VicariousE 2012-03-17 19:58:21

Dude, why you on NG today? Get eatin' and drinkin'... have a good time!
Hope you get lots lots of presents that last a lifetime.

VicariousE 2012-03-17 23:23:30

Okay, you got some bucks, bur nothing to spend it on?
May as well save it for the trip then, eh?
Here's an interesting picture site I rediscovered <a href="http://www.darkroastedblend.com/">http://www.darkroastedblend.com/</a>
The kids at my old house are having a drunken orgy... if they weren't so boring and dumb, I'd try and insinuate myself into the situation.....

Wurfel-Waffles 2012-03-18 00:53:07

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! NOW GO GET DRUNK BRO!

VicariousE 2012-03-18 01:50:52

My sis always sez, the month of your birthday should last all month... treat yourself when you can and enjoy every day of it.
Wurfel's an interesting Canadian fellow. I'm glad he's on NG... he's in computer networking and shares his knowledge from the hinterland oil fields. His writings look quite mad, but the facts speak for themselves. Computer security's changed a lot in the past 10-15 years......

VicariousE 2012-03-18 14:14:23

I'm good at system recovery and building computers, not so crash hot at keeping them idiot proof. Some people will click on anything (not that you need to these days). I'm shocked my cousin's computer lasted as long as it did without my admin (I think MS spiked the OS - files are all still there).

VicariousE 2012-03-19 17:32:12

Hey. I think this author's Norwegian. If he's a square, maybe you should start a thread on who's Norwegian or speaks it.... either way, I'd PM him just to see the Norse version he mentioned.
That guy who died, Randy Solem, I used to go to his website every time I finished up w/ NGs around 2000, 2001. He must've been a good writer for me to have remembered his webpage from over ten years ago.

VicariousE 2012-03-19 17:33:37

Whoops... <a href="http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/592158">http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/592158</a> - you'll probably check your page first, then go stat whoring the portal, but, here's the bloke's submission in question.

sandy25198 2012-03-20 18:30:00

HAPPY LATEZ YA HIPPY RELATED THING! heres some tobacco and a vibrater if u get bored -_- (i know u will)
yesterday when of the nurses asked for my birth date i said August 28th instead of April 11th i dont even know why August 28th theres never anything special that day ._.
so wat'd u get or buy?

sandy25198 2012-03-20 20:06:09

now that i have mentally ideantified u as a hippy related thing its beginning to feel more true....
i hope my grandma still sane enough to get me money and gifts.......and aunts and uncles and siblings father....

VicariousE 2012-03-20 21:29:55

Since my mom died, I haven't got anything for my birthday. My sister and brother send me card at Christmas, sometimes with a few bucks.

sandy25198 2012-03-20 23:47:27

both sides of my family are pretty rich so i get money and/or presents sent to me from my countless aunts and uncles older cousins ._.
i make Christmas cards.........even the paper...ITS ALL ORGANIC AND ECO FRIENDLY! :D YAY TREES!!

VicariousE 2012-03-21 12:54:59

I used to love making holiday cards... don't know how eco-mental they were...
Just sat down to have lunch when a voice actress just PMed me - I sent her a PM yesterday wondering if she still lurks here. I'd never have bothered her, but her read in Faux 5 was brilliant enough to warrant a helpful hand (seeing as the cartoonist that employed her was French, and could give a crap about small fry work in the US)
....damn lunch's getting cold!

VicariousE 2012-03-21 14:02:48

<a href="http://kaychallis.newgrounds.com/">http://kaychallis.newgrounds.com/</a> Granted, I'm a horny old man, but her performance was nuanced and skillful enough to notice. She was surprised I wrote her (she remembered my review of her VO demo), and gave me her work links (she's trying for some paid gigs, but doesn't mind a high quality freebie every so often). I sent back that she should list those things on her webpage, and that I'd help network her to some higher profile animators.
I'm almost 40... I should know a good read when I hear it...

sandy25198 2012-03-21 16:55:40

yah im not very proud or fond of either sides of my family -_- but they give good gifts and a nice amount of money.
home made paper is cool lookin and fun

sandy25198 2012-03-21 18:36:01

i learned from the magic of google!

Place a small handful of wet, torn paper and two cups of water in a blender and blend for 15 to 30 seconds. (Thick cardboard or quality papers will take longer.) After a while, experience will tell you how long to blend different kinds of paper. Remember when first starting out, blend paper for the shortest possible time âEU" just long enough for the fibers to separate. Stop the machine after 15 seconds and check; if there are still large pieces of paper visible, allow another 10 seconds and check again. If the pulp is too thick, add more water; do not dilute it too much or you will produce fine, fragile sheets that are difficult to work with. Don't worry about little bits that do not break down entirely; they will add character to the paper.

If you don't have a blender, beat the soaked paper strips into pulp by pounding them in a bucket with a thick stick or bottle filled with water. Although pounding the pulp is historically more authentic than using electric appliances, be forewarned: it is hard, time-consuming work.

After blending the pulp, pour it into a bucket or large plastic bottle until you have enough for several sheets. Figure that one load in the blender will make one thin sheet of 8 1/2" x 11" paper. A two-gallon bucket of pulp will make 20 to 25 sheets.

From Pulp to Paper

Pour three quarts of pulp into a vat (a square plastic dishpan with a capacity of about five gallons of water) and add cold water up to three inches from the top. Then stir the pulp gently with your hand or a wooden spoon. (Do this before forming each sheet to prevent the pulp from settling on the bottom.) Dampen the mesh on your mold.

Read more: <a href="http://www.motherearthnews.com/Do-It-Yourself/1993-12-01/How-To-Make-Homemade-Paper.aspx#ixzz1pnG3lPI3">http://www.motherearthnews.com/Do-It-Yourself/
1993-12-01/How-To-Make-Homemade-Paper.aspx#ixz z1pnG3lPI3</a>

VicariousE 2012-03-21 18:46:48

[For a moment, I thought she was describing some weird abortion technique!]
But, yeah, wow, haven't done that pulp to paper thing since grade school! It's pretty neat when it's done, though we used real wood... or at least a little real wood for texture. God I'm old.
Now I have to walk to the store for extortion (premade smokes), call my sister back (because our pop is a few days from death) and.... maybe eat today? He was quiet all last night so I slept 8 hours and then some more this afternoon.

sandy25198 2012-03-21 18:53:05

i saw pics of abortion...........its disgustingly creepy

sandy25198 2012-03-21 19:39:56

oh hey it was wolfeman20s b-day a couple weeks ago i think

VicariousE 2012-03-21 22:02:08

You can magnify pictures of anything, and it'll look creepy, especially if it's mammal based.
Next post, (tomorrow or friday, I'll put one up alongside the Federal Reserve video or something else... I thought Tom was going to allow multiple pictures, not just laggy linked videos. Now 'cause the web author died, I'll have to wait for another post!

VicariousE 2012-03-21 22:54:05

Okay, after cooking, a gingerbread man would need some pretty good lighting and angles to be made to look scary. But I'm sure there's some microscopic monstrosity somewhere in that confection.....