So I didn't get round to blogging last week. It was early in the morning and I was going to blog. But then news surfaced that Michael Jackson has suffered a cardiac arrest, followed some time later by the news that he had passed away. The internet came to a halt, sites crashing because of the traffic. It was a weird day, to say the least. And blogging just didn't come to mind anymore.
How will the world manage without Michael Jackson? I don't know. But it won't have to anytime soon, because Michael Jackson is more alive than ever. He's at the top of the charts, his songs are being played on the radio. People are reminiscing, others are only just discovering his music. And I've read that he's left behind quite some unreleased recordings, which means we haven't heard the last of him yet.
Michael Jackson is a legend. And legends don't die.
(Notice how I shamelessly stole the above from my Ningmaster blog that I wrote yesterday.)
Projects I was working on:
The secret one that I couldn't tell you about was the DFTBA wiki. But it has gone public since, so now everyone can contribute.
The project I didn't tell you about is that I was working on some more shirt designs. I was rummaging through some graphics that I've drawn over the past few years, and more than a few have shirt potential. From there, I was trying to figure out if I could get them printed on some website, but then the designs had to comply with all sorts of rules regarding line thickness and number of colors (for vectors) and the printing techniques were limited (for digital print).
Talking about shirt designs, I got that design, that I showed two weeks ago, printed on a shirt! It looks pretty awesome. No one here appeared to know what the shirt was about, but if you were in John's live show today, you might have heard this, which explains it perfectly.
Staying on this topic, there will be Nerdfighter shirts available again in the near future, or so I've heard from a reliable source.
Elayne: Yeah, we are pretty bad at blogging on time (if we blog at all).
Madi: I had to Google to figure out who the hell Confidence Doe is. (I mean I didn't have a clue who you were talking about.) Safe to say it's not me. In fact, even I received an e-mail like that. And I started watching HP the musical, but then they took it down and I'd only downloaded the first act. The videos should be back sometime this weekend though...
William: That picture is insanely adorable.
Madison: My favorite word? Possibly "antidisestablishmentarianism", as used in the phrase "I'll be back before you can say antidisestablishmentarianism." Depending on who you're talking to, that can mean a timespan of anything between a few seconds and several days.
Well, I think that's all for today. I just watched the ISS fly by, I think that's a sign that I should go to bed. The next time it flies by, I expect to be sleeping. (About two hours from now)
Edit: I totally forgot to mention this cool little trick that Nalts tweeted about: Take a random youtube video and in the URL, replace "watch" with "warp.swf"... :p
Best Wishes!
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