Thinking Out Loud

I can’t believe you don’t really know.

It’s a carnivorous dinosaur that lived in China. But that’s not the news. It’s actually the first dinosaur that they can actually prove the true colour.   And it ain’t lizard green! They found tiny amounts of pigment in the feathers (you did know some dinosaurs had feathers right?) and the colour is “ginger” (according to CNN International)

I call it orange, but I’ve been told that men don’t have any clue about colours. Read the rest of this entry »

It snowed for two days.  I called it a blizzard.  According to environment Canada though, if I understood the weather report, we were having a heavy snow fall.  You need to have falling snow, winds over 50 km/hr and extreme cold weather and wind chill.  It was actually only about -5 degrees, so we didn’t qualify.  But our heavy snowfall (read blizzard here – my opinion) did close all of the highways, and pretty much made driving in the city impossible.

Here’s some photos:

where's the car

My car is under there someplace.

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I wanted to re-do an old picture I did years ago of Gollum (from Lord of the Rings) on a skateboard.  I think it was painted on an scrap piece of drywall, and I think I gave it to Graham, and I’m actually not sure if it was ever really finished.  This is more demon-ish than gollum-ish, but I had fun anyway.

Hell on Wheels

Almost everyone knows the big reason I watch NCIS is because I’m infatuated with Abby.  Just for fun, I tried to come up with a picture of her and her farting hippo.  What can I say?

…then don’t say anything at all. When I was growing up, I heard that little proverb quite regularly.  I didn’t know it had an “or else” on the end of it.

A little while ago, I might have, maybe, perhaps, possibly, accidentally made fun of my brother’s new microwave and his absolute amazement that the new appliance had a popcorn button.  And a turntable.  And a coffee button.

Okay, I’m still making fun of him, but there’s  a couple of other old sayings that come to mind right now -  “You’ll get what’s coming to you,” “God will get you for that” and the ever popular “Now, what the f— ?!!!”  Read the rest of this entry »

So I’m stuck inside having fun doing some digital artwork.  So what do I draw?

Something warm and tropical one would think, but I decided on snow.  Here’s the WonderDog goofing around.

Snow Bandit

I’ve had the urge to start doing some of that artsy-fartsy stuff over the last few months.  So when the kids asked what I wanted for Christmas, I said a couple of tubes of paint, or paint brushes, or something like that.  I  just have to buy a few more colours now, and I’m  gonna start some practice stuff soon.

In the meantime, while waiting for Christmas (always a kid) I bought a new drawing tablet for my computer, because my old one was starting to skip.  Then I found a cool painting program called ArtRage that simulates real paint (well as close as you can get, with a computer anyway)

Here’s one of my humble attempts in the digital method – sorry FaceBookers – don’t know how this will show up there, you might have to click away from Facebook for a moment… (oh no! … Gasp! what if I can’t get back? AaaRGGH! what should I do? click on the view original post thing in Facebook) Read the rest of this entry »

Ever have your brain just go into weird, crazy, bizzare, where did that come from mode?

It happens to me too often, but that’s a subject for another day.  Onto today’s topic…

As I was getting out of the shower this morning, shampoo burning my eyes, blindly reaching for the towel I had hung up on the floor, and wiping my eyes as hard as possible to get the soap out, and which in fact doesn’t really help, because it’s the soap INSIDE your eyes, you idiot , not the bubbles on the outside that’s making you think out loud all of those bad words, it occurred to me …  (you can see how my brain works sometimes by this sentence)

“Just exactly WHAT did I dry last with this towel?”

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I had to upgrade the software that runs this blog.  I’ve been putting it off, because I had modified a bunch of stuff in the code, and it was gonna be a pain in the you know where to update it. Read the rest of this entry »

I seem to have lost my Taiwan DVD.  All I have are these little lo-quality files that I made for something or another a long time ago.  I found them on my old computer.  I can’t re-make it cause the original DVD files were on a hard drive that crashed.  And I don’t want to rebuild it from scratch, cause it would take me months to sort through all of the photos and video we took.  And it wouldn’t be the same…

I have a video of Taipei

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