Chivalrybean Sideburns: The nunchaku of beards.
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February 20, 2010 — Chivalrybean
Valentine’s Reading at West Of Ireland
February 14, 2010 — ChivalrybeanI read some stories with Crap Mariner, Derry McMahon and Elder Priestman at West of Ireland today. Crap and I double teamed two stories with Derry providing the voice for the lady of one of those stories. We read ‘Hearts and Hands’ and ‘Roses, Ruses, and Romance’ by O Henry.
Twitter: My first Toastmaster speech went pretty ok. Hit minimum time and didn’t stumble too much.
February 4, 2010 — ChivalrybeanChivalrybean My first Toastmaster speech went pretty ok. Hit minimum time and didn’t stumble too much.
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Twitter: Jogged 45mins. 2.98 miles, 392cals. Alternated speed 3.5 and 4.5 every 5mins.
February 3, 2010 — ChivalrybeanTwitter: http://twitpic.com/10jq87 – I’m world famous! #1 world ranked at Rabizilla! #rabbids
January 30, 2010 — ChivalrybeanChivalrybean http://twitpic.com/10jq87 – I’m world famous! #1 world ranked at Rabizilla! #rabbids
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Twitter: Didn’t do as much as I wanted on jogging today. Getting sick made me lose some stamina progress. 1.06 miles, 142 calories.
January 27, 2010 — ChivalrybeanChivalrybean Didn’t do as much as I wanted on jogging today. Getting sick made me lose some stamina progress. 1.06 miles, 142 calories.
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Twitter: Cool, one of my 100 word stories was stumbleupon’d a bit ago. It’s nice to know someone liked it {:0) http://bit.ly/2i0KRi
January 24, 2010 — ChivalrybeanChivalrybean Cool, one of my 100 word stories was stumbleupon’d a bit ago. It’s nice to know someone liked it {:0) http://bit.ly/2i0KRi
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First story of the year almost completed
January 24, 2010 — ChivalrybeanI went through one of my short story called Send In today and changed a bit of the prose. I wrote it originally in Google Docs, but moved it over to yWriter. Once there I ran some of the ‘problem words’ searches and found I had a lot of works that ended with ‘ly’. I wasn’t sure what this meant so I asked Matt Selznick on gTalk about it and he said I was probably taking shortcuts of descriptions. To clarify I asked if ‘The car quickly sped up’ versus ‘The engine revved as the car sped up’ is what he meant. That was exactly what he meant so I went through and changed most of the ‘ly’ instances to have more detail.
I did a few other changes, the program suggested and aside from just better description, one part of the story near the end has a much stronger narrative now, plus a hilarious joke.
All that is left is correcting typos and making sure I stayed in the proper tense, then I think it will be good to go. It will be over 3300 words.
Longest Treadmill Run So Far
January 18, 2010 — ChivalrybeanI walked/jogged on the treadmill for 45 minutes today, 2.78 miles.
While I exercised I listened to two episodes of V and A Shipping by JR Murdock. I’ve got one more episode to go. It’s been a fun run so far.
My left earbud died. I think all the wear the connector gets in my pocket got exacerbated today by the jogging and the wire must have got damaged. A real bummer because YSDC put another episode of Tatters of the King out, which I’ve been waiting for, but since it is recorded in binaural audio, I can’t listen with just one earpiece.
It’s good to run though. I came back to see my wife did indeed do her Wii Fit Plus workout, which she seemed reluctant to do, but I’m glad she did.
Restarting on the right foot
January 17, 2010 — Chivalrybean
I restarted making the statue leg in Blender. As I go I learn new things or make a mistake, and I find that it is many times easier to start again than to fit what I already have.
For instance I learned how to “cut” a box into several pieces so you can make individual bits all using the same base sculpted object. If you can see it in the picture I made each section separate, but they are actually connected with a tiny strand. The stand should be invisible in SL.
What you see in the picture will become the toes and part of the foot. I’ll need several more pieces like this to make each of the parts. Then in SL they can be linked together to make the whole.
Just now I had a scary moment when I thought I forgot to make the correct amount of pieces for the toe, then I remembered it is a four-toed statue.