Dan

meh..

I just got a 360 and there's already a problem with the graphics card - now there's only blues, greens, browns, blacks, whites, and grays. Like playing in a friggin sewer sometimes. One of the games I got was NCAA March Madness 08. I hate it. Yeah, it's a huge upgrade from 06 on the PS2. The graphics are awesome and the presentation is great (love the menus). However, my biggest pet peeve about the game is how many times shots within about three feet are made. I can have an opponent jump up, get whacked, and do this weird flip thing with the ball and it goes in, without a foul. This must happen 15 times during online play. Defenders almost never block shots, even when all they have to do is stick a finger up. Xbox Live is pretty cool, though I hate paying $8 a month to use it. I like on the box how it says "FREE SILVER MEMBERSHIP INCLUDED!" when silver memberships are already free. Go Giants!!

I'm really at a loss as to what to write as a tutorial now. A few weeks ago I wrote the "flare" tutorial, which got me 10,000+ uniques within about 9 days. I feel obligated to crank out another quality tutorial pretty soon, but what of? Suggestions? Please, no requests for sigs or sig tutorials. There's enough of those. -dan

Pick one player, or put one in a sig and one in the avatar. I don't do dual-player sigs.

Taking one request.

I still use C4Ds...and random Google Images photos.

Looool is his name seriously Laundry? For some reason I thought it was Landry...

These are truly random thoughts, pulled from my Journler entry for today. There may be some confusing stuff; I'm too tired to sift through anything. My random thoughts were near the bottom of the entry. Matt and I are starting up a new site next week, LeopardDocks.net. It's a site for custom dock backgrounds for Leopard. I think we're going to be the first site to do this, and I can't wait to launch. He doesn't seem too keen about having a ton of advertising space, but you gotta make money somehow, right? I'm using a really nice custom wood background for my dock, with a subtle icon reflection. Speaking of Leopard, I got another overdraft since the $130something reserved for my Leopard pre-order didn't leave enough for my AT&T iPhone bill. I honestly didn't know how the whole pre-order system worked, so thank God there wasn't any fee associated with the overdraft. Amazon's one-click purchase system is really one click. I pushed the button next to 'oPtion$' by Fake Steve Jobs and the next screen says 'Thank you for your order!'. Wow! I don't want to let go of WPC to the new Neue network. I need to tell Matt. WPC is my baby, not even a half a year old. It's just getting to the good part. I just about smoothed out the overload disaster I was left with at the end of the week. Sometimes it's nice to be a kid, you know? I beat GH2 on Hard mode, including Free Bird. Expert, here I come. Friday Night Lights is getting interesting, with Matt starting to voice his own opinion more and get more self-confidence. I think his little conversation with Julie near the end of the episode may have sparked my epiphany about Maura. Heroes is going downhill. It's almost to the point of complete suckage. I'll be really disappointed if the season ends halfway through with the strike, though with the level of excitingness going down with each episode, it may not make much difference to me at all. That 109-yard field goal return today was ama-za-zing. His foot was literally |--------------------this close--------------------| from the out of bounds line. I say give him 110. Speaking of TV episodes, I can't wait until Prison Break and The Big Bang Theory tomorrow night. I normally pick either Heroes, PB, or TBBT on Mondays and space the others out through the week (with The Office, FNL, South Park, and Family Guy) to keep myself entertained. I am dying to play a real game of football. Girls' minds confuse me, especially the minds of the lucky ladies who had a chance to date me. I've given up. -dan

No brushing at all, except for the little white "sparkle" trail. Everything else was some smudged/blurred/any-way-I-could-damage-it effects on stocks from Google Images. There is a cloud stock somewhere in there. I find it better to erase the circles on the outside of the flare, as they look ugly. The Lens Flare filter is really only used to provide a main source of light around the image. By the way, here is the tutorial he used. -dan

After waiting out the long load times here, I have a new sig. :D

You know, school really sucks now. First off, the two eighth grade teachers hate our grade. I heard my friend's mom talking at his party; we're apparently known as the "drama grade". Then one teacher somehow found out that my girlfriend was in my class. Now remember that this is a Catholic school, and the Church says that you shouldn't date seriously until you're a junior in high school. This isn't a serious relationship, but they still seem to be trying to stop us from spending so much time together. One teacher has started to pick science lab partners more frequently. Another seems to have this new rule that you can't stop in the hall and talk between classes. GAHD I hate Catholic schools. Thank God giving bulk rates to people for WordPress sites didn't kill me in terms of to-dos. It almost did. I'm going to Italy next year in the spring. I'm going with the church cause they're going on a choir "pilgrimage", but I'll be with the group that doesn't sing, touring the cities. I also want to fly out to London for a few days and see my friend in the UK. Airfare is so much more expensive in the summer, though, and he's at college during the winter when it's much cheaper. **** you Apple, for taking away my third-party iPhone apps. No more tic-tac-toe during Geometry... -dan

Wow, the graphics department at MVPmods has really slowed down...what do we have like, 10 posts in 15 days?

You can't limit a font to Photoshop. PS reads the fonts from your computer's Fonts folder.

Damn.

Ohhh I get it, they make Rangers straightjackets for rowdy players that fight too much. Cool idea. lol your render is just so oddly shaped, looks like he's trying to make armpit noises or something.

What's that like a straightjacket or something?

Hey I made T94's sig, BTW... And T94, your text is probably some of the best I'm seeing on this site. You're up there with FF and Dan the Man, who only gets it right half of the time. Lay off on the pixelation, though. I haven't forgotten, KC. -dan

I'll try and get to it tonight, I start school tomorrow so it'll probably be my last sig for a while. -dan

IMHO, there's too much emphasis on homework these days. Kids need to have a life. I mean, going to school from seven or eight in the morning till three or four in the afternoon is enough work for a kid. Honestly, why would anyone want to do anymore schoolwork after a day like that? Yet Americans still don't seem to be smart enough. At my school, we dropped the A and B classes. Yes, dropped them. Now the class lists are chosen at random. I've heard from people, and even from a parent or two, that it was because the teachers didn't feel like writing up two different lesson plans for the A and B classes - they just wanted one plan and let the smart kids get done early and the not-so-smart ones have more homework. So I sit in the back of the class and doodle website designs in my notebook and the teachers yell at me cause I'm not taking notes on long multiplication, something we've been doing for three years now. Another rumor I've heard is they dropped the A and B classes is to be politically correct. Bullsh*t. Don't get me wrong, I certainly see it as being true. But they're not letting the smart kids reach their potential in fear of others feeling left out, or feeling sorry for themselves? Give me a break. I know this is the reason behind it. Our school colors are black and gold. A few years back, when I was in 4th grade, we had Black and Gold classes. Those classes were organized according to the previous years' grades. The Black class was the smarter class, yet parents still complained about the name 'Gold', despite the abilities of the students in the class. So the following year we changed it to Angels and Saints, being a Catholic school. Parents complained again. "Why is [name] in the Angels class?" So at the beginning of the 2006-2007 school year, classes were divided according to abilities no more. And the other half of parents took their turn to complain. "My child won't reach his/her potential if the classes are this way!" Students left. The total student count of the school was almost cut in half, from almost 400 to somewhere around 200. Now, starting the 07-08 school year, our classes are still randomly divided. Teachers assign more homework than ever, yet some still get more than others. Many of us used to do the quickie homework in the 15 minutes before school started in the morning. Last year they decided not to allow that anymore, since "homework is for home." Who gives a **** where the homework is done, as long as it's finished on time? In protest, a few friends of mine started doing all of their homework, sans about 15 minutes, at home. Whatever wasn't finished was saved until the previous night. Sure they got a few detentions, but they couldn't understand why it mattered where homework was done. Sorry about the rant, but I felt like typing something long and I found my opportunity. I think my school is a bunch of BS. I don't know what the public schools are like, but surely it isn't as bad as this little private school. -dan

Not a big fan of the wallpaper, though it's nice, but I really like the coloring. [img=http://i13.tinypic.com/63k7n93.jpg] -dan

-I finally broke down and bought a PS2, seeing as we apparently weren't getting a new tv anytime soon and the one we have now is one of those Zenith or Panasonic sets inside a fancy wooden box. A 360 wouldn't really make any sense. The tv was my great-grandma's. Funny, it's two years older than our last tv. -Guitar Hero II rocks. Yeah, I'm the only 8th grader who likes the modern rock/alternative genres, and all these "oldies" don't exactly impress me, but hey - it's still a great game. Come on, who wouldn't want to play a plastic guitar with 5 frets to The Fratellis?! -MLB 06: The Show is amazing. It feels exactly like the MVP series, only better. The commentary is awesome - many stadium- and player-specific audio and comments during the game, and the presentation and cutscenes are nice. Gamplay is great, I just can't get used to the baserunning (base selection is weird) and pitching (cursor marks where the break starts, not where it ends) systems. I don't follow baseball much anymore so year-old rosters don't really make any difference to me. -I have a 100+ page AT&T bill sitting beside me. It came in a box. Lists every single free data transfer I've made (including each webpage I visit), every single phone call and text message, all of it. I do quite a lot of IMing on meebo.com on the phone, so that's a good chunk of the list right there. -Went to an Altoona Curve game last night. They're the Pirates' AA affiliate. The stadium's about 45 minutes away from me. For $5 tickets, bought from a friend, which included free food (their company picnic), the baseball isn't all that bad. Sure there were a total of 8 errors, but the seats were like $40 PNC Park seats, and the ballpark was lively. -School starts tomorrow. 8th grade. Last first day of school at this ****hole of a school. Public school next year, thank god. I need new friends. -The school I'll be attending next year will then be a year old. It's huge! something like $45 million to build. New gymnasium, weight room, artificial turf football/soccer/field hockey field...wow. -I went to the gym with my grandpa this summer for 3 months. I could only do about 10 pounds on most of the machines. I made a goal for myself of passing up his max lifting weight, since he's actually a pretty strong guy. I went from 10 pounds to 40, which is about where he's at. I felt proud. -Where you at, where you at, where you at wit a baseball bat? -Summer reading sucks. Summer of the monkeys? First book I've read since the last Harry Potter. Too bad there wasn't an audiobook...I couldn't convince my parents to let me watch the movie, either. -Stop it with the MySpace friend requests from pornstars already! I woke up one morning to 8 of them, another one just popped in my inbox now. That isn't even the half of why I hate MySpace. -I mailed one of those messenger backpacks from Aeropostale to the guy I work with in England yesterday. Apparently they're much cheaper here. I couldn't make out the stuff in his address, so much different from ours. I'd be mildly surprised if he gets it. -Off to make another sig, tootles! -dan

Wow, haven't done a logo sig for a while.. [img=http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/7281/apple1so4.jpg] [img=http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/6194/apple2xi0.jpg] [img=http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/6165/apple3im1.jpg] -dan

Two things that bug me about Photoshop that still haven't been fixed after numerous e-mails to Adobe: Outer Strokes end up rounded no matter how square your square is Circles, both with the shape tool and the circular marquee tool, aren't perfectly circle. They look it, but try resizing them. Ain't so hot.

Are you freaking kidding me?! :yernuts: New layer on top, Cmd/Ctrl+A (select all), Edit>Stroke, 1px black. Done.

ronmexico, do you want my current sig? I am retiring it soon. Colors can change.