starts, then fades away for the rest of the day. At first I could suck it up and deal, but the past week - especially while at Matsuricon - the pain has butted other stuff away. As you can probably guess, THIS FUCKS WITH DRAWING TIME. GODDAMMIT. I can only sit and draw for one or two hours at a stretch. Maybe three. Any longer and I have to get up and do something else. The pain doesn't subside till I've kept weight off my right hip for 30 minutes to an hour. Standing, waiting tables, running, it's all good. It's the sitting - you know, what I have to do to FUCKING ILLUSTRATE - that sets it off. I just want to fucking draw my comic. Been referred to a neurologist and will hopefully hear back soon. In the meantime, I'm taking Aleve. It helps about half the time. Ugh. 23 comments|post comment

everyone leaves in the end, doesn't matter how hard you hold on. [26 Aug 2008|04:36pm] mooncalfe all right, i need some help! not sure if any of you guys would know this but maybe you either work in a hospital or know somebody who does or something; i need to know what a general procedure is for a knife wound to the face. i have experience with going to the ER for hand stitches and stuff like that, and with that they stitch you up and you're on your way in minutes, but what about a more extreme, serious injury like a non-life-threatening facial wound? would they let you go right after the stitches? would they require surgery? would they bandage the wound after stitches or just let the suturing air out? i don't know, i want the sequence i'm writing to be authentic and not glossed over but i've been searching around online and haven't found anything too useful. just a lot of stuff on the different types of sutures and techniques but nothing about actual ER procedures... i don't want to write the character being discharged after a short time and then discover that never happens, or have the recovery process be totally wrong, that sort of thing... can anybody help? EDIT: i think i'm good on information now, thanks to everyone who helped!! if you have anything really good or any friends/relatives who work in the ER, i'd still love to hear opinions or experiences from other people! ( none may stay me from my goal! ) 36 comments|post comment

Movie Date [26 Aug 2008|02:18pm] yuki_onna [ mood | busy ] We saw Bottle Shock last night, a cute, if weirdly constructed--see everything about the Gustavo character, who is set up as the hero with the wine to beat and the cute blonde girl falling for him and then sort of oddly shunted aside with no explanation in favor of the shiftless white guy and his chardonnay (cutting the Croation winemaker actually responsible for that wine entirely)--movie about the 1976 Judgment of Paris wine tasting. It was sweet and fun, really a sports movie more than anything else, following the time-tested Underdog Plotline along with an Americans Stick It to the Old World Flourish, but mostly it made me miss California. I know that country and that light so well. It's what made me, even if underneath is the hard, cold core of stony, salty, misty Seattle. And it made me think about how much I love wine. I'm not an expert and I never will be, but I know enough to have specific tastes, I have preferred growing regions, tiny wineries that I adore. For the record, I'm a Syrah girl--but my favorite red is the 2003 Mon Beau Rouge from Clautiere Vineyards in Paso Robles, my favorite white the late harvest Riesling and Gewurtzstraminer from Navarro Vineyards in the Andersen Valley north of Mendocino. If ever you are looking for a present for me, a bottle from either of those would probably actually make me cry. But really, I like wine best when I know its story. Which is why I'll drink anything grown on the central coast--they're fantastic, and I've been there, touched the grapes, felt the soil. Wine is amazing for that--food with a story, a story of sunlight and water and old roots. This is why I like movies about wine, despite the fact that they're usually a bit strange and off-putting, like Sideways. Because they make me think about what I drink, they tell me a story about it, and that elevates it beyond mere ingestion. Drinking wine is engaging in a very old, very long story, and there's nothing better. 14 comments|post comment

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