me: IM BORED
blazewithyou: DRAW A KID WHO DIED OF EATING REESES PIECES
me: OK

result:



T3T

On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

#1- Update!

Okay so remember that B&W artbook? Back on track!
Fawn's handling the design now and we talked about the direction of more when I went to visit her, so everything is back on track and back in the works to make an even nicer book for everyone who preordered. Don't worry I still have all of your info in my paypal so everyone who preordered will be getting the super books for less than they'll be for sale! So you guys got a good deal :3

#2- Commissions!

I'm going to Japan for the holidays and am trying to scrounge up enough money to cover my rent for both months I'll be gone. Usually I do commissions per month to pay for things, but this time I need to get up two months of rent in the time I usually do one. UGH!
SO!
I'm doing super cheap-o full-body character design-style illustrations on DA:
http://nyanko-chan.deviantart.com/journal/27964672
If you're interested in getting one I'll be taking them until the end of this month trying to raise funds. They're on SUPER sale, most full bodies costing the same price a headshot or bust-up costs, so you can get some really good savings if you've ever wanted a full body by me.
I've got 5 on my queue now but I manage about one or two a day so the wait won't be very long to get them and they'll all be finished in time for X-mas so they make good gifts too!

See my previous two posts and the DA post for examples please!

If you're interested either contact me on DA or here please! Help me stay housed while I'm away!

 ( stta + circus )

drew this during class

CHECK OUT MY ADORABLE ICON OF SPAIN/ROMANO BY teh_ryu sl dkfjalskdjfalk

anyway some more of Canada + Kumajiro and US + UK under the cut

( nnfhhhgh )

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Watched a German film today called Angst essen Seele auf or bad German for "Fear Eats the Soul". It is a film from the 70s about an old German woman who marries a Moroccan man who is 20 years younger than her, and the kinds of problems they run into in post-war Germany. The old woman had originally lied to her landlord that they were getting married so that the young man wouldn't get kicked out of her apartment, and when she confessed that she had lied, the man happily said "Me, you married? good idea!" and they do. It's a very bittersweet love story and thoughtful, sensitive film about love and race and sex and gender. It made me laugh and gnaw on my lips and clutch at my chest and it's a LOVELY film, if you get a chance do watch it!

The male lead was actually the lover of the director, who took the role as Krista's husband in the movie. He's an interesting man who was so prolific and died such a sad death :( He died of OD on cocain when he was 34 and his lover hanged himself in jail. TRAGIC STORIES ARE SO MOE sigh I'll go away now anyway you guys should watch Fear Eats the Soul. Good film.

how my mom and i communicate.

mom: hey, are you going for a walk today?
me: *groans, mumble insert wtever crap here*
mom: i take that as a no.

orz'''

my cat is being very noisy.

ughh
i;m drawing santa playing guitar hero...lol this is not for the trading thing~ dont worry. unless if u wannnt

# Credit
# Don't use as bases or anything like that
# Please save to your own computer
# Enjoy Them
# bases by shalowater
# My resources







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i went to the dentist today to check my teeth.
and i went for scaling.

so,
i told mom that i kinda like the pain..................
AM I A SADIST MOM DDD:

MOOOM IS THAT BAD    DDD:

forget it :| it hurts a little


NVM its not fun at all.

casper for hamlet



( +4 more hetalia requests lol  )

results from the hetalia request livestream


NA bros for spoonface

( +5, slightly image heavy )

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This is the last of my posts for the day! =D

So, the final stop for Saturday (it was a full day!) was the Vampire cafe! Yeah... the Vampire Cafe.

Which is... exactly like it sounds! A kitchy cafe decorated to look all dracula and bloooooooood. Something a lot of people I know back home would like XD

Honestly, it was interesting, but.. well, too smoky. I would gladly go back if it was nonsmoking, but since that isn't going to happen and it was utterly miserable from the smoke of the drug-addicted girl behind us (they ARE drugs), and the chain-smoking guy next to us, I won't be going back.

However, whenever Tokyo is made smoke-free, I am so coming back! Here's to the future!!

( But some pictures Dracula himself would (not) be proud of XD )

You know how you hear about all of those random strange vending machines in Japan? Well, this one sells canned soups.

Canned ramen, oden, curry, chicken soup.... all sorts of strange things!!

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It's in Akihabara, by the way... Think you can find it? It's kind of hiding in plain sight ^_~

I wouldn't have even known about it myself if it wasn't for my friend Patrick, from Otaku2.com! He introduced it to us when he guest starred on Pop'n Press! I HIGHLY recommend his book, too!! The Otaku Encyclopedia!! It's full of nearly everything that an Otaku would want to know! I really loved it!! (I'll do a really good review of it eventually!)

I was volunteering in Akihabara, and we had a reservation for a place in Ginza that evening, so Adele and I decided to walk.... I took a lot of great pictures of the city!!

Sorry in advance, but I have a lot of posts to make and only tonight to make them (studio from tomorrow on), so I'm going to make a lot of posts all at once! ^^ Sometimes I don't like doing that, because it discourages people from commenting, (I love comments!!), but I've gotta post while I can! ^^

( +10 pictures of buildings and pretty sights in the city ^__________^ )

I'm starting a new tag, Conbini Life, just to post about weird things or just things that I find in japanese convenience stores (and of course, other ones when I travel!). I'd really like to post more about the "normal" (as much as my life is) parts of living in Japan... at least what I experience living in Japan, since everyone is different!!

So without further ago, a few more pictures of convenience store-ness! Guess I'd better take as many as I can right now, in case I suddenly get my break and am too famous to get away with taking pictures! (lol, well you never know! It would be nice, ne? ^___^)

( +6 conbini pictures, +5 berry cafe... )

I think there needs to be more Graham and Billy action going on in this world

cut for spoilers !!!

( The first time Billy thought the war was finally over was when Graham smiled at him for the first time in four years. )


ETA
er it's like 3:30 and I was planning on going to bed but I decided to clean up this image a little so I put it on DA: http://lawnmowerpants.deviantart.com/art/graham-143020292