arielmt

This may be an "I'm leaving DA" journal, but not for the usual dramatic reasons.  In fact, the time I've spent on DA has been exceptionally drama-free.  The reason is simply that DA needs ever-increasing amounts of bandwidth in order to load what should be simple pages, bandwidth that I simply can't spare in my current budget.  Pages on DA take between 500% and 1,000% longer to load than pages elsewhere (even Twitter).  I often have to suspend most other Internet activity, such as Furcadia (when I'm on) and low-bandwidth radio streams, when browsing DA, and it's only by graces that I don't have to shut down my IM connections as well.  I'll st

It's getting there, the end of one year and the start of the next.  I did way too much procrastinating when I wanted to get back into drawing (even if everything I draw is total crap). So I'm resolving to draw just one image a day, even if it's just a crap doodle, and upload it if it's appropriate.  I will upload in at least one of three places: DA, FA, and T2.

Someone gave my nephews Rubik's Cubes for Christmas, and I'm pretty much the only one in my family who knows how to solve them.  (Hopefully, not for long.) Once upon a time, I wrote a cheat sheet for solving them with just simple, easy to remember algorithms, but I didn't put it online and I forgot until today.  It needs some typo clean-up, but the algos are sound. http://thornton2.com/comments/thecube.php Anyone who knows how to solve one quickly will recognize this as the ultra lazy beginner's method.  Oh, well; it works.