Kurst "YIPYAP" Hyperyote Idiotic World

Subject:	COMICS!
Time:	7:48 am.

For those that don't know we are close to getting delivery date for the next 3 comics I have worked on..... When I have that I will feel more comfortable about talking about it.

Looking forward - we are going to be producing more comics shortly. If you know anyone working or who wants to work on a comic please feel free to contact me directly. We are always looking for new comics and ideas to publish with doing a more aggressive release and scheduling in the future we are going to be needing more exciting original content.

Thanks for reading!

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Subject:	Spring Picnic Get Together
Time:	10:01 pm.
Mood:	anxious.
Music:	History (Repeats Itself) (Edited) - Natural Born Killers - A.O.S..

Well it's that time of the year.

The spring picnic get together. Put on by SNCFurs the local Minnesota anthropomorphic community but is open to anyone. No invitation needed just a liking to get around people in the community.

Friday the 16, 2008 starts it off with a get together to watch Prince Caspian. Followed by a small get together at Appleby's whenever the movie get off.

Saterday the 17 - Starting at 4 o'clock till whenever we need to leave the picnic. Pot lot picnic with events schedule. Standard stuff eating, drinking, fursuit, art, rpg, etc. Programs are available with the details of the event.

Sunday the 18th - Minnesota Zoo get together to check out the zoo is the end of the events.

The 17th is free, the 16 and 18 happenings will cost whatever the admissions are.

I hope to make all 3 events. It should be a good gathering it seems to attract a few people every year.

(From my Photo Gallery)

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Subject:	Week is going
Time:	7:50 am.
Music:	1,000,000 - The Slip - Nine Inch Nails.

May is the busy month I am seeing that!

Work is going insane - in a good way for work For me it keeps me WAY busy.

For my real life stuff the good news is that I am still going to Wisconsin to visit family this weekend that should be fun. I plan to go to the NEW Zoo while I am there if I am lucky an animal MAY BE walking while we are there. Unfortunately we are probably going later in the day than the morning.

I am also working on comics - yes you know COMICS this week. The final PUSH before printing for Anthrocon is going on at that is consuming my time. Lots of fun with that.

In convention planing *GAH* got the Anthrocon zooming in. We are trying to pull ourselves together to do something for the con but we had a lot of things conspire.

Have something major to say about Anthrocon but that is coming up soon.

Anyways my goal of 30 pictures posted in my Photography Gallery will happen. Since a few are not that “great quality” wise I am posting a few more to make it up. Tonight will be canine picture night

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Subject:	He Just Wants His Sandwhich
Time:	7:36 am.
Music:	Discipline - Nine Inch Nails.

At work my supervisor that hired me is leaving. Hopefully not permanently but at least for a month. What she is doing is trying to launch her new company and she is going to China to look at building her dream products. So If she comes back she will be in a more "lower end" part-time position. Unfortunately she was one of the reasons I went to that place. Fortunately the place rocks. So I think people are going to be trying to make sure I am happy the next few weeks which will be flipping annoying....

About two weekends ago I was at the Minnesota Zoo (the people that help fund WolfQuest: Amethyst Mountains Deluxe Edition) with my good friend

yarrick. I know that's hard to believe but it was true I was at the zoo!

While we are there we went over at the mexican wolves exhibit. I was letting Yarrick borrow my camera at the time and we were both observing the wolves.

The mexican wolves were particular active that day - walking pacing getting up, sitting down, some interactions with the environment. When a little kid making lots of noises and waving little arms came close to the window. Now with the way the glass was I thought you couldn't see but one of the wolves walked by the window and stopped.

The wolf looked into the window.
The little child making little noises moved and held out his sandwich.
The wolf started to turn away and then leaped at the glass pounding on it with his front feet. Jaws snarling and snapping he would land and then get on his hind paws and literally smack his forward paws forward as high as he can into the glass. His muddy paws smearing up the glass.

The kid didn't know what to make out of it. The mother watching in confused look.

The wolf continue to do that as the kid held out his sandwich making noises of confusion. The mother then has a epiphany I guess.

"He just wants your sandwich" she keeps repeating to the boy. The boy then puts it away and the wolf still continues. The boy moves to a different window to the right and the wolf follows tries to gnaw at the frame at the structure and then wood in front of it. All the while the kid making noises somewhat confused noises.

Eventually the mother stopped teasing the wolf by taking out her "sandwich" aka the little boy out of the gazebo as soon as the boy was out of ear and visual shot. *Snap* he went back to his ways. It was amazing to watch the behavior.

I asked Yarrick if I could have the picture to work on and if he could allowed me to do my normal touch ups and make it my own derivative work. He agreed to and this is my version of the picture he took with my camera. I figure in a few more weeks he will have his version up.

Now can't we allow this wolf to get his sandwich?

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Subject:	Okay more active than i thought
Time:	10:07 am.

Well lets see schedule. This weekend other than practicing camera work. I am working on RPG and comics.

Next weekend Coffee show. Then a break. Then the three day local picnic event. So that covers my whole weekend with event activities and panels. Then the week after is Werepuppy's GOH. And then the moth is over.

Looking at that I was TEMPTED to visit family next month but I am going to push it back to June before con. Lots of running around. Hey you got to keep busy!

The posting a picture a day hasn’t lost moment yet to me. I doubt I will be able to keep up. I am going to try to actually make sure I pick pictures I like not just filler. Of course some will be more likable than others but hey I am going to be moving forward.

Kurst Photogallery Page is the page where you can catch up.

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Subject:	TV falling onto Wii and other stuff
Time:	7:19 am.
Mood:	happy.
Music:	The Current (Featuring Avram Gleitsman) - Blue Man Group.

Wasn't having that great of a day yesterday. I kept on dropping stuff or things kept falling down. For example I tried to move my 32" television in the living room. Mind you most people are thinking flat panel. WRONG - Sony Trinitron tube. Huge SONY TRINITRON TUBE. As "luck" would have it as I started to move the beast my right hand actually slightly gave out. The whole thing crashed on top of my arm and Wii. Both took a few scraches and bruises but I think long term me and my Wii will be fine.

But yeah I could go on and whine about yesterday and the day before but instead here is a Omega Mexican Wolf.

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Subject:	My Apartment complex is on fire - Updated
Time:	7:20 am.
Mood:	Happy.

WOO HOO MY apartment complex is on fire! Looks the apartment 2 under me is on fire! Way Coolness! More later.

Updated - It was weird I was walking around my own compartment smelling something. IT was strong enough that I thought I turned on like the pizza over or the stove and left it on near some plastic. So I looked at it and after a moment the though the complex could be on fire. I was like nah that would never happen. Like clockwork the alarm rang. I knew that this could be a real fire. In a moment if I could only have 2 things in my life what would it be. My laptop bag which has - A) My laptop and my con badges. I then also grab my camera bag. I slid shoes on without sock and put on a jacket just in case. I went into the hallway into hazy smoke room. I realize at this point it's serious. Worse case I could jump out the third story window if it was impassible but I easily made it out.

The complex is about 1 1/2 blocks from the fire station which is manned 24/7. So the response was near immediate. The place was cleared out in minutes allowing the fire department to putz with the downstairs apartment.

At first there was a drove of fireman running into the place with axes and hoses. Yelling and screaming. You could see the fire men at the truck ready at any second to turn on the hose. But after a few minutes they put away their axes and hoses fire back in control. So the fire wasn't major.

After about 2 hours I was left back in my apartment at it's worse has some smokiness already I don't notice it from the overnight air out.

So other than some time no real long term results from this. Just thankful it didn't get bad.

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Subject:	More later but experiementing
Time:	5:20 am.
Mood:	amused.
Music:	The Enemy of the World is Created (from FFVII "One-Winged Angel") - Takeharu Ishimoto.

Hello,

I really don't have much time to mention about this but I am going to start more or less putting pictures up on my website. I will try to put up at least once a week and try not make it a chore.

These are going to be mostly pictures that I take outside. I will more or less categorize it as I go.

But I got cleaning to do less talk so I should give you the first picture.

More will be added here as time go by Photography Page. As time goes by.

Have a great one.

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Subject:	Preparing for a update of FurEauction
Time:	7:19 am.
Mood:	amused.

Been in the background helping out and porting up the code to FurEauction.

This is one of the odd things where it's not the code itself falling over itself going to the new version but the DB. The fixes for the database isn't hard itself it's just testing all the cases. What's nice is that I have been adding extra catches and traps so it's easier to maintain.

I'm more or less have the code sitting in waiting to launch for last month doing tests off and on and well waiting for a down town. I have to spend about an hour or so to to move and reset up the site.

So nice to see it on new platform so I can work hard core on it again :)

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Subject:	Gift Card
Time:	12:04 am.
Mood:	Silly.

A few days ago I got a best buy package. I was confused I havn't ordered anything from best buy for weeks.

So I opened it was this nifty package you hit the mouse button and poof a Best Buy birthday gift card pops up. This was a clever design, almost as clever as the Best Buy LCD programmable gift card.

This would been a perfect gift if... It listed WHO gave it. No card, no message, no even "person x bought it". very confused but grateful i got it.

I asked family members and none admitted to it. I figure in a few days it would be revealed. and a few days past. It took my birthday someone ask if it came.

Moral: If a web site doesn't mention gift stuff or have a write area expect it not to show your name or show the prices.

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Subject:	Spooo site update
Time:	8:22 pm.

The Spooo Website has been recently updated. We moved from a more google happy site to a little more consumer friendly site. Hopfully it people will like it more :)

For those that don't know we are currently actively looking at new titles to fill our line. If you are interested in doing a comic please feel free to contact me or check out Spooo General Information, Spooo FAQ, and Spooo File Submission Guidelines.

Again we are actively looking for submissions so pass the word around.

If you like the comic - spread the word and thanks for your support!

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Subject:	FurEauction relaunch
Time:	7:31 am.

Hello,

For the last couple months I have been working with a few other people to relaunch FurEauction.

It is now time to be a little more public about it.

The reasons why FurEauction was created is the same reasons as before. From a "does it work" standard the site works pretty well.

What I am looking at this point is comments. Good or bad.

My concerns are
A) General auction experience. IS the forms too complex for the users. Does it need to be made into two pages. Or have an "extended" page after auction.
B) Adult entry (How the adult entry comes off).
C) Feature set
D) English - The help to the text on the screen is written in Yotease. Hard to understand but mostly accurate.

On the dock is the ability to add selections for categories. LIke is this picture a dog, cat etc. Does it have male, female. And full filtering/search capabilities. The problem with this feature is how many items you need. I also do not want an initial "block everything" mode since this would kill the front page.

Anyways ideas and thoughts please feel free to post.

Kurst

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Subject:	Remember me
Time:	10:53 am.

Hello,

When was the last time I posted in my LiveJournal - Don't look. It's probably the list time I read my friend list.

The last year was bizarrely busy and well went the wrong way. It's been 2 months since I got my new job and overall it has been the life changing experience I expected to have. While it has added to at least 1 hour to my travels each day I work a lot less at work now.

The word "A Lot Less" is applied here. In the last two months I worked more than 8 hours a day has been umm twice. And yes I am salary and working as a Software Developer.

My last job I was a Senior Software Developer - so doing the role of a software developer is theoretically a step down. But in this case it's a step up in all ways. Strangely I have more power designing a solution at this job then in my Senior position back at the other company.

For those that wonder - I currently work in Visual C# .net, Pre .net asp module, Java, PHP, and Perl in a professional level. AT my current job I do mostly C# .net 2.0, Java, and pre .net asp. I've also done some small work in Python and Ruby on Rails recently. I feel some days I have to have fist fights with myself on languages and platforms ;)

I haven't told people formally but I am getting back to my pre 2006 development cycles. I have been really working on some of my favorite old code sites. Rabbit Valley of course is number 1 priority. But I am going back with the original people who worked with me on FurEauction. The highest priority will be port it to the latest and greatest DB and development language and then look at usability and new functions. I really loved designing the bidding back end and can't wait to re-look at it the whole code base again. Mind you most of the time I will be yelling at myself for coding the way I did but code styles change and improve over time. I can always rewrite it if I don't like it that much.

I might be doing other things too but I want to get my house in order and really work out the best things to do first for myself and other.

And yes I will do a reasonable update to Rog Minotaur's site this week.

And most important the comics. I am going back to a more stronger role in the comic process for Spooo and other comics at Rabbit Valley. I personally want to improve the quality and improve the quantity of comics we do a year. Maybe I can help on that maybe I can't but at least I can try.

Okay I am hoping to write more later and actually use this account. Good luck everyone and I hope I'm back.

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