#work arounds

[soldier4life]

Not having good before and after pictures. Starting a new journey middle December 2016. I decided to wear my old work out cloths size XL (2016). Comparing to my size L now (2017). Purchasing some new workout cloths show casing to myself I’m meeting my goals. One goal down two left. After I achieve them, its off to new ones. 

The food changes along with workout’s are paying off. Just taking time and persistence. 

[jessegamedesigner-blog]

Testing for colour blindess in our game as part of accessability control. Overall it doesn't look too bad, top left is control and in a clockwise order Protonape, Deuteranope and Tritanope. Knowing how your game looks in a colour blindess mode is especially useful in the early creation process. You can then either work around having a colour blindess setting or start incorporating one early on.

[studyaroundthetokki]

Cheap-shot Translation Practice

Everyone knows google translate is hit or miss 90% of the time.

However... it can *usually* give you the jist of simple sentences.

When you’re over seas, and don’t speak a lick of the language around you--you do what you can even if it’s word by word.

It’s also useful to get a basic “grasp” of a sentence so you can understand text messages or emails from your professor who voluntold you to be his language partner even though your Japanese is very basic. Especially if you’re active on language communities where people are willing to help correct your horrific super bad Nihongrish sentences. 

It’s also a neat way to make yourself proofread for mistakes for simple sentences that you already know how to say (for the most part). I used it for a last minute essay in French when I was an undergrad student and still got an A. Granted, I also went back and proof-read/made corrections to the translation. 

I am not sorry either, using technology to communicate/learn isn’t wrong and is undervalued by many teachers. 

I am not one of them. I’m all for smartphone apps and websites that make learning less difficult.

Because as long as you and the listener/speaker/reader understand what’s being said, that is ALL that matters in the end.

[linkworxseo]

"I don't understand it"

Those are the only responses your new idea can possibly generate from many around you if your new idea is actually a great idea, something ownable, something you can build work around.

[laynefaire]

does that mean you won't be able to post in the ziam tag?:(

I can still post in every tag, but if you are looking at your blog in Safe mode, anything I tag (even in regular tags) may not show up.

I do have a tags page, too, on my main blog - its titled Signs Signs Everywhere Signs - and my most frequently used tags on my blog are listed there. If all you wanted to look at, for example, was the Ziam tags, you can click on the tags page for it and it will only bring up that content on my blog.

[lancehancock]

Very handy!

[brotherhoodoftheslice]

Sweetie Pie~~

An early issue with my setting was all the damn ads.  If you've ever been to a sporting venue or anything with a lot of sponsorship, you know there are brand names slapped over everything, everywhere.  It's inescapable.  And since I'm going to have to draw that kind of thing quite a bit, that kinda presents a problem.  The story is set in modern times in a real place -- Albuquerque, NM -- so simply not drawing advertisements will look wrong, not to mention weirdly blank.  I could suck it up and have huge BUDWEISER and HARLEY DAVIDSON and SUNTRUST taking up panel space, but do I really want to give free adspace to all these companies, and do they want to be associated with me?

Turns out making fake logos is weirdly fun.  It started out with a few placeholders, but now I've got fake brands, fake shows, fake bands -- I wouldn't call it an Alternate Universe, but nobody here drives a Ford, they drive a Mule (because Nothing Kicks Like A Mule).  Nobody wears Lacoste; all the polo shirts have a tiny embroidered coconut crab, the official logo of the Birgus lifestyle brand (a softshell crab for the ladies' line).  Beer provided by Javelina Brewery.  Sporting gear by Uzani and OIP (One Inch Punch), and when you need hydration, you crack open a SweetiePie SPort.

To tie in with the Henry Darger post from last week, I first read about Sweetie Pie from one of his lesser-known manuscripts, which started as an autobiography but turned into a ~5000 page account of the supernaturally powerful twister, Sweetie Pie.  It's a pretty weird juxtaposition of name and content, and I liked it enough to turn it into a beverage company.

Sweetie Pie was a sugary juice drink popular during the '70s.  The original incarnation on the left is still around, but the company exploded and has since expanded into almost every drink market.  The bottle on the right is just one of their many SPort lines, filling what would have been Gatorade's shoes.  Minor character Hannah Silva is taking a refreshing swig there at the bottom.  She never loses her cool, but she always looks ready to freak out.