mleiv.com - September 2007 Archives

Jeffrey's Bday Cake

Medium: Frosting Size: 8"

No fondant, this is homemade fudgey frosting and impromptu tube of frosting white decoration. That store bought stuff is crap: my hand hurts now.

Daily

OMG - THE MASTER!

Note: All UK Whovians who are a season ahead of us here in the States, go away. I don't want your "I know what's going to happen" gloating, dammit!

I, Claudius

So I haven't been so keen on Doctor Who season three, which has violated many of my rules about Doctor Who (like the Harry Potter reference - hello! no too-current Pop Culture references!). But last week was Blink, which - of course, Stephen Moffat! - was fabulous. And they showed a preview of *this* week and I started screaming, "Oh My God! It's the Master! They're bringing back the Master!" And I began bouncing across the apartment like a two-year-old going to Disneyland on a pogo stick. My Significant Other - who up till now has been putting up with my weird Doctor Who obsession with grace and discretion - just stared at me in bemusement, having never watched the original series and still struggling to come to grips with my need to have a remote control Dalek. "The Master!!!" I screamed at him. "'I,Claudius' is going to play the Master!"*

Well, once my enthusiasm faded in a weekend of binge drinking and playing WoW, I am sure my S.O. forgot all about this outburst. But this weekend at 5:45PM I interupted WoW with enthusiastic screams yet again: "Oh My God! He *IS* the Master! Look, look, he's the Master!!" Because the Master is myfavorite. The Daleks... well, they are fine and all. The Cyberman, yeah, I like them. But THE MASTER. He is what we Whovians salivate for week after week. And *I* knew he was coming. I was ready.

Dammit, *I* should be writing for this show. I wouldn't make Pop Culture references-!

*Classicist Note: 'I, Claudius' is mandatory watching for all Latin Majors. The Significant Other understands this reference.

Paintings

Harlequin and Cat

Medium: Acrylic Size: 11X14"

I am thinking of having this be my Black Cat Ball charity auction item this year. As always, I am afraid of being the one piece no one bids on.

Paintings

Laetitia in Oil

Medium: Oil Size: N/A

I painted this more than a decade ago in oils. I remember it took forever. But it is really beautiful. The photo reference was from a Victoria's Secret catalog.

Polls

MovableType Poll

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Site Updated

Website redesign is like crack for us web developers. Imagine suddenly acquiring a brand-new studio, built precisely to your specifications, and already furnished with all your favorite old things, laid out all feng shui and perfect. This is an especially apt analogy for me, given that I can't even find an old and run-down apartment for myself in this city. But at least my artwork will be housed well. :)

Some notable features of the new mleiv.com:

Yup, this is MovableType 4. Bye-bye custom CMS... :_(
I have changed the dates on the artwork to more accurately reflect the date in which it first debuted on the web (rather than the date of my first dated CMS - 10/2005). Note that this is not the same as the creation date (which is noted on the copyright).
Images now have zoom. Ala deviantArt, all the images are sized to a 500px width/height limit. To see the full size, go to the individual page and click the image to load the larger size (where available).
Clicking images on index and search pages now leads to the individual page. It just seemed like that is how it should work.
Polling is now 100% AJAX. This is because MovableType doesn't have a polling plugin (and since I hate PERL, I can't fix this myself). Bad MovableType, Bad! *smacks nose* I will add back other dynamic features in AJAX - like my random links - when I get the chance.
All previous links should continue working for now - thanks to .htaccess and my damn fine PHP skills. Yay for LAMP!