a musing: derivations of a non-conformist idealist

by Julius Christopher F. Fonte, 2010, pastel on canvas then scanned then digitally manipulated

Last November, I went to Eastwood with a bag of trade paperback collections of the Fables comic book to have favorite cover artist James Jean sign them.  I overheard that his previous book signing at the Fort the day before was so much more attended and the “super“-fans who had some more things for him [...]

I hate you, Ronan, for getting me into this game! I hate the trolls and their cave! I hate those things in the mine! Hehehe  But seriously, I hate the 2 days spent downloading and installing this game!  But the game itself is really cool.  I’m a dwarf hunter with some sort of rifle that [...]

Very entertaining.  Nice re-play value.  Go and get it and play now =)
Sidenote: I like the single corn shooters; I hate the big corn cannon; I love the the cat tails =)

So I get home, turn my PC on, and as the rest of my tabs in Chrome  load up, the Twitter page gives me a “link might be broken” message.  I search the web for any notices and I find…
Find out when Twitter is down
So when you get error messages on the Twitter page and [...]

Mad, crazy, insane vocal art!  I am jealous and wish I could get a few people to do something like this- jump up and down to make their voice vibrate hahaha it’s cheaper than sticking a vibrating thing somewhere.  Hmm, one could also use two-fingers-or-a-hand-playing-with-the-neck-area to create the desired vocal effect…  Search youtube and view [...]

Two weeks ago, officemates convinced me to try the Farm Town application in Facebook.  It can be fun.  Watch as your farmer levels up and becomes able to plant various crops.  But I’m preparing to *not play* anymore.  It consumes valuable time I can spend writing so… very soon, I shall “sell” my farm or [...]

Check out tweetpsych.com and find out what your tweets can say about you.  Their analyses provide descriptive tagging based on the cognitive, conceptual and emotional content of your tweets.  Below are some of my tweet-traits.  It says I’ve been positive (in spite of being in a negative rut for a bit) and that I’m agreeable. [...]

download or upload stuff through the internet?  The below results are via dslreports.com.  My results are pretty lame when you see top speeds of 9402 kbps down and 2773 kbps up for cable connections.  Of course those speeds are in either Canada or the U.S.

Ooh, there’s an archive report for PLDT!  Hmm, highest is 2.8m [...]

Wow.  A lot of the choreography in Beyonce’s Single Ladies video was derived from 60’s great choreographer Bob Fosse’s dances, most particularly in Gwen Verdon’s performance at the TV show Mexican Breakfast.    Below are three videos from youtube (users 1dubdigit, ikarop, and MackTenn74, respectively)- the first one is the Gwen Verdon performance with Beyonce’s [...]