A set of scruples badly worn

I've been wandering around here all evening. 

Also, It's cold here.

allo.

I have two IJ accounts, now. natasiakith will be used for my writing and nataki will be everything else. (Calligraphy, corsetry, other clothing, beadwork, whatever.)

As an aside, I tried to get into greatestjournal, and their sign-up page sends people here, as they've been rushed. I guess when youre a CEO, you shouldn't trashtalk your actual customers...

To annoy the coal/oil/smog industry.

Help pay for new wind turbines to be installed in the United States.

Oil and Coal burners are mostly old, so all they pay for is the stuff they burn and "upkeep".  The "newer" energy sources need start-up money, which of course they aren't likely to get from a government run by oil wonks.  Thus this program.  (Which they have issues really explaining well, in my opinion, but it is in there.)

Made. Of. Awesome.

[This post originally appeared on LiveJournal, and all links refer to the LJ group. I haven't been following the group by that name over here. Also, I don't know why there are suddenly loose bit of code.]

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Curious to know how some companies/orgs/whatever edit their own wiki entries?
How about searching Wikipedia by assigned IP addresses? (Walmart doesn't pay 20% less than most other retail, really! It pays twice the minimum wage! Mind, they're the same thing...)

http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/

There's even a contest to see what the most disgusting corporate edit is..
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/wikiwatch/

And people wonder why I sort of distrust Wikipedia...

I love beads. Even when I have absolutely no money, I look at beads. Sometimes, I buy them anyway, like for a specific project or a friend's wedding.

But..

( Read rant ) I have a headache..

I started planning this on fathers' day, and I just finished it today. I killed a .5 Brause on it. :(

PH Martin's Bombay ink on Fabriano Tiziano Drawing paper.
Winsor and Newton silver ink is also mixed in to the Bombay, but it isn't visible in the scan.

I am sad about the last two lines, as I didn't do a practice of them, and it shows..

Not a really in-depth post.

Just a common observation to random spammers.

No, I do not want a "bigger pen1s". Nor do I want pictures o'nekkid girlz. Nor do I want to know what wall street stock a spammer would like me to buy.

If I wanted this type of information, I would find it, myself.

If I want to donate money to some charity, I will find one that does not partake in Spam.

Please at least *try* to pretend to be legit. Otherwise, what's the point?

I broke one of Chucks mugs last weekend, and I said I'd make him a replacement. So he asked for a mug that said "Awesome". It says awesome nine ways in seven languages. Mostly sci-fi geek languages. And there's no Trek. I used B5, Alien nation, and lotr instead. Plus Enochian. I'm so bad.

I love fonts.

http://www.cafepress.com/natasia4242.116885813

( calligraphy picture )

and playing with a pair of "distress ink" and a brown cartridge in my sheaffer pen.

( big picture ) Luxeuil was a French monastery founded in the v. late 6th century. They were pretty masochistic, even for monks. (work till you collapse, eat nothing but bark, etc.) Their script was very flowy and pretty. It was also fairly obnoxious to read, as the words all ran together. They also didn't believe in punctuation, and wrote with tiny, tiny nibs. (or feathers. Whatever.)

People in their own time period complained about their script.

I got to do the "project" part this weekend. The introductory paragraph of "the Caucus Race" from "Alice in Wonderland", with part of "The Mouse's Tail" as marginalia. Still need to write my part of the paper.

The picture is all fuzzy. :(
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So, I should be reading about library management. What did I spend the last three hours doing? Making livejournal icons for Narbonic, of course.

They are animated .gifs, which is why it took me so freaking long.







I need to figure out how to make my scanner work with Linux...

So, I finally went to a calligraphy night, where I was shown a book that actually proves that spiral calligraphy is period. (in around 1500.)

I went home and looked it up on Amazon.

It's around $200.00 used. I am in much sadness. Or pain. Anyway, for the decently employed, I provide the following:

Pattern Poetry: Guide to an Unknown Literature (Hardcover)
by Dick Higgins
ISBN: 0-88706-413-2

It doesn't come up on http://www.abebooks.com/, but I'm OK with that.

Also, I wanted badly to go to the Ayreton Carnivale and Regional A&S, but I have the weekend class, instead. Foo. userpic is a clip of Zoing, From Girl Genius

Um, I did some flat peyote patterns over the break, but they're on the laptop.

I finally know how to do spiral calligraphy!! There are good directions in Janet Mehigan's "Mastering the art of calligraphy" ISBN: 0-681-45927-1

I got my copy at Waldens in the bargain section for about $7.00.

You want this book, for it is all sorts of cool.

If you have any interest in period pieces at all, you also want this one if it's still in print:

Marc Drogin "Medieval Calligraphy: It's history and technique" ISBN: 0-486-26142-5

The how-to in the Drogin book may not be great. I was told that he's left handed and writes upside down. *shrug* It's the pictures of extant period pieces that made it a required book in the SCA about ten years ago.

Also check out the textbooks for the "Early books and manuscripts" course I'm taking this term. Many of my friends are exceedingly jealous.:

Barbra A. Shailor "the Medieval book: Illustrated from the Beinecke Rare book and manuscript library" Isbn: 0-8020-6853-7

Christopher De Hamel "Medieval Craftsmen: Scribes ans Illuminators" ISBN: 0-8020-7707-2

Michelle P. Brown "Understanding illuminated manuscripts: a guide to technical terms" ISBN: 0-89236-217-0

Huh. Amazon has no pictures, and the Brown book doesn't even have an entry..

I did play with the spiral, but what I wrote isn't up for posting...

I posted the tiny pixelart to deviantart.com  Bleah.

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/44692574/

I decided that I hated all of my old entries and i deleted them.
I haven't decided what I'll post here, now, but I'm going to
try to post something interesting at least once a week, even if
it's a bad poem or an ancient recipe.