New PC has been build :) :) :) Pictures and Info soon! You'll love it!

Made some uploads to the site tonight....

Added 2 things to the EQ art section, one is now, I just gave it to the individual tonight, the other is a bit older, and I realized I had forgotten to add it to my gallery :) I realized tonight as I loaded up the HTML editor, that I have 42 sigs exactly in my gallery, and I think to myself "damn, that's alot!" Seriously, looking around at various Screenshot Mod type sig sites, I've got alot more work behind me than some of my fellow artists, and that means alot to me. I'm rarely one to get any kind of ego relating to my works, but there is this stirring of pride now when I think about it :) Really, the people who commission me deserve all the thanks!

Also, my non-EQ art section has been busy lately. In the last two days 2 new pieces were loaded up. The first is some "Coloring practice". To make a long (like 20hrs of work) story short, I rendered Blizzard E's (You know, the Warcraft people) concept dreadlord sketch into something that looks real, and finished (and I'm quite happy with it!). The second is a reference paint that I did in about an hour and a half tonight while listening to the new Nightwish CD "Once" which I HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!!! And the fact that Tarja is completely gorgeous has very little to do with that recommendation ;)

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! *Happy Squeal*


It's on the way! HAHAHA SOON IT WILL BE MINE! MINE! HAHAHAHA


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I'd like to share one of my hero's with everyone....


No, It's not superman, batman, some random political or hollywood figure, or even a character from a famous novel. It's Simon Travaglia, AKA The Bastard Operator From Hell (BOFH). Together with his Sidekick the PFY, they "run" a company from the inside of thier IT Control room, thwarting company accountants, the geeky helpdesk freaks, users, members of the company board, and numerous bosses (something keeps happening to them *shrug*)

Simon's antics are an inspiration to any who have ever worked as a sysadmin, or aspire to one day. Read and understand.

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I think I need to buy some tools...No, Really...mmmm


I think Everyone that Knows me knows that I am obssessed with tools. I have a basement full of just about everything but a backhoe and a plasma cutter. Mostly, I blame genetics. My dad hoards tools, my Dad's Dad hoarded tools, his father hoarded tools, etc. When my Grandfather passed away, and we were cleaning out his garage, I was amazed and inspired by the sheer magnitute of his collection. For god's sakes he had not one, but 2 of THESE... And I'm talking about huge 6ft long grim reaper of death style.

So genetic fascination with tools aside, I was fascinated when this little "commercial" for some tools popped back up onto my guild's boards. I had nearly forgotton about it >:D

It's the end of the world! Hell hath frozen over!....

Why you ask? Because I created an AOL Account today. I deleted it 8 minutes later, but still. Before you call out the men in white coats, let me explain myself. So I'm browsing the web, and I see one of those "hit the target and win!" animated ads. Normally, I ignore those, but this one said "Win a 20GB IPOD! FREE!" and I was hooked. I blasted the target and was whisked away to a promotion website. Now, unlike most shoddy promo sites, this one had a BBBOnline logo in the corner, so I ran the company name through the BBB and lo and behold it was legit. So after filling in some blanks, and suffering through a useless survey, I get to the prize reclamation page, or so I think. Before me are 10 "offers". Join a book club for the low intro price of $30 a month, Save 40% on my next online cow purchase, get a free 45 day trial of AOL, Get 10CD's for the price of 1, that kind of stuff. In order to claim my prize, I have to process through one of these offers...

Pretend your me (hopelessly addicted to shiny, blinking things) and the only thing between you and an IPOD is some lame free trial offer for the one of the worst ISP's in the country...What do you do?

About 2 minutes after I finished degrading myself like a shameless heroin addict, I received an email about my prize! Oh wait, before I get my prize, I have to con 6 of my friends into signing up AND COMPLETING one of the promotions... No quick and easy create/cancel type stuff. Needless to say, I refuse to con more than 3 or 4 friends for the sake of a new toy....If they had said 2, I woulda gone for it.

To hell with this bait and switch! Angrily, I log onto AOL's website, looking for the "Cancel this Crap" button...And there is none! You have to call AOL to cancel, and speak with someone who's goal is to get you to not cancel. Oh I wouldn't want to be this guy.

Riiiiiing....Riiiiiiiing.....Bleep, connecting you to a Customer Account Specialist....

AOL: Hi! My name is Karl, How can I help you today!

Sev: Hi Karl, I'm Sev, and I'd like to cancel an Account!

AOL: That's to bad! Let me pull up your account details....(information was exchanged)

AOL: Hmmmm.....It looks like this account was created today...

Sev: yup, about 7 minutes ago.

AOL: Wow, why don't you like the service?

Sev: well Karl, I connected to AOL, and almost as soon as I heard "you've got Mail" sparks shot out of the back of my PC, and my screen went black...

AOL: ....Oh my....

Sev: no, just messin with you (evil laugh) In all honesty I entered into this promotion for a free IPOD, and signing up for AOL was the least evil of the options they gave me to finalize the transaction. Believe me when I say Karl, there Isn't much I wouldn't resort to for a free IPOD...

AOL: you had no intention of using the service?

SEV: (Laugh) ....oh, you were serious? no, sorry, no. I got an email from the promotion company after I signed up saying I had to Con 6 friends into joining before I could get my IPOD, and frankly, that wasn't gonna happen. Their not stupid.

AOL: Well, I don't know that you'd have to con any...

Sev: Are we joking again? no seriously, are we? I'd hate to burst your happy bubble Karl, but I've probably fielded more AOL Horror story tech support calls than you have. I just wanted a free IPOD, you understand, right? So can we just cancel this thing and I can go plot something else to get an IPOD...

AOL: um....OK...lemme set it up real fast...

Sev: Do you have an IPOD Karl? Because if you do, we might be able to make this work after all.....

AOL: No sir, you Confirmation number is (XXXXXXXXX)....have a...nice day.


Now you understand. Actually, throughout history, many evils have been committed on behalf of free stuff. I read somewhere that Pizarro thought the Incas were hoarding IPODS, that's why he killed them all....