Borrowed Viggo's only-handsome-when-he's-dirty-as-Aragorn face in TTT to experiment with colorful gradients.  Turned out not as good as I'd hoped.  Only like the orange glow.   Maybe Aragorn's face not good for colors or for emotions as a matter of fact. *muahaha*

Anyhoo, here's the final result:


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I finished Ice Hunt by James Rollins! I will diminish and go into the west...
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Since I love the base for the faramir icon so much, I tried putting different images to see if I could achieve the same effect. The base could only enhance images with bluish color but I realized after trying some LOTR images that most of them work with this base! Usually TTT images are bluish such as Frodo and Sam in the Dead Marsh, the ( Read more... )

Decided to stay home today since it was so hot outside. Managed to make this icon of Faramir in an hour. It turned out really well, perhaps too well, that I decided not to tinker around with various colors and just go with the blue. Stole the quote from someone who made the text brush.

Poor Faramir!


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Tried to exchange brand-new books at B&N (which were given to me by my friend who brought them at B&N) and they only credit me with the lowest possible prices on the items? You suck B&N!
Ok, not really 'cuz you got nice comfortable sofas to read your books for free.
Exchanged for Hammerfall by C.J. Cherryh and Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb ( ( Read more... )

In a Past Life...
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Some of the things people do that just validate the famous Einstein quote: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." Case in point, I was shopping at the supermarket today and as I pushed my cart to the fruits & vegetables section, I noticed a swarm of young girls (at least 5 girls) ( Read more... )

So I was asked to order 2 chemicals the other day, namely 1-hexanethiol and 3-mercaptopropionic acid from the Aldrich company. Now I looked these up on their website and the prices were not that much...around $20 for 50 mL of the 1-hexanethiol and around $30 for 100 mL of the 3-mercaptopropionic acid. Anyhoo I thought I got it all covered. A day ( Read more... )