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A commission for a smashing buddy, Roux. Being a fellow Samus main, I enjoyed this.
Sketched on paper, scanned, then painted in MyPaint, and tweaked in GIMP.
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Victory!
What a WIN for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. The Smash community raised nearly $95K in support with the grand total of all fighting games over $200K! Good work everyone!
It looks like Smash will be at Evo 2013!
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Captain Fabulous! For the final hours of the Smash for Evo Breast Cancer Research Drive.
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![Finally! A finished wallpaper!
One day left to donate!
[shoutout to bombay101 for the texture stock]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/e1d965efaf44d26a9878ffbd4cec80d2/tumblr_mhgjjkUJSw1qm3eqco1_500.jpg)
Behind the scenes of Kira! There are some big movie spoilers, FYI. You should watch the movie first.
18:38 —There’s a long running joke about me and Nor’shek.
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From my friend Natalie’s baking blog:
OH MY GOD this was so freaking good. I love fall baking… pecans, spices, apples, pumpkin… oh yes. My friend Kendall and I made this pie last night and it was amazing. Toasted, fragrant pecans, flaky crust, silky chocolate, all together in a well balanced, round, subtly flavored caramel.
I mean, let’s be honest. You want to eat this. You REALLY do.
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So life after college rolls on! I got a job programming as a web dev for three months. Fun job, then the contract ended. I’ve since been studying my butt off for the MCAT (which I take January 24th, cross your fingers for me). Assuming I don’t completely bomb the MCAT, I should be applying to med schools this summer. Until then, I’ll be looking for some kind of full-time work, maybe more programming, though I’m hoping to land something more on the medical-research end of things.
This past fall I joined the St. Louis Sabres rugby club. Football > Rugby BUT Football Culture < Rugby Culture. The sport is a ton a fun, perhaps my third favorite (behind football and snowboarding). It’s also a hell of a lot of running. Football plays by a different rhythm: sprint-rest-sprint-rest while rugby is more: run-run-run-run. Thanks to rugby (and a bit of off-season lifting) I’m probably in the best physical shape for the upcoming football season with the St. Louis SLAM. Practice starts in January, I’m pretty pumped.
In my spare time I’ve been volunteering at my old elementary school, working with the Idea Lab kids (aka the gifted program). I’d rank Idea Lab pretty high among the greatest academic experiences in my life. No joke. Which isn’t to say that it’s been all downhill since 5th grade (though sometimes I feel that I’m getting dumber, despite having more knowledge). I just really love my elementary school years. I got to help out the Equations teams after school. Equations is a math game that I was pretty awesome at back in the day (3rd place in the regional tourneys!). I had to refresh myself with the ruleset, but as it turns out, those P-flub and A-flub instincts never die. I dominated those little 4th and 5th graders! (Okay, so that’s a slight exaggeration… I’m not that heartless, I played really nice with them and only won by a point while teaching them some competitive tricks using fractions for exponents.)
I’m also volunteering at an inner-city tutoring program run by Restore St. Louis. I feel that I’m back in St. Louis for good, albeit, I’ll probably have to leave for med school if I don’t get into either of the med schools here. But the goal is to get back to STL ASAP afterward. A sense of place is definitely a blessing. I feel very committed to helping build the community here.
I’ve also gotten super-involved with this little Anglican church I found in St. Louis two summers ago. It has the same name as my church in Wheaton, Church of the Resurrection. I’m pretty much the only young adult under-35 member, which one could view as less than ideal. On the positive side, it’s like being the only grandchild of dozens of grandparents. They’re so nice! I hope this doesn’t spoil me. ;) A month ago I found myself with a Rwandan bishop in my car, showing him the sights of St. Louis. Totally random. He was entirely fascinated by the red Angry Bird plushie on my dash. “Why are these birds angry? They should be called Happy Birds!”
Oh, and I got a new computer. Figured it was time to retire my five year old Dell XPS 1330. It had a good run. I ended buying a refurbished Macbook Air (i7, 256 SSD, 8 GB RAM). I was deeply tempted to wait for the Dell XPS 13 Project Sputnik, as they’re creating a Ubuntu-based developer ultrabook. After trying out the XPS 13, I decided it didn’t have enough screen real estate (surprisingly low resolution). This is big thing for programming, as I want to have two windows open side-by-side, with as many crisp lines of code displayed as possible. Right now I have my MBA running a triple boot (OSX, Win7, and Ubuntu 12.12 with a large ExFat shared partition). The beauty of SSD is that you can have as many primary partitions as you want! I am a Linux girl, and I have to say, with the direction that Ubuntu has been going, I was THIS close to trying out Mint. After a bit of playing around, I’ve decided that I don’t hate Unity anymore.
Sadly, I have no new art to report. I bought a bunch of linoleum blocks to make some Mass Effect Christmas Cards. I’m almost done with ME3!!! The Mass Effect series, taken as a whole, might pass up StarFox 64 as my favorite video game of all time. Let’s see if this Extended Cut lives up to Bioware’s promise.
Wow, long entry. Hopefully I’ll have some art with the next update.
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These are pictures from Wheaton’s Class Film Festival.
It’s weird, looking back half a year later. I can’t believe we actually did that. Talk about ending college with a bang.
Some of the film crew ended up traveling out to LA together for this year. I think they’re doing well, last time I checked.
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This has been long overdue. The culmination of an entire school year of work.
We won eight of the ten awards at the Class Film Festival including “Best Original Screenplay” (for myself and Tim).
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My main issues with this article can be self explained by the following statements pulled directly from the article itself. There were so many more things I wanted to respond to, but these were my initial reactions:
“ Sandusky is accused of molesting numerous young boys during and after his tenure at Penn State. However, try placing the label “homosexual” on his activities and the backlash will be swift and unequivocal.“
- There are far more pedophiles who are heterosexual in their pedophilic expression, yet we don’t label their point of perversion in the heterosexual nature of their crime, but rather in the pedophilic nature of it. Pedophilia is pedophilia, regardless of the hetero/homo aspect of the expression.
“or those who once were practicing homosexuals but have since come out of the lifestyle”
- Woah! there’s a big difference between a homosexual “lifestyle” and a gay orientation. First of all, what is a homosexual lifestyle? I wake up every morning and gay brush my teeth before I gay eat breakfast and gay pray after I gay read my bible and then gay go to work?! I also gay pursue gay celibacy before gay marriage feeling called to the same standard of purity that all of my not-gay Christian brothers and sisters are called to. I’m not gay because of what I do, I’m simply gay in that I’m attracted exclusively to members of the same sex. I could enter into a mixed orientation marriage and my participation in heterosexual sex wouldn’t make me not-gay.
” …disconnect between same-sex “marriage” and anti-miscegenation laws … Miscegenation literally means “the interbreeding of people considered to be of different racial types.” Ironically, the fact that homosexuals cannot “interbreed” shines a spotlight on the problem inherent in their logic.“
- This is hardly about the ability to breed. I’m pretty sure anti-miscegenation laws of the past would’ve forbidden two barren individuals of different races from being married and having sexual relations as well.
“The very definition of marriage eliminates the possibility of including same-sex couples. The word marriage has a long and well-recorded history; it means “the union of a man and a woman.” “
- do your history research. Marriage has been redefined again and again throughout history. At one point in time, women were essentially property to be exchanged for other valuable items … only recently, as in within the past century, have we ever had the understanding of marriage that we have today
“People who are already married, 12-year-olds, and people who are too closely related are just a few categories of people routinely and/or categorically denied the right to marry.”
- and what does this have to do with two consenting adults of the same sex desiring the right to marriage and equal treatment under the law? We’re discussing two fundamentally different things.
“One thing that seems to escape most people in this debate is the fact that homosexuals have never been denied the right to marry. ”
- Foul! This completely disregards the fact that not all people have straight orientations and callously imposes a heterosexual requirement for all people desiring equal rights. Flip your world and imagine if you could only achieve equal rights and societal recognition through marriage with people of the same sex as yourself. That is essentially what you’re demanding of people who are gay to do in order to have the same rights and recognition.
“what’s to stop the “bisexual” from fighting for the ability to marry a man and a woman simultaneously since his “orientation” is, by definition, directed toward both sexes?”
- This is laughable and demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of what it is to be bisexual. For a bisexual person to marry both a man and a woman simultaneously, they would enter into a situation much like polygamy. Bisexual people are only unique in that they can be attracted to either sex and so pursue marriage with either a man or woman. Just because a straight man is attracted to more than one woman doesn’t give him the right to marry multiple women simultaneously.
I generally don’t use tumblr in a tumblr-like manner, but this needed to be reblogged. Love you Dave O!
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