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In other news, I've been drawing a fair bit, so as a result, I'll start posting it a bit more.

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Now, this morning, my paypal password was guessed somehow, and their crappy security allowed someone to paypal through my bank account (uncleared from 6-8 business days at least) for a whopping sum of $5,226.00 USD (or three quarter of the way to $6700 in canadian dollars) through some company called "HRC Worldwide Hotel & Travel Service Limited". So someone was trying to hitch a flight and hotel on my arm.

Mistake number 1 was not altering my account, particularly the primary email. This meant that I got the receipt and was warned about 40 minutes after I woke up that morning with a fresh fraudulent receipt in my inbox.
Mistake number 2 was to pass it through the bank account instead of credit card. This meant that 6-8 business days would have to go by before the funds pass. (mistake 2b would be to pass it through my credit card, which has a limit of $1000, but hey, his fault for not doing his research)

So, I changed my passwords (again), sent my transaction dispute to paypal to start the investigation, contacted my bank (again) about making sure the $6700 piece of crap payment doesn't go through if paypal take too long to investigate.

Isn't it a great way to start a day?

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Homosexuality is as accepted as different skin tones are.

Lots of people are still racist, lots of people are still homophobes... but do you really think that'll change if you keep banning gay marriage? Think about it.

Would Martin Luther King Jr.'s work be accepted if congress slapped it in the face and enacted laws that prevented a negro from, shall we say, use the same washroom as the white man? Those sorts of things would make the US' country leaders seem, shall we say, racist, now wouldn't they?

Well, banning gay marriage is the same thing, except with homophobia. It's just fine and dandy that you follow the bible's guidelines on being a good person. In fact, I encourage you to continue. But if you're going to say that the bible says gay marriage is bad, you know what I'm going to have you do? I'm going to have you donate that big ass mansion, your 2 cars, and whatever other income you're making and go on a pilgrimage, because Jesus had a lot of people do that so that they could become good christian.

Let's abolish capitalism, for the bible says it's bad. How's that sound? A bit too jarring and loosely linked, right? Then that proves the bible is a guideline for good conduct and not a set of rules.

How exactly will enabling gay marriage break the sanctity of marriage? If anything, it'll encourage christian gay couples to marry and strengthen the values of marriage because more people are doing it. Maybe they'll even make a better example than straight couples who divorce, which goes against the bible (but no laws banning divorce are in place, now are there?).

Just shelf the issue. Say 'yes' to gay marriage, and then move on to something more worthwhile of your collective mind. Like, let's say, the US' massive deficit and the iraqi war issue. I'm sure those major money crisis are a lot more deserving of attention.

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The annual open house for the Pre-Animation and Pre-Design programs at Algonquin College, in Ottawa, Ontario will be coming. The various students in the pre-animation and pre-design program will be showing off their portfolios on that day! We will have foam core characters that are 8 feet tall and a bunch of artwork to show off. We'd love to have a big turn out! Your critiques and opinions will be very important for those wanting to move onwards.

In addition, the Labyrinth store will be coming to our openhouse. The Labyrinth is a store in Toronto, Ontario that sells all sorts of mangas, art books, how-to-draws and reference books for artists and art lovers. There will be a large selection you will get to peek at and purchase away.
You can check them out at [link]

The date will be as follows: April 17th, 2008, 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM, in the Cafeteria Salons in Building D.

You can email Richard Lauzon at lauzonr@algonquincollege.com for more details.

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Man... 2002 was quite a year, quite a year. No, really, I'm a bit stumped at how to explain why I thought that looked anything like anime or manga which was making me learn this.

I like to think I improved.

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Comparison -> [link]

It's a dramatic change. Facial expressions is something that's always been a bit of a problem for me, it always looks flat and neutral... but then blam, curiosity and "cute" mingled into one, something I couldn't really pin down and still can't pin down in my typical style.

Mind you, I'm not so blind to think that my style isn't shining in the western style as well. But it's a lot less flat and I like it.

Thoughts?

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Right now it's only a hub of links for various art found throughout the web (well.. 3 accounts. might add some more) but eventually I might find something else to stick on there.

College is going well, lots of drawing involved (duh). Most assignments I hand in for marks can be found on [link] .

Things aren't going badly.

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D:

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They have, however, offered to enroll me into a pre-animation. A program that will give me what I need to get into the full animation program.

3 more years of college turned into 4.

But I'm a lot less disapointed than if they had gone "sorry, no-go" with no alternative than to hang-dry for a year.

So I'll be going into my dream program, Animation, but will need to take the escalator before I reach the stairs themselves.

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Which made me curious. I get giddy if I see a single comment, or a single fav, or heck, a watch (which is especially rare, but it happens too). How do the "big" artists react?

I expect they see "X has put Y as a favorite" a good 10+ times a day, and "X is now watching you" 2 or so times a day, and I am sure they see "X has posted Z comment on K topic" 50+ times on their work and journals.

Does it lessen the impact of a single fav, to get so many? Or does it become for granted?

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