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I can't believe you were going to ship it before getting his credit card info.
Today I got a little bit testy.
Maybe its the fact that I am on the damn patch, but this rubbed me the wrong way.
About a week ago, we had a guy call our store (in Boston).
He asked if we had a copy of Looking Glass Wars: Hatter M #1.
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I thought that was very nice, and promised to call him when the reorders came in. (that was last tuesday)
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My boss says "why should I mail it out before speaking to him?". I said 'well, then you will know how much the shipping is going to be."
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and he called the guy and identified himself, and said that the reorders came in and that his book was ready to be shipped.
He then pauses, and goes "oh, okay, so you already picked one up from your store? So you don't need us to mail it to you?"
I went ballistic (I was reshelving books at the time).
"but he called all the way from Florida talking about how wonderful we were, and how he needed the book."
my boss hangs up the phone and says "He said that he 'forgot' that he called us and got the book elsewhere."
Pissed me off. I said to my boss "what if that was like a walking dead omnibus or something else? I can't believe that!!"
My boss says "NOW do you see why I don't bother with people who call me up and want me to order books and mail them out?"
Sadly, I could see his point, and understood why he was so resistent to me going 'this guy called and wants us to ship out this book when we get it back in"
Oh well, a lesson learned.
I can't believe you were going to ship it before getting his credit card info.
What a loser.
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Luckily, this experience hasn't changed my stellar customer service attitude.
I applaud the fact that you guys would go the extra mile for the customer. Not many stores would do that.
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As long as you take payment up front I don't see why you shouldn't do this for people. Sure that guy is a flake but business is business. Just change how you do it a little.


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Guest blogger Granny Gone Rad: A comment from my granddaughter made me give a damn about my appearance again.
"Grandma, did you ever look nice?"
That was the question posed by my then-six-year old granddaughter whose other grandma is petite with thick, long blonde hair and who can dance better than Britney Spears. "Yes", I answered, but the question stuck in my craw like a sharp fishbone. Yes, people used to say I was beautiful, but that was a very long time ago.
The question forced a trip to the full-length mirror to assess the problem, and the news wasn't good. I was swelling out of my size 14s, my hair was limp and hadn't seen a hairdresser in many moons, my nails were chewed down, and my toenails looked like tiny prehistoric monsters. The kid had a point.
So after my husband had a heart attack, I went on his heart-healthy diet and dropped 10 pounds in a month. Then I started walking down the street to church five days a week and lost another 15 pounds. What amazed me was that it was so easy to do. Then I turned into a grazer rather than sitting down to big meals. When I felt hungry, I'd grab a yogurt just to calm the hunger pangs. It got so that I plated out small portions because I knew I didn't need large ones, no matter how tempting the food. That was a great feeling, and I'm now in my loosely-fitting size 12s and heading to size 10 which I haven't seen since I was 28. I'm now 61.
It galls me to hear young people call seniors blue-hairs or Q-tips. I don't want that for myself. I don't want tight perms and I don't want to end up smelling like mothballs. I don't want my house to reflect who I was but who I am. I want to stay current and active. And I want my granddaughter to say I look nice now. So on to hair and makeup.
My idea of a haircut is to grab a hank and cut it off with my sewing scissors. Frankly, I'm not going to change that because when I go to a young hairdresser, I come out with a utilitarian haircut that's either butch or curled unfetchingly around my face. Young hairdressers, especially in small towns like mine, think you're all washed up anyway so why waste their limited skills on you. I've worn a ponytail practically since birth and I'm sticking with it, but with modifications like good conditioner . Fortunately, I have thick, still-shiny hair so I don't look like an old greasy hippie. I pulled out an ancient tub of exfoliant, scrubbed my skin with it followed by a chaser of Oil of Olay and that did wonders. I soaked my old toes in soapy water, trimmed them nicely with my hair scissors, and painted my toenails an astonishing shade of orange.
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Welcome to my sketchbook. I'm an aspiring artist starting at the beginning of the art. I didn't seriously begin drawing until a year and a few months ago. Since then, I have made it a goal to draw everyday and improve as much as possible. I have been shadowing this site for about a year now and believe its time to bring myself into the open. Everyone on here is absolutely amazing and committed, and I'm always inspired by the creativity here.
One of my prominent goals is to learn figure drawing from life to the mind and eventually begin oil painting. But first, I'm going back to the basics.
The first drawing was me learning the effects of perspective. I'm trying to develop a greater understanding of it, because I think I skipped in my beginning learning process.
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Hey guys,
Here is an update. The asian house was really fun to draw. I think I'm going to add details and draw another one. The self-portrait turned out a little strange. I was trying to draw in pen without erasing or anything like that.
Sorry about the paper for the banana. I was trying to use it to help guide my strokes. It helped allot in being selective with my lines.
Constructive criticism is welcome!
June 25
Trying to learn how to draw the human head and figure. Here are some practice drawings.
I still need practice, but I'm going to practice a bunch more and hopefully get them down. I'm reading through the Loomis books and they are really helping me understand the construction of the figure.
Constructive criticism is welcome!
Last edited by loper42; June 26th, 2010 at 02:20 PM.
Hey loper42, thanks for checkin out my sb.
You're doing great! Just draw draw draw! Don't get discouraged if you don't get a ton of replies, just post a lot and people will see your commitment and start stopping by more.
The biggest thing you can right now is to learn to really see what's there. It's hard to distinguish between what you think you should see and what is really there. Keep doing anatomy studies and drawing from life. Try and see the angles of the edges of shapes, the negative space (spaces between and around the object), and the different relationships between parts of the object.
It'll all come in time, so long as you just keep drawing! Keep it up!!!
eekolite: Good advice. I suppose I can't expect people to notice my sketchbook until after I begin to show real commitment. I will definitely try more life drawings. I've been straying away from that and its good idea to go back to it for awhile.
Here's a bunch of gesture drawings. Gestures are hard, but I'm going to keep doing them until I've mastered them.
I think the self-portrait turned out ok. I was trying to use the information I learned from Loomis books, but I'm going to have do more to really grasp the concepts.
Hi loper42, ok, let me get on to the point. The first sketch, the chair, everything looks good except for the seat itself, it somehow isn't right. The side shading isn't good, goes to up on the right, while it should ended a much earlier. Now, the seat itself, you should've done it a bit more elliptical, goeas up too much, ain't good. Try, I don't know, putting the empty glass in front of the seat on the screen, and observer the glass opening, the shape of it, if you put it right, based on the legs and else, you should see that it more elliptical than your seat. I hope you'll understand me.
Nice anatomy study, and I love that chinese little house or whatever it is, good perspective. Keep it up, practice and practice, all it is. See you around.
Hey! Your heads are already improving. That's got to feel good!
Since a lot of other people are already giving you good advice, I'll just leave two tips.
One is to remember that the inner corner of the eye is always lower than the outer corner of the eye, unless the head is tilted strongly upwards. You should see the difference in your sketches-from-imagination right away!
Second is to block in the shapes of the hair before filling in the strands. That would be the tip under "Layout: putting down the basics" in this tutorial. I'm in the process of learning which shapes to draw for which types of hair, but I can still vouch for how well it works!
Nenad: I see what your saying. Its not the correct elliptical shape. I will definitely work on that and try and get more accurately circular chairs.
Furiana: Aw... thank you! I never thought about that for the hair. That makes perfect sense. I tried to use the eye advice while drawing the loomis heads. Thank you so much! I've always had trouble with hair and I think this just might help.
Here's a loud of work from yesterday and the day before that. The pen work was quite fun and I enjoyed trying to be conscious of my strokes. Although, the car could've been a bit better.
I think I'm starting the idea of gesture drawings and hopefully doing them everyday will make even better.
Any constructive criticism is welcome!
Hi loper42.
You're headed in the right direction here, its good to see so many loomis studies, it'll help a lot. It looks like you still don't have a strong understanding of the skull that lies underneath, but if you keep studying that it'll come. I suggest trying to get your hands on a 3-D skull model, if you can. You can pick up cheap plastic ones online.
I'd like to see some more lifestudies too. You're doing good!
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I kindof wish we had a "Keep it up!" button next to the "Thanks" button! "This poster was encouraged 58 times in 10 posts" ;p
The zippered bag looks like the best of the bunch from this go-round, but oddly enough, the car is my favorite. I'm not really sure why!
Furiana: I completely agree, it would be very helpful for commenting. I have yet to try the hair method, I will be sure to do it soon.
Marlee: Yes, it definitely has been helping with the construction and placement for the face. I took your suggestion and looked into the skull. Although, I don't have a 3D model, but it has already helped me quite a bit and I will likely do more studies of the skull.
Sorry about the delay, I actually got some kind virus like sickness and tried desperately to draw while sick, but I was way too tired. On Tuesday and most of Wednesday I didn't do very much drawing. However, I did on Thursday and most of this stuff is from yesterday.
The pen stuff is my attempt and figuring how to draw a circle. I'm finding hard for me to make my lines the way I want them to be. However, I'm sure with more practice I will get better.
Constructive Criticism is welcome!
Hi Loper,
first nice sk, so continue to draw hard every day.
if can help, but I don't know if is correct, continue studying Loomis, I've seen that is a good way to learn anathomy fast: copy and then a few try from immagination.
Keep it up
dleoblack: Thank you! It has definitely added to my learning curve to learn loomis construction methods.
I did quite a few gesture drawings. I feel like I've finally figured out how to properly do them and have reached a new understanding. When I did the portrait, I tried Furiana's approach to hair and I thank you for the tip because it helped.
I will have new portrait done for next time and hopefully some more finished work.
Constructive criticism is welcome!
Here are some more drawings. Loomis is really helping with understanding the way that people move and head movements.
I feel like I need to work on my line work, but I'm not sure exactly how to improve them. Constructive Criticism is welcome!
Hey loper!
Great job with the gestures/poses. They really helped so much and if you do them regularly they'll skyrocket your ability. Just make sure you do some from imagination, afterwards. I know it can be frustrating! Trust me haha. Its a pain in the butt but it'll be worth it one day when you can draw a great, accurate figure easily. (Isn't it nice to imagine that someday, it will be possible to draw a good figure without drawing 30 other crappy attempts first? Its what I look forward to, hah.. I usually don't even get it on the 31st try yet.)
The loomis stuff looks good, its super helpful too as long as you remember to stress volume and form. Its still something i'm getting the hang of, but every time you lay your pencil to the paper to draw a figure or a person think of the sense of volume it has in real life. Try to communicate the shapes, like spheres, cylinders, cubes when you're drawing. Its tough. If you looked at my real life sketchbook you'd wade through pages and pages and pages of hundreds of cubes and cylinders. Remember that NOTHING is too basic to practice. (Doesn't everybody think, "of course i can draw a cube, thats easy"? I swear its harder than it looks!)
The stuff from life is good too. I love the plaid hat from a few days ago. Just take your time. With stuff like the rolling pin, which is cylindrical, it pays off to really have patience when you're putting those lines down to describe the form.
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Hi Loper,
the suggestion I can give is, like Marlee, to take the time to learn. Continue to copy Loomis, Bridgman and photos taken from the net - nudes.
It's a long process to develop the right eye for proportions and overall figure "melody"...eh eh
take care
Good advice has been given already! definitely stick to what you're doing. Nailing the fundamentals is key.
I'll go ahead and crit you on your drawing technique. This is most noticeable in your portraits, you smudge. When drawing I suggest you either draw entirely with lines, hatching, or entirely with smudging. They don't go well together. Find the one you're most comfortable with and get really good at it
Also, when you fill in huge areas you seem to do it without any consideration on the direction of the lines, just scribbling 'here and there'. This brings your drawings down a lot, giving them a cheap look. Try to have all your lines follow the flow of the object you're shading.
Your crosshatching also needs some attention - I made a quick sketch in photoshop to show you what I mean. As far as I have come to understand hatching there's two ways to go about, one is to stick to the straight lines and build up layers of those, the other is to use more curved c-shaped lines. As you can see both are great techniques, I however prefer the c-shape hatching, it's softer and gives a more organic feel to it. I combine both when doing pencil work.
In time your hand will grow confident and it will be almost like 'carving' out a drawing with these patches.
Keep on drawing! and keep the lines in mind when doing studies, don't smudge the lines, it's a bad shortcut - build up layers instead. And watch proportions!
oh and the eyes seem to be too far apart on this face, haha, you always learn something new with art
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Thank you for commenting everyone it means a lot!
dleoback: Yeah proportions is definitely one of my weaknesses, but eventually I will master it. I agree I just need to slow down.
Marlee: I tried drawing from the mind like you suggested and its actually quite hard. I will post them next time. I'm definitely making it part of my routine, I think it helps solidify what your trying to draw. Thanks for the suggestion
DeviledVisions: Thanks for the thought out advice! I completely agree with you about the smudging. I have decided to completely stop doing that until I have mastered the line. Its really a bad habit to have. I like your method for hatching. I kind of tried it with the first portrait not to your quality. I shall do another one.
I'm pleased with the drawings from this post. I feel like I'm getting somewhere.
I took Marlee's suggestion and did some imagination work and let me say, I feel its already paid off. So thank you for the tip! I'm definitely doing those from now on after gestures and anything I draw.
Next post will have some studies and life drawings.
Constructive Criticism is welcome!
You already got good advice, so I'll just send some encouragement your way. Things are slowly improving! Keep it up!
Nice progress. If you compare the July 10th portraits with the July 5th one there's already a noticeable improvement However some of the shading looks a bit haphazard (e.g. the shadow cast by the head and the shading on the neck for the woman in profile for July 10th)
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Nice progress so far - you have some really nice pencil sketches.
The portraits are good ( seccond one !! #18 )
but you should focus on the propotions - for example the height of the eyes is wrong ( #18 the first one )
keep it up!
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NEXT: I agree my proportions are not that great. I'm just not sure exactly sure how to improve it though.
krysjez: Its good to know I'm making improvement.
furiana: Thank you! I'm definitely keeping it up.
Sorry I haven't posted my stuff in awhile, I got my license suspended for a stop light and I had to get it resolved so I could drive.
Constructive Criticism is welcome!
Hey, skull studies! One with an open mouth, too; that's tough.
From the look of a few of the semicircles it looks like you're either drawing too slowly (laboriously, I believe, is the word) or going too fast and just trying to hit the center point. I guess you could try experimenting with different speeds while putting down lines, and find the one that results in the freest, most natural looking line. The pressure you apply with your pencil probably also affects that too - what if you drew with a slightly lighter touch?
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Hey man got some good momentum building up in this SB dont slow down you've already improved and its been less than a month! Critique wise im quite new myself so dont know if my opinion counts much but anyway- Think more about where you place your lines, the only thing you need is patience when drawing and understanding each picture is a learning experience or atleast thats how I see it.
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fudgeloaf: Thank you! I'm definitely not stopping.
krysjez: I will definitely try that thanks for the tip. I can't seem to get the hang of semi-circles. So hopfully practice will beat that.
furiana: Yeah, it was pretty hard. But I think it helps allot with figuring out how to draw.
Thank you for the comments guys!
Here is some new stuff. I really enjoyed doing the sculpture of the Goddess of Justice.
Last edited by loper42; July 15th, 2010 at 06:14 PM.
You've got a nice line quality to your drawings; that's really nice to see!
If you want to master figure drawing, you should definitely go to your library and go look @ the art section. I won't suggest any books (although I know of a few that really helped me) because it's you need to find books that help YOU. Some books helped me but might not help you at all, you know what I mean?
But I can say that as long as you stay dedicated, you're going to improve, and who knows. Maybe in a year, you'll exceed your current goals and be making master pieces
One book I do suggest reading: Art & Fear. Best book I've ever read.
hey, Just stoppin by (lol I say that like I've post on here already >.<)
Anyhoo I think that your doing a good job keep at it its all about the pencil mile
more still life though just 100s and 100s of them
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I'm seeing huge improvements in your portrait drawings. I think you should be very happy with that progress. You follow forms really nicely in your pen studies, especially on the bag near the top of post 8. Some of the pencil lines in your scans are kinda hard to see, but as far as criticism goes, I think you are heading the right way. Keep up the figure studies. If you want, do many many from memory/imagination too-- to better comprehend the figure and recognize what you do not comprehend as well.
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"This recipe is always a real hit! Every time I make these I get asked for the recipe. People can't believe it when I tell them that they're made from winter squash. These delicious rolls taste best fresh out of the oven."
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1 1/2 cups
cubed winter squash
1 cup
scalded milk
2 (.25 ounce) packages
active dry yeast
1/2 cup
warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
6 cups
all-purpose flour
1/2 cup
white sugar
2 teaspoons
1/2 cup
After many failed attempts at using whole wheat to make dinner rolls, I was looking for a way to prepare rolls that were light and had fiber, and these are it! They're as light as regular dinner rolls, more tasty, moist and perfect. I've been recommending this recipe to all of my baking friends. However, be forewarned that this makes 12 HUGE dinner rolls. Cut the recipe in half unless you're having a dinner party.
Very moist and quite good! I only gave them three stars, though, because I'd prefer something with a more interesting flavor and texture. I think these would be better with a little more grit, so if I make them again, I'll use half wheat flour next time. I might also toy with using butter instead of crisco. I followed the recipe exactly this time except that I cut back the sugar to 1/3 of a cup, and they still seemed plenty sweet to me. Sweet, moist, and HUGE. The other reviewers weren't kidding. I should have halved the recipe!
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My kids love these rolls. I usually prepare the dough in my bread machine rather than by hand. To do this, the recipe must be resized to fit your bread machine. For my medium-sized machine, I resize the recipe to make 7.3 servings (though, I then actually make 12 rolls out of the dough. The original recipe makes rolls that are too big for my liking.) The pureed squash is added along with the other liquids at the bottom of the bread pan. Remember to use bread machine yeast ("instant" yeast) instead of active dry yeast.
The recipe also seems to work very well with other vegetables. I have tried butternut squash, carrot, and beetroot (which makes great "Red Nose Day" rolls!)
Moist,light,tasty and a wonderful golden color if you use butternut squash.I baked at 375 degrees for 30 min.They tend to over brown at 400 degrees.I got two large pans(32 rolls)with this recipe.
DELICIOUS. I made these to go with pot roast. Glad I cut the recipe in half as it was just my husband and I and it made 6 giant rolls. Toasted some the next morning and had them with the All Day Apple Butter I made the day before and they made a great breakfast too.
Very moist and soft bread. My mother wanted seconds of it instead of dessert at Thanksgiving dinner. Very good recipe.
These are excellent!!! They stand out of the crowd!!! Delicious rolls. I used acorn sqaush and my "squash hating, vegetable hating, don't ever try anything new" husband loved them!! No one believed thats where they got their lovely yellow color. They ate all of these and barely touched the white dinner rolls I made. They thought they tasted gourmet like what you would get at a restaraunt!!! I will definately make these again!!!
Very moist and fluffy. I used Japanese pumpkin instead of winter squash because I can't find them in Tokyo. The pumpkin gave the roll a nice color. I baked them at 375F for 15 minutes.
Even husband who said "yuck, dinner rolls" ended loving them.
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isn't the core2 64 bit ? I thought the intel core was 32 bit and core2 was 64bit. so maybe wrong distro?
It depends: if you want a completely opensource solution, go for the ATI board; the ATI opensource video drivers are *much* more mature than the opensource nvidia drivers. Mind, neither opensource driver works good enough in my opinion.
If you want to allow closed source software being installed, go for NVIDIA. their video driver is imho very good especially compared to ATI's fglrx driver.
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If I try to start openoffice as a normal user, the spash screen shows up briefly, and that's it. After some investigation (strace, gdb) it seems openoffice dies with a SIGBUS signal.
The same goes for NaNT (a build tool based on mono).
These programs do work when I run them as root.
So I thought it might be something smelly in my local config files, so I created a fresh new user and tried again. Still no luck. For some reason some programs won't run under a unprivileged account but they do under root.
Does anyone have a idea what's going on?
oh, I use a opensuse 11.1 x86_64 installation.
it's IMHO the only central system administration package for linux that actually does its job.
Mind, YaST used to be utter crap, but since YaST2, that is of the past. Nowadays I'm very happy with YaST2 and would suggest that other distros adapt YaST2 too.
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First there was OSS. 4Front-Tech did the development and had its own closed-source commercial driver plus a gpl'ed crippled version in the vanilla kernel source.
Support was flaky, and for new hardware often not available.
So, enter Alsa. After a bit of a bumpy start, things were starting to look better and better. more and more hardware was supported.
Alsa seems to have become the de facto standard these days.
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Now the good news. 4Front-Tech has decided to release the whole OSS driver under the GPL. (http://developer.opensound.com/)
This is very good news because the OSS driver has matured for quite some time and performs in a lot of cases better than the alsa equivalent.
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We have to learn to stop giving these two a camera and a stage. Just one day after claiming to feign rudeness for TV ratings, now Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt say they feared for their lives while on Celebrity Big Brother (UK)….
Celebrity Big Brother (UK) has come to an end and Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt took second place. However, they of course needed to make the headlines by stating they were brought on to be assholes and that they were just pretending to be mean the entire time… click the pic for more.
Well, looks like the world still isn't ready for the return of Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt. The couple is apparently receiving death threats while they appear on the UK version of Big Brother.
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Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are in the news… you know, the couple from MTV's The Hills? Went by "Speidi"?… No, well, don't worry. The main thing is they were recently interviewed by Us Weekly and said how their old "reality" show was…. fake!… So, wait, I guess there's no news here. Just that the two are still married, and Spencer is focusing college. However, they are NOT in debt.
The walking definition of the saying: "15-minutes-of-fame", Heidi Montag (from MTV's The Hills), has finally revealed that she regrets all of her plastic surgery every day. Heidi also states that eating healthy and exercise is the best way to improve yourself. Not surgery. Heidi Montag states she is still very insecure about herself. Amazingly, she is still married to Spencer Pratt.


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Categories > Anime/Manga > Samurai Champloo > Ghost Hunting for Dummies
Prologue1 Reviews
On ivory lines, hack ghostbusting and the significance of 3. The trio follow a dead-end lead to a seaside town and end up working as exorcists for the performing troupe there.
A/N: Completely not based on geographical or historical fact in the slightest. I barely know where Innoshima is, for god's sake, so please don't kill me for any hideous indiscrepancies.
It started like this: they had ferried out from the mainland to Innoshima on a lead and were wandering near the outskirts of the said town, having traded all their cash for crossing fare. The day had been brutally warm and hunger, their-ever-present companion, was past nipping at their heels. It was full-on straddling them.
"Oh," Fuu whined, stating the obvious. "I'm so hungry."
To which Mugen replied by producing a tattered and dirty rag from some fold in his garments and wrapping it under his chin. He tied a rather ridiculous bow atop his head and continued trudging along in silence. Jin regarded the action with an impassive look.
Fuu quickened her pace, peering at him queerly: "What are you doing?" She asked him, clearly vexed.
"I'm sick of listening to you bitch about the same damn thing every minute."
Fuu balked at his answer, angrily placing both hands on her hips. "I'm /hungry/, so sue me!"
"But that's just it," Mugen said with exasperation. "You're always hungry. Day, night. It's your constant state of being. Tell me something new."
This was-especially on a day that experienced a heat of this calibre and a lack of food that would wane anyone's tolerance-the absolute last straw for Fuu. She let out an angry shriek before reaching up to tug at the swaddle of cloth around his head, which she figured would function as an adequate noose to strangle him with.
Mugen raised an arm and threw her angry and (furiously) scratching form onto the ground. Unfortunately, despite his quick reflexes, he tumbled forward when she darted out a sneaky leg to trip him. This, to Jin's rare surprise-considering the obvious and comprehensive gap between skill levels-somehow developed into a street melee that several passer-bys scooted around to avoid. He sighed, dumbstruck moment past, and took a step towards them. "You two-"
Which was the moment at which a young man came barrelling through the street they were brawling in, effectively knocking Fuu's tiny and malevolent form off of Mugen's back. Their anger redirected, she placed both hands on her hips, sleeves rolled upwards and sandy dirt marks on her flushed cheeks. Mugen rearranged his bonnet and would have threatened to kill him, if Fuu hadn't pulled some sort of magic act and somehow obtained his sword, scabbard and all.
Fine then, fists it was.
"Where the hell do you think you're going, you little shit?" The child writhed in his grip, his lithe body contorting with the air of an acrobat.
"Stop, I've got to go meet them now," he said furiously, before taking note of the cloth wrapped around Mugen's head.
"That turban-" he started, even though it was the furthest thing from it. Rather than a mystic, Mugen looked more like someone suffering from an extremely painful toothache. But nevertheless, the boy continued: "Are you the exorcists?"
This prompted the following thoughts to fire rapidly through Jin's heat-maddened brain: that, for one, this child would likely lead them to some sort of place that would be infinitely more shaded than the frying pan of a street they were in and, for seconds, they were likely being mistaken for the trio they had found dead out in the road, several miles back, from some bandit-related ambush. They figured this since they found nothing of consequence when Mugen felt compelled to mug their corpses.
Despite his calm logic, it was at the end, when his stomach growled hungrily in its traditional gavel-banging manner, saying: "Shut up and feed me bitch," that he decided to go.
"What are you-" Fuu started loudly, but Jin calmly cut her off with a slick "Yes, we are the ones."
And so it was then and there, as Fuu and Mugen incredulously watched Jin walk after the small child through the streets, that the trio was about to have their very first encounter with the Kagami Kinsen troupe of travelling performers.


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|Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP2012), New York : États-Unis (2012)
|GoCxx: a tool to easily leverage C++ legacy code for multicore-friendly Go libraries and frameworks
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|Current HENP libraries and frameworks were written before multicore systems became widely deployed and used. From this environment, a 'single-thread' processing model naturallyemerged but the implicit assumptions it encouraged are greatly impairing our abilities to scale in a multicore/manycore world. Writing scalable code in C++ for multicore architectures, while doable, is no panacea. Sure, C++11 will improve on the current situation (by standardizing on std::thread, introducing lambda functions and defining a memory model) but it will do so at the price of complicating further an already quite sophisticated language. This level of sophistication has probably already strongly motivated analysis groups to migrate to CPython, hoping for its current limitations with respect to multicore scalability to be either lifted (Grand Interpreter Lock removal) or for the advent of a new Python VM better tailored for this kind of environment (PyPy, Jython,...) Could HENP migrate to a language with none of the deficiencies of C++ (build time, deployment, low level tools for concurrency) and with the fast turn-around time, simplicity and ease of coding of Python ? This paper will try to make the case for Go - a young open source language with built-in facilities to easily express and expose concurrency - being such a language. We will first present a status update on go-gaudi, a framework written in Go loosely modeled after the C++ framework Gaudi used by two LHC experiments, and how its event loop was modified to expose more concurrency. Then, benchmarks fed with data flows extracted from current C++ frameworks and with different toy-components (thread-safe/non-thread-safe, I/O bound, CPU bound, ...) will be discussed. Finally, we will introduce GoCxx, a tool leveraging gcc-xml's output to automatize the tedious work of creating Go wrappers for foreign languages, a critical task for any language wishing to leverage legacy and field-tested code. We will conclude with the first results of applying GoCxx to real C++ Gaudi components, effectively enabling go-gaudi with LHC know-how.
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This milestone of the Linux-based operating system ships with libzypp version 8.1, which features a new backend for http and ftp package downloads. MediaAria has been replaced with MultiCurl, adding support for zsync transfers and improved Metalink download support. OpenSUSE 11.4 M1's new Curl-based zypp backend, brings better support for network proxies to libzypp, zypper and YaST, and adds support for repositories protected by HTTP BASIC passwords.


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