The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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It's good to see you having fun Quatermass! Glad you've decided to join the ranks of the insane. I've been a card-carrying member since 1958. Our membership motto is: "More is never enough. But twice as much as infinity divided by half".

Lemon!! ! Good to see you girl! I've heard that making too many rules makes one sick. My system has to have lots of chaos in it. If I don't have several projects strewn throughout the house, I shut down. Too neat just doesn't work for me. Gotta have lots of things to work on so that I can jump from this to that. I like turning in circles. Is that how your system works?

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NAN'S A SECRET AGENT! SHE WORKS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF CONFORMITY!! !
Whoops! ...erm, you can't hear - but I forgot you can still read. Heh, heh!
Sorry you're still not well!

The doc's a good guy. He knows that I gave all my money away, so he's just trying to show me how to think along money lines. He said, "Bite the bullet one year, and you can live cheaply off the interest the rest of your life doing whatever it is that you want to do. After the first year, you'll get a little name recognition, then you can start charging more. Then it will snowball." That year would teach me art discipline I suppose. Would probably learn to pick up my speed as well.

But I don't want name recognition, don't want to lose my anonymity. And I hate the idea of painting over a masterpiece that I can see on a canvas just waiting to be brought forth with another one of a thousand of the same thing. I've got a piece of paper downstairs right now with the image of a beautiful dragon made out of misted lettuce just waiting to be brought forth. I would hate to cover it up with another of the same picture of April. But if I bring the dragon to life I can just see my psychiatrist shaking his head and saying "Crap, crap, crap...."

When someone tells me that they like my work, and would I make them something - if I could cry I would. Wow! What a compliment. I'll bust my butt to do the very best job I can. I pour everything I've got into it. I don't care if the work takes months - or years. When I saw Kara on the "paper" I was really happy, because she saw a picture I had made for Jill, and one of Eva for Jamie, and told me that she'd like to have one someday. I gave it everything I had. If she is happy, that is payment enough. On the few occasions that people come to visit me, if they see something I've done hanging on the wall, and reach out to touch it, and keep going back to it, I take it off the wall, write them a message on it, wrap it up and give it to them. That's when I know who I painted it for. How do you put a price on that?

He said that's what he would pay me for the work. $400,000.00. I told him I wanted it in cash up front as a show of faith not only in my ability, but also in his belief that I'm not crazy. He just smiled.

that's how i did it (i did do the first years from baby to about my daughter was 10, they are 11 and 13 now) but someone did notice ... and took over when i went to study, now i don't get it back no more ...

Hey, now, HEY now! Watch those insults, Gomer-dude!
Yeah, I can still read.
And I still own a dart pipe and am a pretty good shot

The docs are always "the good guys" [one would hope] - as is anyone who thinks they're a critic. Did you know JK Rowling had to shop her "Harry Potter" story around to a kazillion publishers before one took it? Bet the others are beating their heads on their respective walls... (I believe it was 12 publishers. She was a welfare mom, too, at the time.) Obviously, their critics didn't see any "value" in it, although millions of kids around the world certainly have. There's a difference between "Value" and "Marketability" quite often when one is discussing a work of art. And both concepts, when applied to the item in question, seem to often change over time.

When something is so personal, and the interpretation of it is so personal, how the hell can a dollar figure be put onto it? (Except by the marketing folks, who figure out how to sell it.) I'm going to be kicking myself for saying this, because I hate the saying, but "art for art's sake" is enough of a reason to create it.

[Reads like a flipping Hallmark Card. {Yerch! } ]

! !!

is it on canvas? if you say drawing, you mean it's made with a pencil?


as for copyright, the copyright always belongs to the one who made the painting even when the artist gave away or sold his/her work (except when the artist sold the copyright) check out the agreement of Bern, if you want ask me by pm, i must have it somewhere.

i do hope so

yeah the rules are not to make all chaos go away, it is to survive in the chaos, like whenever this or that happens we always act like this or that. but hub changes all the time and often on the spot, so it's difficult for me to follow, especially when he has some mind-blowing ultra-verbal explanation for it. but as said ... he's also so very sweet and good . and he prefers me to go and work, since i'm so very subject-focussed, it might not be a wrong choice.

It's very nice. XP won't be supported at some point, by the M word company. Vista is a full blown disaster. I'm writing this on the Ubuntu set up and so far, today, figuring out how to download things I want, have mixed reviews from me. Here is one thing I've noticed for someone that is, has been, very Windows oriented.... There is one hell of a lot of "programmer speak" in this. This isn't just for a Linux machine, it is through out the industry and it is and has been bull s**t for years. So far I would say I'm seeing more of it then in Windows, but I'm still getting my mind wrapped around Linux. This is an example, I use Avast anti virus, Lau assures me I don't really have a need to even run anti virus, this is not in my known range of comfort and I want it on. Going to the home page for the program, I am faced with three choices of a Linux based version, none of which seems to fit what I understand, at this point. Now.... there are other ways to download items, programs and that to me is real "programmer speak", seriously over my head. Avast may be down loadable in this manner, as in from some repository, I just don't have a clue yet. I don't know if there is an .exe file but I suspect not and even if I down load a program not sure how to make it, "go". We'll see, or I will, I ain't fraid of no ghosts. As far as getting it up and running, very easy and I suspect my questions put more time onto the process then was really needed, hell I know they did, no guess there. I'm still playing with it and that is important, we kind of jumped from what does this button do into something that sure looked like DOS to me and that stuff ain't for the faint of heart. There are no buttons to push in that world and I like simple, lot's of buttons, plug and freakin play with no programmer speak. And it is in Ubuntu, don't get me wrong, this box fired up with no trouble and I expected a hassle with the main board and the sound card, Windows had a major malfunction with the sound card, nary a hint of trouble with Linux. Seriously I think it's just getting use to it and I fully expect there to be some very simple guides out there and the conversion isn't that hard, after all, I'm here and typing and we didn't discuss that in any detail, a no brainer and I like no brainers. Oh and the screen savers will blow your mind, there is no real need to run this box, but I will just to watch the screen savers. I will install it on my main box and had The Wife check it out and she liked it. You don't take Windows off. You have the option to run it when the machine starts. I would say to go Ubuntu before XP is so badly out dated you are in trouble. Vista is just plain bad and the rumor is they are already doing something to replace it, now, they just released the damn thing, isn't even stable and they're going to replace it? What's wrong with that picture? The bad news is, even if they got a new operating system out in record time for them, which would still be long, XP will be badly outdated. There were more articles over the week end about it, they really stepped on their, err, parts with Vista.

Two add-ons, downlods later........

Thanks, Postie. I think I'll watch and see how this one flies, for a while. Everyone I've heard talk about Vista pretty much agrees with what you've said - disaster city there. What we have (XP) is serving our needs at present, but I do expect there will be a time when it won't be supported any longer. It's happened before.

I used to run IBM DOS mainframes, and then built my first 286 computer from spare parts I bummed off of people who were upgrading. [I still have it in my closet, amber screen and all!] I seem to remember having a great deal of fun doing so, but it's been a lot of years. Did it so the Kid could play "Astro Grover" and "Reader Rabbit" on the computer before nap time, as I assumed computers were going to be a big part of her future. Also got damned tired of typing research papers on a typewriter, when those word processors could actually handle a couple of pages of text at a time! DOS made perfect sense to me, at one time. I was talking to the machine, and it spoke back. But is has been a long, long time. Don't know that I either could or would want to go there again, anymore.

Appreciate the feedback.

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Can't run World of Warcraft without this one, so can't say what is up. Apparently this one is some kind of windows emulator, Wine is the name and...this is boring and I'll figure it out. I just don't know why the damn button didn't light up for the go on the pasted, errr, apt something or freakin other. If anyone hears a loud explosion and the richter scale needles jump around the world, not to worry, it's just me I really like this stuff...I think.

Sounds like a techie-addict to me, for sure!
Ah, the pain ... and it feeeeels so gooood....

While Jim was away cycling I had to discipline myself to stick to his system. Car keys go here, glasses go there. When you come home you are not in the house until you've put everything away. "I'm not in the house yet!"

I have said elsewhere that one of his nicknames is, "Boring Old Dog Fart'. BODF. The dog is for year of the dog from the Chinese system.