Team J.A.F.

This seems to be a popular theme going around, so lets make it Bionicle flavored.

1 week of regular school classes left, and then 1 week of finals.
 
And then I'm finished with college.  I'll be graduating.  Finally.
 
And I still have some pretty big projects to complete in that time, not to mention the tests.  >.<  Mostly I just want school to end so I can start the internship, get paid, and have a little spending money again!
 
Also random animation becuase I can: 

 

It depends on which angle you view it from.

So yeah, BrickCon is awesome. Took lots of picks, lots of good times had by all. But for now, just wanted to post the cheese slope mosaic, which finally got made.




It didn't win any trophy, but the ones that did deserved them. We'll have to make a larger one next year.

More BrickCon news when I'm not having to hack in thru velox's laptop.

Hey, check out my fancy red shirt!



(Also, now I realize how hard it is to keep within the avatar / banner size limit when you're dealing with animations. That, and I figured out how to make gifs in Photoshop!)

Why do they not have review topics yet? I don't wanna plan with my teammates, but I wanna at least point out the cool things they came up with in their latest chapters.

Also, to critique the other entries, and criticize them and lower their moral comment on their stories too!

Also, I expected all the teams to be pushing up the maximum of four chapters per day.

Still, it's fun stuff, and I like how the stories I'm in keep twisting and turning.

So my family went on a little hike today. The idea was to drive up Mt. Adams to timberline, and then take a trail that led around the mountain. We only got up partway before the road was snowed in, and started up the trail with the assumption that the snow would go away. It didn't.

Yes, I hiked through snow today, in July, while it was 80+ degrees out. (Fahrenheit, obviously.)

And since snow is really reflective and everything, and it was really sunny, and despite the good amount of sunscreen I applied, I still managed to burn my entire face. I'd say sadface now, but it feels more like this: Either that or Red Skull.

On the other hand, I'm in the one part of the country that's not currently on fire, so I can't complain too much.

Okay, saw it. I thought it was good. Gave most of the characters plenty of room to shine, and had a few twists in there. Yeah, the last five minutes weren't the best, but I don't think they were as bad as people keep saying.



Wait wait wait... it's over. Second season isn't coming next week? Now what will I have to watch online?

I've been so focused on how I don't have enough Lego elements in the colors green or purple that I've completely neglected orange. (Red / blue / yellow / white / black are all fine.)

This comes after thinking up a project that would use all the colors of the rainbow. I think I can pull off a section in purple and green... but then I came to realize that I was rather low on orange, and if I pursue this, I will have to invest in stocking up on bricks in that color.

Also still unemployed. Does it show?

MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Love,

Velox

Meh.

So I'm going to admit that I'm not the greatest speller. I don't rely exclusively on spell check, but I always run it just as a quick double check on my posts. Unlike some people, I never post to MS Word, spell check, and then paste back to BZP; too time consuming, not to mention the issues Word has with pasting text, ext. Way back in the day, BZP used to have a spell check thingy, which was kinda clunky from what I remember. It's long gone, and today's current settings apparently doesn't have a spell check. (It has fine/replace, special pastes, and other sorts of wacky buttons, but I don't see a spell check.) I found a decent work-around when I installed Google Toolbar for IE. I now use the toolbar's other features quite a lot, but the spell check was the reason I downloaded it, and it worked pretty well.

Unfortunately, recently I've been getting a new error from it: There are no editable form fields on this page. But... I'm typing a blog post! I just wrote about Tahu and Rahi and Makuta and blarblarblahs and it's not even telling me that they aren't real words. I am sad, but like all you other Internet Explorer haters, I assumed it must be something to do with IE, Google Toolbar, or BZP.

Well, on IE, Google Toolbar's spell check doesn't seem to work on any field, including those on other sites.

BUT then I tried Firefox, which has a built in auto spell check. Works on other sites, but still not BZPower. Maybe the issue is with the new BZPower upgrades.

THEN I tested it on Chrome, which also has auto spell check. Works fine on BZPower and elsewhere. WHAT IS THIS MADNESS?

Maybe there's some sort of random update going on in IE, Google Toolbar, Firefox, or BZP that's causing this to happen, and it'll come back with time. (Goodness knows Google Toolbar has it's update periods where the whole thing doesn't work for a week but then comes back.) Or maybe something is perminantly broken, and I can never check my spelling again.

Either way I don't want to change my habits and I want my standard features to come back. So yeah, post if you have similiar problems. If you don't have these issues and you just want to say "Well my browser is better than yours" then please don't post. I still reserve the right to exersise that "comment delete" button in my blog.

But yeah if my spelling is kaput for a while its either the lack of spell check or me intetndialee screwing it up.