Sitting here facing another day of trying to debug my Flare project is depressing me (I only fixed half of the problem yesterday. Turns out deleting Flare 7 is what broke my build script, which was pointing at the Flare 7 folder. So I uninstalled and re-installed both Flare 7 and Flare 8. But I’m still getting the pop-up error messages….)

The best part about this Friday is that it is FRIDAY. And I get a three day weekend to collapse.

So about all I got today is some Linkies:
In a trio of lawsuits, interns stand up and say they deserve to be paid for working full time. I got paid $17 an hour for my technical writing internship (this was back before the dot-com bubble burst and 9/11 and the economy going down the tubes). This idea that you should work not just one, but multiple unpaid internships before you deserve to be paid is complete BULLSHIT. Working for free is called volunteering, not an internship. So good for these interns for standing up for worker's rights.

It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. As someone who dresses up in costumes on the weekends, I heartily approve of this photo project. Go go superheroes!!!

And finally, some words of wisdom from a graduation speaker. "All education 'worthy' of the name is education of character." "The more I thought about myself, the weaker I became. The more I recognized that I was serving a purpose larger than myself, the stronger I became,"

Avengers UI porn by Jayse Hansen:

This is just an image dump of marvel approved stills and screenshots of my work on the film. I'll do a proper post soon - this is a fraction of the work - But I had the distinct pleasure of working with Cantina Creative, leading the design of the glass screens for the Helicarier in the Avengers. I also led the design and animation of the all new and upgraded Mark VII Hud.

I want more.

While digging out my Green Arrow comics, I found something in my comic book boxes. I’d forgotten that I even owned ( this )

So there you have it, proof that I was a Black Widow fan long before she became all trendy and stuff.

Holy Crap! They’re doing a Green Arrow TV show! And it got picked up by the CW for next fall!

Please God, let this Not Suck. I do not have enough archers in my life. (And it was hard picking one archer from my icon collection to upload. Legolas? Robin Hood? As you can see, I went with Hawkeye.)

This led to me pulling out my box of Green Arrow comics. I was missing Longbow Hunters book 2. But I apparently have the entire 10 issue run of Kevin Smith’s Quiver.

On the way home tonight I stopped off at a comic book store for the first time in years and picking up my missing book two. I had a nice chat with the owner, who had pulled the comic after I e-mailed him to ask if they had it in stock? Despite the fact that his power was out, I had a couple of bucks cash and we were able to commit commerce. I might have to go back this weekend when his power is back on (and he can run credit cards) and pick up some Avengers or Black Widow comics.

It's multifandom!

And not that the following has anything to do with summer, but here is a snippet about Dean shortly after 7x03 where he's sad about Sam and Cas. Action-packed stuff, I know. Explosions, car chases, etc.

( gen, 364 words, manpain )

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Cover art for my novelette "Faster Gun,"  (Working title: "John Henry Holliday is Sick of the These Time-Traveling Assholes") forthcoming on Tor.com this summer.

The artist is Richard Anderson.

*Douses hair*

*Whew*

Glad that's over.

Now to see what the hell I broke in my project.

I've managed to break my Help project so that I can't generate output. I'm getting some mysterious error that started yesterday. As in, when I save a file I get anywhere from four to THIRTY-TWO error messages popping up. Which is hosing my batch generation script. CRAP CRAP CRAP. And I have a demo in less than an hour.

Good thing I have backups. At least I can grab output I generated earlier in the week before I broke whatever I broke. And I have at least two projects that aren't in source control yet (which may be part of the problem) that I can use to generate Word and PDF output.

Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ. Talk about horrible timing.

*runs around with hair on fire*

I'm leaving for MisCon in Missoula, Montana today so I'll likely not be online much. So here's an update:

There will be a new post at http://kassrh.tumblr.com/ at 8am EDT and another at 8am on Tuesday. Please let me know what you think.

There will be a new RH blog post at http://www.reconstructinghistory.com/blog at 7:30 am EDT on Tuesday.

Enjoy!

I'll be around, but I have a weekend of lectures to give.  So if I don't respond right away, don't freak.  =)