Sprocket - the cute but evil alien
I got bored the other day so I decided to finish up an illustration I had sitting on the back burner for some months now.My problem is that I can't think of what he should be holding and I'd love to put something floating above his tail but again.. I'm out of ideas.
Anywho, meet Sprocket:
Any ideas on what he could hold and what could float above his tail?
Tags: alien, illustration, vector
The Devil’s Milk
After tossing and turning for a few hours this morning I finally gave up and crawled out of bed to get a cup of coffee.Not wanting to wake anyone else in the house I left my lamp off and padded through the darkness, stubbing my toe on the barstool, running into the kitchen island and tripping over an overly fat cocker spaniel along the way.
I got to the counter, filled my cup and placed it in the microwave then set about getting the sugar and creamer lined up to make it easier on myself in the dark. Once I had the line formed I pulled the top off the milk container and set it gently back on top, so it was open but nothing could fly into it.
Now here I am in the darkness with only the microwave for light, minding my own business as the coffee went on it's two-minute rotation expedition when I hear a pop and see a vague shape fly in front of my face...
Startled, my head automatically snapped in the direction of the flying object where I notice the milk cap isn't where it's supposed to be. Instead of resting on top of the milk jug there's a spatter of milk on the counter with the cap a few inches away.
So I pick up the cap and put it back into place then stand there, bent forward and squinting like a mad-woman in the dark at a milk jug..
After standing there a few seconds I was rewarded (and re-startled) by a pop and.. a flying milk cap!
Now, for those of you who don't know this.. milk isn't carbonated and therefore, in my personal opinion, their caps shouldn't just randomly spring into action and fly through the air..
Don't get me wrong, it was kind of neat watching it happen.. but really, since when do milk caps jump off of the jug??
Needless to say I was a little skeptical of said milk and poked the jug a few times before attempting to pick it up. And I'm not afraid to admit I was officially freaked out and peered into the jug while holding it out at arms length in case it decided to attack me with it's possessed contents.
Shit, I don't want devil's milk flying into my eye and blinding me for the rest of my days! No sir ree, nuh uhs, not gonna happen, not on my watch at least!
You will be glad to know, and proud I'm sure, that I did finish making my coffee. In fact, I thoroughly enjoyed it at the kitchen table with a cigarette as I kicked my feet like a little child..
I'm short... short people kick their feet when sitting.. we just do, so don't ask me why *shrugs*
Tags: flying objects, horror, milk, restlessness, satan
Officially Blue
As you can see I finished with my personal revamp of the WP Premium theme.It's bright but I dig it. I do think I need to up the font size a tad though. The blue background makes the medium, 'normal', sized text hard to read.. or maybe it's just me?
Anywho, it's finished color/graphic wise. Now I just need to re-install a few plugin snippits and I'm ready to rock and roll my way into other areas of the site. Such as inserting line breaks to the pages (no the paragraph problem still hasn't been fixed *sniffles*), optimizing my images for google search results and other minor things.
So what do you think, should I keep the new color scheme or switch it back to one of the standard, pre-built, WP Premium style sheets?
Tags: wp premium, wp themes
Side Projects & Recommendations
I'm on a small mission to pimp this theme out a little bit.I've uploaded a new copy of wordpress where I'll be editing my little heart out. It's my goal to come up with at least three brighter schemed versions of this theme to complement and go along with the pre-set package.
While I'm not sure the author allows me to do this I am sure he/she won't mind me editing the theme for my own personal use. Now weather or not I'll be able to share them is another story that I'll take up when I'm finished with my edits.
Along with drastic color changes, I plan to prefix some plugin stylings such as flickr RSS and My Twitter as those are two plugins that seem to be most in use these days. I think I'll also pre-install the code snippet for the Sez Who plugin as well because I feel it's an important and downright priceless tool for bloggers.
I think a switch to more colorful icons might be in order as well. I'm really not digging the black and white ones that come standard with this theme. In reality those icons are really the only complaint I have about it as a whole. It's a damned good theme. Clean, roomy, easily modified. It's everything you could ask for in a wordpress theme when you sit back and think about it.
On a sidenote I highly recommend all my fellow bloggers to head over to the Sez Who website and register an account. You don't have to use the plugin (even though I really think it's a highly useful tool!) but it's always nice to be able to keep track of websites you've commented on and get a little star power in people's sideboards. Free traffic and recognition, how can ya beat that?
Tags: flickr rss, sez who, twitter, wp plugins, wp premium, wp themes
