Preserved Topic: newness and grooveness

hey everyone--

I have been following the progress of this board for a very long time. Why hadn't I joined until now? I don't know. I leave that to the gods.

I guess that makes me the newbie here. I have been designing foreva--nearly a decade now. And lets get something straight: a pixel is a unit of measurement on the screen, and a point is a unit of measurement on a peice of paper.

p1xl

While we're at it...
let's get this straight as well...

An entropy (in physics) is the measure of disorganization or degredation of the universe.

ok, I'm feeling a little better...

Welcome to the Asylum!

feck. :: hands p1xl a basket of pears ::

welcome to the fucking asylum. enjoy your fucking stay.

Welcome p1xl

Let me introduce you to twItch

He suffers from optical rectitis

His optical nerve and rectal nerves got crossed and now he has a shitty outlook on life. he he

Welcome...glad you decided to join us.

<starts mexican wave> Hey ##p1xl welcome to the show =)
Sig forum to the left, dhtml to your right and restrooms up the hall..., yonder...., atleast they will be...when we have them installed =/

restroom?

I thought we just pissed on the morons.....um..wasn't that why twitch was writing "urinal" on all of them?

Hola p1xl...try not to mind kretsminky, we told him he was funny looking, but he only heard the first half.

and Wead....man...stop waving the mexicans....immigration keeps eyeing us.


Peter




ICQ:# 10237808

Hey ##p1xl, welcome! Hmm, how do you pronounce that name, anyway? hash-hash'p'won'ixel? I started thinking of you as pixelpoint almost right away, my mind tends to jumble thoughts and sounds together, but I'll get the spelling down, hopefully! Heh, seems like I've known you for years at least, glad you finally showed up! I totally agree, pixels and points have little in common, especially when talking about digital images, one of my pet peeves. I once spent a week trying to explain this to a Photoshop author I worked with once, inches have little or nothing to do with the web. How big is your monitor? What's the screen rez? Break out a ruler and see! (Little, but not totally nothing, actually. Can anyone guess what I'm thinking of? Hint: Why do fonts appear smaller when viewed on a Macintosh than on a PC?) Glad you lurked for a little while, I won't have to explain my little families idiosyncracies, heh. Welcome, glad you're here.

Your pal, -doc-

doc, are there differences in dpi resolutions between pc and mac monitors?

:: shudder ::

imagine that!


oh, and krets--up your fucking nose with a pear.

Man! What an introduction!
"a pixel is a unit of measurement on the screen, and a point is a unit of measurement on a peice of paper."


and is ok to give a wellcome to the "fucking" Asylum or whatever, but please, do not start with the blue pill stuff...

uh oh... time for an identity crisis....
am i me or jsut a bunch of you?
oh well, welcome anyway!

hehe...welcome.

--->apple went with one UM for how many points in an inch (the printing standard for it I suppose) and micro soft decided to use an arbitrary number instead.


hehe.....piss on the morons.......hehehe.........

meiow ##p1xl welcome welcome..... ------------> that way

meiow

i am the princess of the universe

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See, I wasnt drunk. That urinal did run off screaming 'Ive read the manual, Ive read the manual'

p1xl: WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! *sniffs your hand* Ok you have passed the security check, you may pass. Enjoy your stay at the Asylum.

welcome...you'll find your straight jacket inside your cell...not big enough? to big...WELL TOUGH SHIT! ahem...sorry about that...my other personality took over for a minute.

Oh...and let's get another thing straight...A mad scientist RULES AROUND here...sorry...there goes that other personality again.



Pretty...What do we blow up first? - Unknown

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Welcome ##p1xl

Let's just go ahead and get it all straight.... you don't get black pills until after your 1st month, so
don't come and beg me for one

I saw you lurking around peaking in the bars and knew you would sign up sooner or later.....it's not
a life style... it's a way of life ~omg I am starting to talk like them here~eeeeeeeekkkkkkk


"Last thing I remember, I was running for the door I had to find the passage back to the place I was before. Relax said the nightman, we are programmed to receive. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave..."





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Hey, ##p1xl (how the hell do you pronounce that?) oh well. Welcome.

peace

-amy

It's nice to know that you people welcome new people so quickly. I only hope you aren't quick to judge.

First and foremost, you don't pronounce my name. If you do, you've taken this Internet thing a little too close to heart.

Like I said above, I have been doing graphic design for nearly a decade. What does that mean for you? It means that I do not have high tolleration for people that are unwilling to RTFM. Anyone need that term defined? I thought not.

Most importantly, graphic design involves artistry. If you want to achieve a specific effect, I suggest you hang out with the idiots at Designs by Mark's forum. They're more than willing to give you stupid advice in terms of how to make a glassy, phasey, shiney, foamy effect. Because they're idiots and are unwilling to take into account the amount of genuine artistry that is necessary. I have lurked there for a total of an hour. I never went back.

Again, thanks for the welcome.

##p1xl: so do you have any work to back up your big mouth?

:: cheers.mikey.milker

Or entropy could be representitive of the inner turmiol of the human experince from a psychological stand point. Hi, I'm new here if you didn't notice. I have to say I've been to several forums on the net and I believe I have found where all the intelligent people have been hiding. . . .right here! I have been impressed by everyones conversations about the future of the net and the like. I also noticed everyone here has some awesome personal pics, are you all photoshop masters?

"Most People would rather die than think, in fact they do."
-Bertrand Russel

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:: smirk ::

hi milker.

##p1xl:

You make a good point that "Most importantly, graphic design involves artistry." ...... I'm very agreeable to that.

But I'll just let you know where I stand on your slight diaherria of the mouth.
We have many people mingling these halls. People who have deep roots in the graphic design arts... and at the same time, we have people who have yet to get futher than their toe into the water. We're here to help each other. What I don't know... someone else will..... what someone else doesn't know..... I might. We help... that is the purpose of this board. And I find it slightly more than mildly irritating that you would come here and insult it's very purpose.
If people come here looking to obtain a certain effect, I'm going to help them. I'm going to because not everyone is planning on spending a large portion of their time learning design. People cannot learn and progress without accomplishing what someone else did before them. There's no need to come here.... slinging your "years of experience" around like it's some sort of shield that prevents you from helping others.
If you plan not to help people looking for answers on specific "effects".... that's no problem.... and no one will have a problem with that. Allow the others who don't mind to help them, without anyone being flamed for asking questions to "simple effects".


We are all idiots.... that includes you.
Everyone started somewhere.... that includes you too.

I look forward to seeing what you can do as well.... with your "experience"... I hope to pick up a few things...

Cheers,
Michael

Well said Taxon.
And welcome to you also Oracular.

peace

-amy

funk dat.

i was born in a photoshop box. sucked, really. my daddy was quark. i never met him again.

*Rummages around for his copy of how to win friends and influence people*




A small mind is a tidy mind.

hey Tycho, don't remember seeing you 'round these parts before (but then again there's a LOT i don't remember) Anyway, just saw you were from my neck-o-the-woods, wanted to say hey.

peace

-amy

Ooh! Hi Mikey, where ya been hiding?

One of the things i like about this place, we all have lots of big egos, it can be fun! (Yah, I said 'egos' plural. Gotta problem with that? =) I do feel I should remind some of you, be nice, we like new people here, everyone's got something to share, and some of us old timers more than others, heh. ##p1xl, one of the things we *do* learn around here is to judge folks more by the work they do than the words they speak, dig? Now I didn't notice anything to get offended by, but you obviously ruffled a few feathers, heh. (We have some *major* talents floating around here, and some of the best ones don't talk themselves up too much. Watch out, you may find yourself talking down to someone who's been around longer than you have!)

On that note, I'll second that request, got anything online we can look at and comment on? We may be silly at times, but we're dedicated, and curious as hell, usually!

Eh? Who 'dat? Oracular Discernment, I haven't said hi yet. Hi!

Heh. "Design by Mark" forum. I hear bad things about that place, it's a shame, but building a community like this requires a lot of time and effort, Fortunately we have a lot of people with too much time on their hands!

BTW, beware the Mad Scientists.

Oh, sorry for breaking the board a few minutes ago, I promise you, it'll happen again!

Your pal, -doc-

hehe...I've missed you mikey

oooh! ##p1xl - now you're one post away from having a flaming thread! first ever thread too - im impressed!

Heres your mop ##pixel boy.. get to it!.. oh ya.. velcome abroad!

~Vp~

errr. Bunch! thats two posts! LOL.. Flame ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A NAUSEOUS NOCTURNE

Another night deprived of slumber,
Hours passing without number,
My eyes trace ?round the room.

I lay Dripping sweat and now quite certain that tonight the final curtain drops on my short life?s precious play.

From the darkness,
By the closet Comes a noise,
Much like a faucet Makes:
A madd?ning drip-drip-dripping sound.

It seems some ill-proportioned beast,
Anticipating me deceased,
Is drooling poison puddles on the ground.

A can of Mace,
A forty-five,
Is all I?d need to stay alive.
But no weapon lies within my sight.

Oh my gosh!
A shadow?s creeping,
Ominous and black,
it?s seeping Slowly ?cross a moonlit square of light!

Suddenly a floorboard creak Announces the bloodsucking freak Is here to steal my future years away!
A sulf?rous smell now fills the room Heralding my imm?nent doom!
A fang gleams in the dark and murky gray!

Oh,
Blood-red eyes and tentacles!
Throbbing,
Pulsing ventricles!
Mucas-oozing pores and frightful claws!

Worse,
In terms of outright scariness,
Are the suckers multifarious that grab and force you in its mighty jaws!

This disgusting aberration of nature needs no motivation to devour helpless children in their beds.
Relishing despairing moans,
It chews kids up and sucks their bones,
And dissolves inside its mouth their li?l heads!

I know this ?cause I read it not Two hours ago,
And then I got the heebie-jeebies and the awful shakes.

My parents swore upon their honor that I was safe,
And not a goner.
I guess tomorrow they?ll see their sad mistakes.

In the morning,
they will come in and say,
?What was that awful din we heard last night?
You kept us both from sleep!?

Only then will they surmise the gruesomeness of my demise and see that my remains are in a heap.

Dad will look at mom and say,
?Too bad he had to go that way.?
And mom will look at dad,
And not assent.

Mom will add,
?Still,
It?s fitting,
That as he was this world quitting,
He should leave another mess before he went.?

They may not mind at first,
They will miss me later,
Though,
And perhaps admit that they were wrong,
As memories of me grow dim,
They?ll say,
?We were to strict with him.
We should have listened to him all along.?

As speedily my end approaches,
I bid a final ?buenas noches? to my best friend here in all the world.
Gently snoring,
whiskers seeming to sniff at smells (he must be dreaming),
he lies snuggled in the blankets,
curled.....



edit: not sorry about the long post, eyeZer is never sorry.

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Doc, you talking about that Reve, Allgood episode? That was quite funny.

Reve says: "I hate when newbies come in here and act like..."

What Reve doesn't know: Allgood and Maa have been around forever

Pixel Person, welcome, show us your stuff.

-mage-

Ape falls from the tree,
Soon he learns to straighten knee,

(Cut thru wrist is done.)

Ape come man stands tall and still,
Now the World he'll begin to kill,

(First red drip, now red drop.)

Pollution here, atomic bomb there,
Must be a forest to destroy somewhere,

(Gush-gush, ?. Gush-gush, ?. Gush-gush,)

We'll all be dead!

~Vp~

*testing*


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Whoah....Big

Eye! You stopped just before my favorite part, (I'll have to pull this from memorry, heh.)

"Hey! You bloody cretin, are you gonna sleep while I get eaten?" (misquote)

So, give us the rest of it, hmm? Please!

- Don't mess with the DEVIL -

hmm...... the Devil has commanded it... it shall be...


Hey! Wake up,
You stupid cretin!
You gonna sleep while I get eaten?!
Suddenly the monster knows I?m not alone!

There?s an animal in the bed with me!
An awful beast he did not see!
The monster never would?ve come if he had known!

The monster,
In his consternation,
Demonstrates defenestration,
And runs and runs and runs and runs away.

Rid of the pest,
I now can rest,
Thanks to my best friend, who saved the day.

Hello amy/theRoy

Yep, good 'ol Fort Worth.. its a crazy place, and I still havent figured it out yet (lived here 2 1/2 yeeahs), but it's definately an experience. I havent been posting often lately, which Is why you havent seen me around. I've been mostly lurking lately, waiting for the right time to strike... Coiling my catlike speed and reflexes for just the right time...

Err, actually I usually just feel humbled by everyone elses work and feel hopelessly inadequate.

*sobs uncontrollably*

Ugh, someone left me strapped to my cot this morning in the Trendellenburg position... I still havent recovered from the stress of it. Someone open Cell block C!




A small mind is a tidy mind.

Well Howdy then neighbor! Gawd, how cheesy does that sound? Oh well, it can't be helped. All I can say about Fort Worth is that I love where I live except for Rodeo time of year. AAHHHHHH!!!!!! GET THESE PEOPLE AWAY FROM ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
maybe i should go back to my little dark room now.....



Oh Tycho, recognize the skyline in my siggie?

Chicago, right?

/smirk

Yeah, (or should I say Yeeehaw!) I have to drive through the stockshow area (university dr.) once a day or so... argh what a mess! Durned cowboys...




A small mind is a tidy mind.

Yeah I get the pleasure of Lancaster everday to and from work. Hehe, I probably pass you on the road everyday.... Um, but the chick in the black acura flipping the bird out the sunroof is DEFINITELY not me.

That was you ?!

Heh seriously, we probably see each other twice a day and dont even know it.

>Deity< bless the internet...

sheesh, get a room!

:: err....cell !!

Why Hedd, whatever do you mean? *fans himself*