I just read this article about something called "developmental coordination disorder." To me it sounds like they are talking about dyspraxia. What's the difference?

OK, here's an excerpt as promised, but not about Francis. Hammel decides to get directly involved in the murder investigation, despite his lack of official status.

On FurRag (no login needed)

FurAffinity is offline this morning for some reason, but I'll post there whenever they come back.

The promised closure for Francis is still coming, but needs more editing than I can do between phone calls etc. at work.

Oh the pointlessness you've been missing!

• 06:08 I don't remember yesterday. I haven't felt that horrid in a long time. Fever spiked to 104 during the night, but has now broken. #
• 07:26 No longer horribly sick, but am bleeding fairly profusely from my right big toe. Upgrade! #
• 08:54 Toe has soaked through second bandage, is throbbing enough to warrant Tylenol. At least I deal with pain far better than I do feeling sick. #
• 10:09 2000 words into 4500 word zombie story, and no zombies yet. But I have a good reason, honest. #
• 10:20 Or maybe I lied, and I'm going to have to edit the crap out of this thing. #
• 11:07 Haha! Zombies around 2300 words, which leaves me about 2000 words for serious zombie nom nom action. #
• 11:18 Wounds on or near joints are such a pain. I feel like a frickin' hemophiliac over here. On to the fourth bandage. #
• 11:39 Given my recent track record, I would like to publicly document that I am going downstairs to make coffee. Will try not to die. #

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Steampunk on BBC Website

Tech Know: Fast forward to the past

http://www.dailycoyote.net/index.php/?p=1706

photo taken August 2009

one year ago: Wassup
two years ago: Ghost Dog

That’s not a real heart.  I had several such queries after posting THIS pic last week!  No, it’s a plush heart with a squeak in it, embroidered “It’s hard being a Princess.” I knew, when I saw it, that Charlie would love it.

This photo needs a name!  Leave your title, caption, or thought-bubbles in the comment section of this post and you’ll be in the running for a Wyoming care package ~ it feels like it’s been ages since I’ve sent off a box of rocks and bones!  This week’s prize is petrified modern art… ancient sculpture… this:

One perfect Dahlite ~ a petrified stone ball aged 150 million years ~ rests in a natural cradle, which, in fact, is a section of Gryphaea fossil ~ ancient oyster-like shells fossilized in stone, which are 150 - 200 million years old.  AMAZINGGGGG!

We recently noticed that you can have a lot of fun with the Windows handwriting recognition software, especially if you don't bother to write clearly, or just scribble or draw random lines. The software desperatly tries to recognise something and comes up with a lot of funny words.

crunchy organpreservation
potatoe-fax
puketime card-owner
strawberry radar
cannonsadness
lavamanager
banana-arm
worm-sandmann
mummy bank inquiry
wartshairwashing

I now randomly use the tool to cheer myself up or find inspiration.
I mean, I really would like to try and draw an atomic northsea prawn... XD




Looking forward to next weekend where I'll be on the road again for 3 days.
But first I need to catch up with work.
Emails and orders first,
then art, art and art...

Made it. My word processor says 50,384 words as of 9:15 tonight. When I dumped it into the validator routine at NaNoWriMo.org, though, it came out as 52,293. Evidently they're pretty generous about what they consider to be a "word." Anyway, it was enough to "win" the NaNo this year. It was not, by far, enough to complete the novel. That will be going on for some time yet.

I will have some excerpts for you tomorrow sometime, to more or less wrap up Francis' part of the story so you have some closure. The entire exposition of the complex plot will have to wait until I've rewritten and done a lot of editing, but I do intend to post it somewhere briefly for comments.

Thanks for all the encouragement, everyone. Hoof-claps to corelog too, for finishing NaNo on his first time out on his second time out. I didn't make quota until my second attempt either.

(Oh, and in the midst of getting 5200+ words written today, I managed to prepare dinner for guests, including turkey tetrazzini, home made focaccia, broccoli with hollandaise sauce, and home made lemon meringue pie. In return for being fed, they nicely hauled away a pickup load full of sheep poop that they wanted for their garden. So there is more to life than writing still.)

And tomorrow I don't have to think about NaNo for a while.

Title of Work: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Modern version)
Author: Ronald Dahl (book), Tim Burton (movie)

Full Name, including titles: Charlie Bucket
Full Species(es): Human
Hair Colour (include adjectives): Brown
Eye Colour: Brown (I think)
Unusual Markings/Colourations: N/A
Special Possessions/Pets: none
Annoying Sidekicks: Grandpa Joe

Annoying Origin: Charlie is the son of a dirt poor family where his dad scrapes by as a toothpaste cap screwer and takes care of his bed-ridden grandparents.
Annoying Way of Ruining the Story: Granted he is the title character, but Charlie is so annoyingly perfect that he never gets upset, thinks of himself, never does anything wrong, comes up with genius candy ideas, lectures Wonka on how he should forgive his father because even if they're not always fair, your parents want and know what's best for you.
Annoying Special Abilities: Other than he's so pure and perfect that he can compete with Jesus, none really.
Miscellaneous Reasons The Sue Should Not Exist: Watching uber-perfect characters is boring when they have no flaws and their decisions and what they say are always the right.
Redeeming Qualities: None of the other kids would've done a good job with the factory and he's thoughtful in his own perfect little way.
Small snippet of Sue Being Annoying: After refusing to accept the factory because Wonka won't let his family move in (which is understandable) without any regret, unsurity if he did the right thing or soul searching. Wonka goes into a massive downward spiral and when he tries to get Charlie back, Charlie convinces him to bury the hatchet with his dentist father because as mentioned before he lectures Wonka on even if they're (parents) not always fair, your parents want and know what's best for you. Of course its settled and Charlie still wants to live in his cruddy, falling apart house when he and his family moves into the factory because he doesn't need better things. I can understand him not wanting to have a mansion, but doesn't he worry about being cold or having the house fall apart on him?

First of all, I know it can be argued that the 70's Charlie "wasn't pure" because he tried those fizzy lifting drinks without permission, but I think that Charlie proved a real purity when Wonka canceled out his prize and he would've been argueably justified in giving the gobstopper to Slugworth. He gave it back even though he'd get nothing from either Wonka or Slugworth because it was the right thing to do. That IMHO makes him pure because 70's Charlie was a human being and despite his flaws he showed goodness, selflessness.

And yes I know about the Nostalgia Critic's review of the two movies.

• I just generated my #SweetCloud out of all the sweets I wish I could eat. Top three sweets: peanut KitKat Chunky, Double Decker, dark Bounty #
• Cannibalism!!!1! RT @derivadow: @R4isStatic comments on their way, once i've cooked, eaten and sorted out @felixscott #
• Just finished #Sankmarray part two woop woop woop! #nanowrimo total at 31680. Not a win, but not an epic fail – I'm quite happy. #
• I got some nice live feedback from @Anke as she read the opening of Part Two. There's still time to join the test-readering fun! #sankmarray #
• Is struck by how nicely Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head would mash up with A Lover's Concerto by Toys. Minimal tweaking required. #
• Monkey Dust gold for @semanticist – http://bit.ly/2vCSwW http://bit.ly/E9jXe http://bit.ly/8OyOKG #
• RT @isntit: Why do all the fun debates happen just as I check my tweets before bed? Arse. Will have to bail. Nighty night everyone. #

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Alluring Swiper realised now that attacking an entire crew of pirates had been somewhat ambitious.
Sankmarray: Clouded Hearts (section two of about five). © 2009 Herm Baskerville, all rights reserved.

In other words: Part Two is complete, yay!

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The Commission's socialist representation will mostly carry lighter portfolios, and aside from Competition, have no key economic jobs. The Financial Times wonders if Barroso's latest might turn out to be a more corporatist Commission nonetheless. We know the City is rife with doubts about Michel Barnier, who doesn't seem to have much experience with finance despite having been pegged as the new Internal Market Commissioner. The British certainly would've preferred someone else. Is it my imagination, or does this article seem first and foremost to be a stab at him?

Oh the pointlessness you've been missing!

• 16:11 The Oxford comma is the only thing separating man from beast. #
• 05:09 Normally a healthy sort of bird, but something I ate the Cracker Barrel Thursday wrecked my stomach, and apparently compromised immunity. #
• 05:10 Now I have a temp of 100.2, and my mucous has gone the fluorescent green popular among discerning head colds everywhere. #
• 05:10 But I'm no longer re-enacting scenes from the Exorcist on my spare time, so I think I'm still ahead. A bit. A smidge. #

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Rather odious Swiss shenanigans: Conservatives move to ban minarets. As you can imagine, I'm somewhat annoyed. The SVP evidently feels it's in some nebulous way standing guard at the Gates of Vienna, but let's face it, even if you think aggressive kulturkampf against Muslim immigrants is a smashing bright idea, this type of approach is extremely unlikely to accomplish what the SVP thinks it will accomplish.

This also sets a bad example. We'll have our own suppression-or-adaptation debate in a few short years. I have no doubt we'll develop large, Swedish-style Muslim enclaves. It won't be a question of whether we can or should try and forestall the presence of a large Muslim demographic. That ship has effectively sailed. It'll be a question of what we do about the fact that we'll have large Muslim demographics.